April 25, 2011

Monday Mahem

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Q1. What brand/flavor of chewing gum would you recommend to the rest of us?  Juicy Fruit


Q2. What brand/flavor of beverage would you recommend to the rest of us? Diet Pepsi


Q3. Describe the perfect steak (vegetarian's can describe the perfect tofu or whatever).  New York Strip Steak, naked and cooked medium well

April 24, 2011

Happy Easter 2011

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I hope everyone has a safe but happy and fun filled Easter!

Sunday Stealing: The "It's All About Four Freakin' Things" Meme

Hosted by Judd Corizan
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Four Places I go:
1. Work
2. Wal Mart
3. Caseys
4. Home

Four Crushes I Have:
1. Steve
2. Chocolate
3. Warm Weather
4. Vin Diesel

Four Smells that I Love:
1. Roses
2. Lilacs
3. Freshly mowed grass
4. Rain when it first starts to fall

Four Favorite TV Shows:
1. Family Guy
2. Hawaii 5-0
3. M*A*S*H
4. Dukes of Hazzard

Four Favorite Movies:
1. Gone with the Wind
2. Twister
3. Top Gun
4. Tombstone

Four Recommendations:
1. Hug your loved one as often as you can.
2. Tell your loved ones that you love them every day.
3. Read a good book at least once a month
4. Don't bite your nails.

Four People that I'd love to read their Fours:
1. Bud
2. RoseAnn
3. Erin
4. Harriett

Four Things about me that you don't know:
1. I pick at things all the time...like the acne on my face.
2. I don't like to be alone.
3. I am scared of death.
4. I want to live in Hawaii...on a sailboat.

Four bands that I love:
1. Aerosmith
2. Avenged Sevenfold
3. Guns N Roses
4. Poison

April 22, 2011

Friday Fill-Ins

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1. Pardon me, but do you mind holding this can of "shut the fuck up"?

2. Of course I got a good deal on the cans I mentioned in #1.

3. I was surprised to find that I really like handing out these cans to people that are being rude.

4. Not listening to stupid people is one of my favorite forms of entertainment.

5. Hi, my name is "Tired of Hearing You Whine" and I'm going to walk away now.

6. Stay indoors during summer afternoons and turn the radio up full blast to drown out the craziness in the world.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to shopping at the Mall, tomorrow my plans include cleaning house and Sunday, I want to spend Easter with my family!

Earth Day 2011

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The first Earth Day, on April 22, 1970, activated 20 million Americans from all walks of life and is widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement. The passage of the landmark Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act and many other groundbreaking environmental laws soon followed. Growing out of the first Earth Day, Earth Day Network (EDN) works with over 22,000 partners in 192 countries to broaden, diversify and mobilize the environmental movement. More than 1 billion people now participate in Earth Day activities each year, making it the largest civic observance in the world.


Read More About EARTH DAY at http://www.earthday.org
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day

April 21, 2011

Shannonology

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1) What is your salad dressing of choice? Raspberry Vinaigrette

2) What is your favorite sit-down restaurant? Famous Dave's

3) What food could you eat for 2 weeks straight and not get sick of it? Chocolate

4) What are your pizza toppings of choice? Canadian bacon, mushrooms and extra cheese

5) What do you like to put on your toast? Peanut Butter

6) How many televisions are in your house? 3

7) What color cell phone do you have? Silver and Black

8) Are you right-handed or left-handed? Right

9) Have you ever had anything removed from your body? My teeth, uterus, and two children

10) What is the last heavy item you lifted? Early today...moved files around my office

11) Have you ever been knocked unconscious? Yes.

12) If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die? No

13) If you could change your name, what would you change it to? I would not change it...I like my name.

14) Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1,000? No

15) How many pairs of flip flops do you own? None right now

16) What's your goal for the year? To pay off most of my debt

17) Last person you talked to? My dogs and Steve

18) Last person you hugged? Steve

19) Favorite Season? Spring

20) Favorite Holiday? Christmas

21) Favorite day of the week? Friday

22) Favorite Month? July

23) First place you went this morning? the bathroom

24) What's the last movie you saw? Gone With The Wind on Netflix

25) Do you smile often? Yes

26) Do you always answer your phone? No

27) It's four in the morning and you get a text message, who is it? One of my children or my brother

28) If you could change your eye color what would it be? I like mine the way they are

29) What flavor drink do you get at Sonic? Diet  Cherry Dr. Pepper

30) Have you ever had a pet fish? Yes

31) Favorite Christmas song? The Little Drummer Boy

32) What's on your wish list for your birthday? Nothing

33) Can you do push ups? No

34) Can you do a chin up? No

35) Does the future make you more nervous or excited? A little of both

36) Do you have any saved texts? No

37) Ever been in a car wreck? Yes, a few.

