Friday, December 30, 2005

I've been tagged!

April at www.aproka.blogspot.com tagged me with this so I am going to give it a shot!

I am suppose to list 5 weird things about myself and then "tag" 5 other people to do the same. And then post on their blog that they have been "tagged".....Ok clear on the rules? Let's begin! *G*

1. I can't watch one TV show at a time. I must have ADD when it comes to TV....I rarely watch commercials because I am flitting from one program to another...I blame the invention of the remote control!

2. I can't get through the day without making lists. Lists for things I need to do at work....at home....wherever! I have a short memory sometimes, but I think I just like the satisfaction of marking through a completed task

3. I have always wanted to take a hot air balloon ride...."that's not weird" you say..and you'd be right except that I am scared of heights!

4. I am also terrifed of bridges and parking garages! I don't know what it is but they creep me out! I am always afraid that they will come crashing down!

5. I have a very large family but no full blooded siblings. I have 4 -step brothers, 1- 1/2 brother and 1 -1/2 sister. And I've never met my biological father as far as I can remember.


OK, so I tag Lisa, Amy, Crystal,Darla and Sheri

You've been waiting all day for this post haven't you?

Go ahead admit it! You know you want to know what my surprise was don't you? *G*

Well as you know yesterday was my birthday (I'm not ashamed to tell you I am 36) It didn't start off that great....hubby was being....well let's just say he can be a ray of sunshine sometimes...and then sometimes.....GRRRR! Anyway, so I get to work and a few people call to tell my Happy Birthday....things are looking up....I get through work and head home to shower and get ready for the festivities! Usually I am the one who plans surprises and handles all the arrangements for just about everything any of us EVER do...(Must be that first born thing!) So I am VERY excited!

I am sort of hoping that they take me to a restaraunt and all my family and friends will be there to celebrate all things me....but that did not happen! *G* I am told that we are going to the restaraunt of my choosing and then I will be blindfolded and led to my final surprise. Sounds fun so far! I am also told we will be traveling to Charlotte....a good 45 mins. from my home....this gives me a clue as to where we are going but I don't say anything...they have worked very hard to keep this secret....

Ok so after a little searching we decide that we'll eat at Lonestar Steakhouse. Dinner was nice....my drink was VERY strong! and they sang to me! I just love that stuff! I know it's cheesy but again I like the attention! *L* #1 SIL gave me a CD and a cute card...MIL gave me a GC to Belk...and Stepmom paid for surprise....so it's turning into a fine evening!

Once we get into the parking lot the adventure begins...out comes the scarf and for the next 10 minutes all I can do is hope that they make it to the destination without my constant help as the backseat driver! *LOL* I am a terrible passenger! MUST DRIVE ALL THE TIME! Once we get into the parking lot I am helped out of the car and told to hold on to #1 SIL's hand....they lead me through parking lot....down 2 flights of stairs....and around several curves. All the while people must be looking at us like we are INSANE! The girls tell them it's a birthday gift and most played along.....one guy told me I would need lots of $1 bills where I was going....another lady said that they were just torturing me! *G* #1 SIL was trying to give me clues to make me think I was going ice-skating! Now I must tell you I am a big girl (Volumptous some might say! *L*) I told them that I didn't realize we were doing Hippos on Ice but I was game for anything! (I had decided that no matter what they might have come up with I was going to love it!) When they finally told me to take off the scarf I was so excited! I didn't know where I was but I was excited! *L* Finally I turned around and saw the Marquee...................


We were going to see the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes in their Christmas Spectacular! I was loving it! I love all things theatre and I have never seen the rockettes live so I knew this was going to be a hoot! We found our seats and settled in for a wonderful performance! The ladies were great and the program was cute! The finale was a live nativity with camels, peeing sheep and a donkey! What could be better than that I ask you? *LOL*

So now I have a whole year to wait to get spoiled again! Darn it! I could get used to being the center of attention! *LOL*

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Antici........

pation! Remember that from "Rocky Horror Picture Show"?



Well it suits me today. Some of my friends have planned a suprise outing for me for my birthday and I am really starting to get excited!

Hope to have many fun-filled tales for you guys later on......

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Hit me Baby!!

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In case this actually works.....
Please click on this link and help me pay for my cruise next year! *G*

Sunday, December 25, 2005

Merry Christmas Eve!!!

