Monday again

Hope everyone had a good weekend. We went to the lake this weekend--the first time in about 5 weeks or more. We didn't have super good weather, except on Sunday which was beautiful. It always is on the day you go home. We still had a good time.

This weekend was the big poker run that starts at the state dock and goes throughout the lake. Mr took the houseboat out for all of us to view the run, since none of us had ever seen one before. We waited for quite a while and then 2 boats came tearing down the lake and that was it. A couple others trickled by and we were all wondering what the heck was going on...what a sucky poker run this was...must be the cost of gas, etc. When we got back to the dock, we found out what had happened. During the first release of boats, one of the boats had flipped over and the driver had been killed. Naturally, they cancelled the run after that. Reports were that he was going about 130 mph when he lost control. The person riding with him survived with seemingly only broken bones. What a tragic accident. This is the second weekend in a row that someone has been killed on the lake. Last weekend a boat hit an island and killed the driver of that boat and the passenger survived. Alcohol was said to be involved in that one and it happened at night.


To change the mood a little--the weather here is awesome today. We got rain over the weekend and it's cooled things off. It's actually starting to feel like fall. Yay!

I've decided to make a YouTube post a weekly feature. I will try to find what I think is a funny YouTube video and post it on here for your viewing pleasure. Since I love YouTube, I will try to keep it to only 1 post a week or this might just turn into a YouTube blog. Let me know if there's any funny videos you've seen that would be good to put on here.

The Turtleman

You've got to watch this. It's hysterical.

I wish I'd seen this before

Even though I loved my wedding bouquet, I wish I'd seen this one before I made my final choice.

How gorgeous! These are off the blog of Katie Elfers, Inspired Floral Designs.

Randy Pausch

Apparently I was the only one on the planet that didn't know that Randy Pausch had passed away on July 25. I'm sure you remember he is the professor who was diagnosed with terminal cancer and made appearances on Oprah and many others presenting his "Last Lecture". Here is a pictorial memorial to him. Below is his lecture. It's long, but worth the watch.

Ready for fall

As you can tell by the changes on my page, I'm ready for fall. Fall is my favorite time of year--I may have already told you that. It's a shame that winter has to follow it because it has some of the best weather going, if you ask me. We did a floorset at work Tuesday night and put out all of our fall scents. They are awesome and really got me in the mood. I wanted to go home and pull out all of my fleece and sweaters. It's a shame it was about 95 degrees outside.

I can't remember if I told you that we were going to do a TTD session--that's Trash the Dress session for those non-knotties. Well, we've been busy with one thing and then another so I was going to email our photog to set it up in the next 2 weeks. Just to be sure, I had Mr get me into my dress the other night. It didn't fit. To be precise, it did fit, but not like it did on our wedding day. My girls were overflowing in the front and back fat was overflowing in the back. Plus, getting a breath was damn near impossible. I couldn't believe that in just 4 months I'd gained that much weight, but apparently I have. I knew I hadn't lost any weight recently, but I thought I was maintaining. To say I was depressed is an understatement. Looking at the recipes that I've shared with you all on this site, it's no wonder. I guess it's time to get serious about doing something about this. Yesterday I really watched what I ate so I guess it's started.

Losing weight sucks. I hate doing it. It's hard. I hate to exercise and apparently once you hit 40, that's about the only way you're going to drop weight unless you only eat peas at every meal. I can't stand working out. Doing a regimented "class" or even video fills me with dread. I'm looking for something that I enjoy doing where I don't realize I'm getting exercise, you know, like a sport or something. It's been years since I've played tennis, but that is something I love to do. Walking is only good for so long, although it's not too bad. At this point, walking is where I will begin. At least it will get me off my ass.

Enough with that depressing stuff. I've joined a blog where each week we get a writing assignment based off of a picture they email me. Last week was the first week I did it. The piece can only be 110 words or less. You want to talk about a challenge. I had no idea how wordy I can become. It really is an exercise in keeping your writing lean. Since I haven't done any creative writing in years, it is even more of a challenge for me. This week's picture sucks. Take a look:

All of the pictures are bizarre like this, but this one is difficult. I have started writing it, but it's just not too inspired. Here was last week's:

Isn't that a hoot? I don't know who mans the blog, but each week they choose a "winner". Obviously, I wasn't the "winner" this week, but now I have a new goal. It's really neat to see different people's perspective and what each person takes from a photo. Email me if you want the link to join the experiement with me.

September already?

Can you believe it's already September? Where has the summer gone? I guess it's true what they say...the older you get, the faster time flies by.

This weekend definitely flew by. Here are some pics from our vantage point down on the river for the fireworks.

They were expecting a half a million people. I never did hear if they made that number or not. Who counts all of these people anyway?

Here's the barges coming with the fireworks.

This was pretty cool. There were skydivers and this guy had the American flag. They had more skydivers at night that had lights attached to their feet. That was really cool, but you couldn't pay me to do that!

Here's Mr and I early in the day.

And a nighttime shot. How cool does the sky look behind us?

Labor Day weekend

Labor Day weekend is officially here. I guess it isn't "official" until 5 when most everyone is off work, but still, close enough. What are your plans this weekend?

Mr and I are going to girl child's boyfriend's 30th birthday party on Sunday and after that, down to the river to watch the huge fireworks show they put on every year in our area. We don't normally get to see it because we are typically at the lake. My aunt's boyfriend has a boat that is going to be front row viewing for the fireworks. I'm really looking forward to it since it's been years since I've seen them. Other than those 2 things, we really don't have any plans.

Last night we went out with some of the girls from my work to watch karaoke again, like I did last week. It's so funny listening to karaoke. Last night there were several that were really bad. That is always better than good singers. I can turn on the radio and hear good singers; the really bad ones are the ones I love to hear! At least they have the balls to get up there and do it.

I hope everyone has a safe and fun weekend!

A walk down memory lane

This 'n that

It's finally raining here today. I can't remember the last time we got rain so we need it badly. It also makes for a wonderful day to sleep in.

Last night Mr and I had to drive to Springfield, OH for him to drop off a truck. I had to follow with his car so he'd have a way home. It was a long ride there and back and not the ideal way to spend an evening, but, hey, it had to be done.

Before we left, I made BLT's and fried green tomatoes. My dad had given us some tomatoes and I'd been dying to make the fried green tomatoes. They turned out pretty good, especially for a first attempt. Needless to say, they were not healthy at all since I fried them in bacon grease. My aunt says that's the key to good fgt--bacon grease, not regular grease. Problem is, you have to fry bacon to get the bacon grease. That adds up to a very unhealthy, but delicious, meal that you can't afford healthwise to have very often!

New Recipe Tuesday

I don't know if I'll do this every Tuesday, but it sounded like a good title for today. Last night I made Parmesan Crusted Pork Chops. It's a fancy name for fried pork chops. I think they had to be healthier than the ones most of us are used to from our childhood. I fried them in olive oil and they had parmesan cheese and bread crumbs as the coating. Of course, I took pictures.

Those are the crash potatoes from PW, also. This time I didn't put as much salt on them so they were better, but they needed more salt this time! The pork chops were super yummo. These are a definite make over.

Also, because I apparently have WAY too much time on my hands, here's another few pictures for your viewing pleasure.

And that's all I have to say about that.

P.S. Please don't call the humane society on me. I'm returning it. I just wanted to have some fun at Daisy's expense.