It's a Double Posting!!!

Tonight I am starting my blog with an apology. I didn't get anything posted last night. We went to the wedding in Springfield but didn't go to the reception and came on home. When we finally pulled into the driveway in Harrisonville it was 9pm and we unloaded the car and truck and then just sat down and relaxed. Terry was really tired and if you don't know it my normal bedtime is 9-9:30pm. So needless to say I was tired too and I thought~oh well, I'll double post tonight. So here I am, double posting. It may be a long one tonight and then again, it may not. :o)

First off I want to tell you about the wedding. Oh my gosh, I have never been to anything so beautiful. I never cry at a wedding and cried twice!!! What's the worse thing, I didn't even really know the couple that well. I had met the groom through Brandon because he is a good friend of Brandon's. The bride I didn't know and had only met the groom's parents a couple of times and really, really love them. Good people. Anyway, back to the wedding. To begin with they had a stringed quartet playing while everyone was coming into the church. 3 Violin's and a Cello. Oh my gosh, it was goregous and the dresses of the congregation were beautiful too. It was a formal wedding and some of the outfits were beautiful. Of course the groom and bride were in their upper 20's so most of the crowd were college friends and high school friends. Some of the outfits and hair styles were fabulous. I didn't have a formal on but I wore black slacks with a really nice, sparkly top and wore a shawl for a wrap with heels. Terry told me I looked beautiful. LOL. He was quite dapper himself.

Anyway, the service started and in come the wedding party followed by the little flower girls and the ring bearer. That little guy was adorable. After raising a little boy my heart goes for those little guys. He was chunky and looked around 4 years old. Had thick, wavy hair parted on the side and mom or dad had put gel in it to keep those unruly locks down. He had a little tux on and looked so handsome. During the service he was getting bored holding that pillow and turned around to look at the crowd. The little girls were being very good and standing there watching the ceremony. As he was turned around looking at us he was leaning on the prayer bench....picking his nose. I am sure that the parents were mortified but couldn't do anything about it. Then after he had finished "digging for the gold" and looking at his little finger a couple of times he started tossing the pillow in the air and finally rested it on the railing. By this time one of the little flower girls, probably around 7 or so placed her little hand on his shoulder and he redirected his attention to the wedding. She kept her little hand there during most of the ceremony. So, so cute.

Then the bride and groom started saying their vows. They were so nervous and she started crying saying hers. We all started tearing up. It was with such love in her voice when she repeated them. Terry said he even got a little misty eyed. Then Brandon sang with another young lady. Oh my gosh!!! He did such a beautiful job. I cannot explain how beautiful it was and they both complimented each other so much. People were coming up to Brandon afterwards complimenting him and telling them they were so impressed with his voice. He made Josh Gorbin sound monotone!!! The string quartet even gave him their card. I told him he should consider it, I am sure they play at several upclass weddings and the wedding parties are looking for singers. He is awesome. I told him it could pay the electric bill. LOL. So, so good.

I found out yesterday that a dear friend had passed away. For those of you that are from this area and ever went to the Town Tavern in Urich, you knew Jr. and Jean Anderson. Jr. passed away at the home yesterday morning at 80 years old. I am not sure what happened but when I read the obituary the family suggested contribution to the American Kidney Society. After I divorced Josh's dad we left Urich and I kept in touch with Jr. and Jean with Christmas cards but had lost track. They moved to Liberty MO to be closer to their daughter up there. They were good, good people also. You couldn't get a better hamburger than the one from the Town Tavern. That and a good cold beer always went down so smooth. Jr. was teaching me how to play pool too when I would come down there during the week.

John, Josh's dad and I lived in a building like 4 doors up from the tavern on Main Street in Urich. Jr. helped us get the loan to buy the building and they really liked us. When I was pregnant with Josh they would always tell me to give them a call if I went into labor and they would take me to the hospital because alot of the times I was left at the apartment with no way to go anywhere. One thing I remember the most about the tavern was Jr. would have fish fries and everyone would bring a covered dish. Fun times were had there. I plan to send Jean a card and will also try and make it up to see her in Liberty one of these days soon. Maybe next week. I will have another day off with Martin Luther King's birthday on Monday. Yes, I'm spoiled.

Went to church today and really enjoyed it. Oh, and guess what!!! Weighed this morning to see if I'd lost anything this week with my new exercise~healthy eating regime and I did. 7 pounds!!! I won't be able to keep that pace up because your body doesn't work that way but if I can lose 1~2 pounds a week in 52 weeks I will have lost 52-104 pounds. That would rock BIGTIME!!! Well, wait a minute....I don't want to say lost because I always seem find what I lost. I want to say "be without" my excess weight. LOL. Hope I don't fail myself but don't think I will.

