The Fray!!!

Hi y’all!  Hope everyone has been having a great week.  Our link-up party is going very well.  Thank you to all who have linked up!  If you haven’t linked up yet, please come link up!  It is a great way to meet new friends and read new blogs.  I love co-hosting with Iveth.  She is an awesome friend!  Check our her blog too!  The link-up party information can be found at https://pootsnotes.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/a-little-bit-of-everything-link-up-3/.

The walking is still going well.  This week has been kind of strange as far as walking goes.  I know we walked around 2 miles or so at the Illinois State Fair yesterday.  I worked Tuesday and I know I walked a bunch then.  Of course I can’t get my minutes and time because Facebook has decided to puke but rest assured I am still walking and doing everything that I need to.  Monday I did do right at 4 miles after all the errands were run and with the walking later in the day.  Tuesday I worked and walked constantly all day and yesterday was the Illinois State Fair.  Today I am beat and am just taking it easy.  Wednesday for whatever reason I decided it was time to have some doughnuts.  So I did.  I didn’t feel any better.  In fact I could tell I had too much sugar.  I took it easy yesterday and cut a lot of calories out.  Today I am very tired since we got home at 430 in the morning.  It was a long day.  But it was awesome!

We just saw The Fray last month in Indy and met them there.  And we wanted to see them again.  They were going to be at the Illinois State Fair.  We started out really early heading to Springfield because I hadn’t been there on my own and I wasn’t sure how the fair parking and all worked.  Once we got into Illinois I noticed a few things.  There was a cemetery that had a few stones but mostly all flower bouquets sticking up out of the ground.  The stones could haven been flat on the ground but it was just odd.  Another thing-all the roads to Springfield from here were two lane and at one time I was backroading it.  Well nothing new that doesn’t happen here since we live on the back roads.  I believe that the town/city signs in Illinois mention the population underneath the name.  I kept trying to figure out why we didn’t see any big buildings in Springfield.  The population was in the 117,000s.  I had Annie look up the population of Indy.  It was over 800,000.  That could explain it or we just didn’t get into that part of town.  Even Indy has a few huge buildings.  Illinois though was way easy to navigate.  It takes some time to get there and it looks like I never left Indiana, but it was an easy drive.

Once we got to Springfield I pulled over and called the fair people to find out what we needed to do.  We needed to go in gate 6 and park in lot 18 for the show.  Ok.  That was the easy part.  Next, what about these VIPIT things we have here?  They will be giving out bands prior to the show.  Ok.  So we get parked and head on in and run into a security guard to ask what the deal was and to find out when and where this will be.  He said 5 PM, and The Fray had just pulled up.  Awesome!  He was a really nice guy and we chatted with him a while (yes it is true, I never know a stranger).  On the way in we came by a helicopter ride place.  Nope, not for me.  I was going to go up in one in Branson Missouri with my uncle but I was so car sick from the ride there that I passed.  Now I don’t think I could deal with it either.  But Annie wanted to.  She went up and had a great time!  She showed me the video she took and all.  The guy there told me that he got car sick too but there is nothing like that in a chopper.  Nah.  Just still not for me.  Don’t think The Fray would fancy my lunch on my shirt should I get into close proximity to them.  Here are a few pics, and I have a video that I will eventually post.  She is in the back in the gray shirt.

We go back in and start trying to find someone to ask about the passes and such.  There is a line already forming and after we ask someone we decide to jump in there.  Glad we did.  They were all waiting for The Fray too all with VIP passes like us.  So we sat and waited.  About an hour after we had been there someone said they were over by where we were sitting at.  Annie and I debated whether to go or not but the people we were with held our place for us.  We walked on over and saw a couple of the other guys but no Isaac.  We rounded the corner and oh my!  There he was!  He was chatting with some of the other people from the line.  He was done talking to them and started talking to us.  At this point I think we both were about to have a spasm.  I told him that we had just met them last month in Indy and showed him the pic on my phone.  He said he was glad he was wearing a different shirt and asked if I would like another pic with him! Well yeah!  So I turn my camera on, hands shaking like crazy and I swear I am brain-dead.  I cannot figure out why the selfie function was not functioning.  He reached over and flipped it to the right setting.  I took 3 pics, in case one of them didn’t take right–shaky hands you know.  I thanked him and Annie got one with him too.  That was just awesome! We got one with one of the other guys too and by that time their security had caught up to them.  They weren’t running people off but they were just moving on down the line of the food places in front of the grandstand.  I am just still in shock!  I am just absolutely thrilled to death to get to meet them again!  And Isaac Slade again!  How awesome is that????  He is a really nice guy.  🙂

We go back to our line and the security people were making sure that only the people who were there first didn’t get cut in front of.  At around 5 they got our bands for us and we still had to wait longer.  Around 630 they let us start going in and told everyone not to run.  Well that didn’t work well since it was general admission for the pit.  We got in good and on the right side of the stage, first in line at the fence.  Yeah!  It was pretty awesome.  Here is one of our views.

Andy Grammer opened for The Fray.  He was pretty awesome too.  I got a few good pics.

Then The Fray came out.  Oh.  My.  They are just as awesome as they were in Indy.  About three or four songs in he goes out in the crowd.  He is climbing up the grandstand and seeing the people up in the top.  He climbed back down and came back on the side of the fence where we were standing.  At the end of the song he hops up on the fence, right over Annie!  Now I am standing beside her, and fumbling with the phone to get the pics.  I got them!  So not only did we get to meet him but we got to see him hop up right there at us!  In the first one of him close up you can see Annie’s hand reaching out to touch his arm.  🙂  I was too bumfuzzled to reach out….I was trying to take pics.

I took all sorts of great pics here.  I will post several.  We had such a good time!  The Fray will never disappoint.  I also have a video of them singing “Just a Closer Walk With Thee.”  I will try to get it out there and posted.  If any of you guys happen to read this, thank you.  You have made our year, twice in a row.  🙂

This has been an awesome week!  Keep linking up and have a great weekend!

–S

Catch Up and Upcoming Link-Up Party

Hi y’all!  It has been a few days so I figured I better get a catch-up in here.  First of all, I will be co-hosting the #Alittlebitofeverything link-up party with Iveth from fortheloveto.com again this week.  Iveth invited me to co-host her link-up party again with her this week!  I am so excited because I had such a good time last week, reading blogs and meeting new people.  Please, please, PLEASE come link up to our blogs.  Iveth is an awesome friend and I know you too will love talking to her and reading her blog!  Don’t be shy, come on over and link up!  Link will be posted on Wednesday.

