convo.

"You smell good" - David

"I've got a drunk chicken to compete with....I hope I smell good. Somebody has to compete with that thing!" -Mal

old man pants

I stole the town mayor card from YOU last night, Mr. Cata. Ahh HA! In yo face! David and I went with his parents to Buck Board for dinner last night and had a yummy meal. I ran into Amy Miller (a sweet sweet pledge sister of mine) and her husband. Seeing her kind hearted self made me so happy.... it has been several years since we have seen each other. I've missed her! Also, I saw Miss Krista's smiling face and found out she is expecting! AND lives less than a mile from David. Score! I get to see her lots more now! She even stopped by this afternoon before she went into work. Gah, I've missed her too! So anyway, needless to say.... Mallory got the Mayor crown last night rather than Daivd. Write that down. =)

toodles
love,
m

grandparents you are special yes you are.

The road to Memo and Grandad's house is never too long.... A much needed (and way overdue) visit with my grandparents completed my Thursday night this past week. It's such a peaceful feeling when I hit their dirt road. I think it is more the anticipation I have about the time I'm going to spend with them rather than approaching the dirt and saying farewell to the gravel. The love I share with them has a special place in my heart and always will.

Now I just need to head on down to Goshen to love on my sweet Meme. That is a much overdue visit as well...... If my seminar (you know the one I thought was last Sunday, HA! Well.... it's THIS Sunday. Imagine that, Mal got mixed up!) wasn't tomorrow I would make that happen then. I am thinking about planning it sometime during the week!

love,

m

COBY.

Dear Coby,

I know I get on your nerves when we play together but I do want you to know that I hope you get better soon. I got you a little treat and hope you enjoy it. When your eye gets better, can we have another play date? I'll try my hardest to be in control of spontaneous ways. Anyways, paws to da wall- I love you, man!

xoxo,

Ziggy

TGIF!

This Friday everyone needs to wear their shoes on the wrong feet... at least for 22 minutes anyway. If you never have- YOU SHOULD. It makes you appreciate the times you put them on the right feet. But at the same time, it makes you wonder .... (speaking for myself here) Are you the only human that puts your shoes on the wrong feet, at the age 24, and walks in the gas station just to try it out the wrong way?"

Rain, rain....go away! Mallory and Ziggy want (NEED) to go outside to play! Watching the Food Network makes me insane. (and hungry) I want to learn how to cook, I feel. While I'm working up my appetite and desire to be a "cookin' mama" Ziggy is working on chewing a single piece of confetti up with her crooked teeth. And yes, I'd say showing a bit of her ignorance in the process. Gosh, I still love her though. There are just some things in life that she doesn't get. (jumping, biting, digging....ect.) Ziggy does have a 1st birthday celebration coming up though! Mama's got to get on the planning.... I got her the cutest little happy birthday bone/cookie from a precious dog boutique in West Palm called the Woof Gang Bakery. I could have shared with them many hours of my precious time and many dollars from my wallet.....If only we had several more days left in that town! Okay, Ziggy is napping so I'm going to take a quick shower and then maybe take her for a ride....or if it quits raining, A WALK!

Have a freaky-deaky Friday, pals.

love,

m

attention.

I made up a game today.

(instructions in your inbox)

Only one person in the world other than myself knows the rules and regulations.

It's going to be played every day from here on out in my life until it's over. (until my life's over not the game...because the game is never ending.)

Official starting date of this game is 02-03-10.

READY.. SET.. GO!

l-o-v-e

Happy February!

Sweet Jay-Lee helped me put the Valentine's Day flag out in the yard yesterday. It put me in a lovey dovey mood or something I feel. I caught myself seeing stars... I mean hearts all day... and red.. and pink.... and ughhhh wanting those fun conversation hearts to munch on. I'm sure you would already anticipate this coming but - confetti. Heart shaped. Ahhhh, where to find?! I need that in my life.

At the parentals....

I walk in and my Daddy has the song "in the year 2525" by Zager & Evans playing (at a volume that's my favorite....fairly loud) while he is strumming softly on his guitar made (well, rebuilt I think) and signed by Denny Zager himself. And the nice little finishing touch I have for you peeps- My Daddy's guitar pick was one he recently ordered made out of a quarter. The quarter was from 1956.... That was the year the wonderful man I call my Father was born.







My lovely Mother hasn't made it home from Jean's Flowers. She puts some talent she has to use with arrangements and such.... It gets somewhat crazy up there during this month if I do recall.... Valentine's Day maybe??! She'll be strolling in before I leave hopefully.... If not she missed a visit from the coolest daughter!


i love the parentals very very much.
love,
m

At the very last minute....

( 01-23-2010 )
saenger theatre- mobile, al
.....If I do say so myself, it was magical. Captured my shoes and took them off my feet for a few beats.

David and I took off in the Mobile direction to a Gov't Mule concert. Very wise decision that was. Would you like to see a small portion of why I think it was such a great idea that we followed through with this last minute trip.....


set one: bad little doggie, steppin lightly> any open window, rocking horse, dont step on the grass sam, trane> eternity's breath>st. stephen (jam), frozen fear, the letter, soulshine.

set two: brighter days> like flies, fixin' to die, spoonful> duan to matt handoff>drums>drums and key jam> broke down on the brazos, mule>i've been workin'>mule, E: Almost cut my hair, Pearly Queen

Annnnnd this was with Col. Bruce Hampton, Ret. & Duane Trucks, and Alvin Youngblood Hart.



Meet the concert crazies after the spectacular show....

And..."dont step on the grass sam" was one of the times where my boots refused to stay on my feet....

When we returned back to reality we had a day full of laziness at it's best!

love,

m

yo!

Wah-BAM.... I just had the PERFECT lunch. My Memo snuck over to Troy this weekend while I was away in south Florida and cooked me up some of her homemade potato soup. Ahhhh, the yummy in my tummy it causes! In fact, I might have another bowl for supper. Who knows?!

Ummm, can I get an awful groan sound from someone for this weather here today. The sun is shining, nice. But reminder I was just totally teased with West Palm Beach weather for a good few short days. We be-bopped over to Boca, Florida yesterday before heading back to Bammy (yes, I realize I put an extra couple hours on our trip) to have an afternoon adult beverage at Crabby Jack's ... me that is, not my cutie driver.... with an old roomie of mine from Colorado. It was tempting to forget about the "responsibilities" we are facing today and just scoot on over a tee bit more to Miami. I'd make a sister mad if I entered Dash before she had the chance. The bowl game played yesterday in Miami (and traffic that comes along with that) kept us from falling into that temptation. David and I have great success with road trips so far. Trina (that would be the black hoe David rides) added a good 1600 miles, give or take, to her life and in my opinion handled it nicely. I got nominated as the best co-pilot in the world. So, next is deciding what to wear to that award ceremony.

I'd like to fill out my opinion survey on the weekend, please....

1) If you could change one thing about your recent stay what would it be?
Extend it a few more days! If you are willing to work with me and allow me a couple weeks there that is perfectly fine, too.
2) How was the weather?
If I said the first thing that came to my mind it might be rated "r".... So, let's just say the weather was there wish you were beautiful.
3) What is one thing you would like to tell the locals?
Tough life guys... wearing summer-ish dresses (or for the dude's shorts and flops) at the end of January.... tough stuff. Pah-leez!!!!
4) Did you turn into a nija turtle at any point in the trip?
Indeed. The purple one!! How did you know??!!

Got to run... a zillion things to be accomplished in the next hour! But get ready to be spoiled with several more blogs and lots of shameless pictures of a beautiful mess lifestyle.

love,
m