Growing like weeds...

I was picking up Sam from baseball practice and noticed a ton of dandelions growing near the parking area. Just seeing those warm yellow blossoms made me chuckle. It brought to mind a silly thing that we use to do to people not in the "know." You held a dandelion up to their face and said some kind of silly little saying that I can't remember right now, then you quickly rubbed the dandelion on their cheek. The result was a nice dark yellow streak on their face. Did that saying have something to do with liking butter? Hmmmm, I really can't remember. I am sure I will think of it when I least expect it but for now it is driving me crazy.

We also use to make wreaths to wear as a crown. That was when we didn't equate dandelions with weeds. We just thought they were pretty flowers. Remember picking them for your Mother or the neighbor lady and feeling like you just did the nicest thing in the world? I also loved when they started to go to seed. You had to pick the white fluffy dandelion and manage to get it to your lips before any of the fluff started to blow away in the wind. The wish wasn't any good if you had fluff blowing away before you made your wish and blew the seeds all over your yard and your neighbors too. Hey, it insured that you would be able to pick more pretty yellow "flowers" in the future. To tell you the truth, I still like blowing those wishes all over the neighbor hood if I get the chance. I just try to do it in someone elses neighborhood.

OK, in their defense, dandelions are not really weeds. They are wild vegetables. According to the USDA, dandelions are more nutritious than broccoli and spinach. They may taste bitter, but if harvested and cooked correctly, they can be delisious. All parts of the dandelion are useable. The leaves for greens, the blossoms for wines and jelly, and the roots for coffee. It has been said that they are also medically helpful: as a diuretic, to cut fat, to reduce fat, for kidney stones, cancer, diabetes, to cleanse the blood, for weight reduction, for vision, for your skin and acne, for bowel function, to lower blood pressure and serum cholesterol, and for anemia. In Mythology, Hectate fed Theseus dandelions for 30 days so he would become powerful enough to defeat the Minotaur. See, its powerful stuff.

Interesting huh. I'll stop buy and make some wishes so you and your neighbors can enjoy the lovely veggies too.

Katie Leach was in the musical "Hello Dolly" a few weeks ago. She is pictured above as part of the horse. Believe it or not, she is the horses head, yes head. I won't tell you what she thought that head smelled like or what she thought she found inside it. The Horse did several cute little numbers though....very cute.

It's that time of the year! Yes, I woke up this morning completely stuffed. Its that darn tree pollen and of course the trees are either all budded out or blooming. I love spring, just not the runny eyes and nose that comes along with it. I'd still rather have a case of the sniffs than a driveway to shovel. By the way, nice picture, don't you think. I took it the other day on the good old digital camera. I love that thing.

After attending Slava's Snow Show at the Union Square Theatre in NYC tonight, the preformers threw out HUGE balloon balls and snow on the crowd. We had a great time and the best part was when one of the green clowns pulled Sam's jacket off over his head. He had been trying to cover his head to keep from getting wet during intermission. To check it out or buy tickets: http://www.snowshowusa.com

Yes, yes indeed...

We had a Slava's Snow Show night, people. Yep, Sam and I took in a show and I think we had a great time. He laughed a lot, clapped a lot, got a little wet, windblown, and even got some spider web stuck in his mouth. Sam had his jacket pulled off and got knocked back into his chair by a huge balloon ball. It was funnnnnnn. Yep, F, U, N, fun. Go see it.

Oooopsie! My finger just slipped and the next thing I knew Jeans picture was posted on my site. I know Jean said not to post a picture of her on here....but it couldn't be helped. Seriously! No, seriously, my finger just slipped. Who knew that computer keys could be so tricky. 

According to Matt....

Yep, My pal Matt, has announced that I don't have enough boob shots on my site. Huh! Well, I guess since I don't have any boob shots on my site, his statement is correct. Now, personally, I don't think I need boob shots on my site at all. Matt needs to make up his own site and dedicate it to breasts, yep, nothing but breasts. However, I will post on my second "dirty" site, a link, just for Matt. So, Matt, click on "censored for your protection" then click on the "Ewwww" entry to check out a nifty neat picture on someone elses site. That is as close as I'm going to get to boobs on my site.