Saturday I worked and ended up doing over 3 miles at work so I was done with the walking for the day.  Sunday I actually walked and we did 43 minutes 1.88 miles.  Sunday we did our regular walk and Annie went with me.  That one infernal hill that always gets me, it seemed easier although she said I huffed and puffed all the way up it.  But we did it.  Yesterday, Monday, we walked down the HUGE hill to my Mom’s house but had my uncle take us back to the top.  I am crazy but not crazy enough to try going back up until I get some more weight off.  We did 45 minutes and 1.52 miles.  Today Jeffrey and I did the same, walked to my Mom’s, with 43 minutes and 1.78 miles.  I have been walking late afternoon too.  The heat hasn’t been bothering me so that is a good thing.  Sunday and Monday both we just got back to the house and a storm hit.  It was hissing and blowing yesterday and I went out on the porch and stood in the blowing rain and wind.  I was hot! That cooled me off!  No storms today.  I was a bit disappointed.  I wanted to get cooled off faster.  Oh well.

I have had a light week this week so I have been able to eat here more.  I have gotten my diet under control again and now I think I need to fix the portions.  I dread starting something new like that right in the middle of some other changes I am getting ready to make but I think I can do it.  I hope I can anyway.  The weight is still coming off and I guess I am impatient but I have made so many healthy changes..  I know it is all having a great effect on me.  The changes include drinking more water, giving up sugar cold turkey, cutting carbs, cutting out the sweet pop, limiting my diet pop intake, and walking!  Walking and the water have been the two that if I was to pick some, I would have thought those would be the hardest ones for me to get used to but I am doing it and doing it successfully.  I still love that when I go places I can walk and not huff and puff.

So I have been dealing with some things, most of which I am not going to really name names and places, etc.  But  I will be as descriptive as I possibly can.  I have made some choices lately that I thought were for the best.  Turns out they were choices I should have said no to but yet it may propel me in the direction I need to go.  I have been wrestling with the fact that I am not the same person as I was previously and if that was causing me the issues, with Jeffrey’s sickness and being saved and going to church.  Honestly, yeah, that is a LOT of it.  I can’t run from people who don’t think like I do but I sure don’t have to put up with people who are nasty and hateful and treat me bad because of something that I have no clue about.  I also want to say that this has nothing to do with my beliefs or anything that I can tell from that angle. This is how I see it:  if you have something to say about me, say it to my face, not behind my back.  Furthermore, if you are gonna say good/bad things about me in any capacity first, you best be on a “I’ll call/’text/Facebook you” level because if you ain’t friends enough to have a way to get a hold of me, you don’t have any business talking about me.  This may sound and mean and hateful but for real, find another game.  I don’t have time for high school drama.  If your stuff is that boring that you to flap about everyone else, well, I am sorry.  But don’t mess here.  I have been through a lot, I have seen a lot, and the things that I think were once important, ain’t no longer. Don’t waste my time and yours starting a bunch of stuff that has no merit to it.   In other words, “He who is without sin cast the first stone.”  Yes I am saved and go to church and it takes all I have not to tell these people exactly what I think but I have been successful at keeping quiet.  I have to remember that I am representing my church and God.  That is one of the best reasons I can think of to keep a calm and level head.  And again, I am.

Now that I am off that soapbox I do have some things going on, things that I will mention eventually, all of which will be good.  In the meantime, school starts back next week and I start working on the major project so I am sure that will be interesting.  Say a little prayer for me that these things get fixed.  In the meantime, I am beat and need to finish my blog for the link-up and do dishes.  Have a great night, y’all!  Don’t forget the link-up tomorrow!

–S

Tuesday Adventures

Hi y’all!  Don’t forget the link-up party starts tomorrow!  I hope to see everyone out there who has a blog linking up!  Or at least those who read my blog.  Pass it along to your blogger friends too.  It is a great way to meet new people and find awesome blogs to read.  Again I can’t thank Iveth enough for inviting me to help host her link-up party!  It is an honor.  Check out Iveth’s blog at fortheloveto.com.

Today I had to take my uncle to Rural King so I ended up walking 1.34 miles there.  How did I do that you ask?  Well it is a huge store, and everything has been moved so a lot of it is hunt and peck to find something, you know like how people type one-handed.  They look and look and finally find it.  So it was at Rural King.  We got that done and headed home.  On the way there we kept driving into what looked like a massive storm but it barely sprinkled on us.  That was good because it looked like a rough one.

We got home and I got lunch ready and took a nap (gasp! I know–I have been so tired lately).  I have been trying to crank the carbs down like the dr told me to do and also the exercise.  So there will be more crock pot cooking here and other things.  He also told me to eat more protein.  That will help me more than anything.  And he also mentioned about how now that I am not used to eating a bunch of sugar, how I will feel awful after I do.  I have indulged in a milkshake the other day and it was a reasonable amount so I didn’t feel too bad but I can tell a difference in how I feel when I eat more on the wrong side of things than I try to eat better.  It is just hard because again of being out and about a lot and also because finding low carb snacks is hard.  I almost wrote low barc.  I guess those may be hard to find too.

Fall must be going to be early this year.  The wind was blowing when we took our second walk and leaves that were yellow were falling.  And the grass–the grass is starting to die and look like it is fall.  I am ready for it.  Fall is my favorite time of the year.  It is cooler and it just feels good all the way around.

Later this evening we took another walk for 41 minutes 1.31 miles.  We walked to my Mom’s house.  Yes we went down the hill.  But I had Gary bring us back up the hill.  I am crazy but not THAT crazy. Last time I did that hill going up was the second day I had been walking when I started all this and I had to stop three times, and I felt dizzy and light-headed and I am not ready to try that again.  After I get another 20 off I will, but not now even with what I have lost so far.  I will get there. I just need to hammer down on the exercise so I don’t know if that means to walk more or add more.  I will get that adjusted too.  All I know is I need to kick it in gear somehow.  He also agreed that one day a week if I have done well I can have a few things I like.  Awesome!

Tomorrow Jeffrey goes back to school.  Tomorrow is also shopping day.  I don’t know much else new so I am going to stop here.  It is kind of short but that is ok every so often.  Have a great night y’all, and I hope to see you all at the link-up!

–S

Just Another Monday and Upcoming Link-Up Party!

Hi y’all!  I am so excited because in the next day or two I will be hosting the link-up party with Iveth!  Look for that soon!  Please stop by and link-up your blogs!!!  Iveth is an awesome person and has a great blog over at fortheloveto.com.  Stop by and say hi!

