Turn the page

As I am sitting here bored on a Saturday night jumping from Facebook, to blogs, to Twitter and trying to get my brain to spit out all the words running around in my head, I happened upon this.....Its like someone was just waiting on me to get there to read this.....

"Look, if you're tired of the same old story, whoa, turn some pages."

So If I'm tired of the same old story....I need to turn the page...Que Metallica or Bob Segar which ever your into....

 

So ok maybe I am not a star on the road with amplifiers ringing in my ears riding in a tour bus and not knowing what city or town I am in....but....

I am a mother, with a full time job, a part time Mary Kay gig, and a life....I'm definitely as busy as a Rock Star....Que NickleBack....actually please don't...I don’t care for them thank you very much

So where am I going with this....Oh heck if I know, I am just spitting out words on to a page...ummm computer screen. I guess what I am saying is we are all busy we all have lives that are hectic and sometimes we just want to screeeeaaaammm.

We need to take a moment, we need to breath, and sometimes we need to turn the page....

Am I making any sense to anyone but myself????? Hello....anybody....

Dont feed the bad wolf....

 

A friend showed this to me.....I needed it

 

An elderly Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life…

He said to them, “A fight is going on inside me, it is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One wolf is evil—he is fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, competition, superiority, and ego.

The other is good—he is joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.
This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too.”
They thought about it for a minute, and then one child asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win, Grandfather?”

The Elder simply replied, “The one you feed.”

Dont feed the bad wolf....

2000 Flushes

 

So I have been sitting on my pity pot and now it is time to flush it!  <Insert toilet bowl flush here> 

Ahhh doesn't that feel better!  All Roses and Sunshine now!  (Not really but we're gonna pretend)  Denial people....its not just a river in Egypt but it will get you thru sometimes.

Im going to take a moment now and catch you up on things going on around the house.  That way we are all up to speed.  :)

 

Jessie is 20!  She will be 21 in July! I am officially old....:(  She has a new boyfriend who is a giant.  No literally she comes up to his armpit. 

 

They have given me a beautiful Grandbaby....Meet Abby :)

 

Isnt she precious.....:)

 

Yall didnt think I was talking about an actually baby did you??

 

Sydney is 16 and will be 17 in a May and yes again I feel old.  She is a spit fire of a girl and I would not get in her way if I were you.  She always has a boy somewhere not to far behind.  We wont mention any names because it might be different next week.  ;)

 

 

And then we have Little Logan :)  He is a 10 year old  Xbox & Nerf Gun enthusiast.  It wears me out listening to him talk about these things.  His pastimes are playing Xbox, modifying Nerf Guns, and pestering both of his sisters.

 

What about me you say???? Well I have started selling Mary Kay.  I decided it was high time I do something a little extra for me and my future and since my job doesn't have a retirement plan, this was going to be mine.  I just started it, but I can tell you now that I am going to love it.  I mean what girl doesn't love make-up.  :)

I have also decided to do a half marathon in Nashville.  I think I had a moment of insanity when I registered for this.  I am committed now and am looking forward to actually completing it!  So look for more posts about that later.

So until the next time....buh bye!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Question...

 

 

What do you do when you have lost trust in someone?  That is the question. How do you move forward when you put yourself out there and you keep getting beat up.  One step forward, a hundred steps back...do you keep moving forward or change directions.  What if that direction is big and scary and hard to go down and you feel you are going down it alone?

I guess I need to put my big girl panties on and suck it up....

Lets try this again

So its been awhile. Not really sure who all is still around. I might actually be talking to thin air, but maybe it will help me clear my head. Its been going on about 2 years since I consistently blogged. These last couple of years have been filled with laughs from new friends and old. Unfortunately it has also been filled with a lot of heartache for new friends and old. I have realized that it is not a nice world out there. Why didn't someone warn me about mean people??? Without going into details lets just say, I need you all more than I ever knew. I need this outlet as therapy for me.

So I will be trying to get on here more. Try to get my feelings from my head to the paper...err screen. Its not easy putting your feelings out on Face book...people can be a bit judgey there. Judgey...that's a new word I just made up use it if you need to.

So until later which will hopefully be tomorrow....:)

Just sayin...

 

 

So I am not one to brag about anything. So I am not gonna brag.  I am just stating a fact.

I went to the Dove Awards and got to sit 3 seats away from Ricky Skaggs!!!!!  He even said I could step on him if I needed to when I was leaving my seat. :)  Lets see who else did I see??? Oh yeah! Brian "Head" Welch former guitarist for Korn.  He is now a born again Christian and I must say being a child who grew up listening to Heavy Metal and Hair Bands...yeah I was totally siked to see him!!!!!!  He performed with "Red" and let me just say it was so awesome!  They totally rocked the place!

