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March 31, 2006

SPF - Vacation Friday

Well it is Friday again. Time for the best blog scavenger hunt game around, Stuff Portrait Friday. This week Kristine wanted to see our washer and dryer, our robe, and a flower.

The Washer and Dryer

These are not my machines. They were already in this condo when I moved in. Mine are in storage waiting for me to get a place of my own. And I ask you, is it possible for this laundry room to be any smaller? And the door to the laundry room will not stay open so its constantly closing on you and closing the dryer door while I am trying to load the darn thing.

My Robe (and Matching Houseshoes)

This is my matching set robe and houseshoes from Bath and Body Works. I am a recovering BBW addict, after working part time for the company in three different locations. When I sold my house in 2002, I could have easily opened my own BBW out of my garage. I try not to go there anymore and if I do I am only allowed to buy the single item (usually shower gel) that I need to finish off all the lotions and splashes that I already have. I'm hoping to finish off the Blissful Blackberry sometime this month.

I took this picture in August 2003 when I was in Fort Worth visiting friends. I had some time to kill before they got home from work so I walked around the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens with my digital camera (that was still pretty new). It was so hot and late in the season that most of the stuff was dying. I need to go back over there before I move and before it gets too hot.

So there you have it folks, my contribution to this week's scavenger hunt. Did you play?

On Another Note:
I took today and Monday off as vacation days from work. I'm leaving town in a couple of hours. Tomorrow is my wonderful grandmother's, Nana, 87th birthday and we will be having a little family get-together. Sunday, I will drive to Houston and I have two meetings at placement agencies on Monday. After my meetings I will drive back to Waco and eat dinner with my parent's for their 35th wedding anniversary before heading back to BigHairVille.

Please send good vibes to the placement agencies so that they can find me a job so I can move HOME.

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Le Laquets Quiz

I stole this Quiz from MemphisSteve

1. How did you get the idea for your profile name? - When I was 9 my cousin Jace was born. The next summer I went and spent the entire summer with my aunt in New Orleans helping her take care of Jace. I knew I was in for a lifetime fight after one trip to Taco Bell. I had ordered my beefy tostada with extra black olives. We were sitting there and Jace knocked over his drink. I got up to get some napkins to help clean up the mess. When I returned to the table, all of my olives where gone. 6 years later my baby cousin JT was born and by the time he was a few years old he was stealing olives from Jace. I am not too proud to admit by the time I was 19 I realized that if I wanted any olives, I had to steal them from JT. Some day I hope to open my own restaurant and the name of the restaurant will be The Stolen Olive. The cuisine will probably be a cross between Californian, Greek, Mediterranean food with a lot of goat cheeses and olives.

2. What song are you playing now, or wish you were playing? - "Not Ready To Make Nice" by the Dixie Chicks. Their new album will be released on May 23rd. If you go to their website it will play their newest song.

3. Has the death of a celebrity ever made you cry? - Yes. When John Denver died. I think he was the first musician that I knew as a kid and my mom said I would always tell her to turn the radio up when one of his songs started playing. I knew it was him by the first two or three notes of the song.

4. What colour underwear are you wearing? - Black. Always Black.

5. Do you want a baby? - Not unless it is furry and has 4 legs.

6. What does your dad do for a living? - He has been in the grocery business since 1959.

7. What does your mum do for a living? - She's an accountant specializing in internal audit.

8. What is/are your pet's name(s)? - Char Cole, Zack and Zane

9. What colour are your bed sheets? - Mauve

10. What are the last 3 digits of your phone number? - 4090

11. What was the last concert you went to? - Neil Diamond. And it freaking ROCKED! I can't wait to see him again. And as my friend JM and I were discussing the other night... Neil will be the other celebrity death that will make me cry.

12. Who was with you? - A girl named Kelle that I used to teach with at ThugvilleHigh.

13. What was the last film you watched? - The last movie I rented OnDemand was "In Her Shoes" with Cameron Diaz and Shirley McLain. It made me cry.

14. Who do you dislike most at this moment? - The people who play online games on Pogo that are so hardup that they ask if there is a way to cheat to get a badge. I mean your life must really suck if you have to cheat at games on the internet.

15. What food do you crave right now? - Chocolate

16. Did you dream last night? - Moving Home. That seems to be my recurring dream right now. And I found out today that my beautiful and wonderful house in Smalltown, TX that I sold in June 2002 is for sale. If I could find a job down there that paid enough I would buy that house back in a heartbeat. Selling that house was the #1 dumbest thing I have ever done in my entire life.

17. What was the last TV show you watched? - Emeril Live. Food Network has an encore presentation of Emeril every night at 2am. Damn Insomnia.

18. What is your fav piece of jewelery? - My class ring from Baylor.

19. What is to the left of you? - My bed that is currently covered with my suitcase and stuff to take home tomorrow.

20. What was the last thing you ate? - A baked potato with butter, cheese, bacon bits, salt, fresh cracked black pepper and blue cheese dressing.

21. Who is your best friend of the opposite sex? - SW, JMC and MN. There used to be another one but he decided that "I needed therapy and he didn't need a crazy person."

22. Who last MSN'd you? - JMC and my friend VH from culinary school. We both had to stop going to school because of medical reasons and she has been really really sick lately.

23. Where is your significant other right now? - Wish I knew.

24. Do you have a crush? - Nope.

25. What is his/her name? - I don't know

26. When was the last time you had your hair cut? - March 19th.

27. Are you on any meds? - Ha! Am I on meds? Um yeah. Too many to count.

28. Do you have a mental disease? - According to some people.

29. What shirt are you wearing? - Light blue pajama short set with a pink poodle on the pocket.

30. Are you sexy? - Nope.

31. What's your favourite store? - HEB Central Market and Target

32. Are you thirsty? Yes, I could really use a margarita.

33. Can you imagine yourself ever getting married? - Nope, not at all.

34. Who's someone you haven't seen in a while and miss? - My grandparents. I'm going to see them tomorrow.

35. Where do you work? - At a Liquor Distributor, hopefully for not much longer if I can find a job back home.

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March 30, 2006

Stanley Wants You!

What is Stanley?

Stanley is a Blogger gathering schedueled for Spring 2007 in Chicago. Everyone is invited, Bloggers, friends of Bloggers, and people who just like to read the blogs from time to time.

If you are interested in participating, drop AmandaB an email or leave a comment with your url so that she can add you to the list. Also please let me know whether you prefer March or April so that we can set a permanent date for the event.

