Wordless Wednesday

Happy Halloween

Well, it is officially Halloween time as the kids are out Trick or Treating. I was going to go, but thought I would let them enjoy this family time together so I stayed home. Last year on Halloween it was so darn cold. We stood by a fire pit with jackets and still froze. This year it has been hot and even rained about 45 mins. And Jennifer just posted on facebook via her text that they are getting rained on now. Poor things. Hope they got lots of candy (that I will not be eating). And atleast they did go, as the boys were very excited to go.

Ok lets back up a bit since my last post was Thursday. Yes, I did leave a little early since I was going to make a few stops. I syopped at JaAnn's in New Tampa since Kathy informed me they had some really cute Christmas 1.00 inkadinkadoo stamps. I think I bought 12! Next I headed for Publix since I needed to get something for lunch. I have fallen in love with Boars Head Everroast Chicken. So I got that for lunch. Made it to Ocala and needed a potty break, so I just had to stop at Hobby Lobby. Glad I did! Bought my Stocking Pal a few things, and bought a few things for myself. Next stop was Walmart in Georgia. Stopped off to get my food that I could eat. A few things I had been looking for in Tampa they had, so I bought them to try. Got to Jennifer's and cooked my dinner. They have a new little puppy that likes to chew, and he chewed thru the keyboard wires. So, no one could get on the computer...could not have that! So, off to Walmart Josh and I went. While we were at Walmart Jennifer put the gift bags together. Friday was pretty much nothing, just visiting and I went up to the boys school with the gift bags. They loved it! One of Dylans friends said "you have the best aunt" yeah since I brought candy lol.

Today (Saturday), went to the Sweet Potatoe Festival in Ocillia. They had all kind of arts and crafts venders, TONS of food (which smelled so darn good and would have loved to have had a few things-but I did not have one thing), I kept my will power, and a few rides. Stayed there a few hours. The boys had fun. After the SPF Jennifer and I went to Albany to get Josh his Birthday Present from me. Nothing great, just jeans and a couple of shirts...but they were much needed and he was very thankful. Now, naturally sicne there was a killer sale on boys clothes, I had to ick up a few things for Tyler. He only had one pair of jeans and it is about to get cold here. Got him a few more Tony Hawk shirts, as he loves Tony Hawk. Catch up to current again..I have not passed out one piece of candy. We only have what was left of teh Laffy Taffy from the gift bags, so I was hoping not alot of kids would come...so far nonw. Guess they do the same thing, go to a better more populated neighborhood. Waiting for them to get home. They should be soon. Tomorrow we will head to Atlanta to go to The World of Coke thanks to the MyCokeRewards. Just gonna cost the gas and parking! Can not beat that. Hope everyone is having wonderful Halloween.

Today is a great day!

Today is a great day. I will be working til about 10:30am. Might even cut it to 10 since I need to make a stop in New Tampa on the way out of town. Now, todays trip to Georgia will not be one of 3 1/1 hour ones. I will need to make many bathroom stops. Now I am serious, not just making an excuse for stoping in Ocala. Since I am drinking so much water, the bathroom and I have become buddies.

Speaking of diets.....yesterday was my weigh in. Now I wanted to make it Wednesday appointments since I go off or out of town alot on Fridays. So this first week was only 5 days. I was hoping to lose atleast 5 pounds, I would be happy with that. Well, not only did I loose that 5 ponds and it raised my hopes another 5.8 pounds! Yes, in 5 days I lost 10.8 pounds. I was so very excited, and all the hard work and struggle drinking my water paid off. Yes, I know I will not loose 10 pounds every week, now that would be great....but I know I will not. As long as I loose I will be very happy. And it will be the month total goal that I am shooting for. I do have a goal in mind to reach by the end of the year. It is a baby step one, it is not my end results goal. But it is what I have set forth for myself. I can do it, and I will do it. It will be tough with all the holidays but I can do it.

Ok, better get a move on to wrap thigs up here so I CAN and WILL leave about 10 / 10:30. Have a great day. Will blog later.

Wordless Wednesday

Short maybe?

Yes I am behind, so much to catch up on...but so little time. That is my fault I know! I need to get my Halloween cards together to mail. Need to finish a few projects for Georgia. I will be heading there Thursday after work. Well, took a half day Thursday and all of Friday, and then Monday too so I will be heading home on Monday. Decided against Atlanta on Monday also. It would be awesome to go to PW book signing, but That is ok. What all have you been up too? Me on the hunt for Christmas Stamps. Found some in stores, and then ended up ordering a few on line. Yep, I caved. My mom told me a few sets ago that I had enough. Enough Christmas stamps? NEVER! And since I will be making about 300, wanted a few different designs.

So, I started the Diet officially this past Saturday. Yes, just a few days. But this is alot easier than others I have done. Now, the only hard part for me is drinking the liquids. Come to find out I needed to drink from 40-60 more ounces in a day than what I was normally drinking. And let me tell you.....the bathroom is my new hangout! I know TMI. The first 3 days I eat nothing but protein, and on the 4th day I bring in a veggie. I am fine with protein, and I am full. Thanks to all the liquid I am drinking. I will be doing this awhile...a very long while! But the pay off will be amazing, watch out world! Now naturally I started this at the wrong timem There are 3 holidays coming up. But I know what I have to do, and I want to see results and I am determined to do this. I am tired of being Fat, Ugly, and Alone. So, I had to put my foot (well in this case food) down and get serious! Let my addictive personility shine thru and help me kick this! Now, you all know what the hardest part will be......LINDA'S COOKING! OMG I am so not looking forward to the Crops, But I need to do this, and as Jackie said, maybe one day in the future I can eat it again in moderation.

OK so much more to write, but so much things to do. Will post again tomorrow, Have a great night everyone

Weekend is just around the corner

And I have about 500 things on my to do list. The next two months are going to be slamming busy. That is both good and bad! Time will sneak up on us. And before we know it Christmas will be here. Are you ready for Christmas? I know I certainly am not anywhere close to it. Started my Christmas cards, but that is about it! That is one thing I plan to do on Sunday.

So, my nice sweet supervisor comes in announcing...I have candy. And Baby Ruth Bars to top that. I told him that starting tomorrow I can not have any candy. He replies to me "let's just see how well your will power is". Can we say ASSHOLE? Everyone else is on my side, great for you blah blah blah, and he already plans on tempting me with candy! Well, I am on a mission and I will have to get this thing done. I can not continue the way I am, and I really want to be comfortable for Utah! Was having a great day until that moment.

Well, gonna run and try to get back into a good mood. Need to go to Walmart or Target after work to get a George Foreman grill!

Wordless Wednesday

Just plain tired

Ok, I am just plain tired of being fat, ugly, and dateless. So, I am going to do something about it. I have an appointment with Premere Weight Loss here in Tampa Friday at 230pm. I was thinking of the lap band, but I am too scared of it. I have heard and seen both success stories and not so successful stories. And I am too afraid that I will be a non successful story. So, I am going to do a weight loss clinic. I know it works, as I have done it in the past and I have lost weight. It is my own fault that I gained weight back and alot more. This time my mind is set, and I have to do this. I think it will help me both mentally and I know it will physcially. I am at a very low point in my life right now, and when I am...I eat. And then that adds to the low point. Well, there are a few people at work that are also going to a weight loss place, so I will have their support. I know Alexis will also give me a swift kick in the butt if I sway. I wanna be able to sit on that air ride to Utah next year, and have room to buckle the seatbelt not all the way to the end or need an extension. I already told our HR person that is doing this too, that by next summer I will be sent home for my dress attire (lol). I want to be able to walk up our 3 flights of stairs and not be winded! I can walk down it all day long no issues, but I can not walk up them without breathing hard.

Back to work..be back later

Monday came again

Quick post as I am at work and have lots to catch up on. Thought I would post really quickly while my reports are running. Had another great weekend at Creepover. Linda is just awsome! Will blog about it more when I get off work tonight.Have a great Monday.

Gonna eat me a cookie for breakfast. My "lunch friend" made cookies for this get together he had this weekend and brought in two for me and Alexis. No, not just me but Alexis too...so do not read more into it, as I am not! But that was nice of him to think of us isnt it? Especially since he has about 10 Installers under him. lol

Great weekend starts in a couple of hours

I know I am going to have a great weekend, and I hope all of you do as well. I know I will be seeing some in just a few hours. Looking forward to the annual Hilltop Memories Creepover weekend crop! It is always so much fun. We will be at a new place this weekend. It also has the Snake Rattle and Roll festival happening. I have always wanted to go to that. I will be close, but better time will be had at the crop. I have my scrap bag all packed and ready to whip out some Thanksgiving and Christmas cards. Doubt I will get all the Christmas cards done this weekend, since I go a little over board and feel the need to make about 200-300. And yet every year I still run out! I do not need to give to as many co-workers as I do, but I just get in the holiday spirit and give them...isn't that what the holidays are all about? Need to finish packing clothes. Oscar will not leave me alone, he knows the sight of the suitcase means "momma is going away". My poor guy!

Went to the movies last night, yes instead of packing. My fried Joan's birthday is this weekend and I will not be here to celebrate it with her. So, we went to the movies. We saw Couples Retreat....OMG was that so damn funny! We laughed so hard we were crying! And not just one person was funny, they all were. And naturally Vince Vaughn was classic funny man Vince! If you have not seen it, and get the chance to see it....I say go see it!Oh, and if you never made it to the movies to see The Proposal....rent it! or even buy it...it is very funny! Sandra Bullock and very smokin hot Ryan Rynolds...yum!

Ok, packing is calling me, so I better get busy. I set a goal of being off here by 7am...need to check my emails and then I should be good to go. Make sure you all have a wonderful weekend. See some in a little bit, wish I was seeing others too that can not make it. But you all are in my thoughts!

Wordless Wednesday

Happy Monday

Not really happy I am out of bed, but I am happy I have a job to be out of bed for. So, I can not complain. I did not cave and take a sick day. I should be able to last the day. I have sick time, and plenty of it, but I just do not want to break my perfect attendance...pathetic I know! I am only working 4 days this week, so I can do it. I bet your sick of looking at that cute picture, so I thought I better blog.

Friday night was an awesome night! Left work a little early, met up with Mar Mar and then off to the U2 concert we went. Also, found Kelly and hung out with her for a little while before heading into the concert. Sad to admit, I have never been into Raymond James Stadium since it has been built. I have been in the old stadium, but not this one. It is massive, and hen to see the set up for U2 - WOW! It took up at least half of the field, and it was higher than our seats! We were in section 312, and yet it was still higher than us! The seats might sound like they would have been bad...not one bit! I think they were perfect. We could see everything, and if we could not see everything, their was a HUGH screen so we did not miss one thing. The opening act was a band from England called Muse. I thought I only knew a couple of their songs, turned out I knew many! They were really good. The song some of you might know them from is from the movie Twilight...the baseball scene...yep that is them. Now for U2, words can not describe, they rocked it beyond words. New stuff and old stuff for 2 hours. It is did a little bit political a few times, as they are very political. I would put i up there in the top 3 favorites of all time concerts that I have seen.

Cody came home fr the weekend. Laurel goes to New College so she is off this week, he rode here with her, and then was supposed to have a ride back with someone else for Sunday morning. Saturday we went out to eat and the movies, our usual that we used to love to do at least once or twice a month. I miss our dinner and movies. We started out to go to Zaxybes which I saw Friday night when I was out that way (corner of Waters and Dale Mabry), but seems they are not open yet - darn it! So instead we went to Jake's. They have really yummy burgers, and extremely yummy shakes! After dinner we headed off to the movies. Went to see Paranormal Activity. I had not seen anything about it since I really do not watch commercials (love my DVR and taped shows). Cody said it was being hailed "one of the scariest movies". Well, people that claimed that it was scary....your an idiot! It was not scary at all, now I will admit there was one scene that made us all jump, but one out of the entire movie? It was a let down. When we got home, Cody looked up what the alternate endings were, as he heard there was 4 different endings taped. Now of the 4, they should have combined two of them and then the ending would have been really good. There was maybe 15 mins of the movie that was good. So, in other words if you planned on seeing it.....wait for cable! Do not even waste your time renting the dvd. Sunday, Cody was supposed to go home...his ride fell thru. I slept most of Sunday away as I did not feel good, just to find out he needed a ride home. He had classes today. I ended up driving him home last night about 8pm. Rained almost the whole way to his house, but not a drop coming back home. There was hardly any traffic, so I was not slowed to get back. Thanks to Linda for letting me talk her ear off on the ride home to help keep me awake. I do not like driving by myself at night.

Now, I am at work, and ready to tackle the many things that will be thrown my way (even those that should not be). I just have to take it all in with a smile. And just keep reminding myself.....Friday is Creepover! Oh, Cody did put some music on my flash drive - so I will be listening to that today. Hope everyone has a wonderful day. Just smile, they will not really know if you mean it or not - lol

Wordless Wednesday

Very sad work day

Now that I have the full correct details, I will blog about John. John was one of our Construction Managers here in the Hillsborough Region office. As they all say in that departmnet...he was the glue that held the department together. There is another Manager, a couple of Sepervisors, and a Director...but John was the glue! He has been thru many of cable buy out/name changes. In all this past July he has been with us 38 years (I thought it was 28, but it is 38). He did leave once for a short time but came back. The correct thing that happened...his wife went to the grocery store and when she came back home she came in the house and yelled to him to come help with the groceries. She found him in his chair, and thought he was pretending to be sleeping so he did not have to help. She thought he was joking, as he is a big jokester! She went over to him and went to shake him to wake him up, and when she touched him he was cold. He was not sick or anything before hand, so they beleive it was a massive heart attack. A few of the Construction guys did not find out till this morning as they wanted a break from this place, so they turned off their phones. Johns right hand man Mike has been to his house and helping his wife with things. He only lives a few blocks from him and they were really close. He drove his work truck in this morning, said he was fine until he got to the parking lot..and then it hit him like a ton of bricks. I avoided most all the people I could. Except one of the guys that did not find out until this morning got on the elevator with me. It was a tough slow ride. I held strong. But then I started doing Alexis's work since she is off. There is a verify service request form we use that is a database, when filling it out, we have to select Johns name. So, I was faced with...what do I select on now? As they started building up, I had to find out. I went down to the department to see if it would be Mike now...I took one look at him and lost it! I could not even ask. Took me a few moments and I was finally able to ask. Barry who is the other Manager did come in, but was asked to be left alone, so no one is going to his office. They have been checking on him to make sure he is ok. He is not well. When I first found out I thought they got the name wrong, and meant to say Barry. He should not be working, he should retire. But is stubborn as John called him 'Bald headed old fart". I could go on and on, he was just a well liked person and will be greatly missed!

Sunday coming to a close

So another weekend is flying bye and coming to a close. It has been a good and bad weekend. But that is all part of your days. I need to start making a list as I keep forgetting to do things, and not wanting to do things. Just plain need to get certain things back on track.

Had a wonderful class down in Sarasota. Really cute ghost mini album. Great seeing some people I have not seen in awhile that I wish lived closer. Thank goodness will see some again and others next week and then the following weekend for Creepover. Kip posted her pictures so make sure to stop over there. Along withe the wonderful birthday present she brought me back from Greece. It was beyond perfect! I cried, yes I cried when she gave it to me.

Today I stayed home (seriously wanted to go to that new scrapbook store) and made the baby book for Denise that I was supposed to have made a couple of weeks ago. This is one of the many things I have forgotten to do. I finished it and then watched a movie. Now when your already sad, you watch a horror movie or a comedy or an action / adventure movie....but by all means you DO NOT watch a sad movie! Well, yes stupid me starts watching Seven Pounds with Will Smith. Really adorable dog in the movie...but very sad! Can not even get a break with Egg Breakers being down. UGH.

Dreading work tomorrow. I do not want to go in. Alexis is off, my department has Auditors all week, and then dealing with the loss of John (will post on that later can not right now). It will not be fun at all. Oh, but it is Customer Service week and we get to wear jeans and have games and food and prizes....what ever. Better close, I am in a blah mood. I will get those happy thoughts going to lift me back up. Need to go make my list, few things I need to do that I should not put off any longer or I may not like the results I will get.

The wonders of Hot Water

Ok, so being without hot water for about a week was something else. Showers were not that bad, until you stuck your head under the water. It was cold, but got really cold once my head got wet. So, needless to say hair washing was very quickly done and only a couple of times. I read the manual, and it said you had to turn off the power to the heater. That itself was a task. I could not find where the outlet was, seems there is not one like a air conditioning unit. Finally thanks to Teresa she advised me they just had the same issue with her Michelle's hot water heater. And advised me that they did not turn off any power to the darn thing. When I first pushed the button, I thought I would hear it running, it never made a sound. So I even checked on the lower panel too. Hands thrown up in the air and about to accept the fact that I would be taking more cold showers and how to figure out what to do to try to get warm since cool weather was coming.... for the heck of it I turned on the hot water faucet and it started getting warm, next thing I knew it was hot! It worked, but still never one bit of noise from the heater. Oh, then I decided to get a glass of tea and the fridge was off. Seems that when I was changing out all the fuses, I changed out a good one to a bad one. Changed that back out and all was good! What a night! All of this when I was supposed to be working on a baby book. Guess, I will be busy tonight. Going to see if she will give me a couple more days. I think the book is for her and not someone else, so it may work.

Well, need to get busy. Hope eveyone has a wonderful day!

Wordless Wednesday

Sorry Jennifer, but this picture caught my eye

2 days in a row

But lets not knock it, I get on a roll and then fall off the blogging posting wagon.

So, I started to read the Lucky one by N Sparks last night. Read only about 20 pages, but I was so tired. I laid down at 6:45pm next thing I knew my alarm was going off this morning. Thank goodness I set my alarm last night before I laid down or I would have been SOL! Now I did not sleep all the way thru the night, but I did not get up once. I missed all the shows last night, and Monday has so many. I will just watch/listen to some on line today while I work. I usually listen to something to block out the collections department that is right next to me. They get so loud some times I want to strangle a couple of them. And when it is a slow moment and they get to talking, I really want to strangle them. Just because they do not have calls does not mean others around them are not trying to work. So, headphones it is. I can block them out and concertrate on my work with music.

Can not wait to get off work today! I will pick up my purse from Bryan that Teresa made. I am so excited to get it! Pergect timing, tomorrow is October 1st! Well, better get a move on and get working so the day will fly by (fingers crossed). Have a wonderful day!

Monday Morning blah!

Ok, so started off a great morning. Went to take my shower, and the water never got warm. Nothing like an ice cold shower to wake you up. The hot water heater is not that old, so I am hoping that just the fuse blew. Did not feel like dealing with it this morning, so I will have to look into it this afternoon.

I finished another Jodi Picoult book last night, or should I say this morning. I was reading it and reading it, and realized it was 11:30pm. But since I only had 3 chapters left I said forget it, I am finishing it so I can start another one. I figured it out half way thru, but one thing I thought turned out to be something else. Have to see which other ones I have of hers (thank you Linda via Kip). I am very behind on my 50 book goal. I think I am looking more at 25 this year and shoot for 50 next year. I am not a big time reader yet, so I will aim lower.

Check out my new purse! Teresa stikes again! I just love love love her purses! She is one talented woman. In case you have not seen any of her items you need to check them out! She is over to the side of my blog lists, but here is her link as well.
http://teresascreations.blogspot.com/

Oh My

Pioneer Woman will be in Atlanta the Monday I am supposed to be coming home after Dylan's Birthday party. I am now debating on taking an extra day so I can go. If I have the money I just might go. I will have to keep an eye out on the "details tba"
Atlanta
Monday, December 7, 2009
BORDERS
Details TBA

Fist I miss N Sparks, might miss Stephen King, and now she is in Georgia the same time I am there? My my my!

Such a bad blogger

Every time I start to Blog something else comes up and I do not blog. So, since I decided to have a lazy weekend and I am being lazy right now..thought I would blog. My life is so boring for the most part. The only time it is exciting is when I am with my Hilltop family, or when I go to Georgia. I have about one more month before I can go to Georgia. Going up for Halloween, and the day after we will head to Atlanta to go to The World of Coke. They moved it from where it was before, it is in a really nice area. Jennifer and I went to the area when we were there for the Coldplay concert. I can not wait. I have missed them so much, it has been way too long since I have seen them. And then I will be back up there the first and end of December. First part for Dylan's Birthday, last part while the boys are out of school and I will watch them while Jennifer works. Dylan wants to have a Pokemon Birthday party. I remember when Cody was little he loved Pokemon, even went to Pokemon gatherings at Toys R Us. Now to just see if they have it some where, I am thinking maybe the Party store? Fingers crossed I can find it. I do not like to let them down, especially Dylan. He is getting so big, his medicine is working and he is growing. He is still small, but not as much of a percentage as he was before the medicine. And he has a great teacher that watches out for him too, and will not put up with the kids picking on him. She will text Jennifer if there is an issue.

Next weekend is a really nice class down in Sarasota of a Ghost. I will have it ready for pictures from Halloween. Oh, speaking of pictures. I need to get some developed. Since I have so many I need to get developed I think I will do a lot via photo scape. I will be able to get twice as many than just getting them developed. I have some free ones from the Archivers special back from the trip to Jill's. I have so many that I am behind on. I need to get back on track. I need to get back on track of everything.

Well, going to make the most of the rest of the day. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Wordless Wednesday

I have missed my son.

Today was finally the day that I was able to get some time to head on down to Bradenton to see Cody. It has been a couple of months since I have been able to see him. We went to the movies to see Inglourious Basterds. Quintin Tarantino is one sick twisted Director, but I love his films anyways. The man is something else. After the movies we went to this place called Budda Bellies, that has really great doughnuts. They are up for the Creative Loafing award Best of the Bay for doughnuts. But they also have sandwiches. Both Cody and I had a BLT that was really good! Next stop was Cold Stone for Cody's birthday ice cream. I missed out on mine since I was in St Pete and did not change it to a St Pete location. Final stop was Pub;ix, bought him some groceries. Drove home in one heck of a rain storm! It rained from the moment I got on the interstate in Bradenton until I got to Brandon. What a drive! BUt well worth it since I got to see Cody.

Oscar did not like that I left for the day, and then came home and smelled like Cody. He slept with me most of the night last night. He has not left my side, thinking I will leave him again. So I do not dare to tell him that I already miss Max and Mudgy. They are such sweet little boys. So well behaved! Trips!

Watching the Emmys which ...suck! But I always watch it. Hope everyone has a great day!

All good things come to an end

Well, the house sitting, spoiling the dogs, and feeding the iguana is coming to an end. Kips in on her way home. She is probablly already in Atlanta by now. I an not sure of the time. But I know she is scheduled to land at 5:28pm.

Have my little check of list of things to do before she gets home. The house is clean, the yard is mowed, dogs and iguana has been fed. Car has been started (started it but did not drive it), changed her tag for her since it is mid September now and it is expired. After all that traveling she does not need to bend over to change out the tag. Bed is clean and made, most of my things are already back at my house except a few odds and ends.

Tomorrow I will be heading down to Sarasota to see Cody. It has been a few months since I have seen him. So, I guess I should spend the day with him. Already spent a couple hours with Oscar today so he will not attack me when I get home tomorrow. Oscar did not like that I smelled of other dogs, and Mudgy did not like I smelled of Oscar when I got back here. Max could care less.

Well, short and sweet but I blogged, that is all that matters! Need to run, depends on what time I get back tomorrow will depend if I blog or not. And there are a couple other things to catch up on, like my Awards dinner the other night.

Off for now, have a great rest of Saturday and a faboulous Sunday!

Happy Birthday Cody

Happy Birthday to the love of my life! Today my baby is 22 years old. Seems like just yesterday he was born! I can rememebr all of it as if it was yesterday. Hope to see him this weekend!

Remember

Week is almost over

Was it hard for you to get out of bed this morning? It was for me. And I even tried to go to bed at 9:30 last night. Just one night of solid sleep is all I ask for, that is not too much to ask. The weekend is almost here, not sure what I am going to do yet. I know I need to go to Tampa to do Laundry, but not sure what else I will do.

Tonight I am going to have dinner with an old friend that I have not seen in years. Last time I saw her, her daughter was 2 or 3. Now she is 14 and in Jr High. So funny, she asked if I remembered how to get to her house, and I gave exact directions and was correct. Why what a memory! I can remember things from long time ago, but I can not remember things as I am saying them currently? Mid sentence words will excape me. Not a good thing!