I also got to see......TOBYMAC!!!!!!!!!! Yeah he was there...like right there like about 30 feet from me.  I thought I might loose it there for a second but I held it together.  They performed "Funky Jesus Music" and it was awesome!  This is apparently a video someone shot from the balcony at the Dove Awards.  So its a little shaky, but you will get the picture. 

 

At this point I am on the lower level in the middle.  You  never know you might actually see me if your looking hard enough when you watch on GMC Sunday  night at 8/7 central!!!  Come on you know you want to watch.  :)

To say that I am a little excited that I got to go to this is an understatement.  It was so much fun!

So go see if your cable of Satellite channel carries GMC so you can Tivo the Dove Awards.  If they don't carry it find someone who does and go watch it.  It was a great night with amazing performances.  You don't want to miss it.  By the way I am not getting paid to promote the show.  It was just AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

 

Mic check 2 - 1 - 2...is this thing on???

Well I have been MIA since July 28, here it is 3 months later.....

I wonder if people will remember me, if they will even care. Did you take me off your blog roll????

Ya see I have this problem, its called Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. What?? When did I get diagnosed with that?? Oh I haven't been, I sorta diagnosed myself. :) Ya see I tend to compulse over random things and then I don't finish them. This is my list.....

Cross Stitching....I have like 5 projects that have been trying to get completed since 1992. I wonder if my sister still wants those bears I was working on....

Exercising....Yeah that is an ongoing on again off again love affair...sigh

House Work....ok yeah so I never am compulsive about that

TuTus.....yes I now make tutus and I have a lot of Tulle and not a lot of tutus finished. Now I finished the ones that were ordered, but the ones in my head, yeah they are still there....

Crafts....to many to list. My craft room is now the crap room.

Cooking....Oh I was gonna cook a lot of stuff....I have the recipes does that count??

Redoing Furniture....My garage is running over with stuff I thought I would "re-do"

Twilight.......Still obsessed :)

Blogging....My sister said I would not keep it up....she was right. I did make it a year and then something happened. Stupid Facebook....:(

So this is my attempt to get back on the horse! I am want to blog again! I want to feel the wind on my fingertips as I type feverishly on the keyboard. So this is where you come in. If you are my friend on FB you my lucky one get to hold me accountable! You get to say, " I better see a post from you today, and I mean Stat!" So are ya gonna do it??? Are ya gonna help me????? Pretty Please with Sugar on top?????

Oh and just so you remember me and what I look like, this is me.....

Yeah more on that outfit later.....I need something to blog about. :)

Sooooooo.....

 

So I have not been around lately....

 

Sometimes I take things in spurts, I can never stick with anything to awful long.  It comes in cycles though.  I start thing, I dont finish them, or continue them, and then I pick them back up again.  So goes blogging....

Well I am trying to pick it back up again.  I miss you guys....:(

I miss knowing whats going on, but my biggest problem right now is finding the time to read everybodys stuff.   It might help if I wasn't addicted to crackbook, but its so fun over there....

Well enough of me whining.  So how has everybody been, life treating you good?

This is what has been going on with me (in no particular order).....

I have learned how to make tutus and become an Ellerina!

Decided to take up selling ice cream...(not really I just hijacked the ice cream truck!  You should have seen the look on the guys face when I hoped in there.)

Jessie turned 19!

Went to Mission Fuge again, but this time I did not break my toe.

Syd was in her first ever beauty pageant...

Its been tractor pull time around here again....

Oh and did I mention, we almost got thrown out of Wally World.....

 

Yeah so that's been my life in a nutshell.  More to come soon, I promise!

 

Wittle Baby Chicks!

 

My friend Brandi just finished with some photo sessions involving baby chicks.

It reminded me of when we were little and my Daddy brought us home some baby chicks. 

Not this kind... .

but this kind.....

It was awesome!  They were so so cute!  I can remember looking into the cage and picking mine out.  I really don't even remember what color I picked out.  I just remember the fascination and wonder of looking at those colored little chicks!

We watched them grow into gangly little "teenage" chicks, and by then they were getting a little too big for their cage.

One day I came home and noticed my chickens were gone!

"Daddy what happened to my chickens??"

I don't think he ever answered me....

Later that night we sat down to eat supper. 

We were having chicken and dumplins.

Coincidence?  I think not!

Valarie needs what???

 

So my dear Tammy over at Greek Grits had this meme that she didn't tag anyone on, and I am glad, I hate getting tagged.  That's why I stay away from playing tag.  I am slow. I always get caught. Then I have to chase people around and then because I am slow, I can't ever "tag" anyone else and then I start to pout and then it all goes down hill from there.

Anywhoo, I chose to do this little meme of my own accord, I thought it would be interesting.  Apparently you put your name in Google along with the word needs. Lets see what we come up with shall we?

