10 Random Things Friday...

Really??  It's Friday?  This week has just FLOWN by here... I'm not even sure I remember Monday!

1. I just heard that American has gone soccer crazy... We have?  Something about a World Cup fever?  I wondered what everyone on Facebook was talking about... Are you watching or are you like me and have NO clue what's going on in the world of Sports (besides me and my running, of course!)

2. Wait, I just remembered Monday! I had my boobs smashed in a machine and YOU SHOULD TOO!  Mammograms, not great fun, but a GREAT way to help keep you healthy!!! 

get your mug HERE

I know the mug really doesn't have to do with a mammogram, but googling anything to do with boobs (to get a picture of a mammogram machine) is NEVER a good idea...

3. Also our power went out from sometime after 10 AM until 10:01 PM.  Do you know what this means?? It means I missed this crazy gal!!  Are you watching too?

sweepstakes-enter HERE

I've been trying to watch my missed episode online but without wearing a helmet made of tin foil I can't get the whole show to play.... Let's hope all the neighbors sign the paper going around so we can get super-power internet!

4. I have a friend with some.... ahemm, "hair issues", apparently the circus is trying to woo her for a sideshow (her words, NOT mine), so she's trying to figure out a way to get one of these, the NoNo.

check it out HERE!

Has anyone tried this? Would you? It runs under $300 but gets RAVE reviews-you can even try it FREE!!!  I WANT it, I WANT it!!! Hey NoNo, I'd LOVE to review this for you and Yes, I want the PINK one!!  I had the epilady in the late 80's.  Remember that torture machine? I wanted one so bad and got one for Christmas back in '88.  I was so excited I let the hair on my legs grows for weeks!  I'll never forget the excitement I felt on Christmas morning when I opened, what I thought, was the solution to my shaving problems!!!  The excitement turned to horror when my brother held me down and my BF (at the time) started running that baby over my hair leg!!!  It was HORRIBLE!  I ran from the room, grabbed a razor and shaved my weeks of hard work off as fast as I could!

5. The Mister cleaned out his "man shed" last night

Remember the show

Sanford and Son?

6. What mornings look like at my house this summer

7.  Why Yes, we are President of each other's fan clubs

What Darling and I painted for each other at the Naked Plate place.

8. Some things I bought for my etsy shop but have decided to keep and hang on my wall...

9. A Granny Square blanket that I'm crocheting for Darling.

I'm pretty sure she'll change the colors in her room before I finish it...

10. Last but NOT least...

The 2nd annual Baby/Kid hat drive for the kids in China.

Please see all information under the tab at the top!  If you'd rather donate $, there is a paypal donate button at the top on the LEFT, you can donate ANY amount, even $1!!  Honestly, ANY amount is very much appreciated and ALL $$ goes to this drive!!!  Just to re-cap: I collect *NEW* winter hats in ALL sizes for kiddo's that are living in an orphanage in China.  I get the name of a needy orphanage from the agency I used to adopt my darling daughter from.  Handmade or store bought, pink, blue, or purple- these kids don't care!! Please feel free to tweet this, post it to facebook or blog about it!  If you have ANY questions at all, email me at:

chinamommy_04@yahoo.com

Thank you!!

Have a great weekend and get ready to crank up your A/C!!

I'm back from Cheese Heaven....

Yep, Wisconsin is where this girl was!

The Mister had to go to a certain company's annual meeting and since the wife of the owner happens to be my new BFF (whether she wants to be or not), Darling Daughter and I went along!  

Oh did we have some fun in Cheese curd City!

This was our trip out to Wisconsin... it's a 6 hour drive but we turned it into 12 1/2!

We headed out down the toll road and saw one of these every 5 min. 

Darling with her DVD player

a whole lotta bikes on not a whole lotta car!

Seriously?

  Yes, she's reading while driving through 6 lanes of Chicago's insane traffic!

I zoomed my camera in (cause I'm nosey) and did notice it seemed to be directions somewhere, not a love note, so I'll cut her some slack.

C, this one is for you...

and have you been to my town??

Once there...

we played a little golf

these 2 may have drank a little wine...

and I MIGHT have disrespected a former NFL player!

Yes, that is me giving DD Lewis (#50 for the Dallas Cowboys back in the day) bunny ears!

