Time for more Randomoniim in McGillyville....

OK, random item numero uno....when the heck did the time start

passing by so quickly and how did Thanksgiving sneak up like this? 

I don't feel very thankful right now, yeah I said it! it's out there 

I just don't. I've been working freakin' hard this year and I only 

want to thank myself!!! So sue me!!!!! 

Numero dos.....this is as far as it goes for me and the 

Spanish counting... 

three.... Hubby is into FB... wtf....he's always so 2000 and late!!!! 

still better late than never I guess, he's just such an amateur and 

keeps asking me for help. He'll be blogging next!!! 

four... with weather like we've been getting it's hard to 

concentrate on work, I keep thinking I could be out somewhere 

fabulous taking pictures, I miss RENO!!!!  

five....eldest child is a book-a-holic, we're going to have to make more

trips to the library, she bought a book a the weekend which cost

$16.99 and read it in a day!!! It kinda hit me that a habit this 

expensive needs to be fed by the library versus the book store. 

six...did I mention Thanksgiving...I'm cooking this year and haven't 

even started to think about a menu!!! Is it wrong to hire a caterer 

or even go out for dinner???

seven..... why do people who work for the utility company have 

to be do damn rude? Is it a prerequisite?  The application probably 

says..name, age, address, are you a complete asshole to strangers

who pay your wages? 

Well that's it... can you tell I'm not in a very positive mood lately? Sorry about 

that I'll try harder to get back to the light and jaunty McGilly you all 

know and love!!!!! 

Got Wood????? Part Deux.

Regular Ramblers will know that I recently did a post HERE which included some pictures of wood that I had taken when I was at Blog Camp Reno.... well who knew... here we are again.... there's something about wood that speaks to me!!!

When I was a kid we lived in a pretty rural spot, there were "the woods" you could take a walk through or there was another place we called "the den" which really was another version of the woods??? I don't know what the difference is between the woods and a forest but I know I most probably love them both. I love the sounds, wind blowing through the trees, birds chirping happily, the little scurries that could be a fox or a monster.....and the peace and tranquility.

Now I'm all growed up and still have a love affair going on with the woods... the textures and the

light, the feeling you get when you take a fab picture of a felled tree or a log on the ground.

I take pictures of wood because it all seems so alive to me, even when the tree is gone and you're

left with a splintered stump, it's beauty you just can't comprehend, something created

by a much higher power, put here for us to behold!!!!

Then there are roots, a system of feelers sent out by the tree to find nourishment and stability. This particular

picture is of the roots of the tallest Elm in Florida, the thing is ginormous. Trees put us in

our place, they are tall, magnificent and elegant, they exist so that we might exist, they

are useful, beautiful and necessary.  I don't think I'm really a tree hugger... but maybe I could be!!!

Have you noticed???? This post stinks!!!!!!

I am becoming so lazy lately. I am not posting as much and for about only the third time ever I didn't even use one of my own pictures in my last post!!! I'm finding it hard to concentrate on my own posts because I have been out there reading such a lot of other bloggers stuff...... which I love.

Maybe I'll just give it all up (like some of my bloggy friends) and move to a remote part of the universe!! or maybe I'm enjoying real life a lot more lately that I don't feel the need to hide in my computer... although I really do love to write and this is the perfect outlet for me.

I have started to so more with my photography lately so that could be part of it. I am getting more and more involved with my flickr photostream although I'm still pretty picky about what I upload there. I love to use the picnic thing to edit them and create fun stuff. I'm working on Christmas cards right now... yes people CHRISTMAS cards.. not holiday cards, not season's greetings but Christmas cards. I'm also trying to make my free canvas from www.canvaspeople.com....go over there and check that out.

So that's it in a nutshell, all my online time is checking out other blogs and being a creative genius. So when I have something fantastic that I want to reveal you'll be the first to know!!!!! I am also ridiculously enthralled with Tweetdeck, something introduced to me by my bff Bambi. Have been tweeting away over there lately and hope to tire of that novelty pretty soon so I can get back to blogging.

OK so here's a random picture.. related to nothing previously said.... but at least it's mine!!! Bye for now dear hearts will be back with something more worth reading soon!!!! Hugs!!!!!

These are knees.... of Cypress trees....to the eyes they please..... and they taste like peas!!!!

heehehehehehehheeee

Such a lot to blog about today....

Usually in any given week I have a ton of

things to do and I never get to the end of it, I'm overwhelmed

tired and just plain bogged down!!!!

