Fun Flip Flop Swap!

Lyryn over at Breaking Through had this great idea!  It's summertime or close to it and we all wear flip flops!

So she organzied a flip flop swap!  

My partner was Shay over at ~sweet silver linings~

These are the cute flip flops I received.

I love these because of the color, they are a matte silver, and can be worn with anything !

They are super cute, classy and comfortable and from one of my favorite stores Old Navy!

  I wore them out with my husband the same day I received them and can't wait to wear them again!

Thank you, Shay, you did a wonderful job, I love them!!

Monday, Monday

This is my work Monday, yay.  :-P Ok, not so much Yay.

I really wish that I did not have to work, but had the money to stay at home, pay my bills, travel like I'd like to and a little left over for mad money. 

Not happening any time soon, so it's off to work I go.

Here are the hops I'm following today:

For the above hop they have a question of the week:

Question of the Week:  What is your favorite summer treat?
 
My answer: Peach ice cream, homemade is best!

Weekend Hops

I know I haven't done a post in a few days.  It has been a busy and crazy week.  The bathroom is progressing, just subtly now, and hard to tell in a picture what the progress was.  This morning I went to Lowe's to pick up some things needed for the finishing touches in the bathroom, then we ran out to my "Uncle" Paul's to get some more plums for more jelly.  I think I have enough juice for 3 more batches of jelly.  Got home, hit the pool for an hour or so, then came in for some "meditation time" (aka nap).  Then hit the shower and back to town, to the mall for my husband to get him some clothes, BACK to Lowe's for something I forgot this morning, out to eat and then WalMart for a few household items.  WHEW!

Here are the weekend hops I'm participating in:

The Seriously Random Questions Meme, Pt. 1

The Seriously Random Questions Meme, Pt. 1

Welcome back to Sunday Stealing which originated on WTIT: The Blog authored by Bud Weiser.

Today we ripped off a blogger known as blogger and blog named PT-LawMom. I

Sunday Stealing:The Seriously Random Question Meme, Part 1

Cheers to all of us thieves!

1. Your ex's car is on the side of the road, on fire. What do you do?
Wave as I drive on by laughing.

2. Your best friend tells you she is pregnant. What is your reaction?
I would be ecstatic for her, once we both finish crying about being too old to be having babies and starting over!  That would be with Nancy, my BFF.  Then if it were my BFF daughter, Kristen, I would also be ecstatic, and hope that she does not find the Doc that tied her tubes, cause she is gonna get him!

3. When is the last time you wanted to punch someone in the face?
Friday, it happened twice, once punch someone in the face, and once reach through the phone lines and pinch their little head off.

4. What is the last thing you spent money on?
Dinner, Teryaki steak and shrimp and sushi at a Japanese Steak House!

5. Do you think you gained or lost weight this past month?
I've stayed the same.

6. Crunchy or Puffy Cheetos?
Crunchy

7. The first person on your friends list just called you a bitch. What do you do?
Which friends list?

8. Congratulations! You just had a son. What’s his name?
John Clayton

9. Congratulations! You just had a daughter. What’s her name?
Rebecca Leigh

10. What are you craving right now?
Nothing

11. What was the last thing you cried about?
My Daddy being gone, it hits me at odd times and out of the blue I'll tear up.

12. When you buy something and your change is 2 cents, do you keep it or tell the cashier to keep it?
If there is one of those cups for other people who may need a few cents I'll leave it in that.

13. What color is your tissue box?
Well, it's a porcelain blue and white tissue box cover.  The actual tissue box, I have no idea.

14. Do you have a ceiling fan in your bedroom, and if so, is there dust on that fan?
Yes, I have a ceiling fan in my bedroom and no, there is not dust on it because my wonderful husband just cleaned it off.

15. What was the last voicemail you received about?
It was from my Mom to call her back so that we could arrange to have lunch together last weekend.

16. Have you ever blocked someone on Facebook?
Yes.

17. Scariest thing you’ve experienced in the last year?
Probably climbing up that inflatable water slide in Cozumel, well not the climbing up, the sliding down.  That thing was high!

18. Do you wear a name tag at work?
Yes.

19. What kind of car do you want?
Camaro, yellow with black stripe.

20. What do you order when you go to Burger King?
Double cheeseburger or whopper, onion rings and a drink.
Thank you for playing this week on Sunday Stealing!