38) Do you have an accent? I have a Missouri redneck accent

39) What is the last song to make you cry? "Teddy Bear" By Red Sovine


40) Plans tonight? Nope

41) Have you ever felt like you hit rock bottom? Yes

42) Name 3 things you bought yesterday. Diet pepsi, ice cream, orange juice

43) Have you ever been given roses? Yes

44) Current hate right now? None

45) Met someone who changed your life? Yes

46) How did you bring in the New Year?  Sleeping

47) What song represents you? Almost Easy by Avenged Sevenfold


48) Name three people who might complete this? Vickie, Nancy and Shawn

49) What were you doing at 12 AM last night? Sleeping

50) What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up? "Nooooooooooooo I didnt get to sleep enough!"

April 20, 2011

Have You Read....

 Have you read more than 6 of these books?  The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES.  Bold those books you've read in their entirety.  Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt.  Leave a comment with your responses if you like :) Or post on your blog and leave me the link.
 
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

6 The Bible  

7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch – George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

34 Emma – Jane Austen

35 Persuasion – Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere 

39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne  

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving

45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding

50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel

52 Dune – Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 

54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 

70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

72 Dracula – Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses – James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal – Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession – AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

94 Watership Down – Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

April 19, 2011

In Memory of William "Bill" Pinkley

On April 19, 1992, my father, William Gale Pinkley – better known as Bill, passed away.

We found out Dad had pancreatic and liver cancer about a year before his death. Each day I watched him deteriorate and get sicker and sicker. The few weeks before he died he gave up. He told me he did not have the strength to go on and that he knew I was old enough to take care of myself and my younger brother Brian. A few days before Dad passed, he asked my forgiveness on a few different things.

The night/early morning that Dad passed away I was with him. I had spent the night (and a few nights before) in the same room as him…talking, holding his hand and telling him it was ok to let go. In the final hours I begged God to please take Dad now. Dad was in so much pain he was no longer the man I knew and remembered. When Dad took his final breath, my Aunt Alma (dad’s oldest sister) was there with me. It was very hard to let him go. However, the look on his face after he passed on was very peaceful. Dad looked pain free and happy.

Dad never got to meet my son Colt, but I know that Dad would have loved him very much. Dad was a part of my daughter’s (Vickie) life for three years and he loved her and spoiled her rotten! LOL He always called Vickie his little “rug rat”.

Even 19 years later, we miss Dad. We always wonder what life would have been like if he and Mom were still alive.

We love you Dad! Now, Always and Forever

~Shannon

April 17, 2011

Sunday Stealing: The 65 Questions Meme

Hosted by Judd Corizan
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1. Tell us who the last person that you took a shower with.  Steve

2. Tell us about your favorite tee-shirt. Extra points if you show a pic. (We know. What can you do with freakin' extra points?) it is dark blue and has "who are these children and why are they calling me mom" written on it.

3. Has anyone ever hit on you even though they knew you were taken? Yes, but that was many years ago

4. Do you plan what to wear the next day? no

5. How are you feeling RIGHT now? Why? My leg hurts...I have MRSA

6. What's the closest thing to you that's black? The shirt I am wearing and on the floor next to me is my black lab, Annabelle.

7. Tell me about an interesting dream you remember having. something about Six Flags

8. Did you or might you meet anybody new today? Yes

9. If you could be doing anything right now (or perhaps after you finish this ridiculous meme) what would it be? Cleaning the house

10. Can you think of a meme question that's never been asked? no

11. What comes to mind when I say China? Televisions

12. Are you overly emotional? sometimes

13. If you could listen to just one rock album (CD, vinyl or mp3) which one would you pick? something by Aerosmith

14. Do you bite into your ice cream or just lick it? Lick  it!! hehe

15. Do you like your car? Yes

16. Do you like yourself? Sometime

17. Would you go out to eat with Charlie Sheen? Yes

18. What was the last song that you listened to? Shipoopi by the Family Guy



19. Are (or were) your parents strict? Sometimes

20. Have you ever wondered what attending a wild orgy (if only to watch or...) would be like? Yes

21. I say cottage cheese. You say: with pears

22. Have you ever met a celebrity? Does Jeff Gordon count? Or Kenny Schrader?

23. What was the last movie that you watched at home? Dante's Peak last night

24. Is there anything sparkly in the room you're in? ewww...no

25. What countries have you visited? one

26. Have you ever made a phone call while you were drunk that you've regretted? If yes, do tell. not that I remember.

27. Where were you going the last time that you were on a train? I was at my father's work and he took us around the rail yard

28. Bacon or sausage? Bacon

29. How long have you had a cell-phone? 11 years or so

30. What other memes do you do regularly? Camera Critters,  Friday Fill-ins, Wordless Wednesday, and a few others.  The list is in the right side bar of this blog.