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My best friend and I have rekindled our dreams of talking a vacation "just us" (as in leave her hubby at home, hehe sorry R). A year or so ago, we mentioned Chicago. So when I saw the posting about Stanley today I asked her if she wanted to go and she said SURE.

Maybe by then I can get her blogging too.

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March 29, 2006

Life Support

While watching the basketball game on TV, Monday night my wife and I were discussing life and death. I told her, "Just so you know, I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug." She promptly got up, unplugged the TV and threw out all my beer.

Some days I hate being married to a smartass.

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Goood Morning Fashion Disaster

It's Wednesday again and TKW, obviously suffering from spring fever, is again this week having us show off our disasterous fashion choices. This week "she's still preoccupied with 19-19-1985"...in continuing with the fashion through the ages theme TX Mom also came up with this theme...pull out the parachute pants, whip our the White Rain and show us how unkind the 80s were to you.

Ok. Here it goes.

My grandfather, my mom and I doing some form of line dancing in the middle of my grandparent's living room. My outfit isn't too bad, BUT, what is the deal with my mother's one-piece shorts outfit and PANTYHOSE?

My mom and I getting ready to go to church some time in the 1980s. The old 1977 Silver Caddy up front and my Great Aunt's old TownCar in the back. What is the deal with the v-neck dress fronts ending in bows?

Here is my cousin, OB, and I. I definitely had the beginnings of a mullet coming on.

I am pretty sure this picture was taken in 1989. One of two perms I have had in my life. Never again. And the dark jeans with the nearly black seams? WTF?

Yep, I was a political rebel even in 1989. I went to a small baptist high school and the crazy freshman Bible teacher would get on a weekly soap box about how the Peace Sign was Satanic! Of course I wore this shirt at school anytime I could get away with it, which wasn't often since we wore uniforms.

That shirt I had on had bright "neon green puff paint" peace signs all over a background that looked like a bunch of articles cut out of a newspaper. I loved that shirt, I still have it, and actually I have worn it in the past 4 months (although I think it was just to grab some fast-food drive-thru dinner and come right back home.)

Neon and Puff Paint just screams 1980s.

Again, 1989. That year was a fashion disaster in my book. Here I am at my grandparent's house. I am guessing this was around Christmas time. My aunt and I sporting our sweatshirts, leggings, big bulky socks and perms. Lord help.

This my friends was my, of all things, EASTER dress, in 1984. It was big, frilly, purple and it matched perfectly with my red-neck mullet hairdo.

This is my friend LKR and I on my trampoline in my backyard in Houston. I got the trampoline in May 1986 so this picture was probably taken not long after that. Notice the red and blue shirt? Yeah, can you say leotard/bodysuit/one piece painful crap (and under bluejeans at that) that I can't believe I wore! And God why did my mother let my hair look like that for so long?

Did you play? Let TKW and I know!

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March 28, 2006

Chaperone Version?

Video Sharing at DropShots.com

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March 27, 2006

Would You Want To Know?

Every Monday, Sherri posts 10 questions called "Reader Poll Monday." The questions range from the normal "what did you do this weekend" to "would you rather lose a toe or a finger." I seriously do not know where she comes up with these questions, but she always gets some very interesting answers.

So, today, one of her questions was: "What is something most people don't know about you?" And I answered it, truthfully.

I have a very weird & creepy curse that I have inherited from both my grandmother and my mother. Yes, I said a curse.

I would have to say that at least 85% of the people close to me that have died, I have dreamed that they died two or three days before. The method in which the death occured is never the same in my dream as it is in real life, but it usually is the person, or the person I dreamed died was a specific clue to the person who is actually fixing to pass on.

Here is my question. If I dream you died... would you want to know? Saturday night I dreamed that my cell phone rang and my phone recognized the phone number that I have saved to designate a group of people that I used to spend a LOT of time with.

There was a male voice on the phone, a person I didn't associate with much, but he was calling to tell me one of the females in our group had been killed in a car accident.

This morning, when I saw this person log onto her computer I felt a sigh of relief but it also gave me a troubled heart. I know I probably wouldn't ever have the nerve to tell someone, "Hey, you know, Saturday night, yeah, I dreamed you died... What color dress do you want in your coffin this weekend?"

I know there are a few people I know IRL that read my blog and never comment. Come on now. Y'all let me know. Would you want to know?

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Microsoft Employee of the Month

Mujibar was trying to get a job in India.

The Personnel Manager said, "Mujibar, you have passed all the tests,
except one. Unless you pass it you cannot qualify for this job."

Mujibar said, "I am ready."

The manager said, "Make a sentence using the words Yellow, Pink and
Green."

Mujibar thought for a few minutes and said, "Mister manager, I am ready."

The manager said, "Go ahead."

Mujibar said, "The telephone goes green, green, and I pink it up,
and say, 'Yellow, this is Mujibar.'"

Mujibar now works as a technician at a call center for computer
problems.

No doubt you have spoken to him.

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March 24, 2006

Job Search, Full Steam Ahead

Here I am again at my wonderful place of employment. Bored out of my mind! I finished all of my tasks that are due by the end of June two weeks ago and the information I need to work on July won't even be available until April 10th.

Today, I sent an email to the placement agency I used last April to see if they had any recommendations for agencies in Houston. I forwarded my updated resume to a contact I met thru Ness(a)Lee a couple of years ago and I sent my resume to the lady who helped my best friend find a job last July.

Tonight, I am going to go redo my resumes that are on CareerBuilder and Monster. Any one else have any other ideas?

P.S. I totally stole that picture from Thao who finally got the offer letter she has been waiting on. Go tell her Congratulations!

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March 23, 2006

Run Forest Run

The day finally arrived. Forrest Gump died and goes to Heaven. He is at the Pearly Gates, met by St. Peter himself. However, the gates are closed, and Forrest approaches the gatekeeper.

St. Peter said, "Well, Forrest, it is certainly good to see you.
We have heard a lot about you. I must tell you, though, that the place is filling up fast, and we have been administering an entrance examination for everyone. The test is short, but you have to pass it before you can get into Heaven."

Forrest responds, "It sure is good to be here, St. Peter, sir. But nobody ever told me about any entrance exam. I sure hope that the test ain't too hard. Life was a big enough test as it was."

St. Peter continued to say, "Yes, I know, Forrest, but the test is only three questions.

First: What two days of the week, begins with the letter T?
Second: How many seconds, are there, in a year?
Third: What is God's first name?"

Forrest leaves to think the questions over. He returns the next day and sees St. Peter, who waved him up, and said, "Now that you have had a chance to think the questions over, tell me your answers."

