Friday’s List, Presented on Tuesday, Called… Tue-ist (or Twist)?

February 5, 2013 at 8:59 AM (From the Heart, Honey, Lists, This and That)

Hi Guys!

Thank you for your kind words and prayers for my concerns. I always hesitate to have a post like that, but People, I was struck by the fact that those of us involved with the BSF study seem to have the same things touch our hearts and we all have completely different situations! If it encouraged even one of you to wait patiently, or pray, or even ponder what you believe about God’s words, then I guess it hit the mark.

Nothing about the situation has been resolved yet, but I felt your prayers and have had a calmer heart since that day. Maybe sometimes I write it to remind myself of what God says.

I didn’t post yesterday because I was busy. Busy doing a truly heinous thing that one must do when one is 50, and when one has experienced the bouts of cholera that I did last year. I have one thought about it, well, actually many thoughts but I will only share one. People, if we can put a man on the moon, can we not find a better way to do this???

All to say, I am as fit as a fiddle and they would like to see me in ten years. The nurse did try to encourage me with the old “who knows what improvements will be made by then” line. so I am clinging, clinging to that hope.

I am going to surprise you all right now with the next statement. Ready?

I WATCHED THE SUPERBOWL!!!!!

I know, I know, you can close your mouth hanging open in disbelief. I was not heavily invested, as I was having my own engagement with my own bowl, and it was not super, but I was present. Mostly. I played a LOT of Words With Friends, watched some of the pre shows where I was introduced to some of the players, saw Beyonce and company be all booty-licious, enjoyed some of the commercials (Clydesdales, the one about the farmers, and sorry, the Dorito’s goat one), puzzled over the power outage, and was worried that the team Honey wanted to win might be overtaken. They were not, so that was nice.

I always ask him why he wants a particular team to win. His answers vary from year to year. Sometimes he feels they are a better team, sometimes he likes some of the players. Sometimes there are notable Christians on the team, or the behavior of the other team is poor. When I asked him why he wanted the Ravens to win this year, the only reason he gave was the coach of the other team was an unmentionable word. Alright.

I always have profound and important observations about the game. Like, how weird, the coaches are brothers! And, how can some football players be so….fluffy? All of my other comments were concerning the alarming display of tattoos I was seeing out there on the field. The NFL must be single handedly keeping the tattoo industry thriving.

I must git. Have a good Tuesday.

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The Doings

January 8, 2013 at 9:54 AM (Around Our House, Confessions, Family Life, Honey, Lists, Muggins Q. Mouse, Our Boy, Television, This and That)

I fear I have not gotten back into the swing of things yet. Hence the late posting. I am going to now bombard you with many random things.

The Boy and The Dane return to Chicago this weekend. Mousey resumes college on Monday. BSF does start back up tomorrow and I need to get cracking on finishing up my lesson. I have only had THREE WEEKS to do it. All this down time has made me….unproductive.

I have been focusing some of my time trying to learn how to use my new iPad. I mainly wait for Mousey to become available and then she tells me what to do.

One of my resolutions this year is to make better use of my camera. Taking pictures AND learning how to use the settings.

Next Monday the eating train leaves the depot. Honey and I are getting back on the right track.

There is a lot of television happening this month. I dvr’d  the premiere episode of the third season of Downton Abby because I have not finished season two. I’d best get right on that.

Between The Biggest Loser, American Idol, Top Chef, and not to mention the new shows we are going to try, I will almost be too busy to grow my toenails. Almost.

Our CareGroup starts back up on Friday. I have missed them and it will be nice to catch up. Another reason why the eating train leaves on Monday and not sooner.

I have been wearing nail polish for the last month or so. After not wearing nail polish for several years. What up with that?

My Christmas cards are in the mail as of yesterday!!!!!!! Better late than never, right?

People who know me well don’t expect to get our Christmas card before Christmas. Therefore they are not surprised. To all the others? SURPRISE!!!!

