Sunday Scramble...a little early

Perfect Eggs while camping

One of my favorite pics I took at my aunts pond

My new Eyeshadow

My new Movies, yes I am a big kid

Little Delilah when she was a kitten

I am playing along with Justine and doing the Sunday Scramble. You just write about what ever pops into your head or post random stuff I guess. I payed $50 bucks for corel video studio software and it is so complicated I can not figure it out without reading the manual.....groan I do not do manuals! So I went back to windows movie maker, it is easy and its free!!!!

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I was looking through some old videos and I found a camping one and I just did a review of
Urban Decays Alice in wonderland eyeshadow palette so I posted those.

My feet are hot and my body is cold....I am weird.

They found some old pictures of Marilyn Monroe that where never released before. I have always loved Marilyn Monroe imagine if she did not die.






This is when Dave went to Vegas for work. I love Vegas it is hot though. They say but it is dry heat, what the heck does that mean???? Yes 104 degrees of dry heat is much more refreshing than 104 degrees of muggy heat?




My brain hurts I do not know what else to write.........toodles

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Has it really been almost 2 months since my last post!?

Hi Peeps!

Wow I really have been a major slacker when it comes to my blog. Yesterday I finally changed my blog layout from HALLOWEEN!

I have been good, wonderful, great if any body is wondering. The holidays have come and gone now we just have to deal with the crappy never ending part of winter that seems to last for a century. I do not know about you but I am ready to sit out on my deck and enjoy a nice warm spring day already. I have a lot of friends in Florida you all know who you are (I hope) and I know this winter has been cold for you too. I was bummed because we did not go on our annual Florida vacation but the week we would of went would of been that cold, cold week and I would of just been pissed I spent thousands of dollars to be cold so in a way it is a good thing.

Not too much is new on the home front we work, and on the weekends we hang out at home as it is too cold to venture out. Dave did work on his bike this weekend in the garage and I did not even ask why he stomped into the house covered from head to toe in oil (tee hee.... shhhhh).

Work has just been work you know long and boring. I have been on a crazy shopping kick lately I may have to seek help soon....I am solely keeping amazon and a few other shopping sites in business. Note I do not go to stores as people bug the crap out of me I do it all online....at work! Lets see since after Christmas I have gotten: 2 more pairs of boots, 2 train cases (see my you tube or face book page for my reviews on those), all kinds of make-up, a nice pair of senshauser (spelling is totally wrong) headphones, jogging pants (for wearing while I lounge on the couch), paw slippers, accesories for my kindle the Ebook reader (I love love love), a jewelry pouch that was 3 sizes smaller than the picture, an over the door organizer for traveling, corel photo shop X2 and the Corel video software too, at CVS I got a $36 wet/dry hair iron for only $19.99!(I know I am forgetting a few this so that is just the stuff I can remember I literally have stuff delivered to my house at least twice a week I am on a first name basis with the UPS and fedex guy. Oh I also got a mini epilator now if you do not know what this is let me tell you it is a little device kind of like a portable shaver that has all these tweezer things on wheels that rips the hair out of your body, it is like medieval torture device, why do I do these things to myself???? I need an intervention!!!!
Here are my Sasquatch boots and leather riding boots I got, The Doo was checking them out too.

Now even though I have been buying this stuff, I always pay my bills first and pay for everything in cash, no charge cards in my house. I also set up an ING savings account where I have $25 deposited from my regular checking it may not be much but in a year it will be $1,300 which will be vacation money....I also plan on making extra deposits too.

Me and the Davemiester have really gotten into the HGTV shows like househunters and the international version, and the first time home buyers episodes. We eat our dinner in front of the tv and watch these shows and Dave loves to yell at the people telling them how stupid they are for picking the wrong house. We always guess which house they will buy and I am 90% right all the time and he is usually wrong....yes this pisses him off.....LOL.

I wanted to start doing videos for blogs and you tube and I am so mad as I have 2 perfectly good tripods for my camera's and wouldn't you know it I put them some where when I was on a cleaning kick and can not find one of them. It drives me crazy when I can't find things as I am anal in the sense I have a place for everything in the house.

