It's My "P"day

Ain't it great??!!?? A really long time ago my sweet sweet hubby changed birthday to "P" day...and said we don't count the years anymore, we just count the presents!! lol So I look forward to this day Big time! I don't get any real presents, I mean, no one hands me gifts that I can hold or put on a shelf...but I get lots of love and attention...what else do I need? That's it. So everyone, how bout wishing me a happy "P"day? It would be sweet if you did. lol

Later

Vanilla Joy

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Happy Anniversary Trav

Today is a special day ya know…it is our 15^th Wedding Anniversary. I feel so Blessed. We have had our ups and downs thru the years, but it has finally started to come together. We are a team and although we still have rough spots, I have to say, I am Happy. I do not know what else I could want in a partner – he is kind, sweet, romantic, computer literate, quite a handyman, does dishes and cooks, likes animals and is cute to boot.

I just wanted to share my joy. Thank you Trav, for giving me my life back and for making it worth living. I love you.

Vanilla Joy Giveaway

Today is the first day of the Giveaways at Vanilla Joy's blog...she is giving away some Really great prizes, go see her and enter to win!!

She has a great blog, even when she is not giving anything away lol lot's of family fun type things, like kids face painting and discipline for children

so Check it out and enjoy her blog, she's great!!

It's raining

and it is a beautiful sound. I love the sound of rain on the roof. I slept better last nite than I have in a very long time. I told you, I feel safe in a hurricane/tropical storm. I grew up with them and they are not an unknown to me. The things that can happen are myriad, but most of them don't happen if you are prepared. We just went out and walked around the property and checked the out buildings, and every thing seems fine...there are some branches down, but nothing that is worrisome. It has been raining pretty non-stop for hours now, and we have standing water around here, that doesn't happen too often...we are in the sand hills and the water drains pretty fast. The University is closed for the day, in an abundance of caution, in hopes that no one will get hurt. So we are not at work - we are home - enjoying the weather. Trav seems to like this as much as I do. I like that in a man lol.

I've been working on cards. Made a little bet with my self that I could get at least one card a nite and see how that helps me prepare for unexpected occasions. I have done pretty good for about a week now..got two done last nite for Trav and two others to have on hand. Have finished one so far today and am mostly done with a second.

I love this weather!!!

Tropical Storm Fay

EDIT: FAY is getting worse and we are going to stay home tomorrow!!! I'm lovin'it!!! I LOVE YOU FAY!!! lol

They got our hopes up and then they were dashed again...she is here, but is really just a fitful thunderstorm. I am so bummed. I was really hoping that she would be nicer to me lol.

Blog candy

Be sure to stop over at Debbies blog, she has hit a milestone and is celebrating with some blog candy!!

Hurricane Fay - 8-19-08

Ok, here I sit, bemoaning the fact that Fay is not heading towards us any longer…I know, that makes me a bit weird, but I LIKE hurricanes!!! I grew up in Miami with parents that knew how to prepare and deal with the awesome storms. I always felt safe and protected as a child and the wildness of nature was always so breathtaking. I LOVED it. Now, as an adult, I am not feeling quite as safe, but my fascination with them hasn’t changed. I know they are dangerous, and I know that they are a real inconvenience to most people, loosing power and missed work, as well as damage to property….I know all that. But I STILL love them. Back during the season with Charlie and Jeanne we lost power and all our food and had to take showers at my DH’s place of work, but I still loved it. I am bummed, Fay is disappointing me, sigh. Maybe next time.

(still holding out a tad bit of hope that she will turn left sometime tonight) lol

