the end of an era…

Mable the Malibu was generously giving to my by my favorite Grandma. She has lived in North Stonington, New London and Newington. She has taken me home to Michigan for a girls weekend, to Cleveland for a funeral and numerous trips to New Jersey. Our first vacation together with the family in Rhode Island. We spent a week in Little Compton and put on a thousand miles driving back and forth for the baseball championship games, followed by a trip to the air show that resulted in her first flat tire.

She served as my phone charger, ipod charger, closet with wheels,  coin bank, and sports locker.

She took me to my grad classes and faithfully drove through atrocious weather. I cannot remember the last time we had her oil changed and can only explain why she started with divine intervention.

When paddy the Impala came into the picture, she dutifully took us to work and school and practices, never showing signs of jealousy.

She still started this summer even after our newest addition, phat betty. But her age was beginning to show. A rear flat tire showed up just after Christmas, followed by a front flat and the decision was made to send her off to greener pastures…

R.I.P Mable…you did good…

chopped…

I decided it was time for a change…

before…

 

and after…nine inches after…

Have you ever…

* gone to a library book sale even though you havent finished all the books from the previous sale?

*told yourself while at that library book sale that you are only going to allow yourself one book and it has to be on the list of things you want to read?

*only to buy four, three of which are not on the list…

*had a dream where someone close to you did something horrendous, woken up pissed at that person, and only realized after about a half of a day that it was all a dream?

*not paid attention to the mundane things of everyday like making the bed enough to notice the bed made and not remember whether or not you made it?

*then spend the next fifteen minutes debating with yourself whether or not you made it and if you hadn’t made it, did you thank whomever did?

*been so stinking excited for something you cannot exhibit that excitement adequately?

*truly appreciated the bathroom right after it is clean and has all the lights working?

*cleaned the bathroom with so much bleach, that you scorched your nasal cavities and feel the effects even 24 hours later?

*cursed mold?

*driven faster when a favorite song, with beat and a catchy refrain comes on?

because I have.

How I spent my friday morning…

Now don’t be jealous…
I get to do this and then grocery shop then go to work!! But its asl worth it, getting these things out of the way will allow us to enjoy the dave and tim concert tomorrow night!

the real reason…

that I am not a fan of Day Light Savings…

 

The amount of traffic has quadrupled since the time change. I actually had to wait on the highway. Why is this? I leave at the same time, I take the same route, I have the same playlist. And let me just add I was just getting to the really moving part of the song when *SMACK* traffic jam. For no reason other than the time has changed…

would you still be my friend?

I saw this over at Erins, and she borrowed it from someone else. I thought it was brillant! So would you still be my friend if I admitted…

*that I blare Brittney Spears music on my way home, follwed by Korn and Limp Biskit?

*that I cannot stand spaghetti?

*that I have never seen Friday Night Lights, or Gilmore Girls (well maybe an episode of the last one)

*that I have no desire to read the Twilight series

*that I cry when I read about horses being hurt/put down/mistreated like a baby

*that I used to always want a “my dog is smarter than your honor roll student” bumper sticker, until Nick became an honor roll student and that I now have an honor roll student bumper sticker

*that I would rather stay home and shop online then go to the stores

*that it drives me nuts when I see high school girls all wearing the exact. same. thing.

*that I love my knee high socks with crazy patterns and colors, but have no real style to speak of

How about you? Anything out there that seems like everyone raves about but you feel more “meh” about?

its Ten Again!!

Tuesday here and its the middle of the month. Next week we will be eating turkey with family and friends and passing out in tryptophan induced comas! Thanks to Chelsea for hosting once again…

1. What are your pantry staples?- I like to think I have a stocked pantry, so at any time I can just whip something up with what is the pantry and become a domestic goddess. Truth is we don’t really even have a pantry and what is in there is not a staple by any means. We always seem to have tuna and oatmeal and peanut butter, but domestic goddesses don’t whip up gourmet dishes with those ingredients…

2. What are your refrigerator staples?- milk, three or four gallons a week…

3. You already look like Heidi Klum (or your favorite supermodel). Now, what are the top three non-physical things you would change about yourself?- be less of a procrastinator, be more organized and be a better person…

4. What’s holding you back from your dream job? (If you already have your dream job, how did you get there?)- I have the education I just need the experience… working on that right now…

5. You have $500 to spend but it has to be on one item only. Go.- hum…frivolus? ipad…practical? new brakes…

6. What is something that you are embarrassed to admit you buy on a regular basis?- Britney Spears songs on the ipod…

7. What’s in/on your bed every night?- down comforter and my husband

8. What is a non-necessity item that, no matter how expensive it gets or how tight your budget if, you will always find room for it?-fancy coffee drinks…

9. What is the weirdest sandwich you’ve ever made?- I used to work at a sandwich shop and the weirdest combination, that I loved, was oatmeal bread, corn beef and ketchup with a little provolone cheese…

10. Would you rather: Be banned from Pinterest forever, but gain a million captive Twitter followers; or, never get on Facebook again but gain five thousand blog readers?- I would rather be banned from Pinterest, that site is just bad for me…

Happy Tuesday!!

The Grand Plan…

We have a tree outside that turns a brilliant yellow every fall. I decided this year that I was going to take a picture of that tree everyday until the last leaf fell. I started then we had a hurricane and a freak snow-storm. This is what I have to show for it…

there is always next year…

 

healing power…

For my birthday Kevin got me the book “Chosen By A Horse.” I love it. I love everything about the story, the fact it is a memoir, and that it illustrates something I put a lot of stock in.

I am a firm believer in animals being able to heal people. Just like we can heal animals, they can heal us. They teach us to slow down and observe, to really see something or really feel something.

I havent finished the book yet, just a few more chapters. I am at a point that is hard to read, the horse has cancer and the prognosis is bad. But at the same time it is a great part of the story, the horse has overcome so much and so has its caretaker. Which just strengthens my idea that animals can heal people.

I am especially drawn to the story because I see parallels in my own life. Not that a horse has healed me but an animal has. I got Hobbes as a puppy, he was sick and so was I. I nursed him back to health and realized that someone does need me. He has been through so much with me and taught me so much. Now I worry about him, there is a large lump on his side and there are times where he looks at me like he knows there is something wrong.

I will do everything I can do for him, because he has done everything he can do for me…

Happy saturday!

Why can’t all the trees be this pretty?