mmmaybe not today, monday and a morph monday too!

so far the cleaning extravaganza has been limited to bagging up the "too big to fit in the garbage can" garbage. you know like the pizza box, the tube from used up xmas paper, milk cartons(what do you call the gallon sized jugs? they aren't really cartons), etc.. oh and i did go through s.son's pile of old mail that has been collecting since his last leave.

yep, that's it. oh! but i did manage to cook the spaghetti for dinner tonight. hubby just came home and i was on the couch playing my ipod. i made sure to get off the puter shortly before he was due home so he wouldn't think i had done nothing but read blogs and comment all day (otherwise known as what i actually did do).

so he asks me "whatcha doin'?" (duh, sitting here playing a video game on my ipod) and i reply with "sitting here like a lazy fart, not getting any of my cleaning done." i go back to playing my game (well, i never actually stopped), and realise he is looming over me. i glance up real quick (can't lose my game ya know) and see him giving me the hairy eye with his hands on his hips. i chuckle at him and he says, "is that good enough?" (which i actually GOT*. meaning he is pretending to be mad at me.) i tell him "yeah, i'm beating myself up internally enough for both of us anyways."

he is such a good person. how can he go work everyday and come home to a filthy house and not be mad at me??

i know i would not be that generous with him, even if he did have physical pains which lead to depression (you can't hurt for almost 20 years and not get depressed every now and then) for an excuse. i HATE that i can't motivate myself to do the things i need to do. uggh, now i'm getting all weepy. enough of that shit!

subject change.....


let's play morph monday. it's much more entertaining and doesn't cause me to feel like a total POS....





this photo is really hilarious in it's own right (just look at those facial expressions!), and really didn't need any morphing to make it funny, but what the heck:





and one more, just to be fair to the two s.sons, i'll show the s.daughter too. original photo is a bridesmaid's dress she wore to a friend's wedding:


yeah, yeah. oooh aaah she looks pretty. bleck...now for the fun:

i named this one broomhilda. hehe. ok, so i got over my weepiness now and it's all good. i have decided that i will do some cleaning tonight. hopefully, i will manage to do it quietly since the cleaning urge always hits me after hubby goes to bed. i always tell myself to just wait til the next day so i won't wake him up, but then it never gets done. i'll let y'all know how it turns out :)

p.s. does anybody go back and edit their posts over and over again as you continue to find typos?? or am i just turning all OCD about it? i realllly wish i could edit my comments, because 9 times outta 10 as soon as i hit that enter button i see a typo. i hate that!

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*for some reason 95% of the time, if there is a different way to take something that hubby said, that's how i take it. it drives him bonkers, but i have just learned to accept that our brains work on different wave lengths.

seriously, i have nothing sunday

i have nothing, nada, niet. which means i resort to pulling out silly pics for yall to amuse yourself with. the 1st of which is a pic of my great-grandmother (who is now 101!) at her last trip to the fair to ride "the ponies" as she says:

she was 95 in this pic. can you believe that the stupid carnie (sorry if any of y'all actually are carnies) actually tried to tell us she couldn't ride the carousel because she was too old?!? obviously, i didn't let that stop us. i had quite a time trying to get her up in the saddle, but once there she had a blast.

and this pic is what my dear hubby looked like while we were riding the carousel:



i love, love, love this pic of him. from the purse to the flags coming out of his head, it's just flat out funny!

unfortunately, i have been sitting around doing nothing all day today, which makes it really hard to come up with stuff to blog about. i am planning to do a major clutter removal & dusting session this week, because:

1)i reallly need to and no-one else is gonna do it
2)i figure it will help my allergies to get rid of some of the dust that has accumulated since, oh, i don't even know when the last time i dusted was
3)we live in a tiny 1030 sq.ft. house and small houses and clutter just don't mix

i even went out to the shop and got a box of hubby's big, huge, heavy-duty garbage bags in preparation for this de-clutterizing event.

wish me luck! hopefully i won't just end up buried beneath my mountains of clutter and dust :)

short and sweet saturday

ok, this time i really am gonna make this short and sweet. i have two library books i need to read before they are due, since my library borrowed them from another library. i just wanted to post this pic for yall to check out. i almost deleted it because it's waaay out of focus, but sis said she liked it, and it's grown on me.

that's it.

no really.

i'm done.

go away.






are you still here? get outta here. that's an order!

fudge! i missed friday, but here are my fragments anywayS

i have my "my pictures" folder set as my screen saver on my computer and the g-kid loooves to sit there and make comments on the pics that come up. usually, it's "who's that nonna?", "what are they doing nonna?", "that's me and mommy, nonna", etc...ad nauseam (i guess that's better than watching tv saying i need that toy)

the other day, in an extremely cutesy voice he said "that was me when i was a little, bitty, baby." yup, i replied. then a few minutes later when a pic came up that looked like this:




he said "look, that's me when my eyes used to be red" LOL the poor kid actually thought his eye color was red and then changed to blue. guess i need to get out the photoshop and fix all of those red eyes.