Forrest replied, "Well, the first one -- which two days in the week, begins with the letter "T"? Shucks, that one is easy. That would be Today and Tomorrow."

The Saint's eyes opened wide and he exclaimed, "Forrest, that is not what I was thinking, but you do have a point, and I guess I did not specify, so I will give you credit for that answer. How about the next one?" asked St. Peter.

"How many seconds in a year? Now that one is harder," replied Forrest, but I thunk and thunk about that, and I guess the only answer can be twelve."

Astounded, St. Peter said, "Twelve? Twelve? Forrest, how in
Heaven's name could you come up with twelve seconds in a year?"

Forrest replied, "Shucks, there is got to be twelve:
January 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd!! "

"Hold it," interrupts St. Peter. "I see where you are going with
this, and I see your point, though that was not quite what I had in mind.....but I will have to give you credit for that one, too. Let us go on with the third and final question. Can you tell me God's first name"?

"Sure," Forrest replied, "it's Andy."

"Andy?" exclaimed an exasperated and frustrated St Peter.

"Ok, I can understand how you came up with your answers to
my first two questions, but just how in the world did you come up with the name Andy as the first name of God?"

"Shucks, that was the easiest one of all," Forrest replied. "I learnt it from the song, "ANDY WALKS WITH ME, ANDY TALKS WITH ME, ANDY TELLS ME I AM HIS OWN..."

St. Peter opened the Pearly Gates, and said: "Run Forrest, run."

Give me a sense of humour, Lord.
Give me the ability to understand a clean joke,
To get some humour out of life,
And to pass it on to other folk

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March 22, 2006

Even SatanCo. Recognizes The Big Hair And Shiney Shoes

This week there is a new location of SatanCo opening in Plano, Texas.

The news of this monstrosity is just hitting the mainstream media today, but I have known about it for a few months since my work is one of the distributors of a majority of the 500 high-dollar potent potable "new items" for the "select shoppers."

Many of you have heard Kami and I complain about the big hair and shiney shoes here in northern Dallas suburbia. Now, I don't know whether or not to feel validated or insulted that SatanCo. has realized our bitching by opening up a new store just to cater to those hairspray-challenged snobs.

P.S. Way Back Wednesday is below.

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That 70's Show

This week The Kept Woman wanted to see our 70s Style. I was only 5 1/2 when the 70s were over and I still need to go get my pictures from my grandparents' and parents' house, but I did have Style back then.

*Disclaimer. I hear by plead innocent for posting pictures of my mom, dad, aunt and grandfather in their 70s garb. I seriously do not know how these pictures got on the internet.

I think this was either my birthday in 1977 or 1978. Those two girls are the friends I have had nearly my entire life. I think I met "Scarlet" (the older one) when she was about 3 1/2 and I was 18 months old, and "Pelican" was probably 10 months old. They have both moved off and I don't get to see them much anymore.

What in the world was with the tube-top outfits. FUGCity Baby.

This is not my favorite red and white polka dot outfit I have owned, but the other one was in 1989 and totally showed off what the nearly-non-existant curves I had at 14. I think this was taken in the backyard of an area photographer's home.

Ok. First of all, that 1970s photography trend with the floating heads is just wrong. And I have two words. Pink Satin. Someone please explain.

No Wonder I am scared of heights. My grandfather is 6'4.5" so that place in the tree where I am sitting had to be at least 5'6" off the ground.

Hey! Kami! Look quick! The one and only time you will ever see me in Burnt Orange. Velvet at that.

And that plaid shirt. Oh my Lord that plaid shirt. My grandfather, yeah, he still has it. Every Christmas (and Birthday which is also in December) he goes into his closet and models all his old clothes for us trying to convince us that he doesn't need any new clothes and to take the stuff we bought back.


October 1975. I was 14 months old. Aren't we a cute family? We totally could have been models for total 70s fashion divas.

I'm not too sure about this picture taken at Six Flags of Texas. This could have been the late 1970s or it could have been 1980-81 but we hadn't quite figured out that the 70s were over yet.

Lets analyze this shall we? Short Short Short White Shorts on Both of my parents. The coordinated pink and white scheme throughout. Carrying a purse, or a purse & a hat, to Six Flags? Matching mother-daughter white "between-the-toe" sandles. Oh My God.

This, my friends, is my hot mama. I think this was sometime between when my parents got married in 1971 and when I was born in 1974. The lady on the bench behind her is one of her best friends, VO. And I think they are eating a PinkThing.

Last but not least. Here in the ultimate display of 70s fashion, I give you my mom, my dad and my aunt. This picture was taken in the front yard of my Great Aunt's farm house in Central Texas. We were probably there for a family reunion.

Lets talk. Gold slinky belts. T-Shirts with gold beaded cats on them. Farrah Faucet "Wings". And LOOK Butterfly Girl! There is a butterfly on the pocket of my aunt's jeans.

Did ya play? Let me and TKW know!

And keep reading to find out if . . .

• You carried a metal lunch box to school.
• You had Star Wars action figures.
• You owned a bicycle with a banana seat.
• You learned to skate on four wheel-skates (not inline skates) that had metal wheels.
• You wore a rainbow shirt that was half-sleeves, and the rainbow went up one sleeve, across your chest, and down the other.
• You knew at least one Avon or Tupperware lady.
• You ate baby chocolate cakes from an Easy Bake Oven and washed them down with snow cones from your Snoopy Snow Cone Machine.
• You had that Fisher Price Doctor's Kit with a stethoscope that actually worked.
• You thought Gopher or Julie from Love Boat was cute (admit it!)
• You had nightmares after watching Fantasy Island.
• You had rubber boots for rainy days and Moon boots for snowy days.
• You had either a "bowl cut" or the "Dorothy Hamil" (because your Mom was sick of braiding your hair).
• You wore a poncho, gauchos, and knickers or bell bottoms and iron-on t-shirts.
• You begged Santa for the electronic game, Simon.
• You had the Donnie and Marie dolls with those pink and purple satiny shredded outfits or the Dukes of Hazzard race car set.
• You spent hours in your backyard on your metal swing set with the trapeze. The swing set tipped over at least once.
• You had a pair of Doctor Scholl's sandals (the ones with hard sole & the buckle). You also had a pair of salt-water sandals.
• You watched Little House on the Prairie every week.
• You wanted your first kiss to be at a roller rink just after the “couples only” skate.
• Your hairstyle was described as having "wings" or "feathers" and you combed it with the comb you kept in your back pocket.
• It was a big event in your household each year when The Wizard of Oz or Willy Wonka came on TV. You would eat popcorn that you made by shaking the Jiffy Pop container over the burner of the stove until the foil expanded.
• You may have asked your Magic-8 ball the question: "Who will I marry: Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, or Rick Springfield?"
• Your parents had to wait in long lines to get gas and often filled up a “reserve” container.
• You completely wore out your Grease, Saturday Night Fever, and Fame soundtrack record album.
• You made potholders on a plastic loom in art class and Shrinky-Dinks! Many of your mother’s friends made macramé plant holders as they’d seen on episodes of Three’s Company.
• You remember where you were when Elvis died.
• You used to record songs off the radio by holding your portable tape player up to the speaker.
• You couldn't wait to get the free posters that came when you ordered books from the Weekly Reader book club.
• You thought “Pong” was a great video game.
• Girls learned everything they needed to know about girl issues from Judy Blume books.
• You had a Big Wheel with a brake on the side, and a Sit-n-Spin.
• “Watergate” became a constant topic of adult conversation.
• You had subscriptions to Dynamite and Tiger Beat.
• You wore striped tube socks with shorts…outside of gym class.
• You saved your allowance for the Sony Walkman or an Atari.
• You didn’t really know who George Lucas was until the summer of 1977.

