Sunday, January 13, 2008

Cleaning and Laundry


Tony is at the Razorback basketball game and I'm home vacumming and doing laundry. Aaah the glomarous life. Just me and my faithful companion Joxer the boxer. I have actually thought of attaching a saddlebag type gadget on this dog to hold stuff I need when I'm running around the house doing chores. He's always beside me. But that's the nature of the breed. A few weeks ago I was so angry with him getting out of the backyard and running all over the neighborhood that I honestly said I was going to find him a new home. Joxer is not originally my dog. He was my sons dog. My son left him with us when he moved out, because his girlfriend didn't want the dog. So he's mine. And I love him. But folks he doesn't know what a street is, so he just bolts across them. I knew he was going to get hit by a car. He finally saw another dog who was out also. I feared it was a doberman at least that's what it looked like at first. This frightened me that they were going to fight. They both however liked each other very much. Yeah I was trying to get control of my dog to take him home and he and the other dog kept trying to have intercourse. Now that's embarassing. Your neighbors are going by and see you trying to break up two dogs. Finally under control we headed back to the house. For 2 days I asked many people if they needed a dog. We've had him 7 years, so he's old and his life expectancy is not many more years. After much thought, the realization was that I could never get rid of Joxer. So he helps me around the house. But he better not get out of the yard again.

Sales







Take a look. I found these today while out shopping. After Christmas sales woo hoo gotta love em! I haven't gone overboard this year. In fact until this weekend I haven't done any shopping. Working in retail makes it hard sometimes to want to think about going out shopping. But its a good idea to open up to what other shops have. So I went to Cato who always has great clothing values. Their everyday prices are amazing. While in their store I found some housewares which I thought would look adorable in my kitchen. Then I was shopping in Dilliards and found this fantastic bargain on silverware. My 65 piece International stainless only cost me $20. I couldn't believe it. Do you know how long I've looked for a great deal on this stuff, and this was amazing. Yes, I'm very happy about my finds.

Christmas







I haven't really been able to do much blogging so much going on to get back to normal (whatever that is). But here's a recap of Christmas. Grandpa Harold was here. We invited all the family over to our house for Christmas day. Only one of Tony's brothers did not come. Two of our neices were not present either,(they were missed). The focus became our nephew Brian who told us to save the date. Yes, he's getting married to a women he met on an internet dating service. I guess it really works, my son talked to someone a few days before and that guy had met his bride the same way. Just a note I would recommend any one who uses these types of services to check credentials of the site and spend some real time finding out about the other person, I'm sure for all the success stories there are probably some horror stories. We got on the computer and he showed us some photos of her. Lovely. The weddings in Seattle (her home) as you know we live in Arkansas so it will be quite a trip. He took addresses so the invites could be sent.



We also spent time taking pics of grandpa and the grandkids. I had them printed out so he could put them in the RV. He seemed to enjoy himself and so did every one else. All in all a good Christmas.

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Bringing In The New Year

Yes here we are 3 freezing fools at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on New Years Day. We live in Fayetteville, Arkansas which is of course home of the Arkansas Razorbacks football team. This year our team got to play against the Missouri Tigers. We froze as we kept hoping for something to change the mostly discouraging game we were watching. To no avail. The only thing that changed was the direction of the wind, blowing right in our faces. We were the home team and were located on the side of the press box. Which is the west side and not a ray of sunshine shed of course. We froze. I hate to say after 3 minutes into the 3rd quarter and a 28 to 7 score, Stacy and I went back to the RV, where we continued to watch the downfall of our team on national TV. So sad. We love our HOGS. We hoped they would win. But it's been many years since Missouri played at the Cotton Bowl so I guess they just brought it that day. Anyway HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!