A new meme.......

Hi ya'll ,

I got nuthin' so here's a meme I stole from Bitchypoo. Actually, she was giving it away.

[Have you ever...?]

Gone on a blind date? Yes, with an Army gunner when I was in my 20's

Skipped school? More times than you could shake a stick at!

Watched someone die? Yes

Been to Canada ? When I was too young to remember it.

Been to Mexico ? Many times.

Been on a plane? Many times.

Been lost? Yes, I usually consider it an adventure.

Been on the opposite side of the country? Unfortunately driven the whole thing in 6 days.

Gone to Washington, DC? Yes, I was there just a couple years ago .

Swam in the ocean? Many times !Many oceans.

Cried yourself to sleep? I am a girl. yes, duh!

Played cops and robbers? I think it was more like Startrek and Batman and robin. I was always Spock and Robin.

Recently colored with crayons? .No.

Sang Karaoke? No, but my sister and I did sing in a bar in San Diego once. A cute guy actually hit on me afterwards. So we must have looked pretty hot. It damn sure wasn't our great singing.

Paid for a meal with coins only? Surely. Probably french fries and gravy.

Done something you told yourself you wouldn’t? I'm sure I have.

Made prank phone calls? Millions:)

Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose? Yes, several times.

Caught a snowflake on your tongue? Not that I recall.

Danced in the rain? No, but I've walked in the rain. Makes your hair softer than you ever thought possible.

Written a letter to Santa Claus? I doubt it. I was always too realistic for that.

Been kissed under the mistletoe? yeah ,by my kids when they were little.

Watched the sunrise with someone you care about? Don't think so.

Blown bubbles?Of course.

Gone ice-skating? he he. Tried it once. My ankles were too weak.

Been skinny dipping outdoors? yes.

Gone to the movies? yes. But not lately.

Saved someone’s life? Not really.

1. Any nickname? Depends on who's talking to me and how long they've known me. Sissy,Poo poo, poodles, Retta, Gagga,Dear,Mom, Hagitha, Nagitha,Mammoth

2. Mother’s name? Earlene (don't be jealous)

3. Favorite drink? Coffee

4. Any Tattoos? One hideous one.

5. Body piercing? Ears.

6. How much do you love your job? Oh it's the bomb! Too bad it pays ZERO dollars an hour.

7. Favorite vacation spot? Anyplace warm with a body of water.

8. Ever been to Africa? No , but sign me up!

9. Ever eaten cookies for dinner? Probably as a child.

10. Been on TV? Yes, I was once in a Wylers lemonaide commercial and a pilot film with once football great, Rosie Greer.

11. Ever steal any traffic signs? No! I do not steal.

12. Ever been in a car accident? Just minor ones. Only once was it MY fault.

13. Drive a 2-door or 4-door vehicle? 4 door. Thank God!

14. Favorite Salad Dressing? I have about a million.

15. Favorite Pie? Peach or pecan.

16. Favorite Number? seven

17. Favorite Movie? The great Santini

19. Favorite Dessert? Floozie1's chocolate eclair cake or Floozie2's brownies.

20. Favorite food? Anything hot and spicy or some good french fries:_

21. Favorite day of the week? Wednesday

22. Favorite brand of body wash? Anything coconut-y

23. Favorite toothpaste? Arm and Hammer

24. Favorite smell? Coffee, clean babies,Good male cologne.

25. What do you do to relax? Not too good at relaxing. I clean. Or take some Nyquil. lol

26. How do you see yourself in 10 years? Probably a lot more wrinkled ,with some wirey gray hair. :(

27. How many siblings do you have? One ,now.

28. Furthest place you will send this message? The entire world.

29. Who will respond to this the fastest? Anyone who fears my wrath. LOL

30. Who is your favorite dog of all time? Sh*thead AKA :Grull

Go ahead, take it for your blog. You know you want to.

Happy Tuesday!

My world ....His world......

Mine......today



















































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His .....today.

Is it summer yet?

When good projects go bad......

Hi all,

I get bored with my house ,ya' know? In Chicago ,I used to paint my kitchen a different color at least once a year. I'd rearrange the furniture about once a month.

Well, in this house there's really no where else to put the furniture and you can't paint any of the main rooms ,because it's basically ONE main room.

A girl HAS to do something ,right? Months ago I bought some wallpaper with the brilliant idea that I would make a "wallpaper back splash" in my kitchen. Kick things up a bit.

Picture it....yesterday.





I get up all raring to go on my little project. Honestly, it was such a bad hair day, I couldn't go anywhere.












I move all the stuff off the counter. Remove a million outlet covers.










Oooh! progress.......









(this is not trimmed yet) But it's getting there.
I nearly have the whole thing done.
What do I see? Oh sweet, the glue is not sticking where the seams meet.
Time to improvise. I get a little putty knife and put some elmers glue behind the paper ,on the seams.
By the time I do that , I realize that the entire paper is NOT sticking to the wall at ALL.








