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Thursday Thirteen #8

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

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13 Things I want to do before I die

1.) Visit the Grand Canyon, maybe even ride down into it!

2.) Go scuba diving

3.) Go on a cruise, just me and the Hubs.

4.) Visit the Canary Islands

5.) Go to the Caribbean

6.) Go skydiving

7.) and bungee jumping (I have great life insurance- just in case!)

8.) Swim with the dolphins

9.) Go up in a hot-air balloon

10.) See a Broadway play

11.) Meet Kiefer (you knew it was coming!)

12.) See both my boys happy and productive members of society

13.) Be the best mother I can possibly be

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Wordless Wednesday (8)

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Luke picked this weeks picture out…. taken about a year ago!

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Just a reminder!

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Don’t forget to enter my contest that is running the entire month of July! Just click on the button below….

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Looking for a summer house?

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

I found this little bungalow- for a mere $135 million! Boy am I ever glad that I started that change jar!

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Perfect for a quick weekend getaway don’t you think?

Read more about Dracula’s Castle here.

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The dangers of smoke inhalation!

Monday, July 9th, 2007

I got this in an e-mail~ thanks Rene! It’s hilarious! Wish I was near that fire! :)

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Why couldn’t this happen to me???

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

I lived in Germany for four long years~ why didn’t this ever happen to me??

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German motorist surprised by euro notes swirling in the air around her car hit the brakes and collected a “substantial amount of money” before turning it over to police, authorities in Worms said on Thursday.

A police spokesman in the small western town said the 24-year-old woman saw the money flying through the air in her rear view mirror late on Wednesday. She pulled over and tried to collect all the notes, unsuccessfully.

When police went with her to the scene they could not find any more cash.

A spokesman at Worms city hall said police were withholding details on the exact sum and location of the find in the hope of learning more about the money’s origin.

Source: Yahoo News

My butt wouldn’t have been unsuccessful! Money falling from the sky??? Awesome!

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Robin Williams’ Peace Plan

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

 

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Robin Williams, wearing a shirt that says “I love New York” in Arabic.


You gotta love Robin Williams…… Even if he’s nuts! Leave it to Robin
Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our
UN Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message.

Robin Williams’s plan… (Hard to argue with this logic!)

“I see a lot of people yelling for peace, but I have not heard of a plan for
peace. So, here’s one plan.

1) “The
US will apologize to the world for our ‘interference’ in their affairs, past & present. You know: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those ‘good ole boys;’ we will never ‘interfere’ again.

2) “We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with
Germany, South Korea, the Middle East, and the Philippines. They don’t want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.

3) “All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We’ll give them a free trip home, after 90 days; the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are. They’re illegal!!!
France will welcome them.

4) “All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don’t like it there, change it yourself and don’t hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don’t need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5) “No foreign ’students’ over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don’t attend classes, they get a D, and its back home, baby.

6) “The
US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy-wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy, but will require temporary drilling for oil in the Alaska wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.

7) “Offer
Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don’t like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

8.) “If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not ‘interfere.’ They can pray to Allah, or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement, or whatever they need. Besides, most of what we give them is stolen or given
to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything

9) “Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don’t need the spies and fair-weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10) “All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us ‘Ugly Americans’ any longer. The language we speak is ENGLISH…learn it…or LEAVE.”

“Now, isn’t that a winner of a plan?”

“The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses’ She’s got a baseball bat, and she’s yelling, ‘You want a piece of me?’ “

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Thursday Thirteen #7

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

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13 Quotes perfect for Independence Day

1.) Better to starve free than be a fat slave.
Aesop

2.) Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw

3.) There, I guess King George will be able to read that.
John Hancock, after signing the Declaration of Independence

4.) “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ” ~Thomas Paine

5.) “This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” ~Elmer Davis

6.) “Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.” ~Harry Emerson Fosdick

7.) “In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

8.) “I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.” ~Author Unknown

9.) “Without freedom, no one really has a name.” ~Milton Acorda

10.) “It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.” ~J. Horace McFarland

11.) “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” ~William Faulkner

12.) “My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!” ~Thomas Jefferson

13.) The United States is the only country with a known birthday.” ~James G. Blaine

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Independence Day

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

Happy Independence Day! Hope everyone enjoys their day, and takes a moment to reflect on what this day is about.