Today I didn’t specifically walk because I knew I was going to have to go shopping for my Mom later in the day.  This awarded me with 1.37 miles and I will take that.  Wal-Mart about puts me down though.  Something about that floor just really kills me.  We got it done though.  Tomorrow will be a regular walk so I am excited about that.  I do have a question to pose to my readers.  What other things can I do that will help me lose more of my gut and get healthy?  I was never into push ups and sit ups and things like that so surely there has to be another way.  I have been sticking with my water better.  I haven’t had pop now for a few days and I don’t mind leaving it behind because even though I am busy I am still having time to make my tea in the mornings.  Those are good things.  I just need to figure out how to eat less carbs at work and on the go.  I had to take Jeffrey to the dr this morning and I asked him (the dr) and he gave me a few suggestions.  Scales still show I am almost 30 pounds down so I am not about to stop now.  He had several suggestions and I plan on following them.  I am still stumped by snacks but I am sure I will figure that out.

We did Jeffrey’s school shopping today.  We ended up with several good gel pens and 85, yes 85 tablets!  We all seem to run through tablets pretty wild around here so we stocked up.  At .17 apiece who wouldn’t?  Still need to get a graphing calculator for him.  The ones we looked at today were almost $100 each!  Holy cow!  I don’t think so.  I hope to find a cheaper one on Amazon or somewhere.  That is just highway robbery!  I hope they don’t assign some sort of wild assignment the first day because it may take a while to find a good one that isn’t so expensive.  I don’t need much like that for my classes, just pens and paper.  And books.  I will get those ordered next week.  I am doing the major project this semester and it really gives me a slight feeling of dread.  I have to do this in a scientific manner and what I wanted to do is apparently not scientifically measurable they way I wanted to do it.  I guess I will just need to rethink this situation or panic. I am leaning more toward number 2 there but I am not a panicker. I am not sure how long I have to complete this because I know that I will have to use a good chunk of that time to figure out what I am doing which was supposed to be done last semester or at least a good idea was supposed to be figured out.  All I figured out was I don’t know how to figure this out. Bleh. I will conquer this.  Somehow.

On the way home I passed Annie.  I always call her Is Nan, because she is Nan.  Ha!  So I pull up beside her, and holler Is Nan out the window.  She just told me in a message that that was a new one and I needed to blog about it.  So here ya go.  🙂  It was a new one.  And I will probably do it again.  Ha! Her schedule has gotten changed on her and I don’t get to walk with her as much as I would like to.  She has some days off coming up so hopefully we will get to walk again.  Or do something.  More like blow my diet at the Chinese place probably.

OK so back to the job thing.  I emailed a professor of mine from my old college who also happens to be a good friend of mine.  I asked him what I was doing wrong in my job search.  He basically explained that companies don’t do things like they used to.  And the job market was just harder and being called in for an interview is almost a thing of the past.  Well, I do say that doesn’t make me feel better but yet it does because maybe it isn’t me, for once it really is everyone around me. I don’t know but surely I will hit on something one of these days.  I am just disgusted because a BS is supposed to be that magic potion that helps you succeed.  I know I have a great job coming.  I just need to be patient.  And of course I can use him for a reference.  🙂  If you do happen to read this, your advice is priceless, regardless of what it may be.  Thank you.

I had tweeted to Ben Gleib the other day and he favorited the tweet so that was awesome!

And real quick the 30 day challenge catch up.  (Annie please catch yours up!  I miss reading your answers!)

Day 22-Do you play a sport?  If so tell us about it.  If not, tell us about another hobby.  Well, I used to play pool really well but I don’t much anymore.  I need to get me a pool table.  I love to watch baseball though.  I have many hobbies, including collecting ink pens, reading, writing, messing with my computer (a variety of things there–web design, fixing my own stuff, etc. since I am a computer geek ya know), walking, shopping, etc.  One of my favorite things to do is drive, so I love to go places.

Day 23–Your opinions on Lady Gaga.  Love her!  I love her music.  If you listen really close to her, she can sing anything in this world that you could imagine.  I would love to hear her put out some gospel songs.  Yes, I think she sings that well.

Day 24--Oh my, the last movie I saw in theaters I think was Toy Story 3.  That has been a while back.

Day 25–Tell us about the last book you read, for leisure or for school.  Well the last book I read was the Bible which I read in a bit ago.  But I read a few for school, one of which was “Borrowing Brilliance.”  It was an awesome book about how no idea is new–all ideas are borrowed and made your own.  I did a research paper on it, in the form of an interview, and got an A.  Professor said he hadn’t seen anyone do one like that and was happy with how mine turned out.  🙂

With that being said I don’t dread the research paper, it is the set up and execution of my data finding process that is killing me.  Bleh.

Tomorrow I gotta run out to Rural King and then I need to get my stuff ready for my missionary meeting on Wednesday.  I will be around though.  Have a great night y’all!

–S

VBS! Exciting News!!

Hi y’all!  I hope y’all are doing well.  Before I even get into my walking stuff I have some exciting news I cannot wait to share! I will be helping my friend Iveth over at fortheloveto.com host her link-up!  I am very excited about this opportunity and look forward to reading new blogs and meeting new people!  Thank you Iveth for the opportunity to do this!  It is going to be great!!!!  I will have more information posted later in the week!  Please feel free to check it out, link-up and share the news!

Yesterday I did 47 minutes which was 1.61 miles.  I didn’t get much walking done today but I had to undecorate the church from VBS and I worked so I did 1.75 miles doing all that so I will take it.  I have been doing relatively well with my eating again but I have to say I had a milkshake today.  I didn’t care, I was needing something to pep it up a bit and that helped.  Of course it doesn’t help that the best milkshakes are right here in my hometown.  I have had milkshakes in a few places in my life but Bo-Macs is the best.  No contest.  Anyway, I have been able to crank the food down a bit and escape a lot of the restaurant food which has helped.

The walking is helping too although I have to say that there is a very confusing thing going on that I cannot figure out for the life of me.  They say to walk, to lose weight and to get healthy all the way around.  Some of the issues I have had with my back should leave when I start walking.  Once I get walking and get some weight off I should start having less pain there.  Well, no.  It seems like I walk in the mornings, and things are good.  I then go to work or whatever it is I am going to do, and driving tears my knee up.  Walking further at work tears my knee and my back up.  I sit it hurts.  I stand it hurts.  I walk it hurts.  But I keep going which I think is what I need to do but again am I just messing things up?  I am not sure but I do know I am perplexed with this and this will be a topic to address at my next Dr appointment.  I sure don’t know what is going on but I know i am tired of it.  And for the record, I am a very busy person.  I have had to go back to work part-time and I do tell you that if I worked full-time that whoever had decided that two days off work was enough to rest up, they are wacko. Certifiably and completely wacko.  I can’t get rested up with what I have working fifteen hours a week!  Holy cow I don’t know what is happening!

