This Could Only Happen To Me

movin' on...

That's right, this blog is going mobile yet again.  For only the third time in 8 years, I'm changing my blog host.  I'm tired of paying typepad for...uh..nothing so we are moving to wordpress. 

C'mon over!

Mom, that means you have to add the new site to your google reader, and then go into google reader, pull up my site and click "mark all as read".  eye roll.  lol

Things are a mess over there right now.  All my old archived posts are in wonky order and I need help, but no one likes me so it will just be a few before I get it all worked out.  I won't be using the ocean photograph and plan to make a lot of changes so just keep checking.  Or hey!  Join the world and put me on your reader so you can see when I've updated. 

What else is going on, hm.  Emma's b'day is Monday so we are having a slumber party Saturday night.  Only about half the girls are coming so it should be cool.  I wish the house had a few more things done but it will have to do.

I feel jumbled so I guess this is it.  I probably won't write here again, so...typepad, it's been fun.  But not that fun.
Love,
Danelle

brrr...

My hands are absolutely freezing.  I'm gonna have to go to bed just to warm up.

We went out for a bit of stress relief tonight and saw a band (FIVE13) we saw a few months ago that we really liked.  It was at a place called Hiccups, which from our new house is exactly .75 miles away. It took us half a song on the radio to get home.  How fun is that?!

This band is so good, they do covers from mostly the 90's but some 80's and 00's too and they are just awesome, and not too hard to look at either, as you can see.  They also did a lot of Nickelback, who I love love love.  I love Hiccups because it is full of people our age, and most of them are biker folks.  Good times.

They can't hold a candle to this guy tho.  This is the boy that I watch and he is r-e-a-l-l-y into KISS.  Can you tell?

.......

He can rock with he best of em.

Brr.  Where the hell is this Spring thing you speak of?

you can't make this stuff up...

Weird story in the newspaper today.

Organ Recipient Dies Same Way As Donor After Marrying His Donor's Widow

A man who received a heart transplant and later married the donor's widow died the same way the donor did, authorities said: of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

No foul play was suspected in 69-year-old Sonny Graham's death at his Vidalia, Ga., home, investigators said. He was found Tuesday with a shotgun wound to the throat, said Greg Harvey, a special agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Graham was on the verge of congestive heart failure in 1995 when he got a call that a heart was available in Charleston, S.C.

That heart was from Terry Cottle, 33, who had shot himself, Berkeley County Coroner Glenn Rhoad said.

Graham began writing letters to the donor's family to thank them. In January 1997, he met his donor's widow, Cheryl Cottle, then 28, in Charleston. They married in 2004.

So are  you thinking what I'm thinking? It's the woman!  She's driving all these men to suicide.  No men for you, one year.

speed kills...

There is this girl in the club that I really like, but she talks really really fast and kinda disjointed so I have a hard time keeping up with what she's saying.  She's impossible to talk on the phone to, so we usually just email.  There was some drama going on in the club about her, but I really didn't know anything.  I thought it had something to do with her bringing her 17 year old daughter to an event, so I kinda asked her about it (on mypace) cause I kept hearing whispers. 

Annnddd she wrote me back and told me what happened. 

"Nell -
*Well here it goes .....
Lady Josie & I were were sending e-mails on myspace Dave read an e-mail "I" sent, saying "Don't tell Josh"
(I never sent  that e-mail) Any how Dave called  Josh and told him , Josh call me call all upset I didn't know what the hell was going on,  any way we work it out. Josh told me talk to RIck about this matter so @ the St patty party I did 
Then... @ Dames night Dave got mad because someone said my daughter was drinking @ his house (Edit, she wasn't...I was there-Nell) and once again called Josh and told him
Then.... Dave happen to be talking to Rick on the phone & Rick mention I had talked w/him about the matter w/Josie Dave once again got pist called Josh again told him a bunch of shit that I was going behind his back 
Josh once again freaked out with me And by this time I HAD IT !!! I told Josh "what do you think? your the one that told me to go talk w/Rick In the first place" OHHHHH!! my how we forget !! Josh needs to stop running to Dave about everything and Dave Needs to mind his own BIZZZ!!  Josh felt like an ASS but I just thought I would cool down before  I said something hateful You can kinda say I'm punishing him lol
man I'm tired talk with you later girlfriend !!! lol
Always, Lady Sydney"

Anndd...I still don't know what happened.

