This has been a crazy, busy week since we are heading into our busy season at work (ice cream, not taxes) so forgive me, I didn't get a top 10 posted on Tuesday.
Better late than never, right?
This week's Tuesday 10:
10 Things That Exist Now That Didn't When I Was a Kid
10. Cell Phones
9. Ipods
8. DVD Players
7. DVD Players IN THE CAR (man, those 8 hour rides to Missouri would have better with these)
6. HDTV
5. Global Warming (well, maybe, but no one talked about it)
4. Satellite radio (LOVE me some XM Radio on long trips)
3. CDs (now they are going out of style - we had cassette tapes!)
2. Digital Cameras
1. the Internet
I only wonder what Allie's list would look like if she writes one when she's 30...
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
A Fine Alabama (or Auburn) Education
This past week the girls were out of school on Winter Break, so we made our usual school-is-out trek to my parents' house. My parents live in Alabama and I just LOVE it when I can point out something that shows Georgians are smarter (hehe...).
I often see signs and such that proudly show off the fine education people in Alabama receive. For instance, there's a sign at a tobacco shop outside of the town my parents live in. They spell tobacco, tabacco.
So now I formally present two fine examples of an Alabama (or Auburn) education:
Exhibit A --------->
I often see signs and such that proudly show off the fine education people in Alabama receive. For instance, there's a sign at a tobacco shop outside of the town my parents live in. They spell tobacco, tabacco.
So now I formally present two fine examples of an Alabama (or Auburn) education:
Exhibit A --------->
We now spell "pioneers" "pioneenrs".
(Picture taken over Thanksgiving at Noccalula Falls in Gadsen, Alabama)
Exhibit B --------->
Ladies and gentlemen, we now have a new spelling for the word "poison".
(Picture taken this past weekend at the Birmingham Zoo in Birmingham, Alabama)
Let's throw in a bonus. This is not a misspelling, but an actual donut shop (I find the name of it hilarious).
OMG! Donuts!
(Picture taken this past weekend in downtown Anniston, Alabama)
I hope everyone that reads this knows I am only teasing Alabama and Auburn fans. We Georgia fans and alumni take our fair share from other schools. I wouldn't dish it unless I could take it. GO DAWGS!
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
My Tuesday 10 - Husband Edition
Wow - I haven't blogged in 2 weeks! Time just gets away from you. In honor of my husband Ben's birthday tomorrow, my Tuesday 10 is about him :)
My Top 10 Things I Love About My Husband...
(of course, in no particular order)
10. The way he is with our girls - watching a daddy and his daughters would melt anyone's heart
9. The way he can look at me and tell something's wrong even when I try to pretend it's all okay
8. The fact he's a big sports nut - our most fun times have been at Georgia football games
7. His red hair
6. He works hard to provide for us
5. He's my best friend who I can tell anything to
4. He keeps me grounded
3. His intelligence (sometimes he's too smart for his own good ;)
2. His smile when we walks through the door after work
1. He picked me :)
Happy (Early) Birthday Sweetie!
My Top 10 Things I Love About My Husband...
(of course, in no particular order)
10. The way he is with our girls - watching a daddy and his daughters would melt anyone's heart
9. The way he can look at me and tell something's wrong even when I try to pretend it's all okay
8. The fact he's a big sports nut - our most fun times have been at Georgia football games
7. His red hair
6. He works hard to provide for us
5. He's my best friend who I can tell anything to
4. He keeps me grounded
3. His intelligence (sometimes he's too smart for his own good ;)
2. His smile when we walks through the door after work
1. He picked me :)
Happy (Early) Birthday Sweetie!
Friday, February 4, 2011
Facebook Can Be EVIL
I am a Facebook addict. I admit it. I currently have over 700 Facebook friends and actively manage 3 Facebook Business Pages. Facebook (from here on known as FB) can be great - it reconnects you with friends, keeps you in touch with your out-of-town family and can keep you in touch with your friends and plan stuff. For business, it's great - free advertising!
On the flip side, it can be bad for you.
I think FB is an enabler. We get to see into our other friends' lives - what they are doing, where they are going, what they have recently gotten. We can get green with envy or we can portray ourselves as doing better than we are to present a good face. Other times, I think people post things to throw it in other people's faces.