He seemed like a guy with a pretty good sense of humor and since the Misters buddy couldn't talk me into putting him in a head-lock, I went for the next best thing!

No, he didn't know it and unless he's a follower of chinamommy, he still doesn't know!

Well friends, it's Monday evening and I've got to get caught up on my "The Bachelorette".

Tomorrow I have to run to Shipshewanna and get that dang dog back 

from my parent's who were nice enough to watch him while we were stuffin' our pie holes with cheese curds!

I miss ya!!

and since it's been a while...

a little plug about my BABY HAT DRIVE 

As most of you know, my daughter was adopted from China and I left a little piece of my heart there.  I'm collecting hats to keep the children and babies warm in the winter.  Many live in orphanages that are without heat.

1. make a baby hat, toddler hat, or kid sized hat (you can take the non-crafty way out and buy one if you must)

2. email me at: chinamommy_04@yahoo.com for my address.

3. I'll take care of shipping them to CHINA next fall.

any questions- please feel free to email me!!

The Bachlorette recap & more...

Ok, i know it's Wed. & The Bachlorette was Monday but what can i say...? So they (Jillian, Ed, Reid, & Kiptyn) are in HAWAII, my favorite place on EARTH & they're on Maui- which i LOVE LOVE LOVE- darling daughter & i were scoping it out to see if we recognized anything & low & behold Jillian & Ed were on the same boat we took for Whale watching- The Trilogy (Hi Capt. Kevin... like he's reading this, duh!). So Ed has some catching up to do... he bring his parents to meet Jillian since he took off before the home town visits to go back to work but now has returned. Bet that was a hard sell: "hey Mom & Dad would you like to go to Maui & meet this chick I have the hots for? You'll do an hour at most & have the rest of the time to hang out in HAWAII?!!" Now, i don't get this whole "overnight drama" that occurred with Ed... Were they not feelin' each other or were they not "FEELIN" each other? Did Ed need a Viagra & an old fashioned claw-footed tub overlooking some Mountains? and... are those tubs full of water or do you just sit in them naked looking at mountains waiting for "something to happen"? (you know the commercial). AND is the overnight date to fool around & then pick? If so that totally grosses me out...

I would like to point out that while i liked the grey & yellow t-shirt style dress she was wearing on her date with Reid, it more than showed off the fact she was wearing a thong as she got on the helicopter! Am i the only one that noticed this? I have nothing against a thong, but the whole showing it off... seriously ladies? I realize in a t-shirt dress you're going to have some of that. I better move on before i start on my whole "what is up with girls in low rise jeans thinking they're plumbers!". Have i mentioned before i have a crush on Reid? I know i'm like totally "cougaring out" on that & like he wants a 40 year old, but i still find him enjoyable, not that i would enjoy him- i am happily married. So anyway he is just so cute & totally reminds me of Chandler from the show "Friends" mixed with my HS pal Kevin (not to be confused with Capt. Kevin of the Trilogy!). Reid doesn't confess his undying love & in the end get's the boot... I have a feeling this is not the last we see of Reid... hooked on a feelin' whoa, whoaaa..

Ok, my recap is boring me, so let's skip Kip- he doesn't float my boat anyway.

Yesterday i had an eye appt. at 1:15 in the afternoon (like it would be in the AM?!), i left late. It's at Costco, do i have my Costco card?- of course not. i call Costco to tell them i have an open head wound & this makes me stupid, they'll let me in but i am not allowed to buy anything... really? i call the mister to tell him to bring home a tool that will remove my head from my butt. As we are chatting on the phone i see the giant arrow on the back of a truck pointing left & the sign that reads "Right Lane CLOSED Ahead". Well, i'm going 57 MPH & i'm talking to mister & daughter is watching a "Brady Bunch" DVD in the backseat & Rush is on the radio & I have an open head wound... I NEED to go RIGHT!! I see it's the lane that's closed, but not the TURN lane so i get in the turn lane but realize it's the turn lane to turn into the gas station & i don't have time to stop!!! I figure i'll just stay in that lane that doesn't really exist all the way to the road where i have to turn right, so i'm driving in a lane i've just made up & men are filling pot holes on my left (hello it's MICHIGAN- the land of the giant pot holes!!) & i'm looking away from them saying "don't look at me, i have an open head wound & I know i shouldn't be driving in this pretend lane, but have you SEEN MY HEAD WOUND??" Don't worry when i said "oh this isn't a real lane" the mister & i hung up!

