you asked...

Amanda asked

if you had to have one kind of pet but you would have 500 of them what would you have?

i would learn to be a bee keeper because then at least i would get something good to eat out of my many "pets" 

Tricia asked

have you ever danced on a table in a hookah bar?

 whats a hookah bar? im not really one for dancing on tables, in my experience most bar tables are wobbly and uneven, making a fall very probable (can you tell im not a risk taker?).

more answers to your questions tomorrow, im still accepting questions.

before you accuse...

i have recently been accused of neglecting my blog and only paying attention to my face book. its not that i dont have anything to post, i do, but busyness=facebook, its faster.

im going to try to do better.

so we are going to have a little fun, ask me a question, any question, im not saying i will definitely answer it. i always love these posts when Amanda does them so im going to do one.

a tale of change and a garage sale find

lets talk about the garage sale find first.....

yeah, it was a little more than i usually fork over at a garage sale but this kitchen stool was definitely worth the 20 bucks. it came to us a worn metallic tan, not my color, so with 3 bucks worth of Krylon she lives in a more vivid shade of turquoise to match the little folding chair behind it (youve seen this chair in other posts).
the change is.....
the book shelves moving into the dining nook so we can turn our third bedroom back into a bedroom. more to come on this transformation which will include a new paint job and some thrifted furniture.

before this week we had a long dresser against this wall which served as storage for paper towels and table linens and mostly junk. i had to clean all that out and find new homes for things we needed and trash what we didnt need. i think i like the book shelves.

hey, we're from Jewett

this weekend while i was visiting my mom, i took the kids down the bike trail and over to play at the play ground that still exists in the old Jewett school yard. i went to school at Jewett from the last month of kindergarten all the way through fifth grade. they closed Jewett 2 years ago when they open a bigger better elementary school, one with air conditioning.
this poor old teather ball pole looked so lonely, oh for the days when Lynette White and Brandy Gilson would whoop your hiney every day of the week at teatherball. i was no good, the swings were my thing.
its where i got my first concussion right here. i was running up when the bell rang holding hands with Christy Feller and well, fell. my mom likes to remind me that on the way to the hospital i barfed in her car.
and here we all are Mrs Lantz's second grade class i graduated with most of these kids. you already know who i am you saw my second grade picture last fall, the girl directly behind me in the blue dress is Christy, the girl next to her in stripes, Brandy and the boy on her other side, one of my very oldest friends Aaron he was in first grade with me, my mom went to Jewett elementary school with Aaron's dad Andy.

the only person in this picture who's face i ever see is Jenny Mccarty, bottom left, she's my sister in law's step sister now, we have a couple of facebook friends in common.

it was sad to see my old school getting overgrown and vandalized, i peeked in the windows, the art room was the same, except the tables had been moved out, the clock was still on the wall. if theres ever an auction, i want that clock.

who wants chocolate?

sorry, that title may have been misleading, but if you want to SEE chocolate go to Megan's blog. you will not regret it the most beautiful chocolate shop pics ever.

whatever, i'll do what i want!

this was my breakfast, yum, nachos!

then i decided to paint my bedroom, until today, all 4 walls were white. i painted one wall. it took all of one hour, but its something you just cant do with a kid around.

the paint smell brought back to me the first time i recall ever having smelled latex paint, i was about 9, we were helping my dad's friend paint the new cabin he had bought it was about 15 minutes from the town of Independence, IA on the Wapsi river. i know how far it was to town because my step mom LOVES to tell the story of a certain 9 year old girl that flat out REFUSED to pee in the woods. Dad had to drive me in to town so i could use the bathroom.

the really cool thing about the cabin was that in the bedroom, the cabin had been built around a tree, so there was a BIG tree growing right up through the corner of the room.
the color that i painted my wall was tropical coral by glidden, it was a free sample quart. go and see it, because this picture, nothing like the real color.

WHAT YOU SAY?

a day to myself? pictures and full coverage to come.