See you in the next Decade!!!

Well to the 3 or 4 that read this, I make you a promise 2010 will be full of more post. I kind of puttered out this year. But I have many a good thoughts running thur my head everyday that will make great post for sure. I also promise myself to lose some weight so I can have a nice beach body when my brother moves to CA in August! We will have to wait and see which promise really happens!!!!

Until then folks I wish you all a Merry Blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year!

2010 HERE WE COME!!!

Cheese Please

I LOVE cheese. It just might be the one item of food I could eat everyday all day! I don't drink milk so I count my cheese in take as my extra daily dose of calcium. Why do I bring this up you might ask. Really no reason, it is just what I was thinking about today. ALSO because Walmart started carrying my favorite type of cheese again. Smoked Swiss, YUM YUM. Yes they always carried it but you had to get it at the deli, now they are back to just having small blocks of it that you can grab and go.

Here are a few fun facts that I have learned over the years of my love for cheese:

1. There are over 2,000 varieties of cheeses!!! Most of them I love but I really am not a fan of stinky cheese. Even though I giggle every time I say stinky cheese.

2 The #1 cheese recipe in America is Macaroni and CHEESE. That should be no surprise.

3. The terms "Big Wheel" and "Big Cheese" originally referred to those who were wealthy enough to purchase a whole wheel of cheese. This picture is of me with a WHOLE wheel of cheese but I did not purchase it because I am not a "Big Cheese"

4. A giant wheel of Cheddar was given to Queen Victoria for a wedding gift. It weighed over 1,000 pounds. I put this so the few people that read my blog would know that I would not mind a giant wheel of Smoked Swiss Cheese for a wedding gift. NOT one weighing in at 1,000 pounds please!

5. There is such a thing as moose cheese. It is made in Sweden from the milk of a moose. How would you like to try and milk a moose?!?!?!

And I now live you with some GREAT CHEESE QUOTES:

"Worry is today's mice nibbling on tomorrow's cheese."

"Age is not important unless you're a cheese." Helen Hayes

"For centuries, people thought the moon was made of green cheese. Then the astronauts found that the moon is really a big hard rock. That's what happens to cheese when you leave it out."

"Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log." Ellen DeGeneres

SO folks go out and get you some cheese today!!!!!

This is a Public Service Announcement

Public Service Announcements seem to have become a thing of the past. Yes NBC still does The More You Know. But they just don't seem to really get to me like the ones in the 80's. PSAs in the 80s had our favorite cartoon characters. Or the had a really catchy tune that you just could not get out of your find.

Like the Woodsy Team, I went around singing Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute all the time. And when I saw someone pollute I would start singing it really loud so they could hear me.

And how can we forget all the GI JOE PSAs!!! GI JOE PSAs really made you stop and think. They had some about getting your eyes checked to don't talk to strangers. And they always ended with the saying "Knowing is half the battle!" (Quick side note, in the new GI JOE movie they said the, knowing is half the battle line and I laughed so HARD!)

Let us not forget the Bugs Bunny Kitchen dangers PSA. I learned a lot about not touching the hot boiling pan, or the scary electric cord that could hurt me. The electric cord safety really got to me because it make the cord look like a snake on the PSA and I am scared of snakes. So for the longest time I would not touch any cords!

There was also the Right to Say No PSA. It was a very catching song about Being an Original and taking a stand when a friend offers you drugs. Because we all do have the RIGHT TO SAY NO! It was this cool music video with this girl skateboarding around and had a GREAT SONG!

And the other good NO Drugs PSA is the guy with the egg. And he shows you the egg and says this is your brain. Then he cracks the egg and puts it in a frying pan and says this is your brain on drugs, any questions?

I guess what I am getting to is that no wonder our kids are so messed up these days. They do not have good PSAs to help push them to do the right thing. Whenever I think of polluting or talking to strangers. I first think of my those PSA and sit and wonder what would GI JOE do or Woodsy the Owl. Then I know what I should do and I do the right thing.

