Spring is flirting with us

We had tornado watch this week, 67 degrees and I bought some packets of seeds. Of course we are going to have snow and sleet tomorrow. Mother Nature is so fickle.

Well, Robbie's trip to Europe is just around the corner. I will have the house all to myself. I feel spring cleaning coming on and I might even paint the bedroom.

Plans for a Winery tour tomorrow, weather be damned! Then just getting together tomorrow night for the usual suspect night.

Watched a few movies........

Appoloosa--you can never go wrong with Ed Harris IMHO
Zack and Miri do a Porno--pretty funny!
Soul Men--Bernie Mac's last movie, very good
Frank--ummmm yes I watch dorky movies, too
Space Buddies--Disney, yep dorky, but good!
The House Bunny--cute in a dumb blond way
Surfer, Dude!--Matthew McConaughey in a bathing suit the whole movie, can you say...... six pack abs

Thats about all for a Friday night............

:-) Peace

OK, I'm a dork...........

But have I told you recently how happy I am Life on Mars is back.............heeehehehhehheeee

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Happy New Year to all!

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Non Blogger

Yep, it's me the "not been blogging girl". I've been both busy and lazy I guess. We have been playing with our Christmas present to ourselves. I've been watching xmas movies and listening to xmas music. Robbie has been re-watching his sci-fi movies. The sound bar system is great. I have hooked up and tried about 6 antennas with not much more luck. We get a couple of local channels great and thats it. But we are more of movie watchers anyway. TV-wise tho the last Boston Legal ever was great, going to really miss that show!! Movie-wise we watched Fred Claus again (it is that good). Christmas Cottage (10 hanky-but I loved it) Scrooged (Bill Murray is alwasy good for a laugh) The Perfect Holiday (just ok) and of course Christmas Vacation and Home Alone.

We only put up a little 3 foot tree this year, but it is cute. Have big plans for next year because I just got a bunch of new beautiful ornaments yesterday on clearance on our Belleville girls day out trip.

The usual saturday nite suspects are doing something cool this year for Christmas. We are going green by having a White (green) Elephant draw number game. We all bring something we already own (wrapped) and draw numbers to pick gifts (or steal from already opened ones) You can re-gift something, or bring a gag gift, or just something you are tired of. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!!! and it will be lots of fun, and no gift buying stress.

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Everybody been busy?

Guess what, it's going to get worse. Yes, the holiday season is upon us. We had a very nice Thanksgiving dinner in St. Louis at Suzan's house with Robbie's family. And of course now is the countdown to Christmas, which is even shorter because Thanksgiving was late in the month. But we will persevere!

Well, dancing with the stars is over. Derek and Brooke definitely deserved their win. I sure will miss it until the next one starts and I have to keep reminding myself that Boston Legal is on also, So I don't miss out, since it's the last season.

Movie wise, there's been a few since my last report. Nancy and I had a Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants marathon one weekend. The new one was out and we had never seen the first one. They are both cute. Worth watching, definite chick flicks. Here's a list of some more:

Tropic Thunder -- hysterical.
Wall-E -- slow starting, but worth watching, cute and has a message also
Hancock -- entertaining.
Fred Klaus -- I definitely like this one.
Meet Dave -- not the best out of these, but still okay.

Black Friday was different this year, seem like the deals were not as good, but we did need to get a new TV and go digital, and weirdly enough, our DVD player died the week before. So we decided to get a whole system, and luckily, the TV we picked out at Best Buy went on sale online Thanksgiving day so I didn't have to wait in line there. But I did go to eight stores on Black Friday starting at Lowe's at 5 a.m.

We have set up our new TV and DVD player but we haven't received our sound bar audio system yet. Hopefully it will arrive today, so we can complete our setup. We are still not getting all of the local channels, but the fact that I only had one static-y local channel before and now I'm getting several crystal-clear. It is fabulous!!!

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OMG!

Isn't anybody else FREAKING out that we have to wait OVER TWO MONTHS to see more "Life on Mars"

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IKE continued

From this mornings paper:

"AmerenCIPS executive Leigh Morris said in a release Sunday afternoon that 49,000-plus customers experienced outages. By 7:30 p.m., there were 23,655 outages in the state, mostly in Southern Illinois. He expected most would have power restored by midnight tonight, with the exception of Marion and the surrounding area, where power might not be fully restored until Wednesday."

poor poor Sunny, without coffee AGAIN this morning :-(

"Hurricane remnants blamed for three deaths in Midwest"
Sunday, September 14, 2008 10:55 PM CDT

All I'm saying is that Ike was a beast.

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IKE CAME BY

(click on pic for grande)

Ike's remnants hit St. Louis head on, and he only sideswiped us. Gusts up to 60 mph, power outages, downed lines and trees everywhere you look. Debris all over