On this day in {my} history...

Being that most bloggers talk about themselves.. and why not... it's what we know most about.. I am taking a look at what I was up to on this day in 2010 and in 2009.  Loving the fact that I can just scroll back and take a quick look see!!

2010... looks like I actually finished a challenge.... whoop!!!

So this is it... 31 posts in 31 days.... 

urgghhhh i'm exhausted. I thought it would be a pretty easy 

challenge. Alas not. 

I though "I post every day anyway, piece of carrot cake"

obviously, I really don't post every day, every single day.

I take a break when I have nothing... it's not forced.. not squeezed out

just for the sake... Blog for Blogs sake!!!! 

This has been pretty draining to say the least... but after all I did it!!! I

actually completed the challenge... something is finished, done, 

executed to the bitter end. 

Now, can we all get back to normal around here and have some

pure, unadulterated, blogalicious FUN!!!!!

Yipppity Dooo Daahhh.

and in 2009... I'm not showing the whole post here ... rather showing what I have learned in the past two years about the importance of post processing and churning out a much better picture than that which is sometimes delivered right from the camera.... or SOOC if you wanna be hip 'n' cool.. like me.. heh heh!! 

Ashley had just had her ears pierced on this day in 2009 and I obviously took the picture without a care in the world about tone or white balance or any of that stuff.... so today I worked a little PSE magic on it and voila.... she's looking a lot prettier than she did two years ago!!!

So what's happening on this day in 2011.. not a great deal... just happy with the outcome of that picture and now wondering if I should rummage around and find some other disasters to fix from my archives.... just think.. wouldn't it be great if we could go back and fix some life disasters like this... hmmm. Happy last day of August y'all.... see you in September! 

is it just me or has the world gone completely nuts??

It is just me?? OK then good, for a minute there I thought everyone on the planet was headed 

to hell in a handbasket with me! phew.. for yous guys! 

So I went blog hopping today into territories unknown, I have a little (well about 584) regular

blogs I try and keep up to date with... and by up to date I mean I visit once ever y584 days if you're

lucky and I'll comment every 2608 days if you're even unluckier!

So what I found today were some fabulous, funny and occasionally freaky blogs... I love it!!! 

Bloggers are awesome... pat yourself on the back and pour yourself a 

large one.. on me...you're welcome!

I'm having a little trouble with my best friend Mz Toshy the netbook, well I seriously think the 

problem is with Mz Toshy's battery... glad I just pointed out she's a net book otherwise you

dirty minded little freaks would be imagining all kinds of kink!! 

You see, and if there's a techy out there I need you to verify this theory, when I'm using 

Mz Toshy and she's not plugged in I get this crashy thing happening where a dreaded blue

screen pops up and then it reboots. This doesn't seem to happen if I have it plugged 

into the wall... hence my deduction that it's the damn battery. I have had it two years 

or maybe a little more... can't quite remember. Think I need a new battery????

Answers please people. I cannot afford to lose all the precious stuff I have stored

on this baby... like the little voodoo post it stickies I make when I'm grudging... 

see....

 In other news... I'm waiting for some news... nothing I can actually blog about which I know

is ridiculous to even mention it if I can't actually mention it... forget I mentioned it. 

In other, other news... my kid made a weird comment last night which is nothing new to be

perfectly honest.. weird comments are her specialty. She said that her little black friend only knows

one white singer and that's Justin Beiber... Huh??? why would that even be something they'd 

discuss... I know we live in South GA and to be honest it hasn't exactly changed much in 

the past 50 years as far as mixing the pot but really... do kids discuss the color of the artists

these days??? I hadn't even thought about it... good music is good music regardless of the 

race,color, creed or dare I say "orientation" of the musician. sheeeesshh. 

One more before I go.. seem to be on a roll here.. other than the roll of gelatinous butt 

I'm sitting on I mean. Father of my children and man I'm married to... can't say his name for 

he is all mighty... has the task of being Ballet Dad this year. I am not in a position to be  

available at the times of their classes so he has kinda graciously stepped up to the

plate and is involved in all things ballet this year! hee hee... giggles. 

He calls me from the car and says.. it's storming and the girls don't want to go to ballet

tonight because it's a metal building.... Ballet Dad say WHAT???

Almost speechless I reminded him that we are spending an ugly amount of 

hard earned cash on classes, shoes, little chiffony skirts....yes, my friend, they can take their

graceful little butts to class and suck it up. 

Surely if there was a danger the class would not be taking place ... right??? right???

Once again.. I call upon you experts to leave me a comment as to the 

safety of ohhh a hundred or so little ballerina's in a metal building during a storm. 

And that my friends is it for tonight's episode of thoughts from the depths of Mama hell. 

