7 RANDOM THINGS

I have been dinged by Jamie Lynn Marie to list 7 random things about myself.

1. I nickname everybody. My pets, if you read this blog you will know, have many different nicknames - so does my child.

2. I don't use a straw to drink out of unless it is in a to-go cup. Not at any resturant. It was weird because the other day a server asked if we wanted straws. I had never been asked that before. Rachel said "Why don't you?" and I don't know why.

3. I used to try and chew the exact same amount of food on each side of my mouth....one bite of potatoes on the left, one bite on the right.

4. I do not appreciate Clint Eastwood as an actor. I do not think he is very good.

5. My favorite color is green - any shade.

(this is getting hard)

6. I believe in superstition...I pick up my feet in the car going over roalroad tracks, and I hold my breath when passing a cemetary.

7. Sometimes I catch myself (especially while riding) in the car like, (I don't know how to explain) if I am looking out the window and it is grass, then a driveway comes I will blink at the start and end of the driveway - blink blink. Not just a driveway, but anything that interrupts the line of what I am looking at.

I think I need therapy.

I don't have any friends that blog except Jamie and Kevin that blog. Kevin just had a new baby so I am sure he is too busy. So, ya'll think of 7 random things about yourself and leave in the comments or send me an e-mail. I will post some of the funny ones. This ought to be good.

Love

Rayray, I love you.

Random Definition

Reported in the news this week....it has been confirmed, Hitler was monorchic.

You are now asking yourself what is monorchic? It is the medical term for having one testicle.

Just thought I would through that in!

Have a good weekend.

Favorite Movie Quotes

Thanks for all of you who responded...here are a few of my favorites

LL - "That's some bad hat, Harry." Jaws

(Of course you all knew that one, but I am the one writing this blog)

Jenfer - "Mr. Wilkes, I's have to get them clothes in the ballin' pot......."(boiling pot). GWTW Mammie

Mickey - "Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto." Delores Claiborne

Beth - "Hope is a good thing...maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." Andy Dufrane, Shawshank Redemption

Ang - "Some people show off their beauty because they want the world to see it, others hide their beauty because they want the world to see something else." The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Niece - "Nobody puts Baby in the corner." Dirty Dancing

Kevin - "Think ya used enough dynamite there, Butch?" Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Jeff - "What, no f__king Zitti?" Sopranos (not really a movie, but we will give it to him)

Jamie - "Tina, come get some ham."

Bruce - "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"Dirty Harry

"You can't leave, all the plants will die." Bill Murray in Stripes

LL - A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti," Hannibel Lector The Silence of the Lambs," 1991.

"Blind Child Area"

Ok - one more post about my mommy and then we will leave her alone for a while. You know this is all in good fun - she reads my blog too, so she knows what I am telling - and, she can laugh at herself - we all need to do more of that.

While driving mom home from the "Great Shopping Fiasco of November 2008," on Magnolia Street I saw a yellow warning sign that read "Blind Child Area." I had seen these signs before in other areas, but had not seen this one close to my house.

LL - I have not noticed that sign before
P - Oh, its been there for a while - I keep looking for him, but haven't seen him yet
LL - looking for the blind kid?
P - Yeah
LL - how are you going to know which one he is?
P - I don't know
LL - do you think he is going to be like holding his hands out in front of him feeling for stuff?
(I know I am going to hell - we are both dying laughing at this point)
P - No (laughing)
LL - or have a shirt on that says "I am blind" or have big black patches on his eyes
P - yeah, or walking with a cane with a red tip
LL - I can just see you saying "I don't know how I hit the tree officer, I was just trying to spot the blind kid."

Polly - you got to love her, and I do.

Coming tomorrow....

"Blind Child Area": Converstations with Polly (my mom)

You won't want to miss!

Shopping Fiasco November 2008

(Dickey - an article of clothing made to look like the front or collar of a shirt, worn as a seperate piece under another garment.....not Dickies as shown below.....you will get it in a minute....)

Well, I went shopping with my mom for the last time last night. I thought I would be sweet and ask her if she wanted to go to Parisian (yes, Parisian) and get Rachel something for Christmas. After all, I had $90 in Belk Bucks to spend before Thursday. Well, we shopped for a while and went to check out.

Mom ran her Belks card through the machine to pay for her purchase. Uh oh, the lady then told her it was denied. Mom said it couldn't be, it didn't even have a balance on it. The lady then asked if mom wanted her to call about it. "Yes" was of course the answer.

Well, to make a long story short, they told her it was inactivated ("By who" asks mom) because of inactivity or something. Well, Mom just whips out her LL Bean mastercard to buy her purchases. She then makes a snide remark about "...everything will really probably be on sale this Saturday." Uh, mom, look around - everything is on sale now. And so what....you can use other credit cards at Belk - not just your Belk card. We just established that Belk even took LL Bean!

My mom just could not get over the fact that something a little out of the ordinary happened and she was just ready to go home. Kind of like "my Belk card doesn't work so I can't buy anything."

So, this attitude proceeded to ruin the shopping I still had left to do. I told her I wanted to go look at the pants. On the way I found a real cute shirt for my sister-in-law that really looked like her. I told mom I didn't like the shirt they showed under it, that I would just get her a camisole. I did not mean right then, before we left. I started looking at the pants and she said she was going to lingerie.

About 45 seconds later I hear her asking a sales rep "Where are your Dickey's?" "Maam, we don't carry Dickies." I said S__t. I guess it is time to go. She is asking for dickey - like an fake undershirt thinking that is what I want to get Linda and also that we have to have one before she can go home. I walk/run over to the check out realizing I have to get her out of there...there will be no pleasant shopping time for me tonight! I also tell her that anyone under the age of 50 thinks only of the work clothes Dickies when asked. She tries to tell me to go look at the pants, she will wait quietly while I do. I know it is a lost cause. I check out, but not before she tells the twin sales clerks that "I am embarrassing my daughter." Then asking the obviously identical twins, "Are you sisters?"

We are walking out, my Mom, knowing that she mucked up my shopping says, "Well, that was fun." "Yes," I reply, "I hope you enjoyed all 37 whole minutes of it."

She then thanked me for loving her.

Your welcome, Mom.

In the Spirit

Started Christmas shopping this weekend. This will shock you! I was at Parisian at 7:00 Saturday Morning!




Yes I said Parisian - it will take me forever to call it Belks. Hell, I am just getting around to saying Dillards instead of Castner Knott. (don't know what is happening with the font - long day)

Anyway, I shopped early and got some great deals. Bought Jimmy some POLO on sale. Got Rachel the cutest and matching and ! She is going to love all of it!

After she awoke we had lunch at O'Charleys (she loves the potato soup) then I took her back to Parisian (i know, i know) to show her these cute Lucky Brand purses. Well, who would know that at that moment she was going to become a accessory junkie, a purse addict and would ask for not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 purses for Christmas! She almost cried when I made her judge them by how much she wanted them. It was like she couldn't believe that she would not receive all 4 for Christmas. I said "No one usually asks, or receives 4 of anything for Christmas....that is kind of gross." (And these are pretty pricy purses range from $90 to $168. And I do remember something about a trip to Atlanta and concert tickets was all she needed for Christmas?)

But now the real dilemma falls on me.....I have to decide what purses to buy, and totally restrain myself from buying all four....(talk about addiction! haha).

Happy Monday!