Topic: California

The 'Give Me Five' Monday meme is designed to share fun information with each other in a simple short list! Here's how it works.

The 'Give Me Five' Monday meme is designed to share fun information with each other in a simple short list! Here's how it works. Each week, I will put out a random topic from my list of topics and you share 5 answers of your choice on the given topic and link back here! You can add photos, links or stories or just a simple list of your own of 5 things that relate to the topic as it pertains to you and your life experiences.

Mimi of Mimi Writes tagged me with a novel meme that she stole from someone else. I shall call it The Stolen Novel Meme. She isn't fessing up as to where she ripped this meme off either. Anyway, this novel meme is extremely long and if you can't make it through more than 5 or 10 questions I don't mind. I had trouble with it too. I'll be darned if I'm tagging anyone with it so let this stolen tidbit die right here.

Our good friend Bobbarama needs our thoughts and our prayers. Bob is located right in the way of the dreadful fires that are currently sweeping through the Great State of California. I would like you all to add your name to this post and then pass it on to someone else so that we can send Bob our best wishes and let him know that we care about him and that we are thinking about him.

The latest telephone survey taken by the California Governor's office, asked whether people who live in California think illegal immigration is a serious problem: 29% of respondents answered: "Yes, it is a serious problem.

Barb over at Skittles Place tagged me with the Five Faves meme. Here are the rules: Link to the name of the person who tagged you. Include the state and country you’re in. List your top 5 favorite places to eat at your location (locally). Tag 5 other people (preferably from other countries/​states) and let them know they’ve been tagged.

Peter over at Necessary Skills gave me a great honor along with a tag for my favorite post in 2007. The originator of this meme is Jeremy Jacobs @ Corporate Presenter. Now I do goofy stuff so this really made me think (Peter has a habit of making his readers do that too). What have I read lately that really touched me? Then I thought of a great letter a young lady wrote honoring our military personnel. First of all this was a class assignment.

(This is hilarious - no wonder some people were offended!) This is the message that the Pacific Palisades High School (California) staff voted unanimously to record on their school telephone answering machine. This is the actual answering machine message for the school. This came about because they implemented a policy requiring students and parents to be responsible for their children's absences and missing homework.

Here are some of the U.S. Statistics for the Year 1906: The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years. Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub. Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone. A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars. There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S., and only 144 miles of paved roads. The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.

A Washington, DC airport ticket agent offers some examples of why our country is in trouble!!! I had a New Hampshire Congresswoman ask for an aisle seat so that her hair wouldn’t get messed up by being near the window.