Oh, my! Happy Valentine's Day!

It's been over a week since I have blogged. Whew......where does the time go?

I'm Home Alone for the moment. Mighty Hunter and Daughter #1 are at MacAllister's. Daughter's request. Daughter #2 is downstairs babysitting. The Beauty and Beau Pageant (Part One) was tonight. That is to say, that the freshmen and sophomore girls went tonight, and the juniors and seniors will go tomorrow night. Oh, and the guys were tonight. Sarah didn't win, but she was sure a winner in my book! Here she is:

And here are a couple of pictures of my new "do"! I like it. Not sure how everyone else feels (well I know the daughters don't like it, and my mom's not crazy about it, and Mighty Hunter is pretty indifferent to it) but I like it:


So, it is officially time for bed! I think I heard Mighty Hunter and Dear Daughter drive up. I hope so, anyway. I am off for dreamland.

I've Been Tagged!

By my friend Kammie, who was tagged by two gals from TallyScrapper.

First list: TEN RANDOM THINGS ABOUT ME

1. I am shrinking. I used to be 5'7" and now I am 5'5. And I'm only not quite 43.

2. Speaking of being "not quite 43" my birthday is 21 days away.

3. And 21 is my favorite number, and I have no idea why. It's just pretty to me. So I got married on the 21st of June.

4. I got married on the 21st of June. What was I thinking? It's the longest, hottest day of the year.

5. I don't eat uncooked tomatoes. I love red sauces, love Italian foods, but don't put no stickin' tomato on my sandwich or in my salad!

6. I play the clarinet. I used to be quite good at it. Like, really good at it. And I miss playing. A lot.

7. I love to teach math, but I don't really like to do math.

8. I had a heart attack a year ago. I'm not overweight, I don't have high cholesterol, I don't have high blood pressure. But I did have a heart attack.

9. I am always looking around in parking lots for squashed, rusty bottle caps. I keep thinking I'll use them in a scrapbook or on cards or ATC's. They're so cool. They're also HARD to find.

10. I forget everything. Really. What's your name again?


My Bucket List.......things I want to do before I kick the bucket.
ooooh, this is not anything I really want to be thinking about, but it's all in good fun, right?

1. Go to Scotland
2. Get into geneology.
3. Learn to knit or crochet (or knit and crochet).
4. Own a really nice camera, with different lenses and things, and take really stunning pictures.
5. Be a great-grandmother, and a great grandmother.

So, whom shall I tag?

1. ROBIN
2. SHARON
3. CAROLYN
4. PENNY
5. STEPHANIE

Okay......now off to tell them they've been tagged!

Oh, and I will post a picture of my new haircut soon, I promise.

When It Rains, It Pours!

So, my four or five blog readers undoubtedly noticed that I haven't updated in, like, forever! I sat down to do it several times, but life happened. : ) It does that, you know, but I just had the sad thought that whatever I was going to say, or share, at those times is lost forever. Whatever memory I would have captured is gone. There were thoughts I was going to share, pictures I was going to post, pearls of wisdom just waiting to be dropped! All gone.

Here are some of the things that happened:

Curtain Calls finally ended. The kids performed their unique version of Hairspray/Bring It On/High School Musical and did a WONDERFUL job. They came in second to the Seniors, but won in the categories of costumes and choreography. That entire week was full of long days, dress rehearsals, performances, etc. No time to blog, certainly.

Then, my dear friends Tom and Gail lost their daughter. Amy was an exuberant, creative, over-the-top young woman who lived a troubled life, addicted to prescription pain meds for about half of it. Seriously, terribly addicted. She married, and shortly after her husband (also very young) died of a heart attack. She was ill, hardly able to work, had been through rehabs more than once. She tried so hard, and was so cute and sweet and funny. And she died of an overdose at age 34. So this past weekend we attended her memorial service to say goodbye. Amy - we miss you. We're glad you're free, though.

And on Monday, Sarah sliced her thumb open on a desk at school. Really....we had to leave school early, and go to the clinic, wait two hours, and then get five stitches and a tetanus shot. Well, SHE got the stitches and shot, not "we." It was all very traumatic and stressful. And then the reactions to the tetanus shot kicked in and she missed two full days of school. Fainting, nausea, dizziness, fever, chills, body aches, stiffness.....all of it. She was one sick puppy. And so, she has mountains, literally, of make-up work to do. Has had to spend every waking minute working on it. Not quite through yet, but getting there!

That's not all, you understand. Mary Beth had a band clinic to attend on Friday and Saturday, at the same time that we needed to go to Amy's memorial service. So, we had to figure out arrangements for her to be dropped off and picked up while we were gone. She had a wonderful time, in spite of the fact that, at the last minute, her oboe had to be sent off for repair, and she had to audition on a strange horn. This week she goes to Montevallo on a field trip. And she has pulled her grades up to mostly A's, so she got her Nintendo back. She's quite happy about that, as you can imagine.

And the Mighty Hunter? He worked several 14 hours days last week shuttling airplanes around for annuals and repairs, and shuttling people around on the various airplanes, to Birmingham and New Orleans and Pine Bluff.

We are all glad that last week is over, and the week before last. They were insane. Life does happen, doesn't it?

At A Scrappin' Friendsy, we have a new DT Dare posted. It is mine, and if you haven't already seen it, you can go HERE and check it out.

Oh, and I got my hair cut. And nobody likes it, including my mother, who is the one who cut it! It is short, and stacked in the back. I've wanted to try this for a while. Apparently it was a BAD idea! So I am headed off to school today, where no one has seen it, and am "girding my loins" for the comments and non-comments that I will get. Sigh. It will grow.

I hope you all have a wonderful week...heck, I hope I have a wonderful week!