Make room on the bed, Honey , I'm coming home

Happy Saturday Ya'll,

Well, more good news. Woo hoo!!!

Cavuto won the photo contest!

This is what he wins. But that is not the point , the point is "I" never win anything. LOL
WE won!!

Category Winners

• Febreeze Pet Odor Eliminator gift pack of toys and samples
• ConairPet gift set including brush and trimmer
• A Furminator deShedding Tool
• One-year CatsterPlus membership

I didn't even enter until the grand prize winner has already been chosen. Damn. I could have won a camcorder.


This is Cavuto's catster page. It is linked to O'Reilly's ,Monkey'sand Stew's page as well(under my family)

Click on it.

Join the Catster community

I actually need to update Cavuto's . He was a baby back then.

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On to other good news:)


My Visa arrived yesterday. With the wrong picture even ......but at this point they could have had my walgreens mug on there. I would not have cared.


I am still such a nervous wreck. Last night I thought to myself " I have been sooo frazzled for months trying to take care of all the damn details for this little adventure, I haven't even really taken time to let myself think "how do I feel about all this?"


The first thing that comes to mind is ,I am thrilled that my husband and I will be living in the same house !
It has been over 4 years since we've even lived together "full time" .
Can you imagine?


He keeps telling me how aggravating it will be to "not know where things are, and to not really know what you're doing "as far as being in an unfamiliar country.


But I think we have different "frazzle points".
When he is out running his errands HE is in a big hurry .He wants to get things done, get what he needs and get out.


I, on the other hand will be taking my time, observing(and enjoying) the unfamiliar sights, camera in hand :)


Those are not the things that will frazzle me. Having to hang my clothes on a clothesline....having a fridge the size of a grade school locker,having to iron everything,knowing that my kids are off snowboarding (or doing anything dangerous),not knowing the money,driving on the wrong side.....LOL those things are more likely to frazzle ME.


And of course lets not forget the empty apartment which looks like a hobo camp. Cardboard boxes and clothes all over the place . THAT will frazzle me.


I plan to remedy that situation as soon as possible.


I keep hearing (well ,reading) Americans in England saying "I've been here for 2 years and I don't have any friends."


I'm not really worried about that either. I'm used to my friends and my kids being far away. I will still email and call everyone that I love. We'll just be father away than usual.And I am going to have more blog fodder than you can shake a stick at.


Ok, so ...How do I feel about this ?


I'm stoked! I'm going to England you guys!!!! Yippeeeee!!!!!
I'm going to look at it like the adventure of a lifetime.


Have a great day !

luv me

How do you spell releif?

Hi All,


Well, WOOOO HOOOO !!!!


Floozie 1 and I went back to the USDA vet today and the cats papers were approved this time!


I was SO relieved , I felt like a puddle that needed to be scooped to the car with a shovel. Kind of like when you manage to grab your 3 year old right before they run in front of a speeding car.


I was like a wet noodle. LOL


After that ,we had a wonderful time shopping and having some delicious Mexican food on our way home.


My poor little friend. Her husband just died a couple months ago. He was sick with cancer for a long time.


Yesterday ,she put her Christmas decorations up and when I spoke to her on the phone she kept crying and said "there was no one to tell her it looked pretty."


She is fine ,really. The loss is just so fresh. They were married for over 40 years.
She is a happy ," full of life " kind of gal and I know she will get through this like a trooper. Then she better get her butt over to visit me in England. LOL


Right after I got home I got an email from the Visa people saying:

"Your application has been approved and the visa has been issued.


Oh Happy day!!!! Some one get a shovel and scoop me into a chair, would ya.


Thanks again to the peeps that helped me :)

luv me

I'm cold and there are wolves after me.....

Hi Ya'll,


Well, what happens the minute my husband leaves?


The temperature drops to nothing, it starts snowing and the wind blows like crazy for 2 days.


This stupid car was all nice and covered with it's brand new car cover. Well, you can see where that wound up. Wet and dangling from the car by the cable . Otherwise the damn thing would have been in Kansas.


I was ill about the fact that "I" was going to have to go out there in the freezing wind and try to rig the thing to the car with velcro ,duct tape or something.


I'm not exactly known for my mechanical mind. God only knows what I would have come up with.



This comes to mind.



Luckily ,our good friend and neighbor Lake Farmer rang my doorbell yesterday for the cable key and he rigged the cover up and tied it to the car with string.


THANK YOU! kind Sir, you saved me from a horrible ordeal.

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No word on my Visa. (gah!!!!!)


Yesterday I was supposed to just run down to the Vets and get signatures on my cats (sickeningly extensive) paperwork.Because , I must go have them signed by the USDA Vet.


Well, I get over there and the Vet looks at the papers ,trust me they don't have many pets traveling overseas around here,he then says" Where are the cats?"


