Day 8 of 365, Saturday Morning Puzzle

Good Saturday Morning! It is 4:30 Am and I shuffled to the kitchen to start the coffee for Terry. He has to work today so that is the least I could do for my sweet husband. Brandon bought a 1000 piece puzzle last night and started putting it together, along with Karmyn. They left it laying out on the bar in the kitchen so I sleepily decided to try to find a few pieces while waiting for the brew.

Not very good at puzzles! My part in putting this puzzle together, was turning over the pieces and finding edges and corners. The rest, they put together themselves. What you do not see is a kajillion tiny pieces that are waiting for someone to find a place for them! Actually it is a 1000 tiny pieces.

Here it is, waiting for Karmyn and Brandon. I didn't get very far. Brandon put together the frame and Karmyn put together the roof that you see in the middle. It was so nice to see two 19 year olds completely enjoying themselves at home on a friday night. Not perfect, but good kids, I'd say.

note: my daughter is Karmyn and her boyfriend is Brandon.

Day 7 of 365, Soapy Handprint

"Clean Your Bathroom, Love Mom" Uploaded for Daily Photo ChallengeSubject: Prints, Handprints or Footprints-Jan. 15, 2010
That is my soapy handprint splatted up there. Look how much I love my children, I even have a heart in my palm. :) I didn't do that after the fact, that is the actual soapy handprint with no manipulation.

This morning, I saw that today's photo challenge was handprints or footprints. I tried to to think of a way to participate. So, I took a bar of soap and wrote,"Clean Your Bathroom, Love Mom" and then splatted my soapy handprint on the mirror.
Naturally, here I am cleaning up my mess from the Daily Photo Challenge. If my daughters would have come home to see a message written in soap on their bathroom mirror, they would have said, "AS IF!" This mama hen has 2 spoiled chicks... lol! It's cool, I made the mess, I'll clean it.

Day 6 of 365, money & truth

I have to giggle at myself acting like this. If you knew me, you would know this is far out acting! When my daughter came home, she saw the coat, hat and glasses on the living room sofa. I told her what the project was and she cracked up laughing. She said, "Don't tell me you wore a grill!" Awe shucks, great idea! A grill was all that was missing! The other daughter saw it and said, 'Oh mama, you are really getting into it huh?' Yeah, I guess you could say, I am getting into it. It's all in fun. I captioned the first pic, "Chaaaag it Dahlin'!". I thought I was channeling my inner Joan Crawford in the second photo. What do you think? lol!

I just recently joined a Daily Photo Challenge Group on Flickr and the topic of today is money. A few quick ideas came to mind. For one, I own a silver coin bracelet that is made from the retired Italian Lire. I was going to attempt to show the bracelet swinging like a pendulum and then caption it, "You are getting sleeeepy...'! As I thought about that demonstration, I actually started to think about how hypnotised we are as a culture with material things and status. I admit to you that you can place my name at the top of that list! This fake chinchilla coat, I bought from QVC. Not only did I buy the chincilla, I bought a mink and another fur trimmed coat the same day! Tell me what you really think...go ahead. I will tell you what I think, ... I must be NUTS! What is worse, I live in Louisiana!!! Now, that is what I call goofy as all get out.

When the 3 new coats arrived UPS, I immediately wanted to send them back because I realized how insane I must have been to order. Insane...now that is the word for it. It is insanity, with a capital I, to keep buying what we do not need.

I am paying off those silly charges and NO MORE QVC or HSN...well, limited QVC & HSN. Seriously, I am ready to be able to call Dave Ramsey and cheer "DEBT FREE!" Wouldn't that be wonderful? To be debt free...

Day 5 of 365, happy tini

Good Wednesday Morning. Here I am trying to light that little martini glass that you see. I really need to clean house but, nah! That can wait till later, gator! This is more fun!

This is my Self Portrait for Day 5. I set up this to photograph a happy tini martini glass in participation with a Daily Photo Challenge. Today's challenge was 'Something Silly in your home'. Anyway, there I am kneeling down in the left corner. You can see the back of my head, arm & hand holding my camera to my eye. Don't know how much of a 'self portrait' this is but I caught this really quickly before the day slips away. Gotta run some errands. BBSoon.
Have a happy, happy tini day!

p.s. I had to add this as an afterthought: One of my flickr friends say this looks so 'mad scientist'! LOL...."COME INTO MY LAB...ah.ah.ah!" (that was my best mad scientist laugh which kinda sounds like the Sesame Street Count...ah.ah.ah!...one light reflector, ah.ah.ah!...)

