I've got it all in the BAG!

I was actually shopping for a birthday present for my son, but found this for me instead!

 

If you didn't know, I'm a huge Packers fan. Everyone has an AMM tote, and they are totally cool also. But as a Packer fan, this is the tote for me! It's actually bigger than my AMM tote, I can even fit my small AMM tote inside it.

 

Pockets line the entire edges of the inside. I didn't even fill them all. I also have room in the middle to stuff all my other stuff that doesn't need pockets. One side has pockets on the outside and pouches on the other. Each end has two pockets also. I've stuffed all my stamp bars in three of the pockets, one pocket has a bunch of little scrappin' doodads in it. One has Glue dots in it, one pocket is still empty.

 

The bag still fits on my little rotating stand, so I'm really loving it. Not really sure what I will do with my old AMM tote, but my new Packer tote is a keeper!

:J

Edited later: I got this cool bag at www.packerproshop.com unless you are a Green Bay Packer fan, you probably don't want it. But I bet if you search Lowe's, Home Depot or Menards, whatever your local homestore is, you can find one! It just won't be as pretty! LOL!

It's the Weekend!!!

I'm not even going to go into the details about the game last night. We lost. Nuff about that.
It was good to see a few of our alumni there. Alumni players, that is. They sat with me most of the game and I caught up on their lives and made sure that they could still lie to me about how well they are behaving, doing their bible study and still loving their mommas. I love those boys and miss them being around.
They were a part of our first two classes at school. Back when we knew every kid and most of their mommas. They even updated me on what my son has been up to that he doesn't tell me. Ya know, he's behaving too, doing his bible study and of course still loves his momma. Two of them live on their own, two still live at home. One has a baby and is a single father. If I had to pick one to be a single father, it would be him. So mature, responsible, polite, and level headed. His daughter at 18 months is just a doll baby. She is like her daddy, just as sweet and very polite, well behaved.
Of course now is when they are comfortable enough to start telling the stories of what they were doing in HS. Things I'm glad I didn't know then. Stuff we've all done at one time or another. They made me laugh all night long.
I will say that two of them have benefited greatly from being at our school. They have gone on to using what they learned at our school to get awesome jobs with the local power company and are doing quite well. Good thing for Thomas with a daughter to raise! Seeing them made my evening.
Today I'm cleaning and am going to go to the LSS. I may even cook dinner tonite! LOL! That's a sad statement isn't it. Well I'm off, Have a wondermous day!

:Jayne

Looking at the Downslide to the Weekend

What a day it has been!
I'm thankful that I wasn't on my cell phone or toying with the radio this am as I left my house driving to work. As I neared the local Tom Thumb to get gas, a gold Lincoln with a big African American woman almost hit my front end. She was tearing out of the Tom Thumb after driving off from stealing her gas. Had I not been aware, I would have been smashed in the ditch. Thank God I was aware.
So after I paid for my gas that I pumped I waited for traffic to slow down so I could get on my merry way. I watched a rather ragged looking couple cross the street and she had a bottle of water. She took her last swig, and yep, you guessed it, threw the bottle down. Maybe it was because my morning had already been not off to a great start, or maybe it just irritates me when people litter my neighborhood, But I just had to roll down my window. "Hey, you dropped something, you may want to pick that up." She glanced back, saw the bottle I was talking about, and gave me half a peace sign. I wanted to say "Bitch", but there was a break in traffic and I took advantage of that.
I couldn't wait to get to work and check the calendar. I think the whole school heard me whoop and holler when I found the spring break dates! WOOHOOO! I am going on another Hilltop cruise. This time I'm taking my much older sister to chaperone me!
Looking foward to the next few days. Tomorrow is JV football, hoping they stay undefeated. Friday is an away game for Varsity, not too far away tho. Hoping for their first win. Saturday DS1 and his fiancee should be back in town. She is being transferred to a town near here. She's a scrapbooker, so I'm glad to have company closer to scrap with. I'm glad they will be back this way.
I'm off to watch weather and see what's going on in the gulf. Who knows? I could be packing to run from the hurricane!

:J

Just a Happy Hump Day!

