Week In Review

This is for the week of June 4-10.

The highs of the week were:

• Making some progress on organization in our house on Sunday. John tackled a couple problem areas in the garage (that wall behind the girls in that picture), and I knocked out some overdue projects in Charley's room. Both areas look so much better and make my organizing heart happy!
•  Taking Charley and Laney to the lake Saturday. John and I spent many, many days at the lake in our dating years but sold our boat prior to having kids. When our friend offered to let us come out WITH our kids, we couldn't wait to take them out. They both LOVED it so much and Laney woke up the next morning asking to go "ride boat?" again.
• Some of our regular friend time Friday night in the basement after kiddo bed time. Always a fun time!

The lows of the week were:

• I had to stay at work late two days this past week. As always, it isn't too bad since it isn't the norm and it also wasn't too crazy or too late, thankfully. 
• However, the second work-late day was on gymnastics day so I needed to pick Charley up by 6:45. I got caught up in something last minute at work which made me have to run to my car and race to the gymnastics place to get there on time. I realized I wasn't going to make it on time (Waze showed me arriving about 4 minutes late) so I called them to let Charley know as I KNEW she would panic. When I arrived (only 3 minutes late!) she was sitting down next to her teacher and I could tell she'd been crying. Ahhh! My poor baby! Made me feel so bad!

The best money I spent was on:

It was time for John's phone upgrade and he wanted to get the iPhone 7 like I currently have also - I upgraded last fall. However, I recently regretted my upgrade decision because I wanted the 7+ instead that has Portrait mode. John, being the awesome husband he is, offered to order the 7+ for me with his upgrade and he took my iPhone 7 for himself....my PINK iPhone 7. So, the best money spent was on the taxes we had to pay for the phone. I'm IN LOVE with this phone!

The book I am currently reading is:

I didn't get to read any of it this week, but I am sort of getting back into the habit of reading! Yay! The book I'm reading is The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney.

The TV shows I watched were:

We finished the last season of Bloodline. The last two episodes ruined the entire 3 seasons. SO disappointed in how they finished a good show. 

The dinners we had were:

It was a very busy take-outty week...

Sunday: A Sunday usual - chicken and dumplings.

Monday: John and I both worked late and had my dad pick up the girls. As a thank you (and because our fridge was empty) we got take out Jim N Nicks BBQ for dinner.

Tuesday: Hello Fresh meal of Cherry-Drizzled Pork Chops. I did not cherry-drizzle my serving, thank you very much.

Wednesday:  Take out from Five Guys. 

Thursday: Swim Lesson night, so after swim lessons Charley, Laney and I ate at the dine-in Pizza Hut. John, who did not go with us, ate something at home.

Friday: The girls and I went to Chick Fil A on the way home so the girls could play in the tubes and eat dinner. John made another Hello Fresh meal - the Vietnamese Marinated Steak and I HATED the smell of it. Bleh. So, yeah, glad I did not wait until we were home to eat because I would not have eaten that. 

Saturday:   Ate dinner on our way home from an afternoon at the lake. Went though the Zaxby's drive through which hasn't been my favorite in the past, and ordered something different this time. I got the Cajun Club sandwich and it was SO GOOD. 

My favorite picture from the week was:

Taken with my new phone, of course!

7 Quick Takes

1. This is currently my view.
   
   
   
   
   It's a Wednesday, so normally I'd be at work. But due to the inch or two of snow we got yesterday, the 5-10" expected to fall today and the inch of ice expected tonight, we got a snow day off of work! I'm playing on the computer in the office, Charley's taking an early nap on the couch and John went in to work to gather things so he can work from home on his snow day off. Overachiever.
2. We hit the lottery earlier this week. Okay, not really, but we did get an unexpected check in the mail from our escrow account because they way overestimated our taxes last year. Like, a couple thousand dollars overestimated. I wish we were young and irresponsible again because it'd be fun to just take that money shopping instead of being responsible with it.
3. Scratch that - nap never happened so now she's joined me in the office.
   
