tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52792551404053696872024-02-18T21:25:03.510-05:00Welcome to My World!as crazy as it may be, as boring as it may seem, this is MY world! welcome!Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.comBlogger168125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-28495611300132051852008-08-24T20:29:00.001-04:002008-08-24T20:31:29.690-04:00{lex's lethal luau}<div><embed src="http://widget-86.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=bb&il=1&channel=1729382256929221254&site=widget-86.slide.com" style="width:400px;height:320px" name="flashticker" align="middle"></embed><div style="width:400px;text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&at=un&id=1729382256929221254&map=1" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-86.slide.com/p1/1729382256929221254/bb_t000_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&at=un&id=1729382256929221254&map=2" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-86.slide.com/p2/1729382256929221254/bb_t000_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&at=un&id=1729382256929221254&map=F" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-86.slide.com/p4/1729382256929221254/bb_t000_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide42.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a></div></div>Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-23950506640677432922008-08-22T12:53:00.002-04:002008-08-22T13:10:17.936-04:00{its a blustery day, pooh!}holy cannelloni batman!! for the last 2 days it has been intensely windy and rainy, the wind gusts and rain have been very intense at times!! i am so over it, i can't even tell you! the kids are out of school, mark is out of work (yeah!), but i am working and i have decided to commission the bank to get windshield wipers for the drive-thru window... i can hardly see out of them. On the upside, we haven't lost electricity. Just a few little "brown outs" every now and then and believe it or not, but satellite has been great. That is still shocking to me because in Virginia if it even threatened a little rain, the satellite went out...and the electricity would go out on a perfectly beautiful day! I am loving the underground electricity, what an invention! well, we've got lots of party prepping for tonight. Mark and the kids are going to start making Lumpia today which I haven't made since we lived in Hawaii. Its a recipe that I got from a little phillipino lady at our church. i am kinda excited about it. Please Fay go away, you are not exactly helping with the whole luau theme of poor Lex's party.Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-3442739955224176612008-08-21T08:55:00.002-04:002008-08-21T08:57:57.949-04:00{fay fay go away!}you are just irritating me TODAY!!<br /><br />this stupid whatever system is really cramping my entire week!! the kids are out of school today, they called me into work to work a few hours today, i haven't gone to the grocery store for Lex's luau party because if we do loose electricity or have to postpone the party, i don't want a lot of food.....AAARGGHH!! Make up your mind you stupid storm.....you are just irrititating me today!Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-53468365872762637382008-08-19T22:47:00.003-04:002008-08-19T22:58:46.463-04:00{squillen:party planner extraordinaire}so today was spent with my creatingpostitnotes.blogspot/2peas/scrappin/notabigfanofhobunk friend who has offered to help me out with Lex's party regarding the food and she is an awesome cake decorator to top it all off!! Her name is Suzanne, but her 2peas screen name is squillen, so we'll just go with that!! She came over to the house today to help with the menu planning and trying to figure out what kind of cake the pretty pretty princess wanted for her big 16! Its going to be fun, but funky ! Okay, so for those of you with no lives of your own that have been hanging on to the seats of your pants (what kind of saying is that? or is that the saying? its late and i'm wondering if i just made that up!).....Lex's luau party is a Lethal Dinner party luau, its a murder mystery dinner party where the kids dress up like certain characters and they will have lines and there is a CD and by the end of the evening, we will have a murderer on our hands (insert evil laugh). how fun is that?? especially if you know my drama queen!<br /><br />Thanks Suzanne!! P.S. later in the evening, she dropped off one of her 2peas infamous cinnamon rolls and all i have to say is OMG Yummy!! And the muffin top is back!!! AARGGHH!!!Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-42686871403910876392008-08-18T12:46:00.004-04:002008-08-18T13:29:30.667-04:00{gathering the spoils}yesterday was a day that started off kinda blah! i was still feeling well, kinda blah!! i had taken nyquil on Saturday night after a day of laying around with my body feeling like a big pile of poo, but my mind racing like mad with all of the things that i had intended to accomplish this weekend. Lex's birthday party is going to be on the 23rd and i have procrastinated on getting things together for it, some of it because i was waiting on the "party box" (i will blog more on that later...it is SSSSOOO exciting) and part of it was i was waiting until the 15th paycheck. But to wake up on the weekend that had a to-do list a mile long and not be able to get my groove on was disappointing for me..... Anyway, back to yesterday, after a sluggish waking up out of my nyquil induced coma (what a wonderful induced come it was i might add, i didn't even hear Markie snore once!), Lex and I headed out to find what we needed......Luau birthday party supplies...<br /><br />Well, little do we know that apparently Luau is "seasonal" and Halloween is what its all about BABY! ! So, the pickens were slim, so we were faced with a dilemna, and decided to go a little different route. A more "authentic" Luau route, we got some bamboo disposable plates & utensils (how cool is that??) and I found some table top tiki torches, a bamboo table runner, coconut cups, umbrella straws and some lei's for all of the guests! The girl and I had a good time gathering the spoils for her party. I will blog more tomorrow about what her party is going to be, its not your typical luau.....i'm not your typical mom, she's not a typical 16 year old girl. its a luau with a "twist"!! i can hardly wait!Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-7862443634131417682008-08-16T10:21:00.002-04:002008-08-16T10:26:18.585-04:00{like poo}i don't get sick often, i am usually one who goes full force 24/7 with the occassional headache, but i have the worst head cold, i just feel like poo!!! and honestly, i just don't have the time or the patience for this! i have so much to do this weekend. lex's big 16 is next weekend and i have so much to do this weekend and both kids have cheer and band crap all day today. Mark has been working a lot lately AGAIN and i hate putting that on him,but he worked all night last night and came home this AM and picked up both kids and took them to their perspective "events" at school. Please, oh please, let this medicine start kicking in so that I can re-energize and get moving and get what I need to get done.....don't you just hate feeling like poo!!!???Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-29414823060905733962008-08-14T08:26:00.003-04:002008-08-14T08:32:59.021-04:00{laying low}as of late, we have just been laying low and not doing much of anything. the kids have been just doing their school thing. Action is getting excited about band and playing the sax next week. my cousin let us borrow her sax, which is in the shop having the cork repaired and he can't wait to get his grubby hands on it. lex in the meantime has gotten picked up for a lead in a play for her advanced drama class. she will be playing in some drama competitions this fall and also performing in the school play. she was very excited, it has some singing parts as well as acting... then of course, there's 24/7 cheer practice....<br /><br />i have been scrapping and getting ready (in my head) for lex's 16th birthday... mark has been back to working his hiney off. we are just laying low here in snoozerville....and that's a wrap!Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-46209714504914040792008-08-12T10:19:00.004-04:002008-08-12T10:40:09.340-04:00{4176 text messages}yep, you read right!! my child had 4176 text messages both incoming & outgoing in one month...mind you we haven't provided the pretty pretty princess with "unlimited" text messaging. We have generously provided her with unlimited verizon to verizon, which she has a lot of friends who have that and 1500 whoever texts....sounds rather generous wouldn't you think?? she has always stayed within her texts. We used to have a problem with her staying within her "alloted" shared minutes and we increased our family share plan, but I am NOT increasing her soon to "carpal tunnel of the thumbs texting disease just because i don't want to have a real conversation with someone" texting.....this texting is a huge rip off from the phone companies, they have sold the American youth a bill of goods, and we the parents have allowed it. We are the generation of parents that are good with "keeping up with the Jones'". Why didn't we say no, we are not putting on "the taco suit" so that you can become socially inept to deal with others, we are not going to allow the cell phone companies to financially drain us, the parents, so that you can add to the list of gadgets that you "have to have" on a cell phone. She's gone over, so my bill is WAY over what I would normally pay and if you think about it.....its a racket!! What does it cost the cell phone companies to allow text messaging??? Now the question is this? Will I allow the child to live? Cause right now, I just want to crown her and I don't mean queen for the day!! AAARGGHHH!!! Technology, some of it i wish had just stayed in some geeks stinken la la land......Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-37581747685471745222008-08-09T17:24:00.004-04:002008-08-09T17:36:53.955-04:00{as susan powter would say!!}"Stop the Insanity!".....i know you remember this lady, she was a weight loss guru, i don't even know what "plan" she was peddeling back in the 80's, i guess i could "google" her, but truthfully..I don't want to. I just remember her infomercials, she had very short stick'em up bleach blonde hair and i think that she even shaved her head once, a little Brittney action was going on there. BUT this post isn't about weight loss, been there done that. This is about that screeching from my TV..."Stop the insanity" and there are times in my life where I feel like screaming that myself and this was one of those crazy weeks. While my Mom was here and I really enjoyed her visit, the kids were in their first week of school and the homework was just ridiculous and we we're getting up at not the crack of dawn, but the BUTT crack of dawn to get things rolling and just getting Action to school in the morning is an hour long process between driving, getting into the school, dropping off the kids and getting home. I am carpooling, but i did that on the days that i am not working and then pick-up is even worse. Some may say, there's the bus....this is middle school, the bus stop is a LLLOONG way from our house, the bus is way over crowded and the stories of fights, sex and videotape have been too much for a Mom of a "baby boy" to stand. Actually, I admit that i made up the videotape part, but maybe, it could happen!!! Lex on the other hand is practicing @ the school until late everyday or starting @ 6AM and then she has been bogged down with a ton of homework and its only the first week!! I miss my summer, not that we had lazy summer days, there was nothing lazy or relaxing about this last summer which kind of makes me sad, it came and went and knowing that we really only have one more summer with Lex before she goes off to college. Now, I'm just depressed.Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-69586366690198596462008-08-04T16:12:00.003-04:002008-08-04T16:39:34.690-04:00{muffin top report}now i know that for the last week i have had a ton of you stalking my blog just waiting for this post! you've been clamouring on a daily basis to find out how the old "muffin top" is doing after my intentions for full battle were declared last week....well, today is YOUR LUCKY day!! The post is here, i did go to my meeting and was quite unimpressed with the charisma of it....loosing weight and the tricks of that trade are so exciting and you should be shouting it from the roof tops, not talk about it like its dull and dry and cannot be challenging and even fun. Did I just say fun, heck yes! For me, figuring out how to "beat" the system and eat and loose weight is almost like a game to me, it is fun! I want to go in there with guns blazing. The meeting though, is much more subdued, but I was quite the chatty cathy, my hand went flying up with every question, sometimes i was "overlooked", accidentally or on purpose....that is the question, but its neither here nor there. Little do they know, I am back and their little weight watcher meetings are going to be turned UPSIDE DOWN! I am figuring out how to beat the hunger pains and stay within my points just the same and they are gonna hear about it...<br /><br />P.S. I have lost 4 lbs...........bye bye muffin top, unfortunatley, that's probably NOT where i actuallly lost it.Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-6723230611555255272008-08-03T09:48:00.005-04:002008-08-03T09:57:27.339-04:00{back 2 skool blues}<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYhUjUnx_6YmZPcxGvEyXlsaQoIIHbsDw07IqMopuL0r3J7ZwahPGU9R1BtjkNDIOe4OMojMzoD3EN7amtQZdTadK7gA9wsA1VmZm7rDr93dgYlHG8RbG3NiFbqtFSLTkjgEQX6C9m9PRI/s1600-h/Back+2+Skool+005.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230290100165838130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYhUjUnx_6YmZPcxGvEyXlsaQoIIHbsDw07IqMopuL0r3J7ZwahPGU9R1BtjkNDIOe4OMojMzoD3EN7amtQZdTadK7gA9wsA1VmZm7rDr93dgYlHG8RbG3NiFbqtFSLTkjgEQX6C9m9PRI/s400/Back+2+Skool+005.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcpyGrNAX-pFSIPMpKauVcduL-jHT_ccxklIPTTQZkmv10JkFRAqBeIVP1fLHRA7Uf-dq6QBXDAN1nC_XXwKVhTnk_ItbkF3IC3EZu1JZCXMfKRrWA8t7dSbYLHfh6SOfVBfcSfUdlnBJg/s1600-h/Back+2+Skool+003.