This week I have taken a different approach, the stop and think

approach where I will try and organize stuff in the moment

so that there's no need to revisit later. It's a case of if

you don't have time to do it right the first time then

you damn sure don't have time to come

back to do it again!

This philosophy is serving me well, it's early days

so don't get all excited thinking I've actually

grown up a little... I'm sure there'll be pitfalls

for me to blog about later, but for now, life is

settled and it's a good feeling.

So without further rambling let me tell you what

all this is leading up to....

Yesterday ... it was MY DAY... just for me...

no one else!!!! The laundry was done, the kids rooms

are semi-tidy, tidy enough that I don't feel sick to

look at them, the groceries are ok... for now.

So I blogged in the morning, then I started a pot of

chili for a chili cook off at church, I entered last

minute just 'cos I know I make damn good chili and

thought what the hey... enter!!!

At ten I had my first massage... MAN.... it was kinda

scary but pretty awesome. When I called to book they were

all, well the girl who does this is booked up but you can

have this kind of massage blah blah blah, we

settled on a type of massage and a time and all

that good stuff and just as I was hanging up she slipped

in.. bye now, see you at ten with Will.

**&^%%$$@!@#**

WOT?? WILL?? do you mean Willamena??? Wylthia?? Willie Mae, even????

So not wanting to look like the big weird prude that I am I just said

yes, see you then... and hung up. Then started to poll my girlfriends to

ascertain just who had had a MALE do them, you know what I mean,

and did they keep their panties on? Would it be ok to wear some

of the old maternity panties that should be called chesties because

they come up to your neck, or should I wear grannies to

my armpits or should I just go with the thermals and be done with it???

It's a dilemma people, I mean you don't want to look like a

old woman in your grunged out Hanes and you don't want to

look like you're seducing him in your pink leopard lacies either...

I'll never tell what I went for but it worked out well.

Hair at noon, I love Brittany, she does a great job and doesn't

care about my nether garments. Phewwww.

So here I am all relaxed and cutie pie, I spent time with the

girls doing homework and getting their stuff ready for

school the next day (see what I mean about being

johnny on the spot!)

Then the almost best part of the day...I bundled the girls and the chili into

the car, headed for Church and allowed the judges to

thoroughly enjoy my creation, my culinary masterpiece,

my bowl of sheer joy.

And I took second place out of fifteen!!!

WOOP WOOP!!!!

I can now invite people over for my award-winning

Chili. yes... that's right!!!!

and the piece de resistance... Hubster

has been out of town (yes again) and he came home

with a little black box full of diamonds!!!

There is nothing like getting diamonds on a Wednesday

night!!! Especially when you're relaxed, have

a new do and you're now an award winning

Chili Mama!!!

Yep, yesterday was a good day, a great day

a day to remember!!!!!

Corner View... Favorite Dish. (I'm cheating)

This weeks Corner View theme is favorite dish, you can post a pic of what you like to eat, or a dish you like to eat from or serve from, I guess a soap dish if you want to.

Well, in true McGilly style, I'm stretching this one to suit myself, but I think you'll enjoy it anyway.

Last Saturday I volunteered to go to Mule Day in Calvary GA to sell cookbook for the Junior Service League, that's where the link ends... dish... cookbooks... get it???? I had been told this was some kind of artsy crafty big kinda horse/mule show thingy and I'd be able to take the kids and make it a day out, and that they usually have about 60 thousand people there... ok... 60 thousand people are not flocking to South GA to look at mules... or are they????

We set out in what we thought was good time to make the trip, as we get closer to the Mule Grounds the traffic begins to slow down and then stop... people start walking past the truck in the direction of the "thing", we were still a good ways off. Surely to God we're not parking here and walking????? Hell no... hell yeah!!!

Then as we got closer to the "thing" it gradually opened out before my eyes and the only work to describe my feelings was GOBSMACKED!!!!! What in the wide wide world of Sports do we have here???? The annual coming out of every country boy and girl on the planet.... and we had to find our little booth, among ten thousand booths... of course we couldn't call the our girl because we were in the BOONIES and there's no cell phone reception!!!!!!!!!!

Lookie here, if you can make this out you'll see that the tents go on for miles way over the horizon... and after the tents are the mules (apparently) I certainly didn't make it that far.

OK here's the lady with the Shih Tzu in the stroller... nice.... there were lots of shih tzu's there... hmmm must rethink my love of shitties... they're apparently all too popular with people who turn out for Mule Day.