What a waste of paper

I have started and abandoned more journals and diaries than I care admitting to. I buy them (or get them as gifts)with the intention of writing in them at least once a week. I usually last a month, sometimes just a few weeks. I know it doesn't have anything to do with me having a boring life. I have my slow times, but on the whole I'm always up to something. I've been trying to figure out what it is about writing down my thoughts and daily activities that seems to leave me in the dust. I know it's not because I don't have things to write. My mind is always going. I've actually been told I think to much. I guess that could be true.

I have very clear memories and remember things most people would simply forget. Sure, I forget all the things I should remember, but I don't have any control over that. So, why is it so difficult for me to keep a journal. Perhaps the reason is simple. I remember what I need to. Who says I have to remember what I was thinking on August 25th. Who cares if I started to gag at the dentists office when they were taking full x-rays. The molars always get me. My mouth may run all the time, but it sure isn't big enough for that x-ray card. Perhaps it is more important that when I least expect it, something will trigger my memory and I get a little surprise. You know, something that wasn't forgotten but filed away in my brain. Isn't that better than flipping through a book? Plus, if its not written down, it can't be used against me in a court of law. Ah ha! That is right, you will have to prove it.

OK, seriously, I don't have a problem typing my crazy thoughts online. Maybe I just need the world to see all of my pathetic grammar and spelling issues. Everyone knows I don't edit my sites. I type it, I post it, and I ignore what normal people do between those two steps. I just "getter done." (Don't ask) Anywhozits....its time for bed. Stay tuned for more of my dyslexic blabbing. I live to make English teachers cringe.

Up to no good....

Yep, I was looking through my photo albums and I found some fun stuff.

If I can figure out how to get the scanner to save again, I will be posting some nifty pictures on here. Yep, nifty indeed.

Are you scared yet? If not, maybe you should be.

Don't worry Mom, you are safe for now. I know better than to piss you off...but that doesn't mean I won't .......MWAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!

Katies Instant messages with friends....they scare me.

This is a conversation that Katie had with a friend while I was sitting in the office, waiting to go shopping for her Mom's birthday present. I think I must be getting old....lol. I never had a prono movie in the works when I was in high school? Is it just me or is that not normal. LOL, Awwww, KATIE!

Katies1sexymofo: slut
xkissmeimirishx7: yumm
Katies1sexymofo: penis?
xkissmeimirishx7: yummier?
Katies1sexymofo: whats goin on G-String?
xkissmeimirishx7: hahah nothing much Sex Mcsexerson
Katies1sexymofo: hahaha I love you sex jelly jar
xkissmeimirishx7: wooo! as i love you ..in my pants
Katies1sexymofo: sweeeet... Handcuffs
xkissmeimirishx7: and a little S&M...lets make it a real party ;-)
Katies1sexymofo: oh baby
xkissmeimirishx7: oh silly nancy...DO IT AGAIN
Katies1sexymofo: BRILLIANT... You are soo talented
Katies1sexymofo: you are going to be in all of my porn movies
Katies1sexymofo: :-D
xkissmeimirishx7: o0o0o not going to lie...i'm intregued
Katies1sexymofo: sweeet... I need more character in my silly nancy porno
xkissmeimirishx7: who do we have so far?
Katies1sexymofo: you, the hand, the mailman
Katies1sexymofo: thats it
Katies1sexymofo: malewoman
Katies1sexymofo: hahaha
xkissmeimirishx7: hmm...

Our sweet little Stevie passed away earlier this week. We are not sure how old he was when he passed. He lived at the Leach home for 10 years after being found outside, dirty and exhausted with 3 cats waiting to pounce. Steve had been with us for a year when this picture was taken. He enjoyed sitting in my bedroom window and singing my whistle back to me. As far as birds go, he was the top of the nest. He will be missed.  

"You're never too old to do goofey stuff."