*names changed

say words...

D-bag tag.   

I saw a picture of Bret Michaels without his bandanna on. Dude, that's a weave..and not a good one.  But dang he's cute.  That Flo Rida guy is really cute too.

Shawty got the apple bottom jeans
The boots with the fur
The whole club was lookin at her...

That song is awesome.  And I love biceps.

So we went on a ride Saturday.  It was a small group, I think 13 of us all told, including backseaters..so maybe 9-10 motorcycles in all.  We went to Evergreen and had lousy service at Beau Jo's.  (blech anyway.)

We went "the back way" which means we took as many roads as possible to get there.  It was a lot of twisty turny mountain roads and it made me nervous.  Drivers in cars were acting careless and then I almost ended up with a Honda Goldwing in my lap from a rider going the opposite direction who crossed over the yellow line.  People don't understand riding on the back of a motorcycle is pretty much 98% sheer terror.

We keep our house really cold, like 63-65 degrees most of the time.  It's pretty tolerable, but all of the sudden the ceiling fan in the kitchen has started working and we can't get it to turn off. 
The chain is broke so Mark says we need to "get up in there" and attach a new chain so we can turn it off and on.  Why it suddenly came on, we don't know.  But the point is is that it's too damn cold in the kitchen now to do anything if you have the light on, because the damn fan is blowing freezing cold air around.  Insane.

Someone told me yesterday that most people don't "get" my humor.  I'm not sure what that means, but I think it's bad.

I'm doing a market research thing on  Thursday for $275.  It's all weird tho, they had me fill out a journal, then they are coming to my house for 2 hours, and then we have to go to the store.  It's on skin care products.  Dumb!  But $275!  Helloooo.

Now, you say some words...

totally random bullets...

Guns don't kill people.  Mario VanPeebles.

haha..what does that mean?!

Did you ever smoke pot out of a tin foil pipe or a fruit or vegetable, like a potato?  Pop cans don't count.

I can't believe my sister is retiring.

"Nobody act big.  Nobody act small.  Everybody act medium."  I love that.

Some of the women in the motorcycle cub are a triiiip.

Did you ever wonder if a blogger had died?

I take a nap in the afternoon at least 3 days a week.  I love naps.  My mom won't like to hear that.

My ex-husband didn't allow me to nap.

I wonder if Spencer thinks I am reading his blog for 4 hours, but I am just playing bubble shooter.

I have to get up really early tomorrow.

Our sweet kitties keep getting trapped in nooks and crannies of the new house.

I am sick of looking for certain things.

I have to rearrange all my cabinets because the way I have it set up is not working.  ("Set up" means I opened up boxes and threw things in there to get them off the floor). The glasses cupboard is too small, The pots and pans cupboard is too narrow and coffee cups, coffee, cream and sugar are all in different places.  Dumb.

My linen closet is heaving.   But with stuff, not linens.  Hair dye, medicine, lotion, first aid, shampoo..I could open a CVS.

I've already had a box of stuff picked up for charity since living here.  They came today and I love them.  They call me the day before to remind me and then call me afterwards to make sure it was picked up and to ask if their were any "problems" with the pickup.  Problems?  You came and picked up all my junk for free, right off my porch.  No sirree, that is not a problem.

The message board of the motorcycle club we belong to had 800 posts last month, and there are only about 30 members.  We are chattin' it up, people.  One topic had 28 posts and led to a "discussion" that resulted in 4 people quitting. (Pages..bah, they're disposable..lol)

Was that mean?

Almost all the girls in my family.. me, my sister and both my daughters are very sentimental and emotional, to a ridiculous degree sometimes - (ask Katie about the "yummy" bunny). 

This is a really long random list.

A potato, seriously.

wait, wha?

