The poor leutenant asked if it was an emergency, I think I said "h*ll yeah..there's water pouring in the house....find him now!" He found him, but then Shawn had to find someone to come and relieve him...it's not like he can just turn on an out of office response, like I can, and leave!
Being the grandma of an Austin and a Dalton I plumb think Orlando is a great name.
Actually, the truth it is I am still waiting to 'grow up' but secretly hope I never do. 
When I get a chance I will try to post some pics of the room I am working on. Today was easier as I could stand on the bed to work. I just have second coats and trim to do now and then on to the next room. In a house this big when you finish the last room it is time to do the first one - again. sigh
Ants, three dozen roses? You think just like me -funeral like.
Love, Linda Lou
Wake up! Wake up! Only.... Uhhh... Oh, wait, I don't have a WDW trip planned this year
Well, some of you DO and you are a day closer to the World! LOL!
Wake up, sleeping sunshines
Every kid should have an aunt like yourself. Lucky kids. Lucky aunt. 
hey Peeps!!! I am hoping to get this new job in the bag and resign at my present full time.. wish me luck!!!
Here I sit, all frumpy and in disarray and I do not care one whit while some are sitting around enjoying a nice Sunday brunch. I say 'good on them' and hope to join them one fine day. Might be my reward in the afterlife though. I just about have the bedroom finished except for that irritating last inch up toward the crown molding. If you all could see me sitting here in all my paint stained glory you would run screaming for the Yeti in search of a more pleasant and relaxing sight.
I have been informed, this very morning, that I am basically a selfish person who only does what she wants to do. The person who said this shall remain nameless mostly because I have decided that his name should be erased permanently if not the rest of his mortal remains. Even the great guilt I felt over this disclosure did not compel me to jump to when, a mere few minutes later, he inquired as to whether or not I could get the big screen fixed in time for him to watch some sporting event that is happening today.
Obla de, obla da, Life goes on!!
Ants, nothing is free. Trust me, there is always a price to be paid somewhere along the line. That being said I still think you should stop and smell the roses and whatever you do never let them think that they did enough. Spurs them on to bigger and better things. Spoil them rotten early on in the game and all is lost, forever. As the Germans say "Too late shmart".
DisneyAprilFool, I have seen mixed reviews but as with all Disney restaurants it is all according to your tastes. They have a CS outside where you could try a few of the offerings and see if they tempt you to spend the big bucks.
Pooh, have you gotten a time line for when this ring is expected to arrive? A special order ring would have to be unique, just like yourself. If I had not actually met Mike in person and thought him not only good looking but charming and did notice that he was attentive to you (I notice such things) I might not be as apt to believe him one of the good guys but a guy who will take you to the ER and be there to take care of you when you are sick and he is not contractually required to do so has possibilities.
I stink so I cannot wait to get done with today's work so that I can scrub up. I get to go back and play with the kids tomorrow and then have a school board meeting where I will continue to tilt against the windmills of the athletic department in favor of the educational department. Thank God for crockpots so I can have a hot dinner tonight. I may share it with "Voldemort". I may not.
Thank you for letting me so very evil. Folks around here think me sweet. Little do they know the evil that lurks within.
SG/Linda
Maybe it's time for you to make him start fending for himself....go on strike, teach him a lesson! 
Some people just don't realize what they have until it's gone! 
I do have a school board meeting to go tonight. I tilt at windmills in trying to convince them that a bit of education in between ballgames might be useful if only so that our athletes might be able to count all the big bucks they will earn when they hit the NBA, as they surely will. My contention that many of them will end up as forty somethings, sitting around, unemployed or underemployed, going over and over the game winning basket they made in sixth grade is surely unfounded. I am selfish as I am full aware that the students of today need good paying jobs in order to be able to pay the SS I hope to collect one day. I am no fool. 
Oh SG, You are so not the person you're ,I'm guessing, husband referred to you as!
You've got all of us here, we're more than happy to listen to you vent!
I've got the day off from work today, so I'm once again...cleaning up the basement! What a waste of a weekend!
So tomorrow I will have to go back.. please keep me in your happy thouhgts. so he is on the back burner for now. 