Josh came by today because it is your typical Sunday ritual. He didn't come until after lunch but always can find something to eat, never a problem for Josh. I made pork steaks and had green beans/corn and that was all we had. One thing I have started doing is not eating until I am stuffed. Never go for seconds and just have one plate, try not to eat to many bad carbs, only good ones and no sweets. It's working. Also trying to drink more water. It's all good. Had a sweet, juicy golden delicious apple here a few minutes ago and it took care of my sweet tooth.

Well, Terry is watching the playoffs tonight and I am on this silly computer because that is the way the Gash's roll. I couldn't ask for a better life though, I am so content that I don't know what to do with myself. Oh, another before I forget it, I didn't get any pictures of yesterday but will get someone to take my pic next week so I can post my new doo.

I will talk to you guys later because as I have said previously, I am addicted to Words With Friends and need to get back to the game so I can annihilate my opponents. It is a game that is on FaceBook and I am sure it is on other places too. It is a Scrabble type game and I love, love, love Scrabble along with Crossword Puzzles. I use to do Crossword Puzzles all the time. Once a month I would buy myself a new puzzle book. Dell was my favorite, but haven't done it in a long time!!!

Talk to you guys tomorrow, I promise!!!

TTFN

Okay, I have a friend that is working on her Master's degree and is spending a week in Belgium for a foreign study thing. She is suppose to do a blog as part of her class for this week and sent us the link to her blog. It is through Tumblr and I have to admit, I'm pretty computer saavy. Sometimes I am my own worse enemy but I cannot figure out how to sign up for Tumblr so I can read her blogs. It keeps asking me for my URL and how can I have a URL if it won't let me signup without one. All the stuff I have read says that you are to put like http//whatever.tumlr.com and when I do it says yeah, that doesn't work. Grrrr. I told her I was glad she was doing it because maybe she could help me in making mine better. I have my next webpage design class next week. I've been lazy and not doing much with it. I've got to figure out how to ump my blog up though. Anyway, hope Penny posts her posts on FB so I can read them because I really enjoy blogs.

Terry made it down tonight with Lamar. Lamar is laying next to me as he always does when I am around and sleeping. I made chicken and rice tonight and Lamar loved the rice. LOL. Yes, I feed my dog human food and he loves me for it. Human food probably isn't good for him because half of it isn't good for us. I am reading a book called "In Defense of Food an Eater's Manifesto" by Micael Pollan. My co-worker got me started on it. It's just about how to eat and how our foods aren't good for you. She's doing a eating plan of if God didn't make it I'm not eating it. I told her I did it a few years ago and it worked for me. Not sure why I quit but sure I had a really good excuse and if confronted on it right now will give you another one. LOL. Anyway, he has "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and "In Defense of Food" I'm going to read his series, I find everyone's opinion fascinating and who knows, I may incorporate his things. Oh, back to Lamar and eating people food. Growing up we always had dogs at the farm and mom and dad worked at different restaurants. They would bring home scraps from the restaurant to our dogs and it never killed a one of them!!! When I was living in Garden City and we were raising hound dogs and I had Barnie, my lab mix, I would always give them scraps. I'd even make them gravy in the winter to pour over their food. My cooking didn't kill them. Barnie was like 16-17 when he died. Lamar goes for walks and gets pampered in his own little doggie way so I think he will be okay.

Work went pretty good today. I got alot of stuff done that I have been procrastinating. Of course the person that has to enter the stuff probably won't see as much humor in it as I did. LOL. Things have been pretty strange around though, but of course we are getting pretty close to a full moon. That brings out the wooley bully's. Heebie Jeebie's. and the really wierd individuals. That reminds me when I went to Stockton MO this week. Can't remember the highway out of Bolivar but I was heading to Stockton that direction. When I got to Fair Play MO, population around 1000 or so. Two guys were crossing the highway and stopped to hitchhike before I got to them. They looked like a couple of hippie throw backs that had been sitting at the bar drinking a few brewski's or going to the bar would be more like it. It was 11am, probably just woke up and was walking downtown to go to the bar because neither one probably had a driver's liscense, not to mention a job. Oh well, it takes all kinds to make the world go round!!!