--Ward Cleaver

Postcards

I just love postcards. I love everything about them. I like buying them, sending them, receiving them, and looking at the postcards that are sent to other people. You know if you go to antique stores you will run across old postcards that were sent many years ago when they still taught proper penmanship in schools. Even though you know the owner is no where to be found and in all reality, had probably met his/her maker, it still feels like snooping when you flip the card and read what was written on the other side.

I think when someone takes a trip and they take the time to send you a postcard, well, its a wonderful thing. I save the postcards that are sent to me, not including the birthday postcards the dentist sends out. I never throw out the destination postcards I get. Postcards are like a little piece of history and my collection is MY history. The next time you are on vacation, send me your postcard and if its special enough, maybe I will post it on my site.

Why not, I hear people have lived to tell their tales! Let me find an insurance plan that covers such "accidents".  

Every morning I wake up to find a bunch of crap on front porch. I stood on the porch three days in a row and couldn't figure out where it was coming from. I clean it up and its back the next morning. Today I finally caught a glimps of what was going on. 

The cause of the mess....a bird making his/her nest on the window ledge. 

Katies special talent....yes, she spends many hours in class sticking a pen up her nose with just her lip. That's my girl! 

REVENGE! Ah ha!! This is a lovely shot of my Pop, chicken legs and Fruit of the Looms hanging out for all to see. He does love his "nest", oh, so much. I never realized it before....but he has Grandma's feet...lol. He will probably kill me for posting this, but what the hell, yah only live once. 

Guess what big day is on its way!

I never let people forget my birthday!

Ah, the sweet smell of spring...

The trees in front of the house are in bloom. It smells wonderful. Sure, it makes my nose run but its worth the sight and smell. The little petals were floating to the ground in the wind today. It was like it was snowing only it wasn't cold and it smelled sweet like fruit. I think the spring is one of my favorite times of the year. Lots of perks and only a few cons, lots of rain, for example. It seems like after a long winter I am in the best mood when the sun starts warming everything up.

I'm going to go hose down the patio chairs and put the table back together again. It's to nice to be stuck in the house blogging. I'll save that for later. I was only checking my email for a letter anyway. I hope your day is as good as mine is so far.

Love, Netter

a close up of the seel smelling flowers 

looking toward the sky 

Our plum trees in bloom 

200+ Random things you may not know about me.

100+ Random things about me....I stole this from Raine. I will keep adding facts as then come to me.

