Ghost Whisperer - The Baby is Jim's; Next Week & Season Finale Spoiler & Blooper

Why is it all the ghosts Melinda see never reveal their true intent in the beginning? Most if not all of them start out very ominous and it appears they’re angry and trying to cause harm. After MUCH investigation it turns out the ghosties are only trying to protect those they’re haunting.

Last nights episode it looked as if the ghost was trying to hurt someone involved in the soap opera or in the theatre department at the university. He kept giving Eli and Melinda cryptic messages leading them to believe he was evil and it wasn’t until the very end that his true motives came out, he was trying to get them to stop blaming themselves about his death and to follow their dreams. I guess if he came out with that at the beginning there would be no show.

I took me a while to recognize Kelli Martin, the last time I saw her was on ER and she had dark hair. Her face looked the same but it was the wavy blonde hair that was throwing me. I thought it was a hoot that everyone was into the soap opera except Melinda, even Jim was hooked on it. Just goes to show you, even though they try to deny it men do enjoy knowing who’s sleeping with who and who’s the daddy storylines that are so popular on those shows.

Did anybody else notice the blooper when they were in the auditorium at the college? Check it out. In this scene the ghost, far left, is shown on the monitor behind them, in other scenes he’s shown on stage but absent in the monitor as he should be




I’m glad the baby is really Jim’s and will have his DNA, not Sam’s. You could tell that was a relief to Jim and Melinda also. My understanding is the show will pick up the pace for the rest of the season and time will speed up.

The previews for next week showed Jim getting down on one knee so I’m sure he’s proposing to Melinda. You won’t want to miss the season finale on May 15th when Melinda and Jim get married. My only question is, who will be his best man. Jim can’t ask any of his old friends since they don’t know him and Sam has no friends except for Melinda and her small circle. I guess it’s a toss up between Eli and Ned but my money’s on Ned.

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Nothings the Same Since Not Me Got Into Town

Our 6 year old nephew Not Me spent the weekend at our house and despite my best efforts to keep the Wii hidden he knew I had one and kept asking if he could play it. I have to mention here the kid’s a Playstation 2 addict and as Don says he’s a video game snob. He wasn’t happy playing a Super Nintendo he wanted a Playstation or my Wii. Since Don got rid of his Playstation 2 he set his sites on my Wii.

I don’t have many games, I have Wii Sports which came with the unit, Trauma – Second Opinion, Trauma – New Blood and Animal Crossings City Folks. I won’t let a 6 year old play Wii Sports because I don’t trust that he won’t let go of the remote and send it crashing into the TV. Yes, I know it has a wrist strap but they have been known to break. Since, as Don put it, Not Me has the attention span of a gnat I knew he wouldn’t be able to remember the surgical procedures needed to play the Trauma games so that left Animal Crossings. I relented and we set him up with his own character and named it after him. If you’re not familiar with Animal Crossings it’s a single player game but you can have several characters in the game, you just have to play one at a time. You also have to work, make money and purchase your tools such as fishing pole, net to catch bugs and insects and expand your house. Since Not Me’s character was new he had noting so he wanted to play using my character. I took a big girl pill, held my breath and let him play. As soon as he took over the controls he was messing up my town. I spent weeks planting flowers, cutting down and planting trees, decorating my house. I took time each day to water my flowers and contributing to the town fund to get a new bridge and now I’m saving up for a town fountain.

As soon as Not Me entered my town he kept picking my flowers. He moved all my furniture around and went into the city and got a makeover on my character, changing her face and hairstyle. HE WAS RUNING MY TOWN. I spent a lot of time when he was done trying to put everything back the way it was. The next morning he woke up asking to play the Wii again. That’s when it hit me, I don’t have to save the game when he’s finished. If I don’t save it then it will be as if any damage he’s done didn’t happen.

Here's some pictures of MY TOWN. The first photo as well as the photo above is MY CHARACTER the way I had her looking. The rest of the photos are MY CHARACTER after Not Me changed her look.




Now I’m trying to figure out how to tell him the Wii got broke or I lost it when he comes to visit again. I guess being raised like an only child (my only brother was 19 when I was born) is coming back to haunt me. I have a hard time sharing my toys.

