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TODAY

Have you ever had a day where nothing special happened but it was good? Very sweet but for no reason?

That was my day. It was a good day.

And that is just enough.

~kisses~

AT TIMES I THINK THE WORLD IS A WEE BIT CRAZY

I have a love/hate relationship with facebook. I am there because all of the popular kids are there ~waves to you from the back of the lunchroom at the nerd table~. Twitter is okay. I find that it is just a glorified status update like what is on myspace. Myspace is okay. I found a dear dear friend that I had searched for years on myspace so that was totally worth it. It is not that I do not enjoy facebook because I do. I have liked getting back in touch with people from my past. I do hate that it seems to be taking the place of emailing, blogging and reading blogs. I really do hate that and I will admit that I am the first one guilty of letting those things fall away because of facebook. It is also a HUGH time suck (LORD SAVE ME FROM FACE TOWN AND FARKLE!). I have lots of friends there. Some of those people are beloved blogger friends, present and past friends and people that have simply joined my page to build up my mafia. The past people are all people I went to school with. Many I did not really know then and still really do not know but I realize that people sometimes add people just for the numbers. Some I have refused to add. Talking about creating a stir ~rolls my eyes and mutter OY VEY~

Lately, I have had a guilty little dirty addiction on facebook. This addiction was like watching a Mexican novella. You do not really understand all that is going on but you certainly do get the drift in a BIG way. At least on the novellas you get all the stenciled on eyebrow raising and such. With the facebook pages you have to rely on words...or lack there of. This is the case of two facebook pages that I am reading from people who went to high school at or around the same time that I did. I really do not know either of them. I certainly did not know that they married and have been married for 28 years. She post a lot on her page. About a week ago, she began to post even more. The updates got more and more cryptic and strange. It certainly left her followers guessing and leaving lots of comments. The husbands post were things like *Transformers Rocked!* So I figured it was not a home thing. He never leaves comments on her page but she leaves lots on his. And they are all in a wifely tone. You know what I mean. Anyway, it was enough to keep me looking for her updates. Well Monday all hell broke loose. She posted that he had asked for 30 days to think about things. She asked her followers for prayers and help for this time and prayers for her marriage to be mended. Then she ended up logging over 50 comments. On her responses to those comments she wrote such things as *he has gone crazy* *he is not seeking good counsel* and *I think he is unstable*. She posted those things for him and all of the ever loving world to see. It was like driving by a horrible automobile accident and not being able to look away. In those comments, it seemed to me that she was just banging nails into the coffin of her marriage with total disregard to herself or her husband. He simply put a notice stating that he was tired of facebook and if anyone needed him then they could send him an email.

Almost anyone reading this post has a blog. I have read many of your entries about getting married or a marriage break up, the birth or death of a child, losing a loved one to death and even how you just want to run away at times. I have even posted about bad days and how I hate not having a mate. For some reason, if I read about it in a blog, I feel as though you have entrusted me to read your journal entry. Like you came up, tapped me on the shoulder and said...here read this. It always felt intimate.

Reading what she has written is like reading about the break up of her marriage in the Thrifty Nickle and I hate that. One of the best pieces of advise that I have ever received is, if you are having a problem, surround yourself with a FEW people who love you and will always tell you the trust. Those are the people you confide in. They will give you good honest counsel. If you let that important circle get too big, you will always find someone who will agree with you even when it is not truth or in your best interest.

What does it feel different to me? Why does this bother me?

I really don't know if there is an answer. I do know that her answers are not going to be found on facebook. I also know that I am going to work harder at posting and reading blogs.

And on a lighter note...gingerbean taking a bath. She LOVES her some bath taking!

ONE MONTH OLDER!

....than when I last posted. Yet, I STILL do not think I have anything of importance to say! Instead, I will show you the new picture I took.

I am just loving this image. It says so much to me.

Does it say anything to you?