FB is rampant with cliques (yes, grown women do have cliques...even in their 30's and 40's) posting on each other's walls about what is going down that night for "Girl's Night" or just one or two friends posting about "had a blast this morning!" or "can't wait to do it again!". If you happen to be that one friend that was not included, this can quite frankly piss you off.
I will admit I do get jealous when I see that friends of mine have gotten together without me. Sometimes I would have been able to go, sometimes not, but we all just want to be included.
Then there are times FB can make you feel like a third (or fourth or fifth) wheel. Friends will comment on stuff you were at or involved in to each other and it would be like you were not even there. I could go on forever about me and A lately feeling like third wheels, but that's another post for another day.
I've seen this happen to people I know and it's happened to me. For all the glory FB gets, there's this downside that no one talks about. It can make a person feel horrible. Guilty. Depressed. Left out. I do my best not to let the little things get to me, but as a human woman (hormones and all) it does get to you no matter how you try not to let it. And yes, I was inspired to write this post after seeing something posted on FB.
On the flip side, it can be bad for you.
I think FB is an enabler. We get to see into our other friends' lives - what they are doing, where they are going, what they have recently gotten. We can get green with envy or we can portray ourselves as doing better than we are to present a good face. Other times, I think people post things to throw it in other people's faces.
FB is rampant with cliques (yes, grown women do have cliques...even in their 30's and 40's) posting on each other's walls about what is going down that night for "Girl's Night" or just one or two friends posting about "had a blast this morning!" or "can't wait to do it again!". If you happen to be that one friend that was not included, this can quite frankly piss you off.
I will admit I do get jealous when I see that friends of mine have gotten together without me. Sometimes I would have been able to go, sometimes not, but we all just want to be included.
Then there are times FB can make you feel like a third (or fourth or fifth) wheel. Friends will comment on stuff you were at or involved in to each other and it would be like you were not even there. I could go on forever about me and A lately feeling like third wheels, but that's another post for another day.
I've seen this happen to people I know and it's happened to me. For all the glory FB gets, there's this downside that no one talks about. It can make a person feel horrible. Guilty. Depressed. Left out. I do my best not to let the little things get to me, but as a human woman (hormones and all) it does get to you no matter how you try not to let it. And yes, I was inspired to write this post after seeing something posted on FB.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
My Tuesday 10
I love to eat. I go to Weight Watchers because I love to eat.
I present My Tuesday 10...
10 Favorite Restaurants (in no particular order)
1. Cheddar's (Pooler or Macon, GA)
2. Spanky's (Savannah/Brunswick/Tybee Island, GA)
3. Ruth Chris Steakhouse (Savannah/Atlanta, GA)
4. Barberito's (Statesboro mainly)
5. Mellow Mushroom (Statesboro or Athens, GA)
6. Rafferty's (Athens, GA)
7. Hickory Log (Dexter, MO)
8. Lambert's Cafe (Sikeston, MO)
9. Truett's (Atlanta, GA)
10. Happy Joe's (Muscatine or Iowa City, IA - haven't been there in years, but was my favorite as a child).
I present My Tuesday 10...
10 Favorite Restaurants (in no particular order)
1. Cheddar's (Pooler or Macon, GA)
2. Spanky's (Savannah/Brunswick/Tybee Island, GA)
3. Ruth Chris Steakhouse (Savannah/Atlanta, GA)
4. Barberito's (Statesboro mainly)
5. Mellow Mushroom (Statesboro or Athens, GA)
6. Rafferty's (Athens, GA)
7. Hickory Log (Dexter, MO)
8. Lambert's Cafe (Sikeston, MO)
9. Truett's (Atlanta, GA)
10. Happy Joe's (Muscatine or Iowa City, IA - haven't been there in years, but was my favorite as a child).
Friday, January 28, 2011
Diary of a Former School Bus Rider
Today, as most days, I get stuck behind a school bus on my way to pick A up from school. The school bus - ugh! Seeing a school bus, no matter where I am, makes me cringe. Seeing a school bus always invokes painful memories of being made fun, picked on and taunted.
In Jackson, Missouri if your mom did not stay home all day, if you did not lived close enough to walk or had an older sibling pick you up, you rode the bus. Everyone rode the bus. This was the thing I dreaded most from 6th grade until I was a freshman (my sophomore year got better - I had friends with drivers licenses :) I remember at least one day a week I would come home and cry after getting off the bus.
