I know, I know

Yes, I know I said that once a week for posting is realistic and I haven't even done that lately. It's Christmas time and we have been busy, busy, busy. By the time we are done doing whatever chore or errands, or preparing and going to whatever social event, it's late and I don't feel like posting.
Today is my last day of work. We are off until the 5th of January! i have caught a cold, so I am going to just kick back and relax as much as possible during that time. Dean and I are planning to take in a movie. I want to see Valkyre or however that new Tom Cruise movie about the WWII Hitler think is spelled. I have always been intrigued by that period of American History. I think because my dad was a WWII vet. He was in Hawaii, but not at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. I think he was somewhere in Asia too, but not real sure on that detail.
Other than this cold thing, things are good here in W.M, PA. Nick is staying with us and that is going sooooo well. His car died so I/we have been taking him back and forth to work when we can. Other wise, he stays at his friend's house cause it's closer to work and easier for him to catch a bus.
I will catch you up on all the other stuff later. Work, parties, bowling, shopping and junk. Like I said, I am off for almost 2 weeks. I should have time to post........

I hope it ends his career........

Plexico Buress, former Pittsburgh Steeler, current (?) New York Giant, took his gun to a club over last weekend and somehow shot himself in the leg! He makes how many millions to play football! I don't know why on earth these "bad seed" players do things to jeopardize their careers. Stupid. If he felt that threatened that he has to take a gun to club for a nite out on the town, then stay home.
Is he that full of yourself or just that paranoid that you think you need to carry a gun? You can take the boy outta the hood, but not the hood outta the boy, I guess.
Anyway, if you don't know the story, the gun fires for whatever reason and the idiot shoots himself in the leg. He goes to the hospital, where by law, they are supposed report any gunshot wounds to the police, but don't. They said he didn't have ID with him when he got to the hospital and he was admitted for treatment under a false name. Hospitals admit you under John Doe until they can get your ID or someone else verifies who you are. So, he went to the hospital, knew he would be in big sh$t for this, lied about who he was and one of his homies verified it at the hospital so no one would know. Okay. He's in the NFL. A New York Giant. He goes to a NEW YORK hospital. Don't you think someone would recognize him? He IS stupid. The Giants don't report it to the police either. Sounds like aiding and abedding a felon to me.
So, on top of all this, he doesn't have a permit to carry in the state of New York. Only in Florida. He's not IN Florida! What? He didn't know that you need a permit from every state separately? So if you are traveling all over the states to play football in other NFL towns, you need permits to take your gun with you.
And how did he get this gun on the plane? He didn't drive from Florida. Did he check the gun case as luggage?
I agree with the Mayor of New York. He should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Minimum 3 and a half years jail time. I hope it ends his career and makes his multimillion dollar contract null and void. The NFL should make the teams put a "conduct unbecoming" clause in all the contracts for players, coaches, and staff. They make big money. Kids look up to them as roll models. What are you saying when you take a gun to a niteclub and end up shooting yourself? Or being involved in dog fighting. Or being pulled over and the cops find blunts in your vehicle. It's not all about you. I am not saying that you have to be perfect, but, DUI's, drug possession, gun possession, murder should all be considered behavior unbecoming and should nullify your NFL contract. No signing bonus money, no suspension with pay, nothing. No get out of jail free card. Do not Pass go and collect your millions. You get ZERO! And no Hall of Fame nomination, either. Ever. You're done son.
Pete Rose gambled on baseball games. They crucified him. Ray Lewis killed a man. Nothing. San Tonio Holmes busted for weed (blunts) in his car on a traffic stop. Nothing. Game suspension from The Steelers. Michael Vick got what he deserved for the dog fighting crap. So, Plex should see jail time for this assinine act.
I'll climb down off the soapbox now.....................
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I did it!