   
   
4. Do you have the app Waze? It's another map application, which I was skeptical of because I'm such a big fan of Google Maps. But Waze is so awesome. It lets users update for traffic, cars on the shoulder, speed traps, etc. And it's just a one or two button touch to update the map if you see something, so not dangerous at all in my opinion. I do a lot of driving every day. This thing has saved me so much time!
5. Have I ever mentioned how much I love the crock pot? Because I do. Like, really love it. Last week we had 4 of 5 dinners on the weekdays prepared in the crock pot. But I only have about 6 go-to crock pot recipes that are tried and true. I need more. Got any? And not any of those 4-hours-on-high recipes either. We are gone all day; we need all day recipes. Are there any recipes for sides that can be made in the crock pot? I do have 2 crock pots so that would be extra awesome to have a meal AND side done when I got home.
6. I'm afraid to say anything for fear of jinxing it, but potty training is still going great. Except for one episode I'm calling poopmageddon. It was pretty awful, but the universe thought I was skating through potty training too easily and brought me back down to Earth in one fell swoop. I get it, universe. I get it. Now that that's over, I hope we're back to smooth skating from here on out.
7. Charley got her "first" haircut! I say "first" because I had trimmed a couple of long pieces before because they were so much longer than the rest of her hair and just looked goofy. But I had my friend Melissa over (the same one that cuts my hair) (her daughter Ella is Charley's BFF...see photo evidence below)
   
   
   
   
   and she gave her her official first haircut. I am SO glad she did it. She didn't really take much off at all, but the overall shape and everything is just so much better. I don't know how that happened with the few little wisps she took off, but she knows what she's doing.

iPhone Antics: VI

Hey! Remember when I used to do that super fun thing where I shared the questionable photos from my iPhone with you with semi-funny captions?

I, II, III, IV, V

Probably not since it's been almost 2 years since I've done so. I am blaming instagram. Why save up a bunch of pointless pictures when I can instantly 'gram them? But, there are still a few head-scratchers in my photo feed on my phone, and lucky for you I'm going to share them with you here.

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This day I was wearing my hair in a ponytail which I really don't do too often anymore. Since I don't do them that often, sometimes they give me headaches when I do wear them and I find myself wanting to de-ponytail halfway through the work day.

This day I de-ponytailed and worried that I may have a ponytail line since my hair wasn't fully dry when I put it up, but I couldn't see the back of my head to be sure, so I took a picture:

Good grief. Put your hair back in it's pony immediately! Do not pass go! Do not collect $200. Sheesh.

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This next picture was taken on a little road trip to visit a friend of mine in Aiken, SC. It's not that far from me but I'd never been there. When I told my Dad where I was going he said "You know that's the boonies, right?" and when I told that to my friend she denied it. I took this picture when I was nearly there. I'll let you decide for yourselves:

Hehe. Boonies for sure.

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I took this picture to pick on my oldest sister. Several years ago a personalized ornament was found gleaming in the front yard a couple weeks after the Christmas tree had been taken out. It was a little rusty, but now that ornament has a story and we laugh about it every year.

This year I just so happened to find another ornament in the yard after the tree had been taken out. Who's was it? None other than the same sister, Christy. I mean, there are four of us children so what are the chances that it was HER ornament both times? She's going to develop a complex about this for sure.

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I've hinted around that I used to be pretty bored at my old job and this is just proof of that. I would start doing some really bizarre things at my desk.

I really, really dislike my profile because I feel like I am chinless and have a huge hump in my nose. Everyone has things they don't like about themselves - this is mine. Anyways, I think I exaggerate it in my mind to be worse than it is, so while at my desk one day I decided I should take a profile picture of myself to show myself it wasn't that bad.

Once I was convinced it wasn't that bad, I noticed all of the short hairs around my face due to the post-baby hair loss that STILL have not grown out, and ugh.

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This day I went down to the break room to heat up my lunch at 12:30, which is usually when there are LINES to use a microwave. But, when I got there the break room looked like this:

Where was everyone?! The short answer: it was payday.

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This was the day of our old townhouse's auction. I drive by our old neighborhood everyday and even though I knew the actual auction took place at the courthouse, I was curious if there would be any clues or evidence at the actual house. I don't know what I was looking for - a gavel, a megaphone and a podium? But, no. There was nothing there and I kept on driving. I wanted to go in and look once more but I was afraid I'd get arrested or something.

