Mndisneygirl
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amen sister!!!
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ICan you tell I am on fire this morning! Can I hear an Amen my brothers and sisters!
Amen and Hallelujah Sister!!
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Sweetie, I love how delicately you assert yourself and state your opinions, it's music to my ears and I wish I could be as forth coming and straight forward. I just don't like most people enough to be that honest with them. If you are a malcontent I tend to distance myself from you. I don't need anyone to bring me down. Life is too short to be negative about it. Right after we got back from Disney in December I lost my Dad and if there is one thing he tought me is cherish the little things, something as little as us all getting together for bbq he would call it a mini family reunion and he absolutely loved them. Thank you for sharing all your with us I cherish them all.
Dan is taking me back to Disney for my B-day in May I think he thinks I need it and maybe he is right so I won't say no, like I could say no to my mickey fix, oh well time to start planning.
Dan is taking me back to Disney for my B-day in May I think he thinks I need it and maybe he is right so I won't say no, like I could say no to my mickey fix, oh well time to start planning.
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Chapter 3 Cont'd - "Do they live on Wackey Tabackey in Indiana?"
After getting Da Boot from Germansnitzel Village, we entered Illinois and then Indiana in a pretty rapid succession. Carsyn slept and Dan and I drove like there was a pot of gold waiting for us.
Can I say something and I know I may get flamed and lose 2 people for being crass?
Of course I can because it is my TR!
Indiana has some of the most ghetto looking abodes alongside their freeways I have ever seen.
There it is out.
I said it.
2 years ago we drove to Carmel, Indiana for a soccer tourney and my sister and I were astounded at how the ramshackle homes are put almost connecting to the freeway and there is no rhyme or reason to them and nobody from Indiana Department of Tourism has thought that this might not shine the best light on the state for anyone thinking of moving here.
Now, again, same ugly mess and not at all on the same road were we on as before. No town or city in site. Just random houses, sometimes clustered together in small groups
There are cars stacked everywhere, garbage piled up, sometimes a horse milling around. It’s like Sanford and Sons
(hey...how did they get all that stuff off our van?)
was picked up and moved to Indiana next to a freeway. I just do not get it. If anyone else has seen this phenomenon, please let me know.
Dan thinks it is because land might me cheap next to the freeway. I would buy that theory but then why is it only a single home or a small cluster?
Anyway! Don’t you love how sidetracked a person can get in details that matter absolutely squat to themselves directly!
(ahemm...TR's on the Dis? 
)
We were ready for some food about 11:00 a.m. and I also knew I wanted to stop and pick up a pair of jeans. We were on the lookout for a strip mall or outlet mall. The area we were in was pretty desolate but spotted what looked like an outlet mall. It was located in the ever popular community of Normal, Indiana.
Next to Bloomington, Indiana.
Step city to Mentally Insane and thus not normal, Indiana.
Pulled in and found it was deserted minus some businesses that were trying to get off the ground with cheap rent. It was formally known as the Outlet Mall (real original) but now known as Crossroads Center. The place was D.E.A.D. and should have been called Tumbleweed Junction.
Then I spotted:
Can you tell someone needed to clean the windows from Dog slobber!
I thought it would be worth stopping in and seeing if they had anything I wanted. They had cakes in the window and I am a sucker for sweets. Again, thought maybe I could bring a cake with to Shannon’s for a treat for everyone and Treyner’s birthday.
Guess what they did not have?
Cake.
That's right the people looked at me like I had just asked for a Nacho Bell Grande at Mc Donalds.
They said, "We do not have cakes here to purchase."
I confirmed, "No cakes? Not even one in the freezer?"
Nope.
Why would a cake place have cake? I must be a crazy person for asuming such a thing.
Come to find out I walked into a woman’s business that was changing over from cakes and sweets to more a deli and catering biz.
I met the woman.
Her name is Kamra Pierce. I think she was still angry her name was not more specific like Kodak or Poloroid.
Kamra is on the right – not sure who the person was on the left. She might have been killed and hidden in the freezer.
Kamra though...
She was nuts.
She was rushing to the back room and forward to the area with the deli counter, to get the last minute prep stuff done.
Here is what I heard:
She now takes care of some senior facilities and also has a customer who hates when they have food not really hot. How do these people expect really hot food with a 10 minute drive in a van with temps in the low teens? She is only one person and she has help but for the Love of God someone needs to stay here and man the place while she is gone.