It is still cool in the mornings, but it doesn't last long once the sun comes up! The scoop is that it will be 50 on Saturday morning. I can hardly wait. I love cool mornings. Usually I take the first really cool morning of the fall off of work, a kind of mental health day. I like to take the first really warm day in spring off too. You need mental health days like that sometimes.
Speaking of mental health, Hilltop Memories has their cruise booked. I can hardly wait. 5 days!!!! WoooHOOOO! Just have to check the calendar at work and make sure nothing major is happening, dust off the passport and off I go!
I watched Boston Legal last night. To me it wasn't spectacular for a season kick off. Not sure if I even liked it. But I'll keep watching. Gives me something to talk with my brother about. He called me yesterday to remind me it was on. Usually I'm calling him.
I forgot to renew my arthritis medicine the other day. I haven't had it for 2 days and already I can tell. I hurt so bad. Of all the medicine I take, I am most thankful for that one. I feel 90 today without it. I'll call it in in just a few minutes.
Off to the big world of Data. I spent all day yesterday correcting classes for our big data submission. Seems the state didn't tell the district that they changed some codes. So we had to redo a bunch of stuff. UGH! But it's mostly done now.
May go to a crop this weekend here in town. Mostly CM scrappers, but hey, it's people. Not like the Hilltop girls tho, they're the BEST!
:J

Losing Sucks!

Losing is not reflective in how they play the game. It's really a shame that everyone focuses on the won-loss column, and not that the boys played their hearts out.
It's coming, that win. I can feel it every play I watch. They keep getting better, making more big plays and making less mistakes. It's coming.
It's a good thing we haven't hit district play yet. We can keep honing our skills on these schools that don't matter. It's practice. We want to hit district games with our mistakes corrected.
I want to hear Coach say, "well, we are playing good at a good time". That's when we get to playoffs. When we play good at a good time.
Yes losing sucks, but it's part of the process. Trust the process, we'll get there, playing good at a good time.

:J

My Bulletin Board

Halfway through my scrappy weekend!

This project has actually been on going the past few weeks. I'm not quite done with it, but I needed to get it hung and out of the scrap room. Elle from Hilltop Memories designed this project. She taught it as a class at one of the fabulous Hilltop Reteats. I didn't get to take the class, but bought the kit at a later retreat. Elle's a fabulous person, and this is one of my favorite designs by her.

First is the overall board. I soaked the metal corners in vinegar for a few days to turn them dark. They were really shiny when I got them. If you have something shiny metal that you would like to age, put your items in a glass bowl and cover them with vinegar. Any cheap vinegar works, you don't need expensive stuff. Unless you like the smell of vinegar, cover the bowl with a plate. Otherwise your whole house smells like vinegar for the entire time.
I did the crackle paint effect for the frame. I used a mix of blue and black for the undercoat, and of course red on top. I love barn red, it's my favorite color. I would love to have about 12 ft of old red barn wood to do a wall of my kitchen!
I also used the Chalkboard spray paint to spray the piece of sheet metal in the center. LOVE chalkboard spray paint. If I had untextured walls I think I would do a whole wall somewhere in the house. That stuff is soo cool!
Next is one of the bottle cap magnets in the kit. I used a picture of my 3 boys when they were younger. It was Patrick's birthday, he's in the middle, Kevin on the left and Daniel on the right.
The conglomeration of magnets. I used some quotes I loved on the sticker sheet from 7Gypsies. I love good inspirational quotes. I'm always giving the boys quotes. When they played sports in High School. I would give them a quote on game day morning. especially during football season. So that's my work in progress! I have some weekday magnets from the dollar spots at Jo's that I want to add to this. And I have to go buy some chalk for the chalkboard. I work at a school, you think I could find one piece of chalk there but I couldn't!
:J

Cancelled!