Bring back the PSAs TV folks. I really feel that it just might help make a better tomorrow.

WOW

Hey folks! First off I did make it back from Ireland, and I did have a WONDERFUL time. So sorry I have not posted about it. When you take 2 weeks off of work you seem to have a lot of work to come back to. So if you would all just bear with me I will get to the Irish post soon.

Top of the Morning to you!!!!!!

Oh Ireland~

Are you really ready for this Red Head from Texas?!?!? Not sure if anyone in Ireland reads this but just a fair warning I will be driving while I am over there. So keep all your cows and sheep's off the roads folk!!!!

Any way folks I leave tomorrow morning. SO excited, bet I don't sleep much tonight. I have been packed for two days, does that make me strange? We will be seeing U2 in concert while we are over there. SWEET, in their own back yard!!!! It will also only be around 65 degrees everyday. Very very nice!!!!

I will miss everyone, but I shall return. Unless I find a man to marry then I might not return. BUT that would mean that the wedding would probably be in Ireland SO everyone can come over then.

I might throw up some short blogs while I am there. Mostly pictures, I will save all the stories for when I get back.

On a side note. I just got the Oregan Trail app on my IPod Touch. OH yea stayed up two hours playing it last night. THAT GAME IS THE BOMB!!!!! Sorry Caydee you were died from a snake bite.

Everyone stay safe and cool here in the states. I promise some good blogs when I get back!!!!!

OH the 80's!!!!!

So lately I have been thinking about the 80's. No this has nothing to do with Micheal Jackson passing away. Good music, good videos, but that is about it for me with him. What I have been thinking about is how the 80's really have some GREAT memories and a lot of original things that I know of.

Let us take a look back: (If I could put sound effects on here were would do a Wayne's World time warp sound)
There was a cartoon when I was a girl called Jem. The show is about music company owner Jerrica Benton, her singer alter-ego, Jem, her band the Holograms, and their adventures. Sound familiar, yea sounds like the original Hannah Montana!!!! I did want to be Jem at a time, just so I could be a rock singer. But I changed my mind really quick because I never really like the color pink and that is about all she wore when she was the singer.

Next up on memory lane the GUMMI BEAR CARTOON!! Still to this day it is my favorite cartoon theme song EVER. Yes and I will put is on here for all to sing to:

Dashing and daring
Courageous and caring
Faithful and friendly
With stories to share
All through the forest
They sing out in chorus
Marching along
As their song fills the air

CHORUS:
Gummi Bears
Bouncing here and there and everywhere
High adventure that's beyond compare
They are the Gummi Bears

Magic and mystery
Are part of their history
Along with the secret
Of gummiberry juice
Their legend is growing
They take pride in knowing
They'll fight for what's right
In whatever they do.

Any time I would drink grape juice as a kid I would pretend it was gummiberry juice and start bouncing EVERYWHERE!!!!!

Folks this is only the start of my list down 80s memory lane. We still have to talk about HE-MAN and Care Bears and so much more. And who can forget all the GREAT Commercials during that time also. This blog is like a 80s cartoon or sitcom that always had that to be continued thing at the end and you JUST CAN'T wait for next Saturday. So enjoy what little I have given you know and come back soon for more!!!!

YES I AM HOT!

Okay so today in Lubbock it is suppose to be 102 degrees! WOW, that is a warm day folks. But nothing big, it could be worse like all our military folks over seas in that great big sand box where it can get up to 120 degrees during the day. So when I say I am HOT it really means I am just good lookin' folks!!!!

Not much is really going on here with this kiddo. Just counting the days down until I leave for Ireland!!!!!! If we count today it is 36 days until I hop on a plane. More to come on my excitement for this event.

