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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

How was your mother’s day??

I have to say that mine went fairly well.  Got up early and went to church. I started singing in the choir (aka Praise Team) a little before Easter.  I said I wouldn’t be doing the early service.  I am not a lover of getting up early - if God wanted us to appreciate dawn it should come around noon - I have always said that.  Going to early requires that I have to get up at 6:45a.m. and fight the girls for hot water for a shower.  We have two showers.  We have a small hot water heater.  I fight for hot water.

So did early service, then went to Mickey Dees for breakfast - no one does breakfast like they do - ok so Dad Jay makes one mean Gruyere cheese and asparagus omelet thingy - but he isn’t like right next door!!  Came back did late service. Came home, called Momma, and played mindless games on the laptop till the youngest came home from work and we went out to our favorite hole in the wall Mexican restaurant that is about a 30 minute drive away. (Cue hungry, gurgling stomach)
Feasted on a super delicious fajita meal, ate some fresh flan (Mexican custard), and then headed home.

The girls gave me a statue for the bookshelves called “Mother and Daughter” which I have been wanting for awhile.  When I sit here working on my laptop (in my family room/dining room/office) I can see it every time I lift my head up from the monitor.  Someday when we get batteries for the digital camera I may even be able to post a picture of it on here.

After making a few more phone calls, sweet hubby and I headed upstairs with a bowl of hot, buttered popcorn to catch up on all the stuff that we have saved on the DVR.  Sitting through 5 new episodes of one of our favorite shows is the perfect end to a great day.  (Oh yeah, and we had to top it off with a Hershey bar too.)

Guess it is real late as Zo has come in and demanded that we head upstairs for bed.
Take care.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Happy Mother’s Day

Happy Mother’s Day

I won’t be able to see my “other” mother, my mother-in-law or Mimi today.  I can wish all of them a beautiful Mother’s Day!!  I have their cards, they are in my thoughts, and I will try to call all of them today.  My love to all of them.
Happy Mother’s Day to all of YOU!!

Monday, April 13, 2009

Happy Birthday to Me….......

Quite possibly one of the worst birthdays I had in a long time.  Don’t ask.
Sweet hubby tried to make it better by surprising me with devil’s food, chocolate frosted, heart shaped cupcakes. (Yes, you can go awwww)

Earlier in the month (if it had only been my birthday that day) I had a much better day.  SEB (whom I have ‘adopted’ as my little bro) and his daughter, Courtney (my ‘niece’) came over as we were having problems with our main PC and the girls’ laptops.  10 minutes after hanging up from him telling us he was on his way, the phone rang again.  This time it was Momma (who is his real mom and my ‘other’ mother) and Dad Jay saying that they would like to come down with Brandy.
Soon SEB was here and busily working on the youngest’s laptop, while Courtney and I visited. Sweet hubby immersed himself in WoW till SEB was ready to work on that PC.
Of course, being me, I told only sweet hubby and Courtney about all the company.

All too soon the phone rang and it was Momma telling us that they had missed our road and were having a refreshing root beer about a 1/2 mile away and Brandy was woofing down a hot dog.  I told them to hurry over as pizza had been ordered.

What a surprise SEB, Momma and Dad Jay got when all were in the house.  What a surprise Zo got when she saw Brandy. (Honest, I never knew that cats tails could get that big and bushy!!!)
So then we feasted on salad, pizza and sodas - all good.

Momma brought both sweet hubby and I presents.  I received a beautiful, blue shrug which fit as if I had been to her house for a fitting.  Sweet hubby received a lovely multicolor afghan which is as big as the top of our king sized bed.  All the time Momma was making it she would refer to it as the “ugly” afghan.  Neither of us find it ugly at all.  It goes in any room with any color.  It is warm and big enough to share on our bed on cold nights.
I haven’t wrote Momma & Dad Jay to thank them for those lovely presents, I basically suck at writing Thank You notes.

Thank you Momma & Dad Jay we loved our presents and we loved the fact that you drove all the way down to our house - now, that was real special.

Geez, I feel a bit better all ready.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Happy Easter!!

Here is to hoping that the Easter Bunny is good to you.
That your Easter banquet fills you up.
That your day is filled with fun and laughter.
Happy Easter!

 

Happy Easter

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

 

 

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Monday, March 16, 2009

The day before St. Paddy’s day

Today isthe day before St. Paddy’s day and it is a very beautiful day in our neck of the woods.  The sun has been shining for 4 days straight and the temps have been staying near the 60 degree mark.  I am hoping that we will be having a bit of spring before the heat of summer this year. 
I am looking for my recipe for soda bread for tomorrow, though if I can’t find it I can always look at the blog I wrote on a previous year that I included it on.  One child wants dinner early so that she can have her St. Patrick’s feast before she heads off to her night classes, the other one wants us to delay it a day as she will be out celebrating with friends and prefers us to wait an extra day. Hahaha We have it all covered as we will just make the feast two days in a row.  That means that there will also be plenty of cold corned beef for those good sandwiches that we love to munch on - all that will be needed will be some fresh rye bread and a bit of swiss cheese!!
Yes, I am really looking forward to the meals for the next couple of days.

