Sunday, May 29, 2005
This weekend has been wonderful and has really allowed me to do some thinking and spend some quality time with my two men. It's been wonderful!Yesterday afternoon, we aired up Garrison's new pool. That thing is neat! I'll post pics when I'm back at work with my DSL connection or if I get some free time today to let them download into photobucket. The files are so huge since my camera has such a high resolution, and I'm not sure how to fix that problem and make them download more quickly. I might try resizing them in Ifranview and then loading. Anyway the pool was only about $30 at Wal Mart and has a mini pool inside the big pool, a slide, a couple of blow up games, and a palm tree sprinkler. I love this thing!!
We went to eat at a wonderful Mexican restaraunt last night. I was sooo craving a margarita!! Garrison found it to be his job to entertain the entire group of diners in the area we sat in. He definitely has a future in the entertainment industry. He also cracked me up with his affinity for limes and lemons. The child LOVES them and gobbles them down!
We then bought groceries and started our journey home. It rained all the way home, which is good because I don't think it's rained here in over a month. The temps have been around 90 degrees every day, so we really needed the rain. My flowers were getting parched and our little garden was having to be hand watered every day.
I just finished a book on my reading list. It was Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella. This book was GREAT !! I really look forward to the other ones in the series. I totally appreciate the referral from whoever told me to check it out!!
I've also done some cleaning this weekend. I have a whole lot of baby cereal (rice and oatmeal) and baby food (jars and the other packs) as well as some Gerber Graduates meals that are no longer needed here. I also have some Alimentum Advance formuula (which is ultra expensive). I'm gonna put them up on ebay if I don't find something else to do with them I guess, but if any of you faithful readers are interested, e-mail me. I don't want a ton of money for them or anything, just enough for the trouble of getting them together and shipping them, except for the Alimentum, which I'm going to ask at least 1/2 of retail for. Anyway, if interested, let me know. I'd rather not go through the hassle of ebay if I don't have to. I'm not very good at all of that!
My cousin Hannah, aka Hooker, got a new car yesterday. She got an awesome 2005 yellow mustang with black racing striped and a scooped hood (is that what they are called?). It sure is nice. Lucky little girl!
I smell a poopy diaper and I need to get dressed to take Garrison to visit my papaw, so until tomorrow, have a lovely weekend and a Happy Memorial Day! |
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Melissa-Mom to LittleMan (4/04); wife to LuckyHusband; full-time toxicologist; full-time housekeeper; full-time domestic laundromat manager (washes all the clothes); full-time domestic finance manager (pays all the bills and yells at husband for spending too much money on fishing stuff); and Keeper of the Cheerios. Lives in a tiny town; spends tons of time with family; reads; enjoys crafts. Can change a diaper, fill a sippy cup, and put on a toddler's shoes in 15.4 seconds flat, all while calculating the impact of petroleum hydrocarbons to a nearby surface water body (watch for me in the Toddler Olympics on CBS this fall). Addicted to Dr. Pepper; Kit Kats; and pasta. To spot me in a crowd: I'm the one with frizzy messed-up hair, smeared graham crackers on my shirt; huge purse with a diaper peeking out, toddler on her hip, and camera in hand at all times.
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Confessions of a Shopaholic
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
Can You Keep a Secret?
Shopaholic Ties the Knot
Shopaholic and Sister
The Nanny Diaries
Nighttime is My Time - Mary Higgins Clark
Trace - Patricia Cornwell
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
Saving Graces - Patricia Gaffney
Save Karyn - Karyn Boznack
Rosie Dunne - Cecelia Ahern
Little Earthquakes - Jennifer Weiner
The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella
In Her Shoes - Jennifer Weiner
One Tuesday Morning - Karen Kingsbury
The Pot Luck Club
P.S. I Love You - Cecelia Ahern
No Place Like Home- Mary Higgins Clark
The Covanent - Beverly Lewis
The Betrayal - Beverly Lewis
The Sacrifice - Beverly Lewis
The Prodigal - Beverly Lewis
Goodnight Nobody - Jennifer Weiner
The Preacher's Daughter - Beverly Lewis
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No Place Like Home- Mary Higgins ClarkRosie Dunne - Cecelia Ahern
The Last Juror - John Grisham