Six Random Facts About Me
Courtesy of my dear friend Renee!

01. I wear flip flops all year long (black reef flip flops). I wear them at home and at work. I own “flip-flop socks” for the winter time. I keep a pair of socks and boots in my car in case I have to go to a jobsite. I have bartered with my boss so that I can wear them to work. My daughter is starting to act the same damn way!

02. If it did not pose a health risk, I could seriously live off of Skittles and Pepsi. In fact, if someone invented Skittles flavored Pepsi - I would probably combust from my excitement. Combust a sticky rainbow of fruit flavors, that is!

03. If I get poison ivy, I get it so bad that I usually require heavy doses of steroids and hospitalization. Somehow, I usually always end up getting it on my face and looking like Freddy Krueger (which my sister and brother love and my mother will not be seen in public with). I am so sensitive to it, that I can contract it if someone is burning leaves and burn some poison ivy and I happen to walk through the smoke.

04. I think I have said this before, but during meals, I eat only one thing at a time until it is finished. For example, I would eat all my mashed potatoes, then all of my broccoli, then all my meat. I never mix it up. I have always eaten like this.

05. Maybe I’ve told you this one too. I cannot drink out of glasses, only plastic cups. For some reason a glass makes my drink taste funny to me and if there are more than three ice cubes, I need a straw. I cannot stand sipping out of a drink and have to fight with the damn ice to get the drink in my mouth!

06. As loud mouthed and open as I am, I cannot crap while my husband is around (or anyone for that matter). When we were first dating, I would make up excuses to go to the store or home if I had to go. Now, I wait till he leaves the house. If I cannot wait, I definitely sneak upstairs quietly and hope he does not notice. If he does notice, he does not let me live it down. He thinks it is hilarious that I am so embarrassed by it and will stand outside the door the whole time I am in there shouting “What are you doing? Hmmm, what? Are you poopin in there? Are you crappin? Huh, what are you doing?” He will probably do this till the day I die (which will look real cute at the nursing home).

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First of all I want to introduce my sister to the blogging world! She asked if I could set her up with something and I was more than happy to do so. I need everyone to go over and say hello and get her really pumped up, so that she will be a consistent blogger. So go now to www.simplehippie.com and introduce yourselves. If you feel like telling her something wonderful about me…feel free to do so! Don’t forget to blogroll her!

Second, I wanted to make everyone aware of a couple useful blogging tools. What, you did not ask for my advice? Well too bad, cause you are getting it!

The first is Pingomatic. I don’t know about you guys, but when I go to my blogroll (when I actually have a minute of time to myself) I have a few that I go see religiously everyday, then I go to whoever I see has updated. A lot of people do not ping their sites when they update, so I will go a week thinking the person has not updated, then pop in and see that they have updated like four times. You can go to Pingomatic and ping your site, so that it will show up as updated on everyone’s blogroll. You can also do this through blogrolling’s site, but Pingomatic covers more ground! So please ping people, so I know your alive!

The next one is Gravatar. A lot of people use Gravatar plugins in their comments on their blogs - those are those little pictures you see associated with someone’s comment. If you do not have one listed with Gravatar’s website, then you won’t have a picture in people’s comments. So make yourself a pretty little 80 pixel x 80 pixel picture that fits your style and go to that website and register with the email address that you always comment with (cause that is how they associate the picture with you) and upload your picture. If you are not sure how to create one, send me the picture you want to use and I will help you out! **In singing voice…“Cause that’s what friends are for…”

Okay, that is all for now. I really need to get some work done now!

She’s Baaaaack!  It is “The Rock Bitch,” so please go over and say hello to her and tell her that I sent you.  This is her second time renting from me and always a pleasure.  Go to the sidebar and get clickin~

First of all, we had a wonderful Easter.  The kids hunted for Easter Eggs, and Ashton was pleased beyond words that he got bubbles.  He carried that damn bottle around for an hour saying bubbles a million times.  The kids had candy for breakfast - which is always fun.  Ashton kept going out the back door with chocolate in his mouth and coming inside with a peanut in his mouth - which was driving me insane, since we did not have any peanuts in the house.  After the fourth time he did this - Todd and I started flipping out.  I said “What the hell is he doing, going out back and trading a damn squirrel for some chocolate?”  Well it turns out that

I bought

the Easter Bunny brought Hershey Kisses w/ Almonds, instead of the regular ones - DUH!  I am going to have to have a talk with that bunny!

I also thought I would share some pics from last week (pics courtesy of Delane).  My buddy Delane came in town with his wonderful family and met us (me, Dena and the kids) at “The Purple Cow” (home of the famous purple milkshake) for some dinner and dessert.  The kids had a blast and I was so happy to meet them finally!  Delane and his wife have been blog buddies of mine for a while now.  They live in Mayberry - YES, the actual Mayberry.  Well, when they were on there way out of town, they dropped off a present for Dena and I on my front porch - some very cute T-Shirts, aren’t they awesome?

Todd was jealous - he can’t wear it, cause it’s too small!

I love this damn video clip.  If I play it at home on the computer, Ashton says “do it again” over and over and then makes puking noises and then laughes his butt off - it the kind of sick humor that makes my day!