Back Again

I am back once again to try having a blog I can be proud of and feel happy doing. Cross your fingers people. I still have many things I would love to do with this blog and I will try to do them all eventually. I hope you will come back and read often as the days go by. Please leave a comment if you feel like it. I would really love that. Here's to the Oueen of Dorks blogging again. Wish me luck!!

Wedding Day 1988

Dave and I just celebrated our 20th anniversary on April 16th. Here is a photo from that special day when our fairytale began.

Here's Tabby

Tabby acting like a ham.

The Flip Ultra Camcorder

Dave got me the most wonderful birthday present, a Flip Ultra Camcorder. It takes great videos and it's so small. I just love it and we are having a lot of fun with it. I will post one of the first videos we took, later. Right now I'm having a little trouble with blogger uploading the video. I will try again in a few hours.

My Birthday

My birthday is tomorrow. My husband took the day off just to spend all day with me. He's such a sweetie!! I don't know what he has planned for tomorrow but I will be sure to post about it. My mom called tonight and said she wants us to come to her house on Sunday to celebrate my birthday. Sounds like a fun week in store for me. I've been getting some wonderful birthday cards in the mail. Thank you to all who sent me one.

Library Madness

Well let me start here, I returned a dvd to the library a few weeks ago. While looking at my account online the other day I noticed I was being fined for not returning it. My husband had gone in and returned it for me. They told him to just shove it through the slot in front of the desk, so he did. I couldn't call yesterday because the library was closed for MLK day but I did call today. First of all I told the person that answered the phone my problem and she put me on hold for about 15 minutes and then came back and told me she looked everywhere and there was no record of me returning it. I told her in a tone I don't think she appreciated (who cares), that it was returned and it was their fault they didn't log it back in and that I wasn't paying for it or paying one penny of the fine. She told me to hold on again, this time for about 12 minutes. When she came back she told me she had found it on a shelf behind the desk and someone had taken it out of its case. Like that's my problem. Why are people so incompetent? I know people make mistakes, we all do, but it seems the work ethic of many has gone down hill. We encounter this kind of thing all of the time. Sorry if I sound bitchy. Just venting.

Looking Ahead to 2008

Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. I am writing out a list of goals for 2008...not resolutions but goals. That seems to work a bit better for me. We had a great 2007 and many of our goals and wishes came true. I know 2008 is going to be even better. When Dave gets home from work, yes he had to work today, we are going to Mom and Aunt Lynn's to ring in the New Year with them. Love to all of you!!!

Christmas Highlights

My Honey at the Christmas dinner table waiting to chow down.

Mom and Aunt Lynn

Just me, waiting to open presents and to eat Christmas dinner.

My adorable husband in his Christmas hat.

Our Christmas dinner at Mom and Aunt Lynn's house...yum.



We had a terrific day at Mom and Aunt Lynn's house. Here are some of the presents they gave us before we unwrapped them.

Christmas Countdown

Hustle and Bustle

My hubby and I finally finished our Christmas shopping. We did a lot of online shopping but had some gifts to get at certain stores. Now we just have to finish wrapping. Next year our goal is to be organized and finish most of our shopping in October. It would be so nice to sit back and enjoy the month of December instead of running around and stressing. Another thing about last minute Christmas shopping is that people on the road at this time of year seem to forget how to drive. The courtsey of drivers is at all time low. So here's to Christmas shopping in October.

No Gold Star For Me

I have been a bad, bad blogger. I just noticed I haven't blogged in over a week. Shame on me. Like I have said before I'm going to try harder to post more often. We will see how that works out. I have been writing out our Christmas cards this evening. I know some people hate the task but I don't. I think of each and every person as I write out their card and about past and present memories. It helps if you have Christmas music on or a good Christmas movie on tv. That makes it feel all the more Christmasy.

Shopping and Mail

I love, love online shopping! It's so easy to sit in front of your computer and browse and buy. You can be in your jammies, all comfy and drinking a nice, hot cup of coffee. What could be better? The other great part of shopping online is when you get the boxes delivered to your door or somewhere near it, hehe. I am a mail, UPS and Fedex junkie. It gives me a natural high to get stuff in the mail. It's a thrill to order things and I also love getting surprises. Well, I'm off to do some online Christmas shopping. Ah, no standing in line.

Santa Is On His Way

Christmas Voki

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I think everyone should have their very own Voki.

Blog Dreams

I'm enjoying blogging so much. It's a cheap thrill for me. I hope to get better and better. I'm trying to learn all the things I need to know. I know it will take time because I'm such a novice. My dream is to one day have an incredibly popular blog. A blog that people can't wait to read every day and they tell all their friends about. I know for that to happen I have to up the excitement factor. I have many ideas for the direction I want this blog to go in. I may even start another blog for some of these ideas. As you can tell I love to daydream. You never know, dreams sometimes come true.

I'm Stuffed

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We ate around noon. This is a bit earlier than we usually eat but we had to this year because my husband had to go to work. The food was scrumptious as usual. Dave and I made green bean casserole and mashed potatoes. My mom and aunt made the rest. Mom makes the best stuffing in the world!!! I will post the recipe soon. It's a recipe that's been passed down generation to generation. We made it once when we lived in Iowa (Dave's home state)and his family really liked it. We ate, had dessert, talked and then we had to run out the door so Dave could make it to work in time. Whoa, it was a whirlwind Thanksgiving to say the least. I'm so happy that he is off Christmas day. I know that I said I would post pictures of our Thanksgiving but to tell you the truth it went by so fast that I didn't even take my camera out of my purse. I will try to do better with Christmas pictures. I hope everyone had a beaautiful Thanksgiving with family and friends.

Thanksgiving Wishes

Happy Thanksgiving to family & friends near and far. We are going to Mom and Aunt Lynn's for dinner and then Dave has to go to work. One of the non-perks of your husbamd working at a hospital. Thank goodness he has Friday off. We plan on eating leftovers, watching tv and writing out Christmas lists of what we want to buy for everyone. Love the holidays!!! I will post pictures from Thanksgiving in the next few days. Enjoy your Turkey Day.

Promise

For those of you reading this blog, I promise I will be updating more often. I'm going to try to post daily. Try...

Our New Car

We got a new car on Thursday. A Chevy HHR. We are in love with it!! We are giddy that we finally got a new car. We had our old baby, a 1996 Honda Civic for over 11 years. It was a wonderful and reliable car in it's day but it was time to get a new one. The weird thing is that every time we spoke of getting a new vehicle something would malfunction or happen with our old car. I know it's an inanimate object but it's like it knew. This happened many times. Strange I tell you.

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