In transition and HAPPY NEW YEAR

I know...my colors are weird right now. I kinda like them, but need to pull it together. I was tryng to do it quickly. Today is Saturday, and Damon leaves me tomorrow to go back to Nashville. :( I am bummed, really sad. I fly back *sigh* on Tuesday at (are you ready) 5:49AM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yikes! Anyhoo...

We went shopping today. I needed to use my MACY's gift card, since we dont have Macy's in Nash yet. So I got some 400 thread count sheets for $39.99! Great deal! They even fit deep pocket matresses. I got some gaucho pants, that really look like a skirt. I also got another skirt and a Tommy Hilfiger pillow!

Mom and Damon and I were laying straw and sawdust down for the horses yesterday (since it has been raining for like several days now) its a muddy mess. The mud is about 8 inches deep. Hence the straw and sawdust...well the dog (that isn't really ours that we thought was homeless and started feeding but really did have a home but continues to come back) started chaseing the horse and it kicked him. We finally got over to Larry on the yard (thats the dogs name) and he had blood running down his face and was going into shock. Off we went to the vet in super fast mode in our muddy nasty boods and manure (we looked a sight!) Dog has to stay for the weekend with an IV running to make sure he doesnt have seizures, he got a concussion too. Not even our dog...:P

Well I need to get off here...we got stuff to do. Love yall and hope this is interesting enough to tide you over for a few days :P

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

btw...erika are you pregnant? or not?

Hey, I am at my Grandpa and Grandmas house

Hello everybody, I am at my Grandma and Granpdas house using their computer. Pretty sweet huh. My Grandma's new word is "IDIOT"! Our family's movie is "Napolean Dynamite" so this is why she likes the word "idiot". Long story, :) hehe. We just got back from the MPC computers Bowl Game. BSU lost :( sigh....was close there at the end with such a poor game they rallied at the end and almost won. No victory, but close, so I guess it is okay. We are getting ready to go, cus Dad is ready to leave. Oh...Grandma wants me to tell blog world that we saw a Napolean Dynamite look alike (very similar if you ask me) he even did the the napolean dance! Back to the game...it was REALLY COLD, had some hail. Speaking of cold, there is sposed' to be a storm coming in so hopefully we get LOTS Of snow so Damon can go snowmobiling! Peace out yall, time has been great here! I wish I could move back!!
Talk to y'all later!

BW (that is my indian name)

Yo...it's Tuesday

Good evening everybody! Tonight was church (on tues., thurs., and sundays in Idaho) was a great CMPA service. I got to hold Chuck and Lisa slacks little girl (shes 9 months) total chunk and so cute! To report whats been going on lately...
Welp Monday, lets see I was still feeling pretty icky :( We had to meet my grandma for lunch before she flew out back to Las Vegas (she's retired waitress from the Casino's) anyhoo....Cracker Barrel. Wasn't very good. She didn't tell me how chunky I am, so that was good! Then I had Damon and mom take me home, they went shopping, I watched Christmas with the Kranks. ITs a great movie!
Today I had a hair appointment at 9am so I headed to Boise and got my hair cut then damon and I went shopping nearly all day. Then we went to my Grandmas apartment at the nursing home to visit. Then we came home and I made my buffalo chicken for my dad and Damon then church. Now...here at home. Not as exciting as Wendys blog, but good enough ey? Pray for my Cousin Marissa and her husband Josh. They are newly saved!
love yall

Christmas in Idaho

Well...It's CHRISTmas day! We were delayed last night in minneapolis and ended up getting in around 12:10am. Didn't get our luggage and into the truck until around 1:30am. Due to the fact you can't wrap the packages in your luggage anymore...I had to wrap the stuff when I got in last night (aka this morning, really early) At any rate, I ended up going to bed around 4:00am, then got up around 7:35ish....still going, like energizer. We had our family (my mom and dad and damon and I and the doggies) this morning, then church at 11 then my deendees at noon, then my grandmas at 3:00ish. Now we are home! I had a good day, I need work in my heart though. Pray for me!
AND....the best part, my dad came to church this morning! (he isn't saved)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

TO ALL THOSE IN BLOGVILLE~

DAMON AND I WISH YOU A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

MAY YOU BE WITH THE ONES YOU LOVE, AND YOUR HEART BE FILLED WITH THE LOVE OF OUR SAVIOR, JESUS.

I have joined the elf name wagon ...

With my maiden name it is...

Your Elf Name Is...

Furry Slave O' Santa

What's" Your Elf Name?

With My Married Name it is...

Your Elf Name Is...

Buddy Eggnog Breath

What's" Your Elf Name?

PLUM WORE OUT!!

Good Morning Vietnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam! Uh hmmmm I mean, Good Morning to everyone in Blogville.

I would appreciate your prayers for me. I am plumwore out!! These last two nights I have been up coughing and hacking. Last night I even slept on the couch to try and stay away from Damon so I wouldn't keep him up. I came back to bed around 2am. I have been getting sick and up at night very often these past two days. I have what Damon had, but worse. It has gotten me very wore out with working and last night I cleaned the house real well before our trip in hopes I would come home and it wouldn't be to bad. I also packed the gifts last night and finished making the Christmas cards for family. I just feel blaaaaaaaaah! A guy at work gave me "drixorell" yesterday, KNOCKED me out! I feel asleep at my desk for like 35 minutes! When I woke up I was out of it and prayed I would get home safely. I felt like I was in a daze! When I got home I went straight to bed! Damon told me to just rest and not worry about the house. I got up around 4:25pm ( I normally get off at 3:30pm and get home a little after four, but we got off about 40 minutes early yesterday) after not really getting any good sleep. So, now I am here today, feeling VERY tired. Eyes are burning from lack of sleep, body wants to sleep, feeling just very blech and ew. I think I could probably sleep for three to four hourse right now! Getting up at 5:15 might have made me more tired, I don't know.

Anyhoo...we fly out tomorrow evening, and have Christmas with his family tomorrow morning. I need to be well! Tonight I imagine we will celebrate together since we will be on a plane during Christmas eve!

My voice sounds like a frog!! I have "stuff" wrapped around my vocal chords gag!

peace yall. I wish you a MERRY CHRIST mas

Update 2 on Judy

Judy needs prayer for her situation right now and her body. Most of you know (per my posts) that the insurance DID total her car out. She and Damon went and looked at cars today, she is looking at the car I have, a 2006 Impala. I am SERIOUSLY concerned for her, we took her to church last night and her speech is almost like her mind is processing it but her body can't get it out. Damon said she really made him nervous today test driving the car and he had to tell her twice that the cars in front of her were stopping. I have come to the conclusion her mind is working great, but because of the MS her body is processing what her mind sends in about half the speed of a normal person. I.e. she takes twice as long to respond as you or I would. My personal opinion is she doesn't need to drive and it would be better for someone to drive her then she be on the streets. As I type this I am imagining what it must feel like to have your mind fine and you body defeating you, it must be VERY aggrivating and stressful. I need love, patience, and support for her. She told her insurance if she had one more wreck she would not be driving anymore. I pray she doesn't need a wreck to realize she doesn't need to drive anymore. At any rate, please pray that she will go out of work on disability soon. And, that God will keep her safe if she is to continue with her MS.

Icky Chicky

If you guys could say a prayer for me I would appreciate it. I am sick! :( I was fine last night just a wee little cold. Then during the night I guess the Mucous monsters came and invaded my sinuses and lungs. I am not kiddin'! I was up I don't know how many times in the night coughing and gagging *gross*. I don't want to be sick when I got to Idaho. I don't want to run the chance of getting my Grandma sick or my cousin as they are both high risk right now.

Today, I guess I don't feel much like blogging.

We leave Saturday for Idaho, YAY! I am so excited! WOOOHOOO!

Saturday morning we are doing Christmas for Damon's family at Lenada and Woodys house. I finished Christmas shopping last night.

Talk to yall later!

I get paid today!

I get paid weekly and today is PAYDAY! I have a few more gifts to get, some gag gifts, some serious :) Damon said I should get Uncle Neal and Uncle Devon (devoted Dodge lovers, GO MOPAR!) a quart of Havoline (the only oil neal will use) and put a tag on it that says "for your oil burnin' dodge" so...I am getting them a quart each as a gag gift then something small that is actually nice.

Oh and side note from Gifts stuff cus this is SO much more important!
My cousins Husband GOT SAVED LAST NIGHT in a TCOG service!! WOOOHOOO! See my cousin joined the church when she was about 14 or 15 I guess. Then she backslid when she was around 16. Anyway, she got married in June to Josh who is a very sweet guy and they came on Sunday night (out of nowhere) and he told my mom they would be coming regularly. Anyway they came back last night with their wedding rings off and all the jewelry gone and my cousin wasn't wearing makeup either and he got saved wonderfully and my mom says she thinks my cousin got saved too, but that she was to shy to announce it! I am so happy! See my mom has always said she thought Josh (the husband) had a tender heart, and if it says anything...Marissa had Brother Pete from our church do the wedding ceremony with NO rings just so she could have Brother Pete do it, even though they both weren't saved! Isn't it awesome! YAY!

Back to gifts...I need to get my aunts something small too, candle or whatever, the oil and something small, and my cousin something else, and I think I am done. :)

Today is a GREAT DAY! yay!! Oh and Wendy guess what Damon does to me last night! He says "I need a dessert for tomorrow" (they are having a maintenance crew potluck thing today) and this is when we are fixing to go to bed. I said are you serious, he said yeah. Well I got it out of him that he actually was asked to bring something, but he had planned on buying it so I wouldn't have to spend any money to buy stuff to make something. Hes a butter nazi...thinks its to expensive. Anyhoo....I was like DAMON! it would be cheaper for me to buy stuff to make it then to buy a dessert! So at 5am I tried to make the 5 minute fudge. I didn't have the recipe so I tried to remember what you had said... I hope I got it right. It tasted GOOD! I put a bag of milk chocolate with a half bag of white chocolate ( I know....I was short a little on the chips part) and the vanilla and some butter and the sc milk. That may not be it, but it was setting up pretty good. Tasted REALLY good. Super velvety!

Peace My brothas!

The ride is finished, please step off the roller coaster now.

I'm tired of being emotional for the day, has left me drained. Good night y'all, I appreciate the support more than you will ever know.

Nut Case

Ever feel like one?