1) I use to love walnuts....but thanks to my Uncle the smell and taste make me nauseous.
2) I hate it when people sing Happy Birthday to me in a restaurant.
3) My favorite flowers are lilacs, Hydrangeas, lily of the Valley, and white or pale pink roses.
4) My Pop makes the best popcorn balls I have tasted in my life.
5) My favorite ice cream flavor is Butter Brickle.....not Butter Pecan, ewww, which is a whole different ball game.
6) I am a movie addict. I love movies, just love them. I will watch anything but horror films, they scare the hell out of me.
7) The number 7 is my favorite or lucky number, I have no idea why, it just is.
8) I have had a root canal. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.
9) Technically, I am 3 years ahead on my Christmas ornaments for our annual exchange. I know I will break down and give them two or three at a time though.
10) I know that if I watch someone do something once that I can usually figure out how to do it myself at a later date.
11) The sound of Wind chimes makes me think of My Grandma and Grandpa Slater.
12) I love being kissed on my neck, just below my ear.
13) I don’t think that the number 13 is an unlucky number.
14) I can thank two Canadians for my love of hockey.
15) I wish my hair was as red as it was when I was a little girl
16) The Leach gang is my East Coast family
17) I am totally grossed out by snakes
18) The sight of blood and tissue doesn’t bother me in an emergency situation but don’t ask me to watch a hip replacement surgery on TV.
19) I now love diet Pepsi, I use to hate the stuff.
20) I want to have a pink retro 50’s kitchen.
21) I’m a craft freak. It is my outlet.
22) My favorite actors of all time are Cary Grant, Rock Hudson, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart.
23) When I was a kid I went fishing with Larry the Cable Guy and his family.
24) I once drew Bert from Sesame Street in crayon on the freshly wallpapered wall beside the fridge.
25) My Dad made me stand there and scrub the wall with a paper towel. It wouldn’t come off and I learned my lesson.
26) I use to crawl under the table and pretend it was a fort when Mom, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa Slater, and Great Aunt Blanche and Great Uncle Ray would play cards.
27) My Sister pooped on my turtle…..it was a stuffed turtle and her diaper leaked when she was sitting on it. I was not happy.
28) The first time I cooked spaghetti by myself, I put the spaghetti in before the water was boiling. Hence the creation: Spaghetti Loaf, half food, half glue.
29) My first kiss was with John Poore.
30) The first boy to ask me to go steady with him was Rusty Smith. I told him no. I was in the 4th grade.
31) I made a homemade hammock out of a blanket on the monkey bars. The knot above my head came untied and when I hit the grown it knocked the wind out of me.
32) I once teased Deanna: Wouldn’t it be funny if you date my Uncle, then get married and become my Aunt, your kids would be my cousins.
33) I got my car stuck in the mud on a minimum maintenance road. Tami’s Dad pulled me out and blamed her for letting me drive down that road.
34) I love the feel and smell of laundry dried on a cloths line when it’s windy.
35) I have coughed and sneezed at the same time, twice in my life and both times it hurt like a mofo.
36) I have been told I am too generous.
37) I have been awakened at ungodly hours by knocks on my window and pebbles tossed on my window.
38) I snore…not always…but often.
39) My toes are almost completely even…like they were chopped off.
40) I broke my clavicle when I fell off a horse.
41) My most embarrassing moment was turning somersaults down the bleachers (from the top to the bottom) during a wrestling meet at my high school.
42) I collect wheat pennies.
43) If I were rich I would travel the world and bring Raine with me because she is always up for an adventure.
44) I don’t hate anyone….but there are a few people I really dislike.
45) I don’t like horror movies. I have nightmares from them.
46) I’m dyslexic.
47) I can’t wear contacts or use eye drops because eye balls freak me out.
48) I retain trivial information and struggle to memorize data I need to know.
49) Christmas and Halloween are my favorite holidays.
50) I don’t have just one favorite color.
51) Even though I can grow my finger nails long, I bite my nails when I am nervous and sometimes I have them all chewed off before I realize it.
52) I have little red spots all over my body….they look like red freckles and are really harmless clusters of dilated capillaries, called Cherry Angiomas.
53) When I lack sleep I ramble on and on like a lunatic.
54) I love big band and swing music.
55) I once stabbed myself in the shin while cutting windows in a cardboard box with a steak knife. I have the scare to prove it.
56) I fell on a prickly pear cactus and had to lay across my Mom’s lap while she pulled each needle out of my legs with tweezers.
57) I prefer pool water to be too cold rather than to warm.
58) If I was born a boy, my name would have been Dean Jay and I would have been called D.J.
59) I use to love watching reruns of the original Mickey Mouse Club, just to hear Annette say our name when they introduced themselves.
60) My singing has been compared to Scuttle's from The Little Mermaid. I won’t deny the similarities.
61) I ran with scissors and lived to tell the tale.
62) I chased the butcher down the block on my big wheel every day until he started walking on the other side of the street.
63) I once had a wart on my thumb because I use to catch sand toads with Herbie Klepper.
64) I use to believe in the Boogie Man…...thanks to my Uncles.
65) I had my ears double pierced but the holes were to close and I let second set of holes grow shut.