Hey! Look below! I finally figured out the slide show thingy! Ya Know, it's all about keepin' up with Dave! LOL.
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A glimpse at Our Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving Day was also Dean's birthday this year. The old fart is 50! 50! So the pics below show some of his birthday and Thanksgiving.
Due to some very strange circumstances, Nick is living with us now. He is some of the pics too! Jordie loved Uncle Nick. They watched the football games together. And I mean together! You couldn't have gotten a piece of paper between them! Mikey was very busy playing and crawling all over the place! Whew it is tough chasing 2 little ones. They insist on being in the kitchen when you are doing stuff, but I am afraid one of them will get burnt on the oven while the turkey and things are cooking, so we were always sending them out to the living room. While we were cleaning up, Wee Wee followed me into the pantry and I didn't know it. I tripped over him, but fortunately caught myself and didn't drop the box of aluminum foil on his head!

Dean enjoyed his birthday and his ice cream cake. He gets one every year. He is an ice creamaholic! It is a DQ cake, but not the traditional one. He gets a double layer of vanilla with cherry sundae topping in between. No crunchies or fudge for him! And it was supposed to say Happy Birthday to the KING (not Kins).
He and I have been getting each other Hallmark Christmas ornaments for our birthdays since we started dating. So, this year I got him the Hot Wheels car. He always tells the story of his Mom spanking his behind when he got in trouble with that distinct orange section of track........Ah, the memories. If he wouldn't have been such a bad kid, he wouldn't have gotten a beating! I asked him for the one that sings "I Wanna Hippopotamus for Christmas!" I love that song!
Well, I hope your Thanksgiving was as nice as ours. WE do have lots to be thankful for...........

The new Sonic Boom

Good Morning! Yes it is an early one for me if you note the time of this post at the bottom there. I had to get up at 3:45 am to take Dean to work for a 4:30 am start. They are in their busy time at Parkhurst @ PNC 1. Alot of schmoozing going on with bigwigs and whatnot. As you may or may not have heard, National City Bank has been in financial trouble with all the bad mortgages they have out. The government gave the $7,000,000,000.00 That's 7 BILLION dollars to bail them out. So, now that their bad mortgages are settled, they are now being bought out by PNC. I don't know if that is who all the schmoozing is for, but I think it may be part of it. And the holiday season is fast upon us, and I believe that has something to do with it too. Parkhurst caters alot of parties for some fancy smancy occassions. Here are some things that they did for a reception for Governor Rendell's wife..............



Individual cheesecakes, plated and finished with a swirl of whipped cream and a curl of white chocolate on top, berries and slurry around the plate.



Here is part of the spread for that party. A table full of mini pastries and fruit. Chocolate covered strawberries, pecan diamonds, mousse cups, lemon curd tartlets, pate squares, and the other table has assorted pies and cakes! Doesn't it look beautiful? and Yummy, too! The fruit included star fruit, strawberries, mango, cantelope and honey dew..........See the honey dew that was carved into a swan? Really cool.




















Some closeups of 2 of the cakes on the table. Strawberry torte and raspberry torte.

My husband is so talented...........

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Anyway, my point of this particular post was to let you know that yet another Sonic drive in has opened in the Greater 'Burgh area. This one's in Bridgeville in the Chartiers Valley shopping plaza. I must say it was not the best we've had at Sonic. The burger had way too much mustard and the tomatoes were not ripe at all, which made them kinda bitter. But I had my DVC (diet vanilla coke) and it was very good. The onion rings seemed to be lacking as well. They weren't cooked enough and the onions were tough and hard. We will give it another shot someday though. Bridgeville is way closer than Pittsburgh Mills Mall........ Can we get one at the Waterfront, please?

Well, I've rambled on long enough today. I better get my shower and get ready for work. Ugh.
I think my new goal will be a post a week. That's a reasonable goal. If there's more I need to share, I'll post more often that once a week. Post a day? I don't know if I have that much to say........

