Mexican Hat Dance

Monday was Maddi's birthday (the Rock Star Princess). We went to the Mexican restaurant (the one w/ $1.50 Margarita's on Monday and Thursday)last night to celebrate her 5 years in this world.




This place is pretty good. It's got pretty decent food, and great Margaritas. It's a comfortable, yet very busy atmosphere, and the food is CHEAP. 11 of us ate for $93.00 Now, granted there were 2 kid plates and I only ordered one taco...for a whopping $1.35. I ate Ice cream around 3 pm and wasn't very hungry....but even so.....10 full size meals and drinks......plus the kids meals and my taco....not bad.
The entire restaurant is employed with individuals of Latin heritage (sorry, I do not know the politically correct way to say that---no disrespect is meant). They are happy, and generally attentive, and they SING for birthdays! Sombrero provided!!



That's Heather, Maddi's mama............

They smeared chocolate, and whipped cream from the Sopapilla all over her face:



Then for some unknown reason they popped the sombrero on ME.....maybe they thought I was mama or something.......



Here is Brandon, my nephew, and Heather's brother....



And Heather's sister, Shelby, then her brother Nico.....





And finally,here's Maddi and Mia with the bill......Mia is Heather's youngest sister, and she's just a few months older than Maddison.......they are aunt and niece, and best friends....they are too cute.



All in all it was a fun birthday celebration for the Rock Star Princess.......

Happy Weekend!!

Woot! Woot!

Look at the loot!



Ahhhhh, the charitable campaign was mildly disappointing, but then, when I got home, and LOOKED at the free crap I gathered, I realized, I didn’t do too badly!! I only got about half the pens I normally get. I guess charities are cutting back too, and only print pamphlets, instead of giving away goodies.

The best pen came from the Disabled Veterans. It’s heavy, and gold plated……It came in it’s own plastic wrapper. I’ll have to save that pen for special uses. Like, writing checks with no money, or scathing notes to the cell phone and cable companies.

Check out the CUTTING BOARDS that some place gave out…..Jakki gave me hers….because she didn’t WANT IT…now who wouldn’t want a flexible cutting board? Apparently Jakki, so now I have TWO!



I got a cup, a calculator, some Avon, 2 keychains, a rubber bracelet, a United Way pin…a breast cancer loop…….and OODLES of pamphlets.

Some of the pamphlets, I do want….like the 10 signs of Alzheimer's. I may need that for reference. The Humane Society—their wish list, and all the good things they do for lost, stray and abandoned animals. Literature about Missouri state parks….in case I ever decide to take up hiking. How to do breast self exams and the size of typically found tumors……..(scary)……um, let’s see……..I can’t remember all of them…I have a variety of interests, and some of these pamphlets may come in handy!! The next time YOU want to know the 10 signs of Alzheimer's….you can drop me an e-mail…..thinking “Hey, that Perfectly is a WEALTH of knowledge….let’s ask HER!!”.



There were several pamphlets that didn’t make the cut. Sorry Disabled Veterans, I love ya, and your pen is awesome, but your pamphlet didn’t stay in the keep pile. Oh…..the One Pamphlet that I’m not keeping….because I’m sort of confused as to what it is….is HEIFER INTERNATIONAL. Jakki thought maybe they were calling US heifers, but it has something to do with world hunger……. But I don’t like the name, so, I am not keeping the pamphlet.



There are some agencies that I don’t even take their freebies. I don’t agree with the propaganda they spew, so I don’t take their junk. That is how I am politically active. Refuse their cheap pens and candy. I even walked right by a lady hawking pink pamphlets……I didn’t want one, so I passed her by. I bet she TOTALLY understood that I wasn’t being rude, I WAS MAKING A POLITICAL STATEMENT.

The people from the Senior Centers from around Mid-Missouri are always Cute. I do stop and quickly smile at them….because they are fun and sweet and remind me of my Grandma. Look at the joke that the Senior Center folks put on the front of their folders they were giving out! They also taped CANDY to it:



I have one living grandma and one that passed in January of 2007. I really miss her. I wear her jewelry sometimes, and talk to her on my way to work. What? I’m not crazy!! I just miss my Grandma Winnie. My living Grandmother is a hoot too. I put the Avon Cream that I got for FREE last night and it SO reminded me of Grandma White. She used to ALWAYS buy Avon products. And nothing against Avon, but you know all their creams sort of smell like old ladies anyway….but it brought back such STRONG memories of her…….I mean she’s still alive, but childhood memories. She’s a jewelry and makeup fiend….I get that from her, apparently. She lets me go through her earrings and take some when I visit her. Yes, I am 7 years old!!

