Hi +Benjamin Roethig How are you, dude? Like this better? It’s a post all for you!

Hmm….maybe it should have some hot chicks in it or some smart chicks …..or some super hot, mega-smart chicks!

Lemme see…

Okay, so I googled “super hot mega smart chicks”…. the first image in the results is this:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HGfYjDiuh3Q/UFlk1-wOQSI/AAAAAAAADSk/FqwTd4C4g_M/s1600/smartchicks4.png Not entirely what I had in mind.

An interesting photo with a funny saying on it caught my eye, though. It led to this funny blog post: The Princess and the Pee I skipped down to the end part, where she’s describing her funny mensa-referenced photo.

So we don’t have some super hot chick photo, but we have a funny blog post. There ya go!

Okay, well, my baby, Patrick, is almost nineteen years old! (Ah jumpin’ jeeminy, that’s RADICALLY HORRIBLE!) But – he’s still my baby. And anyway….this is what happened just now.

I have the Google Notifier thing, I think it’s an Mac App. Yeah, that’s it, it’s a Mac app – so it’s always up there in the bar up top. And a few minutes ago, it popped up with this message…

I really need to do some writing this afternoon and it is just not coming out. I’m (as the title says) starting to type…and then stopping. Like, repeatedly. Questioning every sentence. Questioning every word. So I thought I’d come over here and just let things fly out of my fingertips. Just fly – freely….

I figured you guys wouldn’t mind. So this free form writing, rambling, if you will – is so nice. So freeing. Like flying in the sky like I’m a little bird. You know, I always dream about flying – always.

In the dreams, I can jump really high and then fly if I want to or just jump like crazy. It’s so awesome. I freaking love those dreams. Cannot get enough of them. When I wake up from them, I try to go back to sleep, if I have time – just to experience them some more.

But, anyhoo – wouldn’t it be great if writing that we ‘need to do’ flowed as freely as just running our mouths? Heaven. It would just be Heaven. I’d probably be rich. Or at least a lot better off than I am right now. Contributing significantly more to the household income – fo sho!

But damn, my brain gets in the way when I’m writing for someone else. Constantly second-guessing, constantly critiquing. It’s nauseating. So then I just give up. And the project runs over, over, over – and the client, I’m sure, is cussing me and wondering where in the holy hell their damn project is – or if it’s ever even coming.

Totally need to write every day. Every single damn day. Get myself more in the habit of seeing MY words on the screen. I think that’s definitely what needs to happen. And lord knows I’ve got all these blogger blogs on which to do just that. There’s something to me about not being ‘just quite right’ on domains I own, much less client work.

Nutty, I know, but constant writing should get me past that. Right?

Ok, take seven…..

P.S. Thanks for listening, guys.

John Schneider via last.fm

Did you guys ever see the movie, “Eddie Macon’s Run”? I knew the little kid that was in it, so of course my friends and I went and saw it. And I think we wound up seeing it quite a few times, actually.

It starred John Schneider (hunka hunka!)[even though I was a ‘Luke’ kinda girl] and there was a lady in the movie that was helping him out, for seemingly no reason at all. And he kept asking her why she was helping him. And she just kept saying:

It’s a slow wednesday.

Well, I don’t have a ‘hunka hunka’ to help out – unless you count going with my hunka hunka hubby to take our daughter to the orthodontist. But let’s see – he’ll be driving since my toe is broken, he’ll be buying dinner, since I’m broke, he’ll be paying the ortho. So yeah, that would be a hunka hunka helping me.

But I would say it’s a slow Wednesday. It’s actually kind of been a slow week for me, with this broken toe and string of headaches.

I’m just sitting around waiting to head to the orthodontist with hubby and daughter, then we have to get back over here and pick up our boys, who are actually PAID musicians today!! In our high school, if you are in the jazz band, you do paid gigs – and that helps fund the band needs. I just love saying that my boys are “Professional Musicians”!

My daughter is trying to squeeze in some baking before we have to go. When that girl gets a hankerin’ to bake or cook, there’s no stopping her! Yep – my little chef is at it again! She is making some yellow cake muffins. I’m not sure she’s really going to have time to finish them before we leave. She was hellbent on starting them, though, so we’ll see how it goes.

Ya’ll have a groovy evening. I’m gonna check on outta here!

I’ve had so much fun with all of my spoiling this month! Every year, I swear, when May 1st hits, I get excited butterflies in my stomach! “It’s my month, it’s my month – hey kids! It’s my month today!” They always look at me kinda strange, but hey – that’s normal, right? Ha!

I suppose I should back up a bit and tell you exactly why I consider May to be my month! First, there is, of course, Mother’s Day – and then not too long after that comes my birthday – and just days after that comes my wedding anniversary! See – so do you know what that spells? Lots of gifts for Lisa! 😉

We had my big family party last weekend – aunts, uncles, cousins, grandmas, mothers-in-law – well, to be fair – they are all in-laws. The only blood relatives I have in Alabama are my children, well, and Puppy! 😉 Haha!

But you can see here, that even they spoiled me – all them in-law types! Haha! Like my Alabama grammar? Hey – I’m catchin’ on purdy quick like!