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230289918490747970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcpyGrNAX-pFSIPMpKauVcduL-jHT_ccxklIPTTQZkmv10JkFRAqBeIVP1fLHRA7Uf-dq6QBXDAN1nC_XXwKVhTnk_ItbkF3IC3EZu1JZCXMfKRrWA8t7dSbYLHfh6SOfVBfcSfUdlnBJg/s400/Back+2+Skool+003.JPG" border="0" /></a> <div>Friday was back 2 school, I still can't believe it! The week was a whirlwind and I thought that Friday was going to be INSANE! But it was smoother than I expected, I think partly because it was the FIRST day of school, both of the kids were up movin' & shakin' and we're ready to go on time!! That is not the norm for my kids, so we'll see how long it lasts! Action's teacher's seem like they are going to be awesome! I am super impressed, which is a far cry from last year so that is a relief and i think that he had a good day, minus the cafeteria food which was his biggest complaint of the day and it that's the biggest complaint then we are off to a rockin' start! Lex on the other hand when I talked to her, she said it was an awful first day of school. So, we will see. Her schedule the first semester is going to be so busy, she has drama competitions and cheer competitions that may collide!! cheer practice everyday......holy cow, i'm getting exhausted just thinking about it!!! at least this week, i go back to my regularly scheduled schedule and my Mom is coming to visit.....</div></div>Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-75821468111513332732008-07-31T18:27:00.004-04:002008-07-31T18:32:34.149-04:00{lu's nu do!}<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSIfOrucw1PwfZQZd_4kOs4tKn7zAUYY5EfUw709iWlhbZKDVK2GxKWf6sNNwMtGYhfRRVBeXx4Av5bAGdefxoNmVvvA5wftd991A6qDcgKyINt-YF8IhyphenhyphenixlxMsskg1n2kNFpqu6ZnGNr/s1600-h/CIMG3449.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229309645543391234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSIfOrucw1PwfZQZd_4kOs4tKn7zAUYY5EfUw709iWlhbZKDVK2GxKWf6sNNwMtGYhfRRVBeXx4Av5bAGdefxoNmVvvA5wftd991A6qDcgKyINt-YF8IhyphenhyphenixlxMsskg1n2kNFpqu6ZnGNr/s400/CIMG3449.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>here's a pic of lex's (sometimes i call her Lu, don't ask me why) new hairdo. School starts tomorrow and the insanity of the week will end tomorrow! Thanks goodness!! We've got school supplies, open houses, and a few clothes for school. Today, she decided she wanted something totally different, no more blonde @ all!! She looks so different. She is so grown up looking. Tomorrow is the first day of school.....let the games begin!!</div>Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-12728055991907652122008-07-30T14:14:00.003-04:002008-07-30T14:41:43.851-04:00{toothpicks required}Holy Cow, I am pooped! I need toothpicks to prop my eyelids open! Mark has been working for weeks non-stop for 14 hour days, its the best shore duty EVAH!! I heart the Navy! Did you note the sarcasm in there?? I have not seen him, i think i saw him last night on the couch, but then again it could have been a delusion. I'm starting to miss that man of mine. The kids have had "stuff" going on for back to school which starts in 2 crazy days!! I've waited until the last minute to get school stuff/clothes/schedule changes and Lex has had all kinds of crazy cheer crap this week and 2 open houses....my full time schedule and i am just exhausted. i'm not sleeping and then i get to work and that's what i want to do, catch up on the zzz's. when is Saturday? Until then, no kicks & giggles if you see me with toothpicks propping up the ole' droopy lids.......Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-74212856643382080802008-07-29T10:46:00.002-04:002008-07-29T11:06:32.699-04:00{day 2}i know i have said it before, but this time i really really mean it!! i am not going to loose this battle, i am a warrior princess and the battle of the muffin top is ON!! I started back on Weight Watcher's yesterday and my first meeting will be on Saturday.....my goal is 20 lbs... Luckily, i ran into my new neighbor, who i absolutely love. We have a lot in common, she's not a scrapbooker, but she is an incredible photographer and we just seem like we've got a lot in common (poor thing....) And my neighbor is going to do Weight Watchers with me, so hopefully that will be more of a motivation. I have started walking in the evenings what equals to be about 2 miles and i can feel it in in buttocks, which is great because i could definitely loose a little bit of that junk in the trunk!! Tighten those glutes!! I really didn't realize how much "junk in the trunk" i was getting until i tried on a cute pair of white crop pants in Virginia and WOW!! that said it all, it said "put these pants back on the rack girl and look for something in the black or denim department!" So far, I am not starving, I am doing okay on my "points", I have to keep telling myself that hunger pains are NOT death pains.....Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-52607346827317953052008-07-26T20:55:00.003-04:002008-07-26T21:02:49.609-04:00{my movie reviews}it has been the craziest week....my kids and their friends have kept me going non-stop. not that we have been going anywhere, we did manage to check out a few movies. First of all, we did see The Dark Knight in IMAX and it was totally awesome....i took Lex and 2 of her friends with me and Action for what I thought was about a 45 minute drive just south of the border and it turned into quite a bit farther than that, but it was a lot of fun when we fianlly got there, the movie was definitely the best by far. Secondly, Action and I checked out "meet dave", the girls wanted to see "Mama Mia", but i had promised my Mom that i would see it with her and i have seen the broadway production and it was a little racey and so i thought i had to find something more "approriate" for my 11 year old boy and "meet Dave" ended up being really, really funn!! It sure beat that monkey/chimp movie he wanted to see. That was a good save! thanks Karen for the review, you saved me a snooze in the theatre!<br /><br />Next week, stay tuned because it should be a ball of snoozerville's here in hobunk...i am working full time again while both of my kids are at home by themselves until school starts on Friday!! And then we start all over again....i'm not sure i'm ready for school...i don't feel like we've had a summer yet...do you know that i haven't even been to the pool yet?? i am such a white chick! (insert rolling eyes)Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-68847490165567181422008-07-21T10:39:00.001-04:002008-07-21T15:26:59.732-04:00{no poop fests allowed}It may seem crude, but true....Its a day of "spare the square" @ my house today! Both Mark and i are at work all day with 3 kids at our house with one roll of TP which Mark discovered last night. i went grocery shopping at the world's most infuriating Wal Mart yesterday and spent a mega ton of dinero, but forgot the TP, what gives? So, i have been here and a little stressed about them over-using and there being a big "poop fest" and not enough squares to go around. i am a bit anxious to get out of here and swing by yet again another trip to the infuriating Wal Mart for a bulk sized package of Charmin for my darlings little derriere's.....uuggh!Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-91447742763748400912008-07-20T15:16:00.005-04:002008-07-20T15:27:45.604-04:00{crushin' on little LuLu}<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjvVuv3BPf-aihE0_JREgTtt9VbxPf1SdKn1090U9uVP8V2s1yMfJEi4B8vm7R1PTFbU_Fjg-DLhNB8wUA_EtiJrRcuyRFa2qV7pkOcVkFIeQaMALhQ1a1s8O9KdkmQ-MMC1Lb_oytvWkf/s1600-h/001.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225179429866494258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjvVuv3BPf-aihE0_JREgTtt9VbxPf1SdKn1090U9uVP8V2s1yMfJEi4B8vm7R1PTFbU_Fjg-DLhNB8wUA_EtiJrRcuyRFa2qV7pkOcVkFIeQaMALhQ1a1s8O9KdkmQ-MMC1Lb_oytvWkf/s400/001.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjc-SbyOU5gDF7JpuISaCWiWq6CLq33ZcxKwEnL0NmKCuZ6gl1PjdbbzzyeaWFSjvX8tPbjLgGZp_7AXGipz_2ptCXnrorXCYJs9OQrwS21o1FM4hRd1VflgSx3-m8o0OitJfOjjGdF5Xv/s1600-h/D's+Vaca+with+Mimi+%26+Papa+152.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225179236558995842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjc-SbyOU5gDF7JpuISaCWiWq6CLq33ZcxKwEnL0NmKCuZ6gl1PjdbbzzyeaWFSjvX8tPbjLgGZp_7AXGipz_2ptCXnrorXCYJs9OQrwS21o1FM4hRd1VflgSx3-m8o0OitJfOjjGdF5Xv/s320/D's+Vaca+with+Mimi+%26+Papa+152.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>okay, so my son is 11!! he has probably had crushes here and there, but none that he would ever discuss with me or has ever lead anyone that i know of to be aware of. But this child came back from his vacation with his Mimi & Papa and he has talked & talked & showed & showed this little prized posession trading card of this can-can dancer from Ghost Town named LuLu. He got her autograph, you would have thought that he was holding in his hand a autographed picture of Madonna. He says its his girlfriend. I know that I mentioned in a previous post that he wanted the picture of him & ALL of the can-can girls blown up to poster sized for his room. If you really look @ the picture, HE has the cheesiest grin on his face, its hillarious! This is a child that I can hardly get to smile these days in front of the camera, yet ear to ear that smile goes while surrounded by those long legged ladies. It totally cracks me up. My little man finally has a crush and amazinly enough its on a 20something can can girl from the wild wild west.......yee haw!