My day off......

Let's start with last weeks shopping trip. Nina may have gotten all the clothes but I got the cool stuff. I'm really into the peace sign right now and I have been looking for sunglasses with a peace sign and I wanted a new wallet - so look what I found!!! (yeah I know the wallet is upside down kinda but YOU know that is a peace sign). Now I have like 5 pair of sunglasses but these ARE the coolest. And since Nina doesn't think these are cool, I don't have to worry about her "borrowing" them.

Family dinner night was great but we missed Norman (he's on vacation). I forgot to take pictures - just wait til I get my new camera, I won't forget anymore.

Today, I got up at 9:30 (for me - on a day off - this is like WAY early), went to pick up some groceries for Nina - don't want her to starve. Then went to KING KONE for lunch, burger, fries and shake - it was really good. After lunch I cleaned the bathrooms - YUCK - I so need a housekeeper. Then I layed down to take a nap but NINA called and wanted me to meet her at the gas station on her lunch hour - her tank was empty (so was her wallet). Then I started to read some of my magazines (they have been stacking up for a couple months now) - got bored and decided to post this instead. Just got an email from one of my work friends - Terri (Campbell) - she is home with migraine - hope you feel better soon Miss Terri. I have the BEST work friends ever. It's almost time to take CiCi Bear for a walk, then I gotta enter my coke codes, enter some sweepstakes, take out the trash for trash day, eat dinner, take a shower then off to bed. Whew, these days off go by fast.

I'm watching the news right now and they just stated that Arkansans are some of the most medicated people in the US - mostly because of obesity. WE BE FAT.

Paula, your email will not allow my email to be delivered to you - I'll try something different.

I'm being stared at (cici is ready to go for a walk) so I'll talk at you later. Have a wonderful week everyone. I love you Nina Bear. REGGIE - I hope you are doing ok, I hate how the "company" treated you. Take CARE.

Family Portrait

Sometimes I get so frustrated with this blogging thing - I really wanted to show you several pictures (portraits) but I can only get one at a time to come up. There are so many things I don't know how to do and I don' t have time to learn. So I will share this one with you today. It is Nina, Christopher and Connor - duh. I like this picture and I don't like this picture. It is a great one of Connor. I told Christopher he looks like Jack Nicholson in this picture and who is the stranger with the dark hair? That doesn't look like my Nina. Anyways, I am waiting (once again) for Nina (who is once again late) and we are going to breakfast - at IHOP (yummy) and then on to the mall (that is, if she ever gets here).

That's it for today, I'll catch up with you Tuesday.

Izzy

This is Izzy - our grandpuppy. She is a live wire let me tell you. But she loves Norman and gives him "hugs" and kisses when she comes over. For those "Grey's Anatomy" fans, yes, Izzy is named after a character from that show. Nina is a fan. Family Dinner night on Sunday: Nina cooked up some spaghetti - which was a hit (ya'all know i don't "do" spaghetti, I just had noodles with alfredo sauce instead). The Connor Monster played ball and bubbles and he didn't want to go home - threw a little fit - which is especially hard on his mom. Hopefully he'll grow out of doing that every Sunday. Got the portraits taken of him finally - what an ordeal. I DO NOT recommend Wal-Mart for having pictures taken - next time we'll try Sears. Since I'm now off on Tuesday and Thursday mornings - I will try to find the time to post a picture or two of Connor from the Wal-Mart portraits on Thursday - running out of time today - need to get sweeping. Reggie, we will all be thinking about you this week - good luck, take care of yourself and don't you worry about the passport center - we will keep it running for you. Nina, I love you. Charles, I'll see you tonight, be good.

It rained all day

No I'm not really mad, I just love this picture cuz I do occasionally get mad. I am mad at myself cuz I forgot to take my camera with me today. But it rained allllllllllllll day so pictures wouldn't have looked that great anyway - but you might have gotten a chance to see my new "do" (hairdo that is).

We started out with a couple of local errands then after breakfasting at Sonic, we headed to little rock at about 10:30 a.m. We went to the camera store first - which we found without getting lost - imagine that!! When I walked in, I went to the counter with cabinets full of "point & shoot" digital cameras and the man behind the counter (John - the manager) asked if he could help. I explained my situation (that I had an older Sony digital and that I was a total dingbat regarding photography) he asked WHAT I would be taking pictures of, and I told him "my 3 year old grandson". He steered me away from the "point & shoots" and said they were not what I needed. He then showed me a Nikon D60 (for beginners). I asked about the Canon Rebel, he showed that one to me also. I like the Nikon best. Now I just need $450 more and I can buy it :)

After the camera store we went to Kohls and Norman bought me a pair of jeans - they were on sale!! I really needed them as I had just 2 pair that I have been wearing every day and every night. We went to JC Penney to look for socks but they didn't have what I wanted so I guess I will have to go to worlds softest socks dot com and get them online.

On to the movies. We went to the RAVE theater and saw "The Proposal" - a Sandra Bullock chick flick (Norman picked the movie, I wanted to see Transformers). The movie was actually better than I thought it would be. We both enjoyed it. We decided to go back to Hot Springs for Dinner - I gave Norman the chance to pick the place - he didn't so we had dinner at Olive Garden - one of my favorites.

