Walmart saga continued

In November I posted about my brother calling me a skunk because he noticed my hair going grey while we were in Walmart. I was on a scooter so he had a good view of the top of my head.

So tonight same thing, we're leaving Walmart and he tells me I don't look like a skunk anymore. Because now the whole top of my head is grey. I even have grey at my temples so I look Reed Richard aka Mr. Fantastic. The kid is going to get seriously hurt one of these days. LOL

Book Binge Christmas Contest

Book Binge Christmas Contest
The Christmas Season is upon us and we have one burning question: Have you been naughty or nice this year?
Regardless of your answer, we are inviting our lovely readers a chance to win an eBookwise eReader!All you have to do is answer a few simple (okay, 10) questions on your blog/journal and leave the link to your Meme in this post. If you don't have a blog or journal, you can email us your answers. The winner will be chosen on January 5th, so you can enter up until 11:59pm on January 4th.

Merry Christmas!
XOXO
Casee, Holly, Isabel & Rowena

Christmas Meme:

1. What is your favorite Christmas romance to re-read each year? Twilight Before Christmas by, Christine Feehan.

2. What is your favorite Christmas movie/show? The Muppet Christmas Carol

3. What is your favorite Christmas cookie? I like sugar cookies with icing decorated to look like trees and stuff.

4. When do you start Christmas shopping? Whenever I see something that someone would like.

5. Do you re-gift? Nope, never have.

6. What is your favorite Christmas song? Jolly Old Saint Nicholas

7. When do you get your Christmas tree? Whenever I feel like it, got this years a couple of days ago. We're decorating tonight.

8. Wrapping presents: Love it or hate it? That's my favorite part. I love wrapping the gifts and making them look cool.

9. Who is the hardest person to buy for? My uncle, he doesn't need anything.

10. Christmas tree: Real or artificial? This year real, most of the time artificial.

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Walmart at midnight

So last night I'm leaving Walmart just after midnight. My brother & I have done Mom's grocery shopping to see if it works out to be any cheaper. It didn't really. I'm riding one of the scooters and he's pushing the cart beside me. This is the conversation we had on the way to the door.

Him: "OH MY GOD!"
Me: "What?!"
Him: "You need your hair colored."
Me: "I don't have hair color money."
Him: " I'll give you some next week."
Me" " We're cutting out non-esentatials and hair color is non-esentatial. So I'm letting it go gray."
Him: "Well that wouldn't be too bad, but that stripe down the middle doesn't look right. "
Me: "STOP LOOKING AT THE TOP OF MY HEAD!!"
Him: " I can't help it, you're way down there." ( he says this even when I'm standing, he's 6' 5")

So should I kill him or what? LOL

Do you believe in fate?

I got a letter from my grandpa yesterday. He wrote pretty much the same stuff as always. His mind is more in the past now than the present. He talks about Grandmother a lot, mostly how he doesn't understand how they ever found each other. That's where the question comes in, here's the story.

He was born in the very small town of Adair, IA, raised on a farm. He didn't want to be a farmer, he hated milking the cows. So he left the farm for, mechanics school, he worked for Lockheed in CA before WWII. During the war his air crew flew 26 missions. After the war he settled in Lee's Summit, MO, about 20 minutes from Kansas City. He worked for TWA, married, divorced, and raised a son.

Now cut to Grandmother. Born in the equally small farming town of Agency, MO. As a child she passed out handbills to help make money for the family. She met and married a man from St. Joseph, MO, had 5 children, moved to Lee's Summit, MO. She was widowed young and had to go to work to support her children.

Now these 2 people lived in the same town for many, many years without ever meeting. Then she starts dating a loser, who gets arrested. She asks one of his cousins to give her ride to bail him out and that's how they meet. They date for a couple of years and eventually marry, they were together over 30 years.

So what do you think, was it fate or just coincidence?

P.S. They're lives were much more interesting, I just didn't want to bore you all. ;-0

Thursday Thirteen

Thirteen things I find romantic.

1. Holding hands

2. A man who hold the door for you

3. Sitting on a porch swing at dusk watching the sunset

4. Old couples who still hold hands-- I know I said that already. ;-0

5. An expected gift --- it doesn't have to be anything big

6. Snuggling on the couch in front of a fire while and storm rages outside

7. Slow dancing

8. A light touch as he passes

9. Having someone cook a nice dinner for you

10. Someone who loves you even after seeing you at your worst.

11. Having a 'Honey Do' done, just because, not because you asked

12. Laying on grass looking at the stars

13. A moonlight stroll on the beach, or just sitting on the beach watching the star shine off the water.

Too Fat to adopt!

I've been following this story and think it's totally ridiculous! Taking a child away from the only home he's known and parents who love him because they are overweight. Okay so the man weighs 500 pounds, I know that's really really big. But he still does his job and plays soccer with his other son. The reason given on the news tonight for the judge removing this child was that the man 'might' develop diabetes or sleep apnea! So now you're saying that diabetics can't be parents? This has me so pissed off, and I know it doesn't have anything to do with me. But if that judge gets away with this can you imagine what will be next? The baby was born to his cousin, who realized she could not take care of him. So she asked him and his wife to adopt him, to keep the baby in the family. Now it's turned into a media circus and they can't even see the baby at foster home. The foster parents are afraid the media will show up and they don't want that at their home. Which I understand but, still keeping the baby away from people who love him and are totally capable of raising him in a good home is just about the stupidest thing I've heard. Here's a link to the article I hope it works. http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=3878236&version=4&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1&sflg=1

Look at those curls!

I wish I had some of those curls now. This was summer of '67. That lovely cake is for Mom and my uncle's birthday. He was born the day before her 8th birthday. We were in Jacksonville, Fl at this time and Mom's baby brothers were staying with us for the summer. The boys drove down in Grandmother's car. I remember fishing, catching crabs, because they wanted a crab dinner. Dad was out at sea, for most of the summer. I think he was in Cuba or some place like that. We spent most of our time at the beach, of course. I have very good memories of that summer.