I only have one Christmas present to return, and one to exchange. Pretty good for all of us!

What have you been doing? Do share.

I will just be here waiting to read what you say. And growing my toenails. It’s a full time job if I want to be sandal ready by our vacation to Florida in March.

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Last Bargains of the Year and A Brown Dane

December 31, 2012 at 8:08 AM (Bargain Hunting, Bargains of the Month, Family Life, This and That)

Hi Guys!

Happy New Years Eve! We are going to get our celebration on later this evening with a little homemade pizza, maybe some banana splits and surely some cards. There are things to do before that though. Things like vacuuming and last minute grocery store visits and the last chiropractic visit of 2012.

I went up to Kohl’s over the weekend  to spend the twenty dollars in Kohl’s bucks that were burning a hole in my purse. Not exactly burning a hole in my purse, more like a constant nagging that I would forget to use them. It has happened before and it’s not a good feeling. I usually give them to the Girls to buy unmentionables but I had offered and no one took me up on it, therefore they were squarely back burning holes in my pocketbook and nagging me.

The last time we used Kohl’s bucks our coffee maker had conveniently died, making our Kohl’s bucks purchase easy. We ended up paying $9 dollars for a new one, pretty good deal! This time, there was no obvious purchase so I started perusing. I had a vague idea that I would like a new pair of swippers. I have a quasi new pair, but I really like to have two pair. Because sometimes you can’t find one pair. This wasn’t the pair I had envisioned, but very similar and they were only $7. I am nothing if not flexible.

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I was not looking for a new scarf but this one caught my eye with it’s purty colors and tiny bit of sparkly bling. When I read $3.60 on the tag I snapped it up! You can’t even buy yarn for $3.60!!!!! The regular price said $36.00 but who would pay that? For a scarf!! At Kohl’s!!??

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I perused for quite a while in the rug section because our bathroom rugs died a noble death a month or so ago. They were a color that could not be duplicated this season so I focused my attention on greens. They will do, and then I found some for The Ab-Cat’s bathroom. And then I remembered that I needed one by the front door where folks take their shoes off. I was regretting my decision to forgo a cart at this juncture. Especially when I saw that I was going to have to wait in line for many minutes. 

When I reached the cashier she informed me that clearance was an extra 25% off! I had no idea! So my swippers were $5 and my scarf was $2.90! Bargains of the month!

The Dane has been wanting to do a little something with her hairs. She makes a loverly blonde, but the upkeep is a bane to her existence.

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She needed to do something. Clearly.

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She decided to go brown. Light brown, not a shoe polish dark brown, or heaven forbid, black. We mixed up copious amount of equal parts chestnut and brandy, applied liberally, and plunked her under the dryer for 13 minutes, then cooled her jets for 10.

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Then rinse, rinsing, rinsed all that color off.

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It turned out well, and made her pretty eyes look SO blue!

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A new look for a new year!

Have a wonderful evening and I will talk to you in 2013!

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The Christmas Recap

December 28, 2012 at 7:08 AM (Around Our House, Family Life, Honey, Muggins Q. Mouse, Our Boy, Pretty Things, The Ab-Cat, This and That)

Well, that was fun!

How about a little recap, starting from last week or something. I have lost track of time.

The Boy and The Dane came home from Chicago last Wednesday on the Megabus. They came with heavy suitcases, tired minds and The Boy came with copious amounts of hair.

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We remedied that.

He has since been redecorating the house.

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They are a shy people.

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Overjoyed, but shy.

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I have to tell year that this was my worst year ever for taking pictures. We spent Christmas Eve with my Dad and our Dear Friends The Hostler’s and I have not one shot. Not a single, solitary picture.

We open our presents on Christmas Eve. I have about five pictures of that.

The Ab-Cat was happy with her new iPod!

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The Boy was very happy to receive Bear Paw slippers! He says they are like clouds on your feet. He and Honey are partial to that brand.