BUT before the big trip to the motherland I first have my nephews and niece coming to town in two weeks. They are 6, 4, and 2 years old. AND SO MUCH FUN!!! And I get to be the crazy aunt and we go off and do crazy things together. Each one gets to spend the night with me and then we go get donuts in the morning. They each have a little bit of their aunt Manda in them. Mainly they all have the head injury problem. The most recent is my niece Kylie. Last week she walked in front of Jarrett her brother while he was swinging and got kicked in the face. She is okay, no big injuries but she did get a nice black eye. AND this picture makes me laugh each time I look at it because she looks so tough. I LOVE THESE KIDS and I can't wait for them to get here.

Everyone stay cool!

Gonzo the GREAT

So I finally took a quiz on Facebook that had a lot of meaning. A quiz that truly told me who I was! It was the Which Muppet are you quiz. Anyone that knows me really well knows I LOVE the Muppet's. I have all the Muppet movies, and I am trying to get all the Muppet Show seasons on DVD. (Hint Hint, if you are ever wondering what to get me for a Birthday gift!!!!) I have loved them since I was little and I have to say the show just gets more hilarious as I get older. But all shows like that do because you finally catch all the adult humor that you did not understand as a child. I can't wait to have kids one day and just sit and watch Muppet's with them all the time.

Any way back to the quiz. I took the quiz and it said I was Gonzo the Great, which I was excited about. Gonzo is the odd ball, do his own thing Muppet, just like me. And the explanation that came with the quiz matches me to a tee: "The ultimate performer, you are unique blend of a performance artist, stuntman and daredevil. You are not afraid to try anything once, with wild eyed optimism. Regardless of the outcome of your stunts, you perform them with total dedication, even if your audience might be skeptical. You take pride in the fact that you are unlike anyone else,and approach life with zeal, enjoying the wild ride. What people might not realize about you is that you are very introspective as well, and an intellect of sorts."

I love the part that says, "You take pride in the fact that you are unlike anyone else, and approach life with zeal, enjoying the wild ride." You bet I do!!!!

Now the Swedish Chef is really my FAVORITE character. I just love the way he talks and I love to do impersonations of him. But I do see that I am more like Gonzo. And I do love Muppet's in Space. Gonzo is the main character in that movie and it is SO FUNNY!

Anyway if anyone ever wants to have a Muppet Marathon, you just call me up I will be there fo sho!

I want to be a Toys R Us Kid!

I LOVE TOYS R US! Love the place! I try and go there about once a month. One reason is so I can stay up on all the cool new toys that my nephews and niece are seeing everyday. But really I just like to look and play with what I can. I really don't think I will ever get to old for toys. If I ever have kids they will be lucky because I will be buying toys all the time, but also unlucky because they will have to fight me for them once they get home.

There is not one certain type of toy I like more then the other. I loved action figures growing up always made my brother's G.I. Joe's play with my Barbie's. They had a thing for each other. Still love board games of all types. I do play video games and love those but if I had to pick one board games would so over rule!!!! Legos were very big items in our house, AND micro mini cars were by far my favorite. I had just about the whole collection. Sold them in a garage sale, which was really dumb of me to do. But when you are the age of 8, and you figure out you can make money in a garage sale you put everything out there.

My dream job in life would be a toy tester. You know like Tom Hanks was in Big.

Where his main job was to play with the toys and then tell people what he thought. I have been looking for that job most of my life. I know it is out there. If anyone knows about it let me know so I can apply. I am very willing to move anywhere for that job.

Yep I will FOREVER be a Toys R Us KID!!!!!

GOING QUACKERS!!!!

When I was a little kid one of my favorite records, yes I said records LOVE THOSE, to listen to was the Walt Disney Going Quackers record. It had all the dumb songs that every young child should learn and sing non-stop in the car to bother the parents!!!

Lucky for me and my parents we got my mom a new record player/cd player/cassette player/radio thing for mother's day. So we busted out the out records and I found GOING QUACKERS!!!!! And listened to it over and over. IT WAS GREAT!