66) I fell all the way down Grandma and Grandpa Slater’s wooden staircase while carrying a box with filled with my plastic tea set and my life size doll. I landed on the doll and the saucers were spinning around on the floor and my mother looked at me and asked, “What did you do that for?” She thought I jumped….That is when I started crying.
67) When I was 4 years old, I licked one of the brackets on the hand rail of our Staircase in Pawnee City. It tasted like a penny. I have no idea why I did it or how I knew what a penny tasted like.
68) My favorite gifts to receive are jewelry or gift certificates.
69) I own over 100 Pez machines.
70) I love going antique shopping.
71) I was so touched that Katie wrote one of her college application essays about me.
72) I reluctantly went to a medium as a skeptic and left an amazed believer.
73) I’m a klutz and don’t deny it.
74) I think it’s better to have a nutty family than a boring, uptight family.
75) Sometimes I snort when I laugh…just like my Aunt Vickie.
76) I have been known to do strange things in my sleep. i.e.: I took all of my socks out of my sock drawer and piled them in the chair on the opposite side of the room. I also packed a carry on suitcase with my cordless phone and one shoe, among other things.
77) When I was a young child and was very sick with bronchitis I hallucinated that my Mother, who was reading me a book, was actually a shark reading to me.
78) When I was 5, I need more Dixie cups for my “Indian village” and I walked in on my 16 year old Uncle Randy in the bathtub. I didn’t see anything because I was to short but he freaked out and started yelling. I couldn’t figure out what the big deal was because someone was always in the room when I was taking a bath.
79) When I was helping my Mother carry a roll of carpet…she stopped walking and I kept going and pushed her over into a row of bikes. She was pissed.
80) I dance and sing around the house when no one is home.
81) I was awake on the sofa when my Dad told my Mother that he wanted to hurry and read the instructions to something before I woke up and saw him doing it. It drives me nuts when he refused to read instructions.
82) My Grandpa Kaster tricked me into helping him dig potatoes by telling me to stop by the house after I mailed a letter for my Mom because he had something he wanted to show me.
83) I always laugh when I think about my Grandma Kaster hitting Mike in the head with a squash from across the room, because he wouldn’t listen to her.
84) My Dad and Uncle Randy use to grab my ankles through the back of the basement stairs and growl…thus resulting in my uneasy feeling on open back stairs.
85) I was born on a United States Army Base.
86) I have one Sister and we are polar opposites.
87) I still sing,”Give me the Beach Boys and free my soul, I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away….” I know its “Give me the beat boys….” It’s a hard habit to break.
88) I sometimes laugh in awkward situations when laughter would appear odd.
89) The best prank I ever played was when I kept adding a chick a day to my Sisters flock of chicks. The first few she didn’t notice...but she eventually caught on and couldn’t figure out who was doing it.
90) I have not gone more than 1 minute without a toe ring on since 1998. My toe is now indented like a finger that has worn a wedding ring for many years.
91) I have a small gray scar on the side of my ass from accidentally sitting on a pencil in high school.
92) I used to dress my cat up in dolly dresses.
93) When my Grandpa Kaster and Uncle Jim put a “HONK IF YOU ARE HORNY!” bumper sticker on my Aunts car, I was the person blamed for it.
94) The farthest I have been from home is Venice Italy
95) I once put gum in the hair of the bitchy blonde girl sitting in front of me at a Jones Beach concert because she was making mean and nasty comments about a couple of my friends.
96) The first time I saw Nebraska play live was not at Memorial Stadium. It was in New Jersey at the Kick-Off Classic.
97) The first concert I ever went to was Def Leppard in Lincoln Nebraska, 1987. I still have the t-shirt somewhere.
98) The first time I drove in Lincoln, Tami was with me and when we were on Cornhusker Highway, she started yelling about a truck about to hit us. We were not in danger, she was just kidding me and I was royally freaked and pissed.
99) I got over my baby fears when Michelle made me hold Kelley as a newborn. No matter how many times I said I didn’t want to hold her….Michelle would hand her to me anyway.
100) My first time on an airplane was when I flew to New York to be a Nanny in 1992. I haven’t stopped flying since.
101) I have been told that I think to much. I don't think I do.
102)I love power tools but never took shop classes in school I hated the shop teacher, he was and still is a super prick.
103) My first cat was named Sunshine and my last cat was named Tuffy. I only had two cats but I would steal Tooches in a heartbeat if I was sure Raine wouldn't hunt me down and kill me. I love that cat.
104) Once when I was bored I colored one of my entire big toes with a blue magic marker...I was 9 or 10.
105) I was on a live feed Japanese Television show by accident. I can prove it too.
106) I am a roller coaster junkie....I want to ride them all.
107)I never went to sleep-away camp. (That one is for Katie...lol)
108)My all time favorite candy bar was the Mars Marathon Bar, which they stopped making but thanks to Raine I have found the English counterpart.
109)I have three long term plans for practical jokes and I already know who the mark is. Mwahahahhahah(evil laugh)!!
110) I dated a married man, until I figured it out and dumped his ass.
111) I have watched every episode of The Brady Bunch atleast 10 times each.
