Manic Monday

Yes, I have been busy!!! I made the new banner for Manic Mondays last week and I am loving it!!

So where shall I start?

When I got home from work on Friday, I spent the beginning of my evening trying to explain over the phone to my mom, how to use windows live messenger.... such a sloooooowwww process! It was very trying on both hers and my patience! She finally figured it out (the basics), for the most part! We headed for games night and K and S were hosting it this month. We played euchre again, but switched up partners as usual! For snacks, everyone had to bring a dessert! Can we say chocolate overload? Everyone brought chocolate, luckily S and W didn't get the dessert memo and brought meat balls! I took brownies, J brought a chocolate pudding dessert with oreo cookie crumb bottom and chocolate whip cream on top and S had a deep and delicious chocolate cake! Mmmhmm!

I drank 2 Palm Bays and ended up in a non-sober fashion... I don't know what it is about those drinks but they kick my ass rather quickly, the last time I drank them was in the summer at the ball party and I had been drinking them ALL day and was trashed. Friday was only 2 and I was definitely feeling it! I can usually handle more alcohol than that, but not with those drinks. I got home around 12:00 AM and noticed that I had a voicemail message on my phone, so I checked my call display and noticed my uncle (whom I barely ever speak to had called... I knew he needed help booking a rental car). I hit the talk button and went to dial out my voicemail and it was ringing for quite some time. I had just been saying to myself how long it was taking and my uncles voicemail picked up. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on and then he picked up before I had a chance to hang up! I couldn't call him that late and just hang up on him, so I had a 5 minute conversation on the phone with him. I inquired about the rental car and participated in some small talk, apologized for calling so late, blaming the voicemail service and said good night! Can we say AWKWARD? So now I have officially drunk dialed my uncle, I will be sure to check that off my list of things to do before I die!

Saturday M helped take town the village Christmas lights with the fire department and I had some down time before we started prepping food and last minute tidying.\i did make the appetizer cards while M was gone! When M got home, we finished up with the cleaning and of course he got a fire call, luckily there was no fire, but a car roll over. Once he got home, he shovelled the driveway.. yes shovelled because I told him he did not have time to "play" with the snow blower and I was not making him shovel the whole thing or anything! I got started in kitchen! I know that sounds funny, but I started food prepping for the appetizers. We made the lasagna Friday night since lasagna always tastes better the 2nd day, so we did not have to worry about that! Everything was running smoothly until it came to making the baked brie in philo pastry... I did not realize that the philo had to thaw for 5 hours prior to use, so we thawed it via the microwave, very carefully! We had never use the philo before and it is not very much fun to use. We had cute the brie wheel in half which was our next bad idea, it leaked out of the pastry while baking and made such a mess, but over all it was still good! I wish I had of taken a picture of the place settings at the table! Everything seemed to be a hit, or at least no one complained! The lasagna was fantastic, N & K brought a stuff bread with cheese, onion, tomatoes and prosciutto. For dessert J & A brought a strawberry no-bake cheesecake with whipped cream to complete the meal! It was great!! The night ended at an early 1:30 AM!

M and I managed to sleep in this morning until 10 AM!! Of course we got up around 7 to let the dogs out, but managed to fall back asleep! I watched the movie Remember Me and just relaxed for the afternoon, it was sooo nice, quiet and relaxing! I also managed to get caught up on my soap operas! We headed to the farm for a nice roast beef dinner! I don't know how M's mom does it, but she makes the BEST roast beef!!! We had the strawberry cheesecake left overs for dessert! M and I came home and continued our day of relaxation!!

Today I don't have much on my plate! I might download some music, poke away at some laundry, but that is about it!! I have girls night tonight as usual, but that is about it!

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Whats in a Title?

