Meet Duke

This is Duke, the newest addition to our family. He is almost 2 months old. He is a Collie/Blue Heeler mix. This is the guy that loves to bark at all hours of the night, chew anything he can get his little teeth around, nip at our ears, drag anything he can around the house, use the bathroom on the floors, scratch the heck out of our legs, pick on Harley (our other dog), chase the cat, and just about everything else a typical puppy loves to do. He will also lick you raw, is a great snuggler, and is a great source of comedy. I think he'll fit in just fine around here.

Make me beautiful please!!!

Last November I won a gift certificate to get my hair done. I finally used it today, took me long enough I know! The lady asked me what I wanted done, and I told her to make me beautiful again please! She loved that because she knew she could do about whatever she wanted and I'd be happy. So, she cut a good 2 inches off, gave me platinum highlights with some low lights as well, and I feel like a million bucks. It was so nice to spend some time on me today, I have decided I need to do that more often. My next adventure is to get a pedicure. Did you know I honestly have never had one? It's high time I change that! Anyway, here's a picture we took tonight at school. The tall girl with the glasses is Aimee, the short one is Ashley who's last night of school happened to be tonight, then me with the red face and very blonde hair.

Erica, you're glowing!

This is what my neighbor says to me this morning as I am picking her kids up for school. No, I'm not pregnant and it's not my glowing personality. It's a nasty sunburn. You would think I would learn after oh, 30 years worth of sunburns. But no. Taylor had her 5th grade barbeque and pool party yesterday so I went, thinking I won't be out too long so I'll be fine. After all, I was only out in the direct sun for 1 1/2 hours. Anyway, I need a little color other than pastey white. Well, I got color all right. Lobster red and lots of pain to go with it. My shoulders are screaming at me, and to top it off, Jeff took the big bottle of Advil with him to Santa Rosa. I have aloe vera, but that stuff never helps like I wish it would.
So, it looks like I will be wearing tank tops for the next week or so. Pretty soon I'll have more freckles to add to my already freckle covered shoulders. I guess it's ok to admit that sunscreen is my friend and it needs to hang out with me more often in the summer.

I just wanted you to know

I found vacuum belts at Target today. I stocked up on them since they are so dang hard to find. You know, it's really sad that my life is so boring I get excited about finding vacuum belts.

Why?

Why is it so hard to find vacuum belts? Why is it that I can find a belt for every other vacuum made but mine? I have been to every store around here, except Home Depot and Lowes (those are my next stops) and nobody has my belts. It's not like I have an old vacuum, it is fairly new. I swear if I can't find one I'm tearing out all the carpet and putting wood flooring down. Then it would be my luck I'll never find what I need to clean the wood floors. That's my luck for you. If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all. Take my Nascar team. I sit a guy out and he wins the race or is at least in the top 5. I've decided to start taking one for the team and sitting out my drivers who need to win a race. So far it has worked. Did you see last night 3 of my 4 drivers were out due to one wreck. Yep, wiped out most of my team. Good thing it wasn't for points or we really would have been in trouble. That's ok though, I'll keep taking one for the team.



P.S. For those that don't know, my fantasy race team consists of Greg Biffle (16), Mark Martin (6), Kasey Kahne (9) and Carl Edwards (99).

How to make buns. By Zack

Spread out french fries. Put like little sugar pums (seeds) really really hard on the french fries. Then you put it in the oven for 2 minutes at 40 hot. Then you take it out. Then you put anything you want on it like a hamburger and eat it.

I am officially the worst mom ever!

You would think I made him lose his best friend, or maybe threw away his most treasured toy ever. The way he was crying tonight, you'd think maybe I even cut off a limb. But no, all I told him to do was clean his room. Instead he wants to play a game, or watch cartoons. I say sure, but you have to clean your room first. He told me I "hurted his feelings". I told him I'd throw everything away on the floor, including the bed. He said he didn't care because he has a new room with a bed, meaning Casie's room because she moved back to Reno last night. I told him he couldn't have that room because I was moving in there (kidding of course). He didn't like that too much. Then dad calls and after listening to what I have listened to for the last hour threatens to come home early from work if he doesn't knock it off. Guess where my little drama king is now? You guessed it, cleaning his room.

If you're gonna cheat, at least don't get caught!

There are three types of people I absolutely cannot stand. Liars, thieves and cheaters.

We had a test tonight at school on our cardiovascular word parts. Not a hard test, plus it was multiple choice. We already had all the answers from the worksheet we filled out and graded. After our second break, our teacher came in and said she had some sad news, then asked us who had a purple pen. One girl spoke up and said she did, but the other girl who we all know has one and uses it all the time didn't say a word. Seems "someone" made themselves a cheat sheet and tried to get rid of it by flushing it down the toilet. Didn't work. It was found by the director of education, she actually fished it out of the toilet (gross I know, hopefully it was clean water) and gave it to our teacher. Amazingly, nobody claimed that cheat sheet, although we did try to blame it on the only guy in our class and accused him of using the girls bathroom. We told her to check all of our files and match the handwriting. Who knows if she will or not, but we all know who did it. And I hope she gets expelled from school. How sad is it to be so lazy you have to cheat on an easy test? This girl made honor roll one mod, now it makes me wonder how she really got that grade.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is this. If you're gonna cheat, make sure the evidence is gone. If you want to flush it down the toilet, make sure it goes down, or at the very least use an ink that will run as soon as water hits it. Better yet, just don't cheat.