I also watched her microwave a large plastic bowl that was not microwave safe to heat up carrots. I almost died right there. I mean from my years in the kitchen products industry I learned a lot. One thing is if you microwave non microwaveable plastic it will pit and stain. The holes in the bowls are caused from plastic melting away. The plastic does not go into thin air. It goes into your food.
I explained that tip and told her esp. with commercial grade microwaves, she was waiting for a liability suit. That I knew some people still in the biz and would have them call her. She gave me an F off look, but I felt better.
Then her Grandpa, who had to be 80 to her 55, came up to me and said, she has no clue what she is doing. Grandpa was the driver of the van, that got the cold, supposed to be hot, food to locations. With Nutty Nellie riding shotgun and Nutty Nellie’s assistant Calming Cathie, in the rear holding the food trays in place and praying.
Grandpa also came up to me and told me to push the Chihuahua. I thought it was a pretty personal request for only knowing each other a few moments.
I looked puzzled and he said, “On the counter.”
It played Feliz Navidad and danced and Grandpa thought it was the greatest thing around. Grandpa was wearing a sweatshirt that said Grandpa on it BTW.
Nutty Nellie flipped her last pecan. She asked him why he wanted the ruckus when there was so much to do. He asked her if her @ss was in the van, because if it wasn’t, then he was not on the clock and he should not be doing anything.
(Go Grandpa! Go Grandpa! It's your Birthday! It's your Birthday!)
I felt like I walked into a version of National Lampoons Christmas because Grandpa was also wearing a Santa Hat.
All we were missing was Eddie.
Best lines from the movie:
Eddie and Clark outside, looking at the lights when Clark realizes Eddie plans on staying for Christmas with his dog and RV too! Classic!
Eddie: "And, this here's our pride and joy, Snot."
Clark: "Pretty name Ed."
Eddie: "Yeah, we named him that because he's got this sinus condition. Snot, you roll over and let Uncle Clark scratch you belly. You ain't never seen a set on a dog like this one's got, Clark."
Clark: "That's okay, Eddie."
Eddie: "That's something, ain't it? You pet him, Clark, on the belly and, he'll love you till the day you die."
Clark: "I really shouldn't. My hands are all chapped."
Dan at this point comes in the place, wondering if I had been kidnapped. It has been 10 minutes and nobody asked me if I wanted to order anything.
I was so entertained I did not notice how much time had gone by. The people there rushed around for 5 more minutes and Calm Cathie found Nutty Nellie’s keys, coat, purse and scarf. Grandpa waved us Adieu and they were off to deliver food.
That left us with the prep lady. She finally asked what we wanted.
They did have a menu and so we ordered a few sandwiches and some biscuits and gravy. I mean I had to give back for getting the laugh of the day.
Plus I knew they were not going to microwave the food in front of me.
I also do not think my experience, was a good indication she means what her website says or possibly ever read her website to know what it says. For starters, there were no cakes. Call me picky but maybe a cake place should have a freakin cake. Here is their web info.
Kamra Pierce has been designing cakes and preparing food for over 30 years. In 2004, she parlayed that experience into Sugar Art Cakes & Catering, and the business has grown quickly. By providing the best service possible and consistently meeting or exceeding customers' expectations, Sugar Art has become one of the most popular cake and catering services in Bloomington / Normal and the surrounding area.
Dan and I payed for our food, then went out to the van. Carsyn was behind the wheel and I got stuck in the back. The pictures below you all better be happy about because driving over pot holes and managing to hold your buns is not an easy thing. Oh yeah and point and shoot too.
Try holding your buns and taking a picture of those buns sometime. Let me know how you do.
I cannot find the names of the sandwiches we got but they were both really good.
This one was on a croissant with onion, lettuce, tomato, turkey, a poppy seed vinaigrette and American and cheddar cheese. Fabulous! Dan and I shared this.
Next up, the yuck factor. The biscuits tasted stale and the gravy had sausage bits in them but the whole thing was pretty rancid.
Dan mostly ate this, God Bless him.
We opened up the ham and melted cheddar sandwich but were too full to eat it. Carsyn ate it later on. It also had onion and a mayo mix. Carsyn said it was good even cold.
