I Heart Faces: Speaking of puppies..

My last post included talk about puppies. To answer a comment...not sure if we're getting one or not, if B has his way then yes.



We do have a puppy now...actually, today is his 1st birthday. His name is Camper, he was given to M at a campground while camping with her dad. Here he is...

Yada yada

Hope all of you had a wonderful weekend.

Ours was pretty good. Friday, B went and saw some bands at a club not too far from here. His friend was in one of the bands and he then hung out with him for the rest of the night. M was with her bf and other friends for the evening. J, Bill and I went to our church's Open Mic Night. We started doing this last month and are going to continue with it the last Friday of every month. Come on out...it's a fun time.

Saturday I picked B up from his friends. I'm sorry, but as soon as he got in the car I told him he smelled bad. Combined with the friends' house smell of rancid cat pee was puppy poo. Their dog just had 10 puppies. So combine 10 puppies peeing and pooping in a cage and the boys letting the dogs jump all over them.....poo covered clothes. I made him strip and take a shower as soon as he got home. But, now he wants one of the puppies....lol.

Bill and I are going to landscape the front of our house with timbers to make, basically, planter boxes bordering the front up against the house. He found 8' timbers at Home Depot for $4 a piece. So, we measured the front and he figured out how many we would need. After that we took the boys to York to look at a pawn shop (for guitars) and then to Wal Mart and dinner. We also checked out Lowes to see if they had timbers there....they didn't. We then checked out the Home Depot up there. OMG....the same timbers that were at our local HD were $1 a piece at this one. So off Bill went Sunday morning. He got double the amount of timbers he was going to get and will probably go back again. We were going to build my mom a new shed this year anyway and Bill (the builder) is going to use those to make a pole barn type of shed. Did I mention that he has studied to be a carpenter in the past??? ;-) So not a bad deal at all.

Yesterday was mainly quiet. We went to church and the kids and I got a movie to watch. J's gf called and wanted him to come over for a bit, so I took him there and then M, B and I watched "Hot Fuzz". Pretty good movie. We then had a small thunder and hail storm and then dinner. The boys went to their dad's and Bill and I went to our weekly church class...Building Strong Families.

Fun, fun, fun... :-)

Quips

If you've known me for any amount of time you will know that I adore my kids. Yeah, they can get on my last nerve, but hey...that's their job. I may be biased, but they are pretty smart too, not just brainy-type smart, but funny smart also.

When my boys were in elementary school, their teachers were amazed that my kids understood sarcasm and could dish it out as well. Now, as we all know, you can't teach sarcasm. It is good to see that my kids have some of my genes....lol.

Last week I was explaining to B how to use our bread machine. The order to put things in etc... When I got to the yeast part and told him to make a well in the flour to put it in, he questioned why. To be honest, I'm not sure of the technical answer, but I told him that I think you don't want to mix the yeast in too soon. To that he replied...."Yeah, you don't want premature fermentation..." OMG....I almost fell over laughing.

Then J, a couple years ago, around age 11 quipped during a conversation on diets like Atkins and being a vegetarian etc... "I'm a vegan on the Atkins diet...." Ok, my kids are smart mouths.... ;-)

And I couldn't be prouder...

The Assignment...

The Prompts:

1.) Somebody I'm praying for....

2.) I don't believe in prayer because...

3.) What are you putting off right now?

4.) You can go back to your childhood for one day. What day and age do you choose?

The obvious one that, I'm sure, everyone is writing about for #1 is Stellen. I don't feel that I can adequately put into words my feelings on this, so suffice it to say that I am definately praying for him and his whole family.

I do believe in prayer and I am always putting things off, so #4 should work for me today.

To be perfectly honest, I don't remember my whole childhood, who can. There is one day that is permanently etched in my mind....I would love to go back to the day before that day. I don't remember a thing about that day, though.

November 10, 1977....the day my dad passed away. I was 9 years old and in 4th grade. I do remember kissing him goodbye that morning and then heading off to school. I won't bore you with all the details after school, but I remember seeing my mom cry for the first time in my presence and having priests and friends coming in and out that day. So November 9th would be the day that I would like to have again.

Wordless Wednesday

I didn't take this picture, it was found online...can't even remember where....but, it speaks to me...

I Heart Faces: No Flash

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I have shared this picture before. It is a favorite of mine, but I really don't know why. ;-) The theme this week is No Flash. Not too hard for me to do because I rarely need to use the flash on my camera. I do use it, but not much at all.

Once again.......

I am having a hard time coming up with stuff to write. I read the blogs on my list and feel inspired, but then I look at my blank page and go....blank.

Must have something to do with the lovely cough and sexy cig voice I've still got goin' on. That tends to distract your mind when you are coughing your lungs out while trying to have a coherent thought.