112) I could talk on the phone for HOURS...and sometimes I do.
113) I want to learn how to weld so I can make some interesting art projects.
114) I love watching American Chopper because the guys on the show remind me of people I know.
115) Some of my favorite scents are: Lilacs in bloom, cinnamon rolls baking in the oven and popcorn at the movies.
116)I'm a cat person. I like dogs but I'm a cat person.
117)My favorite recipe is my Chicken, Broccoli and Parmesan Cheese Risotto because it is easy and very tastes great.
118)My birthday cake preference is an Confetti Angel Food Cake without frosting. I liked the bunny cake that my mom use to make when I was little too, as long as there was no coconut on it.
119) I never give people a chance to forget my birthday.
120)My all time favorite movie is Harvey.
121)I wear a size 9 shoe, sometimes an 8 1/2 and I have a hard time finding shoes that are a really great fit.
122) My favorite place to eat is The Cheese Cake Factory.
123) I have climbed the stairs to the crown of the Statue of Liberty eight times.
124) I can drive a car with a manual transmission. When I learned, my Sister and Mom were sitting in the back seat,laughing at me everytime I killed the engine.
125) I watched some of the filming of Die Hard 3 in NYC and have a few pictures of it.
126) I fell UP Look Out Mountain, I'm not even sure how it happened but it did.
127) I have been to Disney world and Disney Land.
128) I like to tell my Mom that I think Drew Carey is HOT....because her reaction is funnnnnny.
129) I have learned that if you ignore my father long enough, he will get bored and leave you alone. You can always blow bubbles in his direction, he can't stand when they pop on him.
130) Someone made my laugh when I had a mouth full of Cream Soda and I inhaled it. I thought I was going to die. I wasn't able to smell cream soda for 3 years without being repulsed.
140) I started a shaving cream fight in my Grandma's Kitchen one Christmas. I had to walk a block home without a coat in 5 degree weather to change my clothes because I was coated. It doesn't take much to start a riot in our family.
141) I met the Al Lewis who played Grandpa on The Munsters.
142) I've climbed a water tower.
143) I've gone to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade many times, but I'm running out of people to drag with me.
144) I ruined a new pair of saddle shoes when I walked the 2 blocks home in the water running along the curb after a storm. I was in kindergarten.
145) I cut the hair on one of my sisters barbie dolls and used green glitter finger nail polish to make spikes for its new punk rocker look.
146) I was caught in a hail storm while white water rafting in Colorado. We were in rough water and there was no place to pull over so we had to keep our cool and paddle while we were pelted by pea size hail. Don't laugh, it friggin' hurt.
147) I answered the phone once and thought it was my Sisters friend so I answered in a Swedish accent. I said, "Yah, just a meenite, I tink she is." and handed the phone to my sister while announcing it was Laura, her friend. To her surprise it was a college rep who was impressed that we had a Swedish exchange student staying with us.
148) I got in trouble because I painted my Dad's big toe nail black with a bottle of car touch-up paint. When he woke up, he was pissed off and made me use a steel wool pad to scrub off the paint.
149) Once when we were getting ready to leave on a trip, I took a picture of my mom who had just gotten out of the shower and was sitting on the sofa in her underwear, talking on the phone. It didn't make her very happy.
150) While in vacation, I was in a hotel bathroom putting on my swimming suit when my sister swung open the door and took a picture of my white butt. I was pissed but in the end, it became the only proof I have that I did get a little tan after an entire summer at the pool.
151) I tend to be an practical joke instigator.
152) I like a good dirty joke.
153) I watched a porn movie from beginning to end and it made me laugh more than it turned me on.
154) I have been asked to be part of a threesome. I said no thanks.
155) I have fallen asleep on a plane before we had even taken off.
156) I have had strange dreams about things that have later actually happened.
157) I've gone skinny dipping.
158) When I run a fever my temperature yo-yo's. Once it got so high that I passed out while I was sitting on the edge of a deep claw-foot tub. When I came to, I was in a U-shape with my legs hanging over the edge of the tub. I had a lump on my head, there were shampoo bottles everywhere, and the cold porcelain helped reduce my fever.
159) A drunk softball player bit my arm in the Elk Creek bar during the Elk Creek Street Dance. I think he was trying to flirt. ????
160) I dropped a skateboard on my toe and ended up losing my toe nail.
161) I had my pinky in the screen door frame, by the hinges, when my mother closed the door and it latched. I lost that fingernail too.
162) Once, instead of dumping ketchup on my footlong hotdog in the bun, I dumped my glass of water because I was talking and not paying attention.
163)I told my sister that nickels were worth more than dimes and traded her for them. My Mom found out and made me give them back.
164) I told my sister that she was adopted (she wasn't)and she started to cry and told on me. I also told her that her boobs were going to grow under her armpits and she would have to walk around with her arms straight out to the sides. Oh, don't feel sorry for her....see next entry.
165)My Sister rammed an old fashioned push lawn mower into my arm while I was laying in the grass, and peeled back a plum sized section of my skin. It didn't leave a scar....how odd.
