Wordless Wednesday - Last Day of Summer! Tomorrow Third Grade!

Six Word Saturday - NaBloPoMo

Wordless Wednesday: Last Day of #30DaysNet10 with @Giant_Eagle and @Net10_Wireless

Decisions, decisions!

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Monday Quiz - 5 Questions You Are Dying to Know About Me

In attempting to do NaBloPoMo (National Blog Post Month), I thought I should look around for a good prompt for today so I turned to twitter and found Monday Quiz About Me hosted by Acting Balanced and Touristic!

1. What is your favorite kind of soup?

Tomato Bisque preferably homemade and preferably from Good to Cafe.

2. When was the last time you saw snow?

I have blocked it from my memory with such a force that it hurts to think about it.

3. What is a must have trait if someone is going to live with you?

Legally obligated.

4. Who was your favorite James Bond?

Daniel Craig (and mainly because I don't like Bond movies and I have only seen his in the theater)

5. Most played song on your iPod (or similar (I used iTunes))?

Crack the Shutters by Snow Patrol

My Love Hate Relationship with TV (or My New Top 5 Canceled Shows I (still) Love)

This will be short and sweet but as much as I love TV, I hate it.

It drives me insane knowing that a show will be canceled because the network it is on did not give it a chance.  Firefly will always be on my list and here are five more to remember and morn.

1. Mockingbird Lane

Already canceled! Maybe NBC will give it a second shot. I doubt it.

2. Eureka

I did really love the ending but hate that it ended!

3. Breaking In

Of course it was canceled, it was on Fox and Christian Slater was in it.

4. Human Target

Again... FOX and Keen Eddie's star. I love you Mark Valley

5. The Finder

Yet again, another FOX show and I can't believe it was canceled on a cliffhanger. I will leave the obvious unsaid except, rest in peace Michael Duncan

Six Word Saturday - Birthday

Today in Herstory

Today is my birthday and yesterday I celebrated!  My favorite beer is Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale and it tastes fantastic with cheesecake topped with caramel.  My mouth has never been happier.

The bar did not have candles but they did have tea lights and there may have been a song sung. I may have left a bit tipsy and I may have had to get a ride home from my boss since my darling Husband went to get the kids so I could stay out a little longer. 

I also may have gotten a Kindle Fire so if you have any tips I would love to hear them!

Because You Want to Make Lazy Lasagna

For the past few weeks, my lovely friend has been sharing her culinary skills with us in










efore I knew it, I was putting it together and dumping on the jarred pasta sauce over the uncooked noodles.

Lazy Lasagna 

1. Brown the beef and sausage 
2. Blend together the cheeses, egg, and herbs.  
3. Using a 2 quart, oblong dish put a splash of sauce in the pan and then a layer of noodles followed by cheese, more sauce, meat, and another layer of noodles. Repeat as needed. 
4. Covered the pan with foil and baked for 50 minutes at 350 degrees. 
5. After 50 minutes, remove the foil, cover the top of the lasagna with mozzarella cheese and bake for another 15 - 20 minutes.  

Election? What Election?

When I was a kid I was convinced that the day I became an adult I would get a bill from the government telling me how much my share of the deficit would be and when it needed to be paid. I wondered if they would want it all at once or would they do a payment plan.

I never got a bill. What I got was wasted time with needless worry about a bill that never came.  

I think of that deficit billthatnevercame every time this one particular commercial comes on the air. In this commercial, an everyday mom, looking at her iPad of a sound bite (that changes from day to day and not always a sound bite but sometimes news footage of the president with someone else talking) and wondering out loud (to the camera) how her children will pay for the deficit.

I feel like an everyday mom and I don't worry about that at all.

I worry about my kid's having health insurance and being able to go to college with out a scholarship of some sort to cover the cost of skyrocketing higher education. I worry that my daughter will not have the same rights that I have and I worry my children or their friends will not be able to marry who ever they want to marry.

I am not at all concerned about the deficit.

My thoughts about the election are pretty simple and it is more of a question. What is all this gosh darn bickering about?

