funny at five a.m

this is HA-larious!!

i couldn't sleep. I'm the only one in the house awake, and yet, this made me laugh out-loud and feel compelled to post a link.

I tell peops about this website often, so i figured i'd make it a little easier for you.

These writers have the funniest way of describing fashion..it always amuses me. I mean, check out this description of this big goofy blue dress:

"KATY: No, no, it's great and all, but... look, if Violet Beauregard rolled herself out of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and started a fashion line, and Bjork became her main investor, your muumuu would be their first collaboration. "

Plus, its very entertaining to poke fun at celebrities.

Whoa! STOP THE PRESSES! Yo Gabba Gabba Update!!!

ok....i'm so super post-holiday-busy that i've been waiting until i am caught up to blog about the holidays....that's to come later.

HOWEVER....as i was taking down decorations with my little'un, while watching the channel "Noggin", a commercial for Yo Gabba Gabba came on.

All activity came to a halt, as it had my full attention: this season of Yo Gabba Gabba is sure to be the best yet. Jack Black, Roots, great actresses/comediannes-whose-names-escape-me-in-my-excitement (but i will post later) from the Office and SNL, among many others, are scheduled to be special guests.

Who woulda thought that show could get any better?!?!? Since yesterday, I've been listening to the soundtrack that a good friend let me borrow...and now this update!!!

i just had to stop what i was doing and alert the media....er, uh...my readers.

i'll also take this opportunity to say HAPPY NEW YEAR and i can't wait to see you all, once the holiday dust settles!!!

Nice.

At a mad dash to the grocery store this morning, i was forced to slow down and "smell the roses". i was in a super-hurry; i had forgotten today was the Christmas Party at Tread's school- and i had signed up to bring juice boxes. No juiceboxes!

I also wanted to get the hell outta the store because i still had obcene amounts of glitter on my face from a Clown Gig yesterday. We were running late this morning...if i thought i'd be going somewhere besides taking the kid to school, i would've spent a little more time washing that stuff off!

Anyway...for some reason, i was sitting in the parking lot for a minute. I guess i was texting, or something mult-tasking-crazy-inahurry, but i happened to look in my review mirror right when a guy bent over to pick something up. It was right near my jeep, is why i guess i even noticed...so i saw that it was a wallet, with enough cash that i could see it from the jeep--in the rearview. The noteworthy thing is that this guy didn't even hesitate, he went right inside to turn it in.

(...and no, he didn't march inside to buy groceries. i saw him at the customer service desk when i went inside....)

That was a promising event to witness, but maybe not enough to blog about...until my next encounter.

This lady was definitely not in a hurry.

In fact, she was in my way.
I was hustling towards the check-out, and she had stopped her cart in my path to look at coupons. The space to get past her was marginal, but due to my time-crunch, i pushed on through. I kinda knocked her cart out of the way, unintentionally and was hoping maybe she didn't notice.

"Hey!" she called.

I'm thinking: "oops!" and was getting ready to toss a "sorry!" over my shoulder as i rushed to check-out.
Before i could say anything, she beat me to it: "You've got Kibbles & Bits in your cart...would you like a coupon for that?"

This lady had coupons for everything, it turned out...coupons in an envelope, coupons in the cart, some in her purse's front pocket, and inside the purse....and she couldn't find the Kibbles & Bits coupon, but "knew she had just seen it a second ago."

So, while she nervously poured over this huge coupon collection, i learned that her father had just passed away at age 93. He lived in Tennesee and she had been driving from Houston to his house for the past 3 years, so he wouldn't have to go into a nursing home. This is her first Christmas without him.

She was coming through Nacogdoches to buy her kids some groceries; one is a teacher and the other is working on his masters. They all love animals and she stocks them up on dogfood and catfood whenever she comes to visit. She was very proud of her kids. I told her that they were lucky she helped them out like this, and she said she doubted they felt that way. I hope she's wrong.