I should really start paying attention to what I title my blog entries with! If you were a new person to pop by and check out my blog, and check my right side panel to see previous posts and just skimmed the titles... you would find: (the brackets enclose what people probably think)

• Low Down on Lingerie ------- (sounds trashy)
• Commitment Issues ----------(marriage probs)
• Manic Monday ---------- (Crazy)
• Show Me Some Love -------- (Desperate)
• Things Don't Always Go As Planned ------ (oops...)
• So What Happened Tuesday Night  -----(drunk fool)
• No Strings Attached ------ (sleeps around)
• Advice From a Farmer -------- (hick girl)
• Going Crazy and The New Cat ----- (crazy)
• The Bachelor -------- (Looking for love)

That is just for January! People probably see those titles and run!! I am sorry new followers, I am sorry... Don't judge the book by the cover though... I am really not a trashy, crazy, desperate drunk hick-town girl with marriage problems that is looking for love! I promise!! No offense to hick-girls either, nothing wrong with growing up in a small town!

I will try to be more conscientious when picking titles!! Although, maybe people think I am false advertising with those titles... they read the post and end up disappointed in my boring ole' life? My life is not really soap opera material like the titles may suggest...

Does anyone else have this problem? What do your blog titles say about you?!

The Low Down On The Lingerie (Part 1)

So, as I promised I have a funny story to tell you all about! Now please note that the whole story has not played out, so this will be part 1 and part 2 will follow once the whole story plays out! Now I am posting this praying that M doesn't actually read my blog, he says he doesn't, but sometimes asks about it, so this will be a true test! If he does happen to read one days, I hope he doesn't read today's post until it all plays out!

So last weekend I went on to the La Vie En Rose website and was "browsing" from the comfort of my own home, if ya know what I mean? I prefer Victoria Secret, but the shipping to Canada is too much, so I always stop there when visiting the US. So I happened to notice a 70% off sale! We ALL know how much THIS girl LOVES SALES! So of course I took a peek! I had never ordered online from this store before, but found myself adding stuff to the cart.

I found a cute "baby doll" - who makes the names of these things.... seriously... but it is not super skimpy, like wearable to bed I would say, without causing "a scene". I found a scarf, a sweat shirt, a "chemise", with a matching cardi, I got M some pajama pants and boxers, and myself a lace bra band. Out of all of those items, I would say nothing exciting or out of the ordinary! But I did find a super cute and sexy little something, which I was planning on keeping a secret from M. I had told him that I was making the purchase online and of course he wanted to see, so I showed him all of the above, minus the sexy something. I was excited to be getting some new sleepwear and his response was almost daunting, he says "Oh, that's all you bought?" So I said no, I bought one more thing, but its a surprise! Then my mind started working and the web page shows 3 items per line. He didn't want to ruin his surprise, but after convincing him, he decided to play along! So I decided to show him the line and have him guess which one I ordered! One item was a 2 piece full pajama set, the other one was a lacy top, silk bottom "chemise" and the last one was THE ONE. I asked him which one he thought I picked and he says.. I kid you not... "Well I know which one I wish you picked, but you probably picked #2 (the lace and silk "chemise")". So of course my response was something along the lines of "You know me to well, I thought you would really like it, but you seem nothing but disappointed with my surprise!" I went along with  him thinking I order the "chemise" instead of the sexy something! He then threw the whole "Now my surprise is ruined.." I assured him that "you obviously wouldn't have liked it anyways..." 

How mean am I?

But it didn't stop there.... no it couldn't possibly! He then told me it was like something I would wear to bed anytime and that it was "boring". BORING! So I played the whole "Oh so you think I am boring?" wife act and drew out this whole big argument that was going nowhere good! I was letting him dig himself a hole and he knew it! I was trying my darnedest to act pissed off, but I couldn't help but to laugh every now and then! I later assured him that this must be an argument that most couples have... you know lingerie and that this was normal! Haha! He ended up getting pissed off, I ended up throwing more drama in the mix and headed to the bedroom to pull out my actual lingerie throwing it all over the room, questioning if they were boring and he was responding no and telling me how much he loved THOSE ones, but that what I had just bought was not like any of those and he was right they weren't. I told him that my taste had changed, now that I am 26, I need to wear more suitable lingerie for my age! Haha! He was falling for every bit of it! I also assured him that when I was 60, there would not be lingerie, I would hit the naked stage with saggy boobs and all! Just imagine the poor guy wondering what had happened to his wife? Better yet, what WILL happen to his wife? Should he trade me in now?