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You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

~Erma Bombeck

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Wordless Wednesday (7)

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

In honor of Independence Day

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Survivor for Dads

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

I totally stole this from Chrissy, but it is too hilarious not to pass on! Any mom will appreciate this! I was exhausted just from reading it!

minivan.jpgSix married men will be dropped on an island with one car and 3 kids each for six weeks. Each kid will play two sports and either take music or dance classes. There is no fast food. Each man must take care of his 3 kids; keep his assigned house clean, correct all homework, complete science projects, cook, do laundry, and pay a list of “pretend” bills with not enough money.

In addition, each man will have to budget in money for groceries each week. Each man must remember the birthdays of all their friends and relatives, and send cards out on time.

Each man must also take each child to a doctor’s appointment, a dentist appointment and a haircut appointment . He must make one unscheduled and inconvenient visit per child to the Urgent Care (weekend, evening, on a holiday or right when they’re about to leave for vacation). He must also make cookies or cupcakes for a social function.

Each man will be responsible for decorating his own assigned house, planting flowers outside and keeping it presentable at all times. The men will only have access to television when the kids are asleep and all chores are done. Each father will be required to know all of the words to every stupid song that comes on TV and the name of each and every character on cartoons.

Each man will have to make an Indian hut model with six toothpicks, a tortilla and one marker; and get a 4 year old to eat a serving of peas. Each man must adorn himself with jewelry, wear uncomfortable yet stylish shoes, keep their nails polished and eyebrows groomed. The men must try to get through each day without snot, spit-up or barf on their
clothing.

During one of the six weeks, the men will have to endure severe abdominal cramps, back aches, and have extreme, unexplained mood swings but never once complain or slow down from other duties. They must try to explain what a tampon is for when the 6-yr old boy finds it in the purse.

They must attend weekly school meetings, church, and find time at least once to spend the afternoon at the park or a similar setting. He will need to read a book to the children each night without falling asleep, and then feed them, dress them, brush their teeth and comb
their hair each morning by 7:00. They must leave the home with no food on their face or clothes.

A test will be given at the end of the six weeks, and each father will be required to know all of the following information: each child’s birthday, height, weight, shoe size, clothes size and doctor’s name. Also the child’s weight at birth, length, time of birth, and length of labor, each child’s favorite color, middle name, favorite snack, favorite song, favorite drink, favorite toy, biggest fear and what they want to be when they grow up.

They must clean up after their sick children at 2:00 a.m. and then spend the remainder of the day tending to that child and waiting on them hand and foot until they are better. They must have a loving, age appropriate reply to, “You’re not the boss of me”.

The kids vote them off the island based on performance.

The last man wins only if…he still has enough energy to be intimate with his spouse at a moment’s notice.

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Contest time!

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

Who wants a good contest? I am having a contest the entire month of July, with a winner, drawn at random, announced on August 6th! Want all the details??

What you can win is a $50 gift certificate to Splat Designs. Lindsay at Splat Designs did my personal blog, Special K Family, and Lindsay did an awesome job! Check out Splat Designs when you get a moment.

What you do to enter is put the following code on your sidebar, so that the button is displayed. You can either head over to my Special K blog to sign up on Mr. Linky, or leave me a comment here and I will add you!

EASY PEASY! right???

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My Crying Time

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

Being Monday, you should know what I am about to talk about…. Army Wives! So far this show has not failed to rip me apart emotionally. Seriously. Last night, right after it went off, Barbie called me and I was a little teary eyed. She asked why do you watch a show that you know is going to make you cry?

Pshhhh…. why do you eat chocolate when you know it will make you gain weight? Duh! Because it is that damn good! Right??

My little recap of last night~ glad Denise’s husband was found. As for them sending him home immediately~ not so sure about that. Roxy catching that Marilyn hypocritical bitch cheating on her husband- PRICELESS! But Pamela telling Roxy that “the Army has their code, we have ours“, WTF??? Yes, all military wives do have a code about some things, but about a philandering spouse?? Not last time I checked my “book”! I wouldn’t go rat her out to her husband, but I also don’t hide stuff like that from my husband. Problems will soon follow when you start hiding things from your spouse. Joan. Joan, Joan- glad she is getting help with PTSD. Her husband Roland hit the nail on the head when he said soldiers feel ashamed to ask for help. Glad things are getting better for these two!

Anyone else watch? What did you think??

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Gonna be a little bit longer

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

I know I said there would be a surprise today~ Please be patient I am still working on it!

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