Tuesday Hops and Progress on the Bathroom

So I'm a little late posting and joining hops for Tuesday, but better late than never as the saying goes.  Have had a busy day, did some more jelly today that actually jelled.  The 10 jars I did Sunday evening did not jell and I'm aggravated with myself for not reading the instructions carefully enough.  I got 17 jars done today, and hopefully will be able to get some more plums this weekend for more.  I don't just hoard my jelly though, I share with friends and family.

Here is the progress on the bathroom from the last two days.  I went to Jacksonville, FL to pick up our     "adopted" daughter, Ashley,  that will be staying with us for a bit while her husband, our "adopted" son, Stephen wraps up his Air Force career in Minot, ND.  We got home last night and this was done....

Charles, who is our renovator, is working on a project during the day for our school board, and he comes here after a full day of work, and works another couple of hours.  This next picture is of the ceiling that is no longer a popcorn ceiling.  Eventually, we will get rid of all the popcorn ceilings in the house.  Baby steps.

Then this was the progress today.

When a project is in your mind and you are choosing colors, fixtures, cabinetry and tile you have an idea of how you hope it will mesh together and look.  So far, I've been very pleased with our choices.  See the board under the shower?  We were thinking of placing the same glass tiles that are above the shower, but now I don't know if I would not prefer the 4" tiles that match the floor tiles.  What do y'all think?

On to hops....these are where I've linked up today.

Monday, Monday....and Monday hops

Ok, I won't go any further with those lyrics....
Usually I love Mondays, but not so much today.  Actually it started yesterday with the AC going on the fritz.  This always happens when my hubby is not home.  Last time I suffered for a couple of days in the heat, he comes home, spends one night sweltering and we go buy a window unit to augment the central AC.  Unfortunately our bedroom is not habitable right now, due to the bathroom renovation that is going on.

See all that dust on the floor?  It's all over the bedroom too!  It actually looks a little better at this moment as you can see below, there has been some progress towards putting it back together.

So that is going on, then I have more plum juice to make jelly with, which creates heat in the kitchen.
But isn't it pretty?  I did this last night around 10pm when the temp in the house got somewhat bearable again.

Started out like this:

Then you boil them to make the juice:

Then you can make the jelly that turns out all pretty like this:

The sad thing is, I was so hot and flustered, and had a massive heat headache, that I did not follow the directions exactly, so I'm not sure that it is going to jell.  Good thing I have more juice so I can do another cooking after I run to get some more jars and sure jell. At least there are more plums where those came from.
Right now the AC guy is here and hopefully the house will cool off soon, if he can fix it.  My fear is that we will end up needing a new central air unit, which will cost $$ and we are in the middle of the bathroom redo.  Yay, just found out it was a simple fix and cheaper than a new unit by thousands!  Whew!  Now to run to town and get what I need for jelly making!
Here are the Monday hops I'm linking to and I am featured as the Hot Blog of the Week on the Follow Us Monday Morning hop Hosted by Frugality is Free  and  Being Frugal and Making It Work  Thanks so much ladies!

I do not usually leave the first paragraph of Sunday Stealing, but this week feel like it's needed.

I do not usually leave the first paragraph of Sunday Stealing, but this week feel like it's needed.

The Team Jeffie Meme

Please read: We have a bit of a twist to Sunday Stealing this week. We steal from blogs living or dead. It doesn't matter to us. But the meme we stumbled across this week was the last post the man, Jeff, ever posted. It had a preamble from his wife, Amy. She explained he was in a terrible accident and directed people to her Team Jeffie website. We did a bit of searching. What happened to Jeff? We thought before we just go ahead and publish. But that did not seem right. Instead, we decided to find out if Jeff was okay and if his wife minded our theft. We wrote to his wife, Amy asking that question. Amy first wrote:

Bud-


If you point to anything, please point to the Team Jeffie page here on Facebook (facebook.com/teamjeffie) -- if you flip back through the entries from the past six months, you'll begin to get a sense of how horrific these months have been. Especially for the months of December and January, when our only goals were 'survival' and 'eventual consciousness.'


Prior to his accident, Jeff was an extraordinarily gifted engineer. In the past six months, he has relearned to breathe, to talk, to feed himself, to walk. We have learned, much to our astonishment, that if he perseveres with his therapy, there is a good chance that he might resume his engineering work -- not now, not soon, but eventually.


Imagine a man who loves audio work so much that he was back mixing live performances when he still needed a walker, and still struggled to speak clearly all the time. (I should note that his skills survived the accident. It was amazing to see.)


Jeff, his family, his friends, and I have been through a lot. We are very real people going through a horrific life event, and we need genuine support and care, not curious onlookers.