I have had VBS all week.  I have had such a great time!  I just do what I think God is directing me to do and VBS is one of those things.  On the last day we had a drawing for some prizes but everyone got something.  And the thing they looked forward to?  The Pastor and my son Jeffrey both got hit in the face with some cream pies!  That was a hoot!  When we lured them to come over to where we were, the kids were hesitant to throw the pies at them, although they know they were supposed to!  But it was good times!  We studied the underdogs of the Bible–Joseph, Daniel, Esther, and David.  It was very good.  I look forward to doing it again next year!

On the way to town today, there was a little baby deer just walking up the road.  It still had its spots!  It wasn’t the least bit afraid.  We were afraid someone was going to come along and hit it so I tooted my horn and it jumped off into the weeds.  We figured it lost its mom somewhere and couldn’t find her.  I hope it found her.  Stuff like that bugs me.

So the husband tags me in a post on Facebook of this old country song.  I look it and the lyrics up and it was apparently considered a very racy song in the day and was apparently banned off the radio, I believe I had read.  Ha!  It was quite mild compared to what is out there today.  I am going to see if I can find it and link it up here so y’all can see it.

Work this week went much better.  I am not sure what my problem has been.  I am so torn between getting my dream job, and God only knows what that may be, and between being there.  I don’t know what I am doing wrong because regardless of how many resumes I send out, I never get a call back.  I know that maybe I need to call them, but I don’t want to be a stalker.  I have had some places tell me not so nicely that if they are interested they will call me.  Although this week was good there are some days like today that makes me question anything I have ever done and if I am or ever will be good at anything.  I feel like I have lost my touch or something.  I think maybe I am just very tired and I need to rest. I think I will get myself back together this week.  I know I will.

I think that is all I have for now.  I look forward to helping host the link-up party!  Have a great night y’all!

–S

Weight Loss! And a Stowaway!

Hi y’all!  Miss me?  I didn’t have time last night to write much after VBS and then Twitter just took a major puke on me Tuesday so I thought I would give it a day to get itself fixed.  And it did.  So yesterday I did 1.48 miles for 45 minutes.  It was very hot yesterday morning even though I was walking really early in the morning.  But I did it.  I did the driveway deal yesterday because I just didn’t feel like doing the hill in the heat.  The ones that are necessary between here and the driveway are bad enough in the heat.  And I took my weights.  I can still tell differences in my arms and my legs and in how I breathe and things when I walk.  And my clothes are still fitting looser so that is good.  Today I only did 1.35 but that was over the course of the day and since I had an appointment today I had to keep,  I will take this.  I am seeing the results though.  At my appointment I was weighed and I am down 4 more pounds which make this 28 pounds total weight loss.  Yay!  I can and I am doing this!  I am still not sure if it will give me the end result that I want as far as my health goes but at least I will look and feel better and will be able to walk with no issues.  I am just going to keep going and get myself healthy on many accounts regardless of how this affects the diabetes aspect.

So today I had an appointment and on the way into town we kept hearing something.  I stopped the car and sure enough, we had a stowaway!  A kitten had gotten into the engine part and it was just sitting in there mewing at us.  He wasn’t hurt or anything so he just got to ride in the car and hang out until we got home.  I am not sure why he got in there.  It sure hasn’t been cold, which is why they climb into engine compartments or at least the main reason why.  I guess maybe it was just done sitting outside or something and decided to get into it.  It is ok though, it was reunited with its mom.  Now it is just chasing us everywhere and seems to know us now unlike before its car ride!  Silly cats!

Tonight we had 10 at VBS.  I really enjoy doing the VBS.  I have a good time and the kids seem like they have a good time as well.  I hope we have as many tomorrow too.  Tomorrow we learn about Daniel and the Lion.  I have found some really good videos to show this time so that has worked out well.

I had been tweeting to Idiotest on Twitter and wasn’t sure they were getting any of my tweets but they responded today so that was cool.  I haven’t posted many tweets lately but I am going to post this one.  It was just cool.  🙂

@poothead Hi Stacey! IT IS!!! #Idiotest

— Idiotest (@IdiotestShow) July 29, 2015

I am also getting ready to link up with Iveth on fortheloveto.com  Please link up with her, she has an awesome site!

Also I have 1137 hits on this site now, 6 bloglovin followers and 55 subscribers on here.  Thank you all so much!  Keep following and telling everyone, would love to have more readers!

And a quick catch up on the 30 day challenge.

Day 20–Do you wear glasses?  And if you do, what are they for?  Well I wear them because I can’t see! Ha!  That is about half right.  I started in 3rd grade telling my Mom that I couldn’t see out of my left eye.  It was like there was a black thing in the middle of my eye and I couldn’t get the whole picture.  I have had to wear glasses since I was 9.  Dr then said it was lazy eye but several years ago I had heard tell of someone else having lazy eye and they had surgery to correct it.  Just the last time I was to the eye Dr two years ago they said I had farsightedness with an astigmatism.  What that translates into is slight Coke bottle lenses.  And as my sight gets worse with age, they will get thicker.  I used to have a huge one on the left but they cut some of it down since that eye will never get better which brings us to the next reason I wear them, and that is to protect my eyes.  But now at my ripe old age of 39,  I truly do need them as my vision is getting worse.

Day 21–Your favorite subject to study.  Well anything computers, the Bible, history specifically from the Pilgrims up until Anne Frank’s time, and ghost stories.  I love to read anything basically.  Been grooving on biography/autobiography stories in the last few years. And cooking.  I love to learn new things there.

This is all I have for tonight.  I have to go to work tomorrow.  I am still really struggling with the concept that I am supposed to be there and the fact that I can’t shake some of the feelings not necessarily of hatred but of dread that  I had the last time.  I pray to get this figured out but I am not having much luck.  I guess I will have to see if the reason I am there is revealed to me.  Also, please continue to pray for my niece.  She is still have issues.  And my brother got to come home Saturday and is doing great!  Please continue the prayers for him too.  Thank you all!