166)I lost my Lemon Twist while my Dad was shooting blue-rock or skeet at a range in South Dakota. I loved that thing.
165)I'm always a bridesmaid never a bride.
166)I hit the door frame with my toe next to my little toe and my mother said it was just jammed and to pull on it really hard. I did, HOLY SHIT it hurt, and now that toe is as long as my middle toe. Jammed my ass!
167)I had the chicken pox twice. Once when I was very little and again when I was a teenager.
168) I never get strep throat, NEVER, even if someone that has it drinks out of my glass. I must have a natural immunity.
169)I know some juicy secrets....and no, I won't tell you.
170)I have a large collection of skeleton keys.
171)I've lived in six states. Nebraska, Kentucky, Iowa, South Dakota, Connecticut, and New York.
172) I don't have any tattoos but I almost got one when a friend suggested we both get tiny lady bugs on our foot, like it was just randomly crawling on our foot.
173) I'm a packrat but I do throw stuff away, eventually.
174) I once smashed my hand into a bus window because I saw a tick on my friends head and grabbed it to throw it out the open window....but it was closed.
175)I'm a night owl.
176)I had the all time high scores in Pac Man and Burgertime on our families Atari system, thus the reason I have wrist issues, joy stick over dose.
177)I fell out of the back seat of a friends 2 door car and landed in mud when my foot got caught in the seatbelt.
178) I went to an outdoor concert at a dirt race track when a thunderstorm rushed in and the sky opened up. By the time we got to the car, which was parked in a field, we were in ankle deep water. People were getting stuck and I had to push our car out and the people next to us because they helped us. I rode home covered in a quarter inch of mud. My new outfit was ruined and the next day, there were still 100 cars stuck in that field that had to be towed out with tractors.
179) I can still do a penny drop off of the monkey bars.
180)I use to be extremely competitive until I realized how stupid I acted and now I just have fun.
181) Playing Hungry,Hungry Hippos with kids gives me a headache, but it didn't when I was a kid. It's loud, but you can play link version, its not bad.
181) My birthstone is an Emerald, and my sign is Taurus, the bull.
182) My biology lab partner was a whimp and I had to disect everything, but the frog wasn't the worst thing I had to cut. Starfish were terrible, it kind of felt like chewing on sand feels. Yeah, it was awful sawing into those things. It still freaks me out, just thinking about it.
183) My favorite part of the New York Times is the Science section.
184)I don't believe that going to church makes you a good person. It's your everyday behavior that speaks for itself.
185)In High School, I never used to do my homework, or atleast all of it. When I decided I would just do it to stop everyone from bitching at me about it, I ended up with the most improved average of the year award and on the honor roll. It's not like I studied, my test grades were fine anyway. I just did my daily work.
186) If I knew I wouldn't get caught, I would love to drop pieces of raw chicken into the air conditioner vents of a certain persons car. I know its mean and I would feel bad about it later....but I still would love to get away with it.
187) Once I talked my friends into trying out as extras in the High school preformance of Grease. As we were heading to the chorus room, they walked in and I kept walking down the hall. It took them a little bit to realize that I wasn't with them and they all ended up in the show.
188) I love it when my friends children call me Auntie Nett.
189) I am a Godmother. Not a Fairy Godmother, I just don't have that kind of power, sorry to say.
190) I took many years of swimming lessons and because of that I was able to remain calm when I had a terrible cramp while swimming alone. I was able to turtle float until the crap went away and I was able to swim to shore.
191) I once had peach juice come out my nose. Yes, once again I started to laugh with food in my mouth.
192) I like to write my name on the sidewalk with the smoke from a smokebomb every 4th of July.
193) I have enough Christmas ornaments for two trees....but that doesn't stop me from aquiring more. I just love them.
194) I'm always there for people that need some help, all they have to do is ask.
195) I am pathetic when it comes to remembering phone numbers.
196) I travel using landmarks and not street names. I can tell you how to get there but not if I have to rely on street names alone.
197) I walk fast becasue I take long strides. I walk like I am a tall person and I tend to gain speed.
198) I always have a book by my bed that I am in the process of reading.
199) If I am not married by the time I am 50, I am going to buy my own damn diamond ring.
200) Thanks to my Dad, I am great at spotting bull shit.
201) I've washed two cell phones in the washing machine. Only one survived.
202) I never slept-walked as a kid, but have many times in the last 5 years.
203) I'm the creator of "Beer" gardens and beer seed....just ask my parents neighbor, Chuck....he'll agree.
204) I've been told that I should be an event planner. I guess I rock a baby shower.
205) I've named my sewing machine Satan...because it's evil.
206) The best meals that I've made and that Sam loved were not from a recipe, I just made it up as I went. In every case, I was desperate not to make a trip to the grocery store and in every case, I wasn't able to reproduce the dish the next time I made it.
207) I wonce laughed with cream soda in my mouth and it all came out my nose. I thought I was going to die and couldn't stand the smell or taste of cream soda for years after that.

