Brenda Photo Challenge

Time for another Brenda's Photo Challenge! This is all about Favorite Things!!

I have tons a favorite things...here's just a few!

Willow Tree Angel holding a cat...given to me by my best friend Marie.

My favorite author by far is Stephen King..I have all his books and have been collecting them for years!

I bought this up north a long time ago. The shelf is only about 4" tall and each little cup is about 1/2 inch! It was the only time I was ever able to find something with both my name and Shauna's name!

I tried to get a collection of Bulova clocks. Didn't get very many because they are pretty expensive, but I love the ones I have!

I don't drink a lot of pop but when I do this is my favorite of all time! Yum!!

Click the link above to see some more Favorite Things.

Thanks, Brenda, for hosting another great Photo Challenge!

IKEA Table

Saturday I went to IKEA to find a small table to put here:

The small wall right inside the front door. I used to have a low end table there but it never did look right to me and I wanted something that the cats wouldn't think was another surface for them to lay on!

Man, that IKEA is one busy place..especially on a Saturday. And I'm pretty sure that the store is set up so you have to walk through practically the whole thing just to get to the checkout!

Anyway, I actually enjoyed walking around there and found what I thought would be the perfect table.


Bought it, brought it home and prepared to put it together.

After it got a thorough inspection from  the cats, that is!

So here is our new hall table! Actually it's a plant stand, but I think it's the perfect size for where it is. Max thinks so, too!
It looks black in this picture, but it's really a dark brown. And that flower pot is just temporary. I think a larger green silk plant would look nicer there so this weekend I'll be looking for that!

Plus it made a great shadow on the wall as you can see from the header picture!

Have a good week...see you on Saturday for another Brenda Photo Challenge!

The Tale of The Candy Bar

I decided to take the day off Wednesday just to give myself a little break and get a little me time. I had brunch with my friend Karen and then went to my cousin Carole's house to visit with her and return some stuff that I borrowed over the summer.

She lost her job about two years ago and she was telling me about the hoops prospective employers put people through when you apply for a job eg. lengthy tests and ridiculous interview questions...only to never hear from them again! So ridiculous!

Anyway, when I got home, I found this in the mailbox along with our mail...

I had no clue what this was until I peeled off the sticky note and saw this..

Apparently Shauna put this in our mailbox on Tuesday morning and our delivery lady took it thinking it was for her!

I felt really bad...she must have been embarrassed... so I put this is our mail box the next day...

I hope it made her feel better!

Well it's Saturday and I am off to IKEA to see if I can find a small table for our hallway entrance. Hope I can make it back out of that crazy place!!

Hello World Out There!

Jeez...I said this year I would like to get a few more followers but not posting and only commenting on very few blogs (although I still read a ton of them) is no way to do that! Oh well, blame it on the winter funk!!

Happy Valentines Day! Rich and I are doing absolutely nothing, which is OK with me. I may pick him up a cookie in the cafeteria but that's about it, no card or anything!

Our 35th anniversary is coming up in a month so we'll do something romantic then!

If you know me on Facebook you may have noticed I am not on there much anymore. I got bored and annoyed with it. I do still go on there occasionally so I won't deactivate my account just yet.

THIS   is my latest obsession! I love it and spend the majority of my computer time looking at things people have posted and looking for stuff to post on my own page! Fun and nothing annoying about it!

This winter has been fantastic as far as weather goes. I really have no complaints and seeing as we are in the middle of February we don't have much longer to wait for Spring!

Oh well, lunch hour over...gotta go. Hope all is well with you all! I'll try not to be so uninspired!

The Brenda Photo Challenge-Memories

Yay! The Brenda Photo Challenge is back!

This one is all about Memories! Most of my favorite memories involve Rich and the kids!

This was taken in October 1977 at my grandparents 50th anniversary party. We had been married for 7 months. We were feeling pretty good in this picture if you know what I mean!! Rich was wearing a light blue leisure suit! Remember those? So popular in the 70's!

Chris was about 2 1/2 years old in this picture. Him and Rich used to stack his blocks up as high as possible. This one was about 5 feet tall! A record!

This is my all time favorite picture of Rich and Shauna. She used to sleep on his lap all of the time. They both woke up the second I took the picture!

This was my Nonna...my mom's mom. She died when I was 16 years old. She lived with us for the last year or so of her life so we were especially close to her. I still miss her to this day.

This is just a fraction of my memories....go HERE to see other great memories.
Thanks Brenda for arranging this challenge!

Sunday Post

Seems the only time I bother to post is on Sunday's anymore! This time of year is pretty mundane with working all week and not doing much else. There's really nothing to post about unless we decide to venture out of the house like we did today.

The Detroit Historical Museum was offering 1/2 of admission this weekend so Rich and I figured it would be worth $3 to take a drive to downtown Detroit and check it out. I'm sure that sometime during my school days I went there but it was so long ago that I really don't remember anything.

It was kind of interesting to walk around and look at the different displays about the history of Detroit and Michigan. I won't bore you with pictures of boring stuff but there was a couple of things I though were fun:

Excuse the blurry picture but this just cracked me up. Apparently Michigan had a reputation as a disease-ridden swampland in the early 1800's! You can't really read the caption but it says "Don't go to Michigan that land of ills. The word means ague, fever, and chills" Written in 1820.

I loved seeing this because I had both of those Barbie cases! It really brought back memories of how much fun I had playing with those dolls with my friends!

There were lots of old dolls on display, too. Some of them were interesting.

And some of them were a little scary! I wouldn't have this one in my house!

And they probably could have done a little better representing the Girl Scouts!

The lower level of the museum was modeled after old Detroit with cobblestone streets.

All in all I'm glad we went. Next time we may go here;

The Detroit Institute of Arts. Although we'll have to be really bored and looking for something to do because I have no appreciation for art!

On other news...my supervisor at work is retiring in two weeks after working at U of M for 47 years! I will be sad to see her go but I'm happy for her, too.

I'm retiring too....in about 9 years!

Have a good week. I'll be back next Saturday for the Brenda Photo Challenge!

Not A Lot Going On

Last Thursday was my birthday so I took the day off. I had to go to the Secretary of State office to get plates for both of our cars and my driver's license renewed. Of course, in spite of my best efforts, my new picture is as awful as the last one! Olson Mills they are not!!! Plus they had the audacity to ask me my weight! Can you believe that?

It got cold out the last few days and we even had a inch of snow. Can't complain really, so far this winter has been a piece of cake...knock on wood. We just have to get through the next month and a half and we are on our way to Spring once again!

This is my favorite little night light. The heat from the bulb is supposed to make the little shade go round and round...but since it got cold a few days ago it stopped moving! Sensitive little thing!!

Had the kids over for dinner last Sunday. I made mashed potatoes and usually I use red skin and don't peel them, but for some reason I used regular Idaho potatoes and peeled them. I put the peeling down the garbage disposal and jammed up the pipe downstairs so bad the water from the kitchen sink was filling up the wash tub downstairs!  I thought we were going to have to call a plumber!

Luckily, Rich had the idea to fill the sinks in the kitchen to the brim with hot water, block the wash tub downstairs and let the water drain from the kitchen sinks at the same time. It worked beautifully!! The pressure from the water draining pushed the blockage right out! No more potato peels in the garbage disposal any more.

Actually, I really shouldn't peel the potatoes at all. All the nutrients are in the skin.

Well, that's all the excitement for me these days! Tomorrow starts another week of work and waiting for Friday to get here!