We drove onward through the bowels of Indiana and Carsyn needed to use the facilities and took a turn, hoping the exit and the one goat town attached to it, would have a gas station or something with a toilet. It did not. It had a huge new middle school that 142 towns combined to form but she did not want to go in.
We did though, find a cool car.
We also found a Loves truck stop a few miles later. It had a sign that made me laugh.
Honestly people.
After getting Da Boot from Germansnitzel Village, we entered Illinois and then Indiana in a pretty rapid succession. Carsyn slept and Dan and I drove like there was a pot of gold waiting for us.
Can I say something and I know I may get flamed and lose 2 people for being crass?
Of course I can because it is my TR!
Indiana has some of the most ghetto looking abodes alongside their freeways I have ever seen.
There it is out.
I said it.
2 years ago we drove to Carmel, Indiana for a soccer tourney and my sister and I were astounded at how the ramshackle homes are put almost connecting to the freeway and there is no rhyme or reason to them and nobody from Indiana Department of Tourism has thought that this might not shine the best light on the state for anyone thinking of moving here.
Now, again, same ugly mess and not at all on the same road were we on as before. No town or city in site. Just random houses, sometimes clustered together in small groups
There are cars stacked everywhere, garbage piled up, sometimes a horse milling around. It’s like Sanford and Sons
(hey...how did they get all that stuff off our van?)
was picked up and moved to Indiana next to a freeway. I just do not get it. If anyone else has seen this phenomenon, please let me know.
Dan thinks it is because land might me cheap next to the freeway. I would buy that theory but then why is it only a single home or a small cluster?
Anyway! Don’t you love how sidetracked a person can get in details that matter absolutely squat to themselves directly!
(ahemm...TR's on the Dis? )We were ready for some food about 11:00 a.m. and I also knew I wanted to stop and pick up a pair of jeans. We were on the lookout for a strip mall or outlet mall. The area we were in was pretty desolate but spotted what looked like an outlet mall. It was located in the ever popular community of Normal, Indiana.
Next to Bloomington, Indiana.
Step city to Mentally Insane and thus not normal, Indiana.
Pulled in and found it was deserted minus some businesses that were trying to get off the ground with cheap rent. It was formally known as the Outlet Mall (real original) but now known as Crossroads Center. The place was D.E.A.D. and should have been called Tumbleweed Junction.
Then I spotted:
Can you tell someone needed to clean the windows from Dog slobber!
I thought it would be worth stopping in and seeing if they had anything I wanted. They had cakes in the window and I am a sucker for sweets. Again, thought maybe I could bring a cake with to Shannon’s for a treat for everyone and Treyner’s birthday.
Guess what they did not have?
Cake.
That's right the people looked at me like I had just asked for a Nacho Bell Grande at Mc Donalds.
They said, "We do not have cakes here to purchase."
I confirmed, "No cakes? Not even one in the freezer?"
Nope.
Why would a cake place have cake? I must be a crazy person for asuming such a thing.
Come to find out I walked into a woman’s business that was changing over from cakes and sweets to more a deli and catering biz.
I met the woman.
Her name is Kamra Pierce. I think she was still angry her name was not more specific like Kodak or Poloroid.
Kamra is on the right – not sure who the person was on the left. She might have been killed and hidden in the freezer.
Kamra though...
She was nuts.
She was rushing to the back room and forward to the area with the deli counter, to get the last minute prep stuff done.
Here is what I heard:
She now takes care of some senior facilities and also has a customer who hates when they have food not really hot. How do these people expect really hot food with a 10 minute drive in a van with temps in the low teens? She is only one person and she has help but for the Love of God someone needs to stay here and man the place while she is gone.
I also watched her microwave a large plastic bowl that was not microwave safe to heat up carrots. I almost died right there. I mean from my years in the kitchen products industry I learned a lot. One thing is if you microwave non microwaveable plastic it will pit and stain. The holes in the bowls are caused from plastic melting away. The plastic does not go into thin air. It goes into your food.
I explained that tip and told her esp. with commercial grade microwaves, she was waiting for a liability suit. That I knew some people still in the biz and would have them call her. She gave me an F off look, but I felt better.
Then her Grandpa, who had to be 80 to her 55, came up to me and said, she has no clue what she is doing. Grandpa was the driver of the van, that got the cold, supposed to be hot, food to locations. With Nutty Nellie riding shotgun and Nutty Nellie’s assistant Calming Cathie, in the rear holding the food trays in place and praying.
