Ahhhhh..........

I'm going for the laziest person award today. Thanks to everyone who came last night. I had a lot of fun...hopefully you all did too. I'm sure I'll be enjoying leftovers for days to come. Everything is back to normal here now (as normal as it gets anyway). Jason is off hunting; I am just enjoying one nap after another. I'll be back later with some pictures. I just wanted to say thanks again to everyone. Now I can start planning for next year ;). Happy Sunday everyone. 30 days till Christmas!

Happy Birthday Sloan!!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday Sloany!!!!! I can't believe your already 5 years old! (or is that 7?)


Well we have made it thru yet another day...and that brings us closer to turkey day and for me; a 4 day weekend. I hope all of you are hungry!! I went to fareway today and bought (not just 1) but 2 huge turkeys!!!!!!!!! It seems that every year I make a big turkey but never have much for leftovers. We all like to eat and the turkey is always a treat. So, this year there will be more then enough for everyone! Besides the 2 turkeys (almost 44 lbs worth) I got a giant ham. Jason requested a ham since he prefers that over a turkey. So now I just have to get arrangements made to cook all of this turkey! And I need to line up a table to put all this food on.

Hopefully Melinda can hook me up with a picture of the birthday boy that I can post on here for this special occasion. Dont forget his after turkey party. I have an idea for somthing a little bit special for the birthday boy this year. Hopefully I can get it all lined up.

Well it's been a long and dreary day. Hopefully you'll forgive me for my short blog tonight so I can go veg out on the couch until Jason gets home. Whats everyone planning for supper? It looks like we are having steak...mmmmmmm good! Stay tuned for pics of the birthday boy.

Another Monday gone...

This week is short so it's nice to have one day down. Nothing new to report. I forgot i had a meeting till 5 so I went in at my usual 6 a.m. After a long 11 hours, I was ready to be home. During the meeting I got to sit by someone who sounded as if they have bronchitis. So dear god help me if I get sick before Thanksgiving I will be so so mad!!! Why can't ppl stay away when they are sick?!:????

Other then that my toes are cold so i'm thinking of soaking them in a nice hot tub tonight. Doesn't that sound good? MMMHMMM! I just wish I knew what I was having for supper tonight. We ate at arby's yesterday so Jason will have a fit if I suggest eating out again. Eating out is easy tho...just more expensive then home cooking.

Well my to do list for thanksgiving is getting longer but I'm getting really excited. I look forward to this all year long...it's always over way too soon! I'm not really looking forward to Christmas though. After being overdrawn for a few days already, I dont know how to afford Christmas. I'll have to have ol' tightwad help me out huh? That'll be the day!!!

Well...for the 'interuppters' out there..I think I'm gonna....... Because I'm getting....... I hope you all stay......... Please read this ........ Nighty ......!

update

I have grandpa's 89th birthday pictures posted down below now...go check it out! Pretty good looking guy there...sporting his new columbia jacket/hat!! Looks toasty! Not bad for 89 eh? :)

pictures ...

Resting up

After a long weekend of driving, allergy testing, and then party...I'm resting up! I'm gonna attempt to post some photos on here from the party.



Shelley got her flu shot covered for this year now, and I have my allergy drops for 6 months ready. They tested the usual things and discovered my sensitivity to dustmite is way up right now, so I'm taking high potency drops for that. I asked him about all the trouble I'm having with my ears and sinus' and he says that my nose has significant swelling an pollups developing which would be why I'm plugged and 'bizerable' so much! So I have a fresh supply of allergy drugs to help improve the situation.



There seems to be some snow in the air again today. We really need to rake up leaves but I dont know when we are gonna have time to do that when it's snowing!!! Might as well wait a while and shovel them both...right?



I am busy getting things lined up for thanksgiving. The house is getting ready for my annual 'spring' thanksgiving cleaning. I have my to do list all written out. Next thing I have to do is get all my groceries bought. I am happy to tell you that Alysia has generously offered to make a pie besides her egg assignment. I believe she said it was pecan cranberry pie? Is that right? Either way, it sounds good and if Alysia is making it I know it will be good. We all are trying to figure out how Alysia manages to accomplish it all. She would have her hands full enough with just her school work, but she did that while buying a house and moving, planning and pulling off an awesome wedding, and still finding time to come visit for birthday parties and holidays. Slow down kid...your making us all look bad!!



In the meantime...I am cuddled up here in front of the heat register, wrapped in a blanket and snuggled in my pajamas. It's starting to feel like November out there. I think I'll have to make some hot chocolate to really feel warm all the way thru. Hope you are all having a great weekend....let me make an attempt to get some pictures up here for you all.



Happy Birthday Mike...40!!!!!!!!!!! (Wow that's old!)

This entry is dedicated to Melinda Jane

HI MELINDA! I know your reading this!!

Grandma and Grandpa and I just got home from a cool and blustery trip to Waterloo to Dr. Ohara. Grandma made her usual stop at Wal-Mart while Grandpa got his back cracked. Hopefully the weather will cooperate for us so we can continue to go thru the winter months ahead.

