Filed under: my dog ate the obedience instructor
See if you can see the similarity…….
Careful….this next picture could be scary!!!! hee hee!
Happy HOWL-O-WEEN!!!
Filed under: general wonderment
Tomorrow…TOMORROW it will one year since my mom quit smoking!
A WHOLE YEAR!!!
I’ve bugged her to quit my entire life! And she has…several times…but only for a few weeks or so. Then a friend of hers would come over to our house at night and smoke since she didn’t want her family to know that she smoked….and so the cycle continued.
But then…a year and umm…6 weeks ago, my Granny stopped smoking after God Knows how many years and she did it all by herself!!! My mom had said many times before that if Granny quit then she would too. So of course, as soon as I OH MY GOD THERE’S A WASP IN THE HOUSE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
ok….wasp has been terminated….umm….what was I saying?
Oh yeah…so as soon as I heard that Granny had quit smoking, I called up my mom and said “now you have to quit too!!!!!” And her reply was “if Granny doesn’t start smoking again in six weeks, then I’ll quit too.”
Six weeks and a few more days past and I finally called her up again and said “have you quit?” and she said that she hadn’t yet, but was going to on the 31st and I said “Good! That’s Halloween! It will be easy to remember.“
And OMIGOD it’s been a WHOLE YEAR!!!!! (almost)
I just couldn’t contain my happiness and joy until tomorrow so I had to let a little bit spill out today!
She sometimes reads this so……
YAY MOM! Congratulations!!!!!
When I was little, I had all kinds of ways of destroying my mom’s cigarettes. As soon as she would turn her back, I’d put a lit one out, doing my best to crush it without burning myself. Or if I was near a sink, I’d put it under the water. But what I’m most proud of is when I managed to hide an entire carton! I was looking for a pen and came across a whole unopened carton of cigarettes in a drawer. I wasn’t sure if I could successfully get rid of the whole carton, but I knew I had to try (trying to make as big of a deal out of this as I can). My parents have a refrigerator/freezer in the kitchen (as most do) but also a seperate huge freezer in the pantry for…well…frozen stuff. There was a box of popsicles in there that had maybe 3 or 4 popsicles left in it so I decided to go for it. I took the popsicles out of the popsicle box (do you like how many times I’m saying popsicle? popsicle, popsicle, popsicle, popsicle, popsicle!) and wedged the whole carton of cigarettes (didn’t even bother taking them out of the carton!) into the bottom, and miraculously, it was a perfect fit! I took this as a sign from up above that I should continue my cigarette-destroying behavior. Anyway, I put the rest of the….POPSICLES (haha) back into the box to hid the cigarettes and turned the box around to look like it was new and hadn’t been opened yet. I also put some other things in front of the box to hopefully hide it.
Later that night (or maybe it was the next night) I sat and watched as my mom took everything out of her purse, and went through every drawer in the kitchen….trying to look all innocent. I was successful because when she asked if I had seen them and I said “No.” she believed me.
SUCKER!!! Hee hee!!!!
Fast forward about 10-11 years and I’ve moved away and am married and I’m talking to my mom on the phone and I happen to remember the cigarettes in the freezer. I start joking about it and there’s just silence on the other end of the line.
So I had to recount this whole story to her, and she didn’t believe me. So I told her to go look for herself. Which she did. And I waited. Patiently.
Needless to say, she was happy that she wasn’t going crazy like she thought she was all those years ago!
I told her she needed to clean out her freezer more often!
Filed under: Weekly-ish Things
This week, Kristine has graced us with an even easier SPF than last week, which I am ashamed to admit, I did not do.
So here it is 
1.) Your pot holders….okay, I have one. The other ones are like I’m not using pot holders at all after about 2 nanoseconds of holding something hot, so I don’t count those as “pot holders”….they’re more like….mittens….with gunk on them because well….I’m lazy. So, because of that laziness, I’m not going to try to come up with anything else clever about the pot holders…I’m just gonna post the picture.
2.) Your pumpkins. Okay….I had a naughty idea about this one, but instead, I’ll stick with literal and show you my pumpkins. (hee hee….still sounds dirty)
and btw…that is my kitty next to the carved one….I just noticed that
3.) Something pink. I had to search my house for something pink. I am not all that girlie. When I was growing up (and even now) some of my friends were (or are) “pink crazy”….which I never understood. Take the friend this is for, for example….
She went absolutely Little Mermaid CRAZY when that movie first came out. I don’t even want to think about how many times she’s seen that. (don’t worry, she’s not still all LM batty!) and no, I won’t tell you what’s in the bag…..it’s for her birthday and she sometimes reads this! It was just the only pink thing I had! And I won’t even have it for long since we’re going over to their house tonight (and God willing that I don’t forget it, which is entirely possible) it won’t be here tomorrow!
So there you have it! Did you play?!
Filed under: electronics are out to get me, it was all his fault, vacuum cleaner kitties, whineyness
I. am. such. a. dumbass.
I don’t know how I did it, but I ended up deleting about 40 recipes from my computer between the last time I worked on the cookbook and 3 days ago. And for most of that time, my computer was unplugged and sitting in a corner all by itself.
The computer gods are angry with me.
*sniff*
I don’t wanna type all the recipes in again.
At first I thought it was only about 20 or so, but then I realized that it was more like 40.
FOURTY!
Fourty long recipes that I had to reword, figure out, format, decifer, blah blah blah….GONE. And the backup? Ohhh don’t even ask me about my back up. My dumbass saved the wrong dang thing.
Ugg.
Mmmm….Ugg boots….I’m feeling better already.
I am very happy to have my office back though. After almost 2 months of having it in disarray. The funny thing is (not funny haha) that if this were my husband’s office (still haven’t come up with a good “blogname” for him yet) his office would have been done in 2 weekends TOPS. OOoooooh….but when there’s stuff to do in HERE that I can’t do (i.e. electrical stuff…I have too much frizz in my hair to begin with) he’s all on the couch going “I’ll do it tomorrow”. Do you KNOW how many times I had to hear that knowing that there was nothing I could do about it? I just said “just wait until we do your office and you ask me to touch up the walls or something.” You can be my behind is going to be on the couch all “Ooooh…..tomorroooooooowwwww”.
So my office is put back together (with my lovely shiney new floors) and my cat highjacks my chair! But of course, she looks so darn cute, I just can’t bring myself to make her get up. Well….that was 2 days ago. And she’s not sitting in it now. I am. hehe…
Let’s see…must find more things to do so I can put off re-entering recipes……….
stupid computer…
