STRANGEr in Wal Mart

I’m in Wal Mart today with my daughter – she’s in front of the cart and we’re waiting in the self-check out line.  We’re both thirsty, so I grab a Diet Dr. Pepper from one of those little refrigerators and bring it back to the cart.  I open it, and the thing explodes ALL OVER [...]

A great way to start your day

And I’m not talking about coffee or the new fiber supplement that I’m taking. 
My husband works at an appliance/electronics superstore, so we have lots of gadgety kind of stuff.  The latest addition is actually all mine. 
Back up a little…you know there is a back story. We have two cars, and they are both paid for.  [...]

More favorite things

Books are the best therapy. Buying them is my favorite thing in the whole wide world. They always fit, and you don’t have to return them if you gain 5 pounds before using them. They aren’t expensive, and when you have a lot of them, they make you feel smart. Especially if you read them.  You [...]

My wine menagerie

I am a wine expert.  Wait – back up. I am an expert on red wines that cost less than $15.00 a bottle.  I can appreciate a good glass of wine, I just choose not to spend the money on the good wine.  The way I can drink red wine, I’d go broke in a [...]

How well do you know your colon?

Before today, I wouldn’t have had an answer to that question.  Today is a different story.  I now know mine pretty well.  I had my flexible sigmoidoscopy this morning, and it was no way near as bad as I thought it would be.
First of all, the whole “cleansing” process sucks.  You drink a nasty drink [...]

Summertime Flashbacks – Part Three

SIX FLAGS!
The highlight of our summer trip to Texas was the the day that my Aunt Debra Lou (the saint) would take us to Six Flags. I cannot even imagine taking my three kids to Six Flags by myself in the dead heat of summer, but she was a total trooper and took us every [...]

Summertime Flashbacks – Part Three

SIX FLAGS!
The highlight of our summer trip to Texas was the the day that my Aunt Debra Lou (the saint) would take us to Six Flags. I cannot even imagine taking my three kids to Six Flags by myself in the dead heat of summer, but she was a total trooper and took us every [...]

Summertime Flashbacks – Part Two

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEE-BO! 
I doubt very seriously that my cousin Lee reads my blog, so I’m just going to have some fun at his expense.  I have a total of three cousins.  When I say my family is small, you now understand the extent of it.  There are five of us grandkids – Candy Lee, Brandy [...]

Summertime Flashbacks – Part One

I’m all about requests, so when some random person (aka Aunt Debra) asks about how I spent my summers as a kid, I am happy to oblige.  I just hope that my memories of the best two weeks of summer are close to the memories that she actually wants me to have!
I often wonder how [...]

Scattergories – answers that didn’t quite make the cut

My husband and I are very competitive. VERY. To a fault. And, we’re competitive with each other, so you can see where that gets us.  After an awful night of Scattergories, it was banned. Other friends would want to play, and we’d have to say, “No thank you, we can’t play together.”  10 years later, [...]