Tuesday, December 30, 2008

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009

I want to wish you a Happy New Year!

Have Fun and be SAFE and

Don't forget to eat your Black-eyed Peas

2009

Weight Loss

Lets see this is Tuesday morning about 6:30 and we are going out New Years Eve probably around 8:30. That gives me what ? 38 hours to lose 20 or so pounds. It's still early I think I can do it, if I could just put my mind to it and I'm going to drink alot of water too.

If for some reason the pounds don't melt off today and/or tonite, well then I do have till March, that's our 25 anniversary, then we will have a college graduation in May, I could strive for one of those. Better yet we are going to have a wedding in June, and if I haven't lost it by then, the mother of the groom might be sitting in the baby nursery watching it on the TV (not really).

Why can't Ice Cream and chocolate syrup be good for you and not be so jiggly on you, why can't it be firming for you and your thighs/hips/stomach/arms.

I guess I could put myself on a strict schedule of doing the Nordic track every stinkin day a least till June and then its on baby I am not dieting or exercising the day of the wedding and that's it (kinda made it sound like I've already been doin it for awhile LOL)

If you have any weight loss tips that you would like to share, that are just shy of a miracle PLEASE let me know Until then I will upstairs dusting the Nordic Track and getting all the clothes that are hanging on it.

Wish me luck and Pray for me and my extra pounds I'll let you know tomorrow if I lost all 20 pounds overnight

Update: its not looking good its been all of 5 hours and I am starving

Monday, December 29, 2008

Party on Old Man

The husband has officially turn "THE BIG FIVE-O"

The lying, I don't even know what all I told, was exhausting. The sneaking around and making calls and buying decorations and lying about where I had been. Lord!
I bought/ordered every thing for the party and took it over to a friends house (except for the balloons and Amy picked them up Saturday) Melanie and Amy went to the bar (yes we had it at a bar) early and did all the decorating for me THANKS GIRLS!!

Saturday was nerve wracking to say the least. First off I'm not real good at keeping a secret, its not that I tell, but my expressions give it away.

So my oldest son and his girlfriend, and the husband and I were going to go to a hunting store (his idea not mine ) and then out to eat, then show up at a specific time for the SURPRISE! Well we got done eating a little early so the lies had to continue, first it was we needed something from Tar-jey, they didn't have it so off to wally world. By then I think he was getting a little aggravated with the both of us (Oh well, sucks to be him) finally it was time to head to the bar.

We walked in and Melanie scared the crap out me screaming SURPRISE. But he was surprised and shocked at all the people that was there. ( and there was alot ) People from work, people he went to school with (long time ago), guys he hunts with and a lot of really close friends.

We partied and danced and visited all night , well till the bar closed down. That seemed like all night to me.

Happy Birthday!! The party was a huge success and now its off to start planning a wedding! Well first we gotta make it thru New Years. WooHoo!

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

I just want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Enjoy your friends and family and for heaven sake BE NICE just try it for this one stinkin day. You know who you are "LADY AT WAL-MART"!

Have a Great Day you Deserve it!

Monday, December 22, 2008

CHOO-CHOO

this is the finished product


large pretzel stick for the logs


crushed up Oreos for coal



The Engine with cotton candy for the smoke

The choo- choo train made it !!! JRs' 3rd birthday has come and gone and I doubt he will always remember his cake from his 3rd birthday, but it was fun, challenging, and to me a success.





No I won't say it was easy but truthfully it wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be.





I was going to start on Friday morning baking all the cakes and have them ready to ice Saturday. Until I realized that I had bought the wrong sugar (what was I thinking) so off to the store and baking that night till 11 pm.

Not knowing exactly what to expect out of the cake or myself I got up really early (5:40 am) to get started and it went a little easier than i thought heck I even had time for a shower before the party (lucky for the party goers HUH?) and makeup.

Saturday started off with about five recipes of icing and then the fun began. I did all but the very bottom so I could transfer them to a board that the Mom had at the party place. When we got to the party I finished the bottom and placed the cargo for the 2nd and 3rd cars, crushed oreos for coal and pretzel sticks for logs.

This is not something I do all the time actually this was MY FIRST
It was something I had always wanted to do and now I can say that I have done it and move on to the next thing on my list.

I wish everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR

I am off to start planning the next party
A 50th for the husband
(no cake)
just good friends and a good time











Monday, December 15, 2008

Brrrrr

Here we go again! It is not a good sign when the temperature drops 50 degrees in just a few hours. When there is sleet hitting the windows, you kinda wonder, what the crap. The weatherman talk like not a big deal, hardly any precipitation, which I guess this is not alot compared to last year. Heck this ain't nothin, compared to last year.

But it is enough to keep my sorry butt home from work. Husband said he would take me in today (he doesn't want to pay the deductible on my insurance again) but he worked all nite and lets just say I don't trust him when he hasn't had any sleep for 24 hours.