What Evil Lurks in the Mysterious Mind of Lickety Split

We finally had my sister-in-law and her family over for dinner and to see our new house. There were 7 adults and 2 kids, Lickety Split and his older brother Not Me. When they first arrived I gave the grand tour which included the living room, kitchen, garage, bathroom, guest room, computer room and master bed/bath. Lickety was with us on the tour but the only room he seemed interested in was the master bedroom. He crawled up on the bed and laid back with his hands under his head. He looked like he was settling in for the night.

After the tour I took Lickety and Not Me aside for a little talk. I asked if they liked my house and if they wanted to come back again. Their answer to both questions was yes. I told them the only way they’d be allowed to come back is if they followed my rules which were:

1. Don’t touch anything that doesn’t belong to you. If you want to touch something ask first and if you’re told no, leave it alone

2. Don’t go into any room that has a door closed

They both said they understood but I later found out, understanding and applying do not belong together in Lickety’s world.

We were sitting at the table getting ready to eat and my nephew yelled at Lickety to get off the speakers. Don has some old stereo speakers about 3 feet high and they’re on either side of the TV cabinet. I guess Lickety had climbed onto one of them and was starting to stand. My nephew had to physically remove him and gave him a time out of about 3 minutes (that's 1 minute for each year, in July he'll get 4 minutes). Dinner was actually pleasant with no incoming food or silverware from the Land of Lickety.

When we finished eating the kids went outside while the rest of us sat and talked. Suddenly I notice Lickety running around without any pants on. He said his brother pushed him down and they were wet, he then proceeds to take his shirt off. A little later Not Me wanted someone to take his picture, he was told we didn’t have a camera and he seemed OK with that answer. About 5 minutes later Not Me announces that Lickety “went into your house.” Since he was already inside we knew that meant he was someplace he wasn’t supposed to be. As I got to the hallway I saw Lickety standing at the far end outside the computer room with my camera held high over his head. That little snot went into the computer room, which had a closed door and found my camera which was on a shelf. I must add it was already dark outside and the light in that room had been turned off by a pull chain which he couldn’t reach. He spent less than a minute in that room during the tour but he remembered my camera was in there and what shelf it was on.

If Lickety ever comes back I’m going to have deadbolts installed on all the doors before he arrives. Better yet, we do have a kennel for the dogs, that and a padlock might work just fine.

They Listened and Responded

If you’ve been following this blog you probably read of my problems getting a storage/utility shed from CSN Sheds and then my satisfaction with the shed itself when we re-ordered it from Amazon. I’m one to let a company know when I’m satisfied with their products as well as dissatisfied so I sent an email to customer service of Suncast Sheds telling them how happy I am with their product and I also sent the links to the 2 blog posts I’d written concerning the item.

Imagine my surprise today when I received the following response from Suncast.

From: Caryl Theilgaard
Date: 4/14/2009 6:54:41 AM
To: Denice
Subject: Re: Parts Purchasing

Thank you, Denice, for taking the time to let us know how you feel about our product and the retailers who sell it. I am sorry about your negative experience, too. I also forwarded your message to both Sales and Marketing and the Advertising directors for their consideration. Good will come of this, I am sure. We wish you years of satisfied use from your new purchase, too.


Caryl A. Theilgaard (Mrs.)
Supervisor, Consumer Response
Suncast Corporation
Batavia, Illinois 60510

It’s a good feeling knowing someone actually read my email. Their response also showed me that they took the time to click on the links and read the blog posts. This is the type of company I wouldn’t mind doing business with in the future but I don’t have the need for any more storage sheds.

Ghost Whisperer - Jim Wants to be a Doctor

I can’t believe Don watched Ghost Whisperer with me tonight. He stopped watching when Jim jumped into Sam’s body. I’m not sure if he watched because Jim has his memories back and they’re not jumping back and forth between Jim and Sam anymore or if he was just too comfortable to move to another room when it came on.

Tonight was the big night with Hillary Duff. I almost didn’t recognize her at first. I kept thinking she looked familiar then it hit me who she was. Usually we can figure out what’s going on pretty early but this episode had me guessing for quite a while. I figured out what she was doing just before Melanie and Eli did. Don still had to explain to me that the ghost committed suicide because I thought Morgan was the one who packed his parachute and killed him. I guess I’m slipping in my deductive skills.