I hope you all enjoy my loot. I will. This mess is the sort of thing that makes Mr. Perfectly nutty……because realistically? Other than the pens? What am I going to DO with all that junk? It ends up getting strung around and thrown in places it shouldn’t be.
He tolerates it because it is SO FREAKING FUN to grab the loot!! He’s good to me like that.

Have a great Thursday!!

p.s. I try not to politicize, but c’mon…….GO OBAMA….Clinton did a good job in his speech last night. I’m just sayin!!

Charitable Campaign

Today is a good day. Today is the State of Missouri Charitable Campaign kickoff. The kickoff to try to get the State Employees of Missouri to donate to a cause. Or multiple causes.

Nah, I’m not much of a giver. I mean, I give a few dollars a month, but do you KNOW why I love the Charitable Campaign (CC) kickoff? Free Stuff. You’ve got it! Key chains, cups, and the best thing EVER? Pens. And Notepads. Haven’t I ever mentioned that I LOVE pens and paper? Oh, you have NO IDEA of the bounds of my love for free pens and notepads. And not the cheapie stick pens, either. Some of these organizations give away really big, fat, juicy pens……ones that write smoothly and are HEAVY and fit well into my hands (and purse). Pretty pens, shiny pens…….STICKY NOTES!! Now, the downside is that we must endure the shtick of the committee members trying to hawk their particular charity. Sometimes Jakki just can’t pull her self away. She stands there politely; listening to the spiel……I’ve been trying to coach her for YEARS to NOT MAKE EYE CONTACT. Go to the table, smile, nod, and GRAB THE LOOT and GO. Don’t’ hang around chatting with the Habitat for Humanity folks or the bazillion children’s organizations. JUST GET THE STUFF. Oh, the one booth I do stop and talk at is the Humane Society booth. They usually have such cute doggies there….oh and the assistance dog booth….same thing……these cute pooches just WAITING for Perfectly kisses.

There’s free popcorn, and soda……and lots of the booths give away candy. Candy is for wussies. Give me a shiny pen AND a pad of paper, and I’m happy. A cup here and there for pen storage is nice, but not necessary.

Speaking of Charitable Campaigns, do y’all think that it really works to appeal to the internet for cash donations? You hear of people building houses and going on vacations by setting up some internet site and asking for donations. Here are the things I want donations for:

Fixing our deathly porch. We look like the trashy neighbors----and also painting and/or siding. So, several thousand dollars would be necessary. If that is too greedy, I’ll settle for a couple of thousand to get the porch fixed so we stop looking like low-lifes.

A lot of Amazing Grace stuff from Philosophy. It’s my new favorite scent, and I want everything….the shampoo and conditioner, the body wash, the lotion, the “parfum”….the purse sized solid perfume for touch ups……I’ll only need a couple hundred for all of that.

A night or two at the Ritz Carlton in St. Louis for our 21st Anniversary. With club room privileges. Perfectly’s Dad gave us a one night stay there for our 10th anniversary, and we went out to dinner and stuff, but really? All one needs is the club room….all the alcohol and food you want……..why go out? Just hang out in the hotel room and eat, drink and ‘be merry’. I’d think $500 would cover that. I don’t even want a suite….just a room will be fine.

That’s the end of the internet campaign for Perfectly. Do you think it’ll work? If I plea to the almighty internet, will I get what I want? If an internet campaign won’t work, then what will work? I need tried and true methods, folks.

Ok, I’m off to snoop around the building to see where the best loot is going to be.

Toodles!!

What a difference 45 minutes makes

It had been way too long between eyebrow waxes and lash tints.



I went to the beauty school this morning and took care of business:



All the extra hair that grows ape-like under my brows is GONE, and the eyelashes are once again, tinted. Sorry for the greasy look, but they load up my eyelids with Vaseline so the black tint doesn't tint my skin as well........Vaseline doesn't come off easily with wiping......I don't want to WASH it so the tint stays.......so greasy eyes for now.

Buster, my puppy (the older, grouchy one)tore his dew claw AGAIN



So, we took him to the vet to have him sedated (because he bites when he's mad) and have the dew claw clipped close and cauterized.....



We are seriously thinking that we need to have them removed permanently......he's torn them 4x (maybe 5) in the last couple of years. We can't cut the damaged nail because he'll bite, and to sedate him each time he tears it, can't be healthy, so even though he's probably 6 years old now, we may need to just take them out. Poor puppy.....it hurts him so much when that happens. Think of YOUR fingernail being ripped out and hanging there...let someone CLIP it for you without BITING them.......