Time to go out and get the mail and then start on my projects for the afternoon - ie laundry and cleaning…......

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Pimp this bum

I was searching around the other day and stumbled upon this video and just had to watch the whole thing.  It gives a whole new spin on homelessness.  Many of us are a paycheck or two away from being in this man’s shoes.  It is interesting how Kevin and Sean Dolan came up with the idea to create a website to help out this person and do live webcasts of his life on the street and while he is in rehab to cure his alcohol addiction.

Here is his video, which is informative and a bit entertaining as well.

Also, check out his website: Pimp This Bum!!

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Happy Valentines’ Day!!

 

Happy Valentines’ Day

Wishing You and Your’s a Very Happy Valentines’ Day!!
We May Have Snow,
But We Have
  Love
To Keep Us
  Warm!

 

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Just One of Those Days

Today has just been one of those days…......
Had to sit with sweet hubby and figure out the bills, had to clean out the fridge, still have to mop the kitchen floor and then comes a phone call….
from Aunt Karen…..just wanted to let you know that your dad is in the ER right now, he had a car accident with a bus.
The whole sentence made one sit heavily into a chair.  Is he ok?  I don’t know he just called me on the phone.
Why don’t you call him and talk to him.
So I called him and talked to him, he thought his leg was broken but didn’t want us to come there. Stay home, no need to come, Karen will come.
The ER doctor called me - he has a broken knee but the ortho doesn’t want to do surgery because of his other health problems. They are looking to
see if they can immobilize it till it heals instead.  Oh, so much fun we will be having.
So here I sit trying to wrap my head around this latest news and haven’t even thought what to make for dinner. Guess I should go do that…...

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Today I really “stepped” in it….......

Boy did I ever step in it today.  I was sent an email by a close friend that had to do with some of the states that are trying to get legislation passed that has to do with ammunition being numbered - every single round.  And every round having a tax on it. Some states say all guns, some say just handguns and assault type weapons, and KY specifically left out rifles.
At the bottom of this email was the information about the bills and a link to look them up on-line; as well as the original author’s rant about how it is all Obama’s fault, and calling him something not very nice as well as implying that whomever voted for him was a relative of a donkey.  (hey, I try to keep this pretty clean) Which of course I glossed over because it was someone’s opinion and very political and not totally accurate to the rest of the email.  (In other words, I read it but didn’t really read it.  I have since read it in it’s entirety, hence this post)

There was also attached a radio broadcast that included a speech from the 60’s that had to do with socialism morphing into communism and it was pretty interesting, if not at least, historical.  And the quote at the end of it was a lady right after an Obama speech saying that she will no longer have to worry about paying for the gas in her car, or her mortgage because Obama was going to take care of her.  Which tied right back to the speech about socialism right before.

So, being upset about the whole ammo thing and not wanting to censor an email - just get it out and keep it going, let people know what is going in other parts of the country - I sent it out to probably half of the people I have email addresses for; I figured that they would want to know a current event.  (Even though this evening I found that NY has been proposing this stuff since Mar of 2007).
Boy, oh, boy did I ever get some hate mail.

Now, when I receive an email from someone that has a very differing opinion from what I hold and some have had some rough language about stuff.  I read it and delete it.  Frankly I don’t take the time to send out an email full of nasty - it just isn’t worth it.  I figure that is how that person feels and right or wrong it is their opinion.

Those of you that know me personally know that I am not a fan of our President-elect.  I hope that you also know I would never call you the cousin of a donkey just because you voted for him.  That is the thing that makes this country great.  We have the freedom (right now) to speak our minds, elect our officials and raise a very public voice about issues and things that the government does that we do not agree with - I hope that we will always retain those rights.

In the one nasty email I received I was called a ‘right winger’; now honestly I wasn’t quite sure what that was so I had to google it.  (Told ya, politics to most extents are not my gig. Fact: took me 3 times to pass a Political Science class in college - absolutely hate it- but I do understand how our government really works and what a President can and can’t do.) 

Now the first paragraph in Wikipedia stated:

Today, it is used to describe political groups who stress the importance of nationalism, tradition, and religion, and who oppose socialism, communism, and internationalism.

Well, ok maybe I am a tad right wing; I believe in tradition, religion (freedom for all) and I do oppose socialism and communism - the other things I don’t really know what they are and don’t really care. (told ya)  I believe that we need to uphold what the founding fathers wrote in the Constitution and the original bill of rights.  These are the things that made this country great and the precious things that we don’t want to lose.

So, to wrap this up.  If you got the email from me ignore the crap after the facts. Listen to the speech.  And most important make up your own mind.  (If you want a copy of the email - write me and I will send you out the sanitized version - yes, I am learning.)

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