Too Honest?

Pin It Now! Just read the following ad on our local Craigslist in the freebie section:

"Pair of tickets to the midnight showing free to good home. Bought them for my girlfriend who loves Twilight, but just found out shes been cheating on me, so I am moving on. Want them out of my sight since I HATE Twilight. Don't bother emailing, just call my phone. Won't be near my computer." 

With as popular as that movie series is, I'm certain he won't have a problem getting rid of the tickets and can spend his doing whatever it is boys do when they're sad.

Well Said

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2 Years Down, Forever to Go...

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 Our love is unconditional, we knew it from the start.
I see it in your eyes, you can feel it from my heart.
From here on after let's stay the way we are right now,
And share all the love and laughter
That a lifetime will allow.

 

 I cross my heart and promise to
Give all I've got to give to make all your dreams come true.
In all the world you'll never find a love as true as mine.

 

You will always be the miracle that makes my life complete,
And as long as there's a breath in me, I'll make yours just as sweet.
As we look into the future, it's as far as we can see,
So let's make each tomorrow be the best that it can be. 

 

 

 

I cross my heart and promise to
Give all I've got to give to make all your dreams come true.
In all the world you'll never find a love as true as mine.

 

And if along the way we find a day it starts to storm,
You've got the promise of my love to keep you warm.
In all the world you'll never find a love as true as mine,
A love as true as mine. 

 

 

Michael & Marie-Etta

June 21, 2008

Happy Father's Day!

Pin It Now! Happy Father's day to all the dads in the world, including.....

My dad....

My grandpa.....

My father-in-law.....

And, of course, the best doggy-daddy ever, the hubs!

Help!

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I'm trapped under a stack of books!

All right, not really, but sometimes it feels like it.  I've been spending a lot of time reading my anatomy book and working on English essays.  One of these days I'll get ahead in my English class so that I can talk about interesting things on my blog again.

Things like....

Taking my crazy dog to the groomer to get her nails trimmed.

Yesterday, the hubs and I realize the dogs need their nails trimmed, so he grabs Re-Pete.  He growls a lot, but allows us to trim his nails and goes on his way.  Wally hops into Mike's lap and gives us zero problems.

And then there's Penelope, the princess.

Three things happen.

1 -- Michael holds Penelope, who immediately starts trying to shake free.

2 -- I hold up the nail clippers

3 -- Penelope fuh-reaks!  I mean she cried like we were cutting off her legs.

We opted that any further attempts to cut her nails would be done by a professional.

Which is where we went today.

We drove to the north part of town to a big box pet supply chain that has a team of groomers at the back of the store.  We walk in and I am braced for the worst [her biting the groomer].  Since Penelope has a tendency to snag her nails, I opted to have them grind her nails rather than just cut them. 

Penelope didn't want this girl picking her up.  I was a little embarrassed and genuinely afraid for what was about to happen.

Fortunately, it wasn't as bad as I thought.

The 'oh-my-goodness-you're-trying-to-kill-me' cries only lasted for a few seconds.  She didn't take her eyes off of me the entire time she was getting her nails done.  I guess she wanted to make sure I wasn't running away and leaving her there to be further tortured.  She was even nice enough to give the groomer a kiss on the chin when her nails were finished.

I really wanted to have them painted, but I figured for the first trip, having them shortened was enough.  Next time, though...

Anyway, so since we were at a big box pet supply chain, I decided to buy Penelope something nice for being such a good little girl.  She ended up with a Busy Bone.  They come in packs of four, so the boys got one, too.  They were quiet and well-behaved for a good 30-45 minutes.  Peace and quiet!

I'm Being Followed

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I've been on this planet for 24 years, 17 of which I have spent in school.

I spent 13 years in the school district of a small, rural town and 4 at the largest university in Missouri.  Now I am going to a community college in the hopes of becoming a nurse.

Every time I've been to the school, I've heard a noise that haunts me.  A noise you hear from way down the hall.  You know what's coming before it even arrives.

The backpack on wheels.

I don't know why, but I've only ever seen them at community colleges.  Their wheels make this terrible, ear-piercing noise.  What's strange is that these bags always look so empty and the driver is always carrying a bunch of stuff in their arms?  What's the point?

Now that I see them at school, I'm seeing them other places.  I was recently browsing the website of my favorite Swedish home furnishings store [the one that rhymes with 'Schm-ikea'] and was greeted by this little gem:

What the heck?  What is going on in the world?.

And look at the name -- 'Upptaka' -- more like 'attacker' to me.  I'm worried someone's going to run over my flip-flop clad toes!

Guess Who?

Pin It Now! Guess who messed up while attempting to make tea last night? [the tea bag busted while in the water]

Guess who planted a bunch of flowers for her porches?

Guess who has had way more than the recommended water intake for one day?

Guess who went back to college today?

Guess who will very likely be skinning a cat for Anatomy & Physiology by the end of summer?

Guess whose coffee table is covered by a mountain of clean, folded laundry?

Have you figured it out yet?

Barbara Walters?

The Pope?

Sandra Bullock?

Nope, just me!

TGIF

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Smile!  It's the weekend!

April 2004 -- Senior Prom

What I've Been Up To...

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I know, I know.  I'm being a bad blogger again.  I'd love to say it's because I'm off and daring and exciting adventures, but we all know that isn't exactly true.  For those of you that care, here's a brief "ketchup" post of what I've been up to since last week.....

Work:

Work has kept me quite busy, mostly because it's what takes up the majority of my time.  In the last week, I have learned how to get Vaseline stains out of clothes.  Yesterday, I acquired a cheek-sized Vaseline stain on the shoulder of my favorite scrub top.  I was less than thrilled about it.  Thank goodness for Dawn dish soap, though!  I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it did the trick, because I don't want to have to buy a new top right now.

School:

Classes start on Monday!  I'm actually looking forward to them.  I read part of my biology book to the dogs last weekend.  They were impressed by all of the big words like 'synovial' and 'retroperitoneal.'  Oh yeah.  You know you're impressed, too.

Housework:

hahaHAHAHahahAHahaHAhaHa.

Okay, so my house is far from spotless.  I did spend a good deal of time Tuesday doing stuff for the outside of the house.  I mowed the lawn [during the hottest part of the day, I might add] and the hubster and I trimmed a jungle's worth of foliage growing through our fence.  I also planted flowers in my fancy-schmancy new planters.  I'll talk about them later, though.  Just know that our yard is looking pretty awesome.

Sewing:

I have been working on my quilt!  The top is very nearly finished.  Expect photos soon!  I still need to decide what I want to do for the back and what to do about quilting it.  We'll see.

Things should pick up here shortly.  I'm sure I'll have plenty of boo-hoo-life-is-crazy stories once I start classes.  I'm off this weekend, so perhaps I'll do something interesting?  Perhaps something mildly interesting?  We'll see.