As we pull onto the road where Costco is i start yelling directions to darling daughter like we're going down in a burning plane: Get the DVD turned off, put it on the seat, remove all items from your carseat, when the car stops unhook your seat & unload as quickly as possible... i HATE being late, i really do! BUT... i think i am an adrenaline junkie! i am always pushing everything to the last second & arriving with sweat rings under my arms. maybe i should take up skydiving & get it out of my system?

I can't sew, so i bought these patterns off of etsy, i'm off to tear my hair out while trying to sew whilst i can't...

Happy Hump Day!

&

WELCOME NEW FOLLOWERS!!

Tell a friend, become a cult-free follower... well, not a cult YET!

Good-bye wes, ya weasel!

Please tell me you're as into the Bachelorette as i am? Seriously, could wes be anymore of an *&$&%$ ???? IF i liked country music i wouldn't listen to his "music" on principles alone! Here is my breakdown of the dates in SPAIN, IF you want to know & then i will move on to cuter craftier things now that the ding-dang funniest contest is over (thanks to those that voted, i was in the bottom 5 i'm quite sure!!). The pressure to be funny was killing me, i couldn't sleep at night!

Ok:

Kiptyn

ummm, personally i don't know why she thinks he's so "perfect", yeah, whatever, he's ok. they take a dance lesson & his pants are so tight you can tell the year of the quarter in his pocket... Ewww! Off on a scooter for dinner & he runs them into the curb, which reminds me of a childhood memory, may i share? My mom who is the world's best volunteer (or was when we were kids) use to deliver "meals on wheels" every week to old people that couldn't cook for themselves. So EVERY week we would head to the hospital to pick up that nasty institution food & they would load it into whatever ugly car she was driving at the time- perhaps it was the school-bus yellow Vega? as we left the parking lot we would take a right turn and she would HIT THE CURB EVERY SINGLE WEEK! No joke, she NEVER missed a week... & again i digress with my bachlorette throw down. Kiptyn- sorry dude, no "fantasy suite". Good girl Jillian!

Ed

while cute (he has dark hair, what can i say: i loves me that dark hair) & successful he is a yawn fest! Glad he came back but he's someone i would want someone else to date, not me (& since i am married, that's a plus). Jillian couldn't keep her lips off him & that's probably a good thing since he is NOT funny & really didn't have anything interesting to say. Ed talks her into the "fantasy suite" but only for "time together fully dressed"! Thank you people for not making this some slutty "get it on" show!... Reed/Reid

whatever, he's CUTE! R & Jillian shopped for food, giggled like school girls & slaughtered the language of Spain which would be Spanish, i believe. Jillian begs for an "i love you Jillian, i can't live without you" & gets: we're similar, you smell good, & i'm slow to open up with my feelings- blah, blah, blah" Sorry Reed/Reid- no fantasy suite for you either, my man! & is it just me, or does he remind you of Chandler from "Friends"? i like him, he's funny AND cute...

wes... whose name i will NOT capitalize nor will i color it to make it match his shirt like i did for the other boys!

he sucks! he is a cold hearted, selfish, attention seeking, narcissistic ___ (fill in the blank).

when Jillian FINALLY sent him packing i wept tears of joy.
My fav part... well, i can't decide, is it: a) the fact he took the free trip to Spain knowing full well he was there to promote his sucky music (fav comment: some song of his is #1 in Spain so he is "at home with the people there", b) the picnic lunch where she asks if he'd move to Canada & he says "that would be crazy" & then she says "well how would it work if i pick you & he says..."that bird has no foot" & spills his beer, c) at the rose ceremony where he tells the other guys "he's going" & they can think of him back home having tons of sex (really wes?) or d) when he gets in the limo & proves once again what a HUGE creep he is...

If you're NOT watching the show, sorry for that...but i feel much better!

Ok, i'm off to do "show prep" for tomorrow when i get back to craftier endeavors, until i get side tracked again! :)
~m