It has been gloomy all day. We know a Tropical Depression is sitting off the coast right now. It's just waiting to rain on our weekend. This morning all after school and football games were cancelled, due to the impending weather.
Now to tell the truth, I was not really badly disappointed in the cancellation. While I love football, I also love a good weekend in the house with no plans. Now that the game is cancelled, I can spend tonite cleaning house. That way my house will be clean and I can play without any guilt about what I should be doing. LOL! Not that I really have any guilt.
It rained about noonish pretty heavy. But now it's been stopped for a few hours. Just gloomy looking outside.
So I shall be delving into housework tonite. Tomorrow it's play, play, play! It can rain all it wants! Monday night we will make up the game we were supposed to play tonite. Which is okay, because I'll be done playing!

:J

UNDEFEATED!

Our little Jaguar JV team is undefeated, 3-0! WE are so proud of them. Tonite they won 34-24 over the local Catholic HS. Friday night our Varsity plays Catholic also. Let's hope they fare as well also.

Spent 90% of my day in meetings. UGH! This mornings 1 hour meeting turned into 3 1/2 hours and nothing was resolved. I guess we will have to have another 3 1/2 meeting to resolve any thing. This afternoon it was a one hour meeting that was supposed to start at 3, it started at 2 and ran 2 hours. At least it was a productive meeting, we got alot of issues resolved. But by then I had a raging headache and a football game to work.

Still have a headache, so I'm heading to bed.

:J

Humping Toward the Weekend

Yep we are half way through a boring week. TV sucks, unless you are a Big Brother fan, and I'm not. I got off work early yesterday, and got nothing accomplished as I took a nap. The nap resulted in me not being able to sleep last night. Which puts me in a daze as I write this. Do you feel like you gave the mouse a cookie? I do.
The next few days will be more exciting, I know.
Tomorrow is a big meeting with the big big powers that be. More decisions on Dual Enrollment, it's okay, we are halfway through the first grading period, let's get this settled!
Two home football games this week. Can the JV remain undefeated? Can the Varsity win their first game this year? I think both answers are yes. If my Packers can remain undefeated in regular season, so can my JV and yes Varsity can beat Catholic High. Both home games so no late night travel for me, but lots of work.
I look forward to scrappin all weekend! The way I look at it is, my house is mostly clean, so maybe 3 hours on that. 2 hours to grocery shop, and the rest of the weekend is mine! WOOOHOOOO!
On that happy note, I'm off to eat breakfast and go to work. Have a great day mateys!

:J

Many Names for My Many Personalities

Tagged by Kip, these are just too fun! Read mine and then I tag Cindy, Susie and Michelle

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car) Butterscotch Explorer

2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, favorite cookie) Chocolate Marshmallow Tollhouse

3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name) JSen

4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal) Green Dog

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born) Alison Savanna

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first) Senja

7. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd favorite color, favorite drink put “The”) The Red Margarita

8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers) Leroy Albert

9. STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne, favorite candy) Obession Snickers

10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names ) Carroll Smith

Let me know when you post yours!
:J

Is the Weekend Over Already?

I need a day to play! It was one of those weekends where if I didn't have to be off doing something, I stayed home and cleaned house. It sure needed it! But I am resting easier now that it is clean.
I told you about the Stampin' Up workshop, so it wasn't all work. Off and on I worked on my Bulletin Board kit from Hilltop. I had painted it green and yellow, so that the green cracks would show through the yellow. But I just didn't fall in love with it that way. So today in between cleaning the bathroom, kitchen and hallway, I painted it again.
This time I painted it Blue Angel Blue first, then I streaked some Black over that. Then I applied the crackle stuff. On top of that went the Deep Burgandy Red. Now I think I'm really going to like it. I may still use it in the scrap room, but I've also thought about putting it in my front hall. I painted the metal with Chalkboard paint. That way, hopefully, we can write messages to each other. That's why I think the hallway by the kitchen will be a good place. It's convienent to the phone, above my desk and everyone has to pass it to leave the house. Can't wait to work on it tomorrow.
FCA banquet was awesome. The speaker was sooooo funny, a good ole Alabama boy. He told the parable from the bible where Jesus asks Peter to feed his people, to care for his flock after he is gone. His perspective on it tho was from a Coach's view. and how Jesus wants Coaches to take care of their Athletes. Not just as players, but as young men and women in Christ. It was a good story. Our school had two tables full of coaches. A nice showing.
It was a good weekend. Great weather, less humid, got alot done. My Packers won, my WFHS Jaguars showed promise, the Cubbies won and life is good. I hope your weekend was good too.
:J