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March 20, 2006

FOX SPORTS.COM

HELLO FOX SPORTS!

In case you didn't realize, there IS also a Women's Tournament going on.

The Men's Tournament gets an automatically updating bracket. The Women's tournament gets a boring scores website (the same website that has been up all season) with box scores that do not even update correctly.

The automatically updating bracket was created with flash. The majority of the work was finished when the Men's Bracket was completed. It wouldn't take but another 10 minutes to duplicate that flash application and link it to the Women's games.

There are many people who didn't even know that the Women's Tournament started on Saturday. Do you know why that is? BECAUSE YOUR WEBSITE COMPLETELY IGNORES WOMEN'S SPORTS.

A Federal Law Title IX passed in 1972 was designed to make sure that women's sports were given equal visibility and financing as that of the men.

It is 2006, thirty-four years later. It is high time that the media caught up with the times.

Signed

ONE UPSET BAYLOR BEAR

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Can You Tell Which One?

Ok. I am not by any means of the imagination a "Little Suzie Homemaker". Other than the fact that I can cook and can keep my apartment clean enough to be considered liveable, I am totally helpless when it comes to domestic things like sewing.

My high school didn't offer a Home Economics class or I might have figured out that I needed to go to Culinary School 14 years ago. Thus, I never learned how to sew. In fact, sorry Mama, but my mother doesn't know how to sew either. When a button fell off of a piece of clothing in my house, you know who fixed it? MY DAD!

Anyway. I bought a shirt right after Christmas. I wore it one day. I didn't even get a chance to wash it before one of the little button sets around the collar fell off. That was two-and-a-half months ago.

Well, tonight, in another fun effort to keep my insomniac-self occupied, I decided to get out my sewing kit, the little plastic ziplock baggie with the extra buttons and see if I could fix it.

Can you tell which one? Oh, and if you can... don't tell me!

I'm so proud!

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March 17, 2006

Keep Your Fingers Crossed

I have an interview for a management position on Tuesday at NOON. Please send prayers, good vibes and high energy my way.

Thank You

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How Irish Are You?

You're 40% Irish

You're probably less Irish than you think you are... But you're still more Irish than most.

I shamelessly stole this from Steve who stole it from Leesa

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

And Happy Birthday 18th Char Cole Boy! We sure miss you.

I can't wait to see you again at Rainbow Bridge.

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C is for Crazy

Can you tell me how to get
How to get to Sesame Street?

Ok. That was a little Random. And, I'll admit it. That was a little Odd. Hmm... Random and Odd. I guess that means it is Stuff Portrait Friday again.

This week's assignment is brought to you by the letter C.

Your Couch

This is my new couch. It's a sleeper sofa sectional. It was delivered the first weekend in January. I love it and now I have a bed to offer friends and family if they need to spend the night in Dallas.

Your Coat

My jacket. It is a few years old, so the faux fur collar and wrists are probably no longer fashionable. Hell, they probably never were, but I bought this jacket at Palais Royal on sale.

Your Candles

This is a picture of the hallway in my house (that I miss terribly and wish that I had never sold) in Smalltown, Tx where I lived between 1999 and 2002. Ness(a)Lee attempted and succeeded to give me a full-fledged addiction to PartyLite Candles.

The glass cabinet was full of candle holders and knick-knacks. Also, if you look up on the wall on the right you will see the two Sconces I bought after hosting my first Candle Party. These sconces held tealite candles and looked really cool when they were lit. I love those things.

I left most of my candle holders at my parents house and I was out of candles anyway. When I get to move home I am totally gonna have to host a show, or I may just attempt to start back at being a independent consultant.

Ok. That's it for me. Did you play? Let Kristine and I know if you did. All these cookies, now I need some milk.

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March 16, 2006

They Are BaaacK!

I am so excited! I have only bought two CDs since March 2003. One of them I bought last month in Houston and the other was the Dixie Chicks "HOME" CD that I bought the day after the London Concert. On May 23, 2006 I WILL be at a Music Store buying the newest CD from the Dixie Chicks "TAKING THE LONG WAY."

All the radio stations in TheArmpitOfHell, where I was living at the time, quit playing their music. For at least 6 months, every single time I got in my car, I rolled down the windows, I put in one of my Dixie Chicks CDs and I turned it up as loud as my ears could stand it.

I have known since November 2000 that I didn't like the way things were going in this country. I also knew one simple fact. As long as you vote, you can BITCH! And by God, Bitch is what I was going to do.

I think George Clooney, said it best. Many many many problems we are facing now as a nation, is because too many people were too Chicken Shit to take what they saw as CRAP and verbally call it CRAP to anyone who will listen (and no, I'm not talking about the music they play on MTV and BET)

The fact that dissenting opinions were viewed as unpatriotic or un-American goes against everything this country is actually about. We are supposed to be about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We are supposed to be diverse and tolerant. My friends, this country has turned to the exact opposite.

Diversity is viewed as incorrect, tolerance is a thing of the past, freedom of speech has been ripped apart by wires and listening ears, and happiness.. none to be found. We have courts taking away our fundamental rights to decide what to do with our own bodies, and governmental agencies ignoring large numbers of people, homes and businesses flooded by a body of water, and our own government wanting to hand over the administration of our Ports to our ENEMIES.

We have people who have no clue as to tolerance and want their beliefs forced on ours, like the newest lawsuit claiming that a "moment of silence" in schools is unconstitutional. We have retail outlets selling "Holiday Trees" and we have an age of no personal responsibility, "McDonald's made me fat."