For those that didn't see the episode, Hillary Duff played Morgan, Eli's neighbor who was being haunted by a ghost that she said she didn't know. Turns out they were close friends and met at a support group for cancer patients. The ghost committed suicide so he could leave her his life insurance to pay for a new, expensive treatment. It turns out she didn't have cancer but was a black widow who met men at the support groups and married them before they died. Morgan really had feelings for this guy and felt so guilty after he died that she donated the insurance money $250,000 to a cancer center in his name. At the end she admitted what she'd done, the ghost forgave her and they watched the lunar eclipse together which was one of the things on his bucket list. After the eclipse Morgan scattered his ashes into the wind and the ghost went into the light.

So, Jim admitted he wants to be a doctor. I thought it was brought up a couple of seasons ago that he wanted to go to medical school but then it was dropped. I really felt sorry for him when he saw his co-workers. It’s a good thing Jim’s got a level head (except for when he jumped into Sam’s body) because anybody else would be going crazy right now but not Jim. He accepts that his life as he knew it is over and he’s got to assume this new identity.

Upcoming Spoilers:

April 24th, They’re doing a remote shoot of a soap opera in Grandview and a ghost wreaks havoc. This also talks about a miraculous turn in Melinda’s life changing everything for her and Jim. This is probably when she discovers she’s pregnant. This episode has Thad Luckinbill and Amelia Heinle (J.T. Hellstrom and Victoria Newman Hellstrom) from The Young and The Restless and Lesli Kay (Felicia Forrester) from The Bold and The Beautiful as well as Kellie Martin.

May 1st, Melinda is interested in a girl’s dollhouse that seems to be inhabited by ghosts.

May 8th, Melinda is planning for her wedding while she’s helping a girl who thinks she’s being visited by vampires.

The season finale airs May 15th, Melinda gets an unexpected visit from a ghost (like that doesn’t happen every week) and worries about her unborn baby. For any Days of Our Lives fans this episode has Jason Brooks, ex Peter Blake.

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My New Suncast Utility Shed

A couple of weeks ago I posted about our problems with CSN Sheds. We ordered the same Suncast shed through Amazon and it was delivered in about a week and so far I love it. It’s exactly as it was described. The shed was delivered about 5:30pm and we had it set up and the lawnmower inside by 6:30pm. No tools were required as everything just snapped together. Don probably could have put it together himself but I wanted to help just to see how easy it was.

My previous post was complaining about CSN Sheds, a distributor NOT Suncast Sheds, the manufacturer. Suncast’s customer service department was very helpful and went online to tell me who sells their merchandise and who had it available. I would recommend Suncast products to anybody in market for a yard or utility shed that doesn’t require a contractor for assembly.


Photo Credit: Suncast.com

What Happened to Taking Pride in Your Work?

Why don’t people have pride in their jobs anymore? What happened to common courtesy? WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TELEPHONE?

The fun began last Saturday. We live in Southeast Alabama where all the rain and storms have been coming through. We had a creek in our backyard where there really shouldn’t be one and a raging river in the front where again there shouldn’t be one. Then I noticed some water spots on the kitchen ceiling. Panic sets in, we need a new roof.

On Monday I called the guy who had inspected our house before we bought it and he came out to check things out for us. He said the roof looks fine but there could be a few possibilities where the water came from.

1. The area around the vents on the roof may have some wind damage and need to be resealed

2. The duct work in the attic isn’t insulated well and there is some bare metal. Since we’ve had the AC on for a couple of weeks the duct work could be sweating and causing some damage.

3. For some reason when they installed the refrigerator icemaker they ran the tubing (copper) from the kitchen sink up to the attic and down the wall to the refrigerator which is also in the kitchen not too far from the sink. The copper tubing is corroded and there is some corrosion showing on the wood it’s resting on which could be from condensation.

His suggestions: Have someone look at the roof and reseal the vents. Have an AC guy insulate the duct work where there is no insulation. Replace the ice maker tubing and re-it through the back of the cabinets to the freezer.

The Roof:

This one actually went smoother than we expected. We called a roofer to request an estimate. I was told they’d have someone out sometime that week if the rain stopped. On Wednesday the roofer called and said he was coming. About 10 minutes later he was here and had someone up on the roof before we answered the door. He went up on the roof and was back in about 15 minutes. They sealed around all 4 vents and they guy was walking away when Don asked about payment. He said we’d get a bill. Don asked how much and he said, just the service call. We were mildly surprised and very happy about that one.


