Awwww..I Love My Man!!!

Today's List!

Color Hair - check

CVS - check

Tan - check

Papa Murphy's Pizza - check

Get Gas - check

Liquor Store - check

Meds for Andy - check

Piss Off Mortgage Company - check

Piss Off Old Car Financer - check

Piss Off Insurance Company - check

Drink a Cold Beer - check

My Ten for Tuesday!!

For All of You Gals!!!

Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says ~~ "Oh Crap, She's up!" (I love this!!)

Sister Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Love the ones who don't just because you can. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Kiss slowly. Forgive quickly. God never said life would be easy. He just promised it would be worth it. Today is sister's day, send this to all your sisters, mothers, daughters, girlfriends even me if I am like one. If you get back 7, you are loved. Happy Sister's Day! I LOVE YA SISTA'!!! :-) Girlfriend and Sister's Week I am only as strong as the chocolate I eat, the hair spray I use and the friends I have. To the cool women that have touched my life. Here's to you! National Girlfriends Day What would most of us do without our sisters, confidants and shopping, lunching, and traveling girls? Let's celebrate each other for each other's sake! TO MY GIRLFRIENDS! If you get this twice you know you have more than one girlfriend... Be Happy! PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ALL OF YOUR GIRLFRIENDS AND RETURN IT TO THE FRIEND WHO SENT IT TO YOU! It is good to be a woman!!

Panic Attacks and Paper Bags!

It is that time again! Time for the panic to set in. I do this E.V.E.R.Y.Y.E.A.R. T-minus 3 weeks and I start making the lists, checking them twice, breath into a paper bag, make calls, breath into a paper bag, pay all bills, breath into a paper bag! See this pattern?




As you all know, the Annual Mother’s Day Trip is something I covet more than almost anything in the world! I live my life for the freedom of ONE WHOLE WEEK to myself! Well, OK, so I either get calls or call home every night to check and make sure no one is bleeding, severed a limb, and that the house has not burned to the ground! It’s a Mom thing!


But I don’t have to cook, clean, taxi, or listen to whining for one glorious week. The most I have to do is get up, slap on a bathing suit and decide if I am going to the beach or flop by the pool! If I get hungry, I plop myself in a restaurant, order, pay, and leave! No dishes! Laundry? Not happening! Leave a few of dollars for the maid each day and she does allllll of the cleaning!


But then there are the panic days leading up to this! Will my house burn down, will they miss me, and will my Son have a Nuclear breakdown in school? That is the BIGGIE! HE is switching back to regular hours next week and I wonder if 2 weeks will be enough for him to readjust to the times! And the Teachers. And the noise. And the work!! And the distractions!!


Some of you may not know this but Andy is Severely Bi-Polar with major ADHD symptoms! That boy can switch attitudes quicker than any woman I have ever known with the worst case PMS! And talk about seeing shiny thing!?!? Oh Lord, the kid has a switch in him that can go so severe some moments that you are just too dumbfounded to even respond! We do meds, counseling, doctors, IEP, AEP, and on and on.


I have a plan that I go with every year and things are NEVER as my brain tries to imagine them before I leave. My child is as COMPLETE ANGEL when with other people and never causes a minute of trouble. When I am not around! I worry over nothing! Bite me Kid!


My Seester, Trista, is the main person to deal with him and she is GOOD at it, too! She takes no shit therefore he knows not to give her any. But this year will be slightly different as I am employing Gregg and Jimmy to assist! Due to schedules, I have to have back-em-up on a few days right after school and on Saturday! Jimmy is retired and loves him and likes to take him to do things and is teaching him all about fishing and yucky boy stuff so I think he is going to take him fishing on Saturday until Gregg gets home so that is all good!


I know I am just getting anxious but that is “normal” for me! I have many lists of things to get off of my ass and get done. Before you know it, I will be sitting on the beach blogging to ya’ all about the fact that I am doing nothing more than sipping a Banana Daiquiri! And your not!


If I could only find that list that tells me where I left my lists!


Did I mention I have started packing? Yes, I have to start early because we have certain traditions that we do in Florida and I have to make sure I don’t forget the important things! Remind me to tell you the story about the dildo on the kitchen table for a week!


Hope all of your Mondays are starting good! Now, ‘scuse me, I have hair pulling moments to deal with. Or maybe I will just go have a chat with Miss Clairol! Now where did I put that paper bag?

