Color Everywhere

how did everything bloom so fast? one day it's just little peeks of leaves & buds & the next day it's full blown bloomering! my yard is amazing with blooms everywhere. all of a sudden i have purple, yellow, white, and blue all surrounded by green. beautiful, just beautiful.
i've been watching 5 egg sacs of a praying mantis that i can't wait to hatch. i watched this mantis hang upside down for weeks last october then noticed these puffy kind of wasp nest looking things. when i went on line to research it i learned about her spitting a mixture & laying eggs in it. then she dies. and in the early spring the babies eat their way out to a brand new world. i can't wait to meet the new babies. i am a nature nut, aren't i?
later

Reminiscing

i've been having really weird dreams lately. maybe all that medicine isn't out of my body. some things i've forgotten about until i started dreaming about my grandma. we locked grandma in the outhouse one time. she wasn't real sturdy on her feet anymore & had been in & out of the hospital fighting off infections. we thought we were keeping her safe. then got caught up playing & mostly forgot about her. we remembered her about 45 minutes later. she told us she was gonna make us cut our own switch. god, i hated to have to pick my own switch. if it wasn't big enough you had to go back & get a better one. if it was too limp you'd pay dearly cos that sucker would cut your legs open the way grandma would swing it. if she had to get it herself she would make sure it had little side twigs sticking out cos you were in for it. so, in my dream i had to pick my own switch & grandma wailed on my little ass. i could see the blood where she hit my legs by accident.
that same day baby sis fell in the septic tank or well being dug out back. it was about 8 feet deep. mom heard her screaming & asked where she was. we told her she was out playing & mom made us go looking for her. she kept saying 'i know i heard her yelling' it had been raining alot & the damn hole was full of water & stupid was playing along the edge in the mud with cars & trucks & leaned too far forward. she was drenched & scared stiff. she told me later she just knew she was gonna get too tired to keep swimming & was gonna drown.
i dreamed about this fish aquarium we had. mom mostly kept mollies in it but she came home with some goldfish one day & added them. the goldfish immediately started chasing the mollies. i had grown quite attached to those cute little mollies. they lulled me when i couldn't sleep, calmed me when i was upset so i didn't like that big bully chasing my sweet little mollies. i caught that bully bastard & feed a needle through his tail with a piece of thread on it. i left the thread long enough that i could attach it to the curtain. that sucker stopped chasing the mollies. when i finally let him go he kinda hovered in the corner & only came out to eat.
late...i wanna watch some tv.
later

Stubborn Issues

i think i've had bronchitis. i've felt like shit & couldn't stop coughing. i coughed so hard my ribs, chest & tongue hurt. it hurt to breathe. in case you're wondering my tongue felt raw from rubbing against my teeth everytime i coughed. isn't that weird? that was a first for me. i stayed in bed for a total of 3 days taking medicine after medicine but i'm back on my feet and the cough is getting better all the time. i tried to make an appointment with my doctor but he couldn't get me in for a month. i would've been dead by then. so, i doctored myself. the only way i know how. the trick is to combine enough of the medicines to sleep for days. with all that in you it's easy to sleep & by the time all the medicine works out of your body you don't remember being sick at all.
this past weekend jammer & i had a test of wills. man that kid is stubborn. he brought his cup to me & told me he wanted juice. no problem. as i got up to get it i said 'well, can you say please?' he replied 'git it'. me 'say please' him 'git it' me 'say please' him 'git it'. this went on for 45 minutes. i finally made him go to his room & lay in his bed without the drink. when he got there he yelled 'my blankie'. magic word? u got it. standing at the door with blankie in hand I asked 'what do you say?'. he said 'memaw i have juice & blankie? please.' so i kissed him, gave him both & asked what was so hard about that. he said he was sorry. so, i won that round but he's only 2. what will it be when he's 4?
he's also turned into a stripper. like his daddy he takes his clothes off after about 20 minutes of being dressed. sonny used to bury them in the yard or hide them. sometimes he just threw them away. i'd send him out to play & look out a few minutes later to see him swinging from a tree bare assed. this is something jammer has just started. maybe his daddy hasn't outgrown that habit. i thought he did.
and raaayyyy, hubby is back to work. things are picking up.
later.

