My 10 Favorite Holiday Songs

1. Rudolf, of course. And only - and I mean ONLY by Gene Autry. All other versions should be banned.
   
2. I'm Getting Nothin' For Christmas - because my kids shouldn't. Those demons.
   
3. Chrissy the Christmas Mouse - because my demon Krissy asks for it every year!
4. Frosty the Snowman - because, who doesn't?
5. Here Comes Santa Claus
6. Jingle Bell Rock - because it's played at the beginning of Lethal Weapon, which was my introduction to Mel Gibson
   
7. Winter Wonderland - its' fun!
   
8. All I Want For Christmas is my 2 Front Teeth - it's just the cutest fricken song ever!
   
9. My new favorite, which I just found....
   I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
   
   
10. and, of course....
    

Manic Monday

What is the most expensive meal you've ever eaten? I don't do expensive, so I suppose just a steak dinner at a steakhouse or something.

What is the fastest speed you've ever traveled in a car? around 140 I suppose? It was in a Nova that was owned by a friend of mine that I loved to drive. Someday I will have my own Nova.

What is the highest building you've ever been to the top floor of? I don't think I've ever been up in a really high building. Nothing that I was that excited about anyway.

Bestest Friend & Bestest Sister

Remember my Insurance sucks donkey parts post the other day? Well.. my bestest friend is home from the hospital as of yesterday. I can't even describe how that makes me feel... sick, sad, pissed off... I could go on and on about how I feel, but I pretty much said it all the other day, so I'll just shut up and keep you updated.

Yesterday I went out in the bitter cold and snow to take pictures of my favorite sister's family. (I only have 1 sister though, so it's pretty easy to call her my favorite) I wish we would have had more time - and warmer temps. Everyone was freezing and in a hurry and I just think the pics could have been a little better. They turned out ok, I mean - they turned out good, but ... I don't know, maybe I just am my worst critic.

This one is raw... I have about a dozen of them that my sister has to pick from (I weeded out the closed eyes, looking away, stupid looks already).
But that is my sister's family. Her 4 kids, plus my nephews girlfriend, Mandy, who should be his wife by now. He is the oldest and they've been together since they were in high school. I tried to get a pic of just them together, but by then I was freezing and I took the camera off the tripod and Neil wouldn't cooperate anyway..... if there was a good pic, my shivering hands screwed it up.
But ... I did get the most awesome picture of my absolutley gorgeous nieces! I played around with this one a bit so I could frame it for myself.Aren't they just the most adorable people in the world? The one on the very left is my Goddaughter, so she's more special than the other two (just kidding! Well.... maybe not).

Snowy Sunday Stealing Meme

Cheers to all us thieves! <--- click there to play!~
1. When you buy a greetings card are the words or the picture more important to you? The words. And they have to be funny... unless it's REALLY good sappy like that would make someone cry.

2. Do you ever make gifts for people, if so what, or do you buy them? I used to like to make gifts, but the husband thinks it's kinda cheap, so now I don't.

3. Are you going on holiday this year? If so, where? "Going on holiday" I love that phrase. I think we should use that in the US more often. And since the year is almost over - no I'm not.

4. What was the best party you've ever been to? Does the party after my wedding count? It was outside, we roasted a hog and danced. It was fun.

5. If you are married, describe your wedding. If not, what would your ideal wedding be like? Ha ha.. I just did! We got married outside in a quick 4 minute ceremony by a J.P. then we... well, re-read #4.

6. What's the most romantic thing that's ever been said to you? "You know what word comes to mind right now?" (me - "what?") "Mine." - one of the nights that the husband & I got back together.... we still broke up after that though LOL (and got married 2 years later....)

7. What's your favorite romantic song? "When You Say Nothing At All"

8. Favorite heartbreak song? November Rain

9. Which celebrity would you like a dream date with? Duh. Come on people.... you know this one!

10. Which female celebrity do you find beautiful?? Angelina - if she can't turn a woman into a lesbian - nobody can.

11. Which male celebrity do you think is attractive? Didn't I just answer this one with the hot Mel shower pic?

12. Describe the kind of underwear you normally wear. Bikini, cotton, with some strange pattern on them. Today it's Sponge Bob. Seriously. And the husband thinks its so wrong when he's trying to get some and he's grabbing at Sponge Bob.