Well, let me just say. As a Christian, I'm sick and tired of MY rights being infringed upon because someone doesn't want to keep their mouth shut for a moment. I refuse to frequent businesses who change their advertising to accomodate those with zero tolerance. And I want to slap the person who said they are fat after visiting the golden arches. I, personally, refuse to eat at McDonald's but I know for a fact that the Humburgular and Ronald didn't come get your ass and drag you with a rope to their hillbilly heaven and shove their nasty food down your throat. I'm also fed up with a few people at my work who think I should drop everything the second SatanCo. (oops, I mean Mal Wart) wants something.

I posted a few hours ago about being in a FUNK. How I have absolutely no desire to do anything. How nothing excites me and how I am miserable. I need a purpose and I need something to inspire me. Well, the news about this new CD inspired me for just a few minutes to crank out two posts in one day. Who'da Thunk It?

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Funky Town

I know I haven't posted anything since Sunday, so I just wanted to drop you all a note and say I'm not dead... yet. *Warning, this has the potential to be a long post.

I am going to echo a sentiment I have seen a lot lately on nearly all those links in my blog roll. I'm in a funk. I don't feel like doing anything. I am having a horrible time. I can't sleep, and this insomnia has gone on for nearly two months now. I'm crying at the drop of a hat.

I have no motivation to do anything, even the simplest things like hanging up my laundry, which is already on the hangers, in the closet. So for two weeks, I have, when attempting to sleep, been sleeping on about 1/3rd of the bed because the laundry is all nice and laid out, still on the hangers, on the other 2/3rds of the bed.

The really bad part about this funk is I don't think there is any getting out of it. I have a few things to blog about, but I am having a hard time to just get myself to sit down and blog about finding it hard to blog. And that sentence really doesn't make since because it doesn't even take any effort on my part to sit down at the computer, since that is where I am anyway for probably 18+ hours a day.

I'm emotionally, physically and financially drained. I've been trying to work on my resume to send it off, but I keep wanting to change it and it doesn't get sent. I desperately need a new job but the weird thing about my funk is that my OCD-perfectionism when it comes to stuff like my resume doesn't go away. I think it would help the situation if I had work to do, but I am all caught up on my work and am sitting here basically waiting for the next month of information to be released. It isn't supposed to be released until April 10th.

Speaking of OCD, last night, while sitting at my computer, completely unable to sleep...I went thru my Microsoft Money file and renamed all the entries that were just automatically downloaded so that they grouped together correctly. For example, I renamed every entry so that every time I ate at La Madeleine (regardless of which location or town), it would group together. Is that sad or what?

I have friends who have suggested I go to therapy, but the thought scares me to death. In fact, that thought is even scarier than realizing I may never sleep more than 2 hours a night for the rest of my life. And just typing that last sentence, I have tears flowing down my face. The people at work probably think I am a basket case since I always have tears in my eyes, but to them... I chalk it up to being in pain and my migraines.

On a happier note, I will say that the change in my medicines last month has helped. I haven't had a really bad bad migraine in a few weeks. Don't get me wrong, I've had migraines... but they weren't to the point that I had to stay home from work. And frankly, I bet a lot of it has to do with my lack of sleep. The numbness in my hands is a little better, but not enough to say it still doesn't hurt.

The pills have also screwed with my appetite. I have never been a breakfast person, but now I wake up hungry. Low Fat Popcorn, that I can pop at work, has become my best friend. Then I end up not eatin lunch until 3 or 4pm and dinner has just been crazy. I am out of just about everything at home.

I have canned items, but no meat or key ingredients to make something. I know I could get in the kitchen and be creative, I mean.. I am a chef... but... yeah, there's that motivation problem. There have been MANY nights in the past month or so that dinner consisted of 2 glasses of milk. Last night, I had a can of blackeyed peas and a glass of milk.

I thought about doing that Milk Your Diet. It isn't hard for me to drink 24 oz of milk in a day. Unfortunately, I dont think that cutting calories is supposed to mean don't eat and that burning calories... does clearing a mahjong puzzle every 2 minutes count?

It doesn't help your outlook on life when you get up every morning and realize that you basically have 5 pairs of pants that you can wear and only 3 of them look halfway decent. And that it has become much too warm outside to wear over 80% of the tops that fit. I know I need to lose weight and I am miserable being this fat, but that doesn't help the fact that I don't have much to wear now.

I did everything I could to be able to attend DaddyW's funeral on Monday. I got up and packed and got all ready to leave on Sunday, ran a couple of errands, but as I was walking out of my last errand my car decided to DIE. I had to have it towed to the Saturn dealership and I was left stranded. I had a heck of a time finding someone to take me home. That is another part of my funk, I feel completely alone.

I guess that is why I want to move home so bad. No matter what part of town I was in, if my car died in Houston I would know someone close by to come get my stranded self.

I guess I will close for now. I am going to try to make myself get up the energy to take my pictures for SPF tonight. I didn't participate in Way Back Wednesday because I never went anywhere for Spring Break while I was in college, and all my pictures from my high school choir trips that we took over our Easter/Spring Break are at my parents. I haven't been able to FUG anyone lately. I don't get out of the house much, I pretty much go to work and then home. I also have a really hard time coming to terms with FUG'n someone when I look as horrible in my own skin as I know I do.

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March 11, 2006

DaddyW

At 1:16 this morning I received an email from a very special and wonderful friend, TxRed. The subject of the email was very short. It said: "Sad News."

It was at 1:16 this morning that I found out that her father had passed away yesterday, March 10th. Her father, DadddyW, was a sweet, funny, generous and loving man. From the time I became friends with TxRed in 1993, her dad treated me like I had been a long time friend of the family and always welcomed me with open arms.

I've been sitting here in Dallas for the past 21 hours trying to figure out if there was any possible way for me to drive down to her hometown to attend the funeral. It would be about a 6 hour drive each way and I would have to miss two days of work. There is another funeral in the town that DaddyW had spent the past 5 or so years of his life on Monday, and it would be about 2 hours closer, but would also be a long way to drive for just one day.

I'm torn about what to do and my heart weeps for TxRed and her whole family. DaddyW will be missed, but I know we will see him again some day. Please keep TxRed and her family in your prayers.

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March 10, 2006

SPF - Like Yesterday's Newspaper

Come friends, one and all, to relish in the trash that fills our lives. It is again time for SPF and since it is Friday night at 7:27pm, we can throw this week out like yesterday's newspaper. And for some reason I have yet to figure out, the past two weeks they have been throwing a Monday & Tuesday newspaper along with the Friday - Sunday ones. Makes no sense.