Something looks like paint shop

My nephew also ha a slide show on his blog that feature pics of his dad. While I was enjoying the slide show for the bazillionth time, something hit me today. There is one of my sister and Jerry at Kennywood on the parachute ride. I think they call it the Skydiver or something. the color of Jerry's jeans & the color of the outside of the gondola look like they were photoshopped or paintshopped in. They just look weird. Maybe it's me. I don't know if someone took the picture if they have a camera set up on the ride itself that snaps an action photo of riders enjoying themselves. We got one like that when we were on our honeymoon in Las Vegas. We rode the roller coaster at New York, New York and there was a god awful picture of me on the coaster, going down hill, mouth open and hair all wind blown straight back. It was horrible. Any way, I was just wondering about that certain picture..... Maybe it's because not much else in the picture has much color...........?????

There's a reason I only had 1; Racing's ended; Steeler Frenzy; Snow Globe

Dean and I had the kids this weekend. They are so busy! Mikey is crawling all over the place. He wants to play in the dogs' water bowl. He wants to eat their dry food. He chases the dogs all over the house. He wants things he can't have like their chewey, (rawhide bone) and stuff like that. He does know "no" when you say it cause he stops what he's doing or reaching for, but only for a nanosecond. This moment when they sat on the chair together was a short lived breather for me. Jordan is a ham and when you bring out the camera, he'll stop anything he's doing and "cheese" for you. Dean was cooking dinner at the moment and I was trying to keep them out of the kitchen.

Jordan is potty training. When we took him camping this summer, he did pretty well at peeing on the potty, but not pooping. Now he poops on the potty and won't pee. Thank god for pullups! I am glad, cause they get wet, and you just throw them away like a pampers or huggies.





Here's the ham cheesing for the camera! I must say he is a cutey pie! He does think that he is Mikey's parent, though. and not really good at sharing toys with his little brother. Everything's That's Jordie's. I finally convinced him that alot of the toys that we have Jordan is too big for and they are just right for Mikey. So Jordan had his big boy toys and Mikey had the baby toys.





This is bathrime for bonzo. He seems to
have learned how to "cheese" too.
Mikey is so independent. He holds his
own bottle and when it's empty, just throws
it and you have to watch out, cause you
don't know where it'll go!




















He likes bathtime fine, but that getting
out and getting dried? Not so much.
He is a cutey, though, too. How can you
not love that face?







Jammies on and ready for bed.
He will play for about a half an hour
then it's time
for a bottle and give him
his blanket and he's out!








Waking up from nap time.








Playing with the tractor from the
Fisher Price farm.









Jordan at the computer. See. I told you
he will stop whatever he's doing
to "cheese" for ya.







So, there's my busy little ones. They do keep ya movin'. 2 directions at once sometimes. there's the reason I only had one.
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Racing is officially over. The last Nascar race of the season was yesterday. Carl Edwards won the race, but Jimmie Johnson won the championship. That is 3 years in a row for him. No one has done that since Cale Yarborough back in the day. When the cars were actually "stock" cars. They didn't even have much tv coverage back then. Sometimes, on the Wide World of Sports on ABC...... 90? days till the Daytona 500!
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The Steeler game was interesting. They won 11-10. Yes, 11-10. Sounds like a baseball score. It really should have been 17 - 10, but the fumble that Troy Polamalu recovered and went in the end zone with was ruled to not be a touchdown, so they took the 6 points back. Then after the game, the ref said it was indeed a good play and that it was a touchdown. But we couldn't get the points back in the record books at that point. The gamblers are pissed because 11-10 means the Steelers didn't beat the 4 point spread. They are saying that that call may change the NFL forever. Everyone is in a frenzy about it. No other time in history has their been an NFL game that's score was 11-10.
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Well, some one has shaken up the snowglobe here in the burgh. They turned on the a/c then shook up the snow globe. Have I told you I hate winter? Here's a picture out my front door onto my deck tonight. Depressing, eh?