IN MEMORY OF ERIC EAKS

Hello, again.
well here I am in California, yeah, surprise, since we were just out here in June for my best girlfriends 60th birthday.
Well I recieved a phone call from this same best friend last Thursday the 23th of July. She told me her grandson(whom we have know his whole life)he turned 18 March 1st. that he had died. She was devasated and asked me if I could come out and be with her through this time of sorrow.

So of course I knew I had to be here with her and her family, by the way we have know each other over 30 years, and our kids were small together.

It has been an experience that I hope no one else has to go through.
One of Eric's friends made a dvd and put it on youtube, so I thought I would put it up here on the blog. Eric was a wonderful boy, or should I say man. He just graduated in June from High School and was signed up to go to college in September.
He had so much going for him, or so it seemed.........

But there were darker things going on with Eric which no one knew...........
He hanged him self in a building in the back of their house. And his father came home from the movies and found him. Of course they took him to the hospital and tried to revive him with no luck. So you see why it is so hard for this family now.

I ask that you all keep them in your prayers.
And may God Bless you all.
And this is not in a small town.


ERIC ANTHONY EAKS was born March 1, 1990 at Weiler/ Einstein Hospital in New York (Bronx Country), New York. He was the only child born to his parents Christopher William Eaks and Lisa Leonard.

Eric grew up in Pasadena, California and attended Pasadena High School (PHS); where he graduated on June 18, 2008. Eric was a member of the school's Drama Club and acted in several plays during the school year.

Eric loved music and started playing musical instruments at an early age. He taught himself to play the guitar, piano, and various other instruments. He had formal music lessons in playing the trumpet and played well. In 2005, Eric was a proud member of the Pasadena All Star Band that marched and played the trumpet in the Pasadena Rosebowl Parade.

In addition to music, Eric loved skateboarding, playing video games, and learning. He was passionately involved in animal rights activism.

Eric accepted Christ at an early age. He attended St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church in Altadena, California with his grandmother, Beverly Foster. On July 24, 2008, Eric entered into eternal and everlasting life at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, CA.

HOME COMING

Wow!! this is an old noe I didn't realize I hadn't finished. Sorry......

Last Sunday, July 20th, was home coming week-end at the church we went to when we were growing up. It's the third Sunday of July every year. It was enjoyable, they had a couple of pastors there that had preached there before, so they got up and said a few words. They usually have a different music group there every year. This year they had a group with three guys named "HIs Song" they were really good. We bought one of there CD's Here is a picture of them.

I'm not so sure about next year, just about all of the people I knew back in the day are all gone, and don't come back for the home coming. But the FOOD was good! I have another picture of Patrick with the music group that I will try to add later.

HELLO, AGAIN!!

Hello, you probably was not expecting me this soon, uh?? Just sitting here at work and thought I would catch some of you up on the news at my work.
First we had two sales persons stealing from the company...just over a few months they had stolen around $10,000.00 dollars of merchandise. Yeah, they got caught and had to pay back the money or go to jail, so they paid back the money. I know, our boss is really being good because he didn't have them put in jail.

So we lost two sales persons in our one location which made it difficult, because we had to send sales persons from some of our other locations to cover. A-N-D then we had one of our sales persons not come to work, oh, he called in said he had food poisoning, that was the first day he missed. Then he didn't come in or call, so we assumed he quit. That makes us even more short on sales persons. Well, one of the two sales persons that is usually at my store calls in and says her grandfather has had a heart attach and she has to go to Mexico. So she calls in a couple of days and the last time she called in she was on her way back home. So we think she will be back to work the next day, right? NOT....and we haven't heard from her yet. She text ed one of the sales persons and told him she was in Shreveport, and she was joining the Army next week. Well, a couple of us knew she was thinking about joining the Army but not this soon. Wow, who next. Our sales persons are getting less and less. And our boss isn't sure what is going to happen to our business so he is not hiring any more sales persons yet. Pretty scary, not knowing if we are going to have a job or not.

Well, guess I better get off here for now, will be back soon.
And that's what is happening in a small town...

The New iPhone

Today the new iphone came out. Well, since I am in the cell phone business this was a concern for my company. Since we are just Agents for AT&T we are not allowed to sell it. So of course todays news was about all the people waiting to get the new iphone. There were people camping out in some places like New York, Canada and Japan. Even the corp. store in the town near us had people lined up out front before they opened today. And they ran out of the iphones before everyone got one.

Not only that they were having problems with activating them and telling the cust to go home and finish activation on their own computer. GREAT!!!!

I am going to try to add some of the pictures of people waiting to get their iphones.





This is the line at the store in the town near us.
And that is what is happening in a small town..........

SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE!!!!!!

WELL, I THINK IT HAS BEEN JUST ABOUT A YEAR SINCE I'VE BEEN ON HERE. WOW!!
I NOW HAVE A MYSPACE, SO I GET WRAPPED UP IN IT AND HAVEN'T BEEN BACK HERE TO KEEP UP WITH THIS ONE. I WILL TRY TO DO BETTER AND START BLOGGING AGAIN.

I TOOK A FEW PICTURES THAT I WANTED TO BLOG ABOUT SO I WILL HAVE TO ADD THEM TO THIS LATER AFTER I DOWN LOAD THEM TO MY COMPUTER FROM MY CAMERA.

I SAY NOT A LOT HAS BEEN HAPPENING WITH ME BUT THAT'S JUST ME.......
I'VE HAD A FEW FAMILY MEMBERS PASS AWAY SINCE CHRISTMAS, NOT FUN.
TAKEN VACATION TO CALIFORNIA TO SEE FAMILY AND FRIENDS, WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE A GREAT TIME. IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT IT HAS BEEN 25 YEARS SINCE I LIVED OUT THERE, AND HOW SO MUCH HAS CHANGED SINCE THEN. AND SO MANY PEOPLE, RUDE PEOPLE. :(

I DON'T THINK I COULD LIVE OUT THERE AGAIN. IT WOULD REALLY BE HARD GETTING USE TO IF I DID.

I NEED TO GET OFF HERE FOR NOW, BUT I WILL COME BACK AND EDIT THIS WITH PICTURES LATER.

WELL, HERE I AM AGAIN AND I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THESE PICTURES WITH YOU.
I WAS AT OUR LOCAL WAL-MART AND SAW THIS LIMO, WHERE BUT ONLY IN A SMALL TOWN.