So far this weekend

It's been a busy one! We woke up this morning to much cooler temps, even a chill in the air! I am loving that! Now if it could just hang on! I am so ready for cool weather.
Yesterday I cleaned my bedroom. It soo needed it. Complete deep cleaning, all the dust is gone. All I have left is the windows. Of course I should clean out my closet, but when I look in there I just don't see anything I can get rid of! I did pile up a stack of capris that have served me well, but are now going to make someone else happy.
My reward for spending all morning cleaning my room was going my first Stamping up party! It was such fun! We made 3 cards. I made a new friend, Molliry, who's four. Yes, that's how she spelled her name because she showed me. Molliry and Ashlan, who's 7, sat at the table with me and Ashlan's mom, Natalee. Molliry's mom sat at the newbie table, because she has never stamped before. Molliry and I made our cards together, she was quite the stamper! These are my cards.

 

After the party, DH and I had date night, and went to dinner at our favorite place right now, The Shrimp Basket. Yummy!
Tonite is a Coaches' Banquet for all the coaches in our area. It should be fun to see everyone off the football field.
Speaking of football fields, I have to commend the coaches & players of Chipley High School. They were our opponents in Friday nights game. They won, 47-35. The score could have been one touchdown higher, but they were good sports and kneeled down the last minute of play instead of driving in for another touchdown. We don't see that here in Pensacola very often. As a matter of fact, most of the schools here enjoy running the score up on us. I commend the Chipley Tigers for being great sports.
Time for me to make the coffee, get the paper and enjoy the morning. I hope you have a wonderful day.
:J

TGIS!

I'm so glad it's Saturday! I've a list a mile long of things I need to get done, followed by some play time this afternoon, and a relaxing evening with hubby.
I'm off to WM for pet food. Somehow I've let the catfood run low and now Boots is being overly affectionate, wondering when I'm going to feed him. He's turning up his nose at the dog food I put in his bowl.
I've got to get this house cleaned up. It's driving me crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm going to reverse my routine tho and START in my bedroom. It's pretty sad when the scraproom is the cleanest room in the house.
My friend Beth is back on the mend after having a pacemaker put in. You know you are getting old when your friends start having pacemakers. She is only in her early 50's. Her heart is made of gold, could be why she needs help with it beating. She says she will be back to work on Monday, I think she just needs some more rest!
Off to my first Stampin' Up party this afternoon. I'm looking forward to it, I just hope I can get away without spending tooooo much!
Well I had better get going before the lazy bug bites my butt. Have a wondermous day!
:J

Thrilling Thursdays!

It was a good day really. One of those days were many things happen. Little things, chaotic things, happy things, good things. It was a good day.
Chaos started when I turned my computer on this am. Our student records didn't upload in the last state report. The email said for me not to worry, they couldn't find anything wrong and just resend them. Of course that got me thinking, Reports don't reject normally for no reason. Looked at the records, and a light bulb went off. At the data conference in Tampa this summer they announced some program codes that would be changing. I even asked if these changes would affect my programs and was told by the big bosses, the big big bosses, that no. Don't worry. So when my light bulb went off, I called my tech downtown and told her what I thought. I faxed her my notes with the program changes. Later I get a call and YES! that was the problem. So now we can fix it. My tech told me to tell my principal that what ever it cost him to send me to Tampa was worth every penny! The techs on her end that went neglected to relay that to her. I guess that means I will go again? Hope so!
I had a long drive in the country tonite to the JV football game. Driving up and down the hills through farmland, made me terribly homesick. I miss the country. Even the HS we played at reminded me of our HS & football field, both surrounded by cornfields! The boys won 21-7. The defense held the other team scoreless until there was only 2 and a half minutes left in the game. How exciting for them. That makes our JV team undefeated! Hopefully varsity will play well also!
So that's my boring life, boring, boring.
:J