I wrote on Facebook last week how I was so upset Friday as we where driving home after work a car in front of us hit a kitty! I saw it fly out from the car and it was like in slow motion it was traumatic for me. We stopped the car and went to look for the kitty but it was gone I hope it was not too badly hurt and went home and got help. That just pisses me off to no end when people let their cats out, especially if you live near a very busy street. I was crying the whole way home and I ran in the house to see Delilah and hug and kiss her. I still can't get the image out of my mind....brrrrr it gives me chills!

Well I guess I have babbled enough to make up for the last two months I hope everyone one is just peachy!

Where did Christmas cards come from???

Hi everyone,

Hope you are well, I have not been blogging much as no one else seems to be either. I see you all on faceBook :) Any how I just thought this was a great article *From old fashioned living*

Christmas cards abound each year as friends wish one another holiday cheer. These colorful greetings are displayed on tabletops, mantlepieces, and sometimes strung around the room. They're often collected and pasted in albums or used the following year for making Christmas decorations.

But sending Christmas greetings in the form of a card is not a centuries old custom. Actually the first real Christmas card supposedly appeared in the 1840s.

First Christmas Card

Henry Cole, an Englishman, found himself pressed for time at Christmas. So he wasn't able to send the personal Christmas letters (a tradition at that time) to his friends. Thus he asked well-known artist J.C. Horsley to design a Christmas message that could be printed up and mailed.

One source says that Mr. Horsley designed and sold more than 1,000 copies of that first card. Did Mr. Cole send so many cards himself, or did Mr. Horsley interest others in buying and sending cards, too?

Design of the First Card

This first Christmas card apparently was constructed of stiff cardboard, illustrated with a drawing of a family seated around the table eating Christmas dinner. Then the side panels depicted poor Londoners receiving food and clothing from the more well-to-do.

The card carried the message, "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You" as many cards do today.

Christmas Cards of Many Types

Louis Prang, a German immigrant, started printing commercially the first Christmas cards in America in 1875. By 1881, Prang was printing five million cards a year.

The smallest card ever made was perhaps the one sent to the Duke of Windsor in 1929. A grain of rice was inscribed with Christmas greetings.

This inscription could be seen only through a magnifying glass. Over the years, Christmas cards have come in all shapes and sizes and were made from a variety of materials. Some early Christmas cards were no larger than a postage stamp.

A Christmas Tradition That Continues

Sending Christmas cards is a tradition that isn't likely to die out even though postage keeps increasing. When you include a personal note or annual family letter you add something of yourself to the greeting. In today's computer world, we're finding computer designed and generated cards, as well as online greetings.

No matter how we send them, Christmas greetings bring people closer together at this time of year.

(c)Mary Emma Allen


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I will some day get to changing my blog to a Christmas theme, all is well. If you are on facebook and would like me to add you as a friend please send me your email as I have myself blocked as private. Hope everybody is in the Christmas spirit as I am BIG time this year.

Labor day weekend was all about laboring

Hi

I hope everyone had a great long weekend. We busted our humps and got things done around the house. I am so sore today it hurts to type. We painted, organized stuff, and just kept busy all weekend. I am just putting in this slide show so you can see a bit of what we did. The never ending project but its a good sense of accomplishment I suppose if you look at it that way. My sore muscles are saying you should of been a lazy bum all weekend. Today is my mom's 60th birthday...Happy Birthday Mom! She does not have a computer so I can tell you I sent her 18 long stem roses they are fall themed colors and her favorite flower so she should like them. We are having her Birthday party at the house in a few weeks with other relatives coming over so I want everything done by then. Now we moved in a year ago and we just started painting, have had the paint for about 11 months.....can you tell I hate painting. Hope everyone has a great day. It feels like Monday but is actually Tuesday so I suppose that is a good thing. Augh I need a weekend just to recover from this weekend :)

A real Summer weekend at last!