Grandpa also came up to me and told me to push the Chihuahua. I thought it was a pretty personal request for only knowing each other a few moments.
I looked puzzled and he said, “On the counter.”
It played Feliz Navidad and danced and Grandpa thought it was the greatest thing around. Grandpa was wearing a sweatshirt that said Grandpa on it BTW.
Nutty Nellie flipped her last pecan. She asked him why he wanted the ruckus when there was so much to do. He asked her if her @ss was in the van, because if it wasn’t, then he was not on the clock and he should not be doing anything.
(Go Grandpa! Go Grandpa! It's your Birthday! It's your Birthday!)
I felt like I walked into a version of National Lampoons Christmas because Grandpa was also wearing a Santa Hat.
All we were missing was Eddie.
Best lines from the movie:
Eddie and Clark outside, looking at the lights when Clark realizes Eddie plans on staying for Christmas with his dog and RV too! Classic!
Eddie: "And, this here's our pride and joy, Snot."
Clark: "Pretty name Ed."
Eddie: "Yeah, we named him that because he's got this sinus condition. Snot, you roll over and let Uncle Clark scratch you belly. You ain't never seen a set on a dog like this one's got, Clark."
Clark: "That's okay, Eddie."
Eddie: "That's something, ain't it? You pet him, Clark, on the belly and, he'll love you till the day you die."
Clark: "I really shouldn't. My hands are all chapped."
Dan at this point comes in the place, wondering if I had been kidnapped. It has been 10 minutes and nobody asked me if I wanted to order anything.
I was so entertained I did not notice how much time had gone by. The people there rushed around for 5 more minutes and Calm Cathie found Nutty Nellie’s keys, coat, purse and scarf. Grandpa waved us Adieu and they were off to deliver food.
That left us with the prep lady. She finally asked what we wanted.
They did have a menu and so we ordered a few sandwiches and some biscuits and gravy. I mean I had to give back for getting the laugh of the day.
Plus I knew they were not going to microwave the food in front of me.
I also do not think my experience, was a good indication she means what her website says or possibly ever read her website to know what it says. For starters, there were no cakes. Call me picky but maybe a cake place should have a freakin cake. Here is their web info.
Kamra Pierce has been designing cakes and preparing food for over 30 years. In 2004, she parlayed that experience into Sugar Art Cakes & Catering, and the business has grown quickly. By providing the best service possible and consistently meeting or exceeding customers' expectations, Sugar Art has become one of the most popular cake and catering services in Bloomington / Normal and the surrounding area.
Dan and I payed for our food, then went out to the van. Carsyn was behind the wheel and I got stuck in the back. The pictures below you all better be happy about because driving over pot holes and managing to hold your buns is not an easy thing. Oh yeah and point and shoot too.
Try holding your buns and taking a picture of those buns sometime. Let me know how you do.
I cannot find the names of the sandwiches we got but they were both really good.
This one was on a croissant with onion, lettuce, tomato, turkey, a poppy seed vinaigrette and American and cheddar cheese. Fabulous! Dan and I shared this.
Next up, the yuck factor. The biscuits tasted stale and the gravy had sausage bits in them but the whole thing was pretty rancid.
Dan mostly ate this, God Bless him.
We opened up the ham and melted cheddar sandwich but were too full to eat it. Carsyn ate it later on. It also had onion and a mayo mix. Carsyn said it was good even cold.
We drove onward through the bowels of Indiana and Carsyn needed to use the facilities and took a turn, hoping the exit and the one goat town attached to it, would have a gas station or something with a toilet. It did not. It had a huge new middle school that 142 towns combined to form but she did not want to go in.
We did though, find a cool car.
We also found a Loves truck stop a few miles later. It had a sign that made me laugh.
Honestly people.
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You guys just made my day!Amen and Hallelujah Sister!!
Sweetie, I love how delicately you assert yourself and state your opinions, it's music to my ears and I wish I could be as forth coming and straight forward. Some people call it a big mouth! I like how you put it better!I just don't like most people enough to be that honest with them. If you are a malcontent I tend to distance myself from you. I don't need anyone to bring me down. Life is too short to be negative about it. Right after we got back from Disney in December I lost my Dad and if there is one thing he tought me is cherish the little things, something as little as us all getting together for bbq he would call it a mini family reunion and he absolutely loved them. Thank you for sharing all your with us I cherish them all.