Valarie needs a trust fund (Yes that would be nice, but this trust fund is for a little girl with Aicardi's Syndrome)

Valarie needs to be adopted (Nope I already have a family, but this girl does not, unless she has already been adopted, and I hope she has by a wonderful family.)

Valarie needs a life (Now that's just not nice!)

Valarie needs to go (Go where, I don't know?  Maybe to the beach. )

Valarie needs Real Estate Agents (Nope sorry have plenty of them here where I work)

Valarie needs to go to this restaurant (But not planning to go to Jersey anytime soon)

Valarie needs a challenge (Got any ideas?)

Valarie needs to lose the jacket to be one step up from whack (Well I never!)

Valarie needs to lay of those drugs ( I don't do that kind of thing!  I grew up with this image in my head people!  I don't want a fried brain!)

Valarie really needs a vacation (Yes, Yes I do! At last that one is right!)

 

So try it, let me know what you need.  You never know what it will say.

 

Don't have a life?? I know famous people, people!!!  Don't believe me??? Then look at this.....

No life my foot!

Perseverance

 

I love this guy!  :)

Today we celebrate 17 years of marriage!  :)

He is my best friend.  I can tell him anything, even though he says I always forget to tell him anything. :)

Together we have made three beautiful children!

(this is an old picture, look at how little they are!)

 

We have been to exotic places.  Ok we have been to one exotic place, but I want to go to more. (hint hint)

I also want to be that size again.  Oh to fit in those shorts.... :(

 

We have been through ALOT.  We had our first baby when we were 17, and now over 19 years later and 17 years of marriage here we are.  :)

I love you honey and I am so glad we have made it.

"Your still the one"
By Shania Twain
Looks like we made it
Look how far we've come my baby

We mighta took the long way
We knew we'd get there someday
They said, "I bet they'll never make it"
But just look at us holding on
We're still together still going strong

You're still the one I run to
The one that I belong to
You're still the one I want for life
You're still the one that I love
The only one I dream of
You're still the one I kiss good night

Ain't nothin' better
We beat the odds together
I'm glad we didn't listen
Look at what we would be missin'
They said, "I bet they'll never make it"
But just look at us holding on
We're still together still going strong

 

Please go visit Marcy over at "The Glamorous Life" for more "Fro Me to You" fun. :)

 

Boring ~Yawn~

 

That is my life right now. 

Nothing at all really exciting or blog worthy.  My days and nights consist of church (choir practice, la la la, expressive worship practice), work (I can talk to you about the legal end of your refinance if you want to), softball (would you like to know the inner workings of high school softball???? I didn't think so. ), reading Eclipse for the second time ( e.mail me if you want to talk about it).

I lead an oh so exciting life!

I meant to do lots of laundry this weekend, that did not happen.

I meant to do lots of spray painting this weekend, that did not happen.

I did go out with my friend Melinda Saturday night.  We took the girls to the movies and then we went and ate at this Mexican restaurant called Cantina Laredo that was really good.  We were about to order dessert when the girls came and joined us so we ended up ordering three desserts.

MEXICAN BROWNIE
Brownie with pecans on a sizzling skillet with Mexican Brandy
Butter and vanilla or cinnamon ice cream

MEXICAN APPLE PIE
Sizzled in Mexican Brandy Butter and topped with choice of
cinnamon or vanilla ice cream

CHOCOLATE CAKE
With vanilla ice cream topped with chocolate sauce

Let me just say that the Mexican Apple Pie was awesome!!!!!! And the smell oh my gosh it was just as good as the pie!  They bring it to you on a skillet and then pour the Brandy Butter over it and it sizzles and tastes and smells oh so delicious! Mmmmmmmm :)

Oh and then yesterday I went to Church, then Expressive worship practice, and then watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

I am telling you I am so exciting and fun to be around its scary!

What did you do this weekend????

Hi....

 

My name is Valarie and I am addicted........

 

to Twilight

 

I am not ashamed, I will stand proud and tell you anything you need to know.  I have read New Moon twice and am now reading Eclipse, again.  I have watched the movie 3 times (I know that's not very many) and have already pre-ordered the DVD.  I never thought I would be, lets just say slightly obsessed, with a teen vampire saga, but I am.  There is just no explaining it unless you are there.  I am trying to wean myself off, but its hard.   This is not something you can just go cold turkey on.   Especially when there are awesome things out there like this..........

 

 

So I am not some weirdo or anything, there are lots of us out there.  I am just a 35 year old mother of three who likes all things Twilight.

What's your guilty pleasure???  I know you have them, there are a bunch of American Idol obsessed bloggers out there.  I know your there, cause I read your post on it all the time.  :)

 

What children might learn riding the bus......

 

 

So some of you just can't even imagine me being trouble.  Well I am sure my family would tell you different. 