Well, I can't whine anymore about gas being 2.89 and me missing it. It is 3.17 now!!! This stuff drives me nuts and I feel sorry for the young families trying to make it. It's tough.

Tomorrow is the big wedding. Going to try and get a pic of my man and I before we go. We are such a dapper couple if I don't say so myself. He loved my new doo. The girls at work said we are going to have to hang a sock on the door knob tonight so we won't get interrupted. LOL. Made me laugh bigtime.

Ta-Ta For Now or as Tigger from Winnie the Pooh would always say TTFN!!!

It's working!!!

Today I went and got my hair colored and cut, trying a new hairdresser down here. Granted my niece Renada works for a hair care distributor and she is over like four states or something crazy like that. I texted her and asked who she would recommend down here and she gave me three different hairdressers that she said were educators for them and she'd trust them with her hair. I went to Ryan at Karma Beauty Salon and really, really love my cut and color. It looks so good on me but if any of you have ever been to an upscale beauty salon and have had a good style, you know they are expensive. The salon I have been going to in Lee's Summit it would usually cost around $90, well today was much more then that and I had a tough time swallowing after vapor-locking but then I was like, I only go every 4 months or so and I deserve to be pampered. I really, really love it though so it is well worth it. As my friend told me tonight on facebook, you have a new upscale hairdo, going to a formal wedding and will look knockout gorgeous. It's all good. I have to remember that, I told her I was so glad I have her to keep me boosted. Terry will notice but I'm betting it will take Josh a little while to notice, just because it is Josh. LOL.

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful day. We were in the 60's again. Don't know what this is all going to come to but am thinking we had better get some cold weather and rain. Oh well.

Did the walking thing again tonight and brought my friend up to the apartment and we had a huge salad with baked potato and she had shrimp. I didn't want meat. I used my cheese on my salad as protein and then had some yogurt afterwards and a banana. Will be interested to see if I've lost anything this week. Muscle weighs more than fat but hopefully I will have taken off a few pounds. Even one. I am going to work harder next week on water.

Going to head to bed. The last couple of mornings I have had a tough time waking up. Lazy I am and not sure why. Talk to you later.

Another Good Day

WOW!!! Today my walking buddy wasn't going to be able to come and walk with me so I decided to go ahead and go on down to the fitness center without her. I walked 30 minutes at 3.0 (I guess it's mph, I don't know) incline between 3.0 and 2.5 and walked off 208 calories. ROCK ON!!! I still only walk a mile and a half for 30 minutes and will keep that up until I walk 2 miles for 30 minutes. I am here to tell you, this little fat girl was sweating and huffing and puffing. I'm only weighing myself once a week on Sunday. My girlfriend has a really, really nice digital scale and I like weighing on it. I weighed last Sunday and wept profusely until she kicked me out of her house. LOL. I'm not going to say I am going to loose weight because I always find it so I am just saying I am working on a healthier lifestyle that unfortunately I am going to have to live with for the rest of my life but that's okay.

I went to Stockton MO today to speak at a Community meeting they had. I love listening to different services that communities have and the different agencies that cover them. VA has a mobile clinic that comes to Bolivar at the VFW building for veterans that usually have to go to KC, Columbia, Fayetteville AR, or Mount Vernon now don't have to travel. They still go to the hospitals when needed but this mobile unit is their primary care doctor along with they can get their labs and such. Then there was another lady there that she helps people go to work that are on disability and won't lose their benefits. She works for Social Security. I think my favorite is Kriesler Drug store that is in Clinton, Adrian and Appleton City will bring medications to individuals that do not have the gas money to go get their own drugs. They will bring the van to the St. Clair County health department at a certain time and if the person isn't there to pick up their meds they won't leave them at the health department but they will come back when the person can come and pick them up. There was a little guy there that was hilarious. He is over the Senior Community building in Stockton. They fed us lunch at this building and it was the nutritionist from the hospital that fed everyone and she made a homemade banana cake that was to die for. (Thank goodness for the 208 calories I walked off) Anyway, the little old man said who ever made that cake can donate another one to our cake walk at our fund raiser and I'll make sure it gets there. He said this with a twinkle in his eye and a little bit of snide in his remark. It was so funny.