"um, they're at home.'


"Well, this says that I've examined them and they're healthy ,I haven't seen them since April.Why don't you go get them."


Great, I would just love to.


I rush home and lucky for me, all 3 cats are sleeping right there on the guest room bed.


I look at the carriers all over my living room and decide there's no way I can carry them if I stick everyone in their own carrier. So I put Cavuto in one of the small carriers and cram Monkey and O'reilly ,both in the little sherpa bag.


And off we go.





Screaming all the way.



I can see that my drive to Dallas is going to be a great big fun blast. NOT!














"Help! I'm in prison."









$144.00 later , the cats have had an exam, which lasted about 2 seconds each and I hopefully have the right 'effin paperwork.


I really feel the need for a nice little nervous breakdown. :)


Have a great day guys!


luv me

I hear that train a ' comin'......

Hi all,

Well in a few hours we'll be off to the airport . :(

Hubby heads back to England today. And I am left to do all the rest of this work by myself.

Also left with a refrigerator full of Thanksgiving leftovers and no one here to eat them.Believe me, I have no desire to eat one more bite of any of it!

Frazzle,frazzle. Whoo am I frazzled.







In 14 days the cats and I will be heading for England as well.

It's so hard to believe.

If I knew how to relax I'd be excited. But noooo....I have to be a nervous wreck instead.

My mind is like a blender full of all the stuff that needs to be done, and worry about my Visa , worry about being far from my kids, worry about the cats flight.Etc....

I swear, I need a vacation as soon as I get there.

But that won't be happening. I'll get there just in time to throw together our Christmas and not to mention the state of the apartment over there.

Let me refresh your memory......





It kind of makes me feel like I'm about to move into a hobo camp.

He missed his calling as an interior decorator.
No?













One of the first things I must do is get a couch . I'm sorry ,but I am NOT spending long sitting on either one of those hideous lawn chairs.


Note to my spouse: Please make sure I have a computer by the time I arrive :)
Lest I wither up and die a hobo's death.








I better get up and get busy. It's 10 A.M. and I'm still sitting here in my pajamas.


Have a great day Peeps!

Luv me

Mundane Monday........

Oh....I'm so tired.

My spouse is on his UK sleep schedule. So ,there he was at 4 a.m. with the t.v. blaring.And a thunderstorm was raging outside.Naturally , I could not sleep any longer after that.
Gah!

His phone also started ringing at 4:30 . Can't people do the math for the time difference?

Apparently not.


Tomorrow is our fun filled trip to Memphis for my stupid biometrics appointment. I wish I could sleep through the whole day . ha ha.


Yesterday I sent a bunch of ya'll the "Christmas meme"

Thanks to all you fun folks that played along.








Jeri, Myra,Mary,Kim, Vicki, Bonnie , Janice ,Beth and Wes .

Thanks for NOT being Scrooges.

BTW , Wes is the only one with a penis who completed the meme.









On the other hand.....




Mark,Logan,Karen,Jamie,Ian,Hank,Dari,Brenda and Brad.


There's still time before you go on Santa's "lump of coal" list.

:)






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Here is the recipe for Floozie1's famous sweet potato casserole.










It is sweet potato Heaven!!



(hopefully,if you click it it will be full sized)






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Well, both of us (hubby and I) have been sitting here at our desks ,doing boring, mundane paperwork-ish details ,for going to England and frankly I'm bored out of my skull!


I hope we do something at least remotely fun while he is home.


I think I'm getting nervous too. Ooommmmmmm.....breath in...breathe out.....

I think I'm scared something with the damn Visa will come back "rejected" Ugh...my nerves can't take it.


Ok, before I drive us all nuts......here's something funny.

(click on the green arrow)

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Have a great day ya'll,

Luv me

Is there a garbage man in the house?

Frazzle ,frazzle ,frazzle. ugh! Why do I get myself so frazzled?


Hubby should get here this evening and I am a frazzled wreck because I still have so much to do before then. Usually I am not behind schedule like this. I blame the damn cold weather because it has been too cold to take out the trash (I have a whole line of it waiting in my entry way) too cold to pump frekin gas! The truck is on fumes. And too cold to clean out the truck.It still looks like a garbage can in there.Also have a 50 pound bag of cat litter still sitting in the front seat because ,yep, been to damn cold to haul it in here.





Lovely, no?

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It's a lot harder than you would think to get a picture of 2 cats sitting next to each other.




Cavuto and O'Reilly (2006)













Just managed to get these yesterday. Only took me 2 years for the photo op.
:)


O'Reilly and his giant baby, Cavuto










They are beautiful....

aren't they.

I find it hard to believe that there is only a 3 pound difference in their weight.







