I am in the middle of a blog re-design, so please excuse the mess around here.  I felt I needed something new, fresh and clean around here to boost up my blogging mojo!

Summertime is in full swing, so I have been spending less time inside around a computer and more time at the pool and the beach and at Bush Gardens and where ever else you can take the kiddos.  We are all tan and having a blast spending quality family time together.

We have had terrential downpours here in Virginia for the last week.  Have you ever experienced taking two children and all associated backpacks and lunchboxes to school in the pouring down rain?  I would rather poke burning hot scissors into my eyes than take my kids to school in the rain!!!!

I have been really busy at work lately - really busy!  This has been majorly cutting into my blog posting/reading time.  I swear I am going to go around and catch up.  No seriously, I really am.

I have decided to cave and get the kids a puppy.  He is an English Bulldog.  He will be born on July 7th, via C-Section and will be able to come home at the end of August.  I get to be there for the delivery.  We are going to name him Knox!

Clothes at the local Surf Shop are ridiculously priced.  One pair of men’s shorts are 45 dollars.  I spent WAY too much money in WRV the other day on clothes for my husband.  But he did deserve some new clothes, I cannot remember the last time we bought him new clothes, other than pants for work, etc.

Anybody out there know CSS well enough to fix my damn footer down there - it is about to make me slit my f—king wrists!  Uggggghhhhhh!!!

Does anyone else use Yahoo as their homepage?  Are they going to launch the new site already or what?  I mean seriously.

Dena and I have been friends since 1999.  That was the year that we started working together.  We did not work together two days, before we hit it off and realized how much we really had in common.  We started hanging out outside of work and our husbands started hanging out with us.  Then our husbands became friends and didn’t need us around for them to go play golf or go to a NASCAR race or concert together.  We got pregnent around the same time with Kaiden and Ethan and now they are best buds.

Though I no longer work for the same company as her, we have stayed in contact.  We drifted for a while, but have pretty much been inseperable for the last two years again.  Where am I going with all this?

Yesterday, while Dena and I were at the pool, Dena’s neighbor came to lay out.  This has been Dena’s neighbor for as long as I can remember.  After she got situated in her chair, she looked at me and said, “Hi there, we have not been introduced, what’s your name?,” to which I replied, “Oh I am Misty, one of Dena’s best friends.”  Dena’s neighbor replied, “Your her best friend, hmmmm, I have never heard her mention your name before.”

Hmmm, really?  Cause I have heard you mentioned for years now, and I have never even been brought up?  Not when you come over or when you and Dena go on your walks in the evenings?  Try to picture the glare that shot across the pool into Dena’s direction.  Dena said “What?” and I just said, “Umm who are you, I am not sure I have ever heard you mentioned before.”

Thanks Dena, for keeping me a significant part of your life for almost seven years now.  I feel loved - you big asshole!

Imagine you are driving down the street on the way home from work.  You cut through the local trailer park neighborhood to get home quicker, when you happen to look over at one of the driveways and see a dead cat laying there, covered by a dish towel, with a potted plant next to it - a proper burial for any beloved family pet.

What do you do?

You stop your car, get out and take a picture of it to post on your blog, because no one would ever believe that you saw something like that, unless you had the picture to prove it!

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This news story is hilarious (well not so much for the dead guy, but funny to me)!

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Truth proved to be stranger than fiction for a high school criminology class investigating a fake crime scene when the students discovered a real body during a field trip.

Teacher Sue Messenger had been creating mock crime scenes with fake skeletons and other evidence for more than 20 years to give students in her forensics courses a firsthand look at what crime scene investigators do.

On Monday, however, 29 students from St. Thomas Aquinas High School got more of a jolt they expected when they discovered the real body in Fort Lauderdale’s Holiday Park.

“The first thing we thought was, ‘That’s a real good dummy she set up,’” said student Juan Cantor, 15.

“I think they kind of went into shock and disbelief,” Messenger said. “What are the odds that we would be out here?”

Police on Tuesday identified the body as David Wayne Bodie, 45, a homeless man who apparently died of natural causes.