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Mousey is hoping that her new memory foam mattress pad will help her sleep like a little lamb.

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But first she had to wrestle it out of the packaging like a ferocious bear!

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The Dane is moving into an apartment when she returns to Moody, so she had many needs of the housekeeping variety. The essentials of a coffee pot, tea kettle, garlic press, ice cream scoop and Sanders hot fudge, along with the nonessentials of wooden spoons, cutting boards, a peeler, and such.

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Honey SURPRISED me!! I LOVE it!!!!!!

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I have no idea how to work it, but I am willing to learn! I have this game worked out pretty well. Whirly Words. Our little obsession these days. First Mousey and I, then The Ab-Cat and I , and now you can find The Dane, The Boy and I all huddled around it. We are dang good I must say.

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Looking forward to playing this in the evenings while Honey and I watch television, and he snoozes on the couch. Mousey and I have to figure out how to get the paid version so there will be no more pesky ads. That in itself will be heavenly.

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On Christmas Day we went up to my Uncle Bob’s and Aunt Phyllis’ for the day. Here are my three pictures from that.

Goomba spent the majority of his day as close to The Boy and The Dane as he could get. The Ab-Cat napped behind them.

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Uncle Bob, Mousey and Honey after dinner.

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And the other side of the room, Grandpa and Robbie with Stacey and Aunt Phyllis behind them and Beeve and Bob’s friend Jerry on the back right. There are many not even represented, they must have already been napping.

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I received a text from my cousin Lindsay when we were more than halfway home that Mousey left her iPod charging in the kitchen. Lucky for us that Lindsay and her fabulous husband Rob E. Bernard were going to be in our area before they drove back home to where ever the heck it is he lives, Indiana, Cincinnati, Kentucky? He lives in one and works in another. While I was waiting for their arrival call, I needed to find something to occupy myself. I occupied Homegoods and Hobby Lobby and picked up some necessities at Meijers. You know, cream, bananas and ice cream, and the like.

I scored at Homegoods though!! Four bottles of chai! Candles for next Christmas for about $3. Four packs! In a most loverly mossy green color that looks swell in our house. The dish cloths and towels were not on clearance, but you know how sometimes you look at what you have and think, WOW, these should be demoted to car washing rags? I had that epiphany. Yes, yes I did.

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The wreath was the winner here, $10.00. I am not certain if it will be a wreath or a table centerpiece with a candle in the middle. I have not tried it yet. At the moment it is happily hanging on the inside of our front door looking all pretty.

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We have had fun, been lazy, played cards, ATE, been lazy, played with the iPad, watched movies, and then were lazy again after we ATE.

Sounds good. We will keep it up. We are very, very good at it.

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Tupped

August 4, 2012 at 7:10 AM (Muggins Q. Mouse, This and That)

Mousey and I have been up to our eyeballs in Tupperware. Literally and figuratively. More on Monday.

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A Saturday List

July 28, 2012 at 7:35 AM (Family Life, From the Heart, Lists, This and That)

1. We got buckets and buckets of RAIN yesterday!!!

2. Kudos to Joyce for succinctly saying what so many feel. I hope people are flooding the Chick-Fil-A’s of America to show they don’t feel the same way. I would go myself but there aren’t any around here. Do you hear that Chick-Fil-A? South east Michigan is a wide open market, we would welcome your bigot self with open arms.

3. My first crops are in.

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4. Girls Week has begun! We had parmesan chicken pizza for dinner and watched Project Runway on the DVR, then caught the opening of the Olympics.

5. What were everyone’s thoughts on that?

6. We thought the James Bond and the Queen part was cute, but the rest of it had me longing for China.

7. To quote Schmenky, good common sense!!

8. Today looms large and empty. The only thing scheduled is this evenings Olympic offering of swimming and gymnastics.

9. And I need to finish vacuuming.

10. Have an Olympic weekend! Olympic really is a strange word.

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All Exclamation, All The Time!