</div></div>Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-23202726131331044042008-07-18T09:58:00.002-04:002008-07-18T10:24:28.489-04:00{full moons & the crazies are out}its been a weird little week in my world. i have been working all week in beautiful Fernandina and loving it, but every day something not quite right has happened which has given me the heebie jeebies and has left me wondering if we've had a full moon here lately?? i guess that i could research it or in the very least take a looksie out my window, but that would require more effort than i am willing to give at this point. So, i am going to assume by my experiences this week that there was indeed a full moon...<br /><br />we have had computers go bizzerk, alarm systems with their very own agendas, some of our customers with certain oddball situations and last but not least we've had 2 crazies in here this week. One just a little charismatic that was in the bank and was actually fun to talk to and the other yesterday, completely certifiably off his rocker whack job one who flew over the cuckoo's nest nutcase! He was dressed in 2 women's flowery shirts, a shirt on his head (like Jesus), saying that he had his own "town" should go with him to "his town", he basically talked a lot of jibberish and as he finally left he said not to drink the water, he had the water of the Nile and it was the only safe water to drink. In all honesty, he scared me. about 15 minutes later, he was in the middle of the street yelling. We called the police and they said that they had already received a call and we're on their way, they approached him with a good bit of distance and I am assuming that they told him to leave, I locked the door of the bank and as he walked by, if looks could kill. So, its just been that kind of week....the crazies are out and i am blogging about it! Oh, just as I have been on this, my fellow teller-in-crime checked the whole moon thing, tonight is a full moon, so today should be pretty interesting!!! I'm not supersticious, but its a good thing its not the 13th......happy Friday!!Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-79661177655839308902008-07-17T11:43:00.002-04:002008-07-17T11:51:52.314-04:00{the accidental cheer chick}oh lordy! my child!! i love that child of mine, but she is the most accidental prone child as of late that i have seen. i would like to say that she gets it honest, but honestly i think that she is just in her own little la la land and doesn't pay so much attention, either that or she has an unnatural attraction to gravity. last week, while visiting one of her BFF's in Charleston, SC she got in a big cupcake fight at her friend's sweet sixteen and she was the only one that ended up biting the pavement, so to speak, and ended up with some pretty major "boo boo's" on her arms and legs. She began cheer camp on Monday and she was sore, but being the go getter cheer chick, she managed. On Wednesday, they left to go out of town to finish up 4 more days of cheer camp with other high schools and she called last night to tell me that as she was getting off the bus, she fell out of the bus, and busted open her other knee and other arm and elbow. She said that she was so embarrassed and now she has matching band-aids and "boo boo's". What to do with that child of mine....?Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-1831064734278030092008-07-16T09:04:00.005-04:002008-07-16T13:11:50.147-04:00{tea towels & school houses}i have been married for, um let's see.....18 years, yeah, i think that's it. Its been so long I am starting to loose track and I have to start counting on my fingers how long its been. But none the less, Mark still cracks me up with the different ways that we talk and the way we were raised. I am a Florida girl, he's a Kentucky boy. I was raised in a girlie house in the fact that it was 3 girls verses my Dad, who was always very respectful of us girls in the fact that he never cursed or burped or "tooted" in front of us and its not something that we discussed or became a topic of any conversation. Mark, on the other hand, was raised in a more formal house of beautiful antiques, china dishes, but with a brother and most of his life a single Mom. So, these topics seemed to be more of a "laughing matter" and a fact of life in his home, and i mean no disrespect in that, it just is what it is... But my language form is very laid back and not very articulate, some may call it southern (without an accent) and some may say informal, but again, it is what it is. I guess what sparked this little observation is that yesterday Mark said two things that had me teasing him, he was asking me about Lex going to the "school house", who calls it a school house? If we were in Little House in the Prarie times or lived in Amish country, I'd say yeah! School house it is, but this school is a monster. This school had nearly a thousand kids graduate last year. Later in the evening, he referred to a dish towel, yes a dish towel as a "tea towel"....there was no tea involved and a tea towel is something that Grannie embroidered with little pink flowers, am i right? We use dish towels for dirty dishes and dirty counter tops. Who says that? I just find it funny that even after being married for so long that he can say little quirky things that get me giggling and remind me that he is that Kentucky boy that I married and we are so different in more ways than one. i love my quirky talkin' Kentucky boy!!Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-35708730985278036982008-07-14T15:40:00.003-04:002008-07-14T15:49:49.567-04:00{& so it begins....}last weekwas so laid back with the kids gone....the house never got messy, i didn't have any running around to do, no demands on me ,i could have walked around naked (not that I did, but I totally could have) and besides my normal 2 work days, it was easy sneazy. Then on Saturday, Action was back and on Sunday, I drove to Savannah to pick up Lex and we are back to an even crazier routine than usual. Lex came back with some pretty major 'boo boo's", she fell in the middle of the street, apparently there was some cupcake fight involved, trust me we don't really want or need to know the details. But she fell and skinned several parts of her body. So, she is sore, but cheerleading camp starts today, hard core cheerleading camp. Action is at home by himself as I write this and I think to myself.....please let him have brushed his teeth and not totally trashed the joint and watched so much Cartoon Network that his brain has turned to noodle mush. Mark and myself are working full time this week and I will actually be working out of town. So this week will be insane with everything and Lex's schedule. So, it begins.........Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-31669331326155140082008-07-12T23:24:00.006-04:002008-07-13T08:02:42.032-04:00{Action's Back, now there's gonna be trouble!}<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpWPTfaoUnTX7-HNsWGsZAJhRbd__hpRR_BHv0gaS7md8pcKMswYxCzlEsPld7c3CSDuRE_EE1QB0hId7DwhBg2ClGzz7JKVlU2QNzN1leUnesuec3DdsBIuKFJSR0flQRKskrPMElDGrD/s1600-h/D's+Vaca+with+Mimi+%26+Papa+343.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222339516855884434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpWPTfaoUnTX7-HNsWGsZAJhRbd__hpRR_BHv0gaS7md8pcKMswYxCzlEsPld7c3CSDuRE_EE1QB0hId7DwhBg2ClGzz7JKVlU2QNzN1leUnesuec3DdsBIuKFJSR0flQRKskrPMElDGrD/s320/D's+Vaca+with+Mimi+%26+Papa+343.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhut7frjOuuY4o9mZQOXssS2FzPzYzzVtJ1mcmBQ26acGZV5aOQUM9ucgbtloBXZOkRK7NtYawJR-CTbqy1jBxepdETzOq1g8Dv1hasPZUAtN7aDhW6LE-M_mPXXOL-dhibVlULmb2iGgqC/s1600-h/D's+Vaca+with+Mimi+%26+Papa+276.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222338301758414114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhut7frjOuuY4o9mZQOXssS2FzPzYzzVtJ1mcmBQ26acGZV5aOQUM9ucgbtloBXZOkRK7NtYawJR-CTbqy1jBxepdETzOq1g8Dv1hasPZUAtN7aDhW6LE-M_mPXXOL-dhibVlULmb2iGgqC/s320/D's+Vaca+with+Mimi+%26+Papa+276.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNATaIJLyoBPskq4XuB1GJoVRRFSsKP4HMmxdTMB6Wo6sppDw1RIeMvozPzJeIwiCvPJw_NCc4syTZvUWtbK9h3m3667poSslSr_oWWhLYT-hykXjFkvd2FPPRrRrEQnAuOMymcaaqk_ko/s1600-h/D's+Vaca+with+Mimi+%26+Papa+152.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222337504307248626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNATaIJLyoBPskq4XuB1GJoVRRFSsKP4HMmxdTMB6Wo6sppDw1RIeMvozPzJeIwiCvPJw_NCc4syTZvUWtbK9h3m3667poSslSr_oWWhLYT-hykXjFkvd2FPPRrRrEQnAuOMymcaaqk_ko/s320/D's+Vaca+with+Mimi+%26+Papa+152.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQAcHCQVP8DW_J8UMlenhaZiQI589thboHfF3TWGiUc3yRr7LdsjRkcg-hRYJAvQVYPaGE-mcQhHGYVIVBLD8JBmONlNTHhk0qyUERMY3cQAiVPbk617I7XhuBKxcOziGhHVGWQURjT8Os/s1600-h/D's+Vaca+with+Mimi+%26+Papa+170.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222337000632847874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQAcHCQVP8DW_J8UMlenhaZiQI589thboHfF3TWGiUc3yRr7LdsjRkcg-hRYJAvQVYPaGE-mcQhHGYVIVBLD8JBmONlNTHhk0qyUERMY3cQAiVPbk617I7XhuBKxcOziGhHVGWQURjT8Os/s320/D's+Vaca+with+Mimi+%26+Papa+170.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>my Action is back in town, he has been gone on a week long vacation with his Mimi & Papa in North Carolina hanging with Can-can girls, fighting on the wrong side of the "law", and whirlin' himself on coasters in GhostTown. He's been doing a little, train riding and tubing and taking nature walks with Papa.....Action has not been "home" in 4 weeks (yes, I said 4 weeks!!), he has pit stopped here for less than 24 hours twice in that timeframe and I have missed him so much and he has missed his neighborhood peeps AKA as kids in the hood . He can't wait to get out and hang with them and that just equals trouble with a capital "T", I say that in jest. i am just so glad to have him back at home, I know that the "kids in the hood" will be glad to have him back... </div><div> </div><div>By the way, the picture of him & the Can Can girls, he is requesting that it be blown up to poster size and be put up in his room!!! He is a ladies man!!