I read Erika's blog, and she got me thinking. Great minds think a like....*grins*

I was not really emotional UNTIL I got married. Now, I hadn't thought about it before, but I moved from my parents house where I had lived my whole life (never moved, not even once) directly to my husbands home 2000 miles away. I guess it had an affect on me. One minutes I was fine, the next minute I was bawling my head off in the shower.

Damon and I had a dream courtship, met and dated for four months then engaged, and were married 6 months later. Hardly ever, maybe once did we bicker that whole time. Dream dream dream time in my life.

VERY rarely have we fought fought, (no fists people) maybe 3 times in our whole marriage (goin on two years) have we been REALLY upset. The other times were just like erika said, bickering. I think I may be to needy? I am an only child, and I pretty much raised myself because dad worked and was gone for two and three days at a time, mom was working too. From 5 and up I was home a lone. Never had kids on the block to play with till I was 12 years old. (although our block was kinda weird, cus each house had a few acres to it, so we were spaced out) So needless to say I grew up HATING to be alone. I hate it to this day, I don't like being a lone. People who say they need their space...thats NOT me. Combine that, with moving across country from your family and all you have ever known. I think it makes me over emotional, who knows, maybe its an excuse. I do not trust people easily, because I try to hard to please someone and something happens where I get hurt. So most times I just joke around with many and trust few. I don't want to talk to just any one at church, because tho Damon has known them for a long time and can just trust them, I have basically just met them and it seems like whoever it may be I am talking to thinks its about me missing home and that is NOT the case. So basically I rely upon my husband for emotional support, and being my friend, my buddy, my everything. Maybe that is where I am wrong, and I need to cleave to God like that. Who knows anymore...I feel so messed up...

I love Damon with more than I can even understand or describe, and he loves me. I love him and could not live without him unless God saw fit for that to happen, God forbid. Maybe I am the problem, does anyone have any advice for feelings so alone, and so far away.

Update on Judy

The insurance totaled her car out. Must have been worse than I thougt...PTL they are ok.

Let me just say

Not to be complaining, but...if you are single and even THINKING about marriage consider how serious it is and no matter how in love you are and how great you think it will be to be with your lifetime love...IT'S HARD!!

I love Damon A LOT A LOT A LOT!! That doesn't change the fact that it's work. Men are from Mars, wome are from Venus. I think one thing he thinks another...*sigh*

Don't take for granted the dating stage. It was so much more fun, marriage is so much more rewarding though. You take the good with the bad and put God first, it will be ok. Just a warning out there, DON'T EXPECT A BED OF ROSES.

Car Wreck

Pray for my mother in law, Judy. She just had another accident last night (Sunday). She rear ended a smaller pick up which in turn hit the car in front of it. Most of you may not know, that she just had an accident in September that was her fault as well. I personally don't think she should be driving because she is very nervous sometimes, she has MS so she has to drive with both feet because she can't move her right leg over to the brake pedal. I love her, and I feel sorry for her sometimes, I think she needs to quit driving though. :( Pray for her, she is really shook up and nervous about what the insurance will say to her.

oh...I don't know if this link will work
http://www.adasheriff.org/vd/mugshots/PermanentDataFolders/2005-12/151735%20%201107583%20.JPG

That is my cousin Troy. I love him so much, he is making one wrong turn after another and I can only pray. I am going to try to visit him while I am in Idaho for Christmas. He is only allowed one visit per week. I hope no one else comes to see him. He needs saved so badly, he knows of the church and a little about it, but not much. He knows of sanctification. Pray for him. He and his girlfriend were doing good while she was pregnant cus they were both off drugs, but she just had the baby (ashlynd rose) a few months ago and from what I understand they are both back on now.

Chuck and Ralph

Yep, that's what I feel like I need to do, to Chuck then Ralph....my lunch! NO! I am NOT pregnant. If you are guy and reading this, close your eyes! I know I am not prego because I just had my monthly visitor, the red bandit. Yesterday afternooon around 3:30 I really started to feel sick. I had a sore throat, headache, sinuses, lots of drainage. Contemplated staying home, but decided to go. Then couldn't even hardly eat last night at the fellowship cus' I had NO appetite. Then today I have eaten nuts and some applesauce, at lunch time I am not remotely hungry but decide to eat to keep myself from getting a headache. I eat lunch and BLAAAAAAAAAAH. It isn't sitting well. Off and on bouts of nausea. Gagggy.

So...this weekend I

To be honest, I have a hard time remembering!

Oh yeah, Friday night we had Choir practice, which included dinner. If I may add this, Sis Tammys potato soup was ummy yummy in my tummy! Practice was from 6-9ish and we even had a minnesota transplant joing the choir. AUTUMN.

Saturday I didn't get up as early as I had planned but I did make it to the stores before 10am!! I got nearly all my shopping done. SInce Damon DOESNT read this I can post what I got him and if ANYONE WHO DOES READ THIS AND KNOWS MY HUSBAND TELLS, I will NOT be happy!
I need to get something for Damons Uncle Neal and Devon and Martha and I think one more thing for Damon. I wanted to get him the John Deere shirt that says "country boy" they had them at Cracker Barrell, but they don't now! >:( Grrr.... I think I need to get something else for my aunt and Grandma too. I am not sure.
I got Damon:
Napolean Dynamite
Hose for his air compressor
ultrasuedeish button up shirt
new black leather dress shoes
black dress belt

Want to get a nutcracker set for him since he is into cracking pecans and walnuts lately
Also want to find the country boy shirt
Want to buy the springs for Old Blue (his 79' fixer upper we are slowly working on)

I need to get something else for my Grandma Dorren, my Grandma Anna, and My aunt Molly and Patti. I am thinking maybe some candles.

Saturday night we helped Wendy and Danny move. Danny's life flashed before his eyes under the dresser :P and most importantly, I got to change GG's diaper! Shes so cute. I hope I have a cute kid like that.

Sunday I was sposed to bring a dessert for that nights play and fellowship time. So I got up at 6:45sunday morning and made my soda cracker candy (as the recipe called for using foil to line the pan, which I didn't use last time) Anyhoo...I discovered that some fo the candy had partially burned on the bottom after I tasted it. Which irritates me cus the time I DIDNT follow the recipe it was great and the time I did and put the foil in it burns it slightly. Do you ever go through periods of cooking disasters.
And....my banana cake DID not become moist as I was hoping...just a side note to all who read that story. Anyhoo....the choir sounded really good thank the LORD. Erika looked great and her baby is beautiful. They matched it was so cute!! She says it wasn't planned though! We were sposed to have a band meeting after service, but that didn't happen. Then we went out to eat with Danny, Wendy, Caetie, Toby, Allie, Silas, and GG and Vicky to the mexican place and Damon does NOT need any cow tongue! Grr.... :P

THe play was great!! I love the song "where are you Christmas" as you can see! They used it in the play and it fit perfectly! Goose bumps! Then I had to leave the fellowship time early as I was feeling icky! I had contemplated not coming to church as I started to get worse. But I made it then all that great food and I hardly ate a thing (which if you saw me you wouldnt believe) nothin sounded good except punch. I just didnt haven an appetite. I felt pukey, mixed with bein drained, headache, sore throat, draining sinuses etc..

Well ttyall later! Time to work now...!

Christie Cookies

Well....my tummy kinds feels funny. I had been good on my diet today, then came in the box. What box you ask? The Christie Cookie box... they were the rejects. See our saleslady for the company gives the good ones to customers then gets the rejects for us. Sounds kinda mean, but hey they still taste good right?! YUM... Just to tell you how good they are, I don't normally like Chocolate Chip cookies unless they use milk chocolate chips. These used semi sweet and the babys were still lip smackin! MMMM

Blog world has been TOTALLY boring today. With the exception of Gracie. I miss my blog buddies. *sighs*

I am off to see the wizzard the wonderful wizzard of Kangaroo...car washes that is! Gettin the car washed after work! Then it's off to nointernetland for the weekend. We don't have internet at home anymore. Damon says we "dont need it right now" sheesh...he finds a wife then cuts the net. HELLO! Meat market was it?! hehe

See yall later!

WHY ARE MY VIDEOS NOT WORKING TODAY?!

WHY WHY WHY?!?!??!?!

This is gonna be a long post....so get ready to read!

Rundown of last night, today, and tomorrow.

Last night I went grocery shopping after work and spent $106 bucks...phew then went home and put it all away. I knew I had been asked to bring a dessert for tonights informal choir practice dinner so I knew I needed to make that and I needed to make dinner. First things first I made yet another pizza (I'm into these things lately) anyway I made a buffalo chicken pizza. Put ranch dressing as the sauce then topped with chicken cubed then sauteed in buffalo sauce put it on the ranch dressing then topped with a bunch of mozzarella cheese and garlic powder. It was DELICIOUS, best I have made yet. Ok, next I made my dessert, which I finally decided on my banana cake. 3/4 way through the recipe I read and it say "buttermilk" *panics* no buttermilk! Then I remembered trick, *take note if you ever need buttermilk for recipe and dont have any* Mix regular milk with a little lemon juice. It will produce the effect and taste of "buttermilk" My recipe called for 6 tbsp of bmilk, so I put 5.5 tbsp of milk and about a half tbsp of lemon juice. Saved the day. Well, last time I made the cake I remembered it taking extra long, so I put it in the oven for 50 minutes fully expecting ot have to add more on the timer. BUZZZZZZZZZzz and man was the cake done. I'm afraid I may have cooked it too long making it dry. So on the way to work I came up with an idea. I will pierce holes in the cake then make a brown sugar banana sauce and pour over the top letting it seep in to the cake then frost it with the cream cheese frosting as I normally would. I think that should make it nice and moist. *hopes it works*

Today...I get off at 3:30 hopefully. Need to go home and go see mamaw and papaw for a bit and get their coffee made and possibly clean up a little bit. Been two days since I was there. THEN I need to hurry home and vacuum and dust and clean bathroom real quick (megan's coming over after practice) then I need to hurridly make my frosting and frost the cake. However I guess after typing this, it would be best to make the sauce then put on cake so it can sit, then make frosting so it can firm up THEN clean my house quickly, then go see mamaw and papaw. I know I need to leave BY 5:30. I get home around 4:15. This gives me 1 hour 15 mins...maybe I can do it.

