Flash Mob

i saw this on - http://poppytalk.blogspot.com – a really great blog (must. get. blog. roll. started. on. this. site…in case anyone should start to read it. as usual for me and the flash mobs, it made me cry with feel goodness. i am a total sap to things like that. a friend of mine posted on facebook the first flash mob i had ever seen where it was in a train station and the song was ‘do re mi’ from thesound of music. i watched it over and over and over again. it just made me smile. it’s like random acts of kindness. this one, however, is even better because it has a real message to it. with the trevor project, anti-bullying campaigns are getting more publicity – as it should. i remember how, one time, where i was part of a small group laughing at someone which could be considered bullying and i am really sorry and ashamed of doing that. i was either elementary or middle school age…i don’t remember, but i do remember how bad i felt later. there was a boy that sometimes picked on others in my son’s class in elementary school and my son said that he didn’t like him. i told him that he should still be nice to him since i knew he had 2 older brothers and he probably got picked on by them himself. i am especially proud that in our city of fort worth we have joel burns as a councilman. he made a very poignant speech which is also on youtube, which i am not sure if i can post more than one video on this post (newb! and tech idiot = me), so here is the url (edit note: i did it!):

he is up for re-election this year and you can bet he has my vote. anyone who is out there, and happens on this post that lives in fort worth, and is registered to vote, please seriously consider voting for joel burns. well…hmmmmmm… i don’t remember where i was going with this. i guess it would be that bullying = bad and flash mobbing = good. yea to flash mobbing!

i am in the middle of changing my blog site…actually daughter michelle has set the whole thing up for me and i haven’t yet figured out how to enter in the blogs, and i couldn’t let valentine’s day go by without something…

especially with all the blogs inputting such cute valentine-y stuff.

husband scott took me out for a really nice valentine’s lunch which is really a nice alternative to valentine’s dinner. no crowds. no lines. we just walked out of the office building downtown and voila! lots of restaurants. i didn’t take my camera. so…

instead, here is a photo of my hot pink fingernails painted just for valentine’s day. i know, i know, they don’t look hot pink thanks to waiting till the evening when all natural light is gone and using lamplight (am afraid to spell incandescent…oh wait…i just did!) for the photo.

just got my whole living magazine and will be reading all about the 25 ways to get unstuck and find your (my) happy place in the happiness issue of martha stewart’s magazine.

i will let you know all the secrets to happiness…as soon as i read them.

just got through reading all my blogs, emails and facebook - things i love to do and i will do as a great procrastination tool when i should be doing something else. i love reading the blogs that i have set up in rss feed system. i wonder if there is some way on tumblr to put down what is called a blog roll (a new term i just picked up). if i could do that and IF (a great big IF) anyone were to read my blog, they could click on my blog roll and see the truly great blogs i follow. seriously, there are some really really good ones out there. sometimes i am truly disappointed when i open up reader and find one of my favorites hasn’t post anything.

anyway…i am still procrastinating as you can see, rambling on about nothing and taking photos of my cat.

see? doesn’t she have a pretty face? (ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh… adorable!)

people who do not know how to drive, should NOT be driving on ice

coming home from work is not easy with the icy patches in the street, when one AH decides to left turn from the center lane while i am driving in the left lane. i had to slam on my breaks to avoid hitting him ON AN ICY PATCH!!!

really?!!!!!!

lucky for me, my car slid and stopped in time NOT to hit him. he ended up slamming into the curb.

today is the second day of the big chill and it is colder today than yesterday. i went to work today but have decided that it has to get above freezing before i do THAT again. i have turned into a scaredy-cat driving when it comes to driving on patches of ice. my theory to driving the route i did today is if i go downtown by way of tcu where the steelers are practicing and they have to come from downtown to tcu, then the roads from tcu to downtown would be clear, right? i mean if jerry jones wants his stadium used again for the 50th anniversary of super bowl…there would be perks like clearing roads to help out the teams for the super bowl. well…i was wrong. it was way too icy for me. maybe the city is has come up with some super transportation for the team and it has no problem with ice. i had problems with the ice, though. so, if the temperature does not go above freezing tomorrow, i am going to stay right here…at home…reading under a blanket…and drinking hot cocoa! i bought the last carton of horizon 2% at the grocery store, too (i normally buy 1%, but they were out). if the milk trucks can’t make it, neither can i. (brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr)

green bay and pittsburgh are probably laughing their heads off right now. a little ol’ ice storm and the whole city shuts down.