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And finally, this one will only make sense to other gamers, or spouses of gamers (or spouses of ex-gamers in my case). I saw this license plate and was shocked I knew what I meant since I myself never played World of Warcraft, but John used to so I feel like I know way too much about it. He quit playing when I was pregnant, thank goodness. I do remember hearing some of the people that he used to play with that would have their infant children in rockers by their computer chairs as they played. I'm sure they were giving them lots of attention, too.

Anyways, this guy obviously played for the Horde and not the Alliance.

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This is why my Instagram feed is mainly pictures of Charley. I have way too much to say about pictures to stay within the character limit of Instagram. I guess that's why I'm a blogger and not a twitterer, eh?

Hi!

I have a million posts saved as drafts either in Blogger or in my head. This isn't one of them, but I had a few random thoughts that absolutely needed to be shared with the internets. Important stuff here.

1. You know how you walk into a room and forget why you came in there in the first place? Happens all the time. And then you try and retrace your steps to see what maybe prompted you to go into said room to retrieve mystery object or do mystery task in the first place, and then while retracing your steps you'll see that baby toy you tripped over which then reminds you the entire point of going into the nursery was to retrieve your baby from the crib, for example.

So yeah, I just had a virtual episode of the exact same scenario happen. I was reading a blog from a girl I know, which reminded me that the whole reason I know her is because she dated a friend of mine, and then hey! I wonder if they are still together; they should definitely be engaged or married or something by now. So then I went to Facebook to do some further investigating, and got sidetracked by this hilarious post someone shared about texts from dogs (warning: language may bother some of you!), and after I was done laughing about that I wondered to myself, "WHY in the world did I come on Facebook in the first place. I KNOW there was a reason."

& then I did a little internet retracing of my steps using the ol' back button. & what do you know. I came upon girl's blog again, which reminded me of the issue at hand I was about to stalk.

It's undetermined, by the way. No recent pictures of them together. No relationship status. So my guess is no longer together but without hard evidence it's hard to say.

Anyways...

2. If you, among many others, participate in a weekly blog post titled "Wordless Wednesday", you may not in fact use WORDS in your post. Kinda defeats the purpose, no? Why not just title it 'Wednesday'? That one really bothers me. Don't be offended if you do this. I'm crazycakes.

And finally,

3. Draw Something. It's a game on iPhones (Droids too? Not sure.) where you are playing pictionary against your friends. I love love loved it at first. And then, people started using words to convey what they were drawing and that's cheating and I didn't like it. In protest I quit playing right in the midst of our games to prove my point. And now I've got no less than THIRTEEN opponents just sitting there waiting on me to play my turn.  And that makes me a little crazy too, like I'm holding up their lives or something. It's okay to move on, opponents. I don't know if I can ever come back to y'all and your cheating ways.

I did NOT actually guess this drawing of my husband's. The answer: Uranus. Nice John. Real nice.

So anyways, how have you all been? Ready to be ambushed by about a bajillion Life of Lacey posts in the next few days? Keep your weekend open for me!

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Square Pictures

Okay. In the past I have called this the photo dump, but, I'm afraid that I absolutely loathe that title. Anything with the word "dump" in it just sounds dirty. Unless of course it's dump truck, but, then again that's dirty too but in a different way. Dump = dirty, basically, and none of the square pictures are dirty. So, 'Square Pictures of Happiness'? Or maybe 'Instagrammed' as a play on the app that takes them Instagram. I don't know. I'm not feeling very creative today at all so Square Pictures it is. Someone please give me a better name for this.

Anyways, here are the last few weeks.



All photos taken by Instagram. Follow me: Laceyloo22


A. Charley isn't a fan of jackets.

C. A little memorial in my cube for a baby Zachary that is no longer with us. He was the same age as Charley and it just breaks my heart that he's gone.