I just returned from dinner with my dad's side of the family. 4 of the 5 brothers were present and accounted for...along with their wives and children. Also present were stepmom's brother and his wife. 20 in all! Excited kids, excited grandparents.....what could be better? *G*

I love Christmas! I love being packed in a house surrounded by squealing kids and watching my dad light up as he looks around at his large family. He and I are more alike than I think even he knows!

I always try to find gifts for he and stepmom of things they have mentioned wanting recently....only Dad hasn't "wanted" anything. So this year my brother and I went in together and bought him something I knew he would find just too much fun....We bought him a talking deer! If you have ever been in Walmart....and who hasn't? *L* I am sure you have seen them in the hunting/fishing area. Anyway, this thing sings songs like "On the Road Again" "Suspicious Minds" and "Friends in Low Places" True Redneck comedy I'm telling you!! But the best feature in my mind and I knew it would be the thing that my dad would love.....it came with a remote control and microphone....which meant that dad could prank the rest of the family as they came in! We got there early and had him unwrap it so we could get it up on the wall before most of the family got there. He laughed as he opened it and stepmom told him that we bought him a deer since he couldn't seem to kill one himself! *L* He had a blast all night long! When someone new came in he would hide in another room and ask the kids questions or try to scare my brothers. He was in his element. I love making people smile like that! I must have gotten my weird sense of humor from him!


The kids were just about beside themselves and begged us to open presents before we ate. Stepmom told the kids to open theirs and the adults would wait until after we ate. Usually she give the adults something small to open and then she gives us money. She had already warned me I would not be getting money because she knows I like to unwrap presents and besides she "had bought me something really cool"! *L* Well how could I not be excited?!? I was in the kitchen fixing my plate when a niece came in caring presents to me and my SIL....we of course were expected to stop what we were doing and open them right there! Now I knew that all the "girls" were getting pajamas and I knew mine were probably Eeyore PJ's since I love all things Eeyore. I was right! We all got 5X7 pics of Dad & stepmom as well. I also got the cutest Eeyore shirt and one of the most thoughtful things.....my stepmom remembered me saying that I would love to have a copy of "Tapestry" by Carol King....she had looked for it for months with no luck.....it seems she couldn't remember who the singer was...but my dad did and so she had that in the box as well.....but the best thing of all was when she called me into the livingroom and told me to open one more....the box had my name and "Birthday" underneath...(My B-day is the 28th) Stepmom NEVER gives me my B-day gift early...she knows I like the gifts on my B-day if at all possible.....anyway, She says that since she has come up with something new for my B-day and since I didn't get money like everyone else I got a special present!! OH BOY!! She gets her camera ready before I can open it.....ooohhhh it must be good!! I tear open the paper.....get help opening the box and look inside at a trash bag! *G* And then I grabbed the bag.....I feel something soft and start squealing like a 6 yr old! My stepmom had bought me something so cool....so not like her.....so silly that I was speechless!










She had bought me this HUGE talking Eeyore!!!




He is quite possibly the coolest thing EVER! We had seen them when we were at Walmart a few weeks ago. I told her that when Sugarbritches, Stepmonster and I were there before I had seen it and almost jokingly told them that I wanted one! It was over $30 though and I thought that was sort of pricey for a stuffed animal. I proceeded to squeeze him a few times and let her hear him say things like "You're an awful good hugger" & "I sure could use a hug from you right now" I smiled and told her that she should tell SB to buy it for me......never thought I would actually get it! I LOVE CHRISTMAS! *LOL*

We stayed until after 8:30 but I had to get SB home....Bless him! He has been sick for a few days and he was feeling horrible! It didn't help that they have a cat and he is allergic to cats! He came home got in his PJ's and laughed as I curled up on the couch w/ Eeyore and watched Christmas Cartoons like a kid! He really shouldn't laugh....I was changing channels when I happened on "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (cartoon version) and he told me to stop! "This is a good one!" I hope we never grow up! *LOL*

May you all have child-like enthusiasm this Christmas! And may you all get things that are truly unexpected but exactly what you wanted!

Monday, December 19, 2005

Got this from another BLOG...hope you enjoy!

New Rule: Stop giving me that pop-up ad for Classmates.com! There's a reason you don't talk to people for 25 years. Because you don't particularly like them! Besides, I already know what the captain of the football team is doing these days: mowing my lawn.