The Duct Work and the Problems Begin:

The woman who sold us the house had a service contract on the furnace and AC and we felt they knew the system so we called them. I told them we wanted an estimate for wrapping the duct work and to also do a system check while they were here. On Tuesday the guy comes out when he’s suppose to but he finds a wire in the furnace has the coating removed in some areas and the wire and coating is singed black. This same company was her replacing a capacitor on the AC in November before we made the purchase so why didn’t they notice the wire back then? The guy then goes into the attic and tells us we should have the duct work replaced. He can’t give us an estimate but will put in his recommendation and someone will call us around noon. Noon comes and goes and we haven’t heard anything. Finally around 3pm we get the call. He’ll be here on Thursday at 10am. You guessed it, 10am comes and goes and no sign of the guy and no phone call. Now we’re having severe storms again so I can understand someone being delayed or having to cancel all together but a phone call would be nice. After waiting 4 hours I’ve had enough and called another company who was to have someone out today. He said he’d call this morning to set up a time. I called the first company back and told them I was canceling the appointment and why. The owner calls back a few minutes later. He can send the guy right out if we want. Sorry, if he’s available to come right out, why isn’t he already here?

By 11:30am this morning we haven’t heard anything from the 2nd AC company. I call them to inquire what was going on and I’m told someone will call us back. About 40 minutes later we get the call, the person who was supposed to come out had medical emergency. I’m not that cold hearted I know emergencies come up and in those situations you may not be thinking clearly or thinking about work so I can ignore the fact that we didn’t get a call. I could even understand them having to reschedule since they were shorthanded today but the person on the phone says he’ll be out this afternoon. It’s now 9pm. We held dinner because we didn’t want to be in the middle of eating when he showed up.

When does “this afternoon” end? At what point do we realize nobody is showing up and call yet another company. How many companies do we have to go through before we realize they’re all alike? Is there a company out there that cares about their customers?

A Fitting End

If you watched the final episode of ER last night, what did you think of it? I thought it was very good. It stayed true to the show and it was written as if it could have been just another episode but gave the viewers something extra. The show and Carter have come full circle.

The first episode of ER had Nurse Wright waking up Dr. Greenw to tell him about a patient coming in. Carter is a new med student, very green and scared. Dr. Greene gives Carter a pep talk when he doesn’t think he can make it as a doctor. The docs are in the ambulance bay waiting for the ambulance and when they turn to go back in with the patient Dr. Greene turns around and said “you coming Dr. Carter.”

As I said, the rest of the episode was written just like any other episode with trauma, life and death. Ernest Borgnine is with dying wife whom he’s loved for 72 years, since the 6th grade. After she dies he says “so it’s over?” I felt that was a very appropriate line considering this was the last show.

Carter who was the black sheep of a very rich family has spent most of the family fortune on the Joshua Carter Center named after his son who died. On hand for the opening is Dr. Susan Lewis and Dr. Carrie Weaver, Dr. Elizabeth Corday and her stepdaughter Rachel Greene as well as Dr. Benton and his son Reese. All are faces from the past. Carter’s wife Kem comes in but he’s whisked away before he can say more than a few words with her.

The finale the Nurse Wright is waking up Archie to tend to a new patient. Julia, an intern is having doubts she can take being a doctor after a patient dies and Dr. Brenner gives her the same pep talk Dr. Greene gave Carter 15 years ago. Dr. Greene’s daughter Rachel is a senior in college and wanting to be a doctor. She’s with a group of potential med students touring County General and spends the evening with Doctor Carter at the ER. At the end the docs are in the ambulance bay waiting for an ambulance. Carter isn’t on duty but someone hands him a gown and gloves and as they turn to go back in with the patient Carter turns and says “you coming Dr. Greene.” Rachel follows him into the ER as the camera pans back giving the first full shot of the outside of County General.

The writers and actors stayed true to the show’s beginning and didn’t pull any stunts out of their hats for the finale. It wasn’t all in the mind of an autistic child as in St. Elsewhere. It wasn’t all a dream as in Newhart. It was another day in the life of the ER of County General and a fitting end to a great show.