YAY STELLA!!!

Stella's routine is to get me out of bed between 6 and 6:30AM. She doesn't usually ask to go outside until closer to 9:30 however so she's not getting me up because she has to potty. I have decided that for some reason she thinks it's her job to get me out of bed at 6 o'clock. I hate it! I try to make her go back to sleep and leave me alone but most of the time she is relentless until I get up. Then the little shit sleeps until nature calls and she has to go outside. Sometime around 9:30.

I don't know if it's because it's a holiday or what but this morning I told her to go back to sleep and she did!!! She didn't wake me up again until 7:45AM!!! A much more civil waking time if you ask me. How good it felt to be able to sleep in for a change!!

Hmmmmmmmmm......

Does the benefit of eating the skin of a baked potato outweigh the risk of using a half stick of butter to make it taste good?
Man, my dinner was good tonight!

Gray and Overcast

I just downloaded two new books to my Kindle and plan to tackle the laundry today.
If Grandma thought I looked ragged yesterday, she should see me today!!

Thanks Grandma!

My Mom, Allison, the boys and I all went to visit my Grandma today. (Yes, there were five generations of us there.)

Gage was sitting on the bed next to Grandma and she asked him if he didn't think I looked ragged today. He said yes.

I know, she's 102, I should cut her some slack. She usually just tells me I look tired. And Gage didn't know what ragged meant. When we told him he immediately said that no, I didn't look ragged, bless his little heart.

The really sad part is that I'd glanced in my rear view mirror before I got out of the car and thought my hair looked really good today. Either my eyesight is getting worse or hers is and I have a sneaking suspicion it's mine. That old lady doesn't miss a trick!

Unsubscribe

It seems like I get unwanted e-mails every single day. I take the time to unsubscribe myself so I don't get anymore e-mails trying to sell me stuff. Where the heck do all these places get my e-mail address? It's an ongoing battle.

Clean House

I love a clean house. I don't like cleaning house however. I'm always glad when I do though.
Thankfully, I got the urge today and now it's clean. I can watch the grand finale of Survivor tonight and bask in the cleanness.

Alone

The hardest part about being alone... is being alone.

Stella Claims The New Furniture

Finally

I downloaded the pictures from my camera last night for the first time since the beginning of the year. Yeah, I know, right?

This picture was taken at Deb & Jennifer's birthday party in February. I made my famous carrot cake with orange marmalade cream cheese frosting. I was looking at the pictures this morning and the picture of that cake seriously made me drool!

Mother's Day Flowers

I got a bouquet of flowers from Sarah and Allan for Mother's Day on Friday. I took them out of the box and they appeared to be completely dead. The instructions from Proflowers said to put them in water along with a packet of stuff they sent and that they'd be fine the next day. I didn't believe it.

Saturday they still looked dead. Sunday they started to come out of the funk and today they are just gorgeous!

Happy Mother's Day to me! Thanks Sarah and Allan!

My New Love

Allan, I bet you'd love these too! YUM!

Accreditation

There was a man from the state accreditation board visiting the nursing home my 102 year old grandmother is at. He asked her how she was doing and if she liked it there. She told him, "It's none of your damn business!"
Later in the day as she was sitting at dinner, drinking milk from a carton he came up and asked her if she always drinks her milk like that. She said, "Just leave me alone, I don't like you!"
The nurses were thrilled and said she was their hero for the day :)

Brooks & Dunn

I bought tickets this morning to see Brooks & Dunn, Darius Rucker, Eric Church and Sugarland at the fair in July for Allison, Sarah and I. Can't wait!

Rain, Rain, Go Away!!

It's rainy and dreary here today and the winds are supposed to gust up to 50MPH! What a lovely day! (NOT!)
The good news is that I had my carpets cleaned yesterday and they are dry and looking beautiful. The bad news is that the rest of the house needs to be cleaned.