New Rule: Don't eat anything that's served to you out a window unless you're a seagull. People are acting all shocked that a human finger was found in a bowl of Wendy's chili. Hey, it cost less than a dollar. What did you expect it to contain? Trout? Luckily, it was only a finger! If it was a whole hand, Congress would have voted to keep it alive.

New Rule: Ladies, leave your eyebrows alone. Here's how much men care about your eyebrows: do you have two of them? Okay, we're done.

New Rule: There's no such thing as flavored water. There's a whole aisle of this crap at the supermarket: water, but without that watery taste. Sorry, but flavored water is called a soft drink. You want flavored water? Pour some bourbon over ice and let it melt. There's your flavored water.

New Rule: Stop messing with old people. Target is introducing a redesigned pill bottle that's square, with a bigger label. And the top is now the bottom. And by the time grandpa figures out how to open it, his ass will be in the morgue. Congratulations, Target, you just solved the Social Security crisis.

New Rule: The more complicated the Starbucks order, the bigger the a$$hole. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a "decaf grande half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, ginger bread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n'-Low and one NutraSweet," ooh, you're a huge a$$hole.

New Rule: I'm not the cashier! By the time I look up from sliding my card, entering my PIN number, pressing "Enter," verifying the amount, deciding, no, I don't want cash back, and pressing "Enter" again, the kid who is supposed to be ringing me up is standing there eating my Almond Joy. Paper, plastic? I don't have time for that. I've just been called to do a cleanup on Aisle Nine!

New Rule: Just because your tattoo has Chinese characters in it doesn't make you spiritual. It's right above the crack of your a$$ and it translates to "beef with broccoli." The last time you did anything spiritual, you were praying to God you weren't pregnant. You're not spiritual. You're just high.

New Rule: Competitive eating isn't a sport. It's one of the seven deadly sins. ESPN recently televised the US Open of Competitive Eating, because watching those athletes at the poker table was just too damned exciting. What's next, competitive farting? Oh wait. They're already doing that. It's called "The Howard Stern Show."

New Rule: I don't need a bigger mega M&M. If I'm extra hungry for M&Ms, I'll go nuts and eat two.

New Rule: If you're going to insist on making movies based on crappy, old television shows, then you have to give everyone in the Cineplex a remote so we can see what's playing on the other screens. Let's remember the reason something was a television show in the first place is the idea wasn't good enough to be a movie.

New Rule: No more gift registries. You know, it used to be just for weddings. Now it's for babies and new homes and graduations from rehab. Picking out the stuff you want and having other people buy it for you isn't gift giving, it's the upscale version of looting.

New Rule: When I ask how old your toddler is, I don't need to know in months. "27 Months." "He's two," will do just fine. He's not a cheese. And I didn't care in the first place.

Friday, December 16, 2005

S is for......

SICK - which is what I have been off and on all week! I have had an annoying sore throat and headache. You know the kind....just enough to aggravate you but not enough to make you stay home and actually rest and get well!

STRESS - last weekend was very stressful for me. I am not sure I have fully recovered! My dad and brother went hunting last weekend with my uncles and a few friends. Well Saturday evening around 7pm I get a call..

Stepmom- "You may want to meet SIL and I at her house....we are going to the hospital"...pause....
Me: "Why...who has had to go to the hospital"
Stepmom - "Your brother fell out of a tree and you know your dad... when he went to help I guess he was nervous and he flipped the 4-wheeler over on him"
Me: "I'm on my way!"

Now I should say that I took this to mean that my brother had fallen out of his tree stand and that my dad in a mad rush to help his son accidently ran over him....or flipped the 4-wheeler on top of him! And this is what I told my mother as I am racing down the road to SIL's house. I also call stepmonster and ask her to cut her date short and come home so she can field any calls that come to the house. (This will be another S shortly!) I then call my other SIL and ask her to pray for their safety and my dad's mental health because I know dad would be freaking out if he hurt my brother.... even if it was an accident!

OK so we rush to hospital in Wilkes County (I am still not sure how we found it!) and on our way Stepmom tells me the story again....Brother was climbing "home-made" ladder to get to deer stand and fell off top rung....landed on his neck and shoulder.....Dad did race over to him but did not run over him....once brother was in ambulance Dad tried to turn his 4-wheeler around and the throttle got stuck causing him to run up a bank and flip the 4-wheeler on himself! Thankfully ambulance hadn't left yet and they helped uncles get Dad up and to the hospital.

