Bunny Burrow

Survivor update

WARNING: If you have NOT yet watched Survivor and have it tivoed to watch later do NOT read this post! Look away, I tell you!

Ok, if you are still here -- I hate to say this but I am so glad Shii Ann is gone! She makes some valid points about busting up some of the alliances BUT she just alienates everyone! She seems to think she is so better than everyone else and if she is so much smarter, why doesn't she realize that she needs to fly BELOW the radar?? All of the other Survivor winners have had this in common. They did NOT stir things up. Yes, go down with a fight I guess but SHEESH! "Stupid, stupid people!"

Sadly to say, I was shocked to see her have such a quiet and subdued Mother. I know she actually had a Mother and wasn't just hatched but Shii Ann is so in your face! What was up with a grown woman continuously crying for her "Mommy"?

And, yes, I believe Amber is very much playing the 'game' with everything she has. So..? The difference is she is playing it smartly! Good luck to her!

I guess I am still pining over the loss of Ethan.

Ok, that's my Survivor rant for today!

Happy Friday everyone! :)

Geek or not Geek?

You are 12% geek

OK, so maybe you ain't a geek. You do, at least, show a bit of interest in the world around you. Either that, or you have enough of a sense of humor to pick some of the sillier answers on the test. Regardless, you're probably a pretty nifty, well-rounded person who gets along fine with people and can chat with just about anyone without fear of looking stupid or foolish or overly concerned with minutiae. God, I hate you.

Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com

I can't wait for Scotty to take this one!

I again stole this from Isabella. I am a thief!

The things it takes to get Shane up these days! It doesn't help that our schedule is so busy that I can't always get him in bed early. Bless his heart and he has trouble getting to sleep in the first place.

I guess we are ready for summer vacation. We need a break from all this rushing around madness!

Lego Me

Oh my gosh! For those of you that like puzzles and sat in the floor with your children and played with their legoes, here's a fun one for you.

It's legoes on line, and it's called using a Mini-Mizer!

I have mini-mized myself with legoes and here I am:

I even gave myself the Florence, Italy background since that's where I'll be soon enough!

To make your own lego-self go here.

I even made one of Scotty:

This looks just like him! Here he is in all his nerdy glory, defending the universe but still having to have that super-food on the side!

Baby Birdies

Spring is in the air!!!
These are the baby birds in my Juniper topiary on the front porch! I am not sure what kind of birds they are but they are tiny. Last year we had a dove nest in my hanging geraniums and this year we have these tiny little things. Scott has been trying to feed the parents orange peels of all things! I guess he believes even the birdies need super foods?

Happy Spring all!

Braggin blog

Yes, I know I am a HUGE braggart but I had to post once again about Jace. He not only made the A Honor Roll again but got the Top Cat award which is a big deal at his school!

Go Jace! Go Jace!

Top 10 Lists for Spring

Top 10 Things I DON'T Like about Spring:
1. Jace's horrible allergies
2. Wearing shorts for the first time in ages and snow-blinding everyone with my legs
3. Lotsa Lotsa rain...
4. Swimsuit models (nuff said)
5. Having to stop turning on the fireplace (I love that thing!)
6. Spring fever! Who wants to work on these beautiful days!??
7. If you need a pedicure everyone knows, and people who don't need to be wearing flip flops and sandals DO! Yuck!
8. School is about to be out for the summer...oops which list should this one be under? ;)
9. The pets are shedding EVERYWHERE
10. Is it just me or are last year's spring clothes shrinking while in the closet? :(

Top 10 Things I DO Like about Spring:
1. Getting the boys their summer buzz cuts
2. Flowers, Flowers, Flowers! (Everything in bloom, bluebonnets galore)
3. Taking walks (The smell of grass in the air)
4. Pink is in again! (Like it was ever out for me)
5. Mother's Day! :)
6. The Dallas Arboretum
7. We get to start using the pool again! Woohoo!
8. Time to start planning the summer vacations
9. I can wear my hair up in a pony tail and it doesn't look like I am just having a bad hair day
10. Driving with the windows rolled down and the sun roof open in my new CAR!

What are your favorites or not so favorites about Spring?

Bluebonnets and scabies

It was time to take the annual "bluebonnet pictures" for us here in Texas while they were in full bloom. So I get some solid white shirts, charge my camera battery and head out with the boys the next sunny day.

I may have mentioned previously that Jace has had some severe allergies here lately and spring has really gotten him BAD this year. SO, as we are trudging across the big patch of blue bonnets, I am listening to Shane protest how people might "see" him getting his picture made from the street and how Jace is itching beyond belief. I am just about fed up with the both of them. Jace starts really complaining that his eyes are burning and he can't even keep his eyes open, as portrayed in these lovely photos.

Being a big brother like no other, Shane sees his chance to make matters worse for Jace and tells him he thinks Jace may have contacted poison ivy. Well it doesn't take much to make Jace really believe this and his imagination gets the best of him as he starts to itch even more and begins to get really upset. At this point I give up, realizing pictures are out of the question for the day.

All the way to the car Shane is telling Jace horrid stories about how Jace even possibly has scabies now and Jace REALLY starts panicking, although he has no idea what this even means. On the way home, I try and calm Jace down and tell him how he doesn't have anything but allergies and everything will be just fine.

When we get home, my Mom calls and lets me know that it was a record high pollen count and that Jace was probably being very truthful about his complaints. So I start to really feel bad.

A little friend comes over to play with Jace and Jace asks if they can go to the friends house to play. But before they go, Jace wants to know if he still has scabies! :(

I just hope he didn't take this misinterpretted "brotherly" information to his friends house!

PTA Conference

I just got back from the PTA Spring Conference for our area. I turned in the scrapbook that I have been working on and I got HIGHEST HONORS!

I am sure there was no doubt in your mind, right?!

Well, at the conference I had several workshop choices AND I thought I really needed to utilize the Time Management session. Afterall, we all only have 24 hours in our day and who doesn't need help with better organizing your time wisely? Time is such a priceless commodity these days.

I went toward the room that the workshop was to be held in only to find that the classroom was locked and the teacher was in a frenzy. The class finally got unlocked and the room was in complete and total disarray. We finally get settled in and she passes out handouts that are absolutely HORRID. There are all sorts of misspellings and grammatical errors -- my pet peeve. Apparently the time management workshop speaker had not managed her time wisely enough to spell check or proof read her material, nor did she have time to arrive at the workshop early enough to assure adequate set up for the room.

She bragged about the fact that she still had stuff in her car from the LAST conference's hand outs, etc. Now, what was SHE doing teaching this class? I realized that being a perfectionist can sometimes set yourself up for failure in time management issues but come on! She gave us bits of information she got from Oprah magazine and read us "You know you don't have enough time when..." jokes she received in an email! And THAT, my friends, was pretty much her source of information for our workshop.

Well, I guess I learned from this conference that things could always be worse! And I thought I had time management/organization issues!

Welcome and Exit to the left

Well there ya go! If you ever think about traveling to Texas, this may be what you see!

If you want to make your own sign you can go here.