My Uncle Randy

I don't know why....but my Uncle Randy has popped into my mind about a dozen times today. I want to believe that when someone has passed on and they are haunting your thoughts, it is because their spirit is near you. Maybe that isn't it at all, maybe it is a totally random thing, a few brain cells firing that had been on a break. I went to a medium last year thinking I would just toss away the cash on a new experience. I was skeptical when I arrived with a friend. I left in a totally different state. I'm was in shock. There were to many things that he just nailed....things that were not so common or well known. No misses and all hits. It was both comforting and unsettling at the same time. I really hope that Randy does hang out with me from time to time, you know, keep an eye on me. After all, he was more than just a run of the mill Uncle. I felt like Randy was the big brother I never had. Maybe it is just because he lived with us for a year, maybe not. When you are 6 and your 16 year old Uncle moves in, takes your room, forcing you to share with your little sister, it changes the dynamics of things.

Have you ever wondered if things are already planned out before you are ever born. You know, your destiny is set in stone and the events that are to unfold are a tool to teach us something new, something meaningful. Does that mean that Randy was brought into our lives and the whole time he was heading to that car accident? Does it mean a person that commits suicide, no matter how shocking we find it, was always heading to that moment in time when all hope was lost? I kinda hope its not that simple. I'm really not one of those people that sit around pondering the mysteries of life and death. I can honestly say that most of the time I am to busy living.

I guess what this comes down to is the simple fact that I miss Randy. I miss him.

Please, please, no photographs! I tried being nice, now instead of five fingers you get one......are you ready for it? 

Ok, I have been a little busy. I have been making bracelets out the ka-sing-zang. Its an illness I believe. I can't stop myself. These are just a few that I have not given away yet. My friend Raine is my best customer. 

what is your point? 

make me want to sneeze 

all done 

more roars 

fall on this little guy and you won't be happy...I know from experience. 

pretty but don't touch 

whoa 

purple....pretty 

more roars 

what the!?