Spring Finally

the weather is getting better finally. i was beginning to contemplate the move to warmer climate. texas seems to be a popular place to live. especially for bloggers. don't they have a get together for bloggers yearly somewhere out west? i could so live in california. when i was younger my mom worked for american airlines & we flew for a quarter of the cost. it was great. i think by the time i was 16 i had been in all but 7 of the 48 states. yes i know we have more states than that now.
we went to the zoo today. first time this year. we have a great zoo. its rated one of the top zoos in the world. i'm impressed. we missed the gorilla egg hunt they had for easter. it was on all the news though so we really didn't miss it. we just didn't have to deal with the crowd to see it. i saw my first skink of the year. they run rampant at the zoo. they are little lizard things that somehow got shipped in with some of the many exotic animals we have on exhibit. they have been living & breeding at the zoo for ever. i heard just a few years ago another lizard was shipped in that they called a 'blue' something or another.
i worked in a packing company years ago. we received shipments of parts from texas. we used to get snakes all the time. i always thought they had to be more careful with things like that. guess i was wrong, huh?.
gotta go.

People I Know

i know a guy named rachael.
i also know a guy that was the first of 8 kids to be born in a hospital. he's also the only one that has a name his mother didn't give him. they were down home country folks that lived way down in the hills of redneck country. mom & dad didn't even have a 4th grade education between the 2 of them. neither of them could read. when the nurses heard her name for the baby they misunderstood. they thought she said 'byron' when she was saying 'barn'. she wanted her son to be named 'barn'. he grew up thinking his name was barn. when he started school the teacher called for 'byron' & he didn't answer. she said 'son, thats you.' he told her 'no my name is barn'. i can't imagine the teasing he took over that. he laughed about it. later. when he was grown. we still call him 'barney'. when he turned 18 he had his name on his birth certificate changed to read 'byron barn bertren'. he gave that certificate to his mom on her death bed & read it aloud for all to hear. i think thats a sweet story.
i also have a friend that is worse about bitching at me then my own son is. he ranted at me for 20 minutes about getting some hookup to my pc that would let me take incoming calls 'if i chose to'. he really wants me to buy this device. the whole time he stood there bitching at me he kept telling me how his car was running & he was on his way to pick up food. but thats the way i like it. if i don't want to talk on the damn phone i don't have to. if i had a devise that told me when i had a phone call coming in then everyone would know i didn't want to talk to them.
how many feelings would be hurt if they knew i didn't want to talk.
my friend from high school is dj'ing on live radio. she gets to interview 'charley daniels' tomorrow. ain't that too cool?
well. later for now.

Shooting Off My Mouth

blogspot sucks!!! blogspot.com you suck! i just finished a big, long post & bloggers' servers must be down. it lost the whole thing. so my great big, long, great post is now floating somewhere out there in cyberspace. don't you hate when that happens? and you know that was the best post i'll ever write. my creative spirit was just flowing. well, in my world. but my skies can be purple too. i'm imaginative like that.
so, does this mean i'm gonna be banned from blogger & the blogworld? do you think they'll blackball me for talking bad about a blog net? i can see the new headlines now. 'blogger arrested for bitch post'. they'll take all my web priviledges away & confiscate my computer for evidence. where will they lock me up at? maybe in cyberspace too? when my family wants to visit me they download me & after so long their computer will freeze, losing my connection & have to restart their computer. visiting hours are over & back to lockdown i go. think i'll need commissary? will i need a shower living in cyberspace? or will they just let me stink since nobody can smell me anyway?
eweww, please someone try to get me a toothbrush. i can't stand to not brush my teeth. well, think about that one for me.
but let me reiterate....blogspot still sucks.
night all

What Email Gets You

i emailed hubby today to tell him with the kids coming this weekend if we didn't do a cuddle night it wouldn't be possible for another week. i swear you'd have thought i told him christmas was here. he got all giggley ? and talking fast. he emailed me 3 times in return. what to do... what to do? the final one saying everything was ready.
he met me in the driveway in his overcoat with his socks & shoes showing. yeah, it's cold out here. and he obviously didn't have on anything under the overcoat. when i got into the house the shoes were kicked off, socks yanked & coat lost. nekkid!!! he led me down the hallway to the bathroom. i could hear music oozing from behind the door. when he opened the door the sweet aroma of several smells hit me. there were candles burning, a tub ran & candles sitting everywhere. i could smell lavendar, coconut, annise, sandalwood...and yeast? yep, he even had a beer waiting. while i soaked & drank my beer he ordered pizza. i finally got out & was asked to just stay nekkid. i said what about the pizza dude? he wanted to meet the guy at the door with both of us wearing nothing but our overcoats. just to give him something to wonder about for the rest of the night.
i bet he sees that shit all the time.
my cuddle night isn't over.
later