The next blogs will be written by my daughter.
She is 12 years old and I think she will enjoy the experience and I wish her luck. I’ll be checking in on her now and then!
Winter is Back in All It’s Glory
Baby it’s cold outside!
Didn’t get much sleep last night Hubby was coughing up a storm and was tossing and turning most of the time, being the light sleeper that I have turned out to be, I didnt get much rest. Looks like he will stay in the bed for the day, took his temp and he has a low grade fever, we need to get him healthy in time for the work week. With freezing temperatures back a lot of pipes are going to freeze and the company he works for will have many jobs that need to be taken care of.
Speaking of the devil – I hear him calling out for more Jello, time to make up a batch of chicken soup, there is a lot to be said for the Jewish penicillin.
I hope that their are some things on the T.V. that will entertain him while I keep busy in the kitchen and dealing with the kids today.
Mobiles Underwater
It seems that a company has invented a way of putting a coating on mobile devices to make them repel water. It is called Ion Mask plasma surface enhancement made by P2I.
Although most of today’s devices have not been made with this coating applied, I’m thinking we are sure to see more sleek and less cracks in our next generation of mobile devices as a result of this technology. To think one day maybe people will be able to take their mobiles (cell phones, PDA, MP3’s, etc) in the shower and the tub with no fear of being shocked or the device not working anymore is awesome!
I am looking forward to getting my hands on one as soon as they hit the market, whenever that may be.
A little something for the blog
So happy to be blogging again, as you’ll soon find out I love to chit chat and talk about just anything. I even made a category called “anything,” because there is so much of that in this world of mine.
Made a fabulous dinner tonight that would have made any 5 star chef jealous. Served lobster and T-Bones along with salad and the usual side dishes.
After dinner, hubby and I got together and played the new game system together for a couple of hours. Then I did some cleaning around the house and put the prince to bed. About an hour later, we were all counting sheep.
Happy Birthday, Elvis!
I’ve always loved Elvis. He deserved a better wife than that girl-child he brought back from Germany!
To celebrate Elvis’ birthday this year, I searched for info on his favorite foods.
Elvis loved good down-home cooking like what his mother served him as a child. His tastes never strayed far from Southern-style cooking. Grits, black-eyed peas, ham and bacon, fried chicken, cornbread, mashed potatoes and homemade country gravy were just a few of his favorites.
Elvis did not like exotic or foreign foods. Most of the foods he consumed were basic hearty foods, the type Southern women cooked daily for their families.
At Graceland or at his home in Beverly Hills, Elvis specified what should be kept on hand in the kitchen. Must-haves included fresh lean ground round, hamburger buns, rolls, pickles, potatoes, onions, fudge cookies, assorted fresh fruit, canned sauerkraut, mustard and peanut butter. His refrigerator also contained at least three bottles of milk or half and half, thin-sliced lean bacon, vanilla and chocolate ice creams and freshly squeezed orange juice. Pepsi, Nesbitt’s Orange and Shasta Black Cherry were his favorite soft drinks.
When the King was in residence at Graceland, also on hand were ingredients for his favorite snacks — brownies and banana pudding. Both were made daily by the kitchen staff.
Elvis made the fried peanut butter and banana sandwich famous. He called it a “peanut butter and ‘nanner’ sandwich.” He would ask that they be prepared for him at all hours of the day and night. I could do that for you, Elvis.
New Face Book
I am one of the few that doesn’t get all up in arms about the changes that Face Book has been enduring lately. None of the changes have been all that significant as far as I’m concerned. And this latest change, this “TIMELINE” is pretty cool if you ask me, it didn’t take me but a few minutes to figure it all out so these folks that are screaming bloody murder about the new “TIMELINE” are just being silly.
Mom’s night
Since further back then I care to remember, we have had a “girls night out” every week at one of the homes of someone in our group of moms to play games or do crafts and discuss life.
This week’s gathering happens to be at my house, so I am cleaning and baking and ordering some goodies for this weekend’s festivities here. We will be doing scrapbooking tonight and I have bought a lot of little embellishments and special papers at the craft store to share with our group.
Has been a lot of fun over the years to get together, and I hope it is something we will do for all time. Anyways, have to get back to getting things done – write to you all again soon.
Heard from girlfriend in Colorado
I got an email with the subject line of “legal funding”, I almost hit the delete button when I noticed that it wasn’t spam but an email from a girlfriend all the way back from Junior High School days. She and her hubby moved a few years ago to Colorado and she is really good about keeping in touch with email.
They seem to love it out there, but it is so very unfortunate that exactly one year to the day that they moved out there, her hubby was involved in a pretty serious auto accident, to which he was not at fault, he was rear ended while sitting at a red light. His back and neck are both messed up pretty badly and of course he can’t work so the burden has been placed on her to keep the money coming in. And there he sits in pain and not being able to bring in any income, that is depressing I’m sure of that.
They will be receiving a nice large settlement some day but in the mean time they are really struggling to keep their brand new house from going to foreclosure.
But it seems that they were told about an option that they could use to help keep them going until the settlement happens. It seems there are companies that will loan you the money until you receive your settlement and you don’t have to start making payments until you start receiving your settlement and she was sending me the link to it in her excitement of finding out that there may be a way to help save the day.
I’ve heard of these companies, and they sound like they could be very helpful when you are in desperate need of losing your home and all that you treasure in life. I hope it works out for them.
My daughter’s first club experience in D.C. scared me
My daughter has never been the club type, but a few of her girlfriends wanted to go to one in D.C. and had been talking her into going with them. She scared the heck out of me because I told her to call me when she arrived and when she was on her way back home, and she forgot to call me when she was leaving and she apparently fell asleep in the car and her girlfriend took her to her house to sleep, and her phone died so I, of course, freaked out. When she returned home the next morning at about 7am, and I was so happy that I could finally go to sleep after staying up all hours of the night worrying about my first born.
Backed up sink!
Craziest thing with a house’s plumbing is that every so often, without rhyme or reason, the plumbing goes haywire. That’s what happened to me, I’m trying to wash dishes when the double sink in the kitchen just started backing up. My darling hubby decided to play plumber and try “snaking” the drain. When that failed he took apart the pipes under the sink, to no good end I might add. He then goes to the basement and starts snaking different sections of drain lines when one of them decides to blow foul water and waste material all over him! You could have heard him hollering all the way down the street. Poor hubby, He cleared the blocked pipe, but all I could do was to herd him into the shower and tell him if he can’t get the smell off he’ll have to sleep in the basement! (At least I got my sink back, and hubby knows the benefits of a hot, soapy shower too!