13. If you could be in a television sit-com, which would you choose? Rosanne... or the George Lopez Show.

14. Which character would you like to be? Character as in what? On one of those shows? None. I wanna be someone new... I'd have to replace one of them and I wouldn't want to do that.

15. What are your favorite boy and girl names? Oh for good grief. Who picked these questions? Well, obviously Taryn & Kristina for girls or I wouldn't have picked those. My other ones were Ayla, Beth, Misa or Kwani. Boys - Sebastian, Dominic & Durc.

16. What's your supermarket of choice? One with food???

17. What is your best character trait? I think it's my sarcasm, but not everyone agrees.

18. What is your worst habit? Smoking, I guess.

19. Elaborate on your default icon. Huh?

20. What is your current relationship status? Miserably happy in a 13 year marriage.

21. Ever have a near death experience? No.

22. Name an obvious quality about you? Who's on the quality control board? Geez.

23. What’s the name of a song stuck in your head right now? I'm Getting Nuttin' For Christmas

24. Name a celebrity you would marry. Would I? Don't you mean which one I'm going to marry? Didn't you listen to Bud? He told you Mel left his wife... why do you think that was?

25. Do you like pain? now thats the best question ever. And the answer is - only if the husband is giving it to me and under what circumstances.

Insurance sucks donkey parts

My best friend is sitting in the hospital right now with full blown placenta previa . She's been there a week. The doctor came in yesterday and told her that because "nothing" has happened, she could go home. Problem is, "home" is 1/2 hour away. If she starts bleeding again, she can bleed out in 5 minutes - and die. The reasons the doctor told her she could go home? Insurance. It's out of his hands, so to speak. Stupid.

Luckily, as that's what I'm calling it, she passed a blood clot this morning so thats enough to keep her there another day or two. Bad news, she's in labor & delivery while they monitor her contractions.

She's only 32 weeks along.

They don't think Brady is going to be born today, but there is always a chance. They are just taking precautions.

Why does the insurance have more power than a doctor? If she goes home, she could DIE. What part of DIE doesn't the insurance understand? Just because nothing is happening doesn't mean it's not going to. We are talking about the life of a mother and child here - why is there a dollar amount on that? A doctor should always be able to override an insurance's decision and the inusrance should just bend over and take it.

This is bullshit.

If anything happens to her or that baby I'm going to be someone's worst nightmare.

I told her that I hope she bleeds a little bit every time they tell her to go home. It's sad that I have to wish that, but it's the only way that I can know she's in a safe place.

Saturday 9: How Do You Sleep

Sorry, Bud, I had to steal the pic. It's hot.

1. How long do you sleep each night? Usually about 8 hours. Sometimes 9.

2. Do you fall asleep easily? So easy that I send my husband into a jealous rage.

3. Do you fall asleep at times not in your bed? I've been known to fall asleep in my recliner very often. The family knows that if I'm rocking, I'm awake, if I'm not rocking; I've fallen asleep.

4. Do you listen to music or use “white noise” to sleep? I used to, as a teen/early adult, but the husband can't sleep with the radio on so now it's just quiet.

5. Do you sleep through the night or get up a couple of times? Most of the time I sleep through the night, unless the dogs wake me up. Usually they wake the husband up.

6. Do you have trouble sleeping away from your own bed? Yes. I have a hard time falling asleep away from home, but once I'm asleep - it's fair game.

7. Do you need an alarm clock to get you up? I set one, but I usually wake up 5 or 10 minutes before it goes off. I think it's genetic personally, because my brothers, sister & my dad is the same way. And we all wake up early, too. 7am is sleeping in.

8. Do you ever take medication to help you sleep? Only when I'm sick. I'm very sensitive to medication so even non-drowsy meds makes me sleepy. It's annoying when I'm sick.

9. Do you/have you slept with pets? Chico the Pomeranian is at my feet every night. Serena, my bitchy persian, sleeps right next to me and on some nights she sleeps too close to my face and I wake up with goopy eyes (Kinda sucks to develop an allergy to cats when you own 3 of them and refuse to get rid of them). The husband gets up at 2:30am for work, so after he gets outta bed, Saki (the golden retriever) takes his place. She is a bed hog. I've slept with animals every since I was a teenager... I actually move over for them in my sleep, which sucks when it comes to Saki because she wants to sleep right next to me so I end up at the edge of the bed by morning. And with a sore back from being uncomfortable.