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Yesterday I told my husband that Eva was coming over to take me a new Visa picture. He couldn't believe it. He said "Why don't you just go to Walgreens ?"


"I'd prefer a picture that doesn't make me suicidal! That's why."


"Why would you even care? "


"I guess because I'm a girl."


Why would HE care that I care. LOL


So , once my awesome son makes it the right size ....





This will be my new Visa pic.

It can't make me young , but it also doesn't make me want to jump off a bridge.


Note to awesome son: Please hurry! Love yo mama



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I better get busy on my fun,fun (cold) chores.

I will get to everyones comments later on .


Happy Saturday Peeps!

Luv me

Anyone have a brain I can borrow?

Ola Peeps,

After the stressful wait yesterday for UPS, I ripped open my package of paperwork hoping to see a shiny new visa. Even though all along ,my gut was telling me something was wrong.

So, did I see a shiny new visa inside? Of course not. Because I am "Me"

Imagine my horror when I saw THIS instead.






(click on it to make it big)






I have to do it ALL over again.....including the stink'n trip to Memphis for fingerprints .(which they already have!)

It was all I could do to keep from bawling my head off for the rest of the day.

I do not know how this even happened. I never checked any "settlement" box.

I do already have my plane ticket , so now ,if they don't approve the dang thing quickly , we will have a problem.

The thought of driving to Memphis again was the MOST upsetting thing of all. Thank God my husband will be home ,so HE can drive .

Remember how shocked we were that my visa cost nearly a thousand dollars? Well, apparently the "correct" type of visa is only 300 and something. (Thank God they are refunding us the money for the first screw up)

I could just scream.


ARRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All I want for Christmas ..is everything......

Hi all,


Well, (insert stream of cuss words) I just tracked by boxes, since I have heard nothing about how much money they want from me. And what do I see?
For some reason it says "unable to deliver , returned to shipper" (that would be me. )

(insert more cuss words) WHY???
Now I am back to square one ,again with that shit!
UGH!!!!

Not one word on my Visa either.

UGH! I am sooooo MAD!!!!!

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I spent my entire day working on my 4 page list. Fun times, ya'll.

I spring cleaned and inventoried both freezers and the refrigerator.

Springs cleaned the laundry room .

Scrubbed my tub and all the steel sinks.

took out a ton of frozen trash.

Vacuumed the whole house.

Cleaned the kitchen

Mopped the floors.

Cleaned the office.

Did laundry.

Searched in vain for my photo program (so I'll have it in England)

Took a break in there ,long enough to go eat a hideous lunch at KFC.
They have a lot of nerve calling that fast food. 9 bucks for that slop!

That was my thrilling day.

It's windy as hell and freezing out side. And I'm in a great mood. (not!)

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I found the most awesome thing ever. In fact,I thought up this very idea when I lived in good old windy, freezing Chicago.

Presenting the Nubrella



Functionality
With its sleek aerodynamic oval design, providing the very best in protection for your head and shoulders, the Nubrella forces the wind over and around the canopy making the Nubrella truely wind-proof. No more struggling with umbrellas to maintain their proper position in the wind. Simply strap on the shoulder support and walk completely hands free because the Nubrella has no pole through the middle. The Nubrellas unique and well thought-through design protects you from wind chill and extreme cold - you will be amazed on how much warmer you will feel using your Nubrella.


THIS baby is on the TOP of my Christmas list !


Speaking of which......since I have nothing to post about ...here's the rest of my Christmas list. (so far) he he ...







English hot rollers












Cheap English stereo



















Leg warmers





















This "snood" , yeah I never heard of one either.























Cat key chain










Adorable boots








Hope you guys are having a great weekend!

Luv me

Set me free why don't ya babe..get out my life ...

Look ma, no more damn boxes! Woo hoo!

Those boxes, which have been the bane of my existence for about 2 weeks ,are on their merry way to England. Good riddance!

Still NO word on my VISA. 24 hours ,my eye!

Last night ,I made my 4 page list of work that needs to be done before I leave. But...it's too soon to do most of it .So I actually have a few days to be lazy. I also made hubbys list (lol) which is not going to thrill him. He's gonna be a busy boy while he's home.

Now that I am out of "waiting for UPS prison" I am gettin' out of this house today. Yippeeee!!!!

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Next time you're feeling stupid.......check out some of the searches that led people to your blog.

These are actual searches that people did ,which landed them here on my blog.
(all wording and spelling is THEIRS)


how do you make polyester

cat stroller dumb

how to do hairfor the ball

kinky housewife inserts apple

removing my cats voicebox

sorry rotten cats

yurt snakes

doctor info on screaming cats

I hate to even wonder about the kinky housewife or the monster that wants to remove their cats voice box. *cringe*

Share some of yours ,ok.

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ah, they look so innocent when they're sleeping.
