D. Stripey socks for baby, and...

E. ...patterned tights for Mama!

G. Chips and salsa for the baby?

H. I just love my umbrella. And, note to self: you shouldn't not wear make-up.

J. Ahhh! I love going on walks!

L. The sparkly chandelier in Charley's room.

M. 70 degrees in January warrants an open sunroof.

N. What we do each night in bed before going to sleep. Based on the number of turns that are taken by my friends in Words with Friends and Scramble with Friends, I think that this is a common thing these days.

Phone Dump

Two week's worth this time:



All pictures taken with Instagram. Follow me if you'd like: Laceyloo22


A. Playing with Daddy.
C. Napping with her new baby doll.
D. My New Year's Eve nails.
F. MAMA! I'm NAKED here!
G. My first and last shot of the year.
I. Mmm, Sophie.
M. Sleeping Beauty.
N. Disc golfing.
P. Grandaddy loves Charley.

Banned!

Maybe I should take a hint, but I was banned from Facebook today. Had Facebook banned me for spending way too much time on there, then fine. They have a pretty decent case against me. I mean, what else is a girl to do while she's nursing her baby? But no, that was not their reasoning. I was banned for "suspicious behavior." Meaning, they thought I was trying to hack into Facebook or maybe thought I was posting too much of the same thing over and over. [Not unlike the millions of people that post stupid game stuff over and over and over, yet nobody is banning them.]

But the dumb thing is that I never actually posted anything at all. Stupid Facebook wasn't working and wouldn't post the link to the blog I wrote earlier, and I maybe tried hitting the share button one too many times for Facebook's liking. I mean, it wouldn't post so I kept trying to get it to work! What's the harm in that!? & then I got served a 24 hour ban. No posting on anything for a full 24 hours, and there is no way to complain and get the ban lifted. I'm able to see everything, but I'm not allowed to tell you that your baby is cute, or laugh at a witty status you posted. It may not seem like a big deal to you, but darn it, it's a big deal to me. You don't just take the pack of cigarettes from the smoker and make them quit cold turkey, do you??

Anyways, it's time for my weekly photo dump. And this week, there are explanations for some of the pictures. Please, try to control your excitement.

This was my week:

All pictures taken with Instagram. Feel free to follow me: laceyloo22.

A. Charley has a new best friend: Mr. Bear. He's a little blanket with a bear head, and she was hanging out with him at all times until she tried to smother herself with him a few times. They are now taking a break.

C. A pretty church I walk by every day.

D. I went and assisted Mr. Claus in the wrapping of my niece's Christmas presents this year.

G. This is the "mother's room", or the pumping room at work. I spend a lot of time in this super accommodating room. It includes: a table, a window, a cushioned bench, and a tub of Lysol wipes.

H. I was working in the clouds on Thursday.

I. I went shopping with my sister and nieces so my nieces could buy everyone a gift for Christmas from the dollar store. This was Lori during our trip.

J. Who's that cute baby with a bow in her hair on her bald head?

M. Santa brought Charley a hobby horse!

N. Piggies on the little piggies.

Phone Dump

I used to periodically share pictures with you from my iPhone. They were funny, random things that I really had no business taking a picture of in the first place. I believe the last time I posted one of those blogs, I had 496 pictures on my phone. Since Charley has been here, the phone picture taking has gotten out of control. I currently have 1,170 pictures on my phone, and it's showing no signs of slowing down any time soon.

Since the phone is so quick and easy to use, I find myself grabbing it first before grabbing my big camera when Charley is doing something cute. All of her first smiles were caught on my iPhone camera, and just yesterday I caught the tail end of Miss Charley holding her head up during tummy time for the first time.

And now, I've downloaded the Instagram app. It's basically the same thing as the regular camera, but it takes square pictures which I love, and then has tons of different filters you can put on your pictures. I'm slightly obsessed. Which is why I'm going to have to start sharing these with you weekly or every other week or something.

Anyways, here are the instagram photos for this week. Everything from Christmas cards, to waffle fries, to Charley Jane. It's a quick summary of my week from the lens of my iPhone camera:


(P.S. I'm Laceyloo22 on Instagram if you'd like to follow me! Share your instagram name with me too!)
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Tiny Obsession

Okay so I have a tiny little confession: I may have a tiny obsession with a tiny little game played on a tiny little phone called Tiny Tower. (Don't download it...I'm warning you.) It's just a tiny obsession, so I shouldn't be too ashamed, right? Right??