Have a great night, y’all!

–S

Nate Ruess!

Hi y’all!  I am back!  I have been so busy and worn out that I just took a few days to get things together and now I am back.  I am glad to be back although this week will still be extremely busy.  Saturday I did 2.3 miles at work and shopping then I came home and walked for 40 minutes which made the total for the day 3.82 miles.  When I got home from work, and got my Mom’s groceries put away and the church decorated for VBS, it was almost dark but we went anyway.  Those hills really got me!  I huffed and puffed up that one that gets me all the time.  Mercy it was rough!   I even had a few second pause.  But I moved on.  My daughter told me I was huffing an awful lot, and I responded with I did though didn’t I and didn’t give up!  The second hill on the go back Saturday was ok.  I dealt with it ok.  When we got back we were sweating up a storm.  Literally.  I haven’t been that hot for a long time walking.  It seems like when I walk I don’t sweat much, but when we stop I sweat and it literally pours.  I thought your body was supposed to sweat to cool you off but I don’t get extremely hot when I walk contrary to how I feel most of the time.  I am not going to argue that but you would think you would sweat a bit.  Well I do but I guess the real sweat session comes after you stop.  I have been out of the loop of the hills now for a while.  I still get my time in, at work or whatever, but I think there are more benefits to walking, for a consistent amount of time, at once.  This week I will be able to get on that.  Also every week when I tell say I am going to crank down my carbs I end up not being home to do so.  This week though, I will.  Yesterday I rather well and had a small piece of pie for dessert.  Today has been well so far and I intend to keep that way, at least in my range that I try to hit.  Yesterday was church and I didn’t walk but we finished the decorating and I ended up doing 1.18 miles doing that.  It is good to take what I can get as far as walking goes when I can’t hit it like I need to.  This morning though, we did 43 minutes and 1.37 miles which will go up after VBS tonight I am sure.  That hill that gets me?  I puffed up it this morning and it wasn’t so bad.  Didn’t take so long to get back in the loop.  And the second one wasn’t too bad either. I powered up it and kept on going.  It did drizzle on us a bit this morning.  We saw our rabbit in a different place and we think it was another one.  And no bullfrogs tried to get us.  🙂  I guess that walking all the time is like riding a bike.  Once you get out of it for a minute, and when you start back up, it is like you never stopped.  I can really tell a difference.  Remember I said I wouldn’t huff and puff in Cincinnati?  I didn’t!  I hit that goal!  Now I guess I need to set another one.  I am torn between fitting in smaller pants or not huffing and puffing doing certain things.  I think I better stick with the huffing and puffing thing since I think that I need to be able to walk more and in better health than my pants size, but that is important too in order to hopefully stop diabetes before it starts.  Whew!

It seems like I feel better if I get my walk in every day.  I just cannot seem to get myself to relax.  It is like my muscles tense up and I cannot get them to wind down.  I don’t know if it is just me, or I just can’t seem to let go because I expect the hammer to drop on something or what.  I hope to get un-tired this week.  I can keep on wishing.  And this ignorant cold I caught, it has gone except for snot stringing down my throat.  That is driving me mad.  I hope that goes on too.  I do say with not smoking for as long as I have, colds are not as severe as they used to be.  Annoying still but not as bad.

We decorated Saturday and yesterday for our VBS at church. The theme is Underdogs of the Bible.  It will be a really good VBS.  Today I think we start with Joseph.  Jeffrey will be doing crafts.  If you are close we would love to have you come out.  It will be a good time!

And now we come to Nate Ruess.  My daughter, as you know, loves to do stuff and I usually get to help pick these things or suggest things.  So now we are going to see Nate Ruess, from fun. in September.  Oh that will be good!   I like several of fun.’s songs and I like his solo stuff.  It ought to be good.  Will of course post pics.  I wonder if he will sign afterward?  Will find out I guess!

I have had several  cool things on Twitter.  Of course, Idiotest interacts with me all the time and that is cool.  Wish I knew who was running that account, if it was Ben Gleib or someone else.  I may have to ask someday.  I have met several mom bloggers on there that I connect with and I thank all of them for that, and several blog retweeters that I really enjoy and I thank for retweeting me, including The Blog Centre and a few others. The Blog Centre mentioned me in their newsletter they sent out today.  You can read it here: Blog Centre. Thank you again for featuring me!!!  And Daniel Goddard, who plays Cane on the Young and the Restless favorited a tweet I sent to him.  So all that is cool.

I also better catch up the 30 day blog challenge.

Day 14–Do you have siblings?  Talk about them or what it’s like to be an only child.  I have a brother, that I have talked about many times.  He is the most awesome brother in the world.  He has had my back from day one, vowing to always look out for me no matter what.  When my Dad wasn’t around he did a good job of doing those things that he was supposed to do.  He has always helped me out and then some.  And an update on him, he got to come home Saturday and is doing very well after his surgery.  I am so thankful to God for that!  I would do anything in this world for him, and him for me.

Day 15–Tell us your favorite junk food.  Well believe it or not, I can take junk food or leave it.  With this diet, I don’t get much obviously.  If I had to pick one, I like Reese’s anything, and  I love cake but I am not sure you count that as junk food or dessert.  There is no junk food out there that I can’t live without but I guess my favorite would be pop.

Day 16–Your favorite Disney Princess movie.  Hmm.  I guess Beauty and the Beast.   That is my favorite one, went to see it in the theater when I was a kid.

Day 17–My thoughts on Ugg boots.  Not for me.

Day 18–Do you drink soda more often than milk?  I suppose I used to but I drink more tea and water than anything.

Day 19–The initials of your crush.  I am married so that don’t count.

The 30 day challenge is caught up.  If there is anything you want to know about me, or want me to blog about, just comment it to me.  I would love to answer things!  I think I will close it for now.  I need to get lunch and get ready to head to VBS.  Have a great day y’all!

–S

Baseball!

Hi y’all!  Miss me??  I was at a baseball game Wednesday and then I was sick yesterday and this morning.  I have had some sort of snotty nose, hacking, chilling on and off type of disease.  I am finally feeling better this evening which is an odd time to be feeling better all things considered, since I just got off work.  But I do have some stories to tell!

On Wednesday by the time the day was over I had done close to 4 miles on foot.  Wow!  I did good!  And again, I didn’t break a sweat or anything.  I was sooo happy that when I trucked through there, even upstairs, I had no issues going up or down the stairs, although I can’t say the same for my knees.  And since I was sick I was hacking and sneezing all through the game.  Ugh.  Yesterday I did around mile just walking at work and stuff.  I hate that I missed today but I did do close to 2 miles at work today so I suppose that will be ok for now.  I will get back on it tomorrow.