A couple of the ladies that were there worked for West Central Community Action Agency and came up to see if I could speak to some of their residents and while I was talking to them I asked if they knew Kay Miller. I knew Kay works for WCCAA for the housing department and they go oh my yes!!! I said well tell her hello for me, I'm her cousin but don't hold that against me. They said, well you must know her sister Karen Minnick. Them Snyder girls have to be a couple of the nicest people in the world, heck the whole family is. Their grandpa (Flay Snyder) and my dad (Aubrey Thompson) were 1st cousins. Flay's mom and dad's dad (my grandpa) were brother and sister. Pretty cool how that works out. Flay and his wife Dimple lived across the creek from us. Mom use to say they are family, friends and neighbors....just in that order!!!

You know, I don't want to wish bad weather on us but we really need a good freeze and snow one of these days soon. If not, the bugs are going to be the size of bald eagles and our allergies are going to be terrible. I don't want ice but snow is fine. We'll just have to wait and see but they are talking 60* weather this weekend. WOW!!!

Watching the KU/K State game while I am typing this. Not paying alot of attention but see where KU are kicking some bootie. I love watching them boys play. I watched and rooted for KU for 20 years and my son and I still love them. One of these days I would like to go see them play but don't know if I want to be within all that noise. Maybe just once. My husband probably just got a nervous twitch and has no idea. He is a BIGTIME MU fan. I enjoy watching them play too but it's not the same. Basketball and baseball are the sports I enjoy, have a little problem with keeping up with football but I watch it.

Well, guess I will go. Not tired tonight, that is one thing good about doing exercise right after I get off work...it gives me energy. Talk to you guys later.

It's a Short One but it's a Sweet One

Welp, gonna make this one short and sweet. I WISH I could figure these dang gas prices out from one end of the state to the next!!! Last Friday when I left Springfield I called to find out the price of gas in Harrisonville and found out it was 2.99 so I filled up here in Springfield because it was $2.92. Got to LCMO and it was $2.89 if you paid cash. CRAP, so today I was heading down here and gas is $2.92 in Harrisonville so I thought, well I've got enough gas to get to LCMO and will fill up there. Got there and it was $2.91 for cash and I forgot, didn't have any cash and had to pay $2.96 with my debit card. Was like oh well, that's only $.04 more and got down here to Springfield and it was $2.89 and I have a full tank. CRAP, CRAP, CRAP!!! The gasoline karma is not with me. Oh well. Grrrr.

Got down here and walked on the treadmill for 30 minutes and walked a mile and a half. I use to be able to walk a mile in 15 minutes. I will get there again but I have to work up my stamina. I will get there, I know.

Don't know any more to write about. Everything is going about like it always is. One day at a time. As a friend of mine posted in Facebook, "another day another dollar and still yet im a day late an a dollar short....imagine that" I agree. Talk to you guys later.

Wonder When???

You know, Terry and I were heading to Belton today to look at some things I had seen the other day and we had Paul McCartney and Wings CD in the CD player and both of us were singing our lungs out to Band on the Run and various other songs on the CD. I was just thinking about the pretty day and looking across the countryside at the houses that sit where fields use to be. Terry also commented that 71 highway is changing to an Interstate here pretty quick and told me the name it is going to take but I never can remember. Mainly because it doesn't matter to me that much, just like when Blunt decided to change the name of all those State University's. UCM will always be CMSU and MSU will always be SMS. Hard to get an old dog to change!!! LOL. Anyway we took old 71 Highway home and my eyes were following the old railroad tracks along the side of the highway. The tracks are gone but the mound where they ran is still up. Plus alot of the bridges are still there that the train went across. As we were approaching Pecuilar I thought about a horrific wreck that happened, maybe 19-20 years ago. A young mother and her children, along with a friend was heading to Belton on the old highway and they were killed on the first curve. It was a head on collision, can't remember the details, just that. Someone had put a beautiful memorial at that corner, a homemade billboard with the pictures of the victims and also had flowers, stuffed animals and such there. I was going to see if their memorial was still standing at the curve and I forgot, to busy looking where the train use to run. Anyway I got to thinking, I wonder how old those children would have been along with the mother and friend. Also, have they been forgotten by the community and only remembered by family and close friends.

I go back to Springfield tomorrow to start back to work on Wednesday. I enjoy my time off and love, love, love coming home for the weekends but sometimes I am so ready to get back to a routine. I'm going to up my exercise regime up some. Going to walk 30 minutes this week instead of the 15 I did last week. I felt like I could up it some because I didn't feel I was working myself hard enough. I will also take my shoes to work and walk at lunch time too. Just to get away from the desk. I start getting really stiff and sore when I sit at the computer all day long. Alot of the time I don't even leave my desk for lunch, I work right through and plan not to do that anymore either. I've got to do something different and this is a start.