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thursday g-kid spent the day with us and his uncle jon decided to open a can of salmon to eat with some crackers. i hate tuna or salmon (more of those things i was forced to eat). i can't stand the smell of it at all. so, i was complaining about the stench and i guess g-kid wanted to know what the fuss was about, so we told him to take a sniff of the salmon. LOL if i thought i could get him to fall for it again i would SO video it for here. he took a big ole sniff and immediately proceeded to gag, choke, and try to spit the smell out of his nose. then he started crying. i know, i'm a mean nonna, but i couldn't help it. we laughed our butts off! i finally had to tell him to stop spitting (he had slobber all over his shirt) because he couldn't make the smell go away that way!

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i actually talked hubby into sitting down and reading a couple of my posts and then directed him to heinous' psycho neighbor posts. he read those and then said "damn!" i asked him, "damn that was funny or damn you didn't like it?" he said "no, it's funny, but i can't believe he has to put up with ppl like that; and i also don't know how the heck you sit here and read all of this stuff." i don't know how anybody wouldn't like to read this stuff! it's funny, friendly, inspirational, and my favorite, down right twisted! i don't know how i didn't get into this blogging stuff sooner.

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s.son* is leaving to go back to washington tomorrow. leave is over :( silver lining: grocery bill will go back down :) that boy (man, really) can put the food away! oh, speaking of him, he, my sis, s.daughter, and her boyfriend all went out the other night. sis and s.son ended up kissing at some point during the night. know the first thing outa her mouth? woohoo i just kissed my nephew! lol she's weird like that and loves to go for the shock factor. then they both informed me that if they happened to get married (no, they have no plans of even dating much less getting married), my sis would then be my DIL. as the local news guy says, "that's messed up!" hehe

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speaking of that night, that reminded me of my sis's bad luck. i told her to drive over here, that way they could all go in one car. so, she parked her car at my house, under a tree. we had a bunch of strong winds that night. can you guess where i'm going with this? yep. tree branch fell and smashed her windshield. that night out cost her $275 bucks because

a)she has no car insurance
b) we have no house insurance.

now if she had parked it in the barn, and the barn had collapsed on it, she'd have been covered. that's right. we have insurance on hubby's shop and tobacco barn, but not on our house! back when we could actuall afford house insurance, they wouldn't insure it because we have a flat roof (like almost all commercial bldgs have). heaven forbid they insure a house with a flat roof here in TN. i mean those 1-2" snows that we might get ONCE a winter could cave the roof in, dontcha know? give me a break! now they will insure it, but we don't have the money to buy it. c'est la vie!

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well my fragments look a little long, but i guess y'all should be used to my long windedness by now :)

*tired of typing step-son/daughter will now be typed s.son/daughter - hey i'll be the first to admit i'm lazy. it's been really hard not to resort to texting language on here!

think it will work? thursday

i assume* this is a southern thing since i'm sure hog jowl** is not a standard staple up north. but anyway, down here in the south it is traditional to eat hog jowl and black eye peas on new year's day for good luck.

now, if you have read my previous posts, you realise that i have a hate/hate relationship with vegetables, so i usually just swallow one black eye pea whole for my year's worth of good luck. i figured that since sometime this year i will be finding out whether or not i will be receiving my social security disability, i need all the luck i can get.

look closely and you will see, not one but TWO black eyed peas. yep. i doubled my luck. at least, i hope that's how it works. of course, me being me, i didn't actually chew the peas, but swallowed them whole and washed them down with my coffee. hey, nobody said how i had to eat them.


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* yes i know what they say about assume. it makes an ass out of u and me
**hog jowl is pronounced hog jaw down here and it's kinda like bacon and i'm sure it's not good for you because it tastes too good to be healthy. if you are really curious about it you can go here for more info, and if you aren't totally grossed out by that, then here is how to cook it.