When you heard about Princess Diana’s death?
Saw it on the news in the middle of the night. Yes, I cried.
When you heard about Lucille Ball’s death?
I was living in Waco with my ex husband. Yes I cried.
When you heard about John Wayne’s death?
I was at my grandparent’s house at Lake Lavon. My grandma cried.
When you heard about Elvis’ death?
At my parent’s house, I had just finished my first embroidery sampler and the date is memorialized on that sampler. My mom cried.
When you heard about Michael Jackson’s death?
I was at the dollar store. It’s a huge loss to the music world. He was a brilliant performer and contributed so much, but strangely enough, I don’t think anyone I know will shed a tear. 20 years ago it would be very different. Sad.
I think Jon and Kate’s divorce affected me more.
June 26th, 2009
Last night the puppies were playing/wrestling/doing their thing, they’re hilarious when they play. Sooo ferocious and LOUD! They constantly play chase through the house, one will grab a toy and take off and the other one will chase him, then they’ll play tug of war and one will pretend to lose interest and grab another toy and it starts over again.
Well..
Last night they were playing and somehow Dash got his lower jaw caught in Ace’s collar and got it twisted. They were both screaming/whining/crying and B grabbed them both and started yelling for me to “get a knife” they’re caught. By then, they’ve scratched B to pieces, Ace isn’t breathing, Dash’s jaw is caught and he’s screaming. I grabbed a knife and put it down again, stuck my hand in the middle of them (B had his fingers under Ace’s collar trying to keep him from getting his windpipe crushed) and finally got the collar undone.
They were both pretty shaken, but probably not as shaken as B and I were.
They’re both okay today and seem to be back to their normal happy selves.
I’m not sure what I’m going to do when we go on vacation. One one hand, I don’t want them to be without their collars, on the other hand I don’t want another episode like that to happen, ever.
btw.. Their collars are just the normal nylon, run of the mill collars, they wear them relatively “tight”, more secure than tight I guess (can’t slip over their heads but loose enough for them to grow a little), it was just some crazy freak accident and it will probably never happen again in a million years, but I’m manic about leaving them! I’ll probably just get them harnesses and never put another collar on them again.
June 19th, 2009
My 2 girls went out to spend the night at my grandparent’s lake house. My dad sold the property a few years ago and remained friends with the lady that bought it.
I’m not sure if they’re more than friends or what, exactly, but she’s a super nice lady and my kids adore her.
My dad asked me, yesterday, if it would be okay for my youngest to go to the Jonas Brothers concert Saturday at the new Cowboy’s Stadium. Duh.
It turns out that this lady’s daughter in law scored some tickets to the show, with parking passes and everything and she offered 2 tickets to my dad.
I’m really excited for her. She LOVES the Jonas Brothers, and as strange as this sounds, my father in law actually knows the Jonas family (they’ve attended the same church for years), and she’s always bugging him to introduce her lol.
My 17 year old is going to her dad’s tonight until July. It’s always a sad time around here when the older girls do their visitation. Something’s just not right around the house until they get back home.
I usually spend the first week painting a room in our house to keep me busy, and I’m hoping to start painting our bedroom this weekend. Any color but pink.. that’s the standing rule around here. (our bedroom is now pink lol).
Ahwell..
Vacation soon!
June 19th, 2009
When I checked my email this morning I noticed I’d received a politically incorrect email and deleted it.
Then the “reply all” button was used by someone else that received it, forcing her politically correct beliefs on the entire recipient list of the original email.
Using the “reply all” button is just as bad as the politically incorrect email I received in the first place.
June 18th, 2009
Movie-9.mov
How cute is that?
He’s a really groovy puppy and thrives on learning new tricks. I’ve always wanted a puppy that could do tricks!
June 16th, 2009
Bubbies? Really? Are these really grown women? If you want to buy them, at least call them by their proper name. C’mon, say it with me, breasts.
Sheesh
June 10th, 2009
Our youngest was accepted into the TAG school!
This has been one of the biggest stress points since moving to our home.
None of our kids have ever attended our “home school” and have always been transferred to a different neighborhood schools, academically transferred to magnet schools and in the case of our oldest daughters – transferred to schools outside our city.
I wasn’t sure what we were going to do this year, as our youngest totally blew the TAKS tests last year and didn’t (really) qualify for the Talented and Gifted academies in Dallas. She applied for the All-Girl’s school and was declined and her second choice was the TAG school our son attends.
She got in. HUGE Sigh of relief.
Way to go kiddo 
This letter gives me 2 years of less stress until High School rolls around.
Praise the Lord!!
May 13th, 2009
Mother’s Day was great. I have an awful ear infection B kept me from having to go to Primacare. He should have been a doctor.
We had breakfast at a new restaurant in Casa Linda, Another Broken Egg Cafe (http://www.anotherbrokenegg.com/index.php). B had the Bananas Foster French toast with a side of blackberry grits, our youngest had kids french toast, our son had a omelette and I had the Southern Crab Stack. Our kids ate everything on their plate, neither B nor I could finish ours, they give you a ton of food and it was so rich and delicious.
B bought me a lovely pink azalea tree, he left my card in the shopping cart (BOO), the kids all gave me sweet cards. It was a nice day.
I’m going to the real doctor today and taking the boy and our middle kid with me. He has to have a physical for Boy Scouts camp and she has a nasty cough. Our youngest is mad because she wants to (a) get out of school and (b) loves the doctor and wants to come with us to visit. Silly child.
My idiot dogs got into a fight this morning. The one that started it got the worst of it.
Going to get my hair done tomorrow YAY. Going with my best friend. I’m really looking forward to it. Maybe I’ll get to finish my book!
Oh.. right now I’m reading the Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child collection, along with their solo works. I think I prefer Douglas Preston’s solo efforts.
Lovin the Volvo.
Gonna list some more stuff on Ebay this week I think.
May 11th, 2009
I bought some sunflowers for my mom for Mother’s Day and delivered them to her today.
May 7th, 2009
Two words – Secret Signals. Stupid concept, stupid game, stupid woman. She deserved to be sacked.
May 7th, 2009
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