Em's Golden Birthday...

Em's birthday was on the 13th it was her golden birthday...which means two things....she is no longer "just" a preteen...and she is a full blown bonafided TEENAGER...complete with the phone surgically attached to her ear and the keys on the laptop keyboard superglued to her finger tips...the first thing she does when she wakes up in the morning is check to see if any of her friends are online...and if they are...her face is plastered to the screen. The most I get out of her is a "what ?" "Gosh mom your such a loser"!! Ok, she is laughing when she says this so I usually let her live.
We spent Em's birthday doing girl things with my sister (Hi Anna !! Love Ya!!)
we had a blast, I took Em to get her ear pierced two more times (she now has three holes in her right ear...she's such a punk) and then we got her hair cut in a Salon in town...the girl that cut Em's hair was almost naked and very "cutting edge" she had short messy layers with about a gazillion shades of reds and browns and blacks in her hair...I was sure my daughter would walk out of there with some crazy
razored-up hack job and at one point the hairstylist actually did use a razor blade on Em's hair, Anna and I were Freakin'...What in the Name of "Aunt Ilene's cabbageless coleslaw" is she going to do with THAT ?!!!! But it turned out great...and I gave the stylist a big tip..."here honey take this money and buy yourself a shirt to go over that bra"....just kidding...but that was a lot of cleavage to leave layin' around!!
After Em's hair was finished and we left "BOOB's ARE US" we went shopping and Em found lots of fun stuff and bought some of it with her birthday money, then we had great big waffle cones jammed full of ice cream from a cute little shop on Main Street (every town in the whole world should have a "Cute Little Shop on Main Street" that sells humongously huge ice cream filled waffle cones) how can you possibly have a bad day with ice cream in your face and all over it? By the way here's a little some thing funny that happened regarding ice cream all over someones face...after the ice cream we stopped to get a movie from the video store to watch after supper...we all went in and found one right away...while we were up at the counter renting it...the guy behind the desk kept starring at me...I was torn between thinking "what do I have food in my teeth" and "Hmmmm maybe I'm lookin' kinda cute today"...I didn't think much of it and then when we left and got into the car I was backing out of the parking lot and I looked up into the rearview mirror and suddenly realized what the starring was all about....Peanut Butter flavored Chocolate ice cream all over my face...so what can I say College-boy when this girl eats ice cream her whole face is involved...Get Over It...and by the way loving family of females that were with me during the entire video shopping experience...I know that at some point one of you did see the huge amounts of chocolate all over my face...thanx for the heads up...Thanx for "Havin' my Back"...Sheesh !!!

10 More Things About Me...

1. I do not like to drink soda from the can...the reason...I love to feel the
tickle of the soda bubbles on the end of my nose...the only way to achieve
this is to pour it into a glass before you drink...effervesence...
2. I can not sleep in a bed unless it has been made first...as in...even if I
have to make it right before I climb in...complete with blankets folded back
and pillows fluffed...its a sickness
3. I love ducks...I love the way water just rolls off of their feathers
and I love the way they look when they are about to take flight...kind of
like a bus with wings...very ungraceful yet perfectly wonderful to watch...
4. I can express myself better in writing then I can while talking...yet for
some reason my lips never stop flapping...
5. I would never be accused of being "Book-Smart"...
6. I could spend hours rock collecting...its a passion...
7. I love water...I love the sound of a river, the ripple of a stream and
the roar of the ocean...
8. I have made descisions in my life that I am not proud of...
9. I would love to spend a whole day in a gigantic hammock in autumn...
10. I am impatient...

Thought For the Day...

"Shake it Like Jello"

Very Very Sorry...

I have neglected my Blog for far too long...I am sorry. I have missed all of you...I have been going thru some huge life changes (no...I didn't get a sex change or join a free-love commune) but it is major and it has been stressful. I will try to share some of it in a later post but for now I will just say Please forgive my absence...I promise to do better in the future...besides I can't really function properly on a daily basis without hearing from all of you...I truely have missed you all and Joyce I hope your brother is doing well, I have been thinking of him and you and your family and keeping you in my prayers.
I promise to post real soon...until then here's a litle piece of trivial advice:
Never do sit-ups in shorts on cheap synthetic carpeting it can and will give your big bum a nasty rug-burn.....