RIP, Farrah Fawcett

Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me.....

Yes! I HAVE to post today! It's my favorite day of the year! And the longest day of the year, which is what's so great about being born on this day. You have more time to have fun and celebrate! But I'm too busy celebrating to post very much, LOL. I'm getting out in the sun before it's too hot! It's my birthday and I get to do whatever I want to do!

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Let's Get It Started....

yeah....AGAIN! What makes it so difficult for me to get in here and post sometimes? Like maybe once a week at least? SIGHHHHHHHHHHHH......maybe b/c I'm posting all the time at celebritydogwatcher? Maybe? As much as I love being "connected" in cyberspace, my dogs like me to be connected to THEM, LOL!

Well, I'm back. At least for now. So...what's been going on here in the desert?
Hmmmm.....well, I got my racing bike all fixed up. Have I ridden it? Noooooooooooo...nope, I sure haven't. But I will. Now my big plan is to get back into practice on my mountain bike, LOL. Yeah...that's the ticket! Ok, so some friends of mine and I went out for St. Pat's Day. Took a limo to Palm Springs and hit all the boring places, then to Palm Desert and home. Probably my last St. Pat's outing, LOL. Saw Frankie Valli~ dh loved the show, I didn't care for the music, but his backup singers were good. I picked the winner in the Kentucky Derby (go figure; it had "bird" in it's name)..yes, that's how I pick horses.....it's all in the name, right?
So, not much happening around here. It's heating up here though. The pups just got their summer cuts; they got scalped! They look so cute though.

I've been working a lot on celebritydogwatcher~ I love doing it. It keeps you in a good mood, looking at cute dogs all day long. The hard part is not saying anything snarky about the celebs sometimes, LOL.

My brother Scott had an esophagectomy for esophageal cancer; not a good thing. He's been having a tough time of it post operatively (like he needs anything else to make his life any worse than it already is!). After a second surgery to repair a fistula a month after his original surgery, he's still in the ICU on a ventilator. Sometimes you really wonder what it's all about here, doncha? Sometimes I guess there just aren't any answers. It is what it is. All I can say is of anyone I've ever known, he didn't deserve this.

Thinking about starting a book club at least for the summer here. There's nothing much else to do; I can tell it's going to be hotter than hell this year. Already it's been over 100 and will be all this week thru next week. I need something to keep my mind occupied.

I cannot find a job; that's the really bad news! I can't believe that NOBODY even calls me for an interview! Do they think I got stupid and inept just b/c I haven't been working for the last 10 years? I feel like all my resumes are going into some big circular file in cyberspace! But the search continues. Something will come along!

Well, I'm out of practice here; I'll have to work on my badditude, LOL. I'm wondering what lapse of sanity prompted me to order some candles thru the mail? I'm just hoping when I check the mailbox there's not a big puddle of wax dripping out of it, LOL!

Workin' My Way Back to You Babe...

This is my girlfriend's little Yorkie (and my Max's sister) who spent the night with us last night. Isn't this so cute? She's just staring at the door waiting for her mom to come back! My boys do the same thing when I'm gone; only they lie on the floor next to each other, staring at the front door. Which is sort of weird, because I rarely come and go thru the front door, LOL.

Anyway, I spent all last night covered in Yorkies! I couldn't move in bed without feeling something furry, no matter which way I turned. I had two under the covers near the bottom of the bed and one who has to sleep practically surgically attached to my body, haha. And HE snores! Needless to say, I didn't get a whole lot of sleep yesterday. But then they say, sleep is overrated. I'm not so sure about that!

It's a beautiful day here today but a little cool for me. I think it's around 70 degrees, but it feels so cold! Not doing much anyway, just a little posting at CDW because it's so fun!

Going out for Mexican food later, which will be fun. Always nice to see the people who work there; maybe Melan'ee will join us if she's gotten some sleep.

The boys are napping on the bed, they really need a bath (the dogs, not the husband, but he could probably use one too, LOL), but I hate to get them all wet when it's so cold in the house. Maybe later ....or, as Scarlett was fond of saying "tomorrow is another day".

Where does the time go????