But even I can see that I may have taken this tiny little obsession to an unhealthy level. I may or may not have created an Excel spreadsheet to assist me in my gaming each day. Is that normal? No?

But let's back up. Maybe I can explain myself.

I have been a gamer since age seven. It was that Christmas that my brother, sisters and I received a Nintendo Entertainment System. My sisters, being a bit older, grew up with a Calico and Atari so I had been exposed to games a little bit before this point, but NES was the latest and greatest and those little lines moving up and down bouncing a ball (square) back and forth had nothing on the little man in red overalls collecting mushrooms and golden coins - lets be perfectly honest. So this is where it began: Christmas 1989.

I know you can't really see it...but the four of us had just opened our Nintendo!

From there, we had Gameboys, a Super Nintendo, (both of which I still own and are in my closet) and then a Nintendo 64. Somewhere in there we also got a PC, which brought a whole different set of games into my life...hello Solitaire and eventually Roller Coaster Tycoon. We didn't spend all day playing or anything like that, but, I have to admit that my brother and I were both really good at video games.

Christmas 1992: The Christmas of the Gameboy

And then these days, my only gaming comes from the Wii (in spurts, I tend to get sick of it for a while and then come back to it months later), very rarely a Facebook game can keep my attention for too long, and my trusty iPhone.

So for a few weeks now I have been playing this game called Tiny Tower on my iPhone. The gist of it is this: You start out with a lobby and some money. You spend your money building floors to your tower, either residences or businesses, which in turn each sell 3 products you must keep in stock and employ using your residents that live on your residential floors. As you make more money, you build new floors. That's the basis, and it's totally not something I would normally be into. It sort of shamefully reminds me of that Farmville crap and those types of games on Facebook...which I despise. Oh, the shame.

But this game has me hooked, and I currently have the tallest tower of any of my fellow tower-building friends. (Okay, well there are only 2 friends that are also playing, but still. My tower RULES!)

So, this is where my spreadsheet comes in to play. One of the tasks you are occasionally given is to find where certain residents are located and when you do so, you are given a dollar! A whole dollar! And seeing as I now have 71 floors of apartments and businesses, finding the residents takes several minutes of scrolling sometimes. So, I made a spreadsheet to document on which floor each resident can be found. That way, when the game tells me that I need to find Marlene Howell to deliver a package to her, I can just flip over to my spreadsheet (which I keep open at all times on my computer during the day) and see that she is on floor 10 and get my dollar. See? It's ingenious right?

So in my defense, I have always been great at video games so it's only appropriate that I use all of my resources to be as successful as possible at this one.

& with these kind of gaming skills, I shall never be beaten in my towering empire. Should I be embarrassed? Do you think less of me? Or maybe you think even better of me that I can so successfully manage a 71 floored skyscraper. I'm probably going to get building owners contacting me to be their property manager as a result of this confession.

I should probably go ahead and add property manager to my resume.
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Reinforcing the Pickle Stereotype

It was totally unintentional, but I may have reinforced the pickles & pregnant lady stereotype over the weekend. I know all pregnant ladies are currently shooting daggers at me because everyone thinks it's so funny that pregnant ladies just CRAVE pickles.

Let me let you in on a little secret if you are one to make this joke: 1) That's not a funny or original thing to say to a pregnant person and 2) It's not even true.

But tell that to the Wendy's drive-thru lady that I encountered over the weekend. She'd tell you otherwise.

What had happened was...

I am a couponer. Not crazy extreme couponer or anything, but there are usually a few really great deals at each store each week that I'll go grab. One week was jars of pickles for free after the coupon. Now, I don't like pickles but John does. So, being a pickle amateur such as myself, and having TWO of the coupons so I was able to get 2 free jars of pickles, I had to make a game time decision on which two types of pickles to buy.