The ONLY time Cavuto is out of mischief.









O'Reilly doing his "bunny" pose.

It doesn't get any cuter than that
:)









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My hubby got to go to some convention in London, for the last 2 days. They took them all out to dinner last night on one of those big red, double decker buses. You know, the cool ones that I am dying to see? Did he bring his camera? so his poor neglected wife could see the bus, or London, or anything? NO!

Somebody tell me, how could he be so selfish?So insensitive, so thoughtless!
I am crushed!


I'm off to get my chores done so I can be out of here the minute the stores open.
I'm free baby!

Happy humpday ya'll!

Luv me

Could I be more boring? Ummm ,no.

Happy Sunday ya'll,

Well, let me see.....is anything new?

My litter robot did NOT arrive Friday ,even though UPS had it on the truck.

I got this email from the VISA people.Three days AFTER they got my paperwork.


"Your application, passport and supporting documentation have arrived safely in this office. Please note that the processing time for all applications (except settlement) is 5-15 working days. However, if your application is straightforward and has been submitted with full supporting documentation, a decision is likely to be made within the next 24 hours. If further enquiries are required, a decision on your application will be made within 15 working days of its receipt in this office. You will be informed by e-mail if this is the case. "

Guess they don't work weekends. Have I mentioned that I HATE waiting ? well I do!

We finally got my reservation. I should be on my way to England on Dec. 13th.Woo hoo!

We also found someone to rent the condo. He's a little (young) cop. No kids, no pets and doesn't smoke. Woo hoo!

Now, I just need a clone of myself to do all the work that needs to be done around here.ack!

That's about it. The weekends are always boring as hell around here. What do you guys DO on the weekends?

Since it's so boring.....here's a meme that I stole .
:)

Stolen Meme :

Accent - California ,Arkansas, Washington (kind of like a stew)

Booze of choice - None lately. But vodka and diet coke if I drink .

Chore I hate - Ironing. Please, who invented clothes that wrinkle? Laundry, dishes and trash.

Dog or Cat - 3 cats

Essential electronics - Computer. Cell phone. My cd player

Favorite perfume(s)/cologne(s) - Red Door. People actually follow me around to find out what perfume I'm wearing.

Gold or Silver? - White gold

Hometown - Buffalo, NY-Palmdale ,Ca.-Hot Springs,Ar.- (just a few of them)

Insomnia? - quite often.

Job Title - Domestic Goddess

Kids? -3 grown sons

Living Arrangement - Cluttered condo

Most admired trait - how would I know?

Number of Sexual Partners - Currently ZERO

Overnight Hospital Stays - 3 childbirths -2 weeks for appendectomy ,while 7 months pregnant- hand surgery, broken leg,

Phobia - heights, bugs, snakes, murderers,mice,rats, social phobia, Pretty much EVERYthing but flying. :)

Quote - "my shoe 'da fell off" Arnie from "what's eating Gilbert Grape"

Religion - Christian

Siblings - One brother - deceased. One sister-Soul

Time I wake up - WAY TOO EARLY thanks to Cavuto.Around 5 a.m.

Unusual talent/skill - I read very fast and I can shoot a gun like nobodys business.

Vegetable I refuse to eat - plain old beans.

Worst habit - smoking

X-rays - Teeth.chest, arm , leg, head,stomach, (I should glow in the dark)

Yummy foods I make - Pretty much any food I make. :) (except steak and turkey) That's my hubbys department.

Zodiac sign - Leo (supposedly, but my mother squashed all my Leo traits)

Consider yourselves tagged. :)

have a great day!
Luv me

I need a forklift and a donut.......

Hi ya'll,


I feel like I am living in a storage warehouse.












This brat has the nerve to take a nap after waking me up at 5 this morning.



















Don't you just love what I've done with the entry way?















The office?














The bedroom?












This was Cavuto's idea. It only adds to the splendor, don't you think?







I am waiting for quotes on how to get this crap to England. 5 lousy boxes......that's all I plan to send. UPS wants over a thousand dollars to send 5 boxes!I think NOT!

USPS...2 of my boxes are too big for them. I TRIED like hell to pack light. Then i repacked and packed even lighter .I am down to about 8 pairs of shoes.......can you imagine living an entire winter with 8 pairs of shoes?4 coats, 6 sweaters, and 3 scarves. ?

Ha!I can not fathom such a thing.

I am also nervously awaiting word on my Visa application. We sent them a copy of ,pretty much ,our entire lives. Surely nothing can go wrong. Right?

On a lighter note.....after about 3 months of starving and giving up happy hours ,I have finally lost about 5 whole pounds. Woot!
Anybody else would have been a toothpick by now.At this rate I should be thin by the time I die of old age.

Have a great day today!

Luv me