I saw my boyfriends last night. . .

at the Country Music Association

Awards.  They both sang

and looked directly into my

eyes through the TV screen.

I tell ya, it was GREAT!

Can I pick 'em or what?

And my Australian love, Keith Urban.

Just in case you missed this Award show

I offer this critique -

Rascal Flatts & Natasha Beddingfield

were the highlight of the entire program,

IMO.

It was so "Easy" to make this choice!

I Love Sara Evan's song,
"I get a little bit Stronger",

but she was about 1/2  note off pitch last night

AND

she needs to fire her stylist

for putting her in the solid black, long-sleeved

jumpsuit, with the bell bottom pants.

REALLY?
It looked like a Cher Halloween costume.

The Bank (oops! Freudian slip) Band Perry won

 in a couple of categories. 

They are young. 

They are cute.

And they CAN sang!

The sister wore a beautiful red dress

that looked absolutely stunning.

Her hair - now that's a different story.

She should get her money back from whoever

was responsible for the tacky

not-quite-a-do.

The good news is that she is so

darn cute that she looked good,

even with the bad hair!

Kenny Chesney & Allison Kraus sang.

My ears bleed when I hear Allison Kraus'

high pitched voice.  This is just a personal

"thang" as I know lots of people LOVE

her voice; just not me!

Luke Bryan is a cute little Hottie!

I saw him on some program last year

and a stylist was trying to get him to

wear a gold chain necklace and Luke

didn't want to. . .Well something has

changed his mind along the way.

He came onto the stage wearing black

pants and shakin' his booty in a way that

would have made Elvis blush.

AND, the black pants had lights up the outside

seam of each pant leg
Yes they did!

He's very handsome and he can certainly

"shake his things".

Faith Hill sang.

Here she is a naturally beautiful person

and someone did weird things to her

hair that caused her to look much

older than she is.  WHY?

Faith does her best when she simply

stands behind the microphone and sings, but instead
she looked rediculous stomping and shaking off-beat 

tried to dance at random times.

She is not a dancer.  No doubt about that.

Sometimes being tall, having a wonderful body,

a beautiful face, and a sexy voice

is all you need. 
Forget about the dancing.
PLEASE!

Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley hosted the Award program for the 4th year.  They did a great job of keeping the show moving and providing some good natured humor.  I didn't count but I'd dare to guess that

Carrie made at least 6 dress changes during the program.  Some of the dresses were beautiful but a couple of her choices were quite strange.  Still, Carrie could wear a pillowcase and look FAN-TAS-TIC!

So good to see Glen Campbell, Kenny Loggins, and Lionel Ritchie.

It was a fun night sitting on my sofa watching and critiquing some of my very favorite people!

In fairness I must mention that Mister got to
see one of his Girlfriends - Jennifer Nettles.
She was almost as pretty as me
gorgeous.
Mister loves we tall, beautiful,
talented, blonde, sexy types.
Jennifer and I have soooo much in common!


Best line of the evening -
"Is Justin Beiber a Conceiver?".
*snort  *spit  *laugh

Did you watch?

Do you like Country Music?



Psychology 101

I've been thinking. . .

I've never worked in a grocery store

but perhaps I should.  I can amuse|

myself for long periods of time by

watching what people put into their

shopping buggies.

Maybe this is not the norm, but

you can learn a lot about people

by their shopping habits and if

you're stuck in a long line

waiting. . .it's a great way to

quietly become acquainted with

other shoppers, in  a bit of a

strange and judgemental way.

A buggie full of multiple packs

of TP, diapers, and macaroni:

"probably someone shopping

for a daycare center".

Lots of Beer and wine products:

"Lush".

Chips, Peanuts, Pretzels, Salsa,

canned soda, paper cups:

"Party at their house".

Lean Cuisine TV dinners,

lettuce, diet soda, fruit:

Dieter - usually a single woman.

Maybe I'm onto something that could
be a new, exciting career path -
Grocery Psychologist!

Here's a sneak peek!

Here's a teeny tiny peek at our bedroom
redo project.  It's very sparse right now
but we have made pretty good progress
for one week.

Nothing on the walls yet.
We still need window treatments & a bedskirt too.
But I am pleased so far.