CHIP!!! I found Dinochickens! For Reals!!!

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/05/dinosaur-chicken.html

Shoes

Yes, I am, as Marty so eloquently put it, a Shoe Whore! This is nothing new to me. I have had two husbands and a few boyfriends point out that I have a problem! And there are no meetings for me to attend so I just go to the shoe store! It is there that I can find kindred spirits such as myself and we are a happy group!



On Tuesday I was at the local Wally World and they have a plain simple black flip flop that I like and they are only $8 a pair! I had 4 pair last summer. Why four pair, you ask? Because I have dogs! Yes, as soon as you turn your head, they chew the strap off. In like 3 seconds!


So I had bought a new pair on Tuesday, put them on to wear, I had two dogs following me all through the house JUST STARING AT MY FEET! Very creepy, really! We leave for a coupe of hours. I came in, took shoes off for FIVE SECONDS because I had to pee! Come out of the bathroom! Can you guess the ending? YES, IN THE TIME IT TOOK ME TO PEE, THE DAMN DOGS ATE MY SHOES!


So I will go today and buy more! Probably two pair! Because I have dogs!


Now, why does she have over 300 pairs of shoes? Because I can! Does she wear all of these shoes? No! Why? Because she really doesn’t go anywhere fancy to wear said shoes! Most days I will have on PLAIN WHITE TENNY RUNNERS! Or black flip flops if the dogs haven’t ate them!


There are three of us that wear the same size around here and anytime we get shoes that we don’t care for, we pass them around! One friend has a RICH cousin by marriage that loves shoes even more than me! She buys the EXPENSIVE ones. Think $200-$300 a pair! Last fall, she sent 15 BAGS of shoes up to us from North Carolina! OMFG!!!! Yes, I think I inked on that one! I was the happy recipient of almost all of those shoes! OMFG!!!!!!


Now Connie, my BFF, is the Purse Whore! This woman changes her purse EVERY DAY! To match her outfit! Oh, Hell to the No on that one! I get a purse I use it until I can’t any more! I have my everyday purse, one that has a beach theme that is large and I take it to Florida, my two Colts purses that I carry during football season and maybe a couple more!


I also am weird that my tenny runners have to be all white. No color but white on them! And as soon as they are dirty, I put them in the washer but when that no longer works, I am done with them! I have a tote in my closets with about 30 pair in it that I intend to donate to shelter or something because there is nothing wrong with them except they are not white enough for me!


I also bought a pair of plain canvas Ked's that I like to wear and Gregg had the balls to call them Granny shoes. That’s when I whopped him with one and told him Granny can still hurt you!


So, now that you all are shaking your pretty heads at me, I think I will go shopping! Payless just called. Stock is dropping because I haven’t been there in a couple of weeks!

Thursday Thoughts

Ok, so weather around here as gone to Hell and didn't take the handbasket! Only here can it be 80+ one day, 65 the next and now a lovely 40! And my "brilliant" son left his window open last and when I went in to get him up, could have hung meat in there!


After getting stuff done yesterday, I had to go through a bunch of picture to get some of Bonnie! We are having a Memorial for her on the 18th and a friends of ours' daughter is doing a video of pictures that we all can come up with! Believe it or not, I am a picture taker! So, they suck but I take them anyway! And OMG, I have entirely too many!


About 7 years ago Mom asked me what I wanted for Christmas. Well, what I really needed was some photo albums. Between her and my Seester I had enougth spaces for about 2000 pictues. Ummmm...I only have one album left to fill and have oh, maybe 1000 sitting in the drawer to be put in them. And won't even mention the amount I have on here that I haven't even developed! Sigh.....new age technology! I do have MOST of them transferred onto CD's just in case the computer decides to take a crap!


A long, long time ago in a place far, far away, I was born! Actually it's true! I was born in Los Angeles so that is far, yanno! Anywho, there used to be a bunch of pictures of me but when I was around 4-5 my Dad's house burnt down and he had all or most of the pictures of me! So, no record of me! A few scattered among relatives but that's it! Well, when Dad died in 1991 there were some pictures brought that nobody was really sure of who they were! My Mom started going through them and found the one below!! Isn't she a cutie???

I had fun looking back over the years in photos! Lordy Lordy I want my body back!!!! Not the one above just the one I had at 30!! This one: