I FINALLY GOT A GOOD ONE!

I found a good pic of my kitchen (wrong date, right place!!!)

I know, it took me a while, but hey, here it is....

 

NOT MUCH TO SEE HERE....

I made it home all in one piece, thank God! Did I ever mention that I HATE driving?! Well, I do, but I made it home all in one piece. I haven't had the time to blog at all (I have been blurking a little though). I promise I will be up and blogging at full speed (hopefully) by Sunday. Hope all is well with everyone.

HAPPY TURKEY DAY!!!

Hey y'all Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I know my reader base may be really small, but you guys are AWESOME! I am thankful for each and every one of you. I wish I could meet you all in person. Yes you!!! Maybe one day...

I am off to my brother's house tomorrow morning. My hubby is on call and can't leave (he works for the local hospital) so he will be spending the day working. After work he will go over to Tallman's house and enjoy a good meal with them. I really like them a lot and I am happy he won't be alone. I am obliged to spend it with the rents, Bro & Sil and their spawn. My other bro and his wife both have the flu (yeah, that was what I was going to have but he beat me to the punch...) so they won't be attending. Looks like we will be up and out bright and early. They live 2 hours away and guess what I HATE DRIVING! Yes, I'm good at it, I do it every day but I would rather sit back and relax. Wish us well...

I hope that you all are having the times of your lives. I hope you are all enjoying family and friends. Just remember to give a quick hello to that person that may need to hear your voice and remind them that you are thankful for their friendship. It may just be the nicest thing they have heard or needed to hear in a very long time. Much love to you all.

Happy Thanksgiving!

SATURDAY WAS MY BABY'S BIRTHDAY....

Suck as I do, I had not posted about her most important day EVER! *until now of course* Babygirl turned 11 on Saturday the 18th of November. She is so completely AWESOME! She really makes me think I did something right in my life to deserve her. She is beautiful and smart. Her sense of humor has the timing of a genius. She is intuitive and sensitive. Yet this sweet little girl of mine stands up for herself and others. She hates to see bad things happen to good people. She is so caring and thoughtful. I am absolutely blessed to be given the honor of being her mother. She is headstrong and a right pain in the ass when need be. I love that about her. I get her, "I get it". She was so tiny when she came along. Six pounds six ounces. She came out and stared at me with one eye. Nope she didn't cry right away, she glared at me (with that one big eye) and let out a big huge AAAAAAAAAAAA! That was it. LOL!!! She hasn't changed much. Although now she looks at me with two BIG BLUE eyes.

I have seen many posts about other people's kids and the tributes that they post for them. I wish I were that eloquent with words. I think the best thing ever is what my daughter does for me every day. She is here and her actions make me look like I have the parenting skills of a master!

Here are some pics of BG's birthday party;

Of course there are many many more but I was just told in no uncertain terms that posting the aftershots of the cake eating contest would be very very very wrong and I really shouldn't do that.... See what I mean? She guilted me in to keeping those here without y'all getting a chance to see them...

TFTD......

*thought for the day*

A woman NEEDS a man like a zebra NEEDS a bicycle.

I found an old button I wore years ago with that saying on it. My daughter loved it and "got it" right away. I have always told her that men are nice to have around and I enjoy papa's company very much....but I don't NEED him. I am very capable of taking care of myself. I have always been very independent and I like me that way. I lived alone for quite a while before I got married. I am so glad I had that opportunity. I love what I have now I think in great part because I don't mourn what it could have been like had I stayed single with no kids. I know what it was like and I am very happy the way it is now.

Talk about setting the feminist movement back about 100 years....

FINALLY PART 3....

This is when I realized just how big that tuba really is...

I tried to get a pic of Tallman playing the tuba and jamming with the old street performer man, but this one little fan got in the way....
Listening to God Bless America...
Jamming to the Star Spangled Banner....

We had tons of fun...

PICTURES PART 2

I have to admit there are more but blogger pooped out again... So looks like there may be a part 3?!?!?


Here they are playing down on River Street...

Closeup of Tallman... (who happens to be a month older than my son, he's 12)

An even closer-up of Tallman... The dynamic duo...
Poor Babygirl, she was SO bored!
So handsome!
He's handsome too... (notice the "bum" enjoying the music)
A wild hairdo of a man sitting in front of us for a street performance....interesting...
Here we are heading for a bench at Forsythe Park....
The duo again...
Yes it was Veterans Day...

The fountain... There was a wedding happening on the other side of it...

The very best part of the day happened when we were walking out and an old man street performer asked the boys if they wanted to jam... they did and it was fun. Of course blogger has had it's fill of me posting pics for tonight so I will show those to you all tomorrow. G'night all!

WELL....

I had last Friday, Monday and today off work. Yep, I really needed a mental health weekend. I feel like I decompressed. The hubby, my sweet love took yesterday and today off to be home with me. We had a LOT of fun with the house to ourselves and the kids at school. We didn't leave the house at all....

I feel like I can go back to work now without feeling overwhelmed. I always worry about not being there and if I should go in there after hours for some sort of damage control. We have a nasty little "office manager" whom I like to call "La Cucaracha". She loves to sift through your desk for ANYTHING!!!! I have nothing to worry about, I just can't stand someone invading my space. I can't lock my stuff and the girl who sits next to me totally has my back on EVERYTHING. BUT, I hate going to work after a few days off just because of her. Anyway... I wasn't going to post about the goings-on in my workplace. It's not not unlike the goings-on in other people's workplaces.