Tomorrow *drum roll please* SHOPPING DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I get money YAY! I think I will go from hermitage to Rivergate to Hickory Hollow to Donelson! I don't know. Megan will be with me helping me carry my load! I'm so excited! WOOOOHOOOO! Then somewhere in the day, Damon said Wendy called and needed some help moving something so maybe I will go help him, who knows :) He's gotta paint earlier in the day while I shop. Maybe we can meet up!

And lastly, tomorrow night...I need to make another dessert for the childrens play Sunday night. We always have a informal dinner/buffet thing after the play (I say always and only been there two years) and Sis Viv asked me to bring a dessert. At this point I am undecided. I am thinking either a chocolate candy cane cake, OR a nilla praline cheesecake, OR Santas Cake. I will also bring the soda cracker candy...its SO good!

BYe yall, love you muchos and hope to see new posts on blogs soon so I can be entertained!

SAY, CHRISTMAS!..Merry CHRISTmas!

SAY, CHRISTMAS!..
This is a Christmas tree. It is NOT a Holiday hedge.
It is a Christmas tree!
Say it...Christmas, Christmas, Christmas



THIS "CAN'T SAY CHRISTMAS"

IS GETTING A LITTLE ANNOYING!..

WE SHOULD ALL PUT MERRY CHRISTMAS
SIGNS ON OUR LAWNS AND

ON OUR BUMPERSTICKERS...
DON'T YA THINK?????????????

WHAT THE HECK'S THE MATTER WITH THE COURTS?????

ARE THEY GOING TO CHANGE THE SONGS TOO???

I"M DREAMING OF A WHITE...HOLIDAY?

WE WISH U A MERRY....HOLIDAY???

I"LL HAVE A BLUE...HOLIDAY WITHOUT U????
THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS...

WE ARE LOOSING OUR RIGHTS....

THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A FREE SPEECH COUNTRY!.......
"MERRY CHRISTMAS" TO All of YOU.....
Say it everywhere u go!
PASS THIS ON...

Good Morning

Well, looks like everyones blogs are becoming festive. Here in two weeks we will have to change them *sigh*.

I am thinking mine looks kinda kiddy now compared to Wendy's and Gracies blog! There's looks all sophisticated and stuff *whine*

So...here's the latest. I have discovered that I am a mean, too unserious, fat weirdo. Do you ever realize you were not polite AFTER the fact? Last night Brother Shaw handed me the phone at Church cus Em had called for me and after I was finished I didn't even thank him. I was talking to someone pre call and go so involved that after I just jumped in and didn't say thank you! I am so rude! GRRRR And I am probably gonna send Tyler into convulsions with my teasing. I dont want to go to far in my teasing, I just need to stop so I don't hurt someone. *Sigh*

And...do you even KNOW how much weight I have gained since I got married. I have gained a 6 year old child in weight! I hate this....I am going to lose my weight again. I thought I looked really nice at my wedding. Was wearing a size Large in misses from Dillards. Thats like SMALL compared to now. I know some of yall out there are tiny (gracie grr). But a misses Large is tiny for me.

I am in a grumpy mood today, was grumpy with Damon this morning, grumpy at work...shame on me. I am worrying about some things.

Well I will see ya later with all my *sighing* and *whining*

*sigh sigh*

Don't Hate My Blog Because It's so BEAUTIFUL!

Ok, I admit....Rachel mentioned something about trying to Christmas -ize her blog. I took her idea and started messing with the template in mine. Now, mind you I do NOT know how to do all this stuff! I even had to ask megan how to put my buddy's blog lists into my links area! I can't even put a photo on here because I don't really know how! (the ticker photos or whatever) anyhoo...I really had mine messed up for awhile. Almost sent Erika into seizures over my gastly amount of green! I would just put stuff in the color area (which started out with number colors, but I put the words "green" or "red" in) and kept messing with it. Then where I noticed there was a .gif image I noted that this must be a background or picture. So I googled several images until I found what presently occupies my background of very light snowflakes. All in all, I am really happy with it, but BELIEVE me, it took like two hours of off and on work to get it to look like that. At one point, I thought about just starting with a new pre determined template cus' I thought I had messed it up so bad! My point being, even though you think its complicated, if I can figure it out surely all you WAY smarter computer people will get it so much easier than I!

Now, moving on to the next subject! This Friday is the choir rehearsal. I am sposed' to bring a dessert...now I can't decide if I should do something festive, I have thought about a lemon poundcake or a banana cake with cream cheese frosting. Any suggestions? What would YOU like to eat?!

My cousin is back in the hospital...he has pancreatitis (sp?) this is after he got his colon taken out. Poor kid (16years old) he is puking bile. Pray for him.

Oh yeah and Sunday is the Choir performance and the Kids program! Can you believe it?! Christmas is almost here, I remember being a kid and it seemed like the Christmas season lasted so loooong! Now it goes by soo fast! I want to be a kid again. I give up on being an adult!

cya!

props to victor

Victor ( a buddy from Idaho, whom is old and greyheaded) helped me fix my blog...he wants attention....so here you go buddy! Thanks for almost NOTHIN and just a little bita help!

BUGS OFFICIALLY WORKED OUT!

I am so excited! Woohoo...me the computer illiterate blogger made my blog pretty! YAY!! Atleast I think so!

YIKES

PARDON MY BLOG!!!! :) I am trying to make it Christmasy (took rachel's idea) it looks kinda messy. Hopefully I will get the bugs worked out!

Christmas is next Weekend HELP

I don't know what to get Damon! I am going shopping for my family this weekend hopefully, and still need to get one thing for his side of the family. But then there is him! I don't want to be boring...but I know he wants/need new dress shoes and a belt. That is officially boring right?! Everything else is for his truck...I could get him a JC Whitney gift card, but that is boring too! I don't know what to get him! Grrr Any ideas?

~*~Escuchame~*~

Sometimes my heart hurts so bad
The pain comes and it goes
Waves of merriment, and waves of sad
Like the tide rushing, pains' salty water penetrating every open wound

I cling the Rock higher than I
Only God can steady my ever hurting heart
He knows the season, the time, and why
If someday I return, I pray it will be like we were never apart

The pain clinches around my throat like a jagged knife
I wish to speak the words, to somehow describe my hurt
I want to go home, I want to go home, I want my life
To see my family, my mom, my dad, oh these memories how they burn

I chose Love, I do not regret it
I chose happiness, it was no mistake
I chose to leave, and the pain is sometimes so great
I held his hand, he held mine, hand in hand through the doors of time

To wish, that one day I will knock on homes door
To remain in bliss forevermore
Knock knock, life is temporal, we are all pilgrims on this shore
God knows my heart, Dear Jesus help me take one step more.

Blog world...

Blog world is boring these days....not much topics, not much commenting...so desolate. Let me out of the bad dream!

Kasey Lu Lu

Kasey Lu Lu

So....I found this new button on the page...trying to see if this works. I guess I am not to sly on the new technological advances out there!

In all things...

give thanks!

Thank the Lord for today!

I pulled a muscle in my back yesterday that kept me up off and on throughout the night and is hurting me here at work. However, if I can feel the pain that means I am not paralyzed, and so many would love to trade their condition for my pain. So I am thankful I can feel the pain, even though it hurts.

I got sick this morning with my tummy. But...atleast I have a tummy to be sick with, some have lost their life or body parts in horrific circumstances.

I have a headache....atleast I am alive to feel pain, and am in a country where I can go and get medicine, or rest if I needed/wanted too.

I don't want to grumble, there is to much in life to be thankful for here in America that doesn't compare to the tragedy others face.

Today is billing blech! But, I have a job! Woohoo!

I need Prayer

Ever feel like someone is ignoring you. I won't mention names, but it gets annoying and hurtful.

SuPeRcAlAfRaGiLiStIcExP~iIi~aLiDoCiOuS

hmmmm....what to post about.
Firstly, I got my angels this morning. I drive by where Gina lives every morning and her car happened to be running so I ran inside and asked if she had my angels. She told me they were in her car...so I got my angels! YAY, but there was extra stuff in the box~ is this mine? Wendy I know you read this...? Or do I need to forward this to another recepient?

Damon and I went to look at a paint job last night...I think it is so funny when people keep mentioning how broke they are while he is looking at their place to give them a bid. Isn't that subleminal (sp?) hinting, wait, that is just outright hinting! I asked him if he noticed it, he didn't.

I made homemade pizza! I am into homemade pizza lately for some reason! I even try to toss my dough in the air like the real pizza people, but I don't toss very high I am to skeered. It was so good. I made the dough, then put butter spray and garlic powder then the sauce, then lots of mozzarella. THEN I added pepperoni on the whole thing and EXTRA black olives on my side. No olives on Damons side. Then I topped with more cheese and pizza herbs. After ten minutes in the oven vuuuuooooalah! Perfectissimo! He puts jalapeno's on his side though...blech!! *gag*

We went to bed early again, so at 2:30 this morning I was wide awake. Let honey out, fed the boys (cats), got back in bed. Then they boys started playing so I put them outside so we could sleep. Damon and I got up this morning and I told him Jr. was gonna be happy to see him! Jr. doesn't like to stay outside long, he's my little fat buddy who's quite spoiled. No kiddin' Damon went to let him in and his little fat body cam-a-runnin'! He was talking to us and floppin down next to me so I would pet him, and his little motor was running high gear! Meow meow meow! He cracks me up *doesn't take much to amuse me*. I love my little fat buddy!

Tonight I don't know what to make for dinner *sigh* we are to broke to go out, but I deposited extra into my checking account *good for me, bad for us*. I have never tried sauer kraut, but Damon says he likes it so I got smoked sausage aka keilbasa or whatever and kraut. I guess I may attempt that, who knows. I want to bake this weekend, but I am fighting the won't have money to get ALL my stuff should just wait theory, or the it will be to stale by the time Christmas is here theory. So I think I will wait til next weekend. That will mean I have all day tomorrow to finish my Christmas cards, AND clean the house! I need to do laundry, and I only have a few dishes so that isn't to bad! (we been eating on paper, really saves on doing dishes since I have no dishwasher, fills landfills tho :-/ )
Lastly I need to go through my stack of recipes to decide the finalists for my baking! ALSO, I need to put my lesson together for the Children's Church this Sunday. Uhhh...was something else I was gonna say...OH YEAH, I got mamaw a pointsettia at walmart last night. It is soooo pretty! Maybe they are at all the wal-mart's if they are, you need to get one! They have them in Blue or Pink and they have glitter sprayed on them very lightly. I guess it sounds cheap looking, but they are real poinsettias with just a hint of shimmer. It's quite pretty! I told Damon I want the pink one ;)

Osta!

