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Dreary day...

It has been so dark and rainy and dreary all day that I have just been unmotivated to do anything constructive. I have slept, watched TV, and done a few scrapbook pages. It's perfect scrapbooking weather, but my creative juices just aren't flowing. I have 11 pages (that's actually 22 front and back) left to do and not much time.

I did it!

I totally did it! I knew when I saw this a couple of weeks ago that I would go back and buy it and today was the day! He is so cute. Right now he is in the garage awaiting his turn to be a lawn ornament. He is animated and tips his hat!!

My wish list.....

I keep an ongoing list of books that I want to read. Right now, the only ones on it are new publications. I usually wait until they have been out for awhile, then go to Amazon and buy used copies. I am anxiously waiting for these to show up on a used list so I can afford to buy them:

Culture Warrior: Bill O'Reilly

The Innocent Man: John Grisham

My Father, My President: Dora Bush Koch

Redneck Woman: Gretchen Wilson

Paula Deen Celebrations:Paula Deen

Last frog.....gone, I hope!

For two days I saw one of those little green suckers wedged in a crevice in the siding that is on the inside walls of my patio. I think he thought he was in for the winter, but I thought otherwise. Today, I sprayed him with wasp spray.....nothing happened! So I got the broom to get him out and send him on his merry way. He was very lethargic, which adds to my belief that he was down for the winter!!! I tried to get him over the back fence, but I'm not sure that I got him there.

Still in the will....

I went to Mom and Dad's this morning at 9 to pick up pecans. There were none on the ground, so I guess the wind hasn't blown hard enough since I last picked them up a few days ago. Dad decided I needed to take them to town (that would be Wal-Mart). I was happy to do that except that when I go out in public, I try to look decent. I had on sweats, had not washed my face or combed my hair. He doesn't care about stuff like that and I didn't even mention it. Just went on and took them looking really rough!!! I did not get home until 12:30, so I just took a nap. The rest of the day I have been lazy!

I love winter!!

And I love living in a place that actually has a winter. It's only 200 miles from where I used to live, but the climate is moderately different and I love it. I have not turned on the heat, yet, but I remote controlled the fireplace!!! My grandparents would never believe my fireplace. They chopped wood!!!!Horrors!!!!

A few more years off my life......GONE!

Anyone who knows me knows I am petrified of snakes....even rubber ones. I know it's ridiculous, but I just can't help it. Today my brother and sister-in-law came to help me add another sheet of plywood to the attic floor so I can have some more room for JUNK! When my sister-in-law was looking for something in their truck, she found his rubber snake and threw it on the ground by my feet. That is enough to cause a heart attack on me. I should have never told them that my heart was deemed good after my stress test. He had backed off because he was afraid I would have a heart attack, but now they aren't afraid anymore. I told her that she wasn't always mean like that. She said she had lived with him too long!!!!

Yet another awesome day!!!

Years ago some of my best times were at the state fair held in Shreveport. This is its 100th year, so I ventured over to it this afternoon while parking and entrance was free. The weather was cool and beautiful and I looked at the exhibits and sampled some great fair food.

Staying in the will....

Being the wonderful daughter that I am :), I made from scratch potato soup and cornbread this morning. I ate some and it was so good that I called Mom and told her I was bringing lunch to them. I'm in the will for another day!!!

Science lesson....

Yesterday when I went out to get the paper fairly early, these were abundant on my sidewalk in front of my house.....well, this time it was slugs. All summer I picked up snails every morning off my patio and put them in a paper cup. They were very small snails. I had to do some research to find out the difference in slugs and snails. The basic difference is that snails have a shell on their back and slugs don't. Slugs leave a silvery trail behind them and I saw lots of those trails when the sun shone down on my concrete. Slugs eat plants. I don't know what snails eat. I put out stuff to try to rid myself of the slugs and snails. Today I didn't see any, but it was considerably colder today than yesterday....so I don't know which made the difference.

Soul Food!

My mom cooked the turnip greens that I picked yesterday and some fried corn bread. Now that's some real soul food. She threw in some baked sweet potatoes just to ensure that it was real soul food. Made me want to go watch some BET television for awhile!!!