I am sorry about your Dad and yet i am glad you had someonein your life that got what matters and was not afraid to tell you that you mattered to him.
I am also excited to hear about your May trip! Give me the details!
Love this title
I wish I could FF to the details of the title...but I cannot! You will just DIE! Gotta wait!
njprincess601
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This is really off topic .. but I think Treyner has a twin and he goes to my school. I walked into my class today and his guy who looks just like Treyner was sitting next to me. I had to do a double take and then remind myself that Treyner goes to school in SC! 
Haha .. at first I really thought it was him! But then I found out his name's Dan .. and not Treyner. Okay, just thought I'd share my moment of insanity with you!
Carry on...
Haha .. at first I really thought it was him! But then I found out his name's Dan .. and not Treyner. Okay, just thought I'd share my moment of insanity with you!Carry on...
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This is really off topic .. but I think Treyner has a twin and he goes to my school. I walked into my class today and his guy who looks just like Treyner was sitting next to me. I had to do a double take and then remind myself that Treyner goes to school in SC!
Carry on...
You have to ask him for a pic - from your cellphone at least! Tell him he has a twin and you need to get side by side pics to compare!
Do not make it creepy and do it on the sly...you will get caught and look like a stalker!
Mndisneygirl
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OMG! Your telling of the not-cake lady had me biting my tongue so I wouldn't disturb my office mates and practically choking on my drink!!! YOU ARE TOO FUNNY!!!! What a strange place!!!
I love the sign!! I would totally take that picture too!!
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I had no idea of the hilarity that had occurred before you even got to me!! Maybe that's why y'all were so late! You were busy playing health inspector to the not-cake lady.
If I was playing health inspector I would have had her slip me a Benjamin for not fining her for illegal use of plastic!
I am almost to the point of your house. Since we stunk do you have any pictures I can use for the inside/outside all decorated for the Christmas season. I also need a pic of your Mom and , hubby and kids. I could go steal some from you already but I thought I would ask first. You can send them to my yahoo acct and I will post them here...or something...I can write my entry and then you can edit and post some pics too. Let me know what you want to do.
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I'm making a mental note to never visit Indiana if I'm looking for some culture.
As for the next to the highway dwellers....my guess is th eproperty is cheap and attracts those who can't afford anything else.
One thing I love about small towns is there's always a few interesting characters, such as grandma and camera. If I were changing from a cake bakery to a deli, I'm pretty sure changing the sign would be at the top of my to do list....
Naming a town "normal" is just asking for all the whack-a-doodles and ding bats within a 100 mile radius to pack up their trucks, put granny and her rocking chair on the roof, and move on over.
As for the next to the highway dwellers....my guess is th eproperty is cheap and attracts those who can't afford anything else.
One thing I love about small towns is there's always a few interesting characters, such as grandma and camera. If I were changing from a cake bakery to a deli, I'm pretty sure changing the sign would be at the top of my to do list....
Naming a town "normal" is just asking for all the whack-a-doodles and ding bats within a 100 mile radius to pack up their trucks, put granny and her rocking chair on the roof, and move on over.
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YOU ARE TOO FUNNY!!!! What a strange place!!!
I love the sign!! I would totally take that picture too!!
I just realized that the last time I edited did not show up before I posted the last chapter so please go back and re-read! The funniest parts got left out!
As far as the No Truck sign with trucks all around it, people need to think.
I once saw a billboard outside a pet shop that said:
"We sell Live Fish and Animals."
Well good for you budy cause I am sure the market on dead animals at a pet store has got to make a person depressed.
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I'm making a mental note to never visit Indiana if I'm looking for some culture.
There is some redeeming things about Indiana. Just none I saw driving through.
As for the next to the highway dwellers....my guess is th eproperty is cheap and attracts those who can't afford anything else.
It must be but how is there not more of the houses then, more people than 3 in a 60 mile radius have got to be broke and if let's say they got a cheap plot of land, than why would they not put it as far from the freeway as possible? Man I wish I had taken pics so I could explain better!
One thing I love about small towns is there's always a few interesting characters, such as grandma It was Grandpa there winkers...stay away from the cough meds...
One would think but then again most would not. If I catered events, my website might mention that instead ofcakes being the top biller as well.
Naming a town "normal" is just asking for all the whack-a-doodles and ding bats within a 100 mile radius to pack up their trucks, put granny and her rocking chair on the roof, and move on over.