Recipes worth trying?

go to www.allrecipes.com

I am going through the Christmas recipes A-Z collection and am thinking about gift boxes with goodies in them. I found a few I thought I would post on here see whatcha thought.

Microwave Pralines (4 outa 5 stars with 27 ratings)
Debbie McDonald
"The most fantastic, EASY candy you can make... sinfully delicious and habit forming. I have only seen this fail once, and then the disaster was the most marvelous gooey pecan praline ice cream topping." Original recipe yield: 3 dozen.
INGREDIENTS:
1 pound light brown sugar
1 cup heavy whipping cream
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
1 tablespoon butter
2 cups chopped toasted pecans
DIRECTIONS:
In a deep, microwave-safe bowl, mix together brown sugar, whipping cream, and corn syrup. Microwave on High for 13 minutes.
Mix in butter until well blended. Then stir, stir, and stir until mixture begins to cool and get creamy. Stir in chopped nuts. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto waxed paper to cool.

Microwave Oven Peanut Brittle (5 stars, 248 ratings)
Submitted by: Linda C.
"I have used this for years and it is very good; much easier than the traditional method and tastes just as good." Original recipe yield: 1 pound.

INGREDIENTS:
1 1/2 cups dry roasted peanuts
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1 pinch salt (optional)
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking soda
DIRECTIONS:
Grease a baking sheet, and set aside. In a glass bowl, combine peanuts, sugar, corn syrup, and salt. Cook in microwave for 6 to 7 minutes on High (700 W); mixture should be bubbly and peanuts browned. Stir in butter and vanilla; cook 2 to 3 minutes longer.
Quickly stir in baking soda, just until mixture is foamy. Pour immediately onto greased baking sheet. Let cool 15 minutes, or until set. Break into pieces, and store in an airtight container.

Macadamia Clusters (5star , 2 ratings)
Submitted by: Cindy Carnes
"I made these for Christmas '98 for work and had to make more for return trips back to work. They are very easy and decadent looking." Original recipe yield: 2 dozen.

INGREDIENTS:
8 ounces vanilla flavored confectioners' coating
2 (3.5 ounce) packages macadamia nuts
1/2 tablespoon orange zest
DIRECTIONS:
Place candy coating in microwave safe bowl; microwave uncovered on high for 40 to 60 seconds. Stir every 30 seconds, until smooth.
Stir in nuts and orange zest. Drop mixture by teaspoons onto waxed paper.
Allow to sit until set, store covered in refrigerator. If desired, melt approximately 1 ounce semisweet chocolate and drizzle over.

Warning** this next one seems pretty intense, but it looks like it could be *the* recipe to make you known as THE BAKER to come to!

Nutty Nougat Caramel Bites (5stars, 8 ratings)
Provided by: Nestle® Toll House®

"A finalist in the 2000 Share The Very Best Recipe Contest, this recipe was submitted Diane Bartels of Greensburg, PA. Perfect for parties and gift giving, these bite-sized candies melt in your mouth. It all begins with a butterscotch-flavored cookie base, followed by a marshmallow and peanut butter nougat filling. Then, a creamy caramel layer is finished off with milk chocolate icing." Original recipe yield: 15 dozen.

INGREDIENTS:
COOKIE BASE:
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 (3.4 ounce) package butterscotch-flavored instant pudding mix
2 large egg, lightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/3 cups NESTLE® TOLL HOUSE® Butterscotch Flavored Morsels

NOUGAT FILLING:
1/4 cup butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup NESTLE® CARNATION® Evaporated Milk
1 (7 ounce) jar marshmallow creme
1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups coarsely chopped salted peanuts

CARAMEL LAYER:
1 (14 ounce) package caramels, unwrapped
1/4 cup heavy whipping cream

ICING:
1 cup NESTLE® TOLL HOUSE® Milk Chocolate Morsels
1/3 cup NESTLE® TOLL HOUSE® Butterscotch Flavored Morsels
1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
DIRECTIONS:
FOR COOKIE BASE: PREHEAT oven to 350 degrees F. Line 17 x 11 x 1-inch baking pan with parchment paper.
COMBINE flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar in large mixer bowl until creamy. Add pudding mix, eggs and vanilla extract; mix well. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in 1 1/3 cups butterscotch morsels. Spread and pat dough evenly into prepared baking pan.
BAKE for 10 to 11 minutes or until light golden brown. Carefully hold pan 2 to 3-inches above a heat-resistant surface and allow pan to drop. (This creates a chewier cookie base.) Cool completely in pan on wire rack.
FOR NOUGAT FILLING: MELT butter in medium, heavy-duty saucepan over medium heat. Add granulated sugar and evaporated milk; stir. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Boil, stirring constantly, for 5 minutes. Remove from heat.
STIR in marshmallow creme, peanut butter and vanilla extract. Add peanuts; stir well. Spread nougat mixture over cookie base. Refrigerate for 15 minutes or until set.
FOR CARAMEL LAYER: COMBINE caramels and cream in medium, heavy-duty saucepan. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until caramels are melted and mixture is smooth. Spread caramel mixture over nougat layer. Refrigerate for 15 minutes or until set.
FOR ICING: MELT milk chocolate morsels, 1/3 cup butterscotch morsels and peanut butter in medium, microwave-safe bowl on MEDIUM-HIGH (70 percent) power for 1 minute; stir. Microwave at additional 10- to 20-second intervals, stirring until smooth. Spread icing over caramel layer. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
TO SERVE, let stand at room temperature for 5 to 10 minutes. Cut into 1-inch pieces. Store in airtight container in refrigerator.

Watcha think yall

CHRISTmas Countdown

16 days till I go home for Christmas. Damon and I are flying out December 24th at 6PM and won't get into Idaho until 11:30pm. I guess I might see Santa, ;)

I can hardly wait to see my family, and go snowmobiling. I am only dreading one thing. Seeing my grandma, she tells me how chunky I am and that I need to lose weight (something alone those lines). I love her, I just wish she'd be nice and love me no matter what. Anywho, still trying to lose weight for the occasion so it wont be so bad on me :) Funny thing is, I got on the scale, and after cutting back on my food I had GAINED weight. I just love that. JUST LOVE IT...grrr...

It's a good thing I aint skinny, I'd probably be a snob or something. I don't want to be way skinny, just a little less luciously plump...haha. That's what Damon calls me. Makes me sound like a raisin being brought back to life by a dip in some juice.

I have some more shopping to do, will have to wait til next week though I guess. I need to do some baking, and have been getting several recipes offline recently to go through and decide my winners. I am going to attempt divinity for my dad. He really likes the stuff. I also have half of my Christmas cards addressed and waiting for stamps. The other half are in the making process. My mom's a stampin up demonstartor, as well as my aunt, thus I am trying to make them proud by making my cards. I have a lot of things to put together but only a few totally assembled cards.

Mamaw and Papaw are both home. He is being stubborn about keeping his foot up, his bandage on, and di mobilizing himself. I am thinking he will end back up in the hospital. The saga goes on.

I will be a bridesmaid in a few short months, about six to be exact! woohoo.

peace yall.

opnions are....

Opinions are like noses....everybody has one.

Mamaw and Papaw are going home together today. He found out she was in there, Yvonne said he wasn't mad. PTL. Just wanted to make sure she was ok, went and took her hand and kissed it. She started crying (yvonne). I wish she hadn't been married before, but God can work something out. Whatever or however it gets solved.

I thank the Lord for Damon. He is so sweet. He loves me....he really really really loves me. Mush mush yes....but he loves me! And I love him too. More than words can explain. WAHOOOOOOOOOOOO

I want another wedding...ours went to fast. Would that be bad to have two weddings to same person only two years apart?! If I was rich I'd do it!

wahooooooooooo

ER, Life, Depression, Joy

I get a call around 2 yesterday afternoon from my sis in law saying they are taking Damons grandmother to the emergency room and she can't get a hold of Damon and needs someone to come be with Mamaw. I ask my boss if I can leave, and he told me to go ahead and go. I get to the ER about 2:45ish, yvonne has to go home to wait for the boys to get off the bus and make dinner, she took work off for the night so she can come back to stay the night with mamaw. At any rate, we were in the ER from about 2:30ish to almost 7pm last night, until the finally moved her to a room. The whole time this is going on, papaw woody is on the 6th floor still, dealing with the infection in the calf of his leg. No one is to tell him about his wife (mamaw) being in the ER or he will flip. So the whole time we are there ( finally left about 9pm ish) we have to remember not to say a word while we alternate between the ER, 6th floor, and finally 7th floor. Lastly, papaw has been in there since saturday and they are supposed to release him today around noon. That means mamaw needs to be out before him so she can get home so he wont know a thing. The tangles web we weave. She is going to be fine though, its not a heart attack, they think its just stress from worrying about papaw.
We have church tonight, I need to give my calendar orders to Kim. The VLB events and services have been going really well. I wish we could go to the Retreat but I have to choose family over retreat. I miss my home and my family. If I were to drive its a 36hour drive, if I fly its 5hours of straight flying and atleast a couple hundred bucks. I could handle even being 8 hours away, that would be WAY WAY easier on me. My grandmother is sick, my cousin is sick, my aunt has died, my horse that was my best friend when I had no one else had to be put down, the cat I had had since I was 3ish was put down. I miss home, my whole life is changing, my life, my family, and I can't be there. It tears me up. God knows why though, I just have to remember it. It's not wrong to hurt, only wrong to be bitter and make others miserable for it. I want to move home though, I would miss several people here though if I did.

I love my family, on both sides. I love my husband. He treats me like the queen of his heart, sis Tammy says he looks at me like he could eat me up. She said that was a good thing. He is the best thing to ever happen to my life besides the Lord. He makes the hurt go away, and the bad turn good.

rewind 24 hours....

