Tulips

Some girls at school were gossiping in the hallway between classes and a female teacher told them to "move along" to class. One of the girls looked at the teacher and very sweetly, with an adorable smile, told said teacher she thinks since it's spring that the teacher should go plant tulips. Then the girls scurried down the hallway, laughing hysterically. Ummmm, it's a very nice way for the girls to say "kiss my ass"- you know... plant 2 lips.

However, this post isn't about butt kissing, but about the tulips growing at school. In the flower beds.

Happy spring!
Maggie

An ocean of thoughts

This summer I have 35 schools days off.

I think I should go to Florida and track down Jimmy Buffett and compel him to hire me as his personal assistant, especially in his book writing world. I'd be perfect. I like his books. I like his music, and I like rum. And sometimes I can write.

I want to hug a sea lion. South American sea Orkas are mean and sneak up on the babies and eat 'em. Whale bastards.

A blue whale is half a city block long. I wonder if Jonah's whale was a blue whale? And how did Noah fit one of those suckers on his ark? Hey, I'm just sayin'!

Finding Nemo is a dang cute movie!

Mac had 2 goldfish and a suckerfish when he was a kid. he named them himself. The gold fish were Bill and Chelsea and the sucker fish was Hillary.

As a Jew I'm not supposed to eat shellfish. I struggle more with that than I do with bacon.

I love shrimp and could eat a whole lobster right now. Yum..........

I wonder if an Olympic fencer would win in a duel with a swordfish?

My grandma F had a stuffed fish over the mantel. I think my grandfather F caught it sometime. I wonder where it went after she moved? Do you give something like that away? Sell it in a rummage sale? In an auction? And who buys that????

In my Genetics Alchemy game on my phone I have over 200 animals unlocked and most of them are from the ocean.

Did I mention I watched Disney's Oceans documentary while I was writing this post?

I'm sober,
Maggie

Shoes glorious shoes!!

Since I seem to be on a photo kick of late, I thought I would feature some of my new shoes. I can't believe how long it's been since I've shown off the latest in footwear. I've been neglecting the "shoe" part of my blog! Oh the shame!

I've fallen in love with the "Ballet slipper" style, or the "Chinese Laundry" shoe style, and I've gone so far to get them in red, purple, and red. )I have a pair in silver, but I think I've featured them here, back in September....) Sometimes they show some toe cleavage but I think I like 'em anyway.



I also have a super comfortable pair of flip-flops. But the soles are the memory foam so these are really comfy each time I put them on.


And finally, I totally fell in love with these boat style, slip-ons. I love the plaid and they are completely cool, in temperature and in looks. I'm watching the shoe store to get another pair just like 'em but in a different color.

My happy feet,
Maggie

10- Take a scrapbook class

I took a scrapbook class, quite by accident. And for free. Yes, free.

This last weekend, Archiver's, a scrapbook chain store, was hosting a free 'make & take' project day. I happened to stumble in the store that day and had forgotten that was going on. Forgotten, I say because I get their online newsletters and knew it was scheduled but it had slipped my mind.

I was looking for a Mother's Day gift for Daddy-O (hey, he's the only parent I have left and often has to take on the role of mom AND dad to me, even though I'm almost 40 yrs old.) and the clerk asked if I wanted to do the 'make & take' of the day. Well, heck yeah I did.

Only ITSam with was with me. And it was to take an hour. And he had just spent 40 minutes waiting for me at Lane Bryant while I tried on pants. Which was not pretty.

But he said for me to go ahead and he would watch.

And he ended up helping!!!

It was cool. I got to use all their papers and supplies. I punched stuff out and got to play with some of the scrapbook/ card making toys. I used ribbon and buttons to make a flower, which I had never done before. It was pretty cool.

Everything we did was standard. What I mean is that every single person who came in was given the same materials and showed how to use the same tools and shown the template and then we could arrange it any way we wanted. It was actually 2 scrapbook pages- two completely different styles of scrapbooking. And one came with a sleeve protector.

It was pretty easy and fun to do.

I apologize in advance for my crappy pictures. I'm having camera issues (gee, how nice, just in time for graduation, damn it.) so I can't do lighting for crap (with or without the flash or plastic cover. It really seems to be a camera issue rather than a user one this time). But here's an attempt to show what I did.

Here is one page. This is a clear plastic sleeve with 6 slots. I filled 2 of them with scrapped projects. You can see one is black and the other is the green one. In the remaining 4 slots, I'll slide in pictures. In the one slot you can see little flowers and butterflies- those are to be adhered to the 4 pictures I use to tie it all together. I'm also supposed to put a picture in the yellow circle (the yellow circle on the green)

Here's a close up of the decoration panel. I have no idea what this is called. I was probably told but I don't remember.

Here's a close up of the black panel.

Here's the ribbon and button flower Sam made for me. I was having no luck with sticky stuff and ribbon. I was sticking everywhere but to the ribbon and it was nothing like a flower shape, either.

Here's a picture of a 3D butterfly that I "distressed" the edges to give it 'depth.'

Another 3D butterfly, that's dimensional (how is it 3D and dimensional, I want to know...?), without being distressed.

And finally, here's the other page, in finished form! It's the more traditional scrapbook style page think of when they think of scrapbooking. I'll drop in either 2 small picture on the green or one large one. And in the thing that looks like a piece of film across the bottom? I can add either small pictures or embellishments in those spots.

Pretty cool, eh? Don't I look talented?

And it was all free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Almost 40 and fabulous,
Maggie

For moms

Happy Mother's Day!

Mac & Mother's Day- early

For being such a smart kid, sometimes Mac cracks me up with his little goofs.

For example, he thought today was Mother's Day. I'm not sure why but he got it in his head that it was.

And he got me breakfast. He left the house to get some Hardee's breakfast at 10:15 am and came home with food for me, too. Without me asking. And he bought it with his own money! And didn't want me to pay him back! Now how dang cool is that?

I had to laugh a little bit, other than the fact it was Mother's Day a day early. I giggled at the amount of food he got me for breakfast. He got me the same as him: TWO sausage/ egg/ cheese biscuits, TWO cinnamon & raisin biscuits, and a LARGE order of hashbrowns. And he poured me a huge glass of oj when he got home. I had no idea where I was going to put all that good food.

I now have breakfast leftovers for tomorrow. You know, on Mother's Day- Part Deux!

I thought that was one of the nicest and most thoughtful things he's ever done. There's hope.

Mac's Mom,
Maggie

On my day off, or 22. Take a day to do nothing but lay around in my jammies, reading, be lazy, and eating junk food

Daddy-O's in the Lone Star State and Mac is on the senior trip and won't be back until midnight. I had the day off from school- an unused snow day. I had the house all to myself. Alone. In the house. By myself. I think for the first time in years................

Here's what I did:

• woke up late
• texted Sam
• made coffee
• danced around the living room, and sang in my hairbrush to Lady Gaga
• made cinnamon rolls
• laid upsidedown on the couch and floor and read a book
• finished the book
• finished the coffee
• finished the cinnamon rolls
• blogged about the book I finished
  
• enjoyed the quiet by just staring at the ceiling in silence
• played Genetic Alchemy on my cell phone
• played Worddrop on my cell phone
• talked to Sam
• took a shower around 7pm
• ate dinner with Sam
• started reading another book, back in my jammies, sprawled across the couch, drinking a large bottle of wine, out of glass
  
• thinking about eating a Dove Ice Cream Bar- not on the couch, though...
• thinking if I have enough cash to pay off Mac to go away for the day so I can do this again

Love your Lazybones,
Maggie