BIRTHDAY GIRL

Here is last week's birthday girl after just receiving the "Happy Dance" at Kyoto!
Have a good weekend!

SOUTHERN FRIED

Hopefully soon I will have a guest blogger (hint hint) that will submit a Southern Fried Thursday post - You know who you are....


"Truth be told my Father had cured me of hunting and fishing by the time I had reached my teens...the man was serious, I'm telling you, serious about his hunting and fishing. And I just broke under the strain." - Michael Swindle in "Mulletheads"

"There would always come a night when Momma put our clothes in paper sacks and buttoned our coats, begging us not to cry, to shush, baby, we're goin' to see Grandma...we would wait for the headlights of an uncle or aunt's car to appear, and then we knew we were safe." - Rick Bragg in "All Over but the Shoutn'"

"The South is what we started out with in the bizarre, slightly troubling, basically wonderful country - fun, danger, friendliness, energy, enthusiasm, and brave, crazy, tough people. - P.J. O'Rourke

Best commercial of 2009....

...yep, you guessed it! My favorite commercial Old Spices' I am on a horse commercial! Love, love love it! You can catch it on youtube.

USELESS INFO TUESDAY

~ Thailand's famous sacred Emerald Buddha is carved from a single block of jade. It is call the Emerald Buddha because of its color.

~ Scotland's Firth of Forth is an estuary or firth (a narrow arm of the sea) a the lower end of the River Forth, which flows into the North Sea.

~ British funny man Peter Sellers dubbed some of Humphrey Bogart's lines in the offbeat 1953 comedy "Beat the Devil." The lines had to be rerecorded because Bogie had been in an auto accident during filming and lost some teeth,, which affected his speaking ability.

~ Rock band Smash Mouth took its name from a football term coined by former Chicago Bears head coach Mike Ditka. Ditka coined the phrase to describe hard-hitting, in-your-face football.

~ The Columbia University football team helped the U.S.'s top secret atom bomb building Manhattan Project during World War II by helping to move tons of uranium stored in Manhattan warehouses.

THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY OF MY LIFE

Twenty years ago today was the most important day of my life. That is the day that Dr. Ray and Dr. Ellis introduced me to my baby girl. We have had a wild ride over the last twenty years, and I wouldn't change it a bit.
I am so proud of Rachel.

She is smart.
She is kind.
She is funny.
She is caring.
She is pretty.
She is responsible.
She is on a horse!

CONVERSATIONS WITH POLLY - TCW

I have to be very select in the information I give my mom. If you tell her something, she is going to beat you down with questions, so I try to keep our conversations light and uncongested. In this case I could not. TCW's cousin was in the hospital and I told her. Here is how it went, of course after the whole "Hey - Hey - This is your mother - Hey" spill:

Carl is TCW's dad -

P: How was brunch?
LL: Fun.
P: Did you have any grits left?
LL: No, I left what was there because people were still coming in.
P: What did Beth bring?
LL: Orange rolls and deviled eggs.
P: Yum, I love orange rolls.
P: What did TCW bring?
LL: Sausage balls, but he had to leave and go to Birmingham. (here is where I messed up)
P: What, why?
LL: His cousin is not doing well and had to have emergency surgery
P: His mom's or dad's side.
LL: Dad's
P: Well, where is Carl?
LL: Out of town.
P: Where?
LL: I don't know (I did, but that would have drawn this our even further)
P: I wonder if Carl asked him to go, or did he just go on his own?
LL: I don't know, what difference does it make?
P: Well, it is just sure nice of him to go down there and be with them.
LL: Yeah, well he is nice like that.
P: That is not the cousin that taught you swimming lessons is it?
LL: I don't know. What was her name?

Here she tells me the name of cousin that taught me swimming lessons and we realized it was not the one having surgery.

P: Where did his cousin live?
LL: I don't know - Cullman I think.
P: Does she have a family?
LL: Yes a husband and two grown boys, I think.
P: When will TCW be back?
LL: I don't know.
P: Is he spending the night?
LL: Mom, I DON'T KNOW. Do you want me to tell him to call you when he gets home. Then he can fill you in?
P: No, no. I will let you go.
LL: OK, bye.

I am exhausted! Gotta love her!

USELESS INFO TUESDAY

~ The Netherlands was the first country to legalize same-sex marriages, in 2001.

~ The password of the Allied forces on D-Day in 1944 was "Mickey Mouse."

~ A is the first note on a standard piano keypad. C is the last note. The standard keyboard has 88 keys.

~ Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was nicknamed The Iron Lady. Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos was known as The Steel Butterfly.

~ In the 1987 action film "Lethal Weapon" the suburban home of TV's "The Partridge Family" was firebombed. The house, located on the Warner Brothers back lot in Burbank, CA, also served as the home of Abner and Gladys Kravitz on TV's "Bewitched."