J&K+8 = funny

this was too damn funny not to share...
you only need a sort of working knowledge of this show to start laughing...

PS - i found it at mama's loosing it...

sunday stealing...

Cheers to the thieves!

Sunday Stealing: The Monkey's Meme

1. Name one person who made you smile today:
my 3 year old

2. What were you doing at 8am this morning?
still sleeping thanks to super hubby

3. What were you doing 45 minutes ago?
checking email

4. What is your favorite candy bar?
peanut butter cups... no contest!

5. Have you ever been to a strip club?
nope

6. What was the last thing you had to drink?
H2O

7. What was the last thing you ate?
peanut butter on a spoon

8. The last sporting event you watched?
no idea...

9. Do you go to church every Sunday?
sometimes

10. Do you prefer Chinese food over pizza?
no WAY...

11. What are you doing tomorrow?
working...

12. What do you think of when you hear Australia?
great barrier reef...

13. Biggest annoyance right now?
my aching back...

14. Last song listened to?
grease lightening...

15. Do you have a maid service clean your house?
sadly... yes...

16. Are you jealous of anyone?
would like to say no.. but know the answer is sadly yes...

17. Is anyone jealous of you?
no idea...

18. What do you usually do during the day?
sell promotional solutions...

19. Do you hate anyone that you know right now?
nope... like everyone else believe in the almighty Karma

20. Are you thinking about someone right now?
my mom

Life is Good...

i have a new boss... and i'm loving it...

he's positive and does a pretty good job of making you feel like he's on your side... i'm sure he isn't perfect but i know that there is so much i can learn from him... and right now that is exactly what i need...

so we had a meeting last week to "get to know each other"...

not that we haven't been working together for 11 years already, but he was managing a different region and my only interactions with him were when i was at a sales meetings or trade shows...

during this meeting he brought presents... life is good t-shirts... and told us to remember that life is good... and indeed it is...

i've often looked at this brand and thought about how clever it was... and when i read that it has an emphasis on simplicity, humor and humility i knew why i was drawn to jake...

and now with a little help from a new leader i'm taking a new look at life... because life is good...

The SIMPLER and FUNNIER the better...

a thousand word thursdays...

as soon as this flashed up on my screen thru screen saver i knew it was the ATWT choice... it is all ATWT is to me... this was before we were a family of 4... when super hubby could meet me wherever i was with B and we could play...

embracing furlough....

like many people out there the struggling economy has shown up @ my job... not so much the work load... just the sales....

(i've just now realized i've never done a post about my job.... or should i say what it is i do... i'll work on that)

so a few weeks back they announced a pay cut with some furlough... and even though the pay cut was not at the top of my list of favorite things to have happened this year... the furlough i'm embracing... especially when i learned it is a word sometimes used in reference to a prison term :)

so today on my furlough day...

i'm not working...
not looking at anything to do with a pen :)...
not thinking about where i'm going next...
i think i'll go get a massage...

and continuing to remember every day that Life is Good...

summer haircuts.... (mobile)

we are officially ready for summer with two handsome new boy haircuts...

brothers...

one of the best part about being home is watching the boys play together in the back yard... i think they really are becoming friends...

topsy turvy...

first things first... i did not get these for free... nor did i get paid for this:)

B has been wanting these since last year... but he's a bit skeptical of the infomercial after santa brought him the floam he so desperately wanted 5 years ago for christmas... according to him it was a "bad piece of crap"

but the topsy turvy was showing up in magazines.... and logically it made sense that it should work... so what if i don't like tomatoes... my kids don't either for that matter... super hubby does and it will be fun to watch them grow...

i bought them from their website... only to find them the very next week at Target in the "made for TV section" for half the price and no shipping...

what better place to chronicle their growth then here...

Month one... planted May 1 2009 from 2" starts and under pillow case covers most of the month because of the cold and rain...

i have high hopes...

great day... (mobile)

great day at jetty island... it was crazy getting here and back with 3 three year olds 1 eight year old, 1 six years old and 4 parents... but we had an awesome day...

happy birthday little bros...

Happy BIRTHDAY Giggi and Big J...

xoxox

random picture challenge...