But if Saki is comfortable, its all worth it. *eye roll*

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Snow & stuff - Grizzly Adams rocks!

And...here we go!



1. Snow is coming.... hopefully it's plowable.

2. I'm looking forward to Christmas finally.

3. Peanut Butter is the best ice cream shake flavor ever!

4. One of my favorite old tv shows is Grizzly Adams. (I still have a crush on him... I'd love to run my fingers through that hair!)

5. I'm done with being a mom. (it's my Christmas wish this year...)

6. The most enjoyable thing around the holidays is the smile on kids' faces.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to finally getting our vension, tomorrow my plans include going to get the venison and Sunday, I want to make sure that the pictures I take for my sister's family pictures turn out good!

Katherine LaFuze is a fraud

A dear, sweet friend of mine, Lesley, who probably doesn't even swat flies because she's so nice, found out some creepy news the other day... here is what she posted on her blog today. This is just fucked up. Excuse the language, but I can't say it any nicer.

Katherine LaFuze is a fraud

Update on the photo thief. Katherine LaFuze stole all my photos from my webshots account. I have since deleted them. She created a life using my photos. Husband (noname?) Daughters Gabrielle and Chloe which one of them is sick. I believe she's trying to get donations from unknowing sympathetic internet friends.

The whole thing is so stupid. It's crazy weird that there are people out there that associate MY photos with her crazy life! She's submitted them in hundreds of contests.. I coudln't even track them all.

Here profile: http://www.facebook.com/people/Katherine-LaFuze/1213166201
Allison was like 6 mos there? Maybe younger?

Here's one of the groups she's in. http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21054274390
where she's apprantly pregnant w/ child no. 3. A boy! I could have guessed that!

Anyway....a friend of mine started the "Katherine LaFuze is a FRAUD" group. :) hehe Hopefully it's not up long cuz I want this lady gone

Lesley also has a little boy named Tyler... that is why she is not surprised Katherine is pregnant with a boy. I'm sure she was planning on using Tyler's pictures for her new bundle of lies.

I'm just helping getting the word out.. this woman IS GETTING MONEY because of this. She's claiming one of her kids is sick.

Suicide, House, neighbors, dogs, PB&J, STD's and accents

This week we will answer some crazy questions brought to you by Berleen, the color sky blue pink and the number 7 (as in the number of days until my birthday).

1. Have you ever not thought about the possibility of suicide? Nope. Can't say I have. I think anyone who says they haven't are liars. I never thought I could go through with it.... ever. But the thought did cross my mind a time or two.

2. How many dogs have you owned in your life? What kind? What were their names?

1. Penny - a pomeranian that was around before I was. She died when I was around 10 I think
2. Smokey - a dalmatian that I had for a few years until we moved.
   
3. Andy - a rott/lab/something mutt that I had for a very short time... I was living with my sister and when he chewed up her quilt that was hanging on the line, he had to go.
   
4. Maxwell - he was German Shepard/Lab mix but he could pass for a Golden Retriever. Go figure.
   
5. Hank - a Blue Heeler that would have given his life for me if he had to. He was hit by a snowmobile and died in my lap.
   
6. Spike - another Blue Heeler. He was just a puppy that ended up going with my ex-husband when he moved out. He died the same day. I always question if it was revenge.
   
7. Tosha - a rottwieler that batted her eyes at Maxwell and they parented 13 puppies.
   
8. Bruno - one of the Tosha/Max puppies that I just had to keep for myself.
   
9. Duchess - a rottie that loved us more than life itself - only problem was she hated everyone else.
   
10. Chico - another pomeranian, who is still living with me - at my feet as I type.
    
11. Saki - the famous Golden that fills this blog with her gorgoues Golden face.

Glad I didn't ask about cats! Whew!

3. In one word, what do most people describe you as? Goofy

4. Do you watch HouseMD? Why not? Every night... got the hubby hooked.

5. What irritates you most about your neighbors? My next door neighbors are great, but 2 houses down? They seem to have a calling-the-cops fetish. Luckily not on us, but I wish they would quit calling on our next door neighbor.

6. Have you ever called someone in for some sort of abuse or neglect on humans, animals or property? My sister & her friend (and her friends mom) made me call to report that the mom's ex was burning leaves in his backyard. It was total revenge on their part and I was only like 14 at the time. Otherwise, nope.