Another thing I should tell you, is that on that side of the family we don't cut our finger without everyone in the family rushing to our aid. Which is a good thing in a way...but I am sure annoys hospital personnel to see 50 family members sitting in a waiting room.....OK maybe not 50 but I know there were at least 10 there and more we had to tell to stay home. Anyway, once I get to the hospital and see that Dad is in a cast (broken wrist) and has a nasty place on his leg (His gun was in his POCKET!!!) I go check on Brother. He is waiting on further X-rays but at that point we know he has cracked his T-4 vertebrae and has not broken his shoulder! 2 hours later they X-ray his foot because it had started to swell and he had fractured that as well! Fortunately there was no damage to his neck, brain or other vital organs and although they will both be sore for 6-8 weeks the Dr's think they will be fine! THANK GOD!

SELFISH - this another "S" I had to deal with.....well that I consistantly deal with concerning stepmonster. Remember earlier when I asked her to cut her date short and come home to field calls....well that was close to 7pm....at 9:30pm I call home to give her an update. NO ANSWER at home....I call her cell phone....

ME: "Hey, where are you?"
Stepmonster: "Not quite home"
ME: ??????????????? "Didn't I ask you to go home early? Why aren't you home?"
Stepmonster: "Where is your car? I thought you were going to hospital with stepmom?"
OK how did she know my car wasn't home unless she was there? OH because her SORRY SELF WAS NEXT DOOR WITH THE NEIGHBOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ME: so upset I can hardly speak..."BYE"

Does she ask how anyone is? NOPE!! Does she care? DOUBT IT!!


I know that part of the reason I was so upset with her had to do with the stress of the evening but how could she NOT just come home during a family emergency? I have hardly talked to her and I told her dad he was going to have to do something...anything with her! Not sure when he's going to do it but I just can't even look at her the same anymore. I mean I have known that she doesn't seem to care about anyone but herself(well that's not true....she does have her head up the neighbor's A$$ quite a bit so I guess she does care about him!) but she had just been giving us more and more attitude, not being involved with the family at all, just a whole list of things that are leading up to a major blow-up. I have jokingly said that I can't wait for her to move out for awhile, but now I am very serious! Call me a bad parent....call me selfish....I just don't know what else to do.

Monday, December 05, 2005

Dashing All the Weigh

Cute play on words huh? *L* The Y is offering a 6 week free membership to anyone who is interested in losing weight over the holidays. I signed up Sat. Now, I am already a member but if I can maintain or lose weight over the next 6 weeks then I could win some "Fabulous Prizes!" So I can't believe I am saying this but.....


.... after church today I went to lunch with my family and then....are you ready for this?......I VOLUNTARILY went to the Y and worked out for an HOUR! I know I was shocked myself!

I have been working on the little plan my trainer set up and as of Friday I had lost 6 lbs. No great amount I know but the fact that I am still going to the gym is a great accomplishment! *LOL* Just to give you an idea of my routine of torture...let me tell you what I did today.

First....30 minutes on treadmill at 2.8 mph...again not lightening speed but I am getting there!

Then it's grab the old clipboard and chart and hit the weights...this is actually my favorite part of working out...I can only get through the boring walk by reminded myself of what I "get" to do afterwards...

"Back Press" (not all descriptions will have their "technical" names) 3 reps of 20 at 125lbs
Lat Roll - 3 reps of 15 at 25lbs
Tricep Press - 3 reps of 20 at 30lbs
Vertical Bench Press - 3 reps of 10 at 35lbs
Abdominal - 3 reps of 20 at 75lbs
Torso Rotary - 3 reps of 20 at 30lbs
Shoulder Press - 3 reps of 10 at 25lbs
Arm Curls - OK don't laugh but for some reason I can only do the bar (10lbs)...I do 3 reps of 10 on this one

I have slowly added weight and reps to all of these except that darn Arm Curl! I just can't seem to do any better on that one! I think I may have Carpel Tunnel Syndrome....yeah that's it....it couldn't be that I am a weakling or anything....must be CPS! *G*

After that work out I came home took a hot shower and crashed! I know alot of people say they have tons of energy after working out...not me....I just want to jump in a HOT shower and relax the rest of the day! *LOL*

Ya'll stay tuned to see how long I can keep this up! And if I win a "Fabulous Prize" Ya'll will be the first to know!