Ramblings

 Last week I was home bound for 3 days because of weather and now we are in a winter weather advisory....again. It makes me feel-

 

I am so ready for some warm weather!!!!!!!

So did yall watch the superbowl? I didn't...I just don't get into football if the Hogs are not playing. I use to love it, not any more. I'm on the computer while they watch it. I don't even care who is playing or about the commercials...bad?

I don't care.

After church today we all went to mamas and Kelly had fixed lunch. It was so good! Then we had turtle pie, nom nom nom! It was really good. My nephew wanted mama to buy it because he always wondered what turtle tasted like. LOL That kid cracks me up all the time. He's the same one I jumped out of the closet to scare during our blogger survivor last year. 


Drex was in the best mood, he kept laughing....not sure if we were funny or he was trying to amuse us but if so it worked. Kelly got a great pic of his laughing, I love the sound!

This is his big laugh...

To all my FOLLOWERS I have a follower love giveaway I am participating in and will be giving away 1 audio book (Best one I have EVER listened to) and 2 Nicholas Sparks books. I will have 2 winners and it goes live on Feb 8 at 12:01 AM. There will be a form to fill out to enter and it makes it so easy! No more comment after comment and jumping through hoops!!


I hope you will all enter and share the giveaway on your blog or twitter or facebook!...That's 2 entries.
Help a girl out!!

Sunday Ramblings (Where I've been)

*I remember a couple years ago I use to do a Sunday Ramblings...kinda like a weekly update, I think I'm going to get back to that. *

This past week has been so busy! I have been working and helping Kelly move into her house. She got rid of almost everything when she moved back to Arkansas and we have been going from one place to another picking up things she has either bought or someone has given her. She still needs a couch and end tables and a dining room table and she should be good to go. I hope where ever she gets them that they will be nice enough to deliver. 

I spent Friday at her house waiting on water to be turned on, we waited all day! The plan was to clean but it's hard to clean when you have no water. We decided we would make sure all the faucets were off and go pick up a bed and dresser. While we were checking faucets I discovered that a pvc pipe going to the shower was all busted up so my dad (Thank God for my dad!) came over and fixed the pipe. A few hours later still no water and we were hungry so we went right down the road to get something to eat and that's when the water co. calls and says they are on the way. Kelly told the man go ahead and turn it on because we would be back in about 10 minutes. Thank God we pulled up as soon as the water man did because when he turned the water on we found more busted pipes! It was like a mini shower under the kitchen sink and the shower had a different busted pipe than the one I had found. If the man had gotten there and turned it on before we got back it would have been a mess....worse than what it already was.

So Kel calls my cousin (she owns the place) and they had just paid  like $1600 to get the pipes fixed and they were guaranteed so she's calling them tomorrow to come back out. It was quite a day. Kelly is staying there but going to a friends to take showers. She has a big garden tub and keeps saying she wants to bathe in the tub....hoping she can soon.

I know it's hard to live with a parent when you have been out on your own and even without water I think she's happy to have her own place.

Nikki is still pregnant....she is swollen and looks like she's ready to pop. She goes to the dr Wednesday and were hoping he has dropped and she is dilating some. It's so very hot in Arkansas this year and that's not helping. If yall said a prayer it would be appreciated. :)

I think my Daisy is getting worse. :( She coughs more and today she is panting a lot. She acts fine but I know she's not in the best of health and it scares me. I have had her since she was 6 wks old and she will be 10 this Sept. That's a long time...she's a member of my family.

My nephews birthday was Fri. My mamas birthday is tomorrow! Nikki's birthday is this coming Friday. boom boom boom! If Drex would come on he could share his mamas day. That would be nice! 

I plan on scheduling some post so I best get off here and get busy.

 Yall be good!

2 giveaways coming this week!

Kids,Heat and Tomatoes....I could do without the heat!

So yesterday I was able to have lunch with Kelly. This might not mean much to some but she was 600 miles away for 7 years. I got to see her once a year...twice if I was lucky. I think there was a year I didn't see her for all year. She's staying with her daddy which is about an hour or so away. He lives closer to the most likely town where she will find a job. He also lives in the country and she's not liking that a whole lot. *snicker* She grew up in the country but I guess living in the big city for 7 years spoiled her. 

I'm just very happy she is home and I can have lunch with her.

Nikki will be 34 weeks Sunday. Her dr. said she could go part time but it would cut into her leave time for when Drex is born and she doesn't want to do that....can't say I blame her but she is pretty miserable. It has been super hot here in Arkansas and Nikki stays swelled up. I hate not being able to help.....

Can someone explain to me why they have a pregnant woman going 40 weeks? I'm not understanding it at all. We carry 9 months...right? So where did this 40 week come into play? 

Speaking of it being hot (and humid...can't leave humid out.) in Arkansas, I heard on the radio this morning it was going to be 100 degrees Saturday. It's 97 today.