Here is the pattern in the quilt.
(This photo shows it to be a little more red
than it is. The color in the top
photo is actually the most accurate.)

We're still sleeping in the guest room
for the time being.

More photos to come when
the project is complete.

The Naked Truth

Saturday I continued to work on our bedroom
redo project. 

At the end of the day I stripped
off my yukky work clothes
and slipped into a warm bath.
Ahhhhh...

Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!

I looked into the bath-water
"and what to my wandering eyes
did appear?"
HUGE KILLER ATTACK ANTS

Little, stinging ants;

some floating about,
others stuck to "my parts"
stinging me!!!

(*photo not available*)
I made one gigantic, naked leap
from tub to bath mat,
my pride seriously damaged.

I.Am.Not.Happy.

Where did those darn ants come from???
Of course they've now been washed
down the drain,
but will they return?

I think I'm gonna need some serious
psychological help
and a refill of Benedryl spray.

'Nuff said.

 

All that Glitters is Not Gold

. . .it could be copper.

Isn't it pretty?

I found it at the Thrift Store last week
and for 99 cents this Copper Cutie
became mine.

I have no idea if it's really copper
but it seems to like it's new home on this shelf
above my kitchen sink.

Johnny Appleseed

I don't like to "name drop"

but Johnny Appleseed

 is a good friend of mine

and he gave me this great recipe
which is way too good
to keep to myself.

This recipe has only TWO (2) ingredients

and is a no-brainer to fix.

It is wonderful straight-from-the-pan

and needs no frosting,

however,

if you want to be a real Show-Off

you can top it with a dollop of Cool Whip

then sprinkle the Cool Whip with a tiny

bit of cinnamon.

Beautiful & Yummy!

Johnny Appleseed Cake

Ingredients:
   Duncan Hines Spice Cake Mix
   1 can Apple Pie Filling.

1.  Combine the 2 ingredients
     (No water, No eggs, No oil)
2.  Mix well with a mixer - batter will be very thick.
3.  Pour into a greased/floured  9X13 pan

     and bake according to directions on cake box.

Snow Giggle

I saw this cute little cartoon
and thought of my
blogging friends who are
dealing with an early snow.
Too cute, huh?!

* * * * * * * * * * *

Princess babysits at times for a young
military family who just found out
they will be moving to Alaska in
February.  This is not where
they had hope to be stationed
yet they are excited.

Excited.  Really?!

God bless our military families
who pick up and move here and
there in all types of weather and
still find a way to be excited
about all the changes.

Do you like change?

Day 3 of one day project.

Yes.

This is day three of our "One day project".

We  I hope we can finish up this evening.

We just have a tiny bit left to do

and we are still on speaking terms.

Pretty good, huh?

* * * * * * * * * *

Once the painting is completed it will

take a day to use this on my

furniture.

Then...

I'll show you the room,

though it will be minus accessories.

And, when I get it

"all glam'd-up"

I'll show it to you yet again.

Then I promise to "move on" to something else I can obsess about!

Going for the GOLD!!

*SUSH* you guessed "yellow",
which is very close to GOLD!

Those of you who guessed orangey/peachy
tones obviously have heard me say a million
times that orange is one of my favorite colors
AND  Rhona guessed "green" which is my
very favorite color.  That too was a great
guess - our living room is sage green
and I love it!

Thanks for guessing!

**TODAY'S post is below**

See below

Painting

Do you see Mister waiting for his working orders?

Me to him.

"It's simple.

Just do what I say and no one will get hurt."

Princess and Boudxy crawled into our bed

to watch the Painting   fiasco  Project begin . . .
(yes, she is texting.)

What a lovely mess our breakfast room

is with lots of the bedroom "stuff"

thrown in here.

Then there was lunch . . .

and a couple of rest breaks.

And of course a day in our house

would not be complete without some DRAMA.

***Princess' flat iron for her hair went out!!!!***

Me: "That sucks for you."

Mister (wearing his painting clothes)  got in the car

and drove her to Sally's to replace said hair appliance.

Really?

She's going to a Halloween party dressed

as a cat with ears & a tail, etc.

Do you really need good hair for that?

Hair mishap averted.