Yo Yo Yo everybody. :/ (does that sound as corny as I think it does?) I got up for work feeling ucky a.k.a. icky yesterday, so I called my boss and left message that I would be in late. I am sposed to be at work by 7am and ended up going back to sleep and not getting in until 8:18am. Sleep felt good, but I was still ucky feeling. This proceeded throughout the day and I knew I needed to go down to Damon's mamaw to help her with the house and set her coffee up to make. On the drive home I just feel exhausted and wanted to sleep. But, about ten minutes from home I got a second wind and decided to just go help her anyway. So I went home and fixed me something to eat real quick and sat down for a bit, I guess about 30 minutes. Anyhoo headed to mamaws around 5:00pm, cleaned bathroom, dusted, vacuumed (sp?), mopped, prepared coffee, swept, and took out trash. I feel bad for her, she is worrying herself silly over papaw, and you can tell even though she wont say it to much. She herself is pretty sick, her chest sounds like its filled up with junk when she coughs. Pray for Lenada and Woody. I hope cleaning her house helps her out, I been really concerned for some reason, and with me working during the day I can't get down there but at night. God knows I am trying and hopefully she will see me as a good witness of Christ in my work, as small as it may be. I want them to be saved so badly. Poor Damon, I didnt even make him dinner, just sent him to Sonic :). I did do laundry and wash dishes at our house though before I left to help mamaw, so atleast I did something. :)Damon and Brother Jerry went to see papaw yesterday and after he was done there, Damon came up to mamaws...we did leave in enough time to catch Dukes of Hazzard (how convenient) :P The best part is next....we got to bed and sleepy time by 8:00pm! WOOOHOOO. I know that sounds really early to a lot of people, but when you are burning the candle at both ends and fighting a cold, it helps. I still have a headache today :( I didn't get up and read my Bible and pray like I needed to, kept pushing snooze. I feel bad for that. I am sorry Lord.

Pray for the Wilda family today. I dont know if its possible to do this, but I have asked God to tell Grandma hi for me. Is that ok? I don't want to be wrong.
Please pray for my cousin Derek, he had his colon taken out due to a serious case of colitis. Now he is puking and has blood in his urine. Also, my grandma aka Deendee, she needs God to help her through this time and to be saved.

Bro Shaw got sent to Hospital with double pneumonia. Pray for him too.

peace yall

ANOTHER game I stole from Wendy...I'm sucha thief!

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about One Another
1. If you were to choose a new name for yourself, what would it be? well....I really like my name so I don't want to change it at all, but if I did I would be abigail rose or something. I think Rose is a pretty name, feminine, traditional, but not old....(damon however disagrees)
2. If you were given an extra $10 in change at Walmart, what would you do with it and why? Give it back, cus it would be wront to keep it.
3. What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learnt from your past relationships? WHAT past relationships...before damon the max was like 6 months of on and off again. My boyfriend my freshman year cheated on me while he was on a trip away. I guess the biggest thing I learned is that until God brings the man to you or vice versa, and opens the door, every relationship will be useless and a flop. I view every person out there like a Christmas present. Every time you give a piece of your emotional or physical love away before marriage its like tearing a little piece of ribbon or wrapping paper off. By the time you are ready to give the gift of you to the one you marry you are a tattered and torn box. Now...let me further say, GOD can make you a beautiful gift again. I am speaking about willingly letting yourself go and knowing right from wrong and not doing it.

4. What’s one of your worst habits? if this was Damon responding, he would say how I leave the dishtowels in the sink (the little ones for washing, for all you dishwasher people out there, you won't know what I am talking about, cus I didn't know what a dish towel really was for until I got married) I dont leave them IN the sink I drape them over the middle. He piles them up behind faucet and I think that looks messy. EW...anyway, I guess my worst habit is not doing laundry enough. I do NOT like to fold laundry remotely. I do it, but Damon does atleast half of the laundry. I just dont like to fold. But I don't let it just pile and pile either.
5. What was the best day of the past week for you - why? Ya know...all together I guess this was a GREAT weekend with the exception of Damons papaw. We went to the parade and bookstore by accident, but like I wanted. The party and Ondra's was GREAT, food was excellent! Sunday we had good mexican food and fellowship, then a really fun VLB service and activity! I guess Friday night was the best though, because I got to spend time with my husband (which seems to be rare anymore) and we got to see some beautiful holiday things, then we watched polar express together and I made muffins that Zac really liked! (btw wendy...he told me if I had any muffins left from the party to bring them to him, I didn't tell him there were some but I gave them to you LOL)
6. What are you wearing today which is most reflective of who you are? ERRRR....I am wearing clothes, shows that I like to be decent right :P
7. Choose a unique item from your wallet and explain why you carry it around..
I have a list of numbers about painting in Idaho, in case Damon ever wants to move...I have a list he can call on. SHHHHH :P

8. If you could change one thing about your physical appearance what would it be and why? My stomach...It's the fatest part on me. That is where I gain weight first. I could handle fat other places if I had a flat tummy

9. Share one of your most embarrassing moments. When I worked at Air Van in Idaho...the guys (who are sinners I might add) were teasing me about my virginity before marriage and asking me really private questions. I just wanted them to leave me alone.

10. If you were given a million dollars and 24 hours to spend it in, (no depositing it in the bank or investing it) what would you buy? Pay tithes, I would buy two homes, one in TN and one in Idaho. I would pre book enough plane tickets for me and ALL my family. I would pay my parents house off. I would have a big living quarters horse trailer with a power stroke pickup (brand new) I'd have an arena built with roping chute. I would pay the church in Idaho off. I would build my parents a home in TN. I would get a bunch of gift cards for Damon and I to shop for clothes with. I would buy all the kids at church something really cool! I would build mamaw and papaw a new house. UHHH......I would pay our vehicles off and any other loans. I would buy damon a hot rod and build him a big shop to work on stuff in. I am sure theres other stuff, but I am to sick to list it right now

Basket Alive!

WOWZA!! Last night was so fun! Okay, so I was ten minutes late :-/ I missed the snow shower during the VLB service, but all in all it was a great service! With the church all decorated, its so purty! Then came the Basket Auction! Who knew Bro Rick could REALLY sound like an auctioneer!! Mercy! Anywhoo, Sis Peggy needs to go to AA...Auctionholics Anonymous! She bought 8 baskets I think, and they were NOT cheap!! We had several baskets, probably around 30 I guess. I really wanted some of them, but they got so high I couldn't afford them. (when I say high, I am talking in the 100-150 dollar range) It was sweet tho...There was a basket for men only to buy, it was a "romanc" basket with a bunch of flowers, an O'charleys gift certificate and some CD I think. Anyway Damon and Bro Tim were going against each other on the bids. Damon went up to $80 and I think brother Tim got it for $85. But atleast he tried, made me feel special! :) I bought a princess themed basket for my cousins in Idaho, and another smaller basket. Oh yeah...remember how I told yall I spent WAY to much on my basket and was concerned how much it would bring??....welll...It started at a minimum bid of 250...no, not $2.50...$250.00!!! WOWZA, sister Crystal had put a silent bid in of 250 on before auction started I believe. She later told me, she hadn't made a basket and only wanted to buy one, and that she saw mine had a blanket in it so decided to get it. My basket brought the highest bid for the night, PTL. However, most importantly we raised over $1400.00 in about an hour for the youth retreat! Thank the Lord!! WOOHOO

Must Read for Mushy Romantics...

If you like to read, and you like mushy romantic happy endings with a wee bit-a-drama thrown in there...CHECK THIS OUT!

http://acacia.pair.com/Journey.of.the.Heart/A_1.html

OR THE HOME PAGE AT:

http://acacia.pair.com/Journey.of.the.Heart/index.html

Basket Blunders/woes

I dont know how I manage to do this...but once again I have spent way to much money on something.
For those non antioch peoples out there, let me explain. This Sunday night, December 4th, we are having our VLB Service then afterwards we are having a gift basket auction. The auction is in hopes of raising money to fund the VLB Retreat taking place this New Years Weekend, as it will be free to all those who are coming.
Anyhoo, all those who could, were instructed to put a gift basket together and bring it to be auctioned. Well my theme is "Christmas Morning" and I got a bunch of stuff that has to do with what you do or goes on during Christmas morning. However, when I got to the cash register last night...CHA CHING....**praying it wouldn't be over a certain amount** which it wasn't but....still I spent way to much. I hope people are feeling generous when they buy it. The thing is...out of all the things I had written down, it's almost like the basket looks kinda empty or something :-/ I hope someone likes it, I tried to keep it simple but classy.

Next subject....I want to go to the Nashville Gas light parade tonight...downtown Nashville. I am trying to talk Damon into taking me, we will see what happens. I would go with a friend, but all either have kids and can't get away or are working, which leaves me empty friended.

Lastly... Pray for Damon's Papaw Woody. He has a blood clot in his leg near his ankle. Mercy...all he thinks it is, is a "bum ankle" he wont keep it elevated. He's being stubborn. I love papaw, I just wish he would listen when we try to help him, he's so sweet. Most importantly, he needs to be saved. PLEASE pray that he will get saved, and that God will spare him until he comes to that point.

Love yall and toodles...any comments are appreciated, makes me feel like someones reading :p hehe (if that wasn't a plea for attention, I don't know what is )

The Game I stole from Wendy

Three Names You Go By
1. Whitey (DAD!!)
2. Babe (damon)
3. Kase

Three Parts of Your Heritage
1. Cherokee (dad's side)
2. German (i think)
3. Scotish

Three Things That Scare You
1. IF I were to ever get pregnant...LABOR
2. Missing Heaven
3. spiders on the floor or under my bed when I kneel down to pray...I always think about them things gettin me.

Three of Your Everyday Essentials
1. Damon to tell me he loves me.
2. Hair Spray
3. TOOTHEPASTE

Things You Are Wearing Right Now
1. Black Shirt
2. shorts....UNDER my skirt. Not out in public! haha Yall thought I was a heathen huh!
3. Black Sandals...yes its the middle of winter, but I have a heater for my feet at work and I wanted to feel it on my skin, not stuck in sweaty shoes. YUK

Three of Your Favorite Bands or Musical Artists:
1. The Bishops
2. Rascal Flatts
3. Kenny Rogers/Lionel Richey

Three of Your Favorite Songs -
1. Must be doin' something right?? can't remember his name (sang here for the party as duo with Shania)
2. A Page is Turned, Bebo Norman
3. Still Her Little Child, Ray Boltz

Three Things You Want in a Relationship (other than Real Love)
1. Attention
2. Snuggles
3. Move to Idaho. :P

Three Physical Things about the Opposite Sex that Appeal to You
1. Forearms (I'm weird like Wendy)
2. HANDS
3. Eyes/Eyelashes ( I would say backside, but thats only cus I am married and can look, so I say the others for all you unmarried's out there :P )

Three of Your Favorite Hobbies
1. Riding my horse Annie
2. Going to my family's cabin in Idaho
3. Reading

Three Things You Want to do Really Badly Right Now

1. move to Idaho
2. be able to stay at home and not work (but I am thankful for a job :)
3. move to Idaho

Three Places You Want to go on Vacation
1. Maine and the upper coastal areas, during all their cool little food festivals
2. Austria..."the hills are alive" or Jerusalem on a TCOG tour.
3. Road trip through the remaining 25 states I haven't seen.