April 23, 2012 at 6:07 AM (Family Life, Friends, Lists, Muggins Q. Mouse, Our Boy, The Ab-Cat, This and That)

Hi Guys. It’s Monday again. Quick turnaround.

How about a list? A few random, unrelated things to start the week out.

1. Capri Patt is back from her winter home, WOO HOO!!!!!!!

2. She came back early for a very special reason. She is going to be a Grandma and her daughter is having a baby shower this weekend!

3. Because of the baby shower, Mrs. Schmenkman is coming to The Mitten, WOO HOO!!!!!!!

4. Sounds like a mini Capri Reunion!!!!!!!

5. I love those Gals!

6. The Boy will be home from Chicago in TWO weeks!

7. I can NOT believe the semester went that fast!

8. The Ab-Cat’s semester is over in two weeks and she starts back where she worked last summer!!

9. Mousey graduates in about six weeks, and it can’t come soon enough for her!!!!!!!

10. The sun is shining!

11. I have to get some fasting blood work drawn this morning at 8 a.m. for my yearly physical later this week.

12. I haven’t had my chai!!

13. I am SO sad about that!!!

14. I need to get to Sam’s, we have no food!

15. Birthday club tonight!

Have a good Monday!

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Little Schnibbles of Stuff

April 10, 2012 at 8:28 AM (Family Life, Honey, Muggins Q. Mouse, This and That, Trips)

Hey Y’all. we are in the south so I can say that. Legitimately.

I just have a bunch of this and that that I feel I need to overshare. To purge from my brain, right into yours.

First off, let’s go back to the flea market for a minute. I saw this picture and it took me back to the days when my dear friend, Suzanne Suzanna Danna, and I were major Beatle Maniacs. Is Beatlemaniac one word or two? Spell check says two, but they can be wrong, I have seen it with my own eyes.

I always liked this particular photo shoot. I pointed it out to Mousey and began my usual oversharing, because if you think I overshare with you, just imagine how I do go on with my People!

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I pointed out my favorite Beatle George’s signature. I realized at precisely that moment that I still, to this very day, make my G’s like this. All because of a great love for George, my favorite Beatle. I still find it odd that Suzie and I hitched our wagons to the Beatles destined to die young.

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At some point in our time here we find it necessary to get some groceries. Because we don’t take a vacation from food. EVER.

We chose some delightful strawberries.

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Some delightful, mutant, giant sized strawberries. Very tasty mutants I might add.

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This is Honey’s …..station. Look at all the papers. It’s what he does.

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Mousey found this in her airplane reading material. We immediately added it to our vocabulary, because it describes us to a T.

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Honey has been with us long enough to have experienced “hanger”. Mousey and I share this gene, while the others in our family do not. You do not want to see it in the light of day OR the dark of night. It is ugly.

So far, Honey has handled the whole hangry situation admirably. We have eaten before it has raised it’s ugly head. So far.

That is all of the mostly unneeded information I have to share with you today. Have a good Tuesday!

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Tuesday Tidbits

April 3, 2012 at 6:25 AM (Confessions, Family Life, Friends, Muggins Q. Mouse, This and That)

Hi Guys.

Today is already a happier day. Mousey is feeling better, I am feeling better for her. Sometimes it’s hard being a Mama and watching your child flail around and all you can do for them is their laundry and pray. A good bit of her homework is due today, so that will be a relief. No more homework/lacrosse/homework sandwich. Thank you Lord for sustaining her!

I have a full day. Keelyody is back from Florida, and you know what that means. We will walk, walk, walk the pounds away, right? Then I get to see Capri Deb and her Mama to get their hairs in order, and then I am meeting Girl Cousins Kay and Joyce for lunch at Red Robin, YUM! That should be very nice indeed!

