Pleasant Monday!

What a beautiful sunset! This was another picture taken during our beach trip in February, 2005. That was the year when Mom, Dad, me, Natasha, Allyssa, Wayne, Tina, Courtney, Lauren, Brittni and Chandler went. Mom and Dad was there for the week, the rest of us for a couple of days. I could be sitting right there on that sandy beach watching this sunset pretending that I did not have a care in the world. That's was you do on vacation, right. Forget about every day "things" and just enjoy the moment. Seize the moment, wishing the world would stand still. Miss Kitty is lounging here in from of me on my computer desk and yawning, like she don't have a care in the world. Wait....she don't have a care in the world. We make sure she has food, water, clean litter box, let her outside to explore, come back in and sleep, eat, sleep, eat, sleep. Sounds like a winner to me. George Clooney is in town right now. I say that like he is a relative or something!!!!! He is filming some segments to his romantic comedy Leatherheads. Mom and Carol got to get glimpses of him yesterday and got some pics. Mom and I went by the old Travelers Rest High School football field where the filming is being done on Saturday, but he was no where to be found and don't think we did not try to find him!!!!

Today has been a pretty pleasant day. Went to work, got off of work, went to the credit union to try and deposit a check that Vincent signed over to me and the girl said she could not take it b/c he was not on my account, got into it with her, left the drive thru with her still talking, then a mexican was taking 2 lanes at a stop light, had to tell him to get over in his lane, yes his window was down and so was mine.....then went on down the road and 2 more vehicles, driven by mexicans pulled over in my lane in front of me, fussed at them and then if that was not enough, I get stuck at the railroad crossing at Edwards Road and the train decides to come to a complete stop, sit there 10 minutes, it never moves, so finally decide to turn around and go another route. Other than that, I had a pleasant day!!!!! I am really laughing out loud right now, because as I type this, it sounds like something out of a comedy book or show. Do things like this really happen, "as a matter of fact, they do cubby"!!!!! My famous line from the movie Mask with Jim Carrey.....

Natasha was off today and tomorrow so I will not have the girls until Wednesday. Natasha is coming to eat lunch with me tomorrow. Had to turn the air conditioner on last night, I finally had had enough sweating and hot flashes.....well, guess i had better go for now...it is getting late and I have to get a shower before bed! . By the way, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie that opened in theaters Friday was the #1 box office seller over the weekend. Nick loved the ninja turtles, he was always leonardo! Cowabunga, Dude!!!!!!!!!!

Bike Ride

Look at that cute little girl 3 seat back on the first set of desks. Right in front on my best friend then, Rusty Moore. I think we used to walk home from school together. Take a look at those white socks with those dress shoes, STYLING!!!!!. Some of the girls have their Girl Scout Brownie uniform on. I must not have been in their troop, b/c I don't have mine on. Sure wish I had that uniform now. Don't know what happen to it, nor the little gold brownie pin, or tie....anyway.....We went on a bike ride after we left Mom and Dad's house where we stopped by after we ate lunch for cake. We did not go to Highlands, NC, where we intended to go because it was raining in Brevard, NC. So we took a nap and then our intention was to go to Cracker Barrel in Hendersonville, NC, but when we got there it was crowded so we rode on through Chimney Rock, since the shops were not open for the season yet and then came back home and ended up eating at Arby's near out house. Pretty long ride, 168+/- miles to eat in Taylors, SC, don't you think!!!!!!! It was a good ride though, the weather was really nice. Tired right now, since it is 10:20 p.m. I need to get to bed since I have to be at work at 6:00 a.m. yuck, yuck.....don't want to go......be back later!

Cutie Pie!

This 2 year old cutie pie was giving Mom such a time today! Can you really see her doing that.............! Allyssa was in a rare mood when she got to Mom's today from school. Did not want to listen, wanted everyone to do things HER way, had her mother's stubborn streak.....I went by Mom's after I left work and picked up Dakota after Mom called with desperation in her voice, "come and pick one one them up"!!!!!! I have to laugh now about it, b/c I know exactly what she was going through. So I figured, since Allyssa told her today that she did not ever play with her anymore since Dakota has been born, I would take Dakota off her hands and give her a little bit of breathing space. Since Allyssa don't have to be chased around to make sure she is staying out of things!!! Mom has been painting Dad's bathroom for 2 weeks now....he did not like the first color which was the color of a Kona Mocha Cafechillo iced drink from Atlanta Bread Company, (Mom and my favorite pasttime outside of scrapbook shops!), so she had to go lighter and it is taking her a little longer than usual. She was tired and her back was hurting too. Hope you feel better now Mom! Typical day at work, same ole junk going on as it does in any work place, people pretending to be your friend and when you are not around talk junk about you, don't quite understand why people do that, but they do. Hmmmmm. Vincent had to take a ride to Charleston with his job and then do some work on a jet ski......I have got a little bit of junk to do now so I am going to go.................PLAY DAY SATURDAY, WOO HOO!!!!!!! :-)

What a day....