Three Things You Want to Do Before You Die
1. Have LONG hair
2. move back to Idaho.
3. Read the whole Bible

4. I couldn't help it I had more...Weigh less than damon SOMEHOW
5. See my WHOLE family saved, all of them!

Three Ways that you are stereotypically a Chick/Guy
1. For some reason, now that I am married I am a wussy. I was never a cryer or a whimp. But now, I can cry really easy.
2. Expect that Damon should know how I feel and always be sympathetic.
3. Like mushy romantic movies!

Grandma's Gone

She died @ about 1:45 Mountain time. Please pray for family. They said she came out of coma, lifter her hands up like praising, opened her eyes, her skin started to radiate a beautiful glow and she took a few breaths and was gone. I know I am not family, but I am taking it kinda hard. I dont want to be selfish and ask for prayer, I love Grandma. She was one you could count on. PLEASE pray for family.

love you all
Kasey

Grandma Babe

I just read Grace's blog and I figured I would post this for those who dont read her blog. Grandma Babe in Idaho is not doing well at all, Grace said Sister Billy (grandma babe's grandaughter who is taking care of her) doesn't think she will make it through the weekend. I talked to Grandma Bable last night and she sounded happy and just like regular ol Grandma. I just heard from my mom that she has gone into a coma. Pray for her and the family and all those that love Grandma, this world is truly brighter with her in it.

Wednesday, November 30th.

Can you believe it's almost been a week since Thanksgiving???! Yikes!
I am tired today, eyes are hurting. Get this I went to bed early last night because I had a headache and wanted to get some sleep so I would maybe feel better. Me n Damon were laying there and I just couldn't get comfy. Finally I fall asleep. All the sudden I am woke up by my husband fidgeting in the bed. He usually NEVER does this, I mean I am not kidding. When he goes to sleep its until the next morning, like a bump on a log. He must be in a coma or something! Anyway NOT last night. I am thinking he's moving around must be time or close to, to get up. Look at the clock...3:10 am!!?!?! DAMON!!! Not only is he waking me up, he gets up and turns the living room light on to let the cat outside (light blaring in my face) then he lays back down, then gets back up and says he needs something on his stomach. I ask him if he's hungry he says he doesn't know, but his stomach is. What does he do? He goes to the fridge and I hear the all familiar sound of another dr pepper can losing its guts. He's such a goof. Finally I get to sleep, and he wakes me up AGAIN! Mercy. He makes me laugh! Trying to decide where to go to lunch today :-/

No mo' outa me

No suh (sir) I aint goinna be complainin no mo'. :) I have been reading my blog and it sounds like a repetitive whine. Yuck. Thus only happy things for atleast two days. I try to be interesting, I guess I like in this department.
Started my starvation diet today, had some OJ, 5 pretzel sticks, and some cranberry stuff (outa the can) and by lunch time was really shakey. Here's the gross part coming. I ate a cold hotdog with honey mustard on it cus a guy at work told me to eat it (i felt like I was gonna puke) funny thing is, it tasted good. Go Figure (i know you are thinking ew!)
Oh, and I have my Basket idea. Ready? the theme is "Christmas Morning"! What do you think? I am going to try to incorporate things you would have on your Christmas morning. Like my dad and I each get bottles of sparkling cider so I want to put a bottle of that in the basket. Sis Tammy said to add a NT (new Testament) for the Christmas Story. Lots of other things. I think it will be cute, hopefully it turns out the way my mind saw it!

Anything new with ya'll out there in blog world? I haven't seen Wendy today on here, I hope she is ok. Pray for her tooth guys please. Pray for Erika too and her RA. Oh and Sis grandma in Idaho, brother Wilda says he doesnt think she will make it to Christmas. He is willing to let her go. Pray for Sis Wilda too, the blood clot in her leg is still there.

I still haven't gotten my jones soda to try. I may buy some and save them til' we go to Idaho for my grandma to try...she will say "oh mercy" thats her saying. She says it so cute cus she has a really hi pitched grandma voice. Well, see yall. I hope you all post something new soon so I can read new stuff.

la la la lalalalala

I titled the post la la la lalalalala because I didn't know what to put. Original huh? :-/ anyhoo...here's todays scoop:

I am thinking about getting a second job at walmart, called the people today and they are pulling my application. My goal is to only have the job until end of June when I fly to Idaho to be a bridesmaid in my best friends wedding. In that time I want to save about 2200 bucks and help pay off a loan Damon and I have. My concerns are...will it make me to tired to be working about 70 hours a week, missing some amount of church, and will I miss out on everything fun. Guess we will see what happens.

This weekends plans...for any of you antioch peoples out there, You going to Ondra's party? I have no idea how to get there, maybe someone can shed some light on that subject- directions. I am sposed' to bring blueberry muffins, at this point I can't decide if I want to make from scratch, make from a mix, or just buy. We have the VLB auction at Church Sunday night so I need to get the basket put together. Megans sounds pretty cool, I want mine to be great too. IDEAS? I have a few.. A FEW.... anyhoo I am beginning to think I need a day planner. I am one of those obsessive compulsive people who has to have a list of what they need to do, buy, prepare, etc.. LOL So I have been going over and over in my mind what I need to do, buy, and prepare for this weekend. The best part is...I will be broke..HAHAHAHAHAH ha...GRRRR.

List:
Grocery Shop
Muffins for party
Call Teenage VLB's to remind about service and auction
Make basket for auction
practice song for VLB service
Clean House
I'm forgetting something...I knew it, I knew it. Where's my list??????

OH YEAH...get stuff ready for childrens church.

my job...

I found out some pretty discouraging news, that taught me a lesson.
I have been working at the same place since july of 04' as a full time temporary employee. With no intentions of being hired on by the company. When I was hired I was told I would not be hired on, but at the time needed a job so thought not to much of it. Well, later on my boss said he was going to ask them about hiring me. Said it was a no go. Well that last two Christmas seasons I have been here, the company has held a party on the General Jackson for employees ONLY which means, no temps. I found out they had it this last weekend and it was hush hush so us temps wouldnt even know about it. Only reason I found out was because I asked one of the girls at corporate about it, and she said yeah "we" did it this year too, was on saturday. I asked her if she got to go, that I thought only Goggin people were invited, she said she thought she had told me but she had been rolled over. She has been here about 3-4 months! This TOTALLY irritated me. It's not right nor fair. I know life throws you curve balls and it is not always fair, but I dont even think thats right! Do you?? I called Damon bawling again ( am such a wussie) and he told me to look for another job but dont tell them they hire me or else cus I dont want to lose the job just over all this. I understood and said ok. What this taught me is...if God wanted me to be hired already He would have made it happen, dont complain, be thankful cus there are many who would love to even HAVE a job, and God is in control, and lastly DONT BE A CRY BABY. Still a bummer though.

And...I did do some Christmas shopping over the holiday. Went day after thanksgiving that NIGHT not that morning :). Got Damons whole family taken care of, PLUS a small Christmas present for him. Got him Napolean Dynamite, he really likes that movie :) I think its cute too!

Thanksgiving Dinner and Planes

Dinner was good...my potatoes turned out awesome. Although I can't take credit because I watched Racheal Ray (30 min meals Food network) for the idea. You take heavy cream and put a whole head of garlic in the cream (garlic cleaned and smashed open slightly) and let it heat, no need for boiling. Just let the cream heat up until its fairly hot then strain the garlic and put in the smashed potatoes. I also added a half stick of butter and some salt and a little pepper. They didn't even need gravy. Maybe I am just partial to potatoes. Someone there at dinner made good dressing too. It was overall a good day, with the exception of not having my family.

We got our plane tickets too. Fly into Idaho at 11:29pm Christmas eve...

I am sad today.

Overload

I need some serious prayer. I feel so overwhelmed. :( Damon and I are flying out to Idaho on Christmas Eve...which is fine and all. But the whole time I will be in Idaho I do NOT get paid, that is 7 working days. I am stressing on money and having enough for car payment and still being able to do Christmas shopping. We are by no means broke but when you have about 800 a month going out in car payments alone it puts a burden on finances. I know it was my choice to buy a brand new car, I love the car, regret the payment. I wish I could sell it for something less expensive. I regret this :( I am worried about it. Then, I talk to my mom this morning via IM and she talks about being happy where I am at cus I wont ever be able to move back home until I am content with where I am at. I know this... I love my mom, I appreciate her. But I feel as though our conversations are so centered around this. I want to move home so bad...2000 miles is a long way. I miss home and family. But I just can't deal with it right now, I am so stressed about so much, I need to let go and let God. I have much to be thankful for. I know I have much. I am about ready to cry. Please pray for me, Damon, and all that affects us, if you would. I know my problems are minut compared to others. Lastly...I WISH I COULD TYPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! Does anyone else feel this way. I just wish for one day I was a billionare. ONE DAY. I would pay off all car payments all everything. Buy two houses, one here and one in Idaho with cash, then buy lots of gift cards so after my day is up I still have lots of money to shop with for clothes and grocerys. I would pay my utilities up for a couple of years...and then buy about 20 refundable plane tickets and a gas card with 2 million on it. I could do it all in one day and get it taken care of so by the next day when I am broke again I am set.

HAHAHAHAHA...HA...HA

As we enjoy the holidays, remember to be nice to those
first-time turkey cookers...

One year at Thanksgiving, my mom went to my sister's house
for the traditional feast. Knowing how gullible my sister
is, my mom decided to play a trick. She told my sister that
she needed something from the store.