OK we found the booth and here we are, my good friends and I fearlessly rockin' the Mule Day and selling the crap out of some cook books... as you can see matching shirts and sunglasses were the disguise of the day, didn't want anyone to recognize us... my shirt was red but still has the JSL logo on it.. you just can't see it in this pic!!! not that that matters... just sayin'.. I wasn't being a total rebel.

So to sum up... we drove a long way, we walked a long way, and then the kids rode a short way in circles...

Ashley is always dressed and ready for any occasion, she's a true Southern Belle.

Then we all held hands and went home to some super chili waiting for us in the crock pot... which again links back to my favorite dish!!!!!

For some other wonderful corner views go check out Jane at Spain Daily.

and these other great CVers...

jane, ladybug-zen, ian, bonnie, esti, sophie, cele, modsquad,caitlin, joyce, ani, kim, natsumi, epe, kaylovesvintage, trinsch, c.t., jeannette, outi, ritva, francesca, state of bliss, jennifer, dana, denise, cabrizette, bohemia girl, isabelle, amber, a girl in the yellow shoes, mister e, janis, kari, jgy, skymring, elizabeth, allison, lise, cate, crescent moon, erin, otli, ida, caroline, lisa, dorte, kimmie, la lune dans le ciel, nicola, malo, vanessa, britta, april, b, kyndale samantha, karen, kristina, goldensunfamily, sophie, janet, mcgillicutty, aimee, sunnymama, jenell, britta, juanita, pamela, inna, daan, myrtille, cris, ibb, jodi, gillian, travelingmama,athena, pienduzz, latisha, clairette, kelleyn, iris, demara, mus, ninja, guusje, di, sammi, theresa, cherry b, victoria, kathryn , lisa, liza, juliette, braja, mulot, anne, lucy, leonor, elizabeth, helene, dominique, shokoofeh, cole, jenna, podane, grey-lemon, line, nihal, urbaNiche, inner toddler, puna, lucylaine, adrienne, emily, lynn, skywriting, eliane, the wanderer´s daughter, carole, anna, dorit, kenza, sherry, conny, susa

Enjoy your Wednesday!!!

Besos!!!

The Epitome of Redneck...

I took this  my good friend Cha took this yesterday at the biggest red neck gathering you could ever wish not to attend... she laughed her ASS off as she told me "well you have finally experienced SOUTH GA... true SOUTH GA!!!!"

There'a a whole nother post a-comin' describing this day of greased pigs, old mules and shih tzu's... yeah you heard me..shih tzu's in strollers. I'm booking Mac and Daisy in with my local plastic surgeon (I have connections) to see what he can do to disguise them seeing as their breed is now the most favored of the banjo playin' hill billies in the South. These dogs are Chinese Royalty!!! I'm disgusted.

For now be content to feast your eyes on this little beauty... if  you're wondering why Cha took it?? I was just to downright humiliated to be there and feared they would actually pose!!!!!

Click on it to see the full size.. I decided that linking it this way would be for the best increase traffic to my Twitpics page!! LOL!!!

Things I learned this week...

There are totally some freakin' awesome people out there.... in real life and in the blogland.

There are some big asses out there too.  Not as many asses as freakin' awesomes.That's good.

Leaves just don't quit. You can rake, suck, blow whatever it is you feel the need to do but they're still coming.

My five year old is very wise, she has the answers to Life the Universe and whatever else is included in that saying.... am I showing my age? I should listen to her more.

It's hard to stay focused once the giggles set in .... and that's pretty often when you happen to be me.

Hubby thinks it's hilarious to drop some of his Wasabi nuts into my Natural Almonds.... it's not. He has no idea who he's messing with.

Taking down Halloween decorations is a lot more satisfying than putting them up... just sayin'.

My mailman needs to rethink his career choice, he might want to check out a position more in line with his sense of urgency, like an oak tree.

Otin has the funniest way or saying.... wtf... go look at his post from Wednesday... it makes me laugh!

Uncle Larry has no clue about FB. He made a page and then wondered how the computer knew that he knew the people it was suggesting as friends.... he actually said "how does it know I know these people, I don't talk to them or nothing but I know them... how does the computer know that?" God bless the innocent.

And that's it for this week.... yep that's it... didn't learn one other single thing this week!! Hope you like this, now what the heck did YOU learn this week?????????