Tune in next time where we talk about shih tzu hairballs and how to cover the 

scratches on the front bumper of my Jeep where I drove into a metal railing. 

güle güle

Snippets of conversation..

10 yr old.. "it's a guy"

7 yr old "uh uhhh.. it has pigtails it has to be a girl, boys don't have pigtails"

10 yr old... "well he's a boxer, girls aren't boxers"

7 yr old..."helloooo there are boobies it has to be a girl!!"

Yes it's another edition of Guess the Gender from the Just Dance Wii game.

Macro Monday... droid style!

It's Monday again folks... seems to come around pretty quick doesn't it. I'm happy to say that this week again I have found myself willing and able to join Lisa for Marco Monday.

 This little offering was taken using my Retro Camera App for Droid. I don't have a fancy iPhone people even though I kinda sorta wish I did only for the camera. The Droid cameras really not that great!! BUT... the Retro App is not bad for fun little shots like this one. It's a gumball machine and I actually very much like how this turned out. Very periodesque.... even though the machine was actually stamped in 1989.... which isn't that old for goodness sakes!!! So my lovelies why don't you head on over to Lisa's place and join in on the fun.

So you think you can weather the storm...

Hurricane Irene is ravaging the East Coast of the US, in particular Nags Head North Carolina as I post....I have never been to the coast of NC but it's on my list of places to see. High on that list, just not this weekend!

Its riveting, I can't seem to keep myself away from the weather channel... I think it's because it's so ridiculous....  TV peeps get themselves out there in the mash-up and broadcast live while they're have their hair literally ripped from the follicles by the winds and their faces sandblasted... yes with SAND! What makes these people think they're above it all?  Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they do because I love to just how bad it gets but I can't explain my fascination with it all. I think it's the frustrated roving reporter in me... in another life I would be that person coming to you live from the eye of the storm!!! I'd be there teetering at thirty degrees trying to find the words to sensationalize the situation...hooorahhh!!!

I tried it once, I know... idiot.  I have blogged about it before but it's worth repeating.... when a hurricane comes to town (unless you are a weather channel reporter) stay in a safe place and let it pass. Do not, repeat, do not head out in your little Jeep and try to get action shots of the storm ripping apart your hometown. It's not a wise thing to do and you'll realize that fact when the pine tree topples and hits your Jeep and scares the freakin' bejesus outta ya!!!!! Ever wondered what goes through your mind when something dramatic like that happens??? As I recall it was literally "HOLY SHIT!!" We were fine and I remained calm, the worst part was that I had the hubby and kids with me, and I felt like a complete asshole putting my kids in danger like that but the wonderful thing about me... I learn from my mistakes. I will never, ever do that again...no never!!!  Oh and just to clarify, we actually live inland, yes inland, these storms are not to be messed with, if you're on the coast... get outta Dodge!!!!

My hope is that Irene will not be as bad as the dramatists are forecasting and that she will have mercy on the East coast... I am going to keep one eye on the Weather Channel while I go about my Saturday morning business of laundry and blogging... a fabulous combination I know.. don't you wish you had my life!!!

There ARE no family photos...

You ever get one of those days when you're just... well irritated???

It's no one specific thing that's got my goat, just a general irritation that's festering

under the surface ready to ravage some poor unsuspecting do-gooder.

I have been listening to Cosmo Radio for a long time now, in particular I love the 

Wake Up with Taylor show, a while back I had a little obsession with it but 

I'm over that now. Back in the real world. Anyhoo.. I was listening today and they 

mentioned something about the peeps on their FB page, so I thought I'd pull up the 

page and check it out. I can't freakin' find it!!!! I know I had "liked" it at one point

and although I haven't looked at it in forever it has to be there somewhere!!! 

How freakin' irritating is that??? I poked around a lot and couldn't see anywhere to find

the stuff that I "like" rather than actual friends... where the  Eff is that stuff???? 

This kinda thing really pisses me off... I'm like a crazed freak trying to find that stupid page! 

Someone help me!!! I'm starting to get all paranoid thinking they blocked me for my 

stalkerish behavior!! .. ????

Secondly, while poking around FB looking for the Wake Up page I was distracted by 

photo albums of friends... I like to see what they're posting.. how the kids are 

growing.. where they've been all that shit... and now I'm getting all fired up again!! 

Where are all my FAMILY pics??? Nowhere.. that's where... we don't have any..

no family pics involving the four of us. No... well there's one taken about 

three years ago at a wedding which sucks.... prior to that there's one that

my good friend who's a pro photog took FIVE ..read it.. FIVE YEARS AGO!!! 

There aren't even that many of the girls actually with either one of us parents.. in fact there are 

practically none of me in recent years. I can't stand having my pic taken any more.