I just wanted to get something on here tonite! What a day! I'm not sure really why I have been so busy; but I suppose it was b/c I had a lot to do. Feed all the animals, clean the cat's box and room, clean bird cages, do laundry and then fold it and put it away, make Madison's rice and turkey. Slice up sourdough bread loaves and wrap in plastic wrap to put in the freezer. Only I ran out of the plastic wrap and still needed to wrap the dog's food to put in the freezer. UGH..I hate it when I run out of stuff.
Then get onto the job sites, which of course, there are NO jobs for me, but you never know when one will pop up! Of course the dogs have to have some sort of sustenance every two hours, so it was getting up to address that issue too. Get online to find pictures to post for CDW and then write up blurbs for them and get them posted online. It's not that difficult; I'm just new to actually posting and writing the blurbs, so it was a little slow going for me this morning.

Other than that, it's been a beautiful day; Melan'ee came over to drop Pie off while she ran a couple of errands (one of them being an angel and picking up plastic wrap for me) and then came back for dinner, while we watched AMC that I'd dvr'd. It's fun~ we have a nice dinner with good company, our little doggies and get mad at the characters on the soaps, LOL. Aren't girlfriends the BEST??? Well, I know she is, for sure!

I'm tired and the boys are knocked out, snoring even, LOL. So, it must be time to pick the little guys up and deposit them on the bed for a nice sleep for all of us! Tomorrow is another day, God willing! I am thankful for my friends~ close friends and my internet friends. You all keep me going and make me stronger than sometimes I feel that I am. Sometimes I just need to say that, because it matters to me! Nitey nite to you all~ sweet dreams!

These are my new favorite things~~~

I love it when I hear about products or services that other people love...and I end up loving them too, so I like to share with others~~~

If any of you know me, you know what a neat/clean freak I am. I'm a stickler about surfaces especially being clean and sparkling, and for a long time now, I've had granite counters and either granite or ceramic tiled floors. I can't stand dirty, much less, smeary, greasy-feeling surfaces, and years ago, I started using a diluted Simple Green solution on my floors and counters. I like the smell and it did a great job. But I've found something the other day that I like even BETTER!!! It's not just better; it's FABULOSO! I diluted it and spray it on all my counters and used it even on glass tables. I LOVE the smell of the Lavande scent; there's several different scents, but a friend told me this was the "original" one. It just smells so CLEAN and it does such a nice job! Everything is sparkling around here now and it smells GOOOD! OH...AND it's Cheep-cheep-cheep (as one of my dearest friends would say). I think you can sometimes find it at the dollar stores.















I will not even TOUCH this story about it however....





"Cleanser looks like a sports drink
Nearly 100 people have mistakenly ingested Fabuloso, thinking it was a beverage.
By Jeff Sturgeon

Cleaning products such as Fabuloso looks similar to sport drinks, such as the Gatorade products displayed here besides three examples of Fabuloso.


The health risk is low. The yuck factor is high.

A physicians group warned Wednesday that dozens of Texans mistakenly drank a mild cleaning product that happens to look like a sports drink.

Fabuloso is a buck a bottle at some Roanoke stores, deliciously colored and fits comfortably in the hand. Its purpose, however, is cleaning floors and toilets.

But researchers with the American College of Emergency documented 94 cases of accidental ingestion during the first four months of the year across Texas. Many were children under 6, the group said."



OK...I lied again. I can't help myself...it says "many" were under 6...okey dokey...I can accept that (maybe) some kids will ingest anything. And I agree that the smaller size DOES sort of look like a sports drink in a sports drink bottle. But WHERE are people storing this stuff?? In the fridge? I don't get it. And if not, do they not have cleaning supplies out of reach of little kids (who apparently weren't blessed with a sense of smell)? Again, I don't get it.
Now, as far as the rest of them who were over 6, I am just supposing that they've had their sinuses burned out by one method or another. Because all the scents I smelled are REALLY STRONG- smelling in their concentrated form. I'm just sayin'.......
And I'm not going to say anything about where the story originated. You can't MAKE me, LOL.




Another prouct that a friend on her blog mentioned is this:




It's Rimmel London's Lift and Renew foundation. I LOVE IT! It's been a long time since I've found any foundation that isn't mask-like and I hate that. This is light and dewy, so if you need a lot of coverage, it's probably not what you're looking for, but it's just what I've been wanting and it's only around $7 at Walmart.

I know there's more, but at the moment, my brain is being pulled like taffy in too many directions, so I'll post as time goes on.....