Really, the president, any president, is only as good as the congress that backs him and his ideals. If they don't work together, all hope is lost.

Don't get me wrong, I am certainly supporting one over the other but mainly because his ideals match my own.

Will I be voting?  Of course!  It is my right.

Will I be making tasty treats for the PTA to sell at the polling station?  Of course, that is just a brilliant idea and I made chex mix last year to sell at the bake sale and it went over so well they ran out.  )This year I made Snicker-doodle (gluten free) chex mix.)

Will I be happy when this whole thing is over?  You better believe it.  I am so tired of all the name calling, chest beating and wasted paper to last me a life time, or until the next presidential election which ever comes first.

I am participating in NaBloPoMo and this is today's prompt.

Happy Belated Halloween

My poor suburb.  First, no fireworks on the Fourth of July due to technical difficulties and than the worst storm to hit the east coast hits us at Halloween.  We better hold on to our hats this Thanksgiving and Christmas if this is an indication of what happen during holidays this year.

I, for one, was glad that Halloween was delayed four whole days.  For one, I did not decorate and I forgot that we had to carve a pumpkin, which I still had to buy.  Past years we did some sort of fall activity that involved getting pumpkins but I seemed to avoided all things Halloween until the weekend before and we had so much to do that the last thing I wanted to do was buy and carve pumpkins.

And, than the storm hit. 

Schools were closed, power was out and Halloween was delayed.  I had time to buy and carve pumpkins.  And, of course, I waited to long so they were starting to rot.  I carved them anyway, with the help of the kid's designing skills, and they looked just fine by me. 

Even if they smelled a little and you only really smelled it if you got right up on them. 
 

As the kids and the Husband went door to door, I sat on the porch, wrapped in an afghan, drinking wine and passing out candy.  Since I typically have to do the trick or treating, I was pretty content.  At least until a little brat asked what was in my jelly jar.  Judge much?

Happy (belated) Halloween!

Six Word Saturday - Us

Remembering us over breakfast sans kids.

Anywhere in the World and I Would Live...

If I could live anywhere, where would I live?

When I was young, I wanted to live in New Orleans. I wanted to live in the French Quarter with a view from a balcony where I sit in the early morning and sip my café au lait. Or maybe, I could live in the Garden District with Anne Rice as my neighbor and take the street car to my job probably as a server or bartender somewhere on Bourbon Street.

I was so in love with that city. In a way, I still am but as with first loves, or in this case more of a crush, once you see the reality love wanes but that memory stays. I spent many a day (and night) roaming the city and it was amazing, wonderful even but I knew it was not for me to stay. I tried, several times to stay but I always came back to Ohio.

As I got older, I thought that Seattle may be a good place to lay my roots. I still have not made it there to visit but after the last few days of rain, I am not sure it is a place I want to visit for awhile.

I have dreamed my whole life of living in Ireland. But, I don’t dream of living there anymore. I certainly want to visit. One day I will visit it.

I never imagined I would end up in the suburb I grew up in, the city, yes, but not the little community that I spent my childhood and teenage years in. I thought I would live in a trendy, urban community and probably in a walk up.

But, no, I am living a few streets from where I grew up. I should be in the same parish that I made my first communion and confirmation in and my kid goes to the school that I walked past every day of my grade school years.

Deciding to move where we live now was given a lot of thought but it was also a no brainer. The houses are old and have character as does our neighborhood. The schools are good and there are plenty of playgrounds to amuse the kids. We are not far from where I work and there are s few beaches near by as well.  There is a hospital, shopping and grocery stores within walking distance, not that I do, but I did when I lived just a little closer to them. My brother, sister and mother lived in the city still and I knew that this was the right choice.

If I could live anywhere in the world, I would still live right where I am. My mother has been moved but only a city away and my brother moved to but he is still not far from us. It was right for them. Staying is right for us.

My younger self is more than likely disappointed in me for settling. But, the reality is that we are home when we are together.

If you could live anywhere, where would you live?  I am participating in NaBloPoMo and this is the Friday prompt.