PhotoHunt #125 - Beautiful - My kids

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Friday Fill-In #87

1. When I'm sick I'm usually curled up in bed.
2. When I take a walk, I think about alot of things, especially about my family.
3. Money can't buy happiness but it can let you have a lot of fun.
4. Cotton makes me cozy and leather makes me sweaty.
5. The strangest person/character I've had lewd thoughts about was can't think of one.
6. My favorite color these days is hot pink because it cheers me up.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to a quiet evening at home, tomorrow my plans include getting my house clean AGAIN and Sunday, I want to relax and enjoy spending time with my family!
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Ten on Tuesday #6 - 10 Things I Didn't Like About School

1. Drama- Not the class, the drama about who is mad at who and who looked at who the wrong way.
2. PE Class. I understand we need it, but it was always so boring!
3. The groups - I understand we were all exploring who we were, but I hated the labels of jocks/nerds/burnouts etc.
4. Lunches - If we were paying for food, at least have something that had taste to it.
5. Waking up early!
6. Homework.
7. My best friends were all older than me, so I hated not being able to drive.
8. The hard teachers. Don't get me wrong, I like a challenge, but I had several that no matter what I did I could never make the grade.
9. Buses.
10. Boredom.
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Friday Fill-In #86

1. Dancing to the beat of anything while in my hubby's arms makes me so happy.
2. The last time I laughed with my sister I nearly peed my pants.
3. When I drive I usually have music blaring and you better get out of my way.
4. I saw true love standing right next to me this morning.
5. Give me time to spend with my family, give me happiness, give me no hives for a change.
6. Next week I am looking forward to my kids starting back to school.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to probably some last minute school shopping for kids, tomorrow my plans include sleeping in then going to dinner for my mom's and BIL birthday and Sunday, I want to do nothing best rest!
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Thursday Thirteen #3 - What I Did Instead Of Updating My Blog

Wow! Where did the time go? I have not updated this in a while and if I don't do it soon, I will be getting a "friendly" reminder from my sister to update my blog! So I decided to list 13 things I have done besides blogging.

1. I managed to get some cleaning done at the house. Now don't give me too much credit, I said SOME! But hey getting anything done right now is almost a miracle.

2. Work has been crazy busy, so by the time I get home I have not had much energy to get much of anything else done besides the everyday cooking and picking up.

3. Missy is getting ready to start back to school and we registered her for school, got a physical and even managed to get some school clothes and supply shopping done.

4. Nate starts college on Monday, we had some papers that needed to be turned in and several other misc. things so we spent a morning at the college trying to get everything turned in. We also visited the book store and spent over $450 on books.

5. Missy wanted to go spend a few of the last days of summer with her wonderful aunt out in the "country" so after work one evening we drove her out there. I hope she isn't driving her nuts right now. :-)

6. I managed to spend over an hour on the phone with HP about my laptop. I have been having problems with it for a few months, so bad that at times it was just useless. I just hadn't had time to troubleshoot. After some time on the internet I discovered there was a recall. Whooohoo! After spending an hour on the phone with "Bob" who I later found out was somewhere on the other side of the world they agreed to allow me to send it to them and possibly getting it fixed. We shall see.

7. Nate decided he needed a new TV for his room. Well....he decided that after Hubby said he wasn't going to take over our TV any more. We went to Wally World and picked up his TV. He worked this summer and saved up some money so this was his first major appliance purchase. We spent Friday evening putting together his TV stand and hooking everything up.

8. I cleaned out mine and Hubby's dresser's. (How do we get so much crap stuffed in dresser drawers?) Receipts, paper clips, etc. I thought it was supposed to house socks and underwear.

9. Managed to watch some of the Olympics. Let me say Michael Phelps is amazing!

10. Eat dinner.

11. Shower (LOL).

12. Sleep. (Not very much of it, but some).

13. And finally thought of everything that I did over the past week and I just updated my blog, so sis you can't razz me!