Wednesday I did our grocery shopping and then we took off for Cincinnati around 1. I found at the store diet vanilla syrup!  I had been wanting to find some Diet Vanilla Coke because I love vanilla coke.  I am glad I found that so when I do take a notion for a Diet Coke, I can make it with vanilla. I also found a couple of good pork roasts, one for $1.81 and one for $2 and something.  You can’t beat that!  I plan on crock potting one of them into some barbeque.

Whoever designed the road system or the GPS, I am not sure which, apparently has trouble with straight lines.  When I look at a map, I see Indiana, some land, then Cincy.  Oh no.  We have to go through Kentucky, then right into Cincinnati.  I hope that is the easiest way to get there.  Looking at it on the map, it may be the fastest. If not, well I guess we are going that way anyway.

We stopped in Lawrenceburg to get Annie something to eat, and then we moved on.  That place has a huge hill leading into it and I think it would be terrifying going down it in the winter.  So the next thing, on the bridge into Kentucky I believe, they were working on it.  Now I have no idea why but I have a mild sense of distress driving over these huge bridges and overpasses and things that shoot up in the air.  I did in Louisiana, and those overpasses seemed to really shoot up into the sky.  So we start toward this bridge and there is construction.  It is down to two lanes, both enclosed in concrete things.  I have to dodge the bridge on the right and the concrete divider on the left.  Oh.  My. Goodness.  I think that had to be one of the most terrifying moments of my life.  But the first time over it wasn’t bad.  I could deal with it. The second time, in the return lane was worse.  It was dark and the road was throwing me around and then the concrete dividers were not exactly even and on the right side of me over the concrete I am not sure if the bridge was out with nothing or what since it was dark, but I gripped that wheel with both hands and slowed down to like 30 something.  I don’t think I have ever been quite as freaked out, or happier to see the Indiana sign on the other side.  Mercy sakes.  And just for the record Cincy, Indy is a lot easier to get around in after dark.  No terrifying bridges or overpasses shooting in the sky.  Just sayin’.  And not that I mind either, because y’all know I LOVE to drive even if I feel like I am on a spaceship jetting into outer space.  Just stating a fact here.  🙂

Once we pop back into Ohio it is just a few minutes to the stadium.  We get into our parking space and walked to the stadium.  Derek had to run to keep up with me!  I was trucking on!  I walked that, with no sweating, no huffing or puffing!  I walked that like a boss!  The picture I am going to post a bit later here is me with one of the mascots, and the shirt I had on was WAY too big for me.  It is the only Reds shirt I have which is why I wore it anyway.  It isn’t that bad of a pic, but you will see and when compared to my other recent pics, it is funny looking.  I don’t mind it much because it does show shrinkage to my infernal chin although my shirt looks more like a dress.  We get to our seats and unfortunately no one comes out to sign.  Ugh.  Oh well.  I have a few pics from the whole thing and all.

I got one of my brats (bratwurst), which I think is the best brats in the world. Maybe it just tastes better because it is at a game.  I don’t know.  It was a good game although the Reds lost.  There was also a kid who jumped down and ran across the field in the middle of the game!  Found out just a bit ago he was from Noblesville, up north of Indy!  Oh dear.  That is just nuts.  People need to remember when you go to a show, you are to WATCH the show, not BE the show.  Being the show in someone else’s show does not have good consequences.  It was crazy though because that kid ran, and the police were on the field like magic.  I am not sure where they were but they sure showed up fast.

I got to see most of our favorite players, including BP, Frazier, Hamilton, Votto, you know the regular guys.  There were a few others there, including Suarez, and Diaz, and they were cool too.  But my favorite came out at the last.  Chapman.  He came out, I started hooping and stood up taking pics and Derek was like “Heel!”  Ha!  I guess!  Anyway I was glad to see him and every game we have been to, except the one that was rained out, he was there.  I sure miss Arroyo and Hanigan though, and Choo, well that was silly to let him go although I understand the mechanics behind all these people moving around and stuff.  They didn’t ask me but  I sure wish they had!

Throughout the whole game Derek would hoop and holler and I tell you there was someone across the way who would respond!  Then they were selling cotton candy and the guy who would sell it would walk by and call it sugar on a ….STICK.  He would emphasize the STICK.  I tried to video him and he didn’t do it.  Annie at one time had the seat next to her down and she said that she had an imaginary friend named Clem Cletus sitting with her.  Well never a dull moment with us around!

Here some of the pics I took.  I am aware that some of these have no significance unless you watch the Reds all the time but even if they don’t for you, they are still cool pics.  Enjoy!

Chappy again!

Great American Ball Park Cincinnati Ohio

Chappy!

Me and the mascot. My shirt is WAY too big.

My husband Derek and I.

Hamilton

The big insurance building you see behind the stadium.

Our view from 5 rows back from the field on the Reds side.

Mustache building.

The building you see with the Reds hat and mustache.

For those who may be wondering, my brother is doing very well.  He has graduated to walking with a cane for now, and will be heading home soon.  He told me today he is feeling so much better and was amazed at how fast he was recovering and amazed at what a few days have done for him.  I stand corrected.  He is a Superman!  He was a Superman before and his healing progress just shows that he truly is a Superman.  Thank you all again for the prayers!

I also want to thank Iveth over at fortheloveto.com for reminding me about her link-up!  I do appreciate it!

I had better stop for today.  I am sure I will have more to say tomorrow, since unless I am gone or sick, I am never without something to say.  Night y’all!

Surgery and Walking

Hi y’all!  Today we did 45 minutes which was 1.62 miles.  We did this early before the sun was really coming up.  It was very nice and very cool out this morning.  I also got the carb thing back together today.  This is a good thing.  I was starting to wonder if  I was ever going to be able to get it under control but I did.  Not because I willingly fell off the wagon but due to circumstances I have had to adjust.  I will just keep hammering away at it until I make good progress and stuff.  Not that I haven’t been making progress but I don’t want to fall so far off the wagon that I won’t be able to recover.  I just wish there was an easier way to eat when you are out and about.  I think there has to be but I am not sure what it is.  If anyone has any suggestions, let me know.  Tomorrow we will be going to our rescheduled Reds game so I will get plenty of walking in there.  And this time, I bet you I won’t be huffing and puffing!  The last times we were out there I was huffing and puffing something awful but this time I won’t.

