Joseph M. Santoro, 55, of 403 S. Wood St., Middletown entered into eternal rest on Saturday, September 2, 2006 at the John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD. He was the son of Mildred M. Martin Santoro of Middletown and was preceded in death by his father, Anthony Santoro on March 7, 2006. He retired after 32 years as a fire fighter for the city of Harrisburg. Mr. Santoro attended the Middletown First Church of God and was a member of the Middletown Kiwanis Club. Joe excelled in building, fixing and trouble shooting computers. He also was an avid NASCAR fan. In addition to his mother, he is survived by his loving wife, Cynthia A. Sprenkle Santoro; two loving daughters, Kecia M. and Angela R. Santoro both of Middletown; and his brother, Timothy S. husband of Sherry Albert Santoro of Middletown. A tribute to his life will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the First Church of God, 235 W. High St., Middletown, with the Rev. Kimberly Shifler officiating. Burial with firemen's honors will be in the Middletown Cemetery. Viewing will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the Matinchek and Daughter Funeral Home and Cremation Services, and from 10 to 11 a.m. Thursday at the church. Memorial contributions may be made to the Leukemia – Lymphoma Society, 800 Corporate Circle, Suite 100, Harrisburg, PA 17110. www.pennlive.com/obits
Welp, long time no read from anyone! Oh oops, that's me that no one has read about in a long time! Well I thought this was going to be a long weekend for me but it turns out that I had a pretty good day, besides a few minor things. See yesterday turned out to be a bum day for me. Where I was hoping to make plans with people but I never actually made plans. So I just slept the majority of the day and then I mopped the kitchen floor *woohoo* so exciting I know! And then emailed a friend thinking that I would be up the majority of the night so I thought we could play email tag. Well it turns out that I watched a movie with my mom, and then about 1/4 of the way into the movie she said that she was going to go to bed and I continued watching the movie. I think about 3/4 of the way where I fell asleep and continued to sleep through the night, somewhere waking up to turn off the tv and only to go back to sleep on the couch in the living room with my puppy Muffin! I was totally shocked. I think I got the most sleep yesterday that I have ever gotten in about a week. Anyway I was then wide awake at 6am and got online to email back my friend. I thought I would be wide awake where I finally fell back asleep and woke up about an hour before Ali called me asking me if we wanted to hang out! Now you know I couldn't pass up that time with my Ali! So she picked me up on her way back home from work. And then we went to her house so she could change out of her work clothes and gets some nice and dry clothes. We then decided that we would venture to meet my mom at Wear's Like New in Hershey, so that I could look for Khakis and get some money!! Well on our way out to Hershey, Ali proceed to get on the highway at the Airport interchange and head towards Middletown, and just as she gets ready to change lanes her driver's side windshield wiper just like literally pops off. So I look at Ali and tell her to pull over as she could barely see the road. So I figure that I should be the one to get out and look at it since we are on the side of the road and I didn't want to risk Ali getting hit. So I go assess the problem and see that one piece of her blade is bent and so I pull that piece out and try to make it where it will be able to work just until we can get to K-Mart, *soaked the first out of two times might I add* We get to K-Mart and I pull out the rubber piece so that way we can make sure that we have the right size. Get inside of the store after going through the pouring rain. We get to the part where they sell windshield wiper blades and GO FIGURE they don't sell the refills so we had to buy a whole new windshield wiper. So we just get the size we need and we go to the check out. And our total is..... YUP you guess it $6.66. Evil was definitely on our side today. I am unsure of how to put this whole wiper on the car but I told Ali that I will figure it out! Well I look at it and I see all these pieces and right then and there I know that I won't be able to do this. And there is no way that we can get in the car and go to a mechanic place for them to put a new wiper on, because the regular blade is shot and not safe. So I see this man pulling up and I get the courage to ask him for help. He is kind enough to help us. He proceeds to put this wiper on Ali's car as we just stand and watch for about 20 minutes. *where we got soaked for the second time* He gets it on and we (well Ali graciously tips him) and we go on our way to meet my mom as I am calling Mello on the phone to tell him the story. It's kind of funny now that we look back on it but at first I didn't know what was going on. So we meet my mom at Wear's Like New where I find a few shirts but none of them fit or I just decided not to get. After there, we go to get gas at Turkey Hill and proceeded on our day hoping for no more events. We continued to pay the cell bill and then went to the Colonial Park Mall, where I got some great deals might I add!!! After shopping I bought Ali and I some dinner and after buying dinner we both find out from our parents that they had dinner for us. After eating we continued shopping and then finally leaving at about a little after 5 maybe we went back to Ali's house where I got some new music for my iPod. So basically that was my day in a nutshell.