It's June 2....

What's August going to be like?

*blank stare*

.....miserable.

In 1980 we had a heat wave...it was like 2 months with no rain and the temps dropped....DROPPED to the high 90's after dark. That was a summer I will never forget. A girlfriend and I walked 2 miles to a lil country store for a coke in flip flops...melted flipflops by the time we got there. I called dad and begged asked him to please pick us up.  

We were 14 and thought we were smart...HA!

I keep thinking about tomatoes and my Aunt Mickey...every year around this time I do that. 

I love love love fresh tomatoes, give me a salt shaker and a dash of vinegar (don't even have to have the vinegar) and I could sit and eat several straight from the garden.

Tomatoes make me think about a summer day I spent canning tomatoes and tomato juice with my Aunt Mickey and memaw. If your interested you can read about that here.

That was wrote 40 months ago....seems like a very long time when put that way.

Well I best get off here and go cook supper. Britt will be surprised! I haven't been cooking much lately. We're having chicken strips, cabbage (fresh from garden), baby lima beans, mac and cheeze and maybe cornbread.

Later.....

RAMBLINGS- BIG surprise coming up!

Today is a nasty day in my small part of South Arkansas. Last night the storms rolled in and brought cooler temps and lots of thunder and lightening. My poor Daisy was terrified,running around the bedroom trying to find a way to get on the bed. Remember she's blind and when stressed she doesn't have good direction judgement.

2 more weeks and my youngest will be home!! I am so excited to see her. She lives in Kentucky and that's a long ways from mama!

Today I got the new mocha frappe from McDonalds. It was a disappointment to me. It was good but tasted like it was made with cheap ice cream or something...blah. 

I love sonics coffee desserts though.

COMING IN APRIL

In April I would like to do a personal giveaway. I am so close to 100 followers and I know this doesn't mean a lot to folks who have hundredS or even thousands but it's exciting to me so when Kelly leaves after the 11th I'm going to do a followers giveaway. I'm not sure what the prize will be but I promise it will be good. 

**If anyone would like to donate prizes I'm all about that! I would even run your blog or shop button at the top of my blog free for a month!**

I AM NOT to proud to BEG!

So stay tuned....

Now to go relax...although I need to vote...I hate this part of playing Survivor!

RAMBLINGS and THURSDAY 13 with Amber and Meg!

1. Shell and Supah are having a Just Dance dance off. I bought the game and haven't even opened it yet. :( Hopefully tonight after Survivor and Idol I will feel like getting in there and shaking my booty.

Wanna participate or just watch? Click their names!

2. We went to see the ultrasound yesterday and we are getting a boy! My SIL is so excited,it really scared him for some reason to raise a girl....can't say I blame him.

Is it just me or do babies look kinda alien like in these 4d pics?

3. I have a super giveaway coming really soon!

4. The dr put me on meds for pain that make me sick to my stomach,it took all week for them to get me on another med starting tomorrow. One reason I'm not sure about the dance off. :(

5. I also have to have a TB test done....I put it off all week,I'm a needle chicken.

6. I have some onsies to decorate for Baby G,anyone have any great boy appliques I can copy?

Now on to Amber and Meg's Thursday 13

What are Thirteen Gifts you wish you would receive on your birthday?

1.A 2010 Ford Fusion

2. A 2010 Ford Taurus

(Both these cars are so awesome)

 3. A 2010 SUV (not sure which one yet.)

(I know 3 vehicles...but I figure I will be lucky to get one!

4.Wii fit plus 

5. An orange blackberry (like Kelly)

6. A medical miracle where arthritis is cured!

7. And cancer

8. money...lots of it.

9. A healthy grandson

10. A visa card with lots of $$ for shopping for clothes...and shoes...and stuff.

11. A new computer

12. A new way to have internet (I wish we had a cable modem,no cable in our woods tho. )

13. a new camera... a really really nice one. Like a canon...or something.

Five Friday Ramblings (in small sentences)

rambling [ˈræmblɪŋ]

adj

2. (of speech or writing) lacking a coherent plan; diffuse and disconnected

 

	2.	rambling - (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that"

1. I have had a headache for 3 days. This is getting ridiculous!

2. I thought I was driving toward a bad storm this morning...little did I know the bad one was in my neck of the woods. Lots of trees down and some on peoples houses,barns and yards.

3. I finally got my silver wire in now if my mandrel would get here so I can get some work done.

4. I decided to start walking today, the weather decided to rain all day and night.

5. It's Friday and I hope to sleep in tomorrow without a phone or horn waking me up! Please!!

 

CLICK

RAMBLINGS

I had hoped to get my etsy stocked by the 1st...I don't see that happening right now. MAYBE I'll get some in there Saturday????
I have a few new things I was playing around with and might add some of those but of course I want to show you guys now.