We got home around five thirty-ish, I'm in my (flannel) jammies, under the covers, relaxin. I think I'll take a nap. Catch you next week.

Sleeping like a baby.....

Here he is - the birthday boy. He falls asleep in the car on the way over here, and he just wouldn't wake up. How cute is that. I got home from work and he was sleeping. We made dinner, ate dinner, he was still sleeping. We went outside for smokes, he was still sleeping. Noman went in and woke him up and asked if he wanted to play golf - that got him up. I got him a big ball for his birthday and we played ball in the garage forever. Chris and Nina got him some BIG bubbles so he blew bubbles with Chris in the front yard - that was too cute. We had a very nice evening.

I had a doctors appt this morning (yearly exam) so I was off work on the day job today, I'll be off tomorrow too - getting my hair done - finally. Thursday I'm off on the day job and I took a vacation day on the night job so I'll have a whole day/night off for the first time in 2 months. Norman is taking the day off too and we are going to Little Rock to a camera shop so i can talk to them about what kind of camera I really need - not just want. We are going to the RAVE movie theater too and out to eat. I can't wait.

Last week at the night job, I was in "cards" almost all week and boy did I stuff some envelopes - close to 12,000 of them. On my feet the majority of the night using a million dollar machine that needs to be blown into a million pieces. It was a hard week - my feet hurt.

Nina and Chris are still doing good. Nina is working overtime to help get the bills paid and Chris is the expert at budgeting. Norman is thinking about taking some vacation time and driving to Florida to see his mother and brothers. If he goes, it will probably be the middle of August. He really needs a vacation. That's all I have time for today -gotta enter my coke codes then maybe take a nap before going to work. REGGIE - take care of yourself, do what YOU want to do - we are all thinking of you. Nina Bear, I love you.

Oh no, it's MONDAY :(

Hi everyone, I would say "happy Monday" but we all know that's impossible. What a horribly long week is has been. My back is killing me - don't know for sure why, but it is really hard to move. Nina & Chris moved over the weekend. They are on this side of town now just a couple miles from me. Norman & I went over to check out their apartment yesterday. It is a one bedroom so it is smaller than the one they just left but plenty of room for the two of them and Izzy (my grandpuppy) seems to approve. The apartments are on the lake so me and Nina took a walk down by the water and it was lovely. We all came back to the empty nest for grilled burgers which were wonderful. I know you are all dying to know what's up with this picture............WEEEELLLL, as most of you know, I love to enter sweepstakes. Lately though, I haven't had much time which is such a bummer. Anyway, for some reason, I entered a sweepstakes that was giving away a bottle of nail polish - AND GUESS WHAT - I WON!!!! (so did 399 other people). And since I don't have time to paint my nails, I gave the polish to Nina Bear.

I do try to enter my coke sweepstakes. So many wonderful people at work save their coke, diet coke, sprite, etc caps for me and some of them even bring me the ends of their refrigerator 12 packs (worth 10 points each). Entering the codes is a pain in the butt - but, Norman reads them off to me every Saturday night which is a huge help. I'll be sure to let you know if I win anything from Coke-they have some great prizes.

For those of you that worry about me working myself to death, I have asked for a schedule change and reduced hours for the day job. I asked for the following schedule:
Mon: 9-2
Tue: OFF
Wed: 9-2
Thu: OFF
Fri: 9-2
Sat: 9-5
Sun: 9-5

Two mornings off - wow. Hopefully this schedule will go into effect next week. I cannot handle ten hour nights on the night job and getting off work at 1:30 in the morning then being at the other job at 9:00 in the morning. Last week we worked one night for ten hours and I was wiped out for 3 days. Tonight, I may be in "CARDS" and if I am - it will be a ten hour night YUCK.

OK, gotta go get some other stuff accomplished before heading out = have a good week, try to stay cool, Nina Bear I love you = good luck this week with your new doctor.

The ride is over.....

Now isn't that cute?? This little cutie looks a little like my CiCi Bear - same coloring so I just had to use it. The last couple of weeks have been (another) roller coaster ride and I am truly ready to get off the ride - permanently. I am getting to old to ride roller coasters and I have a feeling if I have to ride this one any more, I may become a casualty. I really need to do some house cleaning as this is the only morning I have off, so the blog time will suffer this week. We are scheduled to work 10 hour nights at the house of horrors this week, thank GOD I am not in book print (although I shouldn't say that, cuz last week I wasn't supposed to be in book print and one night they made me go in there). I know some of you are saying "ENOUGH WITH THE "I HATE BOOK PRINT" - grow up and get over it - it's a job ---- Well too bad, this is MY blog and I can say anything I want - so there.

For those of you wondering about the "roller coaster" - all I can say is Nina and Chris have had some problems (yes that beautiful couple you saw pictures of on this very blog) - Nina's disorder is truly a nightmare and and so very hard for those close to her to deal with. Once again, they are going to try to work things out - and all I can do is wish them the very best.

Let's all hope this week is better than last week.