Maeci's Ride

Yes, I am up at the butt crack of dawn. No, wait, that bitch isn’t even up yet. Why may you or may not ask? I am doing a good deed today and it is worth it.



A good friend of mine works with a couple whose daughter is dying from Cancer. Fucking sucks is the best description of the situation. They are the average run of the mill family that is just trying to have the American dream. Both parents work a factory job with decent pay and were gliding along until BAM!! Hodgkin’s Lymphoma comes knocking at their door. Actually, the door of their 6 year old daughter.


A little history. My Tom helped start the Miracle Ride for Riley here in Indy over 13 years ago. The last one I did with him was a month before he died. Picture in your head about 6000, yes 6000, motorcycles in one place at one time to raise money for sick kids. The committee spent the whole year putting this together. The first weekend in June was spent in a hotel room for quick naps and then working out in the sun. Every minute was worth it. Totally. I did it the first year after he died but it just became too much and me crying through the whole weekend was just too much for me.


Anywho, today I will be working another ride for Maeci. This one is only about 150 riders but that is OK. As someone that knows about the bills and crap dealing with Cancer, they can use every dime we can get. I was recruited to work the “Give me all of your money and shut up” table. My friends know me. I don’t take NO real well. See, they have to pay me their $25 to do the ride, sign the waiver and then I am selling tickets for stuff. We will have a 50/50 drawing and raffle of some other crap. But they will pay to do this. Trust me! **inserting my evil grin here**


The only bitch about this is I have to wear a BLACK t-shirt and it is supposed to get up in the 90’s today. So all of you people that are languishing by the pool or sitting in the a/c watching a movie, BITE ME!!


But if I can do something to help these people that are losing their daughter, so be it. At the end of the day I can go home and hug my kid and be grateful.


Maeci was to be at the last stop of the ride but this week her health has went downhill and she will not be allowed to leave the hospital as originally planned.


So my friends, that is my day. Tomorrow is a day of rest and then Monday…the new floor will be going in. Try thinking of Moe, Larry, and Curly putting in laminate flooring and that is what my house will look like on Monday. And Tuesday. And probably Wednesday.


Hope you all have a great day and stay cool and enjoy living.


Now, go hug your kid. Because you can.

Ten Thought Tuesday

I know, I know…repeating myself…bad blogger here!



Will do Ten Thoughts but if it goes into 75, it is totally not my fault.


1. It always seems that I blog less in the summer well…because it is summer and there is stuff do outside and inside and here and there and everywhere!


2. I had to go renew my license thanks to that birthday crap and that sucks in this state. Was easy to do and took no time but then they give you a freaking piece of paper to carry and then the mail your license to you!! And EVERYTHING you do here you have to show ID. When we went to the concert Thursday night, I went to the State Police tent to get my stamp that says I am old enough to buy beer and the Freaking cop looked at me like I was an alien. DUDE, you are a cop, this has been the law for a year and you don’t know what I just handed you? Here’s your sign!


3. This summer I swore that I was going to do a bunch of crap around here that I have wanted to do since I bought the place and dammit, it is getting done.


4. I have a little over 400 square feet of laminate that I, yes I, am going to attempt to lay in the living room next week. I watch A LOT of HGTV and have seen it done and have watched “how-to” videos on the Innerwebz so off I go! I have a straight shot for the first 200 or so and that will be easy. Then we have the fireplace, which is at an angle and then the kitchen doorway which is also at an angle and then I have 5 doors to do. And then all of the quarter round or baseboard to do. Did I mention this requires electric saws which while I have used in the past, requires the formulation of how to cut angles?? Let’s pray that my new name will not be Happy Three Fingers when this is over.


5. All of the new lights have been hung and I is in Love!! I have one dilemma though. I have white doors and they just seem to clash with the blue and tan but think it would be over kill to paint them as well. Not in the budget for all new wood doors either. I did paint the back of the front door and it looks good.


6. Yes, I have before pics and will have after when it is done. And when I either fix the new camera or buy another one. Sigh!


7. The garden is doing great now that we have had to replant a shitload of crap thanks to SOMEONE, whose name begins with G, over sprayed the weed killer and umm…killed the garden.


8. Did I mention that we only have about 28 tomato plants out there now? No, I didn’t but I will be in salsa and canned tomato hell right around September. Do you like yours hot or mild?


9. We also have cucumbers, cabbage, about 18 green beans, watermelon, jalapeño’s, green pepper, and for some ungodly reason, we ended up with 6 zucchini plants. Do you know how bad that can get? Wonder if zucchini bread travels well through the USPS?


10. Gregg is on vacation next week again. Please pray for me! I love that man to death but he is the most restless person I know and always needs to be doing stuff. I am hoping to work on the floor while he is off so he can help with the furniture moving but Lord does he drive me to drinking some days. I have offered Jimmy cash to take him fishing for at least one day so I can work in peace. Butttttt….Jimmy wants to help me with the floor so I am screwed. And not in the good way either.


11. I am thoroughly done with rain. Seriously, mom Nature, I don’t even own a boat so you need to stop NOW! Yesterday morning we had a big storm for about 2 hours and then again last night. Thunder, lightning and high wind started about 11:00 p.m. and it was still going strong when Gregg left for work at 5:00 a.m.! Thank goodness the dogs can dog-paddle when I let them out to do their bidniz!


12. Today is laundry day. Everyone around here does their own but I haven’t had time in three weeks to do mine and I am out of undies. It’s either do it or go commando. I love options!