I was on one friends page and there were pics of the four of them on trips and at Christmas

and at home and blah de blah blah.... All the while I'm smiling thinking .. awww

what a sweet family they are... then my smile fades as I get in a little frenzy thinking 

we're a sweet family we should have pics of the four of us plastered all over the net.

I won't let anyone else use my big girl camera but I do have two other perfectly above

average camera's that they can use... but who is "they".. when are we with someone

else who can take a picture? urgh... I allowed an old guy take a pic of the four of us when 

we were in Tennessee but I hated the picture! I looked like a full term pregnant

hefalump and the kids were making weird faces!!!! It wasn't like I could take time 

to pose us all and make sure we were all in the correct light and have him take three

hundred shots to get the perfect ONE.... not to mention it was the middle of a three 

thousand degree day and sweat abounded. I get all agitated when I ask hubs to take 

one of me and the girls... I can't relax... I feel like firstly I'm bothering him to take

the pictures... and secondly it's so posed, stiff and awkward. 

I feel every one of those extra ten pounds the camera is adding not to mention every

one of the thirty pounds I've gained  in the last few years...sigh.. irritated effin' sigh!! 

To add to the irritation today, I have a hair appointment booked after work. 

I'm going to go in there thinking that she's going to change my life and come out all 

pissed that I'm still the same old me but with shorter hair, there will be no miracles on 

54th street or extreme makeovers, just a trim that may look good until I have to "fix" it

in the morning by which time it will have morphed into something like Mickey Dolenz.

The morning grapple with the do and trying to get the kids do's done is enough to send 

me over the edge. No wonder I'm constantly irritated!!! One day I'll be all  

glamorous and I'll wake up to breakfast cooked by a house keeper, my bath drawn and then a

 little pampering by my personal stylist before I leave for the morning school run, I'll drop the 

kids off with a cheery smile and a wave; I'll move on about my business with the light

and breezy disposition of a lady who's catered to. Sigh... one can dream!!!! 

Randomonium Roundup...

OK, summer is officially over.... despite the fact its still a gatrillion degrees here in the 

Deep South.  For those of you outside of the US I'd like to clarify that the "Deep South" is 

anywhere below Virginia(ish) and to the right of Texas/Oklahoma; it's always

hot, humid, hospitable and homely.

There's ain't no one gettin' in a hurry in the Deep South, bless 'em! 

I recently "found" an old friend, an old best friend by searching the internet 

profusely until she could hide no more. Actually she was right where I left her

about ten years ago which is wacky right? and no she's not in fb so it was quite 

the accomplishment to track her down and make contact again. It made me so freakin' 

happy to almost have her back in my life, at least to exchange emails, she's in Scotland

so it will be a while before we get together but get together we will, I can promise you that.

I have been racking my brain to decide which of our many teen/early twenties stories

to recount on the blog and I'm sorry to say that I'm coming

up with a very short, shortlist of escapades which are actually publishable. 

I am however having a ridiculously good time sifting through the memories! 

If hairspray could talk... we'd be in trouble!!! 

Have you guys been listening to "Whatever" with Jennifer Hutt on the Martha Stewart 

Channel on Siruis radio? You should.. and go check out her website... she's awesome! 

I'm thinking she's gonna bring out the stalker in me, she has a blog and a fb page 

and she's very intelligent and witty so I'm following all her social media outlets.. could this

be a bloggy crush!! LOL... whatever... just tune into the radio show and you'll 

get it...Sirius channel 110 from 5 - 7pm.

Yesterday was one of the most bizarre days that I have experienced in a long time.

Some asshole good for nothing called a bomb threat into the school system of the 

town in which I work. So they proceeded to evacuate something like sixteen schools in 

the area, sending kids home on buses and having parents come pick them up. 

What a freakin' nightmare for one small town!!!!! It was Crazytown USA for the best

part of the afternoon, I am happy to report they have arrested the perp. 

Add to that the fact that there was also an Earthquake in Virginia (which didn't have any effect on me 

personally, other than to make me wonder what the heck is going on!) and it was quite

the day.  I mean... what happened to just going about ones daily business without the drama?

We are shopping for new tires for my Jeep... I learned what the numbers on the size of 

tires mean.  You see I don't like to call up and give someone a random number not knowing

what that number measures... I hate being given information without knowing the

background.  So now I know, I'm informed in the world of rubber meets the road, and I 

am one step closer to being a Modern Mom... all informed and shit.
fyi... we spell it tyres in England, you see all this stuff I've had to learn in order to live in the US. 

I mentioned Virginia twice in this post, now that's random.

Well that about wraps up the randomonium for the day, I feel I have only scratched 

the surface of the junk going on in my world but you get the picture!!! 

Au revoir tout le monde.... y'all come back now y'hear!!