This was my Happy Birthday email from Coca-Cola! Pretty cool, huh? It was so funny, because, I also got a Happy Birthday email from just about every single forum I’ve ever joined! Haha! And that’s a lot, cuz, I’m a forum junkie! Some of them I’d even forgotten about!

And then my Momma sent five – count ’em, FIVE – ecards!! They were sweet and funny and cute, and then the last one made me cry!

And then I also woke up to two jobs in my email – so my email did me right on my 38th birthday – cool!

My mom and I both are so addicted to coffee, and buying mochas and espressos at that starry place! 😉 We both keep attempting to cut down, but, it is so hard! I know we’d both just love to have our own espresso machines! Even though we wouldn’t really be cutting back on the caffeine, at least we could cut down on the cost! And you know, owning our own might just make us cut back our consumption, too. I had a friend growing up who always had all the best junk at her house. I’m talking candy, chips, Strawberry Quik, biscuits, all the sugary cereals, soda – you name it, they usually had it! And you know what? She could totally take or leave all that stuff. I, on the other hand, went into sugarphoria every time I walked into her house! Haha! So maybe having something around all the time helps you not need/want it so much. Who knows – with my darn luck, I’d drink way more caffeine! Sheesh!

I feel so sorry for the poor girl that answered the phone at the Alabama Power Company the other day. A few things came together to make that phone call no fun for her!

• First of all, I used Skype to call her, and I wasn’t wearing my headphones – so she was basically on speaker phone.
• Next, my husband arrived home in the middle of the call.
• And then, she informed me that the information that had been given to me on my last call with the company was incorrect, and they actually needed more money from us to keep our electricity from being cut off.

I got so upset, and I finally realized that there was no way that the previous information was going to work for us. We were going to have to do what this lady was telling us – not what the last lady told us we would need to do.

So then I got a little frustrated…uh…yeah… And I began to question the validity of her information.

“How do I know what you are telling me is true, if the last lady got it wrong?!” I was kind of at the end of my rope. (I hate it when I get like that.)

So I was bickering back and forth with her and Mark steps in to join me. So now she had both of us hollering at her. It was rather comical – I felt like we were in some ‘watch the hillbilly’s freak out’ skit on SNL or something!

The only thing that I could think to protect myself (us) at the moment was to get all of this lady’s information. I asked for her name and she supplied her first name. I let her know I meant her full name and I also asked her in which office she was working. I figured if her information was wrong, at least I’d have knowledge of exactly who gave it to me. With my luck, I’d get, “We’re sorry, ma’m, that woman was fired last week. We’ll need $10,000 today to keep your electricity on and she should have told you that. There is nothing we can do.”

Well, anyway, while it was comical, I do feel badly for letting that poor woman have it like we did. None of what transpired was her fault – our being late, the other lady giving us wrong information…

And since I do know exactly who she is and where she works, I suppose I could do something about that, eh?

On Thanksgiving morning, I noticed that the newly fallen leaves outside looked so pretty. I grabbed my camera and went out on the back balcony – from there, I could see that there might be some good leaf photo ops out front. So I came inside, went to the front door and opened it and just barely had one foot out the door when I saw it!

“My package! My package! It’s here, Sammie, it’s here!”

It was a perfect day for it to come, because, my parents were here. And my mom and Sammie slept in Sammie’s room and were just waking up and it was just us three girls awake. Sammie was so excited! She said, “Open it in here, Mom!” She knew exactly what it was as soon as I said ‘my package’!

It was all of the wonderful scrapbooking supplies that I won from K8! She had a contest on her blog, Three Wild Monkeys, giving away more scrapbooking supplies than Hobby Lobby! And I won it! Can you believe it? I actually won!

I am telling you, this woman sent me so much stuff – we were freaking out! My mother and my daughter and I all sat on the floor of my daughter’s room and went through all of this stuff and it was so much fun!

And the in-laws have left three card tables over here – perfect! Lots of room to start working on scrapbook projects! Now I just gotta find where the rest of my stuff is packed away so I can start on a book. I’ve got one binder packed away somewhere! I can’t wait!

THANK YOU SO MUCH, K8!! Ya’ll go visit her – she’s great and she’s funny, too! And her sweet little kids are so adorable!

Oh, and if you visit THIS POST – you can see pictures of all the wonderful stuff that she sent me!

My sweet, silly children. Two of them asked me that, on separate occasions! They are completely aghast that I would let my friends run off to Las Vegas without me! I wish I could’ve gone! We just couldn’t afford it.

Next year, baby, next year! And I might get to meet up with them in New Jersey in May. *fingers crossed bigtime*

But in the meantime, those of us left at home are having a blast keeping up with everything that is going on in Vegas via Twitter, Utterz, Flickr, and, of course, on people’s blogs. It has been so cool to be completely interacting with them while they are out there. We’ve even helped them hook up with each other, at some points! Ha!

Here are some of my crazy friends the first day out there:

Aren’t they silly? That’s why I love them! And because they are an incredibly supportive group of people! They are all from different states – isn’t that a trip? I just got to thinking how cool that is, that we are all so ‘close’ – and most of us live in different states!

I’ll be dreaming of Postiecon next year, yes ma’m!