31. Who is the craziest meme host? Sam at Saturday Nine...she says so on the blog!  hehe

32. Who invented chop sticks? someone that was tired of using his fingers to eat.

33. Who are you going to be with tonight? Steve

34. Are you too forgiving? Yes

35. When was the last time that you were in love? I have to fall out of love first.

36. Tell us about your best friend. beautiful, always there for me.

37. What was the stupidest thing you learned in high school? How to play the triangle in band class

38. What was the last thing that you cried about? being alone

39. What was the last question you asked? What was the last thing that you cried about?

40. Favorite thing to do this time of the year? Look at pretty flowers.

41. If you had to get a (or another) tattoo, what would it be? an angel teddy bear with my mom and dads name laced into the wings.

42. How would your best friend describe you? Kind, caring

43. Have you ever seen all three Twilight films? HELL NO!

44. Ever walked into a glass door? Yes

45. Favorite color on that person that you are attracted to? Blue

46. Have you ever slapped someone? Oh yes...and it was fun!

47. What hair style (for you) would you like to see return? Feathered hair

48. What was the last CD you bought? Disturbed

49. Do looks matter to you? no

50. Could you ever forgive a liar? I have many times

51. What's the hardest bill to pay every month? all of them!  but mostly the medical bills

52. Do you like your life right now? Sometimes

53. Do you sleep with the TV on? Sometimes

54. Can you handle the truth? yes...much much better than lies

55. Do you have good vision? No

56. Do you hate or dislike more than 3 people? Yes

57. How often do you talk on the phone? every day

58. What celeb would you like to come home to?  none of them...they are all drama queens

59. What are you wearing? a  smile

60. What is your favorite wild animal? white tiger

61. Where was your facebook picture taken? at home

62. Can you waltz? a  little

63. Do you have a job? yes...main reason I am stressed  so much

64. What was the most recent thing you stole? a diet pepsi out of my fridge.

65. Have you ever crawled through a window? a few times

Crazy Wisconsin Weather

Last weekend it stormed and it looked like Steve's car was going to float away.

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This week, it is snowing and the car is getting covered.

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April 16, 2011

Camera Critters: WTF? More Snow?

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I let the dog outside to go potty earlier this morning.
Shelby ran outside all happy to be out there but stopped
not to far from the door to look around at all the white
stuff on the ground.  She ran back to me after this picture
and looked at me as if she was saying..."WTF?"
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Happy 22nd Birthday Vickie


This is my daughter, Vickie, when she was only one year old!

Vickie

and this is a picture of  her now! Isn't she beautiful!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY VICKIE!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!



22-years-old!!! WOOT!

I hope that you have the best birthday ever!
Stand proud and be strong!



April 15, 2011

Friday Fill-ins: April 15, 2011


1. For me, it was was funny until he shot me in the leg with a BB Gun.

2. Prices are little high at my local supermarket.

3. Behind the sound of the wind in the trees, I heard a lone wolf looking for his mate.

4. Para-sailing is something I always wanted to do.

5. When it was over, the fat lady won't be singing...she already left the building.

6. I was afraid but I never felt alone.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to cleaning the house, tomorrow my plans include picking up hubby from the airport & wish my daughter a happy birthday and Sunday, I want to snuggle with hubby all day!

April 14, 2011

Thursday Thirteen: Things I Have Learned

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Thirteen of the Many Things I have learned as I have matured.

1. I’ve learned to not sweat the petty things, and not pet the sweaty things.

2.  I’ve learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in…

3.  I’ve learned that one good turn gets most of the blankets.

4.  I’ve learned that no matter how much I care, some people are just jackasses.

5.  I’ve learned that it takes years to build up trust, and it only takes suspicion, not proof, to destroy it.

6. I’ve learned that whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

7. I’ve learned that you shouldn’t compare yourself to others – they are more screwed up than you think.

8. I’ve learned that depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

9. I’ve learned that I don’t suffer from insanity, I enjoy it.

10.  I’ve learned that we are responsible for what we do, unless we are celebrities.

11. I’ve learned that artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

12. I’ve learned that there is a fine line between genius and insanity.

13.I’ve learned that the people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon and all the less important ones just never go away. And the real pains in the ass are permanent.