7. What color is the sky in your world? sky blue pink

8. Did you see those 2 planets that everyone is talking about this week? Yep, Demon #1 & I did the other night, before we knew what they even were.

9. Would you like to submit your own question for future Thursday Thunks? I probably will. LOL

10. Do you have a skin condition? Are you gonna tell us what it is? Sure... I have off & on psorasis. Sucks ass.

11. Have you ever had an STD? just kids

12. Do you do any crafts? if putting a photo in a frame counts, then yes. Otherwise, nope.

13. Peanut Butter & Jelly - what flavor is the jelly? Strawberry - and nothing more. Ok I lied, the occasional Raspberry works.

14. Stripes or polka-dots? Polka dots. They are funner.

15. What accent drives you crazy? Is it a good crazy or a bad crazy? I love Austrailian accents... oh la la! Oh and a deep southern drawl. Yum.

Shopping & stuff

So I've mentioned before and I'll mention it again... if you haven't noticed yet, the holiday shopping season is upon us and this is good news for me because, well.... if you haven't heard, I make a living off of this sort of spending money stuff.

I've been working my butt off the past few weeks adding designs to all 3 of my stores, mainly SledderWear, because, well... it's not just the holiday season - its' the snowmobile season and those whacked out people who like to ride those things also like to brag that they do in the form of t-shirts and stuff.

Which, of course, is more good news for me.
I was telling the husband the other day that this is the best of both worlds for me - I can make money making fun of him! Because, as you might have heard, the husband is one of those whacked out snowmobile dudes, too.

And he tends to be my best customer!

So in my plea to you - if you must spend money this holiday season, do it at my stores! (the links are over to the right somewhere... there's even a fancy search thing that you should try out!) I even do personalizations, in case you haven't heard.

I have designs from snowmobiling to fishing to scrapbooking to parenting to teenage stuff to tv stuff to things I still can't figure out why people buy.

And this ends my shamless plug post.

Flat on your back

So my bestest friend, Melissa, is in the hospital. She has 8 weeks to go until her baby (Brady) is due, 6weeks to be safe. She has placenta something - basically she can bleed out, which she already started bleeding.
She will possibly be in the hospital for the next 6 weeks, which really sucks for her & her kids (she's got 2 boys & a girl at home) because that means she'll be in that joint over Christmas. But you know what? She's better off where she's at. This is too serious for her to try to be at home.
Needless to say, I'll spend the next however many weeks worried out of my mind about this chic and her little bambino. I ain't ready to go through life without my bestest friend.

10 Ways You Can Save Money

10 Ways You Can Save Money

1. Don't spend it. Thats a very simple answer.
   
2. Don't buy $5 coffees, which I don't do. Seriously, I've never even had a $5 coffee - are they worth it?
3. My biggest one, but this only applies if you live in a small town like I do. Shop locally. I can't see driving 20 miles to go grocery shopping when the same items are here in town for the same price - sometimes cheaper! Sometimes they are a few cents more expensive, but Whamo! I just saved that on gas.
   
4. Cook at home. Stop eating out so much. I know a family that will drive that 20 miles because they want Burger King. Stupid. Eating out once and awhile is ok, but when you drop $25 on 4 subs at Subway, think about how many home cooked meals that $25 could make.
   
5. Don't always buy the cheapest stuff. Sometimes cheap is cheap and you'll end up buying more in the end. Dishsoap is an example - ever bought the cheap stuff? Wonder why it's so much thinner than Dawn? Because you get more soap with Dawn!
   
6. Turn off lights when you aren't using them - didn't your mother ever teach you anything? Better yet, use candles.
   
7. Walk once and awhile. If where you are going can get you there by foot in 10-15 minutes, leave your car keys at home once and awhile. Plus it will get rid of your inflating gut.
   
8. Make your kids suffer this Christmas. Take them to the homeless shelter for their gift.
   
9. Say "NO" to Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and school fundraisers! (anyone wanna buy a candy bar for $1? Demon #2 is selling them for her World Geography class....they wanna go to D.C. next year)
10. Quit blogging. Turn off your internet and that'll save you some cash. Of course you'll then have a bill at the local mental institution, but at least you'll have something interesting to tell your therapist.