Who wants 69?

Did I get your attention? Yeah, I know my dear internets and I know you are now wondering where oh where is she going with this? I’m wondering too.


Haha not really! I know the point I want to make and it’s really important. Well important enough to practically beg for your attention and those unusual people that Google really strange phrases.

Do y’all see that group of followers in my right hand side bar? Yeah go ahead and take a quick gander. See it says I have 69 followers. Oh I know that’s a lot but the problem I’m having is…well it’s been stuck at sixty-nine for a long time now…and I for one could not help but notice that. Didn’t you? I’m pretty sure some of y’all did, okay maybe some of my more freaky dear internets. It’s okay my mind wanders to the gutter too…every now and again. No it’s not there constantly.

Yes this is a post to try and promote a couple more followers. Hey don’t look at me that way. I can see the face you are making. You too would be begging for at least one more follower…lest you should be known as the www Sixty-Niner.

Come on, help a Queen out. IF you are not following yet, don’t be afraid you don’t really have to read every little post We post (we will not know) Although you may get a kick outta some of our post for we have been told that we make funnies and milk come outta noses. Okay so the milk part is not true, but tears…oh yes that we have caused once twice three times a lady. (we /our is Queen talk for I / Me / My) -haha say that in a sing-songy sort of way and it sounds like a song.

Does too!

Now get outta here, AFTER you sign up to follow, I hear that the NEW YEAR is upon us (maybe already started for you)

And for something else when WAS the last time you mentioned or tweeted one of our post? Yeah I thought so.

One more last thing – please don’t drink and drive I promise the life you save will be someone’s child.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, my dear internets

So What...

Cha doing? Me, just hanging out wondering when the Christmas Elf will come to take down our tree and put away all the decorations (nice & neat). What? The Elf does not come to your house? Well that’s too bad.


I hope y’all didn’t have returns to stand in line over and that everyone was thrilled with the gifts you gave them. Hey there’s always next year if not.

Did any of my dear internets go out shopping for the 75% off sales? I didn’t, most stuff was very picked over before and I have enough wrapping paper to last a few years.

Next year I’m thinking a total handmade Christmas, well if I start now that is…hey it could happen I have 11 months to think about it.

Do y’all have any plans for a New Year celebration? Us, no; cept maybe my Beloved will go marry his 2nd cousin. Hey it’s legal for him to perform the ceremony, being ordained and all. I suppose instead of hanging out I should go find some vows or something for him. Hey I have an Idea (rare I know) you could tell me what vows you spoke / did at your weddings…well if you’re married that is.

So What were they?

Please note that YES I do mean for you to answer all the above questions. See I'm holding my hand out just a waitin for y'all to fill it

From me to y'all

This is an edited version of a comment I left over at Carmi’s, Written Inc; somehow I thought it was appropriate to keep for posting here on Christmas Eve and as it turns out it will also fulfill a request from Paul C on his blog Quoteflections.


Time is only a minute by which we mark greatness, each one greater than the last, yet we know the next will be best for it still holds a great mystery.

As we all reflect this evening and in the days to come I think that WE should be reminded that…

Time is what we make of it. Each moment a symphony full of high notes and low notes, we are the music that fills the Earth with song, make yours beautiful.

And there you have it my dear internets not one but two quotes by me. I bet y’all didn’t know I could be such a deep thinker. Haha the jewels on my crown had to come from somewhere, didn’t they? No don’t answer that.

Merry Christmas

And now...

Something completely unrelated, Jai, thank you so much, has bestowed an award on my. It actually fell right on my head, sorta like a crown but not ya know. Get it? You do see the resemblance, right?

Okay I’ll spell it out for those of my dear internets who are slow readers.

It is called The Circle of Friends Award. It’s round like a crown and all. I knew you’d get it, once I told you.

I hope I’m forgiven when I say I don’t member if there were rules, it did hit me in the head after all…SOooo I’m just gonna pass it on; now my only rule is that you LINK back to me and that you pass it onto whomever you please and thank you.

A Handful of Stones

Left Brain Write

Jannie Funster

Teahouse Blossom

Powder Burns and Bullets

Brain Droppings

Exit Stage Right

And now I have to go lay / lie down…there is suddenly ringing in my years; (nope not a typo just a reference to the upcoming New Year)

Wynter has arrived

That would be my new granddaughter. Wynter Rayne, born on the 15th and she is beautiful and thank God is perfect and likes to pose for pictures just like I do…NO not upside down, my silly dear internets…she makes faces and I love her. And she is #9 and I freely sing that old Beatles song...Number Nine.


Mom had a bit of a drawn out labor but did well, she was mad at my son. Duh! Pain HURTS. I had to make a joke. Well you knew I would; about how labor last a lot longer than the making baby part. You know. Hey I really didn’t want to go into too much detail. If you don’t know what I mean go talk to your teenagers they will splain it to you Lucy.

So here she is, our 7 pound 1 ounce, 20 and a half inched princess.

Now everyone give me a virtual hug and you may kiss the baby on your screen, but not in real life cause I as Queen Nana cannot have this precious child catch any virus; computer or otherwise.

We are exhausted and must retire to our boudoir. That means go to bed as it has been a long 72 hours.

Sill Fun

Because I need it after that last one. Don’t you?