13. Told you I have thoughts. Even more where those came from but this long enough already. Here’s to hoping Marty didn’t flash the SWAT Team this morning, Kippy is finding peace and knows that she has the best yet to come, Patti is surviving the storms with her new roommate too, Billie is not finding any more weird things in her pocket unless it is cash, BTC is getting some rest and having fun with Bandit, Erin is enjoying her new job and new cash, Fannie has not hurt anyone with all of the planning she is doing, and hoping Kerry is not buying any more Red Jell-O for a LONG time. If I forgot anything, please feel free to shoot me. Soon, please and thank you!

Fourth Pic Down is Marty and Rick!!!

Don't take life so seriously!
DANCE





KISS A LOT!


RELAX IN NATURE


HAVE FUN

AND BE HAPPY!!!!

Make sure you scroll all the way down and read what is written.


Today is International Disturbed People's Day


Please send an encouraging message to a disturbed friend... just as I've done.



I don't care if you lick windows,

take the special bus

or occasionally pee on yourself..

You hang in there sunshine, you're special

Every sixty seconds you spend angry, upset or mad, is a full minute of happiness you'll never get back.



Today's Message of the Day is:

Life is short, Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably, And never regret anything that made you smile...

Where's Your Knocker?

Ten Thought Tuesday

Ten on Tuesday, huh? I could go on for days!!! So as not to completely bore you to tears I will break it down in days.



1. Last Sunday, last day of rest in what will seem like a lifetime.


2. Monday, shopped for paint, bought 9 new lights to go in and outside the house, went to the garden store and bought a gazillion plants for porch and garden. Picture will be posted as soon as the camera recharges because I is an idjit and forgot to plug the damn thing in.


3. Tuesday, paint, paint….. oh, and I painted. I painted my living area a dark blue and tan. I had painted in here when I first moved in 6 years ago but went easy and just had it painted off white. OK, so that has been boring since day one but with all that I was going through then, it was the easiest. Now let me just tell you this……you must not be a lazy, fat and middle aged woman that just came from sitting her ass by a pool or beach for a week before you attempt dark colors. Unless you like to be able to not move. Did this for about 5 hours before I gave up and started drinking!


4. Wednesday, started painting at about 9:30 AM finished oh somewhere around 6:00 PM. Tomorrow is gonna suck. And it did!! But it is done. Well, except for some clean up and I suppose I need to put all of my stuff back but I am getting there…sometime this year.


5. Thursday, more shopping because I have 3 parties coming up and of course I am the deviled eggs queen and had request coming from all directions. And food to buy for some of said parties, one of which will be here, which added in some cleaning. So after $230 at Wally World, $100 at Marsh, $40 more in just little crap, I am home and tired. But then I remember I am to meet my friends that just got back from the Bahamas, so I go off to attempt to drown myself in the shower because I had to pass that bed that I haven’t had much time with. Those 4 hours of sitting were glorious because tomorrow, we are back at it!


6. Friday, cooking day! SIX dozen eggs were cooked, peeled, and deviled. I don’t do just plain ole deviling so there was garlic and onions to chop. Also made 3 gallons of cold slaw, 4 clam shells of sweetened strawberries for shortcake, shucked 20 ears of corn to soak and then started drinking!


7. Saturday, had my Niece’s Graduation at 11:00 AM so we are up to get purdied up and off we go to that. Luckily out of a class of 800, she was the 5th one across the stage due to her Honor things so we were actually out of there around 12:30. Then I supervised the kid on some cleaning, made Gregg do some things and I did the flowers on the porch. Have a pitch-in to be at around 5:00 PM so have to get it done fast. Hit the shower, grabbed a bunch of deviled eggs and stuff and we were gone. Then I started drinking!


8. Sunday, Race Day in Indy and I have people coming to my house which is still a mess from painting. My porch looks like Linus and all of his dirty friends have been out there. I want to start drinking! But I didn’t…yet! Ran around here like a mad woman until right at 12:00, when people start arriving. At this point, I surrendered! I have great friends that know if they say anything about dirt or dust, I will hand them the cleaning stuff and tell them to enjoy themselves so all was well. I had the laptop out so we could sort of see the race but we mostly listened to it on the radio. Outside, in the freaking hotter than Hell heat. Until I had the brain fart of hooking the laptop to the big screen TV and we sat in the air conditioning. We had hot dogs, burgers, and brats to cook but I “thought” I could hand that to Gregg but then I remembered he is really good at making burgers into hockey pucks, sooooooooo I do that cooking too! Then I started drinking! All was well and I is tired.


9. Monday, my Niece’s Grad Party. My Seester had asked me to come over early, 1:00, to help and I didn’t realize that meant slave labor in 85 degree heat with no breaks! I had made her, of course, deviled eggs and then had to doctor up some store bought tater salad and coleslaw because we were both just too out of time to do the homemade thing. I finally escaped around 5:45. I was secretly trying to get out of there before our crazy Aunt’s showed up and I DID!! My Seester called me a Bitch like it was a bad thing! Sorry, your house, you can’t leave. And she started drinking! I came home, got in my jammies and I ain’t taking these things off until about 4:00 TUESDAY!!


10. Tuesday, I couldn’t sleep for shit last night thanks to fucking hot flashes so I actually didn’t un-ass the bed until 10:30! This is about the limit of my movement today and with my fingers being swollen from using them so much last week, I think I will MAYBE take a hot shower, MAYBE put on some clean jammies, and that could be it! I have enough leftovers from three parties that I may not have to cook for this bunch until at least Friday! If I feel like it!


So there are my TEN for the day! I left a bunch of the little crap out because this was getting (got) long!!


Oh, and did I mention that school got out on Friday and it only took him until about 6:00 PM that day to say he is bored?!?!


Oh, and I messed with the old desk top and got a new router installed so I can use the laptop so when I actually GO TO YOUR PAGES, I can COMMENT!! I have been reading but unable to say much but I will be catching up with comments and stuff!