16th picture folder
28th picture
or
for me... 16th folder = Cancun vacation 2005
28th picture


i love the random picture challenge... every time it brings me a gem... this is my good buddy TJ... we both won the sales incentive trip to Mexico and this is a photo from that trip... too bad it was blurry...

executive seating... (mobile)

thousand word thursday...

spreading the weed love around the world....

people watching....

on my way to stop #2.... wondering why body builders wear tank tops as travel wear.... I couldn't pass up the photo op.... and so wish this photo showed his wife.... she could kick some ass!!!!

maybe i've been cheating...

i think somehow facebook has taken the place of my blog in the last few months...

status update is way faster than whole posts... i know i can mobile blog... but it really isn't as easy... as FB status update... i'll try to be better about the mobile blog this week on the road...

after all somewhere between Seattle, Los Angeles, Boise, Spokane and back home there is bound to be something great to share...

a SMALL sampling of my updates in the last few months...

• can't hear my own thoughts after McTeacher night... May 13 at 8:36pm
• so happy to be home... after a side trip with the orange flavored lemon to the saturn dealership.... windshield wipers broke on my rainy ride home.... back in another rental... May 13 at 5:21pm
• Enjoying all that is eugene!!! Especially this restaurant yum cafe May 11 at 12:38pm
• wishes she could stop making sales calls in the rain... May 7 at 8:26am
• listening to classic violent femmes and amazed that i know EVERY word... and that i LOVE every song... May 5 at 7:30pm
• Wishes they had noodles in washington April 21 at 6:36pm
• Is watching her original plane leave while I continue to sit on the "earlier" flight waiting for maintenance...April 7 at 2:37pm ·
• thinking i have 5th disease... the boys have it, and my joints are ACHING!!! the last thing i need is that slap rash.... April 3 at 12:14pm
• would like to know why there is white stuff falling outside her window.... argh! April 1 at 8:21am
• final has saturn back in her orbit! March 23 at 7:07pm
• Off to the beauty parlor... March 19 at 3:34pm

... and so it goes...

traveling fool....

so where exactly have i been if i haven't been in blog land??? I've spent 36 nights in hotels in 2009... flown just under 15k miles and been to 7 states....

thankfully i got one great personal weekend in Savannah... a close friend from high school lives in jacksonville and drove up to meet me... we had an amazing time... walked around savannah one day and walked along Tybee island the next...

highlights include dinner at Paula Dean's restaurant... her son Jaime was in the store keepin' things in order and i could not get over all the people who had come to eat dinner... we got the last reservation of the day for 9:30 and must say that although the food was just O.K. the experience was well worth it... who knew collard greens were made with a cup of salt :) who knew that Lady & Son's went thru 75 lbs (that's right pounds!!!) of sugar a day making sweat tea and lemonade...

naturally we couldn't pass up a photo op with Paula in the lobby :)


i have a favorite new summer cocktail after this trip too... sweet tea infused vodka with limeade... i thought there was no way i'd find the vodka in these parts... but they had two brands to choose from... i'm not sure it's as good as the original firefly... but i'm hooked... tastes like an arnold palmer yummmmm...

and PS... i was not diggin on the whole sweet tea thing before meeting the firefly...

we hit the Bonaventure Cemetery as well where i picked me up some spanish moss... figured in my moist climate it would grow well and as you can see there was plenty to go around...

baby steps...

looks like i fell off the wagon in December... tried to get back on in January and February and then thru my hands in the air and did the random things...

then over the weekend i was out at Jetty Island enjoying the first taste of what i thought was summer and realized i hadn't been to blogger land in forever... i used to sit here at my desk and read and comment all night long... not to mention had so many things to get of my chest and share... what happened???

so i took this photo and instantly thought of the pakletadventures...

only here can you capture the beach and the mountains like this...

too bad i was zoomed in from all the way back here on my orange chair...

so i'm going to do what i haven't done before... do a few posts now and change the posts dates for the week... i'm thinking with the week i have planned that is the only way i can get back in the swing of things... that and i have a lot to say :)

i miss my blog...

it's been a long time... too long...

i can feel the stress in my shoulders...

i can see the thousands of pictures not shared...

i must find the time to get back to my blog...