Yep, there are my newspapers from Monday, Tuesday and Today. I don't actually read them. I get the weekend subscription just for the Saturday and Sunday Classified Ads and the Sunday Coupons.

This week, Kristine wanted to see our junk. I guess she is actually finally out of ideas and is asking us to submit suggestions for upcoming SPF themes. So if you have an idea, go let her know.

Here is my trashcan, or I guess you could call it the trashcan cabinet. Ok, Ok, Ok. I know part of my New Years Resolution was to get rid of the teddybear stuff, but since I decided that I wanted to move HOME to Houston, I'm trying to save money for that. I will dive head first into the teddybear extermination as soon as I move.

Here is my junk drawer in the kitchen. You will see all the guards for my chef's knives, a few electrical cords, some nails and screws, and oh my goodness... there is my screwdriver.

Here is the junk pile of crap that has never been unpacked since I moved in December. This pile is nicely sitting out of the way in front of my bookcase. All those binders you see behind the pile are my binders from Culinary School.

The box on the left is full of paperwork stuff. I need to sit down and put it all in my file cabinets, but that is gonna be a huge project. The box on the left is a bunch of cords and pens and tape and crap that I just need to find a place for.

I technically don't have a "trunk" in my VUE, but here is the back of it. There is a half-empty gallon of windshield wiper fluid and a plastic sack for cleaning out the car. The big blue thing is the ice pack my doc gave me after my knee surgery. I keep it in my car and can freeze it pretty quick whereever I am for when I get a really bad migraine. The large white rolling laundry basket is from when I took my dry cleaning in last week. I guess I will remember to bring the basket back in the house tomorrow when I go pick up my dry cleaning.

Ok, so there it is folks. SPF - More Junk Than You Wanted To See.

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March 09, 2006

Babe Alert

If by some chance you are not a regular reader of Celebrity Smack... go see her today... your EYES will thank you.

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March 08, 2006

No Wonder I Wont Shop At WalMart Or McDonalds

ONE

Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets. I asked for a half dozen nuggets. "We don't have half dozen nuggets," said the teenager at the counter. "You don't?" I replied. "We only have six, nine, or twelve," was the reply. "So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?" "That's right." So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets.

TWO

I was checking out at the local Wal-Mart with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those "dividers" that they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed. After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the "divider", looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it. Not finding the bar code she said to me, "Do you know how much this is?" I said to her "I've changed my mind, I don't think I'll buy that today." She said "OK," and I paid her for the things and left. She had no clue to what had just happened.

THREE

A lady at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly. When I inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM "thingy."

FOUR

I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car. "Do you need some help?" I asked. She replied, "I knew I should have replaced the battery to this remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?" "Hmmm, I dunno. Do you have an alarm, too?" I asked. "No, just this remote thingy," she answered, handing it and the car keys to me. As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, "Why don't you drive over there and check about the batteries. It's a long walk."

FIVE

Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift. One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," the secretary told her. With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five "blank" copies.

SIX

I was in a car dealership a while ago, when a large motor home was towed into the garage. The front of the vehicle was in dire need of repair and the whole thing generally looked like an extra in "Twister." I asked the manager what had happened. He told me that the driver had set the "cruise control" and then went in the back to make a sandwich.

SEVEN

My neighbor works in the operations department in the central office of a large bank. Employees in the field call him when they have problems with their computers. One night he got a call from a woman in one of the branch banks who had this question: "I've got smoke coming from the back of my terminal. Do you guys have a fire downtown?"

EIGHT

Police in Radnor, Pa., interrogated a suspect by placing a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine. The message "He's lying" was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn't telling the truth. Believing the "lie detector" was working, the suspect confessed.

NINE

A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid was eating ants. The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and should be fine, the mother says, I just gave him some ant killer...Dispatcher: Rush him to emergency!

Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid."

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Way Back Wednesday - I'm Not A BowHead

Yes my friends, it is again time for Way Back Wednesday and the theme that The Kept Woman gave us this week is: You put what in your hair?

Football Widow came up with this week's theme of bad hair accessories of the past (bows that could eat your head, satellite dish silver lame headbands, etc.)...boys, you know you thought you were all cool rockin' the sideways baseball cap and yes, that counts...

Well, as you may or may not have heard.. I went to Baylor, but I promise you I am not a Baylor Betty Bowhead.

Ok, this was me at 10 months. I didn't even really have any hair, but, wait.. what is that white thing SCOTCH-TAPED to my head. It's a Bow. Uh, well.. I'm still not a Bowhead.

Ok, here we are at 2 1/2 years old. Complete with a frilly bonnet. Whew, at least it isn't a bow.

I'm not sure how old I am here, but Pigtails were apparently the way to go. So that is where it started... I still to this day can not sleep with my hair down, it HAS to be up in a bun or ponytail or something.

Here I am modeling an outfit I got for Christmas 1981.. but what is that red thing in my hair? Damn! A Bow.

Let's try again...

UGH! I promise.. I'm NOT a Bowhead.

I totally should have posted this picture last week, because I obviously STOLE my poor grandpa's nightcap.

I had just gone to church with my grandpa... and what is that white thing in my hair? Breathe, Breathe, Breathe, Repeat to yourself, I am not a bowhead, I am not a bowhead.

I guess I just had my hair washed in the sink. We were probably fixing to go dry our hair. My aunt's hair was down to her waist (and her hair is as thick as mine) and it would take two hair dryers to get it dry. She would turn her head upside down and I would dry the underneath part that was now on top, while she dried the top that was on the bottom. Yeah, that made sense.

I guess a white cowgirl hat is better than a bow, right? Right? I am not a bowhead, I am not a bowhead.

Ok, I know this was my freshman year in high school. I can tell because of the t-shirt I have on. And of all times my grandmother DIDNT cut off the top of my head, she had to pick this one with, oh my God, what is that red thing on my head? A Bow. Fudge!

Big Bucks, Big Bows, Big Bucks, No Whammies, STOP! What the heck? What is that big blue thing on my head. I mean it was normal for Char Cole to have bows on his ears after going to the groomers, but for the Love Of Granola, what the hell is that?

*Crying in a corner, I am not a bowhead, I am not a bowhead, I am not a bowhead, I am not a bowhead."

Ok. A Diamond Tiara. That's more like it.

Did ya play? Let me and Mama Duck know!