I thought my chances of success would be pretty good if I just bought 2 different types of pickles so at least I could get at least a 50% approval rating from John when I got home, but I was hoping for 100%. Unfortunately, I only got 50%. (For those that need to know details: he likes the sandwich stackers, but said ewww to the bread and butter pickles. Heh. How was I supposed to know?!)

So, over the weekend I was going to visit my Mama and she does like the bread and butter pickles so I thought I'd bring them to her so they won't go to waste. On the way over I stopped at Wendy's to get us each a burger. I paid for our food, got the bag and pulled away. Only then did I notice what was sitting on my center console in plain view for the drive-thru lady along with my big pregnant belly:

That drive-thru lady must have thought that my pregnancy craving for pickles was so intense I needed to carry a full jar of pickles with me everywhere I went. But lady, you don't understand! It's not what it seems! I can explain! I hate pickles!!

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iPhone Antics: V

I, II, III, IV

For those of you not bilingual in Roman such as myself (as in Roman Numerals), this is iPhone Antics 5. You're welcome.

These are random pictures taken with my iPhone that I can't bear to delete, but they are not facebook share-worthy. So they get dumped here especially for you!

Let's start with some pictures from work...

First, this was a present I left on coworker Patrick's desk a couple months ago. Each month, I am responsible for getting certain reports to him for another report he puts together and I was feeling extra gifty this month. I normally walk them over to him or just hand them over the top of our in-between cubey wall, but this day I made my reports into a little present for him. There wasn't any ribbon in our supply cabinet (I know - shocking!) so I cut a strip off of the side of my paper roll that goes in my adding calculator and colored it blue. It was a particularly busy day, I'm sure.



One day John sent me a picture message of the amount of work stacked up on his desk that he had to do. Apparently the message was that he was very busy.



So I replied with a stack of paper work that was sitting on my desk:

Okay so that was my pile of paper to be shred and not work, but same difference right?

I win.

I am lacking a good full length mirror in my house, mainly because there isn't really a good place to put one. So, I may or may not spend a lot of time in the workplace bathroom checking myself out and documenting my growing bump since there is such excellent mirrorage in there.

I would be so embarrassed if someone walked in during my photo shoot or if a coworker secretly reads this!

Enough about work. Let's move on to food, er, junk food.

I was so thrilled before Easter when I found these cute little bags of Cadbury eggs at Target. I loved the fact that I didn't have to buy a huge bag (and therefore eat a huge bag) of them. But, when I go to Target at least 3 times a week and get a mini bag each visit, would I have been better off just buying the big bag to begin with? 

I got a little anxious/excited while ripping into this bag.

I've mentioned my inability to cook here before. But, this shows the extent of my issues. I can't even properly toast a Pop-Tart.

I still ate it - burnt or not, a Pop Tart can NOT go to waste!

A few weeks ago we went to a garage sale where the homeowner was a girl scout troop leader and had some leftover girl scout cookies for sale. I bought a box of tagalongs and ate 3 soon thereafter. I also shared 3 with my nieces and my sister, for a total of 6 cookies consumed. There are 15 cookies in a box. After getting home with the box, I set it down to share some with John as well. For someone who "doesn't like sweets" I was not expecting to see this when I returned to the box an hour and a half later.


That equals 9 cookies consumed in 90 minutes.


And now some randoms...

I got this as a text from John with the message "Bunk beds." Pretty appropriate I'd say.

This was from this past weekend when I went to the Strawberry Festival with my sister Joy and my nieces. Ironically they sold out of strawberries before we could buy any, but I did manage to knock item #88 off of my 101 List: Go to a festival of some sort that I haven’t been to before. Check!


 

Each spring my Mama's ferns become the home to baby birds, and this weekend we saw the babies for the first time this year. Awww! (And to think, my Mama complained that these sweet babies would soon be pooping on her car due to the proximity of the ferns to her car. Can you believe she'd say such a thing about these babies!?)

And finally, this one was from my recent trip to the beach with my family. My dear mother should probably go to the optometrist and get her prescription checked soon.  

What did we do before camera phones? We certainly didn't have gems such as these! Until the next time...

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iPhone Antics: IV

I, II, III

Round 4? Sure, why not.