(I really have very few you guys on blogger so that comment was for Multiply)

I made a few rings with beads and took one picture of one that Nikki stole but it is bad...I have to learn how to take pics of beads.
see....
Please pay no attention to the fingernails with polish flaking...I hate that but have been lazy. I cropped the pic but it was way blurry then. I made it with regular craft wire...need to find some jewelry wire.

I also made some new bobbies, I think they are too cute. (Debby you didn't get a sample of them cause I just made them yesterday)


I need to grow my hair out....


I'm almost finished with the girls (nieces) bandana quilts...need to order bandanas for the boys quilts. I think I'm going to do those red and white....those are the HOGS colors,did y'all know that?

:)

OK burgers are almost ready,need to cut the tomatoes.

Just click on that sexy lady to donate for the cure.

RAMBLINGS

I'm going to do these in bullets (I think that's what it's called) just because it'll keep me straight and I want to.

• Might as well start out with bad news...for me anyway. I lost 2 houses yesterday. 2 HOUSES! 2. geez....
• They were mom and daughter that lived right across from each other and yes I hurt like crazy after I cleaned their houses but gee whiz.NO I didn't do anything wrong, The mister is retiring so they are cutting back and the daughter got a d.i.v.o.r.c.e. so she lost some income. (ok that bullet was not meant to be there.) I'm learning.
• I have things I need to do at home so now I don't have an excuse cause I'm 2 houses free. Have I ever shown y'all my fabric...well don't expect me to. I need to sort and fold and ORGANIZE it. It is truly a mess. I see all these people on here who are so organized....they make me sick. :)
• I have 10 million things going on. I love making my flowers,my pony holders,I'm making fabric bookmarks now,scrabble tile pendants, bubble magnets and that's only a fraction,I also have tons of stuff in my head I wanna do. Why can't I pick one or two things and stop! I bet I'd get a lot more accomplished.
• I also seen this super cute bandanna... bandana...(hmmm which ever I say one but spell check says a different and it looks wrong to me) quilt tutorial...I'm thinking Christmas for my nieces and nephews.
• I need to get on paperbackswap.com or swaptree and get me some more audio books. They make my drive so very much better.
• I also need The Mark so I don't read out of turn in the Left Behind series. I've looked for it and can't find it...well on any of the swap sites.
• I received some Kashi cereal in the mail today...going to try it in the morning so I can let ya know if it is any good. They sent me tons of coupons for the cereal and I'm going to share...of course. I will say I was not that impressed with the kashi blueberry waffles...paper with a faint hint of blueberry to me. The peanut butter made then edible though.
• I got some new glasses...not to sure how I feel about them yet. I was suppose to wear my old ones every day and didn't so now my eyes are worse. Listen to the eye dr when he says wear them all the time...yeah.
• Alright I'm out of here...I got to go look for The Mark and some audio books for that long ride.

Ramblings

I'm not sure what's up with this once a week blogging, I remember when I'd blog daily sometimes more than once!

I went to the eye dr Wednesday and he says my eyes have gotten worse,wanted to know if I had been wearing my glasses all the time....ummm...no. He showed me what my vision looks like now compared to how it will look when my new glasses come in and man! I thought I could see. I now know I should be wearing them all the time.

Nikki left Tuesday night to go camping and stuff with a bunch of friends,they are in Illinois. From AR to IL...to camp? Anyway I've been lonely without her here. It's bad enough Kel lives 600 miles away and I miss her daily but this week I've been daughterless all the way around.
Ok pity party over on that one.

I've been feeding Nikki's puppies and boy are they hyper! They are mixed pups but so pretty and they both have one blue eye and one brown. That makes 4 grand dogs for me and no babies. I took a pic of her pups and sent it to her saying "We miss you, please come home." I figure that'll make her feel guilty since she felt bad for leaving them. I'm such a sweet mom.

I did pick a winner on the Higher Hope book giveaway, it was a lady from blogger that won. I'll be getting that book out this week Jessica. I only had 3 people enter the giveaway and wish I had 3 copies for all of you.

I made my first purse/tote that I actually like. I'm going to give it to one of my nieces for Christmas and make another for the youngest. If I can get my camera to cooperate I'll add a pic. I also made my friend Alicia a glass tile necklace with the word friend out of an old dictionary on it. We have been friends since jr high and her birthday is at the end of August.

That brings me to my next giveaway! This will be a giveaway with a domino pendant or pin,you can choose and several other things that I'm keeping a secret for now. The 2 domino pendants I'm showing on the blog are not mine, I liked them and borrowed the pics so you could have an idea what I was talking about. (I love the socks with the red shoes)

1. So if your interested leave a comment and your name will be added for the giveaway.

2. For an extra entry blog about this giveaway and leave a separate comment letting me know you blogged about it with the link.

3. If your on blogger follow me and you get an extra entry.

My scrabble tile pendant! I love how it turned out but this is a bad pic.


These pics came messed up from Multiply...sorry if they don't make sense!