Lovely. I am so damn mad as I rip the whole mess right back off the walls.


The elmers glue ripped the paint right off the walls.












Cavuto wondered "what in the hell is wrong with this woman?"

I was so mad and disgusted I left the disaster sitting there and went and took my nap.




Needless to say, I spent my evening screwing a million switch plates back on, painting the bald spots,cleaning my kitchen back up and washing that spice rack that I haven't washed in 4 years.

good times my friends, good times.


Have a great day Peeps!

Luv me

Step into my gallery......

Hi Ya'll ,

I have nothing today. Unless you would like to hear me rant about how desperately I need a haircut.
Didn't think so.

A few weeks ago Star ,over at Start Simplified gave a little tour of some of the art in her home.
http://starsimplified.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/a-small-art-tour/

I thought it was a pretty cool thing to do and planned to do my own . Well, today is the day.
As I looked around my house, ready to take pictures of things I love,I realized that I love just about everything in this house.

The first 42 years of my life, I fondly referred to my decor as "early goodwill".This condo is the first house EVER where I started from scratch and wound up with a unified theme.(mostly)

On to the tour...shall we.






I have 2 of these. They used to belong to my dad .He was in Immigration and traveled all over the world. He collected tribal masks and statues.
I am not sure exactly where he got these but he had them on his wall as far back as my memory goes.
I love them.





















My middle son made this in high school.
It's actually supposed to be turned the other direction.
I think it's awesome.


















An old man in a bar in Mexico drew this.
It cracks me up the way he made "me" all cute and he made my husband a pot bellied Bob Hope.
I'm pretty sure we all had a horrible hangover at the time too.






















Of course the pictures of my Chillun's .
Oh how I miss the sweet babies they once were.











I believe this is called a Zulu mask.
They were mainly worn by women in the tribe, to give them power.

I scored this one at a junk store for 15 bucks.
WOO HOO!!






















My trophy head :)

Shortly after moving here I had a yard sale. I made such a killing that I treated myself to this Elephant head.

I love it!










This is actually from Jamaica but it takes me back to being a little girl in Puerto Rico.

I can see the Puerto Rican beach right around the bend when I look at them.








That concludes todays tour. I want to see what you guys are loving. What's on YOUR walls?


Happy Friday!

Luv me

Now that I've seen Hugh Laurie naked, what's left?

Hi ya'll ,


I got some DVD's at the library of a British comedy series called "Forty Something". Starring Hugh Laurie. (Dr. House) It is hilarious! Him and his wife are a 40 something couple with 3 young adult sons.One of the sons is screwing 2 sisters, their dad is after Hugh Laurie, he thinks his wife is a lesbian ,the kids fight (like mine) and he's having a midlife crisis.
The neighbors could probably hear me cackling. THEN...what to my shock ,do I see? That's right....Hugh Laurie, buck naked!OMG! It was like seeing my brother buck naked!

Why wasn't this on TV in England? Rush out to your library and get the DVD's . You won't be sorry.(except for that naked Hugh Laurie thing)



Our cold snap ends today. Woo hoo!!
I stupidly left all my warm coats in England. I feel like I must go walk .Our mall is so dinky I have no desire to go walk around that thing. I'd have to make about 50 laps in there.



I've been checking the paper for jobs since I got home and guess what? There aren't any!
It's horse racing season down here, usually one of the busiest times of the year. This is awful.
Who wants to hire a socially phobic ex-Realtor with no recent job references ? Oh , wait ...I hear them lining up outside.



My kids are going through job hell as well. One wasn't paid what he was supposed to be paid. One is barely working at all. Naturally ,THIS is when his car breaks down. Ack!
And the one with his own company ,needs to hire a leg breaker to get people to pay what they owe him.
What is Obama gonna do about this??? Hmmmm???




I've had no luck finding a geek yet. Did you know that "geek squad" is through Best Buy?
I didn't know that. WE do not have a Best Buy. They are building one as we speak. That is not helping me.



I can't tell you how glad I am to have t.v.,phone and internet back! Speaking of luxuries, you know what the most noticeable one is ,since my return?
Being able to wash my hands in warm water.That's right! Warm water comes right out of my faucet.
Not having to fill ice trays or hang laundry in my living room is pretty cool too.

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Some comments to ya'lls comments:


Brad said...Try a very wet wash cloth on that boy before you risk life and limb on the full submersion bath. I use it on Lilly when she's been playing in the goat barn.

So what's the plan on getting the rest of the clan home?




I already tried that. His fur is just not fluffy. He looks like white trash. LOL
It could be that he grew a winter coat in that hell hole and THAT fur may just look scroungy ,like when they have baby fur.

The rest of the clan will be staying in England. Hubby will come home this summer for vacation and Cavuto and I will go back to England after vacation. His quarantine will be over mid July.

Anonymous said...