Oh yes, back to painting. . .

You've asked what color we're painting

our bedroom

and I have been quite mysterious.  *giggle

WHAT COLOR DO YOU THINK
WE'RE PAINTING IT?

LET THE GUESSING BEGIN!!

I promise to tell you tomorrow.

(if you happened to see me mention

this on FB please don't guess)

Mind Confetti

Today I logged onto the computer to check my bank balance and totally drew a blank - couldn't remember my account number no matter how hard I tried.  About 5 minutes later I remembered it again.  What's that about??

Bought some new winter shoes and wore them for the first time today.  I won't be sneaking up on anyone as they are so NOISEY!!  Princess yelled from her bedroom, "Why are you so noisey?".  For what I paid for them I deserve to stomp around and make a commotion.

I've had four bright orange envelopes on my counter now for two weeks just waiting to be mailed.  Then it dawned on me today that I should have mailed them Wed.  Oops!  Made a mad dash to the post office.  Sure hope the three Granddolls and my Mom get their treat in time for Monday. 

On the drive home from the post office I watched a cloud front move in.  One of the clouds looked just like a woman's Va-Jay-Jay.  Really.  It did.  I wondered if everyone else driving thought the same thing.

Tomorrow we are painting our master bedroom.  I've brought home handfulls of pain sample cards and two actual samples of paint,this week, smeared them onto the wall and not liked either one.  Today I took a deep breath and bought 2 gallons of paint and primer; I simply chose the color from the paint sample cards in the store and we will go with it and I.Will.Love.It.  Regardless of how it turns out I.Will.Love.It. because sometimes that is just what you have to do and this is one of those times. "HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY"

Princess is in my bedroom masking off the moulding, prepping for our painting project.  Wonder how long it will take her to notice that I am not helping and am on the computer?  *tee hee

If you've managed to keep up with this post
then you are qualified to join MENSA.
Congratulations!

I.Am.A.TV.Slut.

I consider myself a pretty average, pretty normal

kind-a-gal, with one exclusion -

I Am a TV Slut.

I admit it.

(I've admitted it before.)

I claim it.

I watch and love weird TV shows.

Some of my favorites are:

"Sister Wives"

(I know, I know.  You want to gag.)

"The Rachael Zoe Project"

(lots of catering to things that

really don't matter a flip

in the big scheme of life)

Yes, I watch these baaaad girls,

who are way to old to be so spoiled

and self-centered.

This is about a blended family who lived a large

lifestyle then lost their financial security

in the current economy.

Fascinating.

"19 Kids and Counting"

This is about the infamous "Dugger Family".

I don't get it.

I don't understand it.

But, I love to watch it!

Are you all huffed-up and surprised

that I would actually spend time

watching this stuff?

Some of my closest friends simply

shake their head in disbelief

of my TV habits.

I find this like simply watching adult fairy tales.

AND, I love seeing and hearing how people

live their life.

Perhaps that's why I love blogging

and reading other peoples blogs!

Have you got any weird TV habits

you'll boldly claim?

NO.JUDGING.ALLOWED.

(and please don't tell me you NEVER watch TV

'cause I won't believe you)

Marijuana Brownies, anyone?

Marijuana Brownies

Princess recently got a job working for a local retail store.  Two weeks into her employment she was faced with an ethical dilemma.  One of the girls got angry with the boss and told her Princess she was gonna bring some brownies to work "to get the boss high", but not to worry she'd be sure to only "doctor up" 3 of the brownies and the rest would be "ok to eat". 

Now, what to do? 

Does Princess tell the boss or simply keep quiet so said girl won't know she "ratted" on her?  She had two days to think about it before her next time scheduled to work.  She stepped up and told the boss, only to be told the boss had been warned of the same thing by three other girls who worked there.  There are many lessons to be learned when one works and I think Princess just learned her first one...Now the rest of the story...

The offender was scolded and allowed to keep her job.
(she actually had not brought the brownies yet)

What do you think about this?

Just FYI, when I clicked on photos for "Brownies"

the photo I showed was one of the first to pop up,
complete with the recipe for the Marijuana Brownie

and also Marijuana Crisps.

Yes.
This surprised me.