CA Girl

In lieu of "Random Friday," I am going to talk about "UN-Valentine's Day."  Valentine's Day is a Hallmark Holiday that has grown to ridiculous proportions.  I think we try to out do ourselves every year. When I was in junior high and high school, I dreaded Valentine's Day.  And what I dreaded more were the Valentine's grams.  I watched as "everybody" but me got piles of the grams.  I know now, that it was probably more along the lines of a few people got a lot while the rest of us sat empty handed.  I wish I would have thought to send one to myself. Years later, I matured(somewhat) and I met my future husband.  Our first Valentine's together was spent in Texas; meeting his family.  No worries, we would just celebrate after we got back home.  Besides, there was always next year right? A year later, we had been married 5 months and were going through our very first transfer.  We moved on Feb. 14...aka...Valentine's Day.  But it w...

I love Thursday's because that means it is Mama's Kat's writer's workshop.  What on earth would I write about if I didn't have her!  Today I chose 2 prompts.  They were all so hard to choose from, that I had a hard time even choosing just 2.  I chose:  A List of Do's and Don'ts and Tell Us About That Scar. Do not stick a bobby pin inside of an electrical socket Do not stick a 9V battery to your braces Do not eat cocoa before it has been sweetened Do not stick your tongue on a pole in the winter Do not eat paste Do not chew with your mouth open Do not roll your eyes at your mother Do not stomp your feet unless you are happy and you know it Do not grab toys out of your siblings hands Do not cut people off in traffic Do not say mean things Do not accept dares Do eat chocolate at least 3 times a day Do play on the computer Do act silly in public places Do take naps Do watch mindless television Do read a lot Do write actual letters it's...

Emily at 3 I think. Don't worry she is not sick.

When I say Clark, do you think Kent and therefore head to Superman?  If I say, Edward, do you think Cullen?  And then go to Twilight?  It's true, we hear a certain name, and our minds automatically conjure up an image to go with it.  It could be a personal thing, or a famous thing.  Either way, whenever we hear a name it means something to us.  Clark Kent is a nerd but we all know who he really is.  Well there is a name that I have noticed that almost always is pseudonymous with kicking butt! Let's turn back the clock a bit tho...before this name meant opening a can of whoop ---! Once upon a time in 1977 a show ahead of it's time started.   A man pretending to be gay in order to live with his two lovely roommates.  I loved this show.  Still do, and it is largely due to John Ritter.  Who couldn't love his lovable counterpart, JACK Tripper.   Jack Tripper was girl crazy, and almost always turned on.  He was sweet, fu...

The other day as I drove my kids home from school and I made my usual right turn at our usual corner off the main street...there was some jack#@* wise guy parked there with a friend leaning into the passenger window talking to them.  I had to make a very wide right turn to get on the street.  He is lucky the corner is not real obstructed from that direction.  And further more he is lucky there wasn't a cop around!  Which brings me to this...on my way to the grocery store, I noticed a cop car double parked next to another.  They were obviously talking about a very serious case and how they were going get the bad guy.  I mean why else would they break the law like that? My brother-in-law used to be a cop.  He told me once how many times he had seen officers abuse their authority and how angry it would make him.  He told a couple of vague stories that had my jaw sitting on the ground.  My BIL was a good cop.  And I am certain there are m...

I think I am going to keep riding on Rachel Sue's coattails.  I am really liking this Random Friday thing.  I like it because sometimes our minds just work like that. And I like the way she writes it. A lot of you asked me what the heck those pod things were from Wordless Wednesday.  A couple of you gave some ideas.  A carob tree.  And itchy pods.  The pods themselves can in fact cause itching...bad itching.  So do not touch them. It took some searching...and because I can't let things go and I am a bit of dork... I give you the Brachychiton Populneus or Bottle Tree from the Sterculiaceae Family. You can learn more about that tree here.   I think we should dub it the weird pod tree.  It comes from the land down under.  We also have Eucalyptus trees here. I was driving to pick up kids from school, and got behind a very scary driver.  She kept drifting a bit and wasn't going much over 25 in 35 zone.  It was a little old gr...

It is time for Mama Kat's Writer's Workshop.  If you want to join the fun, check her site right here.   The assignment I have chosen to accept is prompt #5 List 10 things you never knew until you were mom. I was not blessed with motherly instincts.  I know I played with dolls, but they are not foremost in my mind as my favorite toys.  I never was really fond of kids as a young adult.  In fact, I swore up and down that I was never going to have children.  Why would I want them?  They were wild, loud, unruly and obnoxious.  But that was before I became a mom.  Before I became a mom I was going to be a career woman.  And if--and that was a huge IF--I did have kids, well the husband was going to stay home with them.  Come on, I was 19. Then I found out I was pregnant with baby number one, and everything changed.  I learned many things, and continue to learn.  Here are 10...top ten?  Not sure about that, but ten.......