PICKIN' MY BRAIN

God_Guurrlll wants to know 1) What is the meaning of life


I think that Calvin and Hobbes answered that many many times. I miss those two. I do not really know what the MEANING of life is. I do think we are supposed to leave people, places and things much better than what we found them and to find joy along the way. I mean really...if we are truly happy at no one else's expense...wouldn't this big ole world not be an even more amazing place?? So play nice, share and only occasionally run with scissors.

and #2 she wanted to know what would Jesus drive? I would have told you anything that he wanted. Mid-life cleared that question up with this answer: Some say Jesus would drive a Hummer - he had 12 friends and lived in the desert. Other's think he would have been more green minded. The apostles had to share a Honda - in several places we are told they were in one Accord.

JenJen ask if I could go anywhere in the world, where would I go, why and for how long??
I want to go to the state of Washington. I want to see real mountains and I just need to go there. I want to go where it is green and rains and it just feels right. It feels like I lost something there even though I have never been there. I want to go to Vegas and have a plan in the works for there. I have always wanted to go there at least one. I love Austin and I do not know why. I jump at that chance to go there. I want to meet a whole bunch of blogger. But when I think of visiting places or people, I do not have any sort of a time plan on it so I do not know how long I would stay.


Mid-Life Rookie wants to know: *How did you get to be so creative -skipping right past how things "should" be to explore all the possibilities of what they can be?*
Do I do that? Cause I do not see that at all. I tend to think that people think like I think. I love to reuse and repurpose things. Maybe it is cause I am cheap *grins* I actually remember my first garage sale when I was about 5. My grandmother took me and I bought a blue crackled vase for 10 cents. You have to remember I came from the generation that made trash cans out of egg cartons and decorations out of Readers Digest. *grins*

Dijea went on overload:
What if I don't want to know anything? Oh but you do grasshopper...do not fight it.
What if its better that I don't know? I would not tell you if you should not know.
Would living in oblivion be better than knowing? Sometimes yes
Where have you been, Twitter is not the same without you and Flutter? LOL..I am back
Why am I so needy? I do not see you as needy as much as I see you as curious.

ElastiGirl would like to know What my plan to fix the lopsided health care system in this country??

eerrrmmm......I feel like I am a Miss America contestant now! I hate to be a Debbie Downer but our government will never fix it. The people that run it will never give up the wealth nor with the pharmaceutical companies.

Swan girl wants to know if I ever get tired of her telling my she loves me?
Never ever ever ever. I do not think you tell me enough. ~winks~

PG wants me to tell her fortune.

~takes your open palm in my hand and looks on in amazement~ OMG PG!! LOOK LOOK! No don't! You would not believe it if you even saw it! Oh PG your future is amazing and SWEET! I see your face so happy. I see you on planes going to all the talk shows to tell about your new best seller book. I see WB as he graduates from college and gives the commencement address giving you kudos for how you raised him. Your home is going to be on MTV's CRIBS. PG trust me on this one...you just need to keep remembering two words. Your words are JOY and SWEET. You are going to see them around you a whole lot.

It's a Wonderful Why do our neighbors' trees fall on and damage our property? Is it because we had all our rotten, stupid Florida trees cut down?

Yes you are the cause of your neighbors trees falling on and damaging your property. Not because they hate you. It is because they are just jealous that they cannot live in your yard. That is why they sacrificed your patio furniture. They told me to tell you that they are really sorry about that.

Hot Cup what would you do if you lived in a boonieville and the silence was deafening to you? and uhm... time stretched on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on....??? how would ya shake it up so you didn't go positively mad?

I dance. By myself. Sometimes to real music and sometimes to the music in my head. I create. It took me a long long time but I finally learned that I could only be content in my own boonieville when I learned to be content in being alone. That is where Mindy takes care of Mindy. I could never be a half to someone else's half until I was full. I had to learn that I only hated the silence because I did not like being alone with myself. I do not know if that answered your question but maybe it answered one in myself.