See, I was the fat girl on the bus. Looking back, I was not big at all by today's standards, but I seemed to always be the biggest girl. As like a majority of them, middle school boys can be mean - very mean. I was always the target of fat jokes and the such. I vividly remember buying a candy bar (okay, I know) from someone selling them for a club fundraiser and these 2 boys - Travis and Mark - started up. It took everything I had to act like I couldn't hear them and try not to cry. These are the same 2 who taunted me for a week after falling down on the way to the piano in the 6th grade Talent Show (I went on to play a perfect "Fur Elise" by Beethoven with a room full of happy applause, thank you very much :)
I'm sure everyone has those moments from school they can't forget no matter how hard they try. We aren't perfect. We've made fun of people and have had people make fun of us. I think this just helped me develop a thick skin for that kind of ridicule. It's funny though, once we got past 9th grade (which was located at our junior high/middle school) everything stopped.
The 2 boys? I don't know what happened with one - he just kinda faded into ordinary. The other, he started dating a girl 2 years older than us, "fell in love", they ran off from their parents bound for Vegas to get married (he was 16, she 18) but got apprehended by the cops somewhere in Colorado (I think it was...) after their parents alerted the police. They broke up a year later.
I'm thankful that A goes to a school that they only way you would ride a school bus, is on the way to a field trip.
In Jackson, Missouri if your mom did not stay home all day, if you did not lived close enough to walk or had an older sibling pick you up, you rode the bus. Everyone rode the bus. This was the thing I dreaded most from 6th grade until I was a freshman (my sophomore year got better - I had friends with drivers licenses :) I remember at least one day a week I would come home and cry after getting off the bus.
See, I was the fat girl on the bus. Looking back, I was not big at all by today's standards, but I seemed to always be the biggest girl. As like a majority of them, middle school boys can be mean - very mean. I was always the target of fat jokes and the such. I vividly remember buying a candy bar (okay, I know) from someone selling them for a club fundraiser and these 2 boys - Travis and Mark - started up. It took everything I had to act like I couldn't hear them and try not to cry. These are the same 2 who taunted me for a week after falling down on the way to the piano in the 6th grade Talent Show (I went on to play a perfect "Fur Elise" by Beethoven with a room full of happy applause, thank you very much :)
I'm sure everyone has those moments from school they can't forget no matter how hard they try. We aren't perfect. We've made fun of people and have had people make fun of us. I think this just helped me develop a thick skin for that kind of ridicule. It's funny though, once we got past 9th grade (which was located at our junior high/middle school) everything stopped.
The 2 boys? I don't know what happened with one - he just kinda faded into ordinary. The other, he started dating a girl 2 years older than us, "fell in love", they ran off from their parents bound for Vegas to get married (he was 16, she 18) but got apprehended by the cops somewhere in Colorado (I think it was...) after their parents alerted the police. They broke up a year later.
I'm thankful that A goes to a school that they only way you would ride a school bus, is on the way to a field trip.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Ben
Yesterday my husband calls me to make fun of me for 1. creating a blog, and 2. posting it to Facebook. I asked him, "If I did a post about how great of a husband you are, would you still make fun of me?" His reply, "I would "like" it on Facebook."
Soooo.....
This is a post about how great my husband is. He's a great friend, listener and father. He cooks a mean steak. He know how to make me feel better. He loves me at my best and at my worst. He's been with my since I was 18 and is my best friend.
So sweetie, are you going to make fun of me now???? Love you!
Soooo.....
This is a post about how great my husband is. He's a great friend, listener and father. He cooks a mean steak. He know how to make me feel better. He loves me at my best and at my worst. He's been with my since I was 18 and is my best friend.
So sweetie, are you going to make fun of me now???? Love you!
My Tuesday 10
Just glancing at this blog, you know I love Top 10 lists, so today I present...
My Top 10 Favorite TV Shows Of All Time
(10-2 in no particular order)
10. Boys Meets World
9. Felicity
8. Friends
7. Dawson's Creek (I know, I know, I'm a dork!)
6. Avonlea (it was on the Disney Channel in the early 90's - an Anne of Green Gables spin-off)
5. Fringe
4. Kids Incorporated
3. The New Mickey Mouse Club (you know, the one where Britney and Justin were still kids)
2. Glee
and my all-time favorite show is...
