This ain't Winnie's Poo.

OMG, one of my family members passed along a cautionary tale today. It's a true story, but I won't get into the "messy" details, but I must warn all my friends(my enemies need not read the caution,lol) when you hear that olean causes anal leakage, BELIEVE IT! This e-mail had hubby and I rolling and unfortunately it is so typical of our family.

We may be going to the popcorn festival this weekend, cool. I hate popcorn(but love carmel and cheese corn, go figure) but there is a car show, so it should be fun.

Got some very funny pics of Al. I'll try to post them.

Mimi, you have some 'splaining to do.

I did a scavenger hunt from one of the blogs I read(hyka). Alex was the one who actually posted, so things are kinda all over. So here are my points and what I did.

the menu 10pts
something you collect, roosters(mom started it) 5pts
favorite pet, Otto the turtle 10pts
hobby, wreaths that I make 10pts
valentine gift, bear from Dan, Ryan Newman stuff from me 10pts
something from a first love, my son 15pts
game/sport, Al skateboarding 10pts
boat 5pts
something that represents your state, U of Illinois shirt 10pts
lego structure, Al's bionicals are made by lego and he puts them together 15pts
blue liquid, dish soap 10 pts
110 pts total

More Scavenger Hunt

a boat
a sport/game my son skateing
something representing state
a lego structure its a bionicle its all my son had.
a hobby

Scavenger Hunt.

familys favorite pet
V-Day gift
a something u collect
blue liquid
a menu
something from first love.....i think that makes my son feel special

Pool.

We don't skinny dip in our pool, we chunky dunk.

Well, I guess we have to start the process of taking the pool down. I wish that I would have gotten more time in it. Maybe next year. At least Alex enjoyed it a lot. So much that he developed a very bad case of swimmer's ear. I guess he'll have to use drops after swimming, as a matter of fact, his field trip tomorrow is going swimming. lol

I'll post more later, maybe.

Life.

So, I had a little drama in my life Friday, which resulted in me putting my 2 wks notice in at my job. Yes, I am a quitter. Sometimes you just have to do something that keeps you sane and for me, it was quitting. Anyway, hubby is home tonight, so I am going to go cuddle up to my man and maybe I will actually do a decent update tomorrow, but don't hold your breathe.
By the way, I can't get my pics to publish on my blog, I don't know what's up with that, I keep trying, but it just don't wanna work.

Old.

I feel so old right now. Alex started high school today. Time has just gotten away from me and there is no way to stop it. Next is driving, then college or military, then marriage and fatherhood. Argggggggghhhhhhhhhh! So here are some lovely pics of my"mature" son.

Uvula Watch '06

I'm happy to report, hubbies uvula is back to normal. He no longer has the slug on his tongue. It actually was better in 48 hrs. So, anyhow, he's all good.

Well, my garden seems to have decided to grow out of control. I have a million tomatoes. I made 13 pints of salsa tonight and the first batch was very hot, the second batch was somewhat hot, tomorrow I'm going to make a wussy batch for me, lol.

Here are picks of tomatoes that I picked Tues night, and I picked just as many tonight. I'm glad the family likes maters.

Attack of the Uvula!

Uvula, that just sounds dirty. Anyway, when hubby woke up this afternoon, he said he felt like he was choking and couldn't get anything to clear out of his throat, well he went to the bathroom and came back and said the hangy thing in the back of his throat was swollen. Of course I was quick to point out the it was called a uvula. He said whatever and showed me, the dang thing was laying like a slug on his tongue, it was the sickest thing I ever saw. I told him he better get to the dr. He couldn't talk very well so I had to call and see what to do. I just felt so dirty telling them that my husbands uvula was swollen. I told Dan that the dr wanted me to keep saying uvula, hubby didn't find that amusing. Well, they just called in a script for prednosone(sp?) and that made hubby nervous that they would prescribe something without seeing him. So of course, I googled swollen uvula and the most useful site I found was one that was actually a blog and there are lots of sufferers, as it turns out, the most common cause was sleeping with your mouth open and snoring heavily(which he was doing since he has been working so much this week) the best thing for it was to drink plenty of water. I wanted to take a pic of it, but hubby wouldn't let me. Oh well.