Samaritan's Purse

I cannot believe how much stuff I managed to pack in one of those Christmas shoeboxes from the church that will be sent to a child somewhere in the world......2 t-shirts, ball cap, car, flashlight, markers, paper, games , lots of candy, toothpaste, tooth brushes, yo-yo. I went to Fred's and spent $26 and almost got it all in there. It was fun. That's what it is all about!!!

Boo!

Cleaning Machine....that's me!

I spent all morning doing the household chores which included washing, mopping, changing the sheets...and even cleaning the baseboards. One would think a new construction wouldn't get so dirty, but it does. I also did some plant trimming outside. While I was watching All My Children, I made brownies. When that was over, I put some brownies in a container that belonged to my sister-in-law and took some to her. I was hoping my brother was in the woods hunting because he could not eat the brownies due to his gluten allergy, but he was there. I felt bad giving her the brownies. She has to cook everything gluten free, so she never gets any good stuff anymore. When I left there. I went to take some brownies to Mom and Dad. Mom was asleep in her room and Dad was asleep in his room, so I cleaned the kitchen, picked the turnip greens, mowed under the pecan trees and picked up the pecans. Damn, I have been busy. I think I'll go rest now!!!

Par-tay!

I was invited to a costume party tonight by some members of the local Mardi Gras krewe. I am not a member of the krewe, but I have been invited to join. I was a judge of the costumes because I didn't know most of the people so I was very impartial and I didn't have to wear a costume. It was so much fun. That is really a fun group of people. The person I rode to the party with was dressed as Mama Cass and she got shitfaced. I had to drive us home. At least, I drove to my home, then another passenger got behind the wheel to take himself home, then the owner of the car was to take herself home. She didn't have far to go and Minden closes up rather early so I hope she got home OK. She is the Queen this year of the Mardi Gras Ball, which is in January. She told me that I would be getting an invitation to sit at one of the Queen's tables at the ball. Wow! I have never been to one of those and it is a formal affair, so I guess I had better start looking for something to wear!!!

Much too lazy.....

Yesterday I never left the house. In fact, I never even raised the garage door. We have had two wonderful days of rain, so I just stayed home and did nothing constructive. Today I have been scrapbooking. We have wind advisories today and the wind is really fierce so I haven't ventured out yet. I'm thinking that I must go find some place to get a haircut. I hate not having my hairdresser. I have already turned down an invitation to go to lunch with the girls today since we didn't go on our usual Thursday. I was just too lazy to get dressed for lunch.

Update: I got a haircut!! Check it out!!! O My Gosh! I got me some spikes. I didn't mean to, but I do.

Long, slow and beautiful!

Don't even go there! It's the much needed rain we have been getting all night and all day. We need it so badly. I have been extremely lazy. It was so dark and dreary this morning that I just slept in. I did manage to get it together enough to go to my mom's for lunch. She cooked the turnip greens that I picked yesterday.

I came back home, put on my flannels and grabbed the remote. As soon as I got all comfy on my bed, a call came that my part for my dishwasher was in....so, I had to wait for the repair man. When he left I did a repeat of my preparation for slothfulness and spent the rest of the day sleeping.......well, except for the 15 minutes when I cooked some cookies....JUST WHAT I NEEDED!

Busy, busy day!

At 10 this morning I had a coffee to go to at my next door neighbor's house. Unfortunately, for me at least, all she had was sweets. I cannot eat sweets that early in the day due to blood sugar issues. Rather than be rude, I ate a couple of small pieces and drank sugared spiced tea. After that social event, I went and found my cousin, who is visiting from Virginia, and we went to lunch. After that she brought her mother down to see my mom and dad. I was at Mom and Dad's picking turnip greens so Mom can cook them tomorrow. After that we all met at a restaurant for dinner, then I took Mom and Dad back to their house and I got home at 7P.M. Long, long day and I am FULL!!!

TA-DA...I got nuthin!

Wait...don't leave yet!