My favorite song on this record, you can download this record from Itunes, which I will be doing so I can listen to it in the car. But the best song to me number 6,m Harris the Bullfrog. When I was little this song just made me laugh, I never really listened to all the lyrics. Who really does that at the age of 3 and 4. I just like to run around the room singing, "He went Ribbit Ribbit HIC all the time, time, time." That made me laugh. Now 20 something years later, I am not good with math so if you really need to know the exact number figure it out yourself. But a number of years later I finally listened to all the lyrics and I discovered the reason he went Ribbit Ribbit Hic all the time was because Harris was a drinking bullfrog! It says right in there first few lines that he drinks beer. Now a days parents would FREAK out if their kid was listening to songs like that. Not me my kid will be hearing that CD one day, and we will be running around say Ribbit Ribbit Hic, Ribbit Ribbit Hic all the time time time!!!!!!!

Dancing in Wal-Mart

I don't know what it is but going to Wal-mart always makes me want to sing and dance!! I love when I find a good deal on something I do a little Irish jig. But really it does not matter if I find a good deal or not, it is like with every new aisle comes a new song to my head. And a new dance move that looks really bad because I can not dance at all. I am sure people thing I am one crazy shopper but I don't care at all. I like to say my life is a musical, so let us all sing and DANCE! So next time you are out and about at a wal-mart look for the crazy red head dancing down the aisle.

In other random news today UCLA researchers create world's smallest light bulb.
That my friends has nothing to do with me, but maybe one day I will need the world's smallest light bulb to go into my world's smallest flashlight. And when that day comes I am happy to know there will be a bulb waiting for me.

Rising Gas....

With gas prices going up and down everyday I wanted to put my 2 cents in about gas.

I have a gas problem! I am not ashamed to say that. I love the Beano, the gas-x all those wonderful pills that help with those gas bubbles in my tummy. And if you need a good company to buy stock in, I would look into these. Because I will keep them in business for sure. Sometimes I can just rub my tummy and that helps pop the bubbles, at least in my head they do. Who know?!?!?!

BUT I have no where the gas problem my dog Zibby has. This is Zibby, Zbikowski Pete Reeves is his full name.
He was named after a Notre Dame Football player from a couple of years back. And Pete was his name out at the Haven where I got him from.

Any way back to his gas problem. It does not matter what I feed him, when he gets good and relaxed he just lets it all go! Most the time they are silent and deadly but every once in a while he will rip a loud one. And then he looks at me like the sound came out of me.

I love Zibby, his gas and all. He will be two on May 16th and this past year with him has been so much fun. I love coming home everyday because he is so happy to see me. He does not have a tail so his whole bottom shakes/wags when he gets excited and it just makes me laugh.

Well that is all for today, but again I would like to leave you all with something to really ponder about: Have you ever thought how many of your dollar bills have been in a strippers g-string?

Welcome to My WORLD!!!!

A blog.....a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.

OH a blog, why should I not have one?!?!?! Everyone needs something crazy and fun to read during work when they don't want to be working. Facebook can only take up some much of your workday. (Note...in 10 years when I am looking over all my old blogs if facebook is still around all I will be able to say is WOW)

I did blog for a while on xanga, which was 5 years ago and I can say it is still around but no one uses it. AND I think I had some pretty good stuff on there. So for the first few post I might just pull from there to keep everyone reading. Also in the past I have made fun of blogging a great deal. Calling it the stay at home mom thing to do. HEE HEE HEE, my bad, you know I love all you stay at home moms!!!!

But really this should be good a place to come for a quick laugh. I am this crazy 30 year old kid, yes I did say kid. I enjoy life in a different way then most. I can't really put that way into words but maybe after you read a couple of my post then you can help me explain it. And because of that different way of enjoying my life I do have many a good stories to tell. Between my cartoon dreams, my head injuries, my many wonderful friends and family, and my great dog named Zibby, there is a lot to keep everyone coming back for more. I hope to not use this to share my feelings or preach to anyone or as a place to go off about my day. Rather I hope to use this blog to show people the joy of life and all they can do out there if they just relax a little and live like we did when we were young.

So on this day in 2009 when the fear of swine flu is amongst us, I just want to close with this. Miss Piggy is a diva, best believe her, you see her, she getting paid!!!!!