Where are all you people?  Doesn't anyone ever get on AIM or anything anymore? 

I hate twitter, but is it the answer?

Where are my peeps.

i like them, like them, Sam I am...

I don't like flavored chips or crackers, cheese flavored especially.

But..

These are the greatest thing since cotton candy.

I kept them hidden in the house, and then gave Mark some.  Now we are both keeping them hidden from Emma lest our stash be found out and diminished.  He said if she finds out we will just tell her there's beer in them.

blogiversary and exploding eggs...

I just had my 8 year blogiversary.  8 years!  What the hell has there been to write about in all that time.  I've only moved my blog once, from blogger to typepad, but some things have been lost along the way.  I do have most of my old posts (in the archives up there) but not everything survived. 

I remember when I started, I was watching the Tech TV with Leo Laporte and he had a guest on that was talking about blogger.com, who had just came to life about 4 months prior.  I was going through a mess of a divorce and I thought it sounded like a good outlet to get my thoughts out.  I was used to keeping paper diaries (since 1972) so the writing came naturally and I turned out to really love it.  I was interviewed by the Rocky Mountain News about my blog at one time and I still have the article.  I got a few readers here and there and that became the best part. 

So happy 8th anniversary, blog.

Anypoodle...

I had a carton of eggs, ya see.

They were about to expire.

So I thought I would make some egg salad, maybe even go crazy and make a few deviled (that doesn't look right but spellchecker says it is) eggs.

I put the water on to boil, added the eggs and walked away.

And fell asleep for TWO HOURS.

Do you have any idea what happens to boiling eggs after two hours?

They explode, oh yes they do.  We found eggs all over the counters, in the living room, dining room..and..

on the ceiling.

Mark was in his office upstairs with the door closed and came out cause he smelled "something".  He said the house was full of smoke and there were eggs everywhere.  He came and got me up (not in a "wake up, darling" sorta way, mind you) and we set about airing out the house and cleaning up eggs.  I seriously could have burnt the house down.  Idiot.

My mom has been looking for a salad spinner.  I saw one at the thrift store today and called her to see if she wanted me to get it.  Keep in mind she claims she cannot hear me on the phone because my voice is so low.  I guess the tv volume at her house is on as high as it will go because they talk too low too.

"Are you still looking for a salad spinner?"
"A what?"
"A salad spinner"
"A salsa bender?"
"No a salad spinner!"
"spell it."
"S-A-L-A-D"
"That doesn't spell anything"
"Like when we go to Applebees and get a salad!!"
"salad?"
"Yes, a salad spinner! God!"

So anyway, she eventually said yes, and I bought and it turned out to be the wrong kind, of course.  It was the kind with the handle that you turn and not the button that you push.

I shoulda got a salsa bender instead.

meme time...

Because my sister is mean and beats tags me.

Top Fives

5 things under $10 I cannot live without
1. Chapstick
2. Slurpees
3. Coffee in the morning
4. Baby Wipes
5. DVR

5 favorite movies
1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Small Sacrifices
3.  The Betty Broderick Story
4. Glen Garry Glen Ross (my most favorite movie of all all time, ever ever, hands down.)
5.

5 songs I could listen to over and over
1. River Deep Mountain High
(Celine Dion)
2. No Rain (Blind Melon)
3.  It’s Raining Men (The Weather Girls)
4. Yeah! (Usher)
5. Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)

5 people who influenced my life in a positive way
1. Mark
2. My kids, collectively
3. My granny
4. This question is hard!

5 things that stay in your purse all the time
(I carry a little backpack tho, no purse)
1.  Chapstick
2. cigarettes
3. lighter
4. cellphone
5. debit card

5 moments that changed me forever
1. Having my kids
2. Meeting Mark
3. Katie moving out
4. Divorcing Dan
5. Visiting Katie in jail (several times)

5 places you would really love to go
1. England
2. Hong Kong
3. Thailand
4. Mexico
5. Out to dinner tonight

5 favorite Broadway musicals
1. The King and I
2.  South Pacific
3. I'm not big on musicals