Weekend & Coco

What a weekend! I have been so busy and it has been great!!

First the good news, the bed got delivered and just as the delivery men were leaving the repair man showed up to fix my washing machine...guess what, nothing was wrong with the machine. I guess it just got off balance. $40.00 later I have peace of mind and prayers were answered. I really didn't want to think of buying a new appliance right now. I have other things to spend money on...like clothes and rubber stamps!

Friday night around 10:00 we decided to hit the sack. We fell right to sleep and were awakened to the phone ringing (of course I panic) at midnight...there was a fire in Bartow and the director of emergency services could not get in touch with the director of public relations...so of course you contact the executive director. Tom had to go to the fire and I decided to go with him. 33 units were involved in the fire...that's alot of folks to relocate. We got home around 2:30 and were up again at 7:00.
Off for a haircut at 10:00 and possibly a pedicure. All got accomplished with some shopping in between. Tom had a volunteer picnic to attend and off I went again to do more shopping. I met Andi at Beleza Boutique. What a great store. I'm already kicking myself for not picking up the scented drawer liner paper..I'll make another trip this week. After all it's on my way home and I need to visit the Winterset Office.

As I was relaxing on the sofa last night, exhausted from my wonderful day of pampering myself and shopping, my sweet little Coco "puff" Chanel brought me a plastic bag containing a button. No big deal, I learned not to leave those little bags hanging around. All of a sudden she came running back into the living room carrying a jar of vaseline in her mouth and dropped it on my chest. I use vaseline on my lips at night to keep them from drying out...my child is a thief!!! (Strong too)

Today was an open house at my friend Christy's house. We had a great time stamping and garage sale-ing. For every $50.00 placed in an order we got to choose a brand new stamp set..fun, fun, fun!!! The new ink colors are soooooooooooooo cool! I can't wait to experiment.

Have a fun week ahead!!!:)

Patience

I'm home from work this morning, trying to be patient and constructive while awaiting the delivery of a new matress and boxspring. Tom and I bought what we thought was a great pillowtop matress about 4-5 years ago. We hate the thing. It is hot and we can't roll over in the bed. By no means was this an inexpensive matress. So last weekend we decided to take a drive to Orlando and visit the Original Matress Factory. We found a bed that we liked, they made it to our specifications, which is good..we need something with a lot of support, and now I wait. We are so looking forward to a good nights sleep.

Since Tom had a 7:30 am meeting we were up pretty early. I decided to get the bedroom ready for our new arrival. I stripped the bed and started the laundry. A head start on the weekend!! Or so I thought. While I was unloading the dishwasher Jasmine kept meowing at the door that leads down to our utility room. Some times she can be such a pest...like now, she wants to say hello and has typed her own message by walking on the keyboard. bbbbb (I had to delete the rest of her message). All of a sudden I thougt something smelled rather hot. The washing machine had decided to really bang during the spin cycle...you guessed it...I'm now waiting for the repair man. I am so fortunate to have found someone that can come out to the house this morning. You never realize how much you use the washing machine until it doesn't work...Hope I didn't burn up the motor! I learned a valuable lesson, my Jasmine might be pesky but she is just as smart as she is beautiful; she knew something wasn't right. She'll receive an extra special treat for dinner tonight...she loves catfish.

Thank you all for the birthday wishes. One of my goals for the year is to finally learn how to post pictures on my blog. Reading the book of instructions on my camera would help alot don't you think?

Off to trim some rubber stamps. Have a great weekend!

Happy 4th of July

Where or where has the time gone??? It has been over a month since my last post...okay, I'm a little lazy, but after I look at a computer for the better part of the day I'm a little brain dead.

We had an early start to the day. Tom and I were out of bed by 5:00am..how sick is that when you have a day off??? I know I'll be able to sleep later tomorrow morning. The neat thing is the potato salad was made by 6:o0am and the house was cleaned and the laundry done by 9:00am. I have the rest of the day to do what ever makes me happy!! I think I will stamp some cards and try to complete my Colorado pictures. I am so far behind in scrapping it just isn't funny.

All of my precious angels are sound asleep at 10:00am (this would include my sweet baboo, Tom). I guess waking early isn't working for them. They wouldn't have been able to have slept too late this morning anyway, the neighbors were mowing their lawn at 7:15...how considerate, especially since they kept going by bedroom window.

I'm off to Belk's soon to buy some hose. I'm down to my last pair and their looking pretty bad. I'm supposed to have lunch tomorrow with our bank president...we're going to have the "what do you want to be when you grow up chat." Doesn't that sound like fun?

I hope you enjoy your 4th of July. Our flag is flying (it's a special one since it belonged to my father in law...we really need a new one) and we have a very slight breeze today so it looks nice in the front of the house.

Stay safe with the fire crackers!