Remember last month when I was talking about a relative that was having surgery?  Well that was my brother.  He had gone in for a heart cath.  About a year or so ago he had some trouble with some congestive heart failure and he had gone in for a check up for that.  They decided to do a stress test which led them to believe he needed a heart cath done. At some point in all this they decided that he had parts of his heart not working and that could have been due to a heart attack in the past.  I am not sure where we learned about that at, but it was discussed in there at some point. We all went up there for that.  It was an all day affair since the guy who did it was also the guy who took care of the heart issues that came in the ER.  But he got it done and it was done successfully.  Said that if he needed stents or anything they would do them then.  Well, I just knew.  Don’t ask me how I knew, but I knew that it was going to require more than that.  Sure enough, once the Dr had looked at it he came out and told us that he was going to require some sort of open heart surgery.  That wasn’t what any of us wanted to hear.  We had briefly discussed this before he had gone in for surgery.  I don’t think anyone came to any solid conclusion about the “what if…” of that situation but here it was upon us, requiring some sort of action.  The Dr who did the cath said that the heart Dr who was going to do the other surgery would come in and talk to us before he was released.

So let me stop right there.  This was not a normal situation.  Usually it is us, on the other side, with one of our elderly relatives that has something going on .  This was a very strange situation to be in.  He even said that this was just bizarre.  I agree.  I do know I sat in the room with him the majority of the day before the cath, because I just didn’t want to leave him up there. I really hadn’t entertained that idea either, so I just stayed there.  I just couldn’t hardly stand it really. There is just some pitiful aspect about when a relative, that again, has always been a Superman and completely invincible, is the one who has gone down for whatever reason.  If anyone knows me, y’all know how I consistently act silly all the time.  No one would ever suspect how I really feel about stuff and that is a good thing.  I think that staying consistently silly is a positive thing especially when someone is facing something unpleasant.  I just hated that he had to do this and would have gladly traded places with him.  Without a doubt.  In a blink of an eye.  This is random but if he called me now and said he needed a kidney (no worries there, all is ok but I’m just saying), I would sign up to give him one of mine without even thinking. That is how much I think of him, how much I love him.  Anyway, I guess we expect parents and older relatives to become sick and have to deal with these things.  But when it is a brother, that is a different situation.  I really couldn’t even briefly entertain the idea of anything but positive things coming out of this.  I wasn’t sure what I was going to do if something did go haywire, but I just couldn’t let anything happen to him and have him taken away. And I consider my brother to be the best in the world.  He has not just been a brother but also a Dad at times because my Dad was just not around nor alcohol-free enough to be Dad.  And, they did.

This was territory that none of us have ever ventured into.  Our Mom had some stents a few years ago, but no one other than some cousins, and my in-laws, have had anything like this.  We really didn’t know what to expect I guess.  But we knew enough about heart issues to know what the major idea was and how it would be done.  The Dr who would do the surgery came in and explained to us the procedure of taking veins from the legs and using them to put in the heart.  And he was going to need a triple by-pass.  This is where a machine does the breathing and blood pumping for you while the Dr does the work on your heart, and he was going to need to replace 3 veins in his heart to reestablish blood flow.  They also said somewhere along the way said that this would possibly cause the part that appeared to be damaged, to be good again.  And I believe that that was accomplished.  The Dr explained that the percentage of failure or bad things happening (they used a more technical term than bad things now) during the surgery was 1% or less.  Hmm.  Everyone’s first impression of a by-pass is a disaster.  Your brain immediately goes to bad things or people not doing well.  Our first instinct is to call down the bad stuff or think it when in reality, times have changed.  This is a VERY serious operation, don’t get me wrong.  But it wasn’t like it was in the old days, with someone on a ventilator for a week, with the prospect that they may or may not be the same again.  In fact, these are very routine surgeries now they say.  Ok then.  The odds of bad things happening if the surgery wasn’t done was pretty bad.  So the Dr left us with that and to discuss it.  My brother, of course, was by no means gung-ho to get started on this one.  But he agreed he better do it, after minor discussion.  He had a follow-up in 2 days with the Dr who would do it and they would set a date and stuff then.  He set a date of two weeks ago today, in July, so he could get some stuff done before the surgery since he would be out of work and not able to drive for 4-8 weeks.  After seeing the surgeon this time, his thinking on this whole situation changed a bit and was more willing to get it done.  I can see where he thought like that.  I had my gallbladder out a few years ago.  I kept putting it off and putting it off. Gallbladder surgery isn’t anything like open heart surgery but no one is looking forward to surgery.  But once you get it done, you question why you waited.  I don’t think he is at that point, because he didn’t fiddle with rescheduling it several times like I did the gallbladder one.

My brother came down for the 4th.  We had pizza and some <gasp> cake and had a good time.  He had to go in the following Monday for all sorts of follow-up and pre-op stuff.  His veins were checked and were deemed ok in June for the surgery.  He had to do several things the day before.  And he had to be there at 530 for the surgery!  Ugh.  We both hate early mornings.  I can’t do them because if I get up that early, for whatever reason, I get an infernal migraine that lasts about a week.  Had one the day of his cath that lasted for 6 days or so.  And well, he just don’t do early.  So we show up at the appropriate time and he gets checked in and stuff.  They come in and start prepping him and we figure out where to go.  We came prepared this time with a laptop and some other stuff.  They came and gave us updates and things about when he went on the by-pass machine and off of it, and a few other updates.  I went out and got lunch and on my way out I just started singing the hymn “Praise Him!  Praise Him!” for no reason.  In fact I copied it onto my Facebook page that day!  I found out why when I got back.  The Dr came on shortly after I came back with lunch and was explaining how the surgery went well, everything went as it should and he was very happy with the results.  Praise God!  I knew he would be ok!  I just knew it.  I turned it over to God and let Him take the reins.  I instilled my faith where it needed to be and all was well.  I would have never made it without God being there with us.  He really is with us in all aspects of our life if we invite Him in and allow Him to be there.  I thank Him so much for being with the surgeon, with my brother, for keeping my Mom together, for safe travels, and for a whole lot of other things that may seem insignificant to most people, but God cares about it all.

Another odd thing there that happened too was at breakfast I picked up a Coke Zero with my name on it.  Stacey is a hard name to find spelled right.  Well I sat it down and lost it and went back and grabbed another.  My brother’s name is Jeffrey, and I named my son after him.  Everyone but me calls him Jeff, but I went back and put my hand right on a bottle with Jeff on it.  Then I located the other one.  How odd was that?