Thanks to the Musings of a writer Chick, Erin, who has shown me the way of Easy Blog Post Writing

For instance a little something like this…

Oh for crying out loud! I just returned from my daily swim on the beautiful Fijian beach and realized I have not updated this since people stopped clapping and Tinkerbell died... You would not believe that I'd been abducted by aliens. But I'm sorry you'll just have to take my word for it.

I am flat out like a lizard drinking with discovering time doesn't stand still, being distracted by the shiny, just generally being of great concern to anyone unfortunate to cross my path, my day is filled with fluorescent light from the first cock-a-doodle-doo of the rooster till I run out of alcohol. I am so totally loving it, dudes; that and I can take that big badge off my head that says bad mother.

I won't promise anything to you but I will write something that makes sense soon. Seriously! Assuming I don't get distracted by counting my chest hairs.

This fine post brought to you, my dear internets by The Lazy Bloggers Post Generator. Thank you and as Tony the Tiger so bravely said, “It’s GRRReat!”

BTW did you know that laying flat on the floor and taking your own photo upside down makes you look younger? Okay so getting up wasn’t easy, but aren’t I beautiful…never mind don’t answer that, the only thing that matters is that I feel not ugly.

Ha! and you thought...

I would not bring up our kitchen ever again. Had y’all and me fooled didn’t it?


So there I was putting up something under the kitchen sink…I closed the cabinet door and it felt weird, kinda a wobbly waunky kind of thing. I got down on my knees and opened and closed it a couple of times. Then I got a bit pissed off (as is my way-sometimes)

As it turned out 2 of the screws that hold on the hinges were stripped out. Hum what ta heck, ya know. Now I don’t have to tell you that I’m handy with some tools so I grabbed my fancy-smachy cordless screw driver thingy. Once the screw was out of the top hinge little pieces of wood fell on the floor. That chicken sh$$ cabinet maker stripped out the hole and instead of fixing the hole he shoved broken bits of wood into it. Oh not just on the top hinge but the bottom one too.

It’s a good thing I knew how to fix it and I’m gonna share that with y’all my dear internets.

Find some toothpicks (several in my case) goop on some of that neat invention stuff called wood glue…shove them in the hole as far as you can and try to fill up as much of the hole with tooth picks. Let it dry overnight or longer, pending humidity and your need to put the door back on. This will work with most screw holes that have been stripped out and no longer hold the screw.

Once dry…Score the toothpicks with a tool of your choice (razor blade/box cutter/saw) break or cut them so that they are even with the surface.

It’s best to pre-drill the new hole with a bit that is small than the screw, then put the hinge up thar and screw it.

Tada a woman can fix something correctly that a “professional” cabinet maker couldn’t. Humph!

And this is the conclusion of today’s fix it class. I hope you enjoyed and learned something. If you have suggestions on how to make fixing stuff more fun and exciting please leave a comment and explain yourself or your project

How’s that Christmas / Hanukkah shopping going? Me? Oh I’m almost there…okay so the tree is up anyway.

HAPPY HANUKKAH to all my dear Jewish internets as that time has already begun.

Hello--

It’s me.

I know I’ve been scare around here and over there lately. Yes of course I have great reasons

My classes are finishing up, our trip has ended and I’m ready to buckle down and get back to you—my dear internets.

Oh the trip? You mean the surprise trip I didn’t tell y’all about? Yes, we traveled to Savannah Georgia for Thanksgiving. Picture perfect weather the whole time we were there, lovery place (it’s okay for you to be jealous).

On Thanksgiving, when almost every place was closed, we packed up the cooler with some beef B-O-L-O-G-N-A, some bread, pickles, apples and waters drove over the big-huge a$$ed bridge to Hilton Head, South Carolina and had a picker-nic on the beach. Baby girl’s first time to see the Atlantic.

Then on Friday we drove down to St. Augustine Florida, sorry to say it was way tourist trapish, but we didn’t mind and had a good time anyways. Cause we are that kind of people.

Drove back to Georgia to see Aunt Nonie and Uncle Dan. They are doing fine by the way.

Then we went back to Florida, I know this whole back and forth zig zaggy thing. Only this time it was so we could come home. Weather was still beautiful (jealous-I see it in y’alls eyes)

My classes, I win! I am so smart now I can hardly contain my brain inside my skull anymore. I mean my eyes are practically bulging as if I had some kind of illness. Haha I knew you could picture that without a photo.

It’s cool enough to work in my studio more, okay so it has been for a while, I just didn’t tell you cause I was Arting (not Farting) in my spare time instead of visiting y’all, my dear internets. Oh did I mention about the November Poem A Day Challenge? Yeah I did that too and I’m most likely too in love with some of them. Y’all know it’s not good to be in love with your words and junk. Ah well, it’s good to be Queen of my own Paradise Valley. And I need to pick some and submit ‘em for the Chap book challenge portion of the gig.

Yes I have stopped doing any new photos over on my 365 Views by Me blog. See it wasn’t just y’all that I neglected. And who knows maybe I’ll have an announcement of some sort in January or something.

No! I’m not gonna have a baby, but we are waiting for grandchild number 9 to arrive, almost just any time now…so with that I’m outta here for now. Cross your fingers that I’ll be by soon to read ya if not sooner.

K-bye.

ps I have missed y'all...Did y'all miss me?