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March 07, 2006

Goodbye SuperWoman

I just got to work to see the news on MSN that Dana Reeve, wife of Christopher Reeve, had passed away. She had just announced in August that she had lung cancer and every news bit given was one of hope and beating the odds. This news was a total shock to me this morning.

Rest In Peace and God Bless

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March 05, 2006

Gobble Gobble

Video Sharing at DropShots.com

I know this video was emailed around, probably to the majority of the BlogBlowout Mailing List, but I just couldn't help posting it.

This is just too incredibly funny and I laughed until I cried. Sometimes we all need to laugh that hard.

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March 04, 2006

Combo Number 5

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March 03, 2006

# 1 Song The Day You Were Born

August 17, 1974 ... "The Night Chicago Died" by Paper Lace

Click here to find out what song was hot the day you arrived.

I stole this from ... Stacy over at Exceedingly Mundane.

Lyrics below.

In the heat of a summer night
In the land of the dollar bill
When the town of Chicago died
And they talk about it still

When a man named Al Capone
Tried to make that town his own
And he called his gang to war
With the forces of the law

I heard my mama cry
I heard her pray the night Chicago died
Brother what a night it really was
Brother what a fight it really was
Glory be

I heard my mama cry
I heard her pray the night Chicago died
Brother what a night the people saw
Brother what a fight the people saw
Yes indeed

And the sound of the battle rang
Through the streets of the old east side
'Til the last of the hoodlum gang
Had surrendered up or died

There was shouting in the street
And the sound of running feet
And I asked someone who said
Bout a hundred cops are dead

I heard my mama cry
I heard her pray the night Chicago died
Brother what a night it really was
Brother what a fight it really was
Glory be!

I heard my mama cry
I heard her pray the night Chicago died
Brother what a night the people saw
Brother what a fight the people saw
Yes indeed

And ther was no sound at all
But the clock upon the wall
Then the door burst open wide
And my daddy stepped inside
And he kissed my mama's face
And he brushed her tears away

The night Chicago died
The night Chicago died
Brother what a night the people saw
Brother what a fight the people saw
Yes indeed

The night Chicago died
The night Chicago died
Brother what a night it really was
Brother what a fight it really was
Glory be

The night Chicago died
The night Chicago died
Brother what a night the people saw
Brother what a fight the people saw
Yes indeed

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Techno-Meme

Here is a new meme I stole from Dima over at Generation Lost, and the title of her blog is very appropriate for this meme.

**Oh yeah, and SPF is down there.. just scroll.

1. Do you remember when you saw your first computer? When did you actually use one? What about having your own? Do you own a laptop? (PC or MAC?) Have you gone wireless at home yet?

I don't remember when I saw my first computer, but I do remember the Christmas 1983 when I got an Apple IIc from Santa. I didn't have much software for it, but I would play the Lemonade Stand game on it for hours on end. I have since had 3 PCs and a Macintosh. I still have my Apple IIc and my Macintosh. My two old PCs died and were trashed. I don't have a laptop, yet, but I do have a handheld, so I had to go wireless.

2. When did you first go online and/or use email? Who did you email back then? How did the Internet change your life? When did you discover blogging? What about your home internet connection - is it dial-up, DSL, or Cable?

I first went online my sophomore year of college. Baylor gave all students email in January 1994. This was right after the tragic loss of someone really close to me. I mostly used email to keep in touch with another friend going thru the same loss. We would sit in the computer labs for hours and email each other back and forth... we called it Therapy.

The internet has changed my life, because I used to go out shopping and spend money when I was bored. Now I just play Mahjohng online. I started blogging in February 2005 after seeing the debut of the blog known as Ness(a)Lee.

I have Cable-Broadband internet at home. I know its more expensive than DSL, but my home phone runs over VOIP, with a company called Packet8, so I save money on phone bills, so it averages out.

3. Do you remember your first VCR to DVD? What about a video camera (there were some bulk ones back in the 80s and 90s) and home videos?

My aunt bought us our first VCR. I remember that we were like the first people on our street to have one. We taped moves off of TV all the time. I still have all the tapes, I guess I should go thru them and see what is on them. I also remember that the VCR was the first thing that was ever stolen when my house was robbed in 1984. My parents had a video camera that you had to play on the old projectors, but they never bought one of the newer ones. I guess I should also get those movies converted to either VHS or DVD.

4. When did you switch from VCR to DVD? How did it change your video viewing experience? Do you use TiVo or any such "contraption" to tape TV shows? Do you use Netflix or some other internet-based DVD "renting" service?

I got a 5-disc DVD player for Christmas in 2003. But I still had so many movies on VHS that I didn't use it much. Then I found Netflix. That DVD player died last year and it wasn't until I received one for Christmas that I started really looking and buying DVDs. I have a DVR in my cable box. It is set up to tape "Two and a Half Men" and "House" every week.

5. What about music? Did you enjoy listening to favorite music in Long Plays or did you prefer cassette tapes? When did you buy you first CD player and switched to CDs? Did you abandon them (and turned to downloaded music) for MP3 players or iPods or do you still buy CDs?

I had a record player as a kid, but it always seemed like I needed a new needle, and as the years went on, needles were harder and harder to find. I loved my 8tracks. My parents raised me to like their music so we would pop in the 8tracks of John Denver, Neil Diamond, Three Dog Night, The Beatles, and Kris Kristopherson whenever we were in the car. We still have those 8tracks somewhere.

I actually didn't buy my first CD player. I won it as a door prize at my senior prom. I was the only one of my classmates that actually won something that night. All the other prizes went to dates of classmates that didn't go to our school. I have 13.3GB of mp3s stored on my computer and they are also on my Dell DJ.

I hadn't bought a CD in years, but last weekend while I was in Houston with my best friend, we both bought the same CD set. We found it at Target and it was only $9.99.

6. Do you own and use a cell phone? Do you think it's useful or just annoying? Did you always have a telephone in your house growing up? Did you have a phone in your own room?

I have had a cell/car phone since I got my drivers license when I was 17. I use my cell phone as my major form of communication and my VOIP line after that. My landline phone is ONLY for my alarm system. We had a phone at home my entire life, and I had my own phone in my room from age 3. My great aunt bought me a Mickey Mouse phone when I was 3 and a Princess phone when I was 12.

7. When did you first buy a digital camera? What kind was it (3.2, 4.0, 5.0 MP or better)? Did you start taking more pictures or were you a photo aficionado before then? What about a digital video camera?

I got a digital camera for Christmas in 2002. It is a Kodak Easy Share LS443 but I don't remember what the MP rating is. I didn't really start taking pictures until I started my blog in 2005, and I'm still not good at remembering my camera or taking pictures worth a hoot. My camera will take digital video as long as there is room on the memory card.