</div></div></div></div>Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-56622344762124318872008-07-12T01:38:00.002-04:002008-07-12T01:43:03.687-04:00{does my new banner rock or what?}i have been a scrappin' machine (check out all the new layouts on my slide...) this "kid free" week. I feel like i've gotten my MoJO back and my pages are pretty darn good, they definitely look better in "real scrap life" and in about 5 minutes, I threw together my new blog banner....Betty Blogger is rockin' in the banner department, yeah??? I hope you like it because truthfully i hated my other one, but never wanted to mess with it...have a great weekend, we are going to be busy receiving and retrieving our kids...its gonna be a long one..Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-50710218445319681862008-07-09T22:20:00.003-04:002008-07-09T22:33:09.004-04:00{hancock}well, we finally got to our movie night. Mark and i went for a "night on the town". Woo-hoo, a little BBQ chicken, some Dollar Tree shoppin', and a movie. We are real party animals, yeah? Rock Stars we are, Nickelback's got not nothing on US!! Its the life! Anyway, all sarcasm aside, we did have a pretty good little date night. The whole Dollar Tree expereince with Mark, I truly could have skipped. It wasn't until tonight that I realized that I have never actually been to the Dollar Tree with Mark and I'm thinking that we should have kept it that way. He didn't want to be in there, he wanted to go, so what better way to torture me than to continually ask how much everything was. The funny thing is, he put more in the cart than I did. I went in looking for a chipboard book that Juliet had found in Virginia (they didn't have it), we walked out with grooming & back to school supplies by the truckload, but I lucked out with post it notes that say "the princess gets what the princess wants"....maybe that's what I should write all of my "honey do lists" on....<br /><br />The movie of choice, "hancock". It was actually really good. Not thrilled with the language. Its one that Action won't be seeing anytime soon unfortunately. He had it on his list of summer must see's. But the language was a strong PG-13, which I don't know why they have to do that. It makes me crazy. Anyway, date night over and I am back to being "blogger betty" and he is watching "So you think you can dance" with that laughin heinia lady (she makes my skin crawl).Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5279255140405369687.post-73800078613339117062008-07-08T22:35:00.002-04:002008-07-08T22:50:34.392-04:00{& the stupid shall be punished}that's a favorite quote of Mark's and today I got what that actually meant....<br /><br />being that i am kid free and Mark was working and its my day off, i decided that i would spend my day scrapping and catching up on my DVR'd "stories" (what is going on on All My Kids & GH??, I am so lost!!!!!!) Anyway, back to my stupid story, I am cropping away and I actually did one of my all time favorite pages (its Lorrie's 2006 Birthday page, I might add...its super cute!!) and decided a puncture wound to my knuckle was in order. How would scrapbooking cause such a wound you might ask??? You know those Stickles, I am lovin the Stickles on occassion when I decide my page needs a little extra bling. Well, this birthday page needed a little "something something", but the tube was clogged and what to shove into a little hole to unclog that would do the trick?? Why, a Cutterbee scissor or course!! Except for the fact that if you shove it hard enough it just might slip and dive into the hand holding the Stickles. The weird thing is that at first I thought, "wow, I'm not even going to bleed, its not that deep" and then after what seemed like a few minutes, not only did blood come gushing out but unbelievable pain filled my entire hand & up my arm. Did I just share too much? Anyway, enough with the blood and gore, after I got things under control and determined that I didn't need stitches (thank goodness because I wasn't prepared to go to the hospital....i hadn't straightened my hair today or put on any makeup...,but i did have on clean underwear) I realized how stupid of an idea it was to do what I did and I guess that's what I get and now my whole left knuckle hurts like a booger....Darleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330875021735993923noreply@blogger.com8