I had a date with Kandi last night......it was alot of fun. We went to Ruby Tuesdays and ate dinner...I tried their jumbo lump crab burger......meh...not what I hoped for....It was OKAY, but not fabulous. But the company was good. I worked with Kandi for years before I moved to my current job. She's a great person and we don't keep in touch as we should, so my goal is to hang out with her more often.

I'm impatiently and stalker-ishly waiting for Teenie to call me....I know it's selfish, but I have the best fun with her......and she said she'd call......but maybe she's busy.......I've left her one message, and in the hopes of not being too annoying and needy, I'll leave it at that........the one message may have been over the top, though, since she said she'd call me.........oh well...I hope she understands...I think she does.

Oh.....I have a school photo of son #2. He actually didn't SHAVE for the picture, but I still think it turned out nice........despite the 15 yr old facial hair.......
Here it is. Isn't he CUTE?



Well, that's all I've got for now.......

I thought of a fabulous title to this post....then I forgot it.

It is Friday----and y’all know, Friday is my FAVORITE day. It’s not 3:30 on Friday, which is nearly the PERFECT time of the week, but it’s still Friday, which makes me HAPPY.

I do have some concerns I will address:

Coffee: Apparently, Jamaica Me Crazy coffee is not meant for me this week. I like flavored coffees and lattes and all the fattening junk they put in coffees…..but a nearly $5 a pop for a large coffee at Dunn Brothers, I try not to indulge TOO often……so I have found 2 regular coffee flavors that I adore (that can be made at home)…..Jamaica me Crazy and some sort of Chocolate Mint………Mint is tough in coffee…….and one brand just ‘does it’ for me……so I bought the JMC this week because it’s been some time since I had it. Tuesday, I got to work, and spilled it……TWICE…….all over my papers and my keyboard. Great. I’m the office messy desk girl. Really. It’s bad…and I got coffee all over the paperwork, and had to confess that I spilled it on my keyboard too, in case it got all stuck and stuff, since I doctor my coffee with sugar and creamer.

Anyway, then this MORNING, I left my JMC coffee IN THE CAR, and had to walk all the way back out to get it….so I could dunk my HIT biscuits in them.

Stoogie: Where are you? I’m fretting that you are somehow cyber-mad at me for something that I don’t even know I did.

Really annoying people: I’ve decided to play the blame game. There’s a person in my life that makes me INSANE. Literally insane. I hear the voice and I CRINGE. What does one do to relax about this situation. The stress is my own, and I allow it to CONTROL ME….so what can I do to get this hag out of my BRAIN. I can’t eliminate this person from my life, so how can I eliminate this person from ANNOYING THE HELL OUT OF ME? That’s a serious question, not a rhetorical one. I need tips, people….and of course, for reasons unknown to you, but vital to my living and breathing, I can’t give details.

Ok, that’s the complaint section for the day: Let’s move on to FUN STUFF.

What to do this weekend? Mr. Perfectly is going to the High School Football Jamboree, and I think I’ll stay home. Since Son #1 isn’t playing, and son #2 isn’t included as a Freshman, it will be boring watching other kids play ball. Teenie is out of town and Jakki is dumping me for her couch and dog, so what can I do? I may call my other friend, Kandi, that I saw in the cafeteria the other day……maybe she’ll want to go out and play.

I’m having a Fabulous blog day……Crissy is a HOOT. Read her.

Well, I’m all out of blog ideas. I’m sure more will crop up shortly---like right when I hit ‘publish’….then I’ll remember all the cute and funny stuff I wanted to say originally….before I came off sounding like a shrew…..

I'm off to intermeet Ben......I love making friends.......!!!!! Crissy, you get me stuck on MORE BLOGS......blogging and reading blogs needs to be my JOB.........

Watch for more posts, because if something cute comes up, I’ll be sure to blog it!

Bye!! (for now)

Howling at the moon

It’s crazy time in my world. Really what is WRONG this morning?

I opened my e-mail this morning to find that me….a State Employee…had sent a message about where to ORDER LUNCH to someone out in the land of the internet instead of to my section at work. Yep……someone in Wisconsin got the email asking which restaurant sounded better. He requested a Hot Dog with no Mustard. Thank GOD Bob had a sense of humor. At least I hope he has one and isn’t writing our Governor as we speak.

Then some guy that works in our Department came and asked Jakki where her ‘people’ were. HER ‘PEOPLE’ What person asks another person that……….I mean c’mon!! She wanted to raise her fist high, but refrained……..he actually was asking about our co-workers, but still. People are so stupid. (like me sending out a order out request to some guy in Wisconsin instead of my own group). Like the time a highly intelligent, yet socially backwards woman asked Jakki if both of her kids were from the same Dad. Now how rude is that?