 

Another one of my thug moments, was again at Big K (I think, I don't know it could have been Wally World by then).  Anyway my Mama, Daddy, Robin and myself are leaving and some truck, I don't even know what kind, maybe a cement truck or a dump truck drives by.  I proceed to shout "What the H - E double hockey sticks is that!", but I did not say H - E double hockey sticks, I said THE word.   I am sure I learned this on the bus.

 

I learned something else on the bus.

 

One day after getting off the bus, Mama thinks it is was probably 1st or 2nd grade, I was outside, and she said I kept pointing up at the sky.  Picture this.......

Little 6 or 7 year old girl in the front yard pointing at the sky and trees, making noises like a gun.  Mother comes out and asks the little precious girl with the

Donnie Osmond haircut.....

 

Mother: Honey what are you doing?

Precious girl with Donnie Osmond Haircut:  Shooting Birds - bang, bang (of course the little girl was not saying bang bang, she was making actually gun noises, but I don't know how to spell a gun noise)

Mother:  Where did you learn that!!!

Precious girl with Donnie Osmond Haircut:   The boys on the bus, they do it all the time.... bang, bang

Yes, I was "Shooting Birds", and I was not pointing with my pointer finger, I was using tall man.

 

I really don't remember being bad after these episodes, I believe I was a perfect child after that.  ;)

 

I used to be a thug....

Yes you read right, I was a thug, a hooligan, a trouble maker. You see this face....

I explored my bad side people!

When I was in pre-school, I had to stand in the corner, do you want to know what for???? Well I will tell you. I was a drug-dealer at an early age! I Valarie Lea from Tennessee, now in Alabama, passed out Ludens Cherry Cough drops to the other 4 year olds in the class! There I said it! I did my time in the corner, but apparently that was not enough........

Along that same time, I was with my Mother and my Sister Lisa, (Robin could have been there, but she was just a little thing that I don't remember her being there) and we were at "Big K".

At this time in our lives it was ok for a 4 or 5 year old to go off and look at the toy section. Well I decided that I wanted something, and I was gonna get it! So I marched right up to the counter and grabbed me a pack of orange tic-tacs!

Its my one vice still to this day. I walked up to my mother and sister, just as proud as can be by my newly obtained love and thats when it happened.

Mama: Valarie Lea where did you get those tic-tacs!!!

Me: From up there

Mama: Where did you get the money to pay for them?!?!?!?

Me: Money? What's Money?!?

Mama: Come with me!

Picture it - Mother, dragging 5 year old through the store, while the 5 year old is screaming and crying and 12 year old sister is behind you probably saying, Oooo the police are gonna get you, you are going to jail!!!!!!

Mama: Here give this money to the cashier! You have to pay for those!!

Me: Waahaaaaaa!!! (as Mama forces my hand with the money up to the cashier)

Lisa: Snickers

So that was it, the end of my walk on the wild side, (that is until my teen years, we will not go there). I straightened up an flew right after that. (or did I)

To this day If I were to walk out of the store and have accidentally forgotten to pay for a pack of cough drops that were left underneath my purse, (not that that has happened or anything) I will march right back in and pay for them. That's just how I roll now.

I will completely understand if you do not think the same about me anymore. :)

So were you ever a trouble maker???

Update!!! -- I am using this for my Fro' Me to you. Go visit Kristin and see more stories of people back in the day. :)

Is anybody wondering?????

Is anybody wondering who the winner of my giveaway was?!?! No you did not miss the announcement, you did not miss the drawing. I just finally got around to it last night. :} (sheepish grin here)

What its only 38 day after the fact. Really I am so so sorry..... :(

Anyway lets get on with this thing!

Drumroll please......................................

My lovely assistant

Tidymom come on down!!!!

For participating and being oh so patient. You are the lucky winner of a Week in the Bahamas!!!!!!

Ok, not really :)

But you did win these lovely prizes!

Mango and Lime Sugar scrub!

Tea towels that have a magnet attached that will stick to your fridge!

(unless you have a stainless steel fridge that magnets wont stick to like mine)

A spa mask... ahhhhhh

and this oh so cute nest with eggs in it!

But oh that's not all!!!!!!

You have also won a wonderful chalkboard made by yours truly!!!!!

(tutorial to come later)

Now because I felt bad for taking so long to get this done (which is the reason I have not had a giveaway sooner) I decided to pick one more name. :)

This person will receive a chalkboard that I will make for them. So lovely assistant who is it going to be?!?!??!

Its Archie Mck!!!! Hey Archie, I hope your a crafty kind of person. :)

I will try not to make it so girly, unless you are gonna give it to your wife, then I will make it girly! :)

Again I am so so so so so so so so so so sooooorrrrrryyyyyyyyy, for being a procrastinator! I am working on it, not very hard, but I am working on it. :)