8. What about television? Have you already embraced the new technologies, such as HDTV, plasma, and flat screen? (On the other hand, you wouldn't remember black & white TVs, would you?)

I think I was 23 years old before I finally threw away my Panasonic Pink TV that my parents bought me for Christmas one year. I know they had fun with the Speigel catalog that year because I had a matching pink alarm clock, jambox and stereo! I have a picture at home I think, I'll have to go look for them.

The only reason I threw away my pink TV was because it started smoking and flames were coming out the back of it one night when I turned it on.

I still have the TV I bought the night after the pink TV's untimely death. As long as I have a computer and the internet, I could survive without a TV so I guess I probably wont buy a "next-generation" TV until the one I have catches on fire.

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SPF - Total Randomness

Kristine, Kristine, Kristine. What are we gonna do with you? You keep getting more Random And Odd as time goes by. If you don't stop, you're gonna end up like me!

This week Kristine wanted to see: 1) your favorite jeans; 2)birthmark, mole or freckles; and 3)your photo albums & where you store them

My Favorite Jeans

Even though I can not wear these jeans and more than likely will never be able to lose enough weight to wear them again, they will always be my favorite.

Every year during Homecoming Week in high school, we would have special dress days that were a large part of the whole "spirit" of Homecoming. My junior year one of those special dress days was Hippie Day.

My mom and I went down to the little resale shops on Montrose looking for something for me to wear for Hippie Day. We found these size 8 stonewashed hiphugger bellbottoms and they fit perfectly. I had a pink and purple tie-dyed shirt, beads, these bellbottoms and I wore my mom's moccasins. I always knew I was born a decade or two too late.

Birthmark/Mole/Freckles

I tried to take a picture of the freckles on my shoulders but I guess they seem a lot darker to me than they actually are because they wouldn't show up. I don't have a birthmark so, I am left showing a Scar instead.

This is the scar on my knee from my Bursectomy I had back in December.

Your Photo Albums & Where You Store Them

Um, yeah. I'm not creative at all. I wouldn't know how to start a scrapbook if Kami came over and did it for me. My grandmother is really the picture person in the family, and all of her pictures are in boxes and boxes and boxes all over the house. Some day we will get them all scanned into a computer.

Didya play? Make sure you let me know so I can come by and say hi.

**Edited to ADD*

Here are the cookies that I forgot were in the oven, while I was teaching my mother, over instant messenger, how to take that picture of my bellbottoms and send it to me off of her CAMERA phone. Oops.

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March 01, 2006

Have Fun!

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Help, I Need Somebody

Help, not just anybody,

Help, you know I need someone, help.

Please go visit William at Poop and Boogies. He is calling upon the blogworld to try to find out some information for a dear dear friend.

If you can help, please do.

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Good, Better, Best

GOOD

In Richardson, Texas State Trooper was running radar. He had a perfect spot to watch for speeders, but wasn't getting any. Then he discovered the problem. A 12 year old boy was standing up the road with a hand painted sign which read "RADAR TRAP AHEAD!"

The officer later found a young accomplice down the road with a sign reading, "TIPS" and a bucket full of money. (And we used to just sell lemonade!)

BETTER

A motorist was mailed a picture of his car speeding through an automated radar post in Plano, Texas. A $40 speeding ticket was included. Being cute, he sent the police department a picture of $40. The police responded with another mailed photo of handcuffs.

BEST

A young woman was pulled over in Austin, Texas for speeding. As the TX State Trooper walked to her car window, flipping open his ticket book, she said, "I bet you are going to sell me a ticket to the Texas State Police Ball." He replied, "Texas State Troopers don't have balls." There was a moment of silence while she smiled and he realized what he'd just said. He then closed his book, got back in his patrol car and left. She was laughing too hard to start her car.

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Way Back Wednesday - What What Whatcha Gonna Do?

Whatcha Gonna Do When They Come For You?

I decided this week that I was going to start participating in more blog games. Today, it is Way Back Wednesday, brought to us by The Kept Woman and our assignment was to show old (hence the name "Way Back") pictures of us breaking the law.

Well, one of the reasons I have never jumped on the WBW bandwagon before is that I don't have a whole heck of a lot of pictures with me. Most of my family's pictures are in boxes and boxes and boxes throughout my parents' and grandparents' homes.

But I was able to find a couple of pictures that would qualify for today's assignment. Hopefully I wont completely fail this one.

I know you are thinking how is a little girl and her grandfather riding in a bumper car at Six Flags breaking the law? Well, this is how I see it. I know you can't tell it now, but I was one of the smallest kids you've ever seen. I guarantee you I probably wasn't tall enough to reach that "You Must Be This Tall To Ride This Ride" arrow. I think I stood on my grandpa's feet.

This was April 1990. I was a sophomore and on a high school choir trip to Quebec City, Canada. My friends Heather and Candy spent most of the day we had free walking around the town and sightseeing. We came upon this park with these statues that were blocked off with a chain and concrete blocks. We climbed over the blocks and took pictures of our trespassing on these statues. And why am I smiling so big? I had borrowed those jeans I have on from another girl, who was the head cheerleader and skinnier-than-a-rail,.. and I just thought it was cool that I could zip them.

This is the picture of my car after my car accident in December 2001. According to witnesses, I stopped at the red light at the corner of Hwy 6 and I59S in Sugar Land, Texas. While I was stopped, I must have passed out and my foot fell off the break as I eased into the intersection and t-boned a lady turning in front of me. I was working two jobs and had a 56-mile one way commute to work, I was exhausted.

There was only about $600 damage to the exterior of my car, (God, I love Saturns). BUT...

Because I had just gone thru the drive thru at Taco Bell, and those idiots had forgotten to give me a straw, I had taken the lid off of my 40oz Dr. Pepper. The drink splashed all over everything on my dash and everything electrical had to be replaced, including the cruise control buttons on the steering wheel, the radio, CD player, AC controls, etc. I don't heart Taco Bell anymore.

I know you are all thinking.. God, can this girl get any more boring? This is what she calls breaking the law? Well... I have saved the best picture for last.

This picture was taken in (I think) Spring 1985 on my Great Aunt's farmland in Central Texas. That cute little red head is my cousin Jace. And what did we do that was illegal?

PICKING BLUEBONNETS! Although I am saddened to find out that for generations all Texans have been told that it was illegal to pick bluebonnets, just to find out that it was an urban legend. There goes my wrap sheet!

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