I know. There is a town in Iowa called Fertile. Shocked and awed the community is that there is teen pregnancies rampant.
I mean when you brag you got kahunnas you sound like you should be on the Jersey Shore, not cornfield row!
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Dizneydawn, where have you been my whole DIS life?! You make my otherwise crappy work day into me cracking up and people asking me what is so funny!
I have to go and read your TR from last year.
Keep on truckin' and AMEN sistah friend!
I have to go and read your TR from last year.
Keep on truckin' and AMEN sistah friend!
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Me too!!!
I actually pay for XM Radio so I don't have to hear her program on one of the two (yes two) radio stations I can get where I live. There's only so much a woman can take, y'know???
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This update made my day. It's been a long one so I needed that dose of humor in my life. AND I loved the gentle butt-kicking you did in the earlier post. Amen sister!!!! I don't know how many times I tell people - only you can change you.
I hope everything is working out with Baylor's bills and Treynor's college. Let me know if I can help!
I hope everything is working out with Baylor's bills and Treynor's college. Let me know if I can help!
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Dizneydawn, where have you been my whole DIS life?!
I was going to ask you the same thing since we did have that one special night in Dallas and then nada. I kept hoping you would look for me after all these years...
Tell them it's a paid site...collect $5 bucks form them and send it to me!
I have to go and read your TR from last year.
You should and read the links at least to stories on the old PTR...
Keep on truckin' and AMEN sistah friend!
You guys need to log onto FM 107.1 radio here in Minneapolis. They are live and streaming and a great talk show for women and men. Funny people and great shows. It is my type of humor all day so if you think I am funny at all, you will love them.
Like right now...they are discussing ways to tell someone they are fat.
An hour ago the topic was the s3x robot available for $8,000. They will talk about celebrity gossip and all things random and mostly geared for women.
Re: Delila...There is only so much sappy dedications and love songs a person can hear. Different dedications and same songs every night.
I will but I learned square breathing and it has helped!
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Gasp....Wheeze....Snort...wheeze....Gasp <-- this is the sound of me finally catching up on your previous TR & this one! I'm plumb worn out, I tell ya! Between the marathon read, the snorts of laughter, and my come lately "power surges (aka hot flashes)", I am, as they say in my neck of the woods, "sweatin' like a wh*re in church on Sunday." But, boy, was it worth it! You are hilarious, Dawn!
And I couldn't agree more on your "your life is what you make it" motto! Amen, sister! And here's another Southern'ism that sums up what you said: "Man, its time to paint your butt white and run with the antelope." It took me forever to understand what that meant when my grandfather's cook would say that to us as kids whenever we'd be whining about something or other. 
I hope you get all your medical stuff well in hand. I have cancer & battle insurance companies on a weekly basis & I wholeheartedly sympathize with your frustration. Just keep fighting 'em, Dawn.
I can't wait for the next installment.
...wheeze....Gasp <-- this is the sound of me finally catching up on your previous TR & this one! I'm plumb worn out, I tell ya! Between the marathon read, the snorts of laughter, and my come lately "power surges (aka hot flashes)", I am, as they say in my neck of the woods, "sweatin' like a wh*re in church on Sunday." But, boy, was it worth it! You are hilarious, Dawn! And I couldn't agree more on your "your life is what you make it" motto! Amen, sister! And here's another Southern'ism that sums up what you said: "Man, its time to paint your butt white and run with the antelope."
It took me forever to understand what that meant when my grandfather's cook would say that to us as kids whenever we'd be whining about something or other. I hope you get all your medical stuff well in hand. I have cancer & battle insurance companies on a weekly basis & I wholeheartedly sympathize with your frustration.
Just keep fighting 'em, Dawn. I can't wait for the next installment.
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I was cracking up here reading your latest installment! You definitely get a big AMEN from me! Sometimes (well a lot of the time) my edit button doesn't work when things are eloquently flowing out of my mouth. Well to me they are eloquent...maybe not the recipient! Okay what is with Kamra's use of the word parlayed....did she watch one to many Pirates of the Caribbean movies?
And that sausage gravy....ugh it looked like flour and water mixed with ants. Or some kind of small black insect...fleas. I like sausage gravy. A lot. And that looked really gross!! Thanks for the laugh this afternoon...I missed seeing you on here!!
Tracy
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