All the years I was married to hubby #1, I'd board my dogs when we'd go out of town. They were always very happy to see me. Until I saw the difference in Cavuto, I never dreamed they'd grieve so much!

Animals can lose the will to live and will literally starve themselves to death. I have seen it happen. Years ago, someone gave us a long haired Siamese cat named Ivy.My mother gave Ivy to a man at the gas station. About 3 weeks later she saw the man and asked about Ivy. "Oh , he's still in a cage ,the man said, acting miserable and unhappy."
He gave Ivy back to us. ...nearly dead. In spite of going to the Vet and being given i.v. fluids. Poor Ivy did not make it. His spirit had been broken and it was too late to save him.
That was NOT going to happen to my Cavuto!




Mary said...

Cavuto is really thin. Prison food didn't measure up. Also, I looked at the "blood draw" site under his chin. That looks a bit excessive for just drawing blood. Prison didn't agree with this little man.

He DOES look just awful!When they did the blood draw they shaved a little area on his neck and I think they nicked him with the clippers. In THAT environment,it soon turned into a huge crusty scab.If they had shaved the spot where they inserted his microchip ,maybe the damn thing would have gone in deep enough to have stayed there. Gah!

Poor Cavuto! He sure looks emaciated. I think he must have lost all his appetite AND didn't like the prison food. Poor baby. I know you will fatten him up in no time. Every time Cavuto curls up for a nap in the daytime, go rub his face. Every time. Then at night he will be so tired he will sleep and not wake you. I would like to be a fly on the wall when you go talk to your vet about that mythical micro-chip. G5



I think he was too sad and cold to eat.Yesterday afternoon ,every time he tried to go to sleep I got him up and sang "No sleeping, no sleeping!" He must have thought I was nuts , But he did sleep until 4 A. M. this morning. I'm positive I will be getting a NEW Vet . Even if I have to drive to Dallas to find one!

Anonymous said...

do you complain about everything? You must have something that is good in your life...what happened to the blog you wrote that said that you would be thankful for things back in the states, after you had been in England?
It sounds like you need to get something to do to make your life nicer.

I have plenty that's good in my life. But I think that since wounds hurt when they are fresh, I have every right to feel sad that my family has been ripped apart over some bullshit.And since this is MY blog I guess that gives me the right to say so.


desert dirt diva said...

Who the heck is ano.....people seem to forget that a blog is for the sole purpose of letting out our emotions...bad times and good.. well my friend here has been going threw a most difficult time in her life with her babies and anyone who has been following this blog CAN clearly see how awful CAVUTO looks..don't worry a few bowls of whipped cream and he'll be fine.....so get off your high horse and give this women a damn breaK!

I do the love the new scratching post....of o'reilys,.
and everything will be alright its just the family curse....give it time...

January 28, 2009 8:11 PM

Amen Girlfriend!!! Love you!

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How could this not make me flaming mad?

L: Cavuto before quarantine

R: after with his sides all sunken in.
















Before, beautiful and healthy.










After, I don't think I need words here.
Even his eyes do not look normal.












After: fitting in that crumb of a bed.
Looking dry and mangy.













Before: spilling his fat happy self out of his girl bed.
Shiny , pretty and happy.









Have a great day Ya'll!

Luv me

Please pass a geek and a cat whisperer......

Hi Ya'll,

How in the world do I re-set my alarm cat?
Cavuto has his time zone totally messed up. Last night he tried to wake me up at 1:45 and then continued to do so for hours.



Paw in the face. "wow,wow,wow"
Paw in the mouth. "wow ,wow"



I cover my face with my arm. He pokes his foot through a gap.
Claws me in the face. "wow ,wow"



I toss him down on the floor. Try to sleep. Than he goes to the night stand and knocks the phone off the charger, spills my glass of water. Then rushes back to my face.
Paws me in the face. "wow , wow"



This has been going on every night. Which is why he never got his bath yesterday. I needed a damn nap instead.



We never got our big ice storm. It is freezing though.



Yesterday the cable guy was unable to hook up my living room t.v. because my husband has so much crap on the backs of all that stuff. The poor kid was stymied.






Remember THIS?

Yeah, I need a rent- a -geek.

I will try to find one today .









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Skinny Cavuto back on his American counter.
















Eating his beloved whipped cream.













Sleeping in spoiled warmth and comfort.











His neck wound(from the rabies blood draw) Healing nicely.










Scrawny baby. He lost a few pounds. It was very obvious when I put his harness on him. It was baggy.

He does look awful ,compared to his usual beautiful self.









My poor mama-less Booger with his new cat tree.

I busted out bawling when hubby sent me these pictures.

Boy ,do I miss him! So does Cavuto. There is a huge lonely hole in our environment without O'Reilly and his constant activity .










It goes without saying that we miss Hubby.

Even our little Bee-otch is missed.

This whole damn fiasco makes me so mad !
And so sad.

off to take a bath and cry a little :)




Have a great day Peeps!

Luv me