today is groundhog’s day and there was absolutely no sunshine, so we will not be having 6 more weeks of winter of this kind of winter. in fact, i kept checking my clock when i woke up, because it was so dark this morning.

p s this photo was taken yesterday when there was sunshine. it’s a little off because it was so bright, i little bit had my eyes closed when i went out really fast to take the photo.

now that the wedding, thanksgiving, christmas and new year’s is over, i should be doing that nesting thing. you know, where one cleans out stuff, organizes and gets ready for the new year.

well, the only nesting i want to do is make a nest on the sofa with a warm blanket, cat and a good book…maybe even the tv on at the same time. then, at least, i will be multi-tasking (ha ha).

do i look slightly bloodshot in my eyeballs? i should. just completed my safety driving online course. i started at 4:00pm this afternoon and just finished. not only that, i started yesterday in the afternoon until 10:30pm. so what did i learn?

DON’T DO ANYTHING THAT WILL MAKE YOU GET A TICKET while driving. that is pretty much a ‘duh’ statement, but i need to be a better driver and get that cushion bubble around my car…don’t ask.

everyday, i wake up and say to myself, “today i will not get mad. today will be a good day. today, i will get things done/finished.” husband scott would disagree with this in that i say this all in my head and i am not what you would call a cheerful morning person. it takes me a while to wake up. BUT, i do try everyday to be patient and good.

lately, however, i have the shortest fuse ever. everything annoys me. everything makes me mad.

and, i am not sure why.

do you think it might be that every route possible to work (and i mean every way possible) is shut down to one lane?

or perhaps, it is this…

or maybe, today i pressed my lips together (possibly to control my temper) and “ouch” why did that hurt? oh…yay…a pimple (deep DEEP sigh).

oh and could iphoto BE anymore flattering (in chandler bing voice)?

what i like about the iPad…
when i can’t get to my computer, i can still post…yay!

THREES

THREES

I was looking to see if there was a quote on the internet about things coming in threes. I found, “all good things come in threes.” I always thought that bad things come in threes. You know, when something bad happens, then something else happens, so you are just waiting for that last one, right? Well, here is what happened to me (well….more or less to me) recently. First daughter Michelle’s car’s air-conditioning stops working, then son Jason comes home from a hot ride in his car - a broken air-conditioner. So, we take in Michelle’s car, then Jason’s car. $3900 later, I am driving my car to pick up son Jason’s car from the shop and bam(!) a flat tire. So, I take it to the shop. So…..I’m done, right? Noooooooooooo…just had daughter Michelle’s car towed today - alternator most likely. WHA’!?!?!

A good friend said that maybe I am getting a new set of threes. SHUSH! (sigh)

oh little kippers, i miss you so. hope jason is taking care of you.

this is a photo of what happens when you bathe kip, the rat. he is so cute and cuddly. he just doesn’t like the way i bathe him.

i had the best birthday…ever! i had the day off from work and checked my gmail…and i had some nice ‘happy birthdays’ from friends on facebook. that was an extra treat that i hadn’t foreseen. then some emails and calls from family. then, i walked & talked with my since first grade friend and she treated me to lunch. then, i showered and had coffee with another small group of friends and it was so much fun. then, i went to angelo’s for the best barbecued ribs with scott and michelle. and then, this……..left over birthday cake and birthday cupcakes (from the weekend birthday party). and then……..(remind you of ‘dude, where is my car?’) i guess turning 53 isn’t THAT bad…okay it is, but today’s events made it easier to accept.

Happiness is a warm puppy…… Errrrr…….I mean an iPad. That’s right, an iPad for my birthday. Woohoo!

Happiness is a warm puppy…… Errrrr…….I mean an iPad. That’s right, an iPad for my birthday. Woohoo!

last post for today. we are having our first real spring storm and i am listening to last week’s glee songs - chris colfer’s a house is not a home and mr shu w/kristin chenoweth’s one less bell to answer. they sing them so well! it’s a perfect combination (storm and song). can’t wait till tomorrow night. i guess i’m a gleek.

just before the braids got cut off……aaaaaaaccccccckkkkkkkkkkk!

the haircut i wanted. the bad thing is that i won’t ever look like michelle williams no matter how much my hair looks like hers. actually, my hair won’t look like that…ever since my hair is more bushy. i told the hair dresser to thin it out as much as possible.

end result

ready to mail out the form to locks of love. they kinda’ look like those hair thingys people would use a long time ago to shoo away flies, don’t they?