One good thing is that I'll be finally getting together with the girls tomorrow night. Doesn't matter that we all live within 10 minutes of each other, we don't see each other too much. Email helps alot. :-) We're having dinner somewhere and then we'll do something. You see, the three of us have known each other close to 30 years and we still can't make a decision ahead of time to save our lives. But that's ok. Margaritas and laughter make it all better.

Getting your twitch on.....

This is J..... This is J on Monster Lo Carb energy drink:

Oh my Lord..... Ever had one of these?

Now, J can be slightly hyper on a normal day. He wanted to try it and I actually had some of it. Tasted horrible....like someone liquified a lollipop....blech... After 5 minutes the boy was twitching... scared me to death. Never. Ever. Again.

I am feeling much better today.......although now, when I talk I have that sexy gravelly tone like I've smoked 3 packs of cigarettes a day for years. And now I have a cough.....someone help me.....

Blah

i was going to write a post today. But, it seems as though my lovely oldest son has given me whatever bug he brought home, so I am just not in the mood. I will leave here soon and then go home and take a looooong nap. Who knows, I may not even get up til tomorrow morning. ;-)

Wow...

Ok, so I changed the layout a bit. It's not green, but I like it. Although, if I stare at it too long I start having flash backs to the 70's and an orange plaid couch we used to have when I was little...

I am having writer's block I think. I cannot think of one thing to say that may be riveting to anyone. I may have to just list stuff that's going on and/or happened just to see how pathetic exciting my life is....

• I got my hair cut last night (will be entering the Hair Dare shortly)
• Had a killer spinach salad at Della Rose's on Wednesday
• Got my swap partner from Whitney

Wow....very not interesting.....lol

I do have a post ready to go for my cooking blog. I don't update that one as often as I should, but my menus run pretty much the same all the time. But, B and I are planning a gourmet meal one of these days and I will document that for the blog too.

Anyway... I hope all of you have a great Friday the 13th and a great weekend.

The weekend

Not much happening here at the ole casa. But I shall recap my weekend, if you're at all interested.

Friday night B went with our youth group to Christian Youth night at the Baltimore Blast soccer game. They do this annually with a Christian band playing afterwards. This year Thousand Foot Crutch played. He had a great time. (The guy that owns my place of employment, the bank, also owns the Baltimore Blast and the arena they play in...so B was helping my career....lol)
M was hanging with friends and Bill, J and I just had pizza and hung out at home.

Saturday Bill, the boys and I headed to York to look around a bit. The boys took their electric bass to a guitar shop to see how much they could get for it. Not much, as it seems...lol. Both boys have their eyes on different guitars. I put a drum up on Craigslist to sell for J, and B is trying to save money. (Yeah, that will happen)

Yesterday was church, as usual. I am in the women's Sunday school class which gave me a bit to think about yesterday. I think I'll make that one a separate post after I get my thoughts together. J had nursery duty again. One of the little girls decided she had to sit with me during service, so that was nice. After church, the boys and I did a little grocery shopping, we had dinner and hung out until their dad picked them up.

Tonight I have a booster meeting, and Thursday I have a hair appointment, so I may play along with Hair Dare...

I guess that's it for now.....

Mad Skillz

Yesterday the training department here did a contest. They do this to build morale etc... Or have us waste time... Anyway, it was a 5 question quiz. Stuff like...how many Grammys did Lawrence Welk win over his lifetime...(answer is 0, BTW)etc... My mad Google skills garnered me the top prize of a $20 Target gift card. ;-)

Yeah, my life is soooo exciting...lol. But I did enter a swap over at Whitney's that should be fun. I will be grabbing the button and posting it on the side in a bit. I would like to get in on the giveaway/swap action, but not really sure what to do. I'll have to give it some thought.

Have a great day...the sun is out (hopefully where you are too)....smile

Bright and shiny

A Jay and Deb Production.

Today, I pay tribute to the Sun. That bright orb in the sky. Ok, odd it may be, but hey...anything that doesn't cause me to run up the electric bill and threaten to burn down my house with all the candles I burn is good in my book. I think that I suffer from some sort of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) but have not actually been diagnosed. Just a guess on my part, really. I came to this conclusion while living in Oregon for 15 or so years. The gloom that settles there at times really bothered me. Today it is around 10 degrees out but it is SUNNY! I am not feeling particularly depressed or down and that is a good thing.

So, smile and take a (careful) look up in the sky...it's there. ;-)

Let it snow........

Yeah, I'm about done with it now... It's been coming down steady most of the night and it's supposed to stop in a few hours. Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it. Snow plows didn't even head out until about an hour ago. In the parking lot here, guess which vehicle got plowed in..... that's right..mine. I should say it is just the front of my truck but hell...only my truck, not a bit infront of my coworkers truck next to me. Geez....

I saw this cartoon and thought it looked comforting....