Whoseyergurl Share your secrets with us as to the look of your blog...where you got the cute date pics, how you add stuff to the side column like that?

Oh gurl those are not secrets at all! It all has to do with adding things in your layout section!! Also, when I find something on a blog that I like, I click on it. If you click on my human calendar it will take you to here: http://www.humancalendar.com/ and you can make your own. If you want me to walk you though adding stuff, just let me know and I will call you and I can do that.

My blog template came from here: http://www.onecuteblog.blogspot.com/

Heidi Hey at least we're not alone in blogger's block, right? Love the questions asked...now we need the answers!! ;)

You got'em sunshine!

Stacey Are we going to sell the rest of our land this Summer?

Yes but do you really want to? Have you found all of the treasures yet?

Sue How did you get to be so very sweet?
*snorts* My mom will tell you in a heart beat that I am not nearly as nice as what I used to be. I do not think that I am sweet. I am actually a 56 year old bald man sitting at the computer in my tighty whities but ssshhhh don't tell anyone 'k? That will be our little secret.

Sandra is a curious girl who lives across the ocean and wants to know: 1. Who was it that called me when I was 8, and my mother hung up on them without taking a message? It was me and I wanted you to come out and play. She was very nice but told me you could not because you had been a naught girl!! What was it that you did to get into trouble?

2. Did my three-legged dog Tango really eat his fourth leg? That's what I keep telling everyone...

*snickers* no he did not! He told me that you sold it to buy your new sewing machine! Now I am thinking I KNOW why you were in trouble with your mom you little fibber!

3. When will humans become extinct?
Never. We will live on and on and we will carry little bitty pieces of those that loved us so that they never ever go extinct either. And when we pass, those that we loved will carry little pieces of us forward too.

XUE the girl with the beautiful name wants to know if there will there ever be a self-cleaning craft room?

gawd I hope not! I would NEVER be able to find anything then!! *snickers* I would much rather have a self cleaning bathroom....or child!


with a big old capital M

THE FLOOR IS OPEN....

My brain is totally devoid of anything bloggable. So what is it that you want to know? What big world problem do you need me to solve for you? Want your future told? What question have you been DYING to ask me? What secrets do you want to know?

I will answer all secrets in a separate blog entry.


Go ahead....now is your time.....the floor is open.....

SHOWING OFF THE RE-DO'S

Remember this 50 cent wreath? This turned into......This! I used ribbon that I already had. My mom bought me the letter M at a thrift store.

Close up....not too bad for a 50 cents wreath!

These were my 25 cents a piece bottles. I did not wash them because I liked how they looked.

I added some velum paper, ribbon and some bling and THIS is what I ended up with! Again, I already had all of the stuff that I added. I did not go out and buy anything.
Close up of the bottle....

This was a frame that I have had for awhile. It has been just stuck up in a closet. I painted the mat red and then used some Harley vellum paper that I had bought about 2 years ago when I made Biker a clock. So nothing extra was bought for this project.

TA DA! Bebo Bond's new Harley picture to hang in his room.

I also recovered my mouse pad for my office. I was tired of it looking dingy and I wanted something bright and fun. I had this fabric in my stash! See the ultra cool pen? That was my Christmas present from Rachel and I LOVE it! It is re-purposed from an old sterling silver knife. It is really heavy and just feels right sitting in your hand.

Last but not least! I am the captain of our weight loss team here at work. I try to make little things for them each week so that they stay encouraged. This is what I made this week. I found the salad dressing on clearance and just added a tag from my paper and ribbon stash.

I crack me up! *snickers*

I am ready for garage sales tomorrow! Come go with me!

.....ppppsssstttt....I always wonder if people read all the way to the end. Let's just see! I am going to give one bottle to the first 3 commenter's that say something about them. Good Luck! (this does not include you babygator!) So the first three people that ask for one will get one!