These are random pictures taken with my iPhone that I can't bear to delete, but they are not facebook share-worthy. So they get dumped here especially for you! You can thank me later.


Back in October, we went to a local Oktoberfest with our friends Drew and Cathrin. Cathrin is from Germany, so she was pretty excited to go. While we were there, Cathrin wanted a picture to text to her family in Germany. She didn't realize the American flag was behind us, ruining a perfectly good Germanized picture. What's an American flag doing at Oktoberfest, anyways?


 

Remember Patrick? Well, he does pretty random things sometimes. Like, putting on coworker Katie's jacket, walking over to my desk, and requesting a picture. Who am I to deny him? (And yes, this was pre-haircut.)

I play the iPhone game 'Words With Friends' daily. It's scrabble, basically. I play against one of my best friends Matt, and I'm a little embarrassed to admit that he wins the majority of the time. I guess the game was starting to realize this too when it gave me this set of letters:

(I disagree, by the way. Women Rule!)

I've mentioned that my family and I like to go to garage sales in the Spring and Fall. Well, this one Saturday we may have gone a little overboard, I'd say.
 


And finally, today I had Chinese for lunch from one of my favorite places near my work. I always get the same thing (General Tso Chicken with Fried Rice), yet today when I placed my order they informed me that they no longer had fried rice, just steamed white and steamed brown rice. I about flipped my lid...NO FRIED RICE!? What kind of place is this!?

For what it's worth, I thought the white rice was pretty good once I put soy sauce on it. But it is no fried rice!

Maybe, just maybe, next time I do an iPhone picture post, I'll have the iPhone 4 or maybe the mysterious iPhone 5...one can only dream!
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Haiku Thursday

You know the drill. She started it. These are the rules:

[A haiku is a short poem consisting of three lines, the first line having 5 syllables, the second 7, and the third 5. If you want to participate, link back to your haiku in her comments.]


For some strange reason,
I photographed this giant
Magnifying glass.


This would be what my dermatologist uses to inspect every pore on my body.



Haiku Thursday

Thought I'd keep this up. She started it. These are the rules:

[A haiku is a short poem consisting of three lines, the first line having 5 syllables, the second 7, and the third 5. If you want to participate, link back to your haiku in her comments.]

These sweet little blondes
Can always convince Aunt Lace
To do what they want.

But no jumping!

iPhone Antics: III

...Cause I tend to take some pretty random pictures with my iPhone that I can't bear to delete, but they are not facebook share-worthy. So they get dumped here 'specially for you!

Much like your facebook profile picture, I get tired of seeing the same pictures pop up on my phone when people call. So, from time to time I like to take new pictures of those that call the most. This night I just had ONE simple request. I even asked nicely and at an appropriate time - we were at a favorite restaurant waiting for our food to come. "John, you are looking really nice tonight, mind if I take a new picture of you for my phone?"

He refused. And so I'm sharing the outtakes. Cause they were all outtakes. That'll teach him.

Remember Yogi from the train? Well, what I didn't share was his panty lines. Ohhh Yogi. Gotta learn to wear a thong when you're wearing your tight fur!

Yes, I know I'm still carrying the same purse as I was in January...GASP! But, I'm also still carrying some pretty random things in it. This day, I chuckled (don't ya just love the word "chuckle"?) cause as I'm digging for car keys I notice a wee little Elmo looking up at me.

Which wouldn't be so weird if I had kids...but I don't.

Have you ever ridden a donkey in an ice cream shop? Lindsay has! She's starting to check things off of her life list at the young age of 6! Way to get a head start, Lindsay!

I get bored on road trips when A) we leave a the buttcrack of dawn and B) my passenger snoozes the whole way. So I start taking pictures:


That's my Dad leading the pack pulling his camper, followed by my sister Christy pulling their camper, then my sister Joy, and then me - all traveling at 65 mph - and I have a pretty close to full tank of gas.

Oooh look, a sunrise!


And finally, I guess it was blue oxford shirt day at the local sandwich shop this particular day.

Don't you worry, I'll keep taking useless, random pictures for your enjoyment/annoyment. Until next time....