Rob, the post about cookies was actually because blogger was giving me a message about not being able to do something because my cookies were disable, or some such crap.

Angel, I knew you were Hello Kitty, lol. Funny, though.

One more blurb on the name thing. Both things happened when I worked customer service for a cell phone company. One customer called in asking when his co-signer could be removed from his acct. When I brought up the acct, his name was Jesus and his co-signer was Moses. Very hard to be professional about that. The other thing that happened was someone called in to speak to another rep and I was standing by this guys desk when he called them back, so he's waiting for someone to answer, then his face turns red and he hangs up without speaking to the customer, I had to ask what was up and he said someone picked up the phone and said"Cox Incorporated" the rep said he didn't know what to say, I said how about "I'll have a large."

I don't need no stinkin spell check.

Before everyone jumps on my case, I do realize that I spelled son, sun. I'm sorry. To quote one of Al's shirts "Me fale Inglish, Unposable."

The Name Game.

On a previous post, I stated about our last name being Curl and all the fun you can have with it. I loved Angels comment about what her hubby wanted to name their sun. I laughed my booty off, believe me, that's a lot. So, I got to thinking(dangerous, I know) about real names that just beg to be messed with.

My brother, Rob, and I worked with a girl who's last name was Clack, and she was preggers, brother dear kept telling her to name her kid Clickety. I did date a guy named Mike Hunt. I love the name Molly, but I just couldn't name Erin that because her last name is McCune, sounds a little too close to Molly McButter. Mom said that she was thisclose to naming my brother Will, George Michael. I personally thought that since celebs liked to name their offspring after fruit(paging Gwenith Paltrow and Apple) that it would be awesome if Brad and Angie-baby would name their little one Peach, then she could have been Peach Pitt. At work, they were talking about a real guy whose name was Harry Dicky. Mom knew someone who's last name was Hoff and she thought his first name should be Jack. I think Rob worked with someone whose name was Don Wand. And finally, a girl I went to school with named her kid Justin, too bad his last name is Case.

What are cookies, and why were they disabled?

Okay, I am so computer stupid. Whatever, here are more pics.

Blogging Booger

Wow, I really have been lax about blogging. I really have no excuse. This summer has flown by. I have to register the kids for school on Friday and then Saturday, we take Dan's kids back. The best part of Saturday is, Lisa and I get Manny's pizza and a baby fix. We'll see Lisa's grandbaby and on Sunday, I think we'll go to Jessica's bridal shower. Hubby will be flying all day Sat. He leaves at 10:30ish in the a.m. and will get back at 11 ish in the p.m. Poor fella. He starts his vacation on Friday and he's off for almost 2 wks. Erin has an appt with her audiologist on the 14th so maybe we will go to the state fair after that, I've got to see the butter cow, NOT! Hubby informed me that he will be spending a lot of time in the pool. I think he might have gotten in it 3 times. Of course, with him having the native american blood in him, he will turn brown very quickly, which will be quite fetching next to my bright red. I've actually been good about staying out of the sun or using sunscreen. I guess I'm getting up there in age and don't need the wrinkles.

In other news, hubby's brother is going to be a dad again. Misty is due in Jan, but she is sure showing already, I wonder if there just might not be twins hiding in that belly. I have to admit I'm jealous, but I think it's only because I want to name a kid Jerry Curl. Yes, our last name is Curl. Hubby doesn't find that amusing. He won't even let me name pets cheese or corn because the vets use your last name, so we would have cheese curl and corn curl. Some people have no sense of humor.

Well, I think I'll head to bed. Here are some misc pics to hold you over.