Mom found a whole box of my old baseball cards this week. I've been going thru them one by one, just sure that one of them is gonna make me rich. I haven't found it yet...but I will!!!

Now that I have a camera I will have to post some pictures for everyone to enjoy. I have pictures of most everything and everyone. Flash and Dukey have been my star subjects. Sunday night I got a chance to photograph a few new subjects including Sloan writing 'big fat paiton' on a piece of paper and everyone eating chocolate cake.

This week I'm working on getting the house ready for company Thanksgiving. A sucessful trip to Dollar General I got some nice colored containers to organize all my holiday and seasonal decorations into. After getting them sorted (and labeled) I sorted them nicely into the basement for storage. The joke this week at work has been me and my labeler. Little do you all know...but at work I am 'the organizer'. If someone is away from thier messy desk for very long it's very hard for me not to go organize it for them. Even Boss Lady Sue will call me when she needs papers sorted and organized. I have all of her files alphabetical and color coded. Christie ever so nicely informed Melinda about my label obsession...so now everyone can be secretly jealous of my labels.

Well, tonight I have a huge roast in the crockpot. I put it in at 530 this morning so it's been slowly cooking for 13 hours now. I make it with 2 cans of mushroom soup and one can of french onion soup and mmmmm is it yummy. So I called Jason and told him to hurry home so we can eat...because it smells soooo good!

On another exciting note, I finally got the 'ok' to pick out an engagement ring. Jason is suppose to make sure it gets ordered and all the rest will be up to him. I will have to have Alysia Ann help me plan, she managed hers like an old pro.

What more can I tell you other then it's dang cold and if I dont get my pond heater in soon I'm gonna have a mess of frozen goldies!! Good night all, I'll try to catch you again tommorrow!!

Happy Birthday Grandpa!

Well a week has gone by already that I haven't written. Time flies when your having fun I guess!

Everything is about the same... I had an earache all week that is finally gone. It is still plugged but not hurting anymore. I got my new digital camera this week. I've been snapping pictures of just about everything. (Dukey and flash are the main victims, but Jason gets his fair share of 'ops to. Otherwise, things are going really good in insurance. I was nervous that maybe I wouldn't like it...just because it was somthing different and a whole new group of people to work with. But, I really like everyne a lot, and I feel like I am learning a lot.

Mom is here this weekend. Yesterday we took a trip to Klunders Kafe in New Hampton. Mom and I split a big plate of hashbrowns covered in sausage gravy and a giant cinnamon roll. Mmmm!!!

We dropped Jason off in Elma on the way home so he could spend the day with some of his friends working on a pick up. While he was there, Mom and I hit the dollar general. After that we worked on putting up plastic on our one bad window. When Jason got home, he bought us pizza from Rons Pizzaria. So this morning I'm gonna fix mama's hair and we'll probably go out for breakfast again. Tonight we'll come up and eat some cake with Grandpa for his 89th birthday!!!!! Happy Birthday Grandpa!!!!!!

time for some zzz's

Well hopefully you all remembered to 'fall' back your clocks today. I got to enjoy the extra hour awake...try as I might, I can't sleep. I've been busy researching online for new digital camera. The one I've had for almost 5 years already, I gave back to Mom and Shelley to use for their ebay extravaganza. It will be great for that. I'm excited to get one a little more updated and with some xtra bells and whistles. Then I can get back into my role as the family shutterbug! :)

Flash is staying up with me, or staying with me I should say. He's curled up in a little ball snuggled up against me here on the couch. Dukey gave up waiting for me to go to bed and is upstairs sawing logs with Jason. Jason was tired out from driving truck, hauling fertilizer, all day. He normally doesn't get called in to drive truck, but the guy who has been doing it had a son die of cancer yesterday...so for that we can't complain about getting called in.

Last night we went to Jason's mom and dad's for supper. She (Sue-Jason's mom) made a big pot of chili and homemade bread to go with it. I got a good recipe for taco salad from Judy and made that to share with everyone too. The purpose of our get together was to draw names for their family Christmas. We started that 3 years ago already and for them it works really great. They have some family friends and extended family that like to participate so we have a 'big' gift that is just between Jason's immediate family and a 'little' gift which is between the extended family and friends. On xmas eve we will get together and exchange the 'little' gift which we set at $25 dollars, and then on Christmas day we do the 'big' $75 dollar present. This seems like alot but really when you compare it to buying for about 18 ppl, it's a bargain. This also makes the shopping alot less stressful because we can get a wish list from the ppl we have to get ideas for what everyone wants. He has 2 nephews but we all usually just get them a little somthing besides the names we've drawn.