Like me, she also had a cup of coffee from Java Jacks to accompany her grocery shopping. She was so dang friendly, and so determined to find that coupon, that i decided to forget my rush. I didn't even care about my goofily glittered face. (Based on her eye-shadow selection, i suspected she might have even liked it.) She talked, i listened...she shuffled little papers, i sipped coffee. She finally found my coupon--took scissors out of her purse to cut off the expiration date--and saved me a dollar! That was worth every minute.

I'm about to turn in for the night and was just reflecting on my day. I was very motivated to write about it as soon as i got home, but i Got Busy again. I wanted to be sure and slow down enough to remember those warm, fuzzy feelings i had this morning...nice people doing nice things.

I am sure it happens way more than I realize and I'm just too busy to notice.

Christmastime is here!

wow. where did the last several weeks go? thanksgiving came and went in a dizzying blur of grandparents, gobbling and goofing off!

its way late and i can't sleep, but i figured i'd check in.
i did say i'd do that more often, didn't i?

since i'm too tired to write about all the past weeks events...i'll try to summarize.

i am so thankful for all the wonderful people in my life. It is such a joy to watch my son's relationship with my parents blossom into something special. It makes me smile just thinking aobut it.

My friends are priceless...i even love the friends of my friends. what would we do without each other? I don't even want to know.

there are so many fun festivities around town this time of year...its fabulous! i think that's why i couldn't sleep tonight; i keep thinking about all of the fun things to do over the next few weeks. I've also been trying to process all the folks and fun from the last few days. (Friday Raku party with the "Dirt Dobbers" Ceramics club, Saturday 9 Flags Festival, and all that entails, Entertaining at the Art Center, Christmas Parade, then 2 parties, Sunday Christmas Cantata at church! whew!)

To think that its only just started....
i'll try to be better about staying in touch here. I think my Sleepytime Tea is kicking in.

I'm sending out warm wishes to all the people i love!!!

Fingers is comin' to town....

Hello, hello!

I can't let too much time go by without writing...even though i don't have much to write about today. I mean, there's lots going on, but blog-worthy? not. We are rushing around to get things packed to get out of town. i wanted a break...so here i am.

The holidays are upon us and i am particularly excited because my old friend, Fingers is coming to town. That means that we are going to have some "reunion" performances of Fingers and Lips! We are a little out of practice, but nothing that we can' brush up on.

Hope you can come check us out.

"Tour Dates" to follow.

Halloween is Messy

In the spirit of regular blogging, i am going to inspire writing by posting some pictures.

Our Halloween usually lasts 2 weekends. This year, I entertained in Lufkin at the Museum of East Texas' Pumpkin Party as a clown.

My clown persona is "Whistlin' Dixie"...there's her outfit on the floor.

Make-up makes up a big mess! I'm glad i don't have to get out all of this stuff everyday!

Normal "still life" at our house: Tiny cowboy hats, Blue Afro Wigs, Gold eyelashes and random jewelry sprinkled about...

My Art desk was trashed after rushing to get R2D2 made for the Scare on the Square that same day!

We pulled it off...and Tready won first prize!

(Proud Mama asks: "Have i mentioned that a couple times before?" ) Probably.

Whoa, what did i do before the computer?

Laundry perhaps?

Put away groceries...or maybe..

....just maybe unload the dishwasher before a bunch of dirty dishes pile up on the counter?!

Maybe its because i am a stay-at-home mom, or perhaps its because i had no idea what all was "out there"....but i sure do spend a lot of time on this thing lately.

Thanks to Facebook, this friend, this friend and this other culprit (among many others) I have learned all about socializing on the Internet. You can be alone, yet never feel lonely. I have reunited with old friends who i really missed and people i had forgotten, but wished i hadn't.

I suppose i won't spend too much time about the marvels of computer communicatin', for the people who are apt to read this have known about it LONG before i stumbled onto the scene. Until i checked the aforementioned friends' blogs, I didn't realize that November is National Blog-everyday-month, (or something like that). Since i can't even take care of business (note: pictures above) i'm not even going to set that goal (this year, at least). I'm just glad to be back on the scene. Many thanks to my friends who drug me here....i think.

So...that's not too interesting, i'm afraid, but i promised i'd blog more, so there you have it. That, and I couldn't stomach yet another Election Blog.