After he was back in his room, they told us he would probably be swollen and look odd with the breathing tubes and stuff in.  We got to go see him and he was awake and very aware of what was going on.  The breathing tube was irritating him but that was to be expected.  He was conscious enough to nod and stuff when we talked to him. Not sure how much of that he remembers but he was doing very well.  I called in the mornings and evenings until he could take his cell phone back over.  We went back up the next day to see him and he was up sitting and had been walking!  Wow!  His recovery has gone very well.  And like I said above, today is 2 weeks exactly from the surgery and he told me today he has felt better today than all the other days since this thing has started.  Dr said he would feel better in general after all this and he told us the day after surgery he could tell a difference.  I know he will run circles around me someday!  But he is getting there.  I want to thank his friends for all their help and all the people who prayed for us.  It makes a difference knowing there are people out there who care enough to help you and who are willing to say a prayer for you.

I better sign this off for today.  I have a long day tomorrow but it will be an awesome one, especially if the players come out to sign autographs and stuff.  Have a great night, y’all!

–S

Walking, Laughing and a Tea Bath

Hi y’all!  Today I only did 2.26 miles but I did it between several stores.  I had to go in to work early this morning to be passed off on meds so that is done now.  Now I can successfully perform all aspects of my old/new/old job again.  I feel a little better about the whole situation now.  I think this will be a big help.  Or at least make me feel better.  So while talking to the nurse I was catching her up on what was going on with me, since I worked with her before I left when Jeffrey got sick.  I told her about my hyperglycemia and my quest to lose weight and all.  She told me some unsettling stuff that I already knew.  She said if I was going to get diabetes, I was going to get it regardless of what I do.  Well ok.  I knew that deep down inside but you hear so many stories of people overcoming it and whatever else.  But like I told her, even so, I will be looking better.  I went ahead and asked her what the normal blood sugar was for a non-diabetic.  She said it used to be 110 and below, and even 120 at one time but now it is 70-100.  Well if that is the case,  my fasting sugar is high every day.  I declared this evening that this may not be a bad thing but a blessing (always looking on the bright side I am).  If this is what it takes to get me to slim down and get my health together, then ok.  I can deal with it.  I don’t WANT it, but if it is what is dealt me, I am going to make the most of it,  In other words, if I find out at the next DR visit that I am developing it anyway no matter the weight loss, then I will deal.  That doesn’t mean I am going to eat like a hog and gain it back.  I have a vision and I must get there.

I returned home and ate.  I am still fighting the low carb thing when I go out to eat.  I have been out and about so much lately that I cannot seem to get it back under control.  Things are going to settle down and if I can at least keep the walking going, I shouldn’t put any back on.  I am worried because first of all I want to look better and be healthy but I also don’t want all I have done to be just for nothing.  Remember me talking about getting aggravated about repeating things?  Yeah.  You get it.

We went to go see my brother today.  Remember me talking about a relative that had major surgery recently?  It was him. I plan on doing a whole blog on that journey maybe tomorrow, maybe in the coming week.  I don’t know.  I just want to be able to logically put my thoughts together and that is coming soon.  Anyway, before anyone panics, he is doing great!  Says he feels better too.  We visited him for about 3 hours and then we went to get my VBS stuff.  Vacation Bible School is in about a week or so, so I needed to get all that stuff together.  If anyone is reading this that goes to church with me, thank you all so much for all the help to make this happen!  I couldn’t have done it without God’s and your support.  So in the middle of all this we decide to get something to eat since we had been out all day.  Let me tell you where that goes.

The food is good as always at Denny’s.  They go out and I pay the bill.  The guy behind the counter was talking to me about his gut that was all wrong.  Needless to say, that turned into an interesting conversation about running people out of bathrooms and you see where it went.  So I went to the car, told my Mom about it, and she clips off something totally hilarious as I am swigging my tea.  I, for real, sprayed it out my mouth, out my nose, all over my wheel, dashboard, shirt, pants, and the excess ran under my butt.  I look like a kid that was potty training that missed!  Oh my goodness!  I haven’t laughed that hard since we got into a laughing tizzy seeing my brother earlier.  He hadn’t laughed like that since his surgery he said and he thought it would do him some good.  That was hilarious too.  All in all it was a good day and I accomplished what I set out to accomplish.

Now I am still up and writing my blog.  I think I have been resting too much lately  I figured I would stay up a bit later, and get up early to walk, and rest all day tomorrow so Wednesday we can see our rescheduled Reds game.  I am beat.  When I say I am beat, I am not kidding.  My legs, my back, my knees, even my BACK FAT is hurting!  What in the world is so bad that your back fat has to hurt?  I don’t know but mine sure does.  I hope I can stretch out and just relax tomorrow.  And do laundry and walk of course.  And I think that is one reason too.  I need to consistency of walking EVERY day at the SAME time.  Otherwise my body does something ignorant like buck everything I want to do.

Now I need to play catch up with the 30 day challenge.  Here goes;

Day 9–Favorite meme at this time:  I have seen a few recently I like but I don’t remember them so let’s go with none.

Day 10–Talk about your pets, or pets you would like to have:  I have Sheba, a Min Pin, Tink, a Chihuahua, Max, a Min Pin and Shih Tzu mix, and Coco Chanel a German Shepard mix.  I also have Tubs, Carter, Toby, Izzy B and Jinx cats.  We have a few cats outside too, Jetty and Zippy and Shaleigh.  We love our critters.  Sometimes they understand me more than society.  The only thing I can say about pets I would like is that saying I saw a while back: I only regret I don’t have a mansion big enough to house all the homeless cats and dogs in the world.  I think it said cats, but I love dogs too.  I think I should have been a vet as much as I love critters.

Day 11–Your top three favorite bands:  Well this is easy.  Rob/matchbox twenty.  That was a no brainer.  Still can’t believe that after 20+ years I got to meet him! The Fray.  That was a no brainer too.  Still can’t believe that I got to meet and HUG Isaac Slade.  Hmm mhhmmm.  And Maroon 5.  That one needs no explanation I am sure.

Day 12–My thoughts or opinions about Harry Potter.  I have read them. I loved them.

Day 13–Your thoughts or opinions about Mean Girls.  I am not sure, the movie?  With Lindsay Lohan?  Is that it?  Is this the one where the one girl choked on a jawbreaker?  Meh, I didn’t care for it.

Well now that is caught up.  I hope they get better than that.  That is all for today.  Have a great night y’all!

–S