Here is my little lighting set up. That is one of those little clamp shop lights with a daylight balanced flourescent light bulb. I needed a little fill so I propped that reflector umbrella there. It is kinda make shift but it is what I had. Makin' do and gettin' by!

For the photo challenge shot submitted, I used my Sony a200 w/ sigma 105 at 2.8, iso 100. It turned out pretty cute. If you have any suggestions, I welcome critiques for improvement. (see Happi tini photo challenge submission below)

Uploaded to participate inDaily photo challenge, Jan 13Subject: Something silly in your home

Happytini Recipe:

1 1/2 oz. Rasberry Vodka

1 1/2 oz. Chocolate Liqueur

Splash w/ Soda

That's it. I never made it. Nor, never drank it before. But, if you make one for yourself, I hope it makes you happy! If you use this happytini recipe, write back and tell me if you give it a thumbs up or thumbs down.

Day 4 of 365 went to see the movie, Leap Year

Day 4 of Project 365. Day 4 of Project 365. My mom, aunt and I went to see Leap Year today. It is a wonderful chick flick. Spoiler Alert!!!...they fall in love! That was not much of a spoiler huh? You had to know that already. Anyway, we really enjoyed watching this sweet little movie set in Ireland. There is something about the folklore and culture of that beautiful quaint country that captures my imagination. Amy Adams & Matthew Goode did a great job and I would recommend this movie for the romantic at heart. Matthew Goode's character re-tells an old Irish story about a man and woman in love who cross the 'shannon' to be together. The "shannon'? What is it about an Irish Folktale? It just sounds so lovely told in that unique dialect. Amy Adams is just so pretty and likable. You can't help but want her to find true happiness.

My husband would love this one. He can watch My Best Friends Wedding back to back. His favorite part in MBFW is where the guy was running after Kimmi and Julia Roberts was running after him! Isn't that funny? I got a big romantic for a hubby. Tuff on the outside but a real softy on the inside.
So if you go see Leap Year, I hope you like it too.
I decided to share my leftover popcorn with the ducks. The pond is on my home from the movies so I whipped in and offered some to the duck that was close to me. I had set my camera on a concrete bench and set the timer and this is what I captured. I think you can see the popcorn in mid-air that I tossed to the duck.
And here they come! They swam out of the pond, they flew in from the trees, the geese waddled in. They were excited about the free grub. You should have heard the cacophony of duck and geese honks too! Other people that were walking for excercise around the track seemed afraid when a goose would come close. I, on the other hand, was sitting in the middle of 'em like a crazy person. My camera was stuck to my face with one hand while I was throwing popcorn from the bucket with the other.

Thank you message to MeRA Koh!

This is a thank you message to MeRa for generously offering the SOAR scholarship. Clever SOAR Sister, Melissa, had a good idea to send a thank you to MeRa. I appreciate her efforts to coordinate that campaign. Here is my message on a paper bag, no doubt. Hey, don't laugh. It works right? hehee...I know! I'm from the country and I like it that way!

If you want to know more about MeRA and the SOAR Scholarship she offered, visit her blog at http://www.merakoh.com/

You will love MeRa. She makes you believe you can do anything you set your mind to do. Because of her, I started this blog. I appreciate her inspiration very much. I hope you will too if you get a chance to meet her through her blog link.

Day Three of 365

We are having a beautiful weather day today. It was a frigid week this week here in South Louisiana. My little toes have been freezing! I stepped out this morning and it looks gorgeous outside. My poor hubby and daughter have a touch of the flu, now, I'm afraid. Or, they might just be suffering from a winter cold. Either way, how bout that darn swine flu epidemic? One of my nephews and one neice have had that crud. They are better now thank goodness for them. I hope all is healthy and well with you are yours. Stay warm, stay safe and hug them babies if you got 'em. If you are like me, your children are young adults now. I can't just grab 'em up and kiss 'em all over their face like I used to. I still find ways to be obnoxious with them though. They just have to bear it out cuz they know they have a crazy mama.