When my sister left, my mom took the turkey out of the oven,
removed the stuffing, stuffed a Cornish hen and inserted it
into the turkey, and re-stuffed the turkey. She then placed
the bird(s) back in the oven.

When it was time for dinner, my sister pulled the turkey out
of the oven and proceeded to remove the stuffing. When her
serving spoon hit something, she reached in and pulled out
the little bird.

With a look of total shock on her face, my mother exclaimed,
"Patricia, you've cooked a pregnant bird!" At the reality of
this horrifying news, my sister started to cry.

It took the family two hours to convince her that turkeys
lay eggs!

grrr @ airlines

$1253 dollars for a ticket to Idaho- I DONT THINK SO!! I found some for $468 on travelocity and decided to go see if I could get a better deal by going to an airlines individual site...NOT!!! Man alive, how we gonna afford that. 500 a piece and another 80 each way for the dog IF she can come :(

And...I need to get together a basket for VLB auction. Any ideas?

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=0183913358

Kind of Corny...haha get it- C O R Ny...much like my joke *sigh*

I cooked last night from the time I got home from the grocery store (which is a story in its self) so from about 5:30p.m. till 9:30ish last night. I think cleanup lasted til about 10. I did the dishes from all my baking GO ME! And damon says I dont clean up after I bake pshhhhh! So I made my grandmothers roll recipe that she got from her mom. There must be a technique because mine are good but they aint my grandmas good. Hers are lip smackin make ya slap yo mammy. And, I discovered theres a difference between unsalted and salted butter last night! You would think, DUH that I would know that already. But it wasnt until I had brushed half a stick of butter on the rolls and tasted one and realized the butter tastes like nothing that the light bulb moment occured. Unsalted is ICKY AND UNFLAVORED ewww.... No wonder they had plenty of unsalted and only one package of salted butter left. I also made my recipe for cranberry relish salad. Those who DONT like cranberry will even like this!! It's so yummy. I also made about 4 dozen chocolate chip *with milk chocolate* cookies.

grocery store: the people were grumpy and mean!!! Good grief, simma down now yall! Ya know I worked all day too, and I gotta go home and cook and have no dishwasher (no wait...I have two and they are attached to me) but I still tried to be nice!! This one lady like was really rude, I pulled out into the aisle (sp?) and my view of oncoming shopping cart traffic was blocked due to the BIG OVERLOADED cart in the aisle, but I proceeded slowly and carefully. Then outa nowhere she pulls out into traffic from the side aisle and gives ME a dirty stare/sigh! ME!! GRRR oh well...I just need to pray for people like that. She had like 3 kids and I can't imagine holiday cooking traffic with children, its hard enough with myself and damon let alone children! Yikes.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone, I hope you have a fun filled, great tasting and thankful holiday!

Holiday Packages and Such...

Check this out... http://www.jonessoda.com/

Turkey anyone? I know this will sound really gross, but I want to try them strictly to see what its like!! They are sold at Target, and I know I have a post about a ban on shopping at Target, but I REALLY want to try these! What do y'all think? Am I gross or would you try it too?

Anyhoo...so much going on in life right now you know?! I just got my grocery list typed up for the big day this week! Yes I sometimes type my grocery lists...I don't like it being messy, and since my handwriting isn't that great I type. I am making: for potluck at work tomorrow- homemade rolls (grandmothers, mothers recipe) and cranberry relish salad. For Thursday at Nada's- Garlic Mashed potatoes, cranberry relish salad, autumn apple gooey cake (my latest creation), oh and my green bean casserole. Don't run with horror, I dont use a creamed soup of any form in mine! :) Heres the recipe! http://thanksgiving.allrecipes.com/az/GrandmasGreenBeanCasserole.asp

Update on Sister Grandma in Idaho. She has cancer in three areas I believe, the liver, colon, and pancreas (sp?). She has been given "weeks" to live. Damon asked me last night if I were given the chance to trade her places and know that I would be going to heaven soon, would I do it? I said no, I hope that's not bad of me, I enjoy him and our life together. Living, not of the world but just in it. He said he would trade her. That thinking of the big picture how awesome it would be. Sister Grandma is so sweet, she has asked the Lord to not let her suffer and show her if there is anything she has left to do on this earth. I will miss her if she leaves us.

My 16yr old cousin is schedule to have his colon taken out December 1st as far as we know, please pray for him. His name is Derek.

Thank the Lord my Grandma aka Deendee is doing well!!

Lastly, I decorated the house last night. Damon was working some over time to get extra comp time to go to Idaho at Christmas so I decided to surprise him and have the house all decorated. If I must say so myself it looks really nice. I put my tree up and bought some new decorations for it. It is trimmed in Red, Gold, Clear, and Silver. All I need now is my angel decorations...cough cough Wendy lol! I put the fake pine looking garland up with thick red ribbon trimmed in gold and hung some red balls from it. It looks really pretty! Got a new table cloth in red and white with snowflakes. Set up the nativity scene my grandma gave me and put my Christmas quilt on the couch. I love the feel of Christmas, the smells, family, tis a jolly season!

you think so?

I just love it when people tell you how fat you are....it not so many words that is. I am hoping you can read the sarcasm to this post. My whole life I have been chunkier than most people. With one exception, from the time I was a baby till about 6 years old I was "normal". Today, my warehouseman told me a I had a red mark on my face. I looked in my mirror that I carry and saw a little red mark. I shoulda just skipped the rest of the conversation and said "no big deal" but no....big mouth me had to say it was probably from Damon. See Damon and I leave for work at the same time so we usually give each other a quick kiss in the drive way before leaving. I thought he might have tried to kiss me on my cheek so that is why it was red cus he was being a nerd and wouldnt let me go. Not that I mind...but anyway. I said this to the warehouseman and he's like well "you're bigger than him, you could probably break both his legs if you sat on him" or something like that. I almost cried, but I refused to give him the satisfaction. I will never be a skinny size 4 petite girl! EVER! The best I have ever looked as an adult size wise was at my wedding. Grrr I wish people would just love or like you for how you are. I hate getting made fun of. It was old as a kid, it's really old now as an adult. Tear

This MAKES ME MAD!!

I just typed up the longest blog post in my history, and it deleted the WHOLE thing!!! Maybe for a reason!

I want a baby...damon and I said two years, then maybe we will think about having them. Two years in march. Goals PRE-baby, be able to stay at home with it (financially), get skinny enough BEFORE I were to get pregnant, so that if I did, you could TELL it was a baby not a blubber! (story of my life) Lastly, I don't want my baby or my family to miss out on each other. So I don't want to have one until I live in Idaho. I guess this may mean, I will a) get over some of my requisites, or b) never have children, or c) we will move to idaho. One of these three things will happen. I miss my home, my family...

Sister Grandma

I just found out Sister Grandma in Idaho (brother Wilda In Idaho, his mom) has pancreatic cancer. PLEASE pray that God heal her if it be His will. I don't want to lose her. She is a sweet sweet woman of God. I love her. I have been crying.

I thought this would be fun...maybe?

Why not?
1. Last dream: Last night, I drempt about my co-worker Sandy...she was at a resort or something (who knows why I dreamed that)
2. Last car ride: my drive to work this morning.
3. Last kiss: This morning@ 5:30am
4. Last good cry: yesterday, but it was bad. I had a headache.
5. Last Missing Library Book: Back in elementary I guess
6. Last movie seen: Does Dukes of Hazzard taped count? lol...Because of Winn Dixie
7. Last cuss word uttered: Before I was saved in High School
8. Last beverage drank: Water
9. Last Food consumed: My new recipe I created, Autumn Apple Gooey Cake
10. Last Crush: Timmy (timeteo) from the zion hill church, that was before Damon though! Damon was not just a crush...obviously!
11. Last phone call: Husband
12. Last TV show watched: Cops
13. Last time showered: Last night (bath) before bed
14. Last shoes worn: My brown dress shoes
15. Last CD played: Some CD em'd gave me, I can't remember the name of it, but we are sposed' to sing it together and I have been practicing it :) But I can't remember the name!!
16. Last Item Bought: groceries at walmart
17. Last downloaded: Cubis from yahoo games
18. Last annoyance: my warehouseman at work wouldn't answer my calls to the cordless this morning so I had to get on the tow motor (aka fork lift for you northerners) and go get him!!
19. Last disappointment: my scale :)
20. Last soda drank: Diet Dr Pepper
21. Last thing written: the order number to my Bill of Lading
22. Last key used: Car key
23. Last word spoken: Bye (talking to Damon on phone)
24. Last trip to the bathroom: this morning
25. Last sleep: 9:30-4:50am
26. Last IM: my momma
31. Last ice cream eaten: Cookies n Cream by Blue Bell
32. Last time amused: this morning
33. Last time wanting to die: I have never wanted to DIE, DIE!! But when I get really sad about missing home it hurts a lot.
34. Last time hugged: yesterday
35. Last time scolded: If getting scolded by my husband counts.. :) then yesterday hehe.
36. Last time resentful: last night when Damon wouldnt believe me about when I took a advil or whatever it was. I KNEW about the time that I took it and he was bound and determined to say it was a different time!!! GRRR
37. Last chair sat in: My office chair at work
41. Last shirt worn: the one I have on now, its a sweater that's navy blue, teal, purple, light teal and, shiny purple and teal....would have to see it :)
42. Last web page visited:Grace's Blog!

Ban on Target

Target Getting the Message - Stock Drops 7%"There is an anti-Christian bias in this country, and it is more on display at Christmas season than any other time." – Bill O'Reilly, The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News Channel – (Speaking about the decision of Target and other stores to ban the use of "Merry Christmas" in their stores and advertising.)
Dear Kasey,
On October 7 we brought to your attention that Target was banning the Salvation Army's kettles from the front of their stores. Now we've learned Target is also banning the use of "Merry Christmas" from their in-store promotions and from their advertising in papers, TV, etc. Your efforts are having an impact. USA Today (11/16/05) announced that "Target alarmed investors by saying projected sales at stores open a year in November would miss the estimated 4% to 6% growth. Shares of Target fell $4.13 to $54.30." (A 7% drop.) Target's ban of the Salvation Army and "Merry Christmas" expresses the same attitude toward Christianity as that held by Michael Newdow, who wants to ban "In God We Trust" from our currency and "under God" from our Pledge of Allegiance. AFA is asking individuals to boycott Target during the upcoming Thanksgiving weekend—the busiest shopping weekend of the year. Please share this request to boycott Target on that weekend with friends, family and members of your church and Sunday school class. Please sign the petition to Target. This petition will also be sent to other major chains banning the use of "Merry Christmas" including Costco, BJ's, Wal-Mart, Sears/K-Mart and Kohl's. It is basically too late to change their policies this year, but we can change it for next year. Last year we called for a boycott of Federated Stores because they banned "Merry Christmas." This year they are using "Merry Christmas!" A successful boycott of Target will send a message to every company! This is your opportunity to make your voice heard. Please act today and then forward this to friends and family.
Go here to sign the petition!
http://www.afa.net/petitions/signpetition.asp?id=1470

Sincerely,
Don
Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and ChairmanAmerican Family Association
P.S. Please forward this e-mail message to your family and friends!