Well It Was Wednesday

She who never makes mistakes was a bit miffed that I alphabetized the mailboxes. She ran to tell that I was alphabetizing the mailboxes. That didn't matter, I had asked permission from the powers that be. In 15 minutes I had it done.
She stopped me as I walked out of the mailroom and said, "I was going to do that as soon as the new teacher was hired"
"But his nametag was there, so I did it"
Later, unable to let it drop, She said, "I just got an email, we're getting ANOTHER new teacher who starts tomorrow, now the mailboxes have to be done again"
"That's nice" I replied. And walked on by.
Fast forward to tonite, as I left, I said to She who never makes mistakes "I didn't see that new teacher who was starting today, did you?"
"No there's a bit of a problem"
"Oh so you were WRONG about her starting today" I replied.
"well ah, well um"
I guess I'm not the only one who makes mistakes.
;) Sometimes it feels good to stoop.

Tuesdays Tidbits

A bit late on the Tuesday bit, but it is still Tuesday. What a day!
I blew my computer up first thing this am at work. As soon as I turned it on, I got the "blue screen of death" as the techs call it. It's the first time I got it as I turned on, usually got it when I left it sit awhile.
So I turned my computer off and waited the mandatory 30 seconds, then turned it back on. No Blue screen but a message, something about battery low. I called our wonderful, marvelous, overworked tech, Mark and told him what was happening. He said, "Be right there!" Mark never says that. He rushed in, started disconnecting everything and said "I'm losing one of these a day!" and was gone.
It's hard for me to work with no puter, puter is my work. So I sat back to drink a cup of coffee and wait. Soon he zoomed in and gave me a new computer, (with my old hard drive, if you can beleive that) and I was back at work.
Shortly after that I had some upsetting news about a friend, I can't even talk about it here. It left me sitting in a daze. One that this would happen, and two that the person who told me, someone in the position they are in, would share it. I was shocked. Absolutely shocked.
After a bit I was able to resume work again. I needed to get my mojo mojoing. I did get quite a bit done at work. Including pissing off my favorite person to piss off, so my day was made.
I got home to my new Bazzill pack from QVC. I walked in and the box was sitting on the sofa. I said to DH, "who ordered QVC?" "I haven't ordered from QVC lately!" Which isn't really a lie, the Bazzill was backordered, and truthfully I never expected to get it.
I have to say I love my Bazzill pack. I just want to take it in the scraproom and caress it. Followed by cutting it up into cards, letters, embellies, and pages. It's just so rich, all 160 pages of it. YUM!
Well I'm off to go look at my Bazzill again. So Yummy!

:J

Good Morning Monday!

I am getting to old to do this, running all weekend. I just can't stop myself tho, I still think I am 19, going all the time. I guess I feed off the high school energy from working at school.
Friday night was our first home football game. I manned the gates as usual, didn't see a bit of the game. Pissed off a cheerleader mom, because she had to walk back to the car to get her ID so she could get in free. Sorry lady, I don't know all the cheerleader parents! We got creamed again, but this week we start playing schools more our size, so that may help!
Saturday morning I met my much older sister, Susie and we did some serious scrap shopping. SERIOUS. I found the new BG line, Mellow. It's much prettier in person than online. Picked up a few dies for the Cuttlebug, the OK flowers for the revolution, and a tab die for the Sizzix. Love my Cuttlebug, everything works in it.
We stayed in SanDestin. Nothing special, Holiday Inn Express. But we slept in til 10. I never sleep til 10. We had the funniest waitress at IHOP for breakfast. Great breakfast with comedy thrown in for free. We tipped her well. All in all we drove from Crestview, to Panama City to Destin, to Ft. Walton beach and back to Crestview. We hit AC Moore, HL, JoAnns, and 4 scrap stores. Found the cutest one in Madierra Beach, Scribbles and Scrapbooks. The owner is so funny and she had a bunch of neat stuff, but not overwhelming. Loved her store. She let me use her ATG gun. I want one!!! I'm telling hubby that's what I want for my birthday!
When I got home hubby had installed my new rainshower. I love it! He also had the front yard mowed, and ordered pizza for dinner as soon as I got home. He is just too good to me. I had a ton of fun shopping with my sister. We decided we want to do this again too. We missed two scrap stores as they weren't open on Sunday. There were two malls we didn't even go into. So as soon as we get some money saved up, we'll be off on another adventure!!!

