Fragmented Brain

The cool Mrs. 4444 and her Friday Fragment session has begun! Want to join in? Follow the link and see how!

I'm secretly counting the days until my girls weekend next weekend. 3 whole days with 3 girlfriends at a lake house a few hours from home. Alcohol, shopping, sun, and not a tantrum to be heard. Jealous, aren't you?

Why is there always someone going 60 in a 70 MPH zone........in the left freaking lane?!?!?

Did I really buy my daughter Jonas Brothers tickets? Am I really going to sit through her first concert in a couple weeks? Yes and yes. Now.....how to tell her. I have had the tickets for months and she still doesn't know.

Why aren't there Mommy's Day Out programs for Mommy's to attend?

Did you see all the $30/60 cheapo flights this week? I was too late in pulling the trigger, darn it!

Enough Michael Jackson, already. The coverage is killing ME! Enough.
RIP to the man who brought about PYT so I could get mega 5th grade boy attention in my PYT shirt and pink parachute pants. Wait, maybe it was the Annie perm that did it.

I'm going back to work in August after a hiatus to do this thing they call staying home. Hoping high schoolers are less high maintenance than my youngest.

BOOK DRAWING SUNDAY-ish. Look below if you want to enter!

Gymnastics today, birthday party tonight for BG to attend, tball tomorrow at the same time as a family picnic, followed by a mini sorority sister reunion at the same time as a party LG has to attend, and LG's 4th birthday bash on Sunday. Vodka IV drip, anyone?!?!?

Worn out already,

Holy cow, isn't she cute?

The kid, of course. That is my littlest. She turns the big 4 this weekend. We visited a local farmstead and saw this 3 month old 225 pound baby calf on a leash taking a stroll. The cow decided to lay in the grass and take a rest and LG decided to lay (!!!!!!) beside it. I got her back up and took this camera shot.
She talked about Monte, the calf, all day!

For more great Thousand Word Thursdays, follow me over to Jen's place Cheaper than Therapy and follow the links!

Book Giveaway

One of my great loves is reading. So, as I mentioned in an earlier blog, I will be giving away some of my summer reads to 2 winning readers!

The books up for grabs are:

Good Things by Mia King
A Summer Affair by Elin Hilderbrand
Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand
Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin
How to Sleep Alone in a King Sized Bed by Theo Pauline Nestor
Maneater by Gigi Levange Grazer

You have 4 chances to win! Enter a comment for each of the following that you "qualify" for:

Enter once with the name of the book you would like to win
Enter again if you are a follower
Enter again if you read a pre-March blog entry and tell me which was your favorite
Enter again if I am on your blog roll

Winners will be drawn by the high tech method of name-in-a-hat on Sunday the 12th.

It's time for the snip, snip....

I'm airing my dirty laundry at my other home, Moms Without Blogs today.
Come see me and weigh in! I promise a laugh at my expense. I knew that would get ya.

The spies that call themselves FACEBOOK

Are you "on?" Are you addicted? Do you participate in what is better known around here as time suck? I'm talking about Facebook, of course. And if you aren't on, you are either under a rock, or very very smart not to get involved.

I love Facebook. What started as a way to get in touch with sorority sisters of years past has pummeled me into having 373 electronically confirmed "friends." They are a make up of my overly large extended family, college buddies, grad school buddies, high school buddies, neighbors, friends, co workers, former students and so on.

What I don't get, however, is how Facebook knows who to "suggest" as a friend for me. The obvious they of course pull from my data- year and place I graduated and so on. However, what is really stumping me these days are the total random "picks" for me.

Case in point- Cass of Cass Just Curious. That's right. A fellow blogger has been suggested to me. Cass's blog is one of my faves. She takes wonderful pictures and has these great little letters to her daughter, Lexi. Now, I'm drawn to her because my girls are no longer so little and it really gives my heart a trip down memory lane when I read her. Plus, she's witty and I like her sarcasm. Ok, so Cass pops up on my Facebook as a suggested friend the other day. Hmmmm.....we have no friends in common, we don't live in the same state or even the same part of the country, I'm pretty sure I'm older than she is, and I'm in a different profession. So, how the Sam heck did they make a connection? Is my PC bugged? Wait- this one is brand spanking new, and she was a suggested friend on both this one and the one that is in PC heaven. How does Facebook know I know her?

Another suggestion I got today was of a mother of one of my eldest daughter's preschool classmates from 2 years ago. Again, no common friends, not a classmate, not my age group. We live 10 minutes away, but that is the only common denominator I see.

I even showed up on my own suggestion list! Really, can I add myself as my own friend?!?!?

So, how do they do it? Is there some super secret spy ware that is emitted every visit I make to Facebook? Does it "sense" people I really like? Or would like to see?

I'm on the case, and when I figure it out, I'll let you know.

Friday Fragmentos

The cool Mrs. 4444 and her Friday Fragment session has begun! Want to join in? Follow the link and see how!

I heart Williams Sonoma. I heart their very expensive, shi-shi, products. I specifically am loving their delish Pina Colada mix and SaraBeth's mixed berry jelly. And yes, you are ready for THIS jelly. Check it out. I'm a WN browser more than buyer, but this stuff was worth a repeat trip!

Why is the cow laughing at me eating DIET cheese? Because it is OK for cows to be fat but not humans?

I really wish Jennifer Aniston would get a boyfriend so I could quit reading her dating saga each week in my People.

Super good sales right now. $5 swimsuits at Old Navy? RED STICKERS everywhere at Target. Man, I love a good sale.

Lunch date next week............babysitter. Ahhhhhh.....hours of bad gossip and calorie laden food.

WHY DIDN'T EVERYONE GET THE MEMO I AM BACK FROM RETIREMENT? I'M NO LONGER A RED SHIRT BLOGGER. I NEED COMMENTS AND READERS AND WELL, GRATIFICATION, DANG IT. LMAO.
Important enough to scream it at you!

God bless all the brave American men & women who voluntarily fight for our country day in and day out. They are true heroes!


Go check out the other fragmented thoughts at Half Past Kissin'Time.

Ecstatic to have no restrictive weekend plans,

Chinny, Chinny, where can I turn to?

My blog bud and yours, Jenni @ Jiggety Jigg is trying to get her cool pet project off the ground. It is open letter, time, my friends.
Now, I want to help Jenni out, and I also want to have some thought in my letter. Only one of which is occurring this am. My mind is blank! But, when I saw that Jenni really wanted to reach 15 comments ( my goal is always 12) and because I know that I totally feel like a rock star when I get comments, I thought the least I could do was resurrect an old open letter I had posted back in January. After all, I "retired" and am now, feebly, trying to make a come back so many of you may not have even read this seeing as most of my readers flew the coop ( COME BACK!).
So, without further ado, my open letter repost.

Dear Hair,
Why,hello!I wasn't expecting to see you here. Can I call you Chin? Ok, thanks. Chin, I really thought I would see you in about 20 years. I mean,I am only 35. I really did think I would see your cousins Gray or White first. You know,on my head.
But you? You REALLY surprised me. I guess the good news is you came alone,and you came in disguise. I mean BLONDE is the new Black this year. So, thanks for coming. You were barely noticeable.I'm really sorry that I had to run you off so swiftly.
Please,please feel free to take a very,very,very long vacation and return in say, 30 years?!?!
Thanks, Chin.

Smoothness is my middle name,



PS And if you want to write an open letter..to anyone or anything, help fulfill Jenni's wet dream 15 comment team at Jiggety Jigg