My sweet angel Allyssa with Destiny a friend of hers at school. This was the one and only picture I could take at the Suessical, a Dr. Suess play-musical that I chaperoned March 8, 2007. This was before it got started and they both are putting on lip gloss as you can see from Destiny's hand and their beautiful shining lips!!!!!! The P.E. teacher and traffic director from their school, Mr. Miles, died suddenly Thursday night, April 15, 2007. Allyssa liked him so much as he did her. He always watched out for Allyssa. She is doing ok with it, but if she has not seen you since it happened she will tell you he died. The whole school will miss him as he was loved by everyone. Today was a beautiful day. Had to work and was inside except for lunch and I went outside during the last break before getting off. Picked up my snowman stamp from Anderson Stamp and Engraving. Looks good. I have a eye doctor appointment tomorrow with Dr. Phillips for a recheck on my right eye. Vincent had a good day at work, his first official day working at R.J. Shirley's. He and another guy, Mike, had to make a run to Charleston and have to go back Wednesday. He is driving a tractor-trailer truck right now, until he gets his CDL to operate a crane. Did not have to get the girls today. I had a "play" day. Natasha was off today. Not that I had anything to do, I had a headache from not taking my bp medicine this morning. By the time I got to the drug store yesterday, they were closed, so I could not pick it up till this afternoon and by then my head had started hurting. Came home and laid down for a little bit til Vincent got home. Well, guess I had better go get ready for bed, at 5:30 in the morning it is "Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, it's off to work I go........." Seems like that is all I do anymore!

Abundant sunshine!

As I was watching the weather channel yesterday waiting on Natasha to pick me up to meet Mom at Taco Casa for lunch, the outlook for yesterday and today was "abundant sunshine". I have never quite heard it put that way. Usually it is lots of sunshine, plenty of sunshine, but never abundant sunshine. There was abundant sunshine yesterday and there has been so far today. But I also think of the abundant sunshine in my life....great husband, great parents, great friends, great fellowship at lunch today, great blessings in our lives that we tend to not think about on a daily basis. Abundant blessings is what we have and should be greatful daily for them. Just a little rambling on my part today. Did a little work outside after we came back from church and lunch now I could take a nap, but not sure what I am going to do. The guy Vincent was suppose to meet to pick up a jet ski to work on did not show up, so we did not have to work on a jet ski today like we thought. Good in a way, not so good in a way either, no work, no pay!
Oh well, all is good! Think I will ponder a little more on the abundant sunshine!!!!!

Thank Goodness for Friday....

My Nickypoo!!!!!!! Seems like yesterday that he was dressing up like a army soldier in his camo and climbing trees and running through the wooded area of our house on Williams Road.....where has the time gone. Now he is almost 21 years old, working full time, pretty much settled down with his girlfriend Ashley. Today is Friday and we don't have to work tomorrow, woo-hoo. I am sleeping in, woo-hoo. I don't know how to act.....

Had a regular day today, worked til 3:30, got off, Vincent and I picked up Dakota, ran by Home Depot to get Vincent a new pair of safety glasses. He starts his first official work day tomorrow at RJ Shirley's, his new place of employment. Has to take the tractor-trailer loaded with something to Charleston and pick up a LowBoy to bring back. He and Jamie are going together and following the 250-ton crane, (I think). He is so excited he has not quit talking about it........I am so excited that he is going to be bringing home some money, I can't quite thinking about it!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, going to the mall with Mom tomorrow and then AC Moore to check on some die cuts for her new Cuttlebug die-cutting and embossing machine she has. Might pick up a few scrapbook supplies, since I don't have enough as it is!!!!!!!!!

Toodles.....................

Happy girls!

Take a look at this young, silly pre-teens!!!!!! I can still remember their names l-r, Cindy Richboug, Dawn ?, Barbie Frazier, Judy Patrick, Me, and Anna ?. Wonder where and what these girls are doing? Look at those curtains in the background!!!! and why are Anna and me putting a potato chip in our mouth, what's up with that? I can remember that night so well sitting around that kitchen table eating cake and potato chips. Look at those tuperware tumblers!!!!!!! This was the house on Haverford Drive......

Today was the usual day. Work, get off, come home, sit for a minute, wash a load of clothes, fold a load up, get something to eat, take trash to shop, run by the store to get our 5th gallon of milk, okay, maybe 3rd or 4th! Vincent says it is me drinking it all, I say it is him. I drink one oversized cup of chocolate milk in the morning and maybe a half a glass in the evening. Come home get ready for work the next day, and bed and hit the sack. It is 9:00 pm and I am ready for bed, looooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeee to sleep! I tell you I think I was a cat in another life!!!!!! L8tr.....................