Then, my niece, Heather (the Rock Star Princess’s mom) got a random letter last night from an inmate. AN INMATE. Locked up in our correctional system. He included a picture that he inscribed: To: Heather From: Billy……….a 29 yr old INMATE sending a little pal sized picture of himself to a stranger. Billy is in prison for assaulting a police officer, and armed criminal action. But he’s getting his stuff together and hopefully his attorney will have him ‘OUT’ by next summer. And he wants Heather’s zodiac sign. And wanted to know if she was a party girl or not. He wanted to be sure Heather knew that he listened not only with his EARS, but his HEART AND SOUL as well. Everything is so automated and personal information is available to EVERYONE, but the poor girl is worried sick that somehow he’ll actually get out and seek HER out…….I don’t think he will….it’s a con…these inmates send letters hoping for a ‘connection’ and CASH. But I can TOTALLY see how it’s creepy and unsettling to have Billy from the prison writing you…….

My Crabby hasn’t abated, either. I thought I was fine when I woke up, but I guess I’m not. People have irritated me from the moment I walked into work. That and realizing that I sent Bob our restaurant list---talk about being MORTIFIED. Um…sorry Bob that you aren’t gonna get that hot dog………lunch from yesterday is OVER.

I hope Teenie gets my call of woe and goes for Margaritas with me tonight…….if not, will any of YOU go with me? I’m lots of fun, and I promise to try not to be a negative Nelly!! $1.50 Margaritas til 8pm!! Pretty cheap!!

Let’s hope I get this posted correctly and don’t send it to Bob.

Toodles for now.

A tub and rub will change your day.

That was the fortune I opened today at lunch. A FORTUNE....FROM A COOKIE. AT WORK. So, what did I do? I showed it to everyone!! The consensus is that it appears that the sex shop fortunes and the Chinese restaurant fortunes must have been sent to the wrong places.......the sex shop people are certainly going to be disappointed.

Today is one of those kind of blue, down and out days. I'm annoyed by most everything. I keep thinking my "just think how lucky you are" speech, and, folks, it's NOT WORKING. And nobody is READING me today and for sure nobody is COMMENTING today....and I feel sad and NOBODY SEEMS TO CARE.

On a much cuter note, here are Lester's ears. Well, Lester too, but JUST LOOK AT THE EARS:





And here is Maddi, my rock star princess (and great niece) She'll be 5 next week:




I am trying not to google 'shoulder injury'. Son #2 got a stinger during football. Yeah, just read that definition.........NEUROLOGICAL STUFF. Now he's in major pain, and has to see the football sports trainer today. NOT THE DOCTOR mind you.......the TRAINER. The football people don't LIKE doctors because doctors are shockingly cautious, and make football boys NOT PLAY BALL when injured....trainers just tell them to bite the bullet like a MAN and get OUT THERE AND PLAY, SON!!!! Mr. Perfectly is taking him (thankfully) so I don't have to get rude with the trainer when he tells my baby to take this injury LIKE A MAN. I may have to show that TRAINER how to take it in the MAN PARTS.......

Our work staff is shorthanded today, and since I was sick (cough) on Monday, I can use the time as make up time.......which is always nice. And it keeps me from becoming violent in trying to protect my young cub. But it also means I'm at work til 5 pm instead of the usual 3:30 pm. That ISN'T fun.

We ordered Chinese food at lunch today. It wasn't very good. At least mine wasn't. The dumplings were smooshy, and the noodles not flavorful---and what flavor it DID have wasn't appetizing.

I did get that naughty fortune, though. I know Mr. Perfectly will take that as a SIGN............

I sure wish I knew why I was so cranky today...it's not my 'cranky time' if you get my drift.....nothing major is happening in my life.......

Oh, I know....it's because I wore ugly clothes today. I didn't shave my legs, so I couldn't wear capri pants.......so I wore navy blue pants and this hideous blue top I got at Wal-Mart. It looked CUTE on the hanger...Mr. Perfectly warned me that he didn't think it would be cute, and I pooh poohed him away and bought it anyway. Now I've GOT to wear it, because nothing else really goes with the navy blue pants. Oh...here it is! It really looked cute, and it really isn't.

Oh well, I've groused enough for the day. Enjoy the rest of the afternoon while I worry about shoulder injuries and war with Russia (and having a nearly 18 yr old son).

Toodles for now.