Thirteen Vehicles I Have Owned 2000 Mercury Grand Marquis LS 1998 Pontiac TransSport 1995 Chevy Diesel Dually 1980 Cadillac Sedan DeVille 1995 Chevy S-10 Blazer 1995 Dodge Neon 1995 Chevy Metro 197? Buick Regal 198? Volkswagen Rabbit 1989 Nissan Sentra 1986 Volkswagen Jetta 1973 Volkswagen Bug 1967 Datsun station wagon Get the Thursday Thirteen code here! The...

When we returned home late Sunday evening, awaiting us was a voice mail from the Ex-Girlfriend that went exactly like this, in a squeaky, tear-filled voice: Hi. I just wanted to let (Oldest Son) know that I didn’t have the baby yesterday. Tell him he doesn’t have to worry about the baby anymore – I lost it. They did a needlepoint and I guess now...

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So, ok, we’ve got Oldest Son going to work everyday at the job he got immediately after moving home. He and Second Daughter are talking and texting back and forth day and night, like they have to cram the missing years into just a few days. The Ex-Girlfriend is calling jumping all over Oldest Son’s buttons, trying everything she can think of –...

I have a lot of catch-up to do with y’all. It’s been pretty busy around here the last couple of weeks. I seriously contemplated doing my Thursday Thirteen last week on all the developments around here, but I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t have believed the list. At least not without explanation. So, in order to catch you up, yet not take up your...

Two babies, tuckered out. Childhood friends, seeing each other in a new light. (My BFF’s daughter, like a Second Daughter to me, and Oldest Son. BFF and I are laughing because we used to wonder if we’d end up related one day, as close as they were back then. It’s been a rather eventful two weeks around here. More on that later.) Back at...

PDD with her sparkler in the dark on the 4th of...

Thirteen Places I Don’t Care If I See Again or Ever Las Vegas, Nevada (ever) Graceland (again) Detroit, Michigan (again) Niagara Falls, New York (again) I-40 from Memphis, Tennessee to Asheville, North Carolina (again…ever! lol) Any of the Mexican border towns (ever) Kansas or Nebraska (again) Little Rock, Arkansas (again) Anywhere in the Middle East...

Most of my friends know the ridiculous amount of email I receive every day and refrain from sending me jokes. Every once in awhile, they’ll send me one, thinking (rightly so) that even I could use a laugh every now and then. Today, I think they all thought I needed a laugh, because I’ve gotten several jokes in my inbox. So, I’m going to share one...

Taken on a flight from Tulsa to Salt Lake City, August of 2006, just after taking...