Don't get me wrong I don't mind staying home today, but I feel like I have to be quiet cause he's sleeping. I mean not that I was planning on running the vacuum, or dryer or really anything else productive I WAS planning on going to work.
But I haven't had real good luck on dry pavement let alone a little ice, so I guess I will just stay here.

I did talk to one of the guys at work and yes he made it ( I think guys just like to drive in this crap) but he also told me that one of the other guys flipped his truck at the entrance. Bad Deal! So for Me and my FELLOW DRIVERS SAFETY
I will be at home doing what I do best, reading or playing on the computer. (maybe a power nap squeezed in)

FYI: be watching for birthday stuff next week I'm making a choo choo train cake HOLY MOLY (don't worry amber it'll be soooo cute)
Then the next week is Husbands 50th birthday party WooHoo! (ooh I'm going to be married to an old man) Ha Ha

Sunday, December 7, 2008

whats the deal

sorry guys this thing keeps giving me an ERROR message

INJURED PRIDE

Well, where do I start? First we went to a pizza place to eat before the skating party and the pop tasted like dirt (that town has got some BAD water) then Mels was going to sprinkle pepper flakes on her pizza and the lid was unscrewed. Pepper flakes everywhere. I looked at her and said "I sure hope this is not a indication of what the day brings" Famous last words!!

We all got to the party and rushed right over to get our skates (1st mistake)

I should have known when I stood up and the arms immediately went out (2nd mistake)
I made it 1 lap, heart pounding, legs shaking and the fear had set in. They have a small kiddy rink in the back, so some of us went there, you know to get our feet under us. Well that worked for some but not all. Amber had her little boy that had never skated, and she wanted to take her skates off so she could help him. She asked me to hold his hands while she took off her skates ( I am sure she is counting that as one of her mistakes) and the rest is history.
Only a small amount of blood from the left elbow and water on one knee, and one totally crushed Pride. Yes the boy is OK. (At least physically) Nobody else was injured in what seemed like a 3 minute fall. At first i thought it was just my knee, then my elbow was hurting so I looked at it and low and behold there was blood on my jacket (not a lot).

So a lesson learned ROLLER SKATING IS NOT LIKE RIDING A BIKE!!

I will be OK most likely really sore tomorrow but OK

Oh and to top all of that I look up and who do I see but one of the guys from work. LOVELY

Amber I promise I will never skate around your son, and jepordize his life again.

Keep your feet on the ground!

Maybe pictures later I gotta go put ice on my knee
Happy Birthday Lexi!!!

add on: mels did good skating on the rink, but sitting at the table got her, right down between two benches and she didn't even have her skates on.

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Roller Skating

How old do you have to be before your to old to roller skate?
That is the question of the day!!!

Well, we might have an answer, just depends on how sore our muscles are Monday morning. Because Mels Neice is having a roller skating birthday party Sunday afternoon. Please pray for me and anyone who is close by and happens to get caught up in my fall(s).

Mels and I, although we didn't know each other in our youth, both skated. When I say youth i mean a long, long time ago. Remember how old I am, and Mels is the same age. I haven't skated since I was about 13 or 14 and I am scared. And I'll say it again I AM SCARED. Not of skating, I'm scared of falling.
I want to skate and I thought it would be "just like riding a bike" until yesterday. That's when it all change for me. When Mels decides she needs to practice before we go to the rink. Cheater. That's so not fair. Anyway, she still has her own personal skates from her youth and puts them on and proceeds to skate around her house. There goes the "riding a bike therory". ( if i'd only had a camera). Not really she was alittle wobbly at first but, now she will have her feet under her while the rest of us (mainly me) won't. She did say It wasn't as easy as she thought. Great!!

So Sunday afternoon I will update the Skating experience, hopefully with a few photos, unless I spend the evening in the ER. Just kidding!

I wonder how many calories skating will burn up? Idon't think its enough.

Monday, December 1, 2008

back to work

It 's Monday, no its Wednesday,I started this on Monday. Vacation is over and it's back to work for me. Blah! Not really , it's not THAT bad. After having a week off it's just hard to get up at 4:15 AM and be excited about it. But on the bright side I have all my Christmas shopping DONE DONE DONE. Thanksgiving is over and Christmas dinner will not be complicated. I am thinking about Mexican or Italian or chili, anything but Turkey and Dressing. UGH! I wonder if there are any restaurants open on Christmas. I doubt it .

One Christmas we went snow skiing and had to eat Christmas dinner in a truck stop. yummmmy. no truck stop this year but maybe a movie. I seen where Marley and Me opens on the 25th ?

spent the day with the youngest son on Sunday. Had a blast! Went to eat Mexican and went to see Four Christmas's (soooo Funny) ( alot true ) then we did his Christmas shopping well what he wanted me to buy him(we went to pier 1 twice). And I bought all of his gifts and now he will get nothing on Christmas day because he kept them . But it was all fun all day. I love that kid.

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