Just Simple Americans Who Worked Hard And Are Now Enjoying Life To The Fullest
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Visit Disneyland 2010 with us to
celebrate Life Day #13
- Eleven years cancer free.
Our Movie
- Memories we enjoy
Just Paul & Sue
doing what we do!
Our Daily Diary
- Day by day we keep track of how much fun we have
Us In Pictures From Our Various Adventures ...
We are just average American's. Paul was born in 1944 and Sue in 1951 . We worked hard, now we play hard, and try to make the world a little better place by our actions! We have written a few pages about us... likely of no interest to others than our family and friends . We live in Zip code 90720 , try your Zip code . See a sample of some of the data from the zipcodeskinny site.
Paul & Sue In Pictures
At the
Avalon Ball
May 2010
Robin snapped this picture at the local California Pizza Kitchen
Our Beliefs Are Simple
Just us at the Harlem Globetrotters Game at the Honda
Center celebrating Cousin Kat's 85th birthday
"We believe in and practice romance. Being married to your best friend makes this easy! In fact, Romance R' Us is a favorite place to go! Now we work hard at being retired!
We came from pretty diverse backgrounds! We won't tell you our age but together we are over 117 years old (2007)... mostly because of Paul!!! We have kids and grandkids and god willing and the creeks don't rise, in a few years great grand kids!
Our parents are all gone so it is just us and we miss them so much especially in times of crisis. But that is the way of the world. Thank goodness we have our faith and each other!
Sue is from New York and Paul is a California native! . Paul was born on December 16th and Sue was born on July 10th . You have to guess the year! Sue is in her mid-fifties and Paul in his early sixties so you understand where we are coming from.
We are now retired and enjoying life as never before. We travel whenever possible constrained only by our little family of Chihuahua's . Share some of the fun things we do and places we go including golf and dancing .
A Small Movie
We put together a
small movie of things we do and places we have been
. We do this by using
ProShow Gold
and extracting certain jpg's and mp3's into a time sequenced slide show with
some interesting transitions and zooms/fades.
This is only of interest to friends and family but it is fun to watch every once in a while!
Our Website
Sue & Paul at the 2007 Tomatofest in northern California.
This evening we are at the Hot Tomato Ball having
cocktails before an evening of dancing!
Our website is rather large and we have fun sharing with the family and friends. It is well over 6,000 pages and about 7GB to date!
Good place to start is the
Homepage
or the
Sue
&
Paul
mini-websites (sub-webs). It is a work of love (and it keeps Paul out of the
bars at night!).
Our ISP is located in New Jersey and we have had them for many years... great outfit called
Host Rocket.
We are currently redesigning the site to be CSS compatible so you may see a few "brokes" as all 6000 pages must be touched!
We take a load of digital pictures and place selected ones on the site to share with family and friends. Please
enjoy all the nonsense.
Searching The Site
The site is fairly large with nearly 2,800 pages so we established our own search engine written in Perl and it runs every night at 2:00 am finding the latest changes, additions, and doing the deletions. Please use it.
Schooling and Careers
We went to school in the Los Angeles area
during a period of time where school was important,
our moms and dads were all over us to perform and the teacher was an important person in our lives. Bad grades were not
acceptable and there were consequences for our actions. You can read about Paul's
Elementary
,
Junior
and
Senior
High School memories.
We left college and headed for our careers. Sue taught for a year and moved to Rockwell. Paul started with
North American Aviation in his junior year at USC in order to pay for the tuition! We never changed jobs and
in fact
we had almost 75 years with Boeing
(Rockwell/North American Aviation) when we pulled
the plug and retired! We did it our way!
Home ... Is Where The heart Is
Los Alamitos area is our home and in fact Sue has lived in the area for most of her life! We live in a little un-incorporated city in Orange Country called Rossmoor . It's a small house but plenty big enough for us and the baby dogs. We even have a vegetable garden which operates all year long. The real beauty was the fact it was three miles from our work! Super in Los Angeles, huh?
The Real Bosses
We have two babies now. Mickey just left us in 2008 after
a two year bout with cancer. He was a brave little daddy dog!
Pinky also left us in 2008 after years of fighting sicknesses
We have had Chihuahua's for years and at one time we had six of these little devils!
At one time we had six babies but they, like us, grow older every day.
We now have three little
Chihuahua's
who run the house... and our lives.
We recently lost three of the babies to old age. These little guys are senior citizens just like us! Their
birthdays are in August and in 2008 they turn thirteen!
The babies are just that... our family.
They have provided us so much joy and laughter over these years that it is our turn to make them as comfortable as can
be as they reach their senior-citizenship!
Valentine The Mommy Dog
Valentine was our "mommy dog" and she was just the light of our life. She had a personality that one cannot easily describe. She never wanted her feet wet... She would walk around or jump across puddles and on rainy days, no outside for her!
She was capable of making the most god-awful noises. When we went to the vet, she sounded like a chicken and we were often asked, "What kind of a pet do you have in the bag?"
Her husband was Mickey who just passed away in 2008 and that relationship was just like people. When Valentine got mad at Mickey, she would yell at him and he world sulk around for days!
When we travel, they even have their own nanny ( Aunt Laurie ) who comes and stays with them.
Having Fun
We work hard at having fun. We love ballroom dancing , cruising , and raising vegetables ! Visit our hobby page . Come see some of the fun things we do ! Join us at the Orange County Fair below:
We are always on the go! Disneyland (California Adventure) left and Art-A-Fair right
We Walk Every Morning Unless We Play Golf
We are off for our morning walk
Health Is Always On Our Minds
Sue was diagnosed with cancer so we have been busy fighting it and, thanks to the grace of God, winning the battle! It's been almost twelve years since the diagnosis and we continue to pray for total remission. Cancer Update! Sue's doctor, Dr. Mark Janis, refers to her as the Small Cell Cancer Poster Girl for her amazing recovery!
To celebrate, we go to Disneyland every year on the date we found out about the cancer...
We call it "Life Day".
More recently, we have been recovering from a spinal correction operation so we can get back to dancing and out of the
wheelchair.
Spinal Operation Update!
You got to see the before and after X-rays! As of 2007, Sue and I are dancing four days a week and playing golf the rest of the week!
But as expected, the "energizer bunny" came roaring back and now we dance three or four nights a week and play golf four days a week.
Romance Makes The World Go Around
We thoroughly enjoy life and ourselves! It is a wonderful thing when one falls in love with their best friend and get the opportunity to share lives loving every minute it brings! We are hopeless romantics!
Had we known each other as kids, this would have been us!
Lessons Learned
A great PowerPoint file that sums it up in a single place!
Family (Otis, Sue, Paul & Georgia Circa 1988)
Please meet Otis, Sue, Paul, and Georgia at our wedding
Pictures Say One Thousand Words
We love cruising!
When all else is gone, friends and family are all that count!
Law Of The Garbage Truck
One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. I mean he was really friendly.
So I asked, 'Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital! This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck.'
He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets. The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so...Love the people who treat you right. Love the ones who don't.
Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it! Have a blessed, garbage-free day!
Sarge Says Hello
Sarge getting his morning "uppies"
A few years back... But who is counting??