We both decided that we had enough of arguing and he told me that he loves me in anything that I wear and of course preferably nothing, even if I am 60! He also informed me that he wished the "naked stage" would happen now. So really, I was just making him feel grateful right? I felt horrible as well with his sentimental melt down at the end of the argument, but still didn't confess that I bought the sexy something that he did indeed like! I did laugh behind his back!

I figure that it will be an awesome surprise!! I can't wait for it to come in now after seeing how my mean wife stint played out!

So Part 2 will follow, as I am sure another discussion will be had!

I know this was a pretty mean joke, if you can call it that, to do to my poor man, but it was also fun in my eyes, just not his I am sure! It will alll work out in the end! I am sure that he will be pleased overall! He will have probably forgot the whole incident by the time it comes in! It could take up to 2 to 3 weeks before I see my delivery!

Happy Friday folks!!

Thoughts on Thursday (Long post)

Okay, bear with me folks, I have a couple of topics to touch on and of course a couple of random bits of info!

First I will start with the email I received from my sister this morning. She was staying at a Marriott last night in Detroit, as they were flying out this morning to Florida. So I guess Hannah was playing in the room with her Barbie in a drawer, all of a sudden Hannah started saying BoBos, which is what Hannah calls boobies. Amy and Eric go over to see what she is doing and she had found 2 porno magazines in the drawer!! How crazy is that? I am not to sure how the story ended, aside from the magazines being confiscated, but the story is kind-of funny! To be honest I am not sure that I was even supposed to share this story, especially on my blog, but it is funny... right?

Now, I promised to go into detail with my menu plans for Saturday's dinner party, so here we go:

• Baked brie wrapped in puff pastry. Half of it will be plain with the pastry and the other half will have roasted garlic in the pastry. I will be serving it with toasted baguette drizzled with oil and garlic, as well as a few cheese spreads including: Apple Pecan Harvest (my favorite), Red Hot Pepper Jelly and Apricot and Jalapeno. 
• Cheese and spinach puffs
• Cheese, tomato and pesto crescents
• Mushroom and cheese triangles
• Cheese and onion puffs

I am also considering serving a spinach/artichoke/asiago dip with baked pita bits, but have not decided, as these will all be appetizers? There will be about 10 of the pastries listed above. I am also going to make little item cards for each appetizer, so people know what is what. 

For the meal, we will be having Cesar salad with homemade dressing and lasagna. N & K will be bringing bread to go with the meal and J & A will be bringing dessert! Can't wait!!

Today I took a trip into town for an appointment and hit up the liquor store afterwards! I was picking up a bottle of Girls Night and happened to notice that Palm Bays were on SALE!! I was going to buy a case of Bacardi Breezers, but changed my mind when I saw the sale! I bought to 6 packs of Palm Bay and a bottle of Girls Night for less than the case of Bacardi Breezers! It was like clearance shopping at the liquor store, and I love all that I bought!! But the saving did not stop there!!

I hit up Winners, which for my American readers, who may not recognize the name of the store, it is like a TJ Max type of store! I was on the look out for cheese knives, since I do not love the little ones I have. Of course they had a lingerie event on! I couldn't leave the store with checking it out, I have been putting off bra shopping for long enough. Does anyone else hate bra shopping? I am different size depending on the brand and therefore have to try them on before leaving the store. When I saw the prices, I was convinced, loaded up the cart and headed to the change rooms! Much to my surprise, all 5 fit!! Oh and the best part... I bought 2 bras for $5.00 each, 2 for $3.00 and 1 for $2.00!! I am talking name brand bras too, not the cheapos that break after one wear! I didn't bother checking the rest of the lingerie because I was behaving! HA! No... I placed an order online at La Vie En Rose on the weekend (which I will explain a funny story, maybe tomorrow)!! They were having a clearance event as well!

