200th post celebration and a Giveaway!

I am now at 202 posts in my short but sweet blog career. Thought I'd celebrate with a giveaway...

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This giveaway the same as the others...
A custom 8x10 matte to hold a 5x7 photo of your choice in the colors of your choosing.

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Some samples of previous winners...

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just leave me a comment with your biggest

pet peeve

and your in it to win it!
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of course if you'd like to follow my blog I'd be delighted!

(giveaway to end Novemeber 20th winner to be choosen by random.org)

Somber

Either I never paid enough attention to the news

OR

The world has gone MAD with a capital CRAZY!

The past couple of months EVERY single day, sometimes twice, there is another story on the news about something…tragic.

Here’s a sampling to what I am referring;

* stepfather kills stepdaughter, hides her body and then reports her missing

* moms gives her beautiful baby away, then reports her missing…five days later she is found hidden her the bed of the babysitter (after an intensive search) * massacre on huge army base

* local boy commits suicide after fight with father

* 12 women's bodies found at the home of a serial rapist/killer

* woman found naked behind a grocery store

* kidnapped woman found (with two children) after a lot of years in a backyard fortress of some kind…the kicker? The house she was found was in a residential area.

* man attacked on the head with a hammer by his roommate, 89 stiches and broken arm, all because he would not give him 90 dollars

I am sure I could go on and on.

Just thought I’d ask…has anyone else noticed things getting a bit unbelievable, and wacky? It is kinda starting to get to me.

Tenacity

The tenacity of those that own this car is amazing.

A couple of months ago bright neon signs started to litter this local family’s home.

It seemed like everyday a new sign would pop up, always on bright poster board and, always entertaining. From what I understand they hired the company Rebath to come in and do a one day redo of their bathroom that turned into SEVEN months.

Last week I drove by the house (it happens to be on the main road) and was surprised to see ONE lonely sign that stated:

“Finally I believe justice has been served”

I would love to know the outcome.

They made sure you could see the signs from every angle.

They sure did what they felt was necessary to get bad service fixed…I’m glad they got a result they could live with because, I am SURE that they would have signs up there until kingdom comes if they didn’t get some kind of satisfaction. How far would you go to satisfiy a wrong done to you by "the man"?

Amy and Alaythia

A couple of weeks ago I got to see an old and special to my heart friend and meet a new little one to hold onto my heart.

Amy and Alaythia (which I believe is Greek for truth)

I think she looked like a cute ladybug that day so I’m thinking I might just start calling her my little ladybug permanently.

The last two pictures were take without the flash as to not wake the baby and they came out all yellow…but you gotta love the pink furry crocs and and the ‘my first doll’ baby doll.

For Christmas Miss Alaythia will be receiving a plush “my first purse” complete with a purse, cell phone, lipstick, and credit card. Only $5.00 from LTD, can’t beat that!

http://www.ltdcommodities.com/home/catalog/cat_item_pg.asp?G=718&P=436&Rec=1&Ntt=my+first+purse&N=37&Nao=0&R=463542-1PRS---1

I’ll end with a cute video…enjoy…

Computer

I would like to introduce you to my laptop…

chameleon…Cammy for short…chameleon because she is going to change her shell on my whim.

The other day I wend to the dollar tree in search of stickers, the kind that won’t leave sticky when your done and came across these hilarious toilet seat stickers…aren’t they GREAT!

For the most part I am in like with my Personal Computer…

It’s a bit slow and…

The WI-FI doesn’t work as well as I thought it would so I can’t get the internet at work (which I had been super excited about) and at home it is a low signal even when I am in the same room as the router. Yesterday I went to the parking lot of McDonald's and nothing…but my cell phone WIFI picks their free WI-FI up. I’m gonna have to investigate to see if there is something I can do to help it out…(it was less than a 1/3 of the cost of a new computer so I am NOT complaining).

I do have to say that;

*I love being able to write blog posts on Windows Live Writer when I am at work. I will defiantly be posting more (aren’t you excited?)

*I can do my budget (or what I call a budget) on my long nights at work.

*I can type up E-mails to better keep in touch with friends.

and

*I can journal…typing seems to make it easier…LOVE the backspace button. I am too OCD for writing, I like it to look nice and by the end of three pages I can get a little sloppy.

Etcetera, Etcetera, Etcetera…

I love how this toilet seat sticker transformed into a beautiful laptop cover…I didn’t notice until now that the printer and mouse portals match. How fun! I might have to look through my scrapbook stickers and find a word to stick on there.

Hope you enjoyed meeting Cammy. You will be seeing her efforts often.

Nothing Better

There ain’t nothing better…

than a perfectly browned grilled cheese sandwich!

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Do you know….that it is seriously hard to take a good picture of a grilled cheese sandwich? I tried and tried to no avail…so this picture is courtesy of a Google image search.

Tour of Laundry Room & Meet the Cats!

Thought I’d share my favorite new ‘outside the box’ contraption

We had a rolling cart to hang clothes on and I hated how much room it too up.

SO…

 

On a whim I bought a 2.00 set of plant hangers, found a bar, hung the hangers the length of the bar apart and voilà, our own personal clothing rack that doesn’t take up a TON of room…I’m SUPER happy with it.

 

Here's Whitey asking for some lovin’

(she looks dingy doesn’t she…maybe she just couldn’t stay white forever)

We took her to the vet this week for her bi-yearly diabetic check.

They doubled her dosage of insulin, and said she had lost three pounds.

She is 11 years old…not sure how many more years we will have her.

She basically lives her life on the dresser snuggled on her purple bath mat.

Her favorite pastime is sneaking into the kitchen and

finding the ONE thing you may have accidently left out to make her snack.

She is so sneaky, but always gets caught when something drops.

She also likes to sneak into the dining room table and become the center piece.

It is freaky to walk in there and see a living center piece on the table.

I think she likes the sun that comes in through the walls of windows,

SO CUTE

I love finding the cats in random places…they make me smile.

 

While we are in the laundry room, lets take a tour…

  Sheer white and red curtains with some hearts and stars clothes pinned to the top. We have yet to figure out whey there are three outlets so close together…I’m pretty sure they are there to drive me nuts!

Cute sign we got at a flea market (made by men with developmental disabilities) with a heart and star hanging from the ends.

My favorite dumpster find EVER, the black hutch, perfecting for organizing all those laundry supplies. We have been making our own laundry detergent for over six months and has been great. It is cheap, and easy to do. If any one is interested let me know and I can find the recipe for you. It sure is nice to take that expense off your shopping trip list…

 

Oh, here's Whitey following me around….

Oh, wait there is Star (she is my cat, and whitey sister)

Star is fat so she can’t jump to the places whitey can,

I’m pretty sure they want a treat...since I had just given’ them an ample tasting of their treats

…they are just being greedy now!

In the living room…

It’s a Little Bit…

 

Tucked-in snuggly warm…

 

making cute sounds while she sleeps.

For some reason in the winter I love to cover her and tuck her in. She seems to love being nestled warmly, be it under the covers pressed up against your legs, lost in the blanket on the couch, or wrapped up in her cute bed and fleece throws…

She MIGHT be spoiled…

...Just MAYbe…

I CAN’T help myself!