April 13, 2011

Wordless Wednesday: Doggie Slide Show



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April 12, 2011

Cute/Funny LOL Dogs

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Quotes On Life

Life is just one damned thing after another.

-Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another;
it is one damn
thing over and over.

-Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)

April 10, 2011

Sunday Stealing: April 10, 2011

Hosted by Judd Corizan
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76. Do you prefer Disney or Warner Brothers? Warner Brothers

77. What is the first animal you would run to see if you went to the zoo? White Tigers

78. Would you consider yourself to be romantic? Not really

79. If the earth stopped rotating would we all fly off? All the way to Mars!

80. What is the one thing that you love to do so much that you would make sacrifices to be able to do it? Sleep

81. If you (and everyone) had to lose one right or freedom, but you could pick which one everyone had to lose, what would you pick? Everyone would have to vote, the one with the most votes would be eliminated. I would pick the right to protest at funerals!

82. If you had to choose would you live on the equator or at the North Pole?
Equator

83. Would you rather give up listening to music or watching television? Watching television

84. What do you think makes someone a hero? Someone that is honest and does the right thing because they want to not because they feel forced to.

85. What cartoon would you like to be a character in? The Smurfs

86. Name one thing that turns your stomach: The smell of a skunk!

87. What was the last thing you paid for? Groceries

88. Are you a coupon clipper?
Not Really

89. Get anything good in the mail recently?
No

90. Which would you rather take as a gym class...dancing, sailing, karate, or bowling? Sailing

91. In Star Trek people 'beam' back and forth between different places. What this means is they stand in a little tube and their molecules are deconstructed and sent to another tube somewhere else where they are reassembled. Only problem is when the molecules are deconstructed the person is dead. When they are put back together it is only a clone that has all the dead person's memories. Is the person who gets beamed the same person on both ends? I think so.

92. What insects are you afraid of? Wasps

93. If you could print any phrase on a T-shirt, what would it say? "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot"

94. What's the most eccentric thing you have ever worn? Leg Warmers and a denim skirt

95. If you could pick one food that you could eat all you wanted but it would have no effect on how much you weigh, what food would it be? Chocolate

96. What are your parents interested in? No idea, they are both deceased.

97. Have you ever caught an insect and kept it as a pet? Yes, lightning bugs

Have you ever caught and tamed a wild animal? A bunny rabbit

98. What is more helpful to you, wishes or plans? Plans

99. When do you feel your life energy the strongest? Late at night

100. You are spending the night alone in the woods and may bring only 3 items with you. Pillow, Blanket and Flashlight

April 9, 2011

Camera Critters: Annabelle and Shelby

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This is Annabelle, being the Queen of Daddy's Recliner.

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And this is Shelby, trying to figure out why
Stark The Test Betta (fish) is on my desk.
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April 8, 2011

Friday Fill-ins: April 8, 2011


1. In the near darkness I can sense impending doom.

2. The Government may be on hold til further notice.

3. But this is not a good time for the Government to shut down. I MUST work.

4. We are all just little fish swimming in the stream, sometimes in the wrong direction.

5. It's always nice to stop at Dairy Queen for ice cream.

6. Good friends and pleasant company make the day go by faster.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to staying up late to see if I have a job on Monday, tomorrow my plans include cleaning the house and Sunday, I want to take the dogs for a drive around town!

April 5, 2011

The Queen's Meme #77: Grocery Store Meme

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1. Do you make a list when you go grocery shopping? Sometimes. But it does not matter if I do make a list, I still buy more than I should.

2. Do you buy more groceries when you're hungry? Yes, mostly junk food and chocolate,

3. Coupons. Use 'em? Not too often

4. Have you ever complained to the manager of your grocery store? Not in a few years

5. Do you like to buy groceries at huge chain stores like WalMart? Or do you shop exclusively at food stores? I don't like to buy groceries at Wal Mart but I do most of the time because they are cheaper.

6. How much time do you spend reading labels in the grocery store? None

7. Do you push your own grocery cart to the car and return it? Yes.

8. What is the one food item you always buy at the grocery store that you can't live without? Diet Pepsi

April 1, 2011

Friday Fill-in


1. I can't believe it's not butter.

2. Caffeine for everyone.

3. How can I keep eating chocolate when I am very overweight?

4. Scrambled eggs was the last thing I cooked.

5. Six of one and five million of the other.

6. I don't want to go to work; nonono!

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to working late (insert sarcasm), tomorrow my plans include going shopping with hubby and Sunday, I want to take hubby the airport and clean house!