 I will note that the lingerie department was moved up to the front doors, and the housewares department is at the back! While walking towards the back of the store, I passed the wallet section and saw yet again, red stickers!! I couldn't NOT look! I found myself a cute little wristlet that matches my purse by XOXO it was on clearance for $11.00. Sometimes I hate lugging my hand bag around and wish I had something small I could just grab-n-go and now I do!! So I made my way to the back of the store and could not find cheese knives at all! This was the one store in town I thought I would definitely find them at and I was out of luck in that department! While searching isle for isle for these knives, I was passing clearance at the end of the isles, now I will admit, I probably would not have found cheese knives in the bath and bedding department, but ya never know.. right? What I did find were these cute little hand towels on clearance for $3 each. They are white with dark and light grey polka dots on them! Mike's bathroom NEEDED them! They match sooo well! You know how I love polka dots!! I knew I had to stop there and started to head to the front of the store, when I found...... (drum roll please) the recycling bag I wanted for inside. I hate lining the recycling up on the counter to be taken out, especially now that it is winter and you have to put shoes on to make the trip!



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 Now, I know the picture shows laundry in it, but you can use it for recycling or even trash. The inside has a plastic lining that you can wipe clean! I have seen it before at Urban Barn for $25 bucks, but I got it for only $14.99! Of course this had to come home with me!! And it did! So I spent a whopping $50 for 5 bras (which should have costed me $100 full price), my wristlet (should have costed $44 regular price), 2 hand towels (which would have been $10 each) and my recycling bag (which would have been $25.00) I saved sooo much money!! I called M to tell him about my purchases and was smart enough to mention the bras first and he didn't seem to care after that... he then had bras on the brain and can't wait to see what all I bought!! Hahaha... men... gotta love them!

I headed home, got a phone call from M and she popped on over with baby L for a nice visit! She was even kind enough to bring me a hot apple cider!! Mmmhmm my favorite!! Lux had his first encounter with a baby or toddler, but he is not one year old yet and Lux was great with baby L!!!  Now tonight M and I will head into town to grab some groceries for the party and dinner and then we will come home and tidy up the house, since we did not do that last night! M blew out the driveways and I made worlds biggest dog bed ALL BY MYSELF!! I even sewed on my first zipper!! I was very proud of myself and soo were the dogs! I set it up today for them and they just love laying on it! I made it big enough for them both to fit on it! I will take pics of it soon! I even figured out how to switch the thread and bobbins! I am loving my new sewing machine! That is my second sewing project on it!

Well I think that is enough for one days blog! I'll be back tomorrow with the follow up lingerie post! Be ready to laugh!

Oh and while I was typing this, all of my neighbours power was out, but not mine!! I guess it was a scheduled  outage!

  

Whats Up Wednesday?

Well I have a pretty boring day a head of me here at the office today!

So I will recap One Tree Hill! Did anyone else love last nights episode? I was definitely laughing throughout! I really do like Brooke and Julian!! Well who are we kidding, I like them all, even Alex - she has grown on me! Can't wait for the wedding next week!!

I missed Teen Moms last night, but did get caught up 90210! That was a pretty good episode! Still haven't watched Pretty Little Liars though, online has not come through for me yet!

I hope all of my Floridian readers are okay after that storm that touched down? My sister is heading your way for vacation and mentioned the severe weather you received!

M and I will hopefully be getting the house tidied tonight for the dinner party we are hosting on Saturday! I will share the menu plans with you tomorrow!! Friday night we have our monthly card night and everyone will be bringing their favorite dessert!! Mmmhmm... not so good for the getting my gut in shape before I go away, but, you only live once I suppose!

This post was once again random!! Sorry!

One day I might have a structured blog, hell, I might even have a structured life! But we are not there yet! So bear with me in the meantime!