April 24, 2006

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I have been tanning for almost two weeks now and am showing a tan line.. whoohooo. (No, I do not lay naked, what if there were a camera??? Plus, noone will ever see my tan lines. LOL) Anyway, day before yesterday I went tanning and had to use bed four instead of bed thirteen cause someone had beat me to it. I undress, slather on my lotion and climb in. I lay there relaxing and all of a sudden it feels as if someone has poked me with a needle in my stomach. I rub my tummy and think, where the heck did that come from? I feel it a few more times on my tummy and my upper thighs and come to the conclusion that it must be the lotion, I tried something new. Then I go tanning yesterday. Again, had to go to bed four and am laying there. This time it hits me all at once like I am getting stung over and over in my tummy and upper thighs. I fling the lid open and jump out, thinking something has snuck in and is attacking me. I look at myself and figure it out in a moment of clarity. I was blistering! Every where that I had felt the pin pricks, I had a bump that looked like a small blister. Holy cow, I was literally frying. I went downstairs and they explain to me that the beds have different bulbs and that bed four is much much stronger than thirteen and that as a "Clear Girl" I may not want to venture upstairs to tan any longer. Ummm Duh! So, I will wait for 13 to open and for the next few trips have to take a towel to cover my upper thighs and tummy. Sheeesh, what we go through to look good.

Just thought I would update on the dinner debate in our house. Still no cooking out of Goober err Bill. I'm still holding out hope that someday it will happen... My dream shall come true. :)

I was sitting here a bit ago and heard what I thought was thunder. I thought "oh great, now I have to go get the demon spawn dogs and bring them inside.. in my jammies." Invariably every time I step on the front porch in my jammies, someone drives past. Grrrr. Well, I hiphop outside and look up. Hmmm clear as a bell. I am standing there looking up and hear the noise again, except it is coming from behind me. Spinning I look up and about pass out. It seems that the birds have flown straight by the ten birdhouses I have placed around my yard and decided that the full sized house is a much better alternative. They have taken up residence in the Flashing to the gutters, it is poking out from the house and in the "pucker" of flashing, there is a nest to be seen sticking out. Well, the noise I am hearing is a Bird Fight. Fast and Furious they are fighting over this pucker in my home. And of course, being half in and half out, with the gutter ajacent to it, the noise is horrid. I start cursing and apparently the intruding bird, upon hearing such foul language, gives up the ghost on the new found nest and flew away. So, now I have to get a ladder, evict a bird and fix the flashing. Arggggg.

My darling niece Brook is the smartest child on the planet, and of course the cutest. Shaddup, I know your kids/nieces/nephews/etc. are cute too, but I KNOW that Brook is SUPER intelligent and could pass the college entrance exams right now and could be the next super model. Ok, this is my world... again.. shhhhh. LOL The other day she is over with my Mom and she talks my Mother into giving her some chocolate candy. She picks it up and before she puts it in her mouth she stops and looks at her Granny and says "You know I'm gonna MakeaMess" People the kid is two, just turned two on March 24th! My Mother without thinking pops off with "You know I don't care If you make a Mess" and then realizing what Brook said she cracked up. LOL Brook has a new thing too, if she is getting into trouble, it is "Calm down" and she does this little hand movement with it. Which of course gets her out of soooo much trouble. She was desperate to delve into Grannys Tulip bed day before yesterday and she would get to the edge and I would do that *NEEEAAAAGH* sound that will stop a child or dog in its tracks. She would walk away and then try again, like a little raptor testing for a weakness. Finally I said, "Now Brook, your mother said to stay out of there and your Granny will kick your booty if you tear up her tulips!" and she turns to me and without a beat says "Carool, calm down" (she calls me Carool, sounds like Care ooo L) Of course after that she was allowed to pick a tulip since I was laughing so hard that I didn't see her grab it. Told you she was smart. LOL

I am a Literati addict. I haven't been playing lately, since we left Kansas because I have been busy with the house, but I have started playing lately. Literati is the Yahoo gold mine. At three in the morning when there is nothing on TV, Literati is an insomniacs best friend. For those that don't know, Literati is Yahoo's version of online Scrabble. Well, here I am playing at 3AM this morning and I create my room, set up my game and wait for a player to join the table. I always set up my own table so it is on my rules LOL I like to make sure it is a limit on 3 minutes per move. That way you are not waiting ten minutes for someone to go, but you have three minutes to go through your options. Well, I have some Nimrod join and start to play. He immediately IM's me and every time he would hit submit on his word, he would instantly message me with "GOOOOOOOOOOO NOW" and then after ten seconds, would send this "WOULD YOU HURRY UP, GOOOOOOOO" What an Ass. I put up with it for a few minutes, just closing the box out when he would message. Then I broke and sent this "If you are so worried about losing that you have to badger people until they can't think, maybe you should play a computer or not play at all, I have three minutes to move, if you don't like it.. LEAVE" and then iggied his messages and Whooped his Ass. LOL

I just got done reading Cell by Stephen King and let me just say I am a little unnerved about answering my cell phone anymore. The book is of course, excellent, and it will make you think twice about the cellphone and the fact that it COULD, possibly happen is what makes it so unnerving. I finished it and sent it to my Mother in law and she stayed up all night reading it. The next day she did not want to answer her cell phone. LOLOL I'm reading the new Mary Higgins Clark book now and then I will probably move on to a Romance. Ha. My taste in books is a little wacky. ;)