Boys are still just wonderful. They are too funny! I love when they get excited to see me. Little kisses are always great too. Miss my big guy alot! He will attack me when I am there this weekend. A whole week no me....he will be insane for probably an hour.

OK, gotta get busy, even though no one else from my department is here yet. Must be nice!

Wordless Wednesday

3 day weekend coming to a close

So, now tomorrow morning I have to remember that I do need to get up when the alarm goes off, and I do need to head into work. I do not want to, but I need to. It was so much fun just doing nothing!

Saturday I was supposed to have done so many different things, ended up doing none of them. I did not go over to Tampa to see my mom, nor did I go to the wrestling matches to see some old friends. I just hit up Michael's and Joann's over here and was lazy all day. The air went bye bye thanks to a really bad storm we had here. At first I thought I was hot since I was embossing. Turns out it was the air. I totally forgot the directions as to what to do, emailed Kip who just so happened to be up and on...walked me thru it so we have air again. Sunday, I did go home to do laundry and to grab some work clothes, but forgot to grab a few other things. Hope I have enough til this coming Saturday. Went to Sweet Tomatoes for my birthday lunch, did not make it to Cold Stone as I had to get back to the boys. There must have been another bad storm that freaked out Max, as soon as he got out of his cage he went under the bed. Poor thing. After I finally got him out from under there, he would not leave my side. They both will lay in whatever room I am in. If I am in the living room, there they are. I just came in here to blog, they are now in here with me. They are such really good loving boys! They are too funny when I walk in, I get kisses from both Mudgy and Max. Max sleeps in his crate, and Mudgy sleeps on the floor in the room with me. It has not been fun cooking for one person! I forgot to go to Publix today, I only got a few things the other day. I will have to go tomorrow after work after I come home and let the boys out. Oh today, not much of anything. Started on some Halloween cards, almost finished. Laid in the pool for a little bit. Forgot to take off my necklace so I have a circle in the middle of my neck from where the circle was laying! Funny, but now I have to get rid of that!

Egg Breakers moment....I have started going back to complete the levels I have not completed yet.I need to do 10, 11, and 12. But what I also did was some of the special scenes. I did Safari and Fantasy this weekend. Safari you can max out your stars at 1500 (way cool), and with Fantasy it makes your daily hammer purchase half off. The school bonus stages are ending soon so make sure you cash in those points! Yes, I am still totally addicted to this game pathic I know!

Do you just love my new layout? Thank you Jen! Kathy is this better on the eyes? Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. And a great week ahead!

New Background

My incredibly talented and multi-tasking neice in Georgia changed my blog background. In honor of the end of "Summer", she choose an Autumn background that helps embrace the festive vibe of Fall. What do you think?

((BTW, This IS Jenn(ifer) that is posting this...hehe Sorry Michele, I hacked your blog & decided to post!))

I hope you like the background.

Jenn(ifer) for Michele

Missing my Daddy

15 years ago today my dad passed away, he lost his battle with the C word. People say time heals all wounds, well when is that time going to come? Already cried too many times today than I care to count, and tearing up again trying to type this. Most of my life he was at sea since he was a Merchant Seaman, so I really did not have a father but a few weeks a year. He did retire when I was 18, so I did have a few years with him not out at sea.

post later back to the grind for a little bit, then I am out of this place until Tuesday. less than an hour to go and it so can not come quick enough!

Shame on me again

Just noticed the last time I blogged was Monday, where did Tuesday and Wednesday go? I have had a lot on my mind, and alot of getting ready to go to Kips. I will head over to her house today after work. This time I packed a ton of things to lounge around in, and no work clothes yet. Since tomorrow is Friday we can wear jeans, I have those packed. I will head on over to my house this weekend to get some work clothes for next week. I did wash my work clothes last night, so I am set. Minus the clothes I wore to work today. I also packed about 10 books, like I will read that many, but still who knows? I packed a few different authors. I might also work on some Halloween cards. I did not pack the makings for thoses yet, but I do have the stamp set I want to use here with me at work.

Well, lunch is over, better get off of here. I will try to do better, I know I say that all the time!