1. LOST
My Top 10 Favorite TV Shows Of All Time
(10-2 in no particular order)
10. Boys Meets World
9. Felicity
8. Friends
7. Dawson's Creek (I know, I know, I'm a dork!)
6. Avonlea (it was on the Disney Channel in the early 90's - an Anne of Green Gables spin-off)
5. Fringe
4. Kids Incorporated
3. The New Mickey Mouse Club (you know, the one where Britney and Justin were still kids)
2. Glee
and my all-time favorite show is...
1. LOST
Monday, January 24, 2011
All About Me
My Wednesday morning Bible study just started back this week and this semester we are doing Priscillia Shirer's "Jonah". It's all about life's interruptions. I was doing our daily homework yesterday and came across something that struck a chord with me...
"Your life involves you but is not ultimately about you."
I had to read that 5 or 6 times to let it sink in. I am the most selfish person I know. Everything is about me - how can I do better, what will make me happy, what do I want, I want it now, etc. Aside from my girls, which I tend to be sometimes selfless about, I am extremely selfish. Bless my dear husband for putting up with me. After reading this, it got to me. I am a Christian and I strive to live out God's will for my life, but whether or not you know it or I show it, I'm selfish. Just ask my husband or my sister.
Reading this statement and it's passage stuck with me. We are put here for God's glory. We are a miracle in and of itself (seriously, 2 cells make a human being?). She says "In the tale of your life unfolding right now, HE, NOT YOU, must be the One in the spotlight." My emphasis on the bolding. Whoa nelly.
I know this study is not about that statement alone. It's a tiny piece to the whole puzzle. So I will aim to do better - put my husband and my girls more ahead of myself. What they want, not what I want. If I can show that change, it would be a true testament to the Lord himself.
"Your life involves you but is not ultimately about you."
I had to read that 5 or 6 times to let it sink in. I am the most selfish person I know. Everything is about me - how can I do better, what will make me happy, what do I want, I want it now, etc. Aside from my girls, which I tend to be sometimes selfless about, I am extremely selfish. Bless my dear husband for putting up with me. After reading this, it got to me. I am a Christian and I strive to live out God's will for my life, but whether or not you know it or I show it, I'm selfish. Just ask my husband or my sister.
Reading this statement and it's passage stuck with me. We are put here for God's glory. We are a miracle in and of itself (seriously, 2 cells make a human being?). She says "In the tale of your life unfolding right now, HE, NOT YOU, must be the One in the spotlight." My emphasis on the bolding. Whoa nelly.
I know this study is not about that statement alone. It's a tiny piece to the whole puzzle. So I will aim to do better - put my husband and my girls more ahead of myself. What they want, not what I want. If I can show that change, it would be a true testament to the Lord himself.
Friday, January 21, 2011
I listen too much to...
I love my iTunes. I love my iPod. I listen to it daily while I work on my laptop. Since I LOVE Top 10 lists, I figured, let's list out the Top 10 Songs I've listened to (or played most) on iTunes on my computer...just don't judge - LOL.
10. Hoedown Throwdown by Miley Cyrus
9. Poker Face by Lady GaGa
8. Just Dance by Lady GaGa
7. Waterloo by ABBA
6. I Gotta Feeling by Black Eyed Peas
5. Never Think by Rob Pattinson (Twilight Soundtrack)
4. Let Me Sign by Rob Pattinson (Twilight Soundtrack)
3. Bad Romance by Lady GaGa
2. Naturally by Selena Gomez and the Scene
and #1 is....
Right Round by Flo Rida
I said don't judge!
Side Note: I recently updated iTunes, so this isn't 100% accurate :)
10. Hoedown Throwdown by Miley Cyrus
9. Poker Face by Lady GaGa
8. Just Dance by Lady GaGa
7. Waterloo by ABBA
6. I Gotta Feeling by Black Eyed Peas
5. Never Think by Rob Pattinson (Twilight Soundtrack)
4. Let Me Sign by Rob Pattinson (Twilight Soundtrack)
3. Bad Romance by Lady GaGa
2. Naturally by Selena Gomez and the Scene
and #1 is....
Right Round by Flo Rida
I said don't judge!
Side Note: I recently updated iTunes, so this isn't 100% accurate :)
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