We were extraordinarily introverted before the accident, and the months since have been doubly traumatic -- not only are we going through this, we're having to go through it with zero privacy.


Whatever you say ... please be kind. That's all I can ask.

We wrote her back to say that her words would introduce our meme. Today, please click on her Team Jeffie website. Just say “hi” and wish him well. We're hoping that those of you with the time could also help our new friends Amy and Jeffie. Let them know they've got new friends that care. We hope we've been kind. God bless them. God bless you, our friends!

Bud Weiser

Welcome back to Sunday Stealing which originated on WTIT: The Blog authored by Bud Weiser. Here we will steal all types of memes from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent memes. You may have heard of the expression, “honor amongst thieves”. In that age-old tradition, we also have our rules. First, we always credit the blog that we stole it from and we will “fess up” to the blog owner where we stole the meme. We also provide a link to the victim's post. (It's our way of saying "Thanks!") We do sometimes edit the original meme, usually to make it more relevant to our global players, to challenge our players, sometimes to select that meme's best questions, or simply to make it less repetitive from either this new meme or recently asked questions from a prior featured meme. Let's go!!!


Today we ripped off a blogger named Jeff from the blog Sliding Constant. But, it was probably stolen there as well. So, of course, that will be as far as we go. Tracing back our theft's thieves might take some time. Link back to us at Sunday Stealing!

Sunday Stealing: The Team Jeffie Meme

Cheers to all of us thieves!





TRUE OR FALSE

Q: Kissed someone on your friends list?
Yes

Q: Been arrested?
No

Q: Held a snake?
Yes

Q: Been suspended from school?
No

Q: Sang karaoke?
Does recording one of those self CD's count, but no not karaoke.

Q: Done something you told yourself you wouldn't do?
Yes.

Q: Laughed until you started crying?
Yes

Q: Caught a snowflake on your tongue?
Yes

Q: Kissed in the rain?
Yes

Q: Sang in the shower?
Yes
Q: Sat on a roof top?
No

Q: Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on?
Yes

Q: Broken a bone?
No

Q: Shaved your head?
No

Q: Played a prank on someone?
Haha, yes.

Q: Shot a gun?
Yes

Q: Donated Blood?

No, because they will not accept my blood, due to the time spent in Germany in the 80's.  Something about Mad Cow disease, but I'd have thunk it would show up by now!

LAST PERSON...

1. You hung out with? My husband, Kenneth.

2. You texted? My daughter, Kristen.

3. You were in a car with? Kenneth

4. Went to the movies with? Kenneth

5. Person you went to shop with? Kenneth

6. You talked on the phone? Kristen

7. Made you laugh? Kenneth

8. You hugged? Kenneth

IN THE LAST 48 HOURS HAVE YOU...

1. Sang? Yes

2. Listened to music? Yes

3. Danced Crazy? No

4. Cried? Teared up...

FIRSTS .....

1.Who was your first prom (or homecoming) date? Glynn

2. Who was your first roommate? Karen

3. What alcoholic beverage did you drink when you got drunk the first time? Probably Southern Comfort

4. What was your first job? Cashier at T.G.&Y.

5. What was your first car? Karmann Ghia

6. When did you go to your first funeral and viewing?
Probably around 10 or 11 years old.

7. Who was your first grade teacher? I didn't have a first grade teacher, I went straight from kindergarten to second grade.

8. Where did you go on your first ride on an airplane?
Hawaii

9. When you snuck out of your house for the first time? You obviously have never met my parents, I never snuck out.

10. Who was your first best friend?

When?  In early elementary it was Jeffery Stewart, until he was killed in front of my house by a bus. We thank goodness were not home at the time. 

11. Who was your first Best Friend in high school? Daisy, Donna, Sandra

12. Where was your first sleepover? Daisy's

13. Who is the first person you call when you have a bad day? Kenneth or Kristen

14. Who's wedding were you in the first time you were a Bridesmaid or groomsman? Karen's

15. What is the first thing you did when you got up this morning? Peed

16. First time you tied your shoe laces? Seriously, you expect me to remember that?

17. Are you Facebook friends with your first crush? No

18. Who was the first person you met from the blogosphere? Like in real life?  No one.

19. What was the first music album that you bought? Probably The Eagles Greatest Hits or a Rolling Stones album

20. Who was your first celebrity crush? David Cassidy  NOW that is telling my age....

Thank you for playing this week on Sunday Stealing! Please leave a comment or link when you have posted.