Who would have guessed in the middle of the night they play the Jefferson's. I haven't seen this show in a coons age! This morning I rented Blades of Glory on OnDemand. It's got Will Farell and then the guy who played Napoleon Bonaparte. It's hilarious. It's about 2 professional ice skater guys who are enemies and get kicked out of single skating competitions for fighting each other, so they team up and compete as the first male/male ice skating team. It is so funny. I didn't get to see the end of it yet...hopefully I will get a chance to watch it all tommorrow. One of these days I would like to try the Charles City theatre. People at work tell me they come all the way here to see a movie because they are 2 dollars to get in and always good movies.

That's gonna have to do it for me tonight...I'm all out of news. Have a good Sunday everyone, enjoy your extra hour!! XOX OXOXOX

Happy Friday!

Why does it always seem like there are more Monday's then Friday's? I love Friday...hate Monday...but it always seem like there are more of them then Fridays'! Anyway...I'm working on my plans for thanksgiving. I'll probably have the same menu as I always have unless anyone has any special requests. I'll get an email put together this weekend with everyone's assignments. I want mom to make me a new tablecloth but I may just buy one instead. Is anyone super fond of dark meat? Otherwise, I might just get some turkey breasts. But I haven't made that decision yet. Jason and I are gonna make a killer trip to martin bros cuz so far everything has been so good, we're gonna stock up some more things. Melinda...you really need to check it out, it's awesome!

I think it's time for me to shut down the dehumidifier. I had it so dry down in the basement when I put my pants on this morning they were full of static. So, I guess that means it's dry right? I've been getting shocked all day and had to borrow static guard so that my pants wouldn't ride up around my knees!!

I'm hoping Jason has tommorrow off so we can make our usual trip to Klunders for breakfast. My favorite thing to get there is hashbrowns with sausage gravy. They have REAL hashbrowns and homemade gravy...it's sooo good. Then we usually split their giant cinnamon rolls that they cut in half and then grill so it's hot and crispy mmmmmm with some butter melted on top...man I'm hungry!

Guess that's it for now, I'm at work so better try to look busy!! The nice thing about training is...you dont have anything to do but whatever people give you and then it doesn't matter if you get to it or not!! I intend to enjoy it while it lasts. TGIF!!
Have a good weekend everybody!!!

One more thing

What does everyone think about some kind of get together for G'pa's birthday?

I'm a little late...

Sorry for the delay. I hate to give you all withdrawl!! Problem is, it's awfully hard thinking of somthing EXCITIN to write every day!!

Once again I'm S.H.I.T (so happy it's thursday.) One more day and I can sleep in. I dont know if it's me...but my allergies are terrible this week. I sneeze all day long, I can't hear out of one ear b/c it's plugged, and my nose it plugged. (It is what gramma would call bizrable).

My neighbor lady Judy just got home from a 9 week visit to her daughters brownstone in New York. She brought me an awesome chinese umbrella. It has pictures of birds and water lillies, so she thought of me. She also got Jase a new cap that says NEW YORK! But probably not because it made her think of him. Probably b.c he always needs a hair cut!! Shaggy Jason.

My water calla lilly is blooming in the house. So is my christmas cactus. I had forgotten that mom told me she put 2 different color flowers in one pot, so it's really neat with 2 shades of pink blooming together. Other then that all leaves are falling in the back yard, filling up the pond. I will fill the water up one more time before winter and throw the heater in there and hope the fishy's make it thru one more winter. Most of them are getting really big!!

The other 'new' girl in the insurance dept. is Christie Knapp. (No relation to Dean that I know of":) Anyway, she's alot like me, and I love every minute of it!!! She's got a week's head start on me so every idea I have...she's already got it done. The highlight of our week has been emailing back and forth between each other. We are less the 10 feet away from each other, but she will still email me to tell me somthing. Since I'm so easily amused, I get the giggles when she starts writing me back, cuz all she'd have to do is turn around in her chair and she's looking right at me. Yesterday we were emailing each other about being good neighbors to one another. We were beginning to feel like we were in Mr. Roger's neighborhood.

Last Friday after my trip to Martin Brothers I'm anxious to go back soon and stock up on more things. Everything we tried from there has been excellent. I got Jason these huge tenderloins which are about the size of a big salad plate. They barely fit in the fryer. He's had them 2 nights already. He loves them. We also got crispitos and pizza sticks. It's all really good!!!

Last night was homemade pizza which we devoured in a hurry...it was tasty! Tonight I'm debating between Tuna n noodles and chili dogs. What do you think? Jason will want chili dogs. Who cares what he wants tho right?

I'm looking forward to daylight savings ending this weekend. With the extra hour of sleep, I won't have so much trouble getting up in the morning. It's really hard to get up when it's cold outside. We let the furnace get down to 62 degrees at night and then at 430 (when I get up) it's programmed to kick up to 70...this morning I was so stinking hot by the time I was ready to go, I was happy to go out into the cold. Maybe this philosophy will work after all!

Well, as Jason would say...it's about time for me to do some 'figurin'. I haven't balanced my checkbook lately and I spose I ought. Hope you are will forgive me for the delay!! I'll try to keep up better from now on.

Bye for now!