This past weekend has been the best weekend I have had in a long time.  It is great having Dave home and let me tell you we kept busy!  I took a pictures so I could do a little picture story:)

This is Dave’s first day home and look a man with his remote he is in heaven!

Here are his 13 prescriptions!

Delilah is like hey I know this guy, I think it’s my long lost Daddy!

There is no place like home now stop taking pictures of me!

We interrupt this Dave picture-thon to give you a few photo’s of my flowers this is one of my gladiola’s the head popped off!

Here is my one measly tomato, because of all the rain the plant snapped in half.

 

10 Sparrows on the bird feeder Saturday morning.

Ok back to Dave hee hee.  Well really we did a lot this weekend he has to build his endurance up walking and stuff so on Saturday we went to Walmart in search of a charcoal grill and a few other things well lots of stuff actually(healthy food, snacks drinks etc).  We have a gas one but food taste’s better on charcoal I think.  So Walmart was a mad house of course the grills there where crap but we did get new curtains and rods for the front windows with a fancy expensive Rod set. But of course when we got home some jerk had opened the box and stolen the middle rod and all the hardware so now we have to bring it back.  We then drove to Lowe’s in search of this portable grill we wanted and they wanted too much but I did get 2 cute statues marked way down shown below.

Green garden gnome originally $20 I got it for $7.  I am thinking of pulling out my craft paints and painting him to look like the velocity Gnome we will see.  The next deal is the wooden birdie I got for only $3 marked down from $9

We tried CVS to see if they had the grill, nope so I said what the heck let me just check Stop and Shop and Low and behold the had the Webber grill we wanted and it was 33 percent off so it was only $19!  And it was the only one left in the store.  Here is Dave putting it together……oh and by the way I forgot to buy charcoal so  we had to go back to cvs for that.

Delilah thought she got a present too!

Why do cats love to sit in bags??

Now for our yummy healthy dinner we had grilled skinless chicken breasts, with corn on the cob and Texas toast.

Dave seasoning the chicken

Me faking I am cooking

Our yummy dinner!

We also watched 2 stinkers of movies Friday and Saturday and I can not remember the names but they just came out….DO NOT GET THEM, the first one had Morgan Freeman and Antonio Banderas as Jewel/art thieves and the next one had Ryan Phillipe being held hostage in Morroco  they where crap.  I did buy the the first season of The Tudors though so that kind of made up for it we watched a few episodes.

Poor Dave was dying to watch his nascar on Sunday but it got rained out.  We where both so sore on Sunday from all the walking especially Dave.  He has to get that endurance and strength back slowly.  We hung out on the couch Sunday and Delilah curled up in between us it was so nice.  Dave wanted me to tell everyone he thanks you for all your prayers I may have already said this but we both really mean it!

Oh just a few more Random shots:

 

Mushrooms growing in my flowers from all the rain!

Pretty spoiled. green eyed kitty!

That’s it folks!

My day was ruined yesterday……

Sorry to the people who read my blog and also read my Face book if you have to hear me complain twice. Any how I got a phone call from Dave yesterday saying the lawn guy was out front and Dave thought he was near my flowers…….Sure enough 5 minutes later I got a call from my landlord who said he accidentally cut down all my flowers out front going up the walk way. She said she stopped him and it was not all gone, well that was not the truth I got home and to my horror everything was weed wacked to nothing! I almost started crying. He cut down Lilies, Petunia’s, cosmos, wild flowers, Spicata’s, and daisies; I was so lucky he did not take out the Gladiolas too! They where all just getting big and getting ready to bloom. Unfortunately I have the bad temper of both Sicilian and Irish combined it would of been best if the landlord just stayed away from me last night…ah but that was not to be so she got an earful I am not mad at her but let it be known I thought the lawn guy sucked. I gave her a list to give to him to reimburse me, I refuse to take payment from her as a matter of principle. He told her everything would grow back…(well rocket scientist if you did not realize you where cutting down flowers how do you know they will grow back??)

****vindication is mine****

Just got an email that the landscaper will giving me a check for all that he damaged. To me I could care less about the money but it is the principle.

Now its silly time:

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