Gladys here to tell you that work is going well on the house across the street, but I have not seen anyone enter the port-o-potty. They must get in there covertly.

I have a secret that I cannot tell. That’s why it’s called a secret. It doesn’t have anything to do with my family, but it makes me happy. I will tell at the end of May. If I forget, remind me! 

I have another secret that I will tell you on Friday. I KNOW, my hair is FULL of secrets!!!

On the way to lacrosse yesterday, Mousey and I stopped in at a healthy type store to buy some zinc. Because she heard from someone that it is practically a miracle drug or something. I did a little on line sleuthing and determined it is on the up and up, for health, not miracles. Back to the store. As I mentioned, we were on the way to LAX and she did not have her cleats on yet. So she went into the store with no shoes on! I said “Who are you, Britney? “. She took offense and said it wasn’t a gas station bathroom and she had on SOCKS! Oh my giddy aunt! GROSSE.

I have to go dress for my walk. I don’t think Keelyody wants to walk with me in my aqua polka dot jammies.

Have a productive day. They are the best kind.

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Currently…

January 13, 2012 at 8:26 AM (Confessions, Family Life, Honey, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Lists, Meme's, Our Boy, The Ab-Cat, This and That)

I saw this over at Flower Patch Farm Girl’s blog. I am all about a good list, as you well know.

current guilty pleasure: Back in the day, before the dumb computer broke, I played a little game called Jewel Quest. It’s a big time waster, but can I just say I am AWESOME at the Jewel Quest?
current nail color: Sultry by Creative which is almost hilarious! Sultry, snort!!!!

current playlist: I am not quite sure how I got to this point, but I hardly ever listen to anything. Nothing new anyway.

current read: We are doing Crazy Love by Francis Chan in our small group. He is making me think, and clean house in my mind, always a good thing. I also started my annual reading of The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I think winter might finally have arrived up here in The Mitten and I need to remind myself how bad things could be.

current drink: Water or DaVinci sugar free chai. It is my own personal catnip.
current food: The last time I cooked I made Italian Escarole soup. Honey and I like it, but there were no other takers. I had no brown rice so I substituted barley. It was worthy.

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current favorite show: Well, this is tougher since Friday Night Lights no longer graces the airwaves, because y’all know how we all loved us some Dillon, Texas. Go Lions! And heck, Go Panthers!

Honey and I like The Biggest Loser. We find it a good show to snack to. Top Chef and Castle are popular, as is The Big Bang Theory.

current wish list: A new computer to replace the completely broken piece of junk that quit us before Christmas. I love my Net Book, but she has a little bitty screen, is very pokey, and it’s getting old.

current needs: Some iron I’m thinking. I can’t seem to maintain my own.
current triumphs: We are managing pretty well after dropping The Boy off at Moody Bible Institute. In CHICAGO, for goodness sake! It would be a whole lot harder if he weren’t so ecstatically happy to be there!

current bane of my existence: The above mentioned, broken ‘puter.  
current celebrity crush: Ab Cat and I were just discussing the other day that Sam Worthington looked interesting. I wouldn’t call it a crush though.
current indulgence: I have eaten out an inordinate number of times in the past couple of weeks, and had dessert on many occasions. Which is most likely going to bite me in the hiney this afternoon when I get weighed in at the ob/gyn. Can you just call them the gyn? I have no need for the ob anymore. 
current blessing: The flattering black yoga pants I picked up at The Goodwill in Florida last year, see above.
current outfit: My thrift store jammies that remind me of the opening of Lost in Space, the one with all the dots. Sort of like this:

current excitement: Three day weekend!

current mood: I am dreading the above mentioned appointment with The Horse Doctor. I am adding my own, Current dislike: stirrups.

current link: I am going to link over to Flower Patch Farmgirl, whom I do not know, but is an every day read for me. I love her heart and enjoy her way with words. She always has something to say and it is always worth reading.

Thanks Shannen!

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