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10 Favorite Villains from the Movies

I think this one should be fun!
1. Heith Ledger - The Joker in Dark Knight
2. Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Hannibal Lector - Silence of the Lambs
3. Jack Black -Carl Denham-King Kong
4. Mike Myers-Dr. Evil-Austin Powers
5. Tim Roth- General Thade-Planet of the Apes
6. Christopher Walken-Headless Horseman-Sleepy Hollow
7. Margaret Hamilton-Wicket Witch of the West-Wizard of Oz
8. Joaquin Phoenix-Commodus-Gladiator
9. Faye Dunaway-Joan Crawford-Mommy Dearest
10. Glenn Close - Alex Forrest - Fatal Attraction
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Friday Fill-Ins #84

1. You know you're old when people start calling you ma'am.
2. My heart is divided between standing up for myself and family and not having someone be a part of our lives.
3. A VACATION is what I need RIGHT NOW!
4. I have felt the miracle of unconditional love, I have known the depths of hurt.
5. Gah, won't these people get a life?
6. Come back to my blog as soon as you can!
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to dinner with family (celebrating BIL's graduation, tomorrow my plans include shoveling out errr...I mean cleaning out my closet and Sunday, I want to have another quiet Sunday!
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Random Thursday Thirteen - #3

I had to go totally random this week, so here are thirteen random things.
1. Nate finally got registered for his classes at college. I had no idea it was going to be such a major ordeal to get him registered!
2. Missy has been reading all week long. She is my reader and she is now reading Twilight that her wonderful aunt YellowRose bought for her.
3. We had a neighborhood crime watch meeting last night. We used to have one but due to "those" neighbors we are getting it started back up again. It was very informative and we all now feel we have the support of our police department.
4. I can't believe school is getting ready to start again, we actually went and bought a few items for Missy to start back to school. I try to get this done early so we do not have to go when there are huge crowds.
5. I have hives all over today, I think this is a delayed reaction from some major stress that has been going on the past few weeks. I even have them on the bottom of my feet so it feels like I have something huge in my shoes. *Ouch*
6. The temperature has actually been below 100º finally. We had 12 days straight of temps over 100º. We actually have a chance for rain this weekend. *YEAH*
7. With the temps being so high, so many of my plants are looking so sad. I have definately lost four of them to the temps and one by a mischievous black Lab.
8. Tomorrow my BIL graduates and I really wish I could go to the ceremony, but we are going to meet for a celebration dinner that evening and as always with our crew I know it will be a blast!
9. Hubby's knee is bothering him again, I sure hope he is not going to have to go in again. The Doc told us last time if he continues with the problems he will have to have it replaced. He has done everything he can do. :-(
10. I have been having some really weird dreams lately. The other night Missy woke up in the middle of the night and came in and laid down with me. The next day she told me I had grabbed her face and was really mad. (Luckily she is one tough cookie and just threw my hand off and woke me up.) Needless to say she went back to her bed. :-)
11. Work has really picked up this month. Seems like we can't stay ahead. That is a good problem to have, but just hope we can meet all these deadlines.
12. I miss my neice. I have to give her a call tonight and see how she is doing. She started a new job and the store was just getting ready to open.
13. Well that is about as RANDOM as any I have seen before. It kind of reflects on how my mind has been over the last few weeks. Happy Thursday everyone!
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Worldless Wednesday-Where is my top hat and cane?

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Someone is Watching you

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Found this critter in my front yard tonight.

Way too hot!

One of the biggest topics here is the heat! I know living in Texas you have to get used to having hot temperatures, but this is just plain ridiculous. The temps have been between 104-107 and let me tell you there is no such thing as dry heat. It is just plain hot outside. My plants are all turning an ugly shade of brown no matter how much I try to keep them watered and my air conditioner is running almost non-stop.
I went in the garage yesterday to get some things out of the spare fridge and I broke a sweat just being in there the few minutes I was there. We have a pool, but it is even too hot to get out in the pool. I did absolutely nothing yesterday! I went on line and played Scrabble on my favorite game site http://www.pogo.com and other than that I couldn't make myself do anything else!
This is the time of year that I have empathy for those who work outdoors.
I hope everyone has a great week, mine will be spent trying to find a way to stay cool!