GRRRRRRRRR

I cant get my contributors/links to work. I have tried. Wendy I tried to add you as a link, I sent you an invitation. I am not getting this, I must not be smart enough in the electronics field. MEGAN HELP

Doctor Appointment

Yup, that's right....I got a doccy appointment today. Yuck.

I have decided if Damon and I ever have children I have atleast a couple names picked out to choose from.
Presley Tayler (girl)
Savannah Rose
Kaylei Murrì
Abygale Monroe
Kent Wilson (boy)
Denver Ray Or Denver Wilson

I think those names are pretty cool, I like the name Grace but it's so typical anymore. I want something somewhat different while still involving the families names somehow.
Tonight is Church, I like Church nights. WOOHOO
Lately I have been working over time, since I don't get paid for holidays I am making up for next weeks days off by working extra this week. But I tell ya, these 4:30ish am stuff is catching up with me. :)
I been on the america's most wanted files checking out the missing persons files cus I am bored, its gotten me kinda depressed. So many people gone, only God knows where they are.
Curled my hair today, flipped it out actually....looks somewhat cute, not totally but somewhat.
Well ttyl yall, almost dr time.

Well, well....WELLLLLL!

Nobody even posted ONE single solitary comment about my beef stew story. I am beginning to think this blog thing is over rated. I guess I am just not into the internet world like I used to be.

Sigh.

Beef Stew Anyone?

While on my trip to Smithville for Ladies retreat, me n Jenniefer were just driving a long heading out of Old Hickory when before us we see break lights. That's fine, I start to slow down, then BOOM major break lights. No I didn't hit anything but I REALLY had to step on the breaks to avoid hitting anyone. Rewind-------- 15-20minutes prior to this, my loving husband helps me load all the food into the trunk with his home made day and a half long simmered beef stew. It smells and tastes delicious. He puts it on to of a grocery bag and tells me I will thank him, I am guessing to prevent it from spilling onto my carpet in my trunk of my BRAND new 2006 car. :( FAST FORWARD---------back to present of BREAK LIGHTS. Jenniefer and I keep driving a long with suddenly the smell of beef stew starts to get very strong. The possibility of it spilling was present at the break light incident but you always hope for the best right?! We stop in the median and she jumps out to check the trunk then comes around to my side and says "you better come see this". Woe is me....there in my trunk beef stew lays all over part of the back end of my monsteress trunk. I stop at Food Lion to get SOMEthing to try to clean this mess up and some fake factory made beef stew...sniff sniff, sob sob.

I am NOT kidding when I say my trunk is huge, I literally had to hop in head first with feet in the air to reach the back of my trunk with only part of my legs sticking out, and I am almost 5'10"!! Lo and behold I feel beef stew ALL THE WAY under my seats. After trying to clean for who knows HOW long, I call my husband. We trade cars at the mexican restaurant he is already at barely after my departure to Ladies Retreat. I go ahead and head up to Ladies retreat in his truck. I talk to him later that evening and he proceeds to tell me that he has to unbolt the seat, take the trunk carpet, liner/pad out from the bottom back and sides. Then he has to take the liner out from under the seats and basically take most of the back part ofmy car apart :(
Damon has an Idea for VLB fundraiser, sell beef stew air fresheners for cars. Sis Wendy says I could just cut my carpet up from my trunk and put little tassels to hang them buy to sell. :(
I'm so traumatized.

He so silly

I don't know what it is..but my Damon is so silly! I can be so so mad at him and he will say something and I will burst out laughing! I love him so much! We have our bad times, but the good outweigh them! Whoever thinks marriage is a bed or roses is SORELY mistaken! Of course...those who think that~ AREN'T married! AND you won't believe what anyone tells you UNTIL you are married!! It's a vicious cycle! LOL! Next Subject: LADIES RETREAT! Tonight! Be there or be sssqqquare! And Lastly Can we say BAKE_A_ROONIE I baked up a storm last night! I made THREE punkin (pumpkin) rolls, and one punkin gooey bar. Damon made home made beef stew last night as well for the ladies retreat tonight. Antioch ladies are in charge of tonights dinner and we are doing a soup theme I guess. So I said, "Damon makes really good beef stew!" So what.... maybe I did kinda~sorta~ volunteer him, he likes to make his stew. I drew the line with the Veg-all tho! Veg all only good for certain things.

yo...yo yo

So nobody tells me welcome back >:O grrrrrrrrrrr


:) its alright.

I hope everyone is well.

Picture Willie Nelson...."On the road again...."

Mom is flying in today around 3ish? I just know I am picking her up after I get off work. Tried to clean house Monday and yesterday, but I figure she will only be here for the night so it's not to big a deal. Our house is normally pretty clean anyway...but I tend to be slightly on the perfectionistic side. This morning I was picking up a few pieces of lint of the carpet that I just vacuumed Monday.
Anyhoo.....She will be flying in tonight, as I said, and we will hang out for the evening before taking off EARLY in the morning to drive my truck back to Idaho. My momma bought it from me.We will be driving a lot between Thursday and Friday because we are trying to get into town by Saturday Morning. I fly back on a one way Sunday morning. Please pray we will be safe. It will be two women traveling over 2000 miles.
Also, guess what guess what!! The Lord healed my Grandma aka Deendee!!! Cool huh, God is going to save her and it is SUPER, better than SUPER!! Bad news...my cousin Derek (16years old) was sent to the hospital yesterday. Please pray for him, he has colitis (sp?), a very bad case of it. Poor boy.

That's it ya'll!! I will ttyl! Please remember all these things in prayer.

Ever have one of those days...

Where you are "down in the mouth", i.e. sad? Obviously if God didn't want us to have the emotion of being sad, He wouldn't have given it to us. However, I think it is what we do with our sadness or depression that determines if we are just being human, or, feeding the flesh. Spiritualy speaking of course.

Run down on why I am sad...
A- I feel alone, my family is over 2000 miles away, I have only one close close friend here that I don't worry to much that I am interupting if I call her. I have one other friend who I feel confident in, and that is Em...but she lives so far away that I can't just go cry on her shoulder, and she is so busy I kinda feel like I am gonna bug her, and she has enough of her own right now, let alone me adding a side to her plate. I try to talk to D about how I feel, but he's a guy and I am a girl and we TOTALLY think different...and that means most times we both get aggrivated or upset. We talked better when we were dating I think...Although our love has totally grown and taken on a different level, I think we communicated back then. So my general problem is I feel alone and with no one to go to. I only trust a certain few with deep stuff, and I feel like I don't have certain fews anymore.
B- the whole Idaho road trip. My parents bought my truck from me, mom is flying in on a oneway here to drive it back, I am riding with her then taking a oneway back from Idaho to Nashville. Damon showed prospect of coming.....then basically said he wasn't. So I am TOTALLy bummed about that, to the point of crying, more than once!
C- I am alone at work. My friends got laid off, and the only people left are myself, my boss, and the two tow motor guys. The one guy, I don't know why, but has the ability to upset me like no other tow motor guy I have ever worked with. So again I feel alone at work now too.....
What is boils down to, is I KNOW God will never leave us alone, ever! Am I going to God with all this??? NOOOOOOOO I actually said to God today about something, "this hurts" and I was like whoa, how long has it been since you just talked to Him about the stuff like this. I get into my routine of prayers praying for others for myself to be a good servant to him and a good wife. But I don't think I have the relationship that Bro Dupre speaks about. The Intimate relationship. I want to go deeper with God. I want the pain to go away. I want to move home.

Man...this gum is really good!

I got a new pack of gum, a flavor my friend let me try. It is so good, had to buy it. (well wanted too) It tastes like the Andy's Mints...minus the chocolate flavor. It orbit brand...of course. My fav! The flavor is "sweet mint". Try it, you will like it.

The question I ask myself now is, who are you talking to? Nobody probably even looks at this thing except the guy who posts on here about Free road construction??? :-/ I have NO idea who it is!
Denise posted once, but I think she has even forgotten about me.

I thought I would be so up to date on my computer technology stuff now that I have my own blog and my old e buddies would read it :( sigh...

**There's no place like home, There's no place like home**

Talk about an eventful night!! Man I had one dream after another , all tied together into some crazy episode which did not make one bit of sense!!
Updates on my life:
I am apart of E. DaLuz's Team for Childrens Church and we are having our FALL FESTIVAL this Sunday. WOOOHOOO!!
Got my car back finally!! Sunroof is nice and is perfect for me who likes the heat on my feet but my face gets hot to easily. So I have been opening the sunroof today and keeping the heat of my lower limbs!
Ok.....I'm done

Lonely

While at church last night, I was told I needed to write something other than my original post of how cool I am cus' I now have a official "blog".
Though I had written a second post, I thought I would give, YET AGAIN, another delightful insight into the mind of Kasey. Expectantly I looked at my second post in blog world from 10/12/05 looking for a reply. Just one would do, not a lot, just one to know that someone is looking at this. Yet I found no comment....nothing, nada, zilch :( **sighs**

So I sit here, lonely, sleepless in blog world.

Sigh...

Second day as an official blogger....feel like a new person. Well not really, but it sure sounded good, right?

Not much to talk about in my life, I reckon it's a bit un eventful for all you singles out there. :) I once was exciting, until I got married. Now I get up around 5:15am, get ready for work, pack lunches, make breakfast, go to work, come home, clean, relax, cook dinner, exercise, and take a shower, and go to bed. Bout it.

I DID get a new car though!! 2006 Chevrolet Impala!

HI Blog World

I have a blog!!! woohoo, I am so cool now! GOO MEEEE!!!!