The Dentist

As Trav waits with sure trepidation for the dentist to call him back for his treatment, I cower out here in the truck. I am dentist phobic…I’m sure that there is a name for this phobia, but I never bothered to look it up. I just know that I cannot spend time in a dentist office without some major panic attack symptoms. This is in part, I am sure, due to the difficulties I had as a child with bad teeth. My mom was anemic when she was carrying me so they gave her iron supplements. These supplements caused my teeth to have to problems, one was a yellowish cast that never really looked quite right and the other was that the insides of my teeth sorta never developed correctly. By that I mean that if I got a minor cavity or a scratch on the surface enamel then the inside would just go away and the tooth would be just a shell. The next thing to happen would be that the tooth would either get infected because the nerve ended up exposed or the tooth would simply break. One dentist told me that I needed to come in as soon as something happened because if they filled it soon enough it would prevent the problem….nope, didn’t work, filling fell right out. So it turns out that when my parents took me to the dentist for routine cleanings, they were actually – inadvertently – contributing to the problem. They used metal instruments for cleaning and they would leave minute scratches or etches in the enamel…which in turn became breaches that evolved into cavities at the gum line. So guess where the tooth would break? You got it! So anyways, I am dental phobic. Which brings us back to Trav. Poor baby, he has a tooth that he has had trouble with for quite some time and instead of being a simple filling or extraction has become rather complicated. You see, he has a tooth under the gumline, one that never completely erupted so they are going to have to remove the problem tooth…this will leave a rather large breach in his jaw bone…which will make it difficult if not impossible to do implants should he choose to do that later, and will make his jaw unstable….a ‘glass jaw’ if you will. So when they extract those two teeth they are going to do a bone graft. Ugh!!! Makes me shudder just to think of it! He seems fine with it, a little nervous, but not really bad. He is so glad to be getting this tooth taken care of that the nerves thing is falling by the way side. The dentist told him that it would be a fairly simple procedure – despite what it sounds like – and that he will be able to go home and be pretty comfortable afterward. They did tell him not to go back to work tho, so it won’t be THAT simple. So I took the day off to take him to the dentist. He understood at the time that I am a terrible wife and I would NOT be sitting in the dentist office waiting with him or for him. I’ll let you know how it turns out.

Ok, well, we are home now and he is sleeping. He says it wasn’t to bad, after she got the tooth out. She had to break it into several different pieces!!!!! Ugh. He said the hardest part was keeping his mouth open that far for that long. Poor baby.

Well, just wanted you to know he is ok.

Underwear vs Socks

(not sure how I managed a double post, but I am sorry about that)

Somehow I never thought I would be blogging about undergarments!!! But it seems that my DH and a male co-worker are having some form of mild disagreement over which is more important. One says underwear and the other says socks....well to be more precise....the discussion is over which should be purchased first when both are needed...one says UW and the other Socks. Now, every mother knows the answer to this question....UW. Remember your mom telling you to always wear clean ones in case you get in an accident and they have to take you to the hospital...so I told my DH that and he agrees that it could effect your level of care if the entire ER/ED is laughing at your old ratty UW...whereas they would just as soon not notice your socks and might just say that holey socks are just an effort to ventilate your toes so they don't smell so bad! lol

what do you think?

I was just informed that the word Underwear encompasses socks britches and under shirts - I beg to differ - I believe that under GARMENTS handles all those critters and under WEAR is what covers ones arse!!! lol

Underwear vs Socks

Somehow I never thought I would be blogging about undergarments!!! But it seems that my DH and a male co-worker are having some form of mild disagreement over which is more important. One says underwear and the other says socks....well to be more precise....the discussion is over which should be purchased first when both are needed...one says UW and the other Socks. Now, every mother knows the answer to this question....UW. Remember your mom telling you to always wear clean ones in case you get in an accident and they have to take you to the hospital...so I told my DH that and he agrees that it could effect your level of care if the entire ER/ED is laughing at your old ratty UW...whereas they would just as soon not notice your socks and might just say that holey socks are just an effort to ventilate your toes so they don't smell so bad! lol

what do you think?

I WON!!

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"Together We Can Cure Cancer!"

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Thank you Angie for the great opportunity to win and to spread the word about your great work!

"My New Wallet" By Traveler

Please hop on over to Travs Tales and read this post by Traveler. I think it is very good, quite insightful and a tad bit sad. Thanks.

Hancock

We went to see Hancock Wednesday night after work. It was a really silly movie with a bit of a twist at the end. I know most folks are panning it, but we liked it. Made us laugh and we even had a moment or two to think serious thoughts about life, love and the pursuit of happiness! As usual Will Smith played his part extremely well and the rest of the cast did a great job. We would recommend this movie as well as the idea of going to the movies on Wednesday night after work.