On Saturday we took Littleman and his best bud Tallman down to River Street and then to Forsythe Park. O.K. so that's not big news but they brought their instruments and played for the public. They tried for tips but no one dropped money in the cases. Oh well, better luck next time. Being Veterans Day they started the set with God Bless America, then the Star Spangled Banner. People clapped and it was good for their self esteem. Tallman plays the tuba. That thing is a bitch to carry!!! LM plays the sax, it's much easier to tote and he plays really good! So with that I will leave you some pics of our day;

*There are a LOT more but blogger is being poopie and I can't upload more right now, but hopefully tomorrow you will get a chance to see the rest...*

Setting up...

The Star Spangled Banner...

Just about to start playing...

Of course I will continue with Pics Part 2 tomorrow...

I COULD GIVE A RAT'S ASS...

Think about that saying for a minute..... Umm... does that make any sense to ANYONE??? I didn't think so. Although I do say that quite a bit, it makes absolutely NO sense whatsoever!

I give a lot. I give advise (sometimes unwarranted), I give a helping hand to those who need me. I give a strong shoulder to those who need it, so I give my strength. I am a giving person, that's what I do. (no you perverts! not like that!!!) I suppose I could give a rat's ass....if I had one. Where would I obtain a rat's ass??? Off a rat of course. I don't happen to have rats laying around (nor would I want to). I guess you could obtain one. But, and here is the big question, WHY would you WANT a rat's ass anyway??? HMMMmmm???? Why would on want to be on the receiving end of that transaction??? I wouldn't. That's just plain gross.

When my hubby and I were first together his English wasn't "great" by any stretch of the imagination. I always thought his accent was adorable. He now speaks perfect English thanks to me. But back to my thought.... I said the term "once in a blue moon" to him and he got this odd look on his face. With this look, his eyes were telling me he had no freakin clue what I was talking about. It was then I realized that I could have a lot of fun throwing new and interesting idioms his way. I've explained all of them to him by now. It's been 15 years and he "gets it" now. But with the phrase "I could give a rat's ass" he made me realize that it makes NO sense at all. In fact it is not something that I even want to visualize. Do any of you (my faithful followers) have any silly/quirky sayings that make no sense or make sense just to you?!?!? Inquiring minds want to know.

Hey Shan these are for you...

This is one of my most favorite places on earth. Yep, my kitchen. I think I just sent feminism back about 50 years! LOL!!! I don't care, I love this kitchen more than I could ever put in words.

This oven is all push button digital and is WAY cool!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

So these are the pics you have all been waiting for...

This is Chomba our very own black cat.

This is my very own 10 year old witch...

In the kitchen looking very....witchy....

Speaking of looking witchy, I think she put a spell on me...

Here is the Grim Reaper....

Kind of unsettling, huh?

Here we are just about to T&T.....
Little did I know that my feet would end up hurting me....
It was so worth it though...

MY FEET HURT...

Well Babygirl and I decided to T&T by ourselves. It was awesome! Littleman and his friend went all by themselves. He is 12 and I decided that it is high time that he be given the chance to prove himself. This was the first time Tallman (his best bud) was allowed to go unsupervised as well. Lucky for us our neighborhood is quite close knit. We are out in the country and this particular neighborhood has one way in one way out. I like it that way. Not to mention they had their 2-way radios and my son had his cell phone on him. OK with that being said.. off they went.

My sweet innocent little doll faced baby went as a hot little witch. Yep, 10 years old and she can out-goth the best of em! Hey at least I made her wear the stockings and the cape. Otherwise she would have been more than 1/2 naked!!! I went as the funky old granny again (from the other night of course). I was just going to go as dear old mom. Harmless and in the background. She begged me. I caved. We had fun but the shoes gave both of my pinky-toes blisters! I had one old guy ask me if those were my very own hips?!?! WTF! is that all about? I told him no and he said he really likes big hips?!?! Again WTF!??? No accounting for taste or lack thereof. Hubby stayed home and gave away ALL THE CANDY! WTF! was THAT all about??? He has no concept of this whole American holiday thing!

MMMMMmmK let me lay this out for all you people that don't seem to "get it" (like my hubby). You spend 3-4 weeks before Halloween buying your favorite candy and the closer to the holiday you buy the kid-crappy-candy. So your bucket is filled when you are ready to start handing out the sweet treats. Well it is all in how you fill the bucket...

you still with me out there???

Good!

All of your favorites go at the bottom then fill it with your least favorites as you go. So by the time you come to the top of the basket your good stuff is safely covered with the "kcc" (kid-crappy-candy). OK now when you hand out candy don't go crazy and hand out gobs of it at a time because you will get to the bottom of it too soon. You don't want to disappoint the poor little kids that got a late start do you? Well, hubby just wanted to rid himself of the candy and handed out gobs and gobs of it to each kid. I got home an hour later and it was ALL GONE. It took me a month to buy it all and an hour for him to get rid of it! Dumbass! He is not a candy eater at all and doesn't see why I should eat any of the candy I bought. Ummm.. I deserve it, maybe? I bought extra just so I don't have to feel guilty about eating it, I mean it's there to eat, right? I don't eat much candy from the kids, they get all the kcc anyway. They do share freely so I can have whatever, whenever... BUT THAT IS NOT THE POINT! The point is my feet hurt and I wanted an Almond Joy! That my friends IS the point!

Now that the ranting and raving is over I hope you all had a hellava night doing whatever makes you happy. That is what it really is about after all right?

Just like all my friends out there in blogger-land, I too am not able to post pics, will do tomorrow though...