:J

Because I Can!

Why in the world would anyone want to wear Green Bay Packer Crocs? Because I can! I am ready for some football! That Monday Night Partay! Real football starts today!

I am a fan of football, football of all kinds, HS, College, NFL, heck I've even watched the Women's football league. But I am a die hard, green and gold, frozen tundra, Favre forever, Green Bay Packer fan. It is a bit hard for my family, the one who birthed me, and raised me, to understand why I am a Green Bay Packer fan.

You see they are Chicago Bears fans, Chicago Cubs fans, and even Chicago Bulls fans. But I, the rebel child, am the Packer fan. Oh I went through my period of following the family, I cheered the Bears when they went to the Super Bowl, I even have a copy of the "Super Bowl Shuffle". But then I fell in love and everything changed.

Some would think I am a Packer Fan because of Brett Favre. I do admire and yes even lust over Iron Man Brett. But that is not what brought me to worship the green & gold. It wasn't Brett. It wasn't even Reggie White, heck I can't even think of a single solitary player that caused my heart to palpitate the way it does when the Pack takes the Tundra for another game.

My heart belongs to the Pack because of my love of football. The Packers are Football. Rich history, deep community, play here because you love the game. I would shovel snow every day if I could be a part of the committment of the Packers organization. I would sell popcorn & beer just to walk the rows of Lambeau on game day. I would freeze for my team.

I love the Packers, there are several teams I admire in the NFL. Teams that have won championships and lost in the final seconds. But I love my Packers. It keeps peace and harmony in my family, and keeps me in my husband's family will. GO PACK!

:J

Yes Michele, You are Another Year Older!

Happy Birthday to my Friend Michele!

 

She is probably one of the younger ones of our group, even tho she has a college age son, she doesn't look or act like it. Michele is so fun to be around, I love being at crops with her. Her warped sense of humor just cracks me up!
I wish I could be there to celebrate with you, but since I can't, I hope you still have the Happiest of Birthdays!

:J

Very Unlabored Day!

I begged off celebrating Sister Susie's birthday this weekend because I felt like yuk. After spending most of yesterday sleeping, and most of today doing the same, I still feel like yuk. Nothing specifically yukky, just wiped outish.
I've been drinking a ton of water, thinking it could be a touch of dehydration, but it's not seeming to help. I get dehydrated pretty easy, and pardon the tmi, but if I'm not peeing clear, I'm dehydrated. So I'm drinking water, and drinking water.
I've been feeling wasteful drinking all this bottled water. It's ridiculous paying for water in a bottle and throwing the bottle away. Today I went to WM and bought a Brita pitcher. Now I can at least drink water at home and not be so wasteful.
My trip to WM was the one thing I got accomplished today. Sad I haven't done more, but I think with beginning of school, football and all my other activities, I have worn myself out. A solid month of ten-twelve hour work days will do that to you.
While at WM I ran into my friend, Jenny. I love seeing her. We both said we need to get together more often, but our busy lives never let us. She still has one in seventh grade, so he keeps her busy. She was at WM with no kids, a big list, and lots of time. She said she was going to hit every aisle just to see what was new. I said was doing the same, but no list. I saw her later and she had a cartful, she said I needed to catch up. But I had more expensive things in my cart! It was nice to just walk around and see all the new stuff, fall colors etc. I bought my own drill/screwdriver for my projects. I'm not even telling anyone I have it. That way it won't disappear. I also got a nice pumpkin jar for my desk at work. I shouldn't have to fill my candy jar every other day now. It really holds alot.
When I got home, Rick came strolling in from practice. He wanted brats for dinner, so guess what? We went back to WM. First we went to Home Depot for my chalkboard paint for my magnet board. I have the edges painted, this week I will work on all the little doo daddies that go with it. With my new drill I can put the knobbies on. It will give me something to do this week as Rick has a busy football week.
He has field lining Wednesday night after practice, Thursday an away JV game, and Friday is our first home game. Short week, lots to do.
It's probably a good thing I rested up this weekend. I'm going to need it. I have a plan for next weekend. I just need to see if my Sister wants to join in. It should be fun, but that's another day!