Terry and I have a wedding to go to Saturday in Springfield. I've been looking for something to wear and think I have figured it out. Terry got his stuff together too. The wedding is for a really good friend of the family and I am looking forward to attending. They are such a nice family and I really enjoy Michael's mom and dad. Brandon considers them his family too because they opened their home to him when he needed them the most and they love him so much too. When Terry and I went over to their house for the Super Bowl with Brandon last year, she told me she had heard so many good things about me from Brandon. LOL. Really nice people.

Trying to make an appointment if I can for this week to get my hair colored and trimmed. I wish it wasn't so dang expensive but oh well. I'll pay to keep me from wacking it up. I use to cut my own bangs until one time I wacked them really bad and my beautician scolded me telling me that it only cost $4 for a bang trim. Needless to say, I never took another pair of scissors to my own hair. I don't color my hair either, God only knows what that would look like.

A friend bought herself a LCD/HD 47" flat screen TV with a Blu Ray DVD recorder for her birthday/Christmas present and it is really nice. I went over to see it and while I was visiting I told her I could spend unlimited money at Nebraska Furniture Mart and Hobby Lobby. LOL. I like those stores.

I just keep hoping my husband wins those lottery tickets that he keeps buying. Powerball and Scratch off's. $208 million or so would be hard to handle now, wouldn't it. Someone said yeah but you'd only get half. Okay??? Think I could still live off of $100 million.

Better sign off. It's getting late and I'm getting ready to go ten toes up!!! Talk to you later.

Welp, it's here!!!

Being the first day of the year, the weather was nice. Not as nice as yesterday, the temps then was 60*, todays temps were in the 40's but the sun was shining and it was a beautiful day to be alive. Of course any day is really a beautiful day to be alive but today was good.

I didn't get up and go to church this morning. My friend and I go together and if one of us don't go the other one doesn't. That's bad because we both enjoy our church so much but it's easier to do when we do it together. I still fixed lunch and Terry cleaned the kitchen for me. I came in and sat down after I finished and told him when he got done I'd clean the kitchen. I was messing on the computer and all of a sudden I realized the dishwasher was running and realized he'd already cleaned my kitchen for me. Pretty nice.

He was watching the football game and I thought I'd lay on the couch, watch the game with him and go downstairs to start organizing some things, plus water the plants. Well two hours later once I woke up from my "nap" I was like, yeah, I don't care about organizing anything!!! Josh then called and came up. I ordered delivery pizza and he ate and then went home. He's pretty tired for someone that only drank water all night last night while jamming with his friends on his guitar. I've had the same thing happen to me. LOL.

Not much happened. I did run out to WalMart to pick up a few things today. I go out there to realize how much I don't like that store but when it is the only store in town, what do you do? There was a sweetheart of a little lady at the checkout counter and I visited with her while I checked out. As I was leaving, there was a sweetie pie of a door greeter lady too. I handed her my cart and she thanked me, wishing me a Happy New Year. Went out to the car and realized I'd left my billfold at the counter. I rushed back in with my sacks and went up to the doorgreeter lady and said, "I left my billfold at the counter, do you want me to leave my sacks with you?" She said, "No dear run, hurry, run get your billfold." I thanked her and the little lady at the counter had my billfold. She goes with relief in her voice, "I was hoping you'd notice before you went home." and the other lady when I showed her I got my billfold she was also relieved. I then realized that no matter how much I can't stand WalMart, there are sweet, sweet little ladies that work there that are thankful to have a job.

My football loving husband is watching the Giants spank the Cowboys. 21-0. Wow. Chiefs won today but Terry informed me it was their last game of the season. They played the Bronco's. I'm not sure if you've watched Saturday night live but last week or so they did a skit making fun of Tebow. We can pray without making a production of it and I believe he needs to cool it a little. One part of the bible said something to the fact of don't make a production of your praying. Can't remember where, the exact wording or anything about it but it is like a little boy told me one time. His Grandma was there and he was talking about starting kindergarten in a public school. He goes they tell us there is no praying in school but I pray all the time, they just don't know it!!!

Wow, I am watching a Ford commercial and they say that the Fusion gets 33 MPG. That's what my Focus gets. They are saying the new Focus' get 40MPG. Double wow. We are going to upgrade my car in a year or so and I am looking already. I do alot of driving in my job and have to have something dependable. I've put 31,000 miles on my car this year, but of course it did go to Memphis this summer too.

Well, with that all said, I'm going to say good night. Talk to you guys later.