:J

Gretchen Rocks!

I knew as soon as I heard her a few years ago, that she is one of those people I admire. The girl can rock! For such a little thing, she can belt out some music. And what you see is what you get with her. No frills, All chills, kick ass rockin' country music!

 

I loved her stage set up with her little redneck trailer complete with Christmas lights and people dancing in the windows.

 

She came out through the door of the trailer with a blast of smoke, belting a song. We had the cheap seats, but not even all the way to the top of the arena. But it was rockin'.

 

Her band was awesome, she was awesome and I loved every minute. She's come a long way from Pocohantas ILLINOIS! YOU GO GIRL! I love her newest single "You Don't Have to Go Home, But You Can't Stay Here! I have heard that so many nights in my younger days.

 

I am so hoarse from hootin' and hollerin' three nights in a row. Two nights of football, one of rockin' country music! I don't think I'm cut out for this. But heck, give me a cup of coffee, a late afternoon nap, and I'll be ready to go again!
If you ever get a chance to see her, Go! If you can go to a concert in Orange Beach Alabama at the Wharf Amphitheatre, DO! You won't regret either!

:J

Happy Birthday Older Sister!

She is such a princess! I just can't put into words how much my much older sister means to me. She is my best friend, my protector, and the one who knows all my secrets. (I'm in trouble!) Love ya Susie! Happy ahem ahem Birthday!
:J

 

 

 

 

Here I am!

After doing so well posting many days in a row, I got busy and didn't get to update my blog. So Here I am!! The adage is "Time flies when you are having fun!" and I guess I am. I drift between spurts of business and laziness.
Of course football season has started, and that puts a whole new diversion on my time. HS Sports season as a whole puts my life in a spin, as I have to enter all of the athletes in the state database, check their paperwork, get schedules to the right people, etc,etc,etc. And my coaches, as much as I love them, wait till the last minute to give me all the info I need.
Football season officially started Thursday night and DH and I went to that game. Our team wasn't playing, but he needed to scout with his "coachie friends" and I went because I am a glutton for HS football. I sat with my "school teacher friends" and he went his way with the "coachie friends". I really wasn't into the game, sometimes I am so ADD, that the band, the cheerleaders and just the crowd in general distract me from what's happening on the field. The bands were so, so. I have a problem with bands whose half time performance at a football game sounds like a funeral dirge. Half time shows should pump up the fans, not remind them of running through fields of daisies on a sunny day. So the bands sucked Thursday night. I sat with my fellow Packer fans, Greg and Sue, so we mostly talked Packer stuff all night and watched the game.
Not so last night. I sat with Greg & Sue again, MaryAnn & Ron, Mike & Johanna, and Jim & Jeannie. Do we see a trend here, notice I didn't say Rick & I? No, he was down on the field with his "coachie friends". Oh that's right, he's supposed to be there! LOL! But I wasn't chatting, I was in "the zone". Into the game. Even Greg said, "geez, you sure are different when our team is playing" (he should see me when the Packers play) I do get very emotional over football. I always have been since HS.
Well we were getting our butts kicked 35-10 when a lightning storm came through at halftime and they made everyone leave the stands. I went to the car and waited, hoping that they would come back out and play after the storm. I waited, and waited, but when the security police left, I figured they had called the game, so I left too. Went back to the school and waited, and waited. Turned on the radio to see if I could find what was going on, and the game on the radio had started back up, but no mention of ours. This was after an hour. Parents were still there waiting. And waiting, finally the bus came. They had finished the game! Rick said it was eerie, because when they finally came out of the locker room, no one was in the stands! But they played. We didn't do any better, as a matter of fact, it was 50-10 for the record.
But it's okay, there were many bright spots, but also stuff to work on. The boys took this loss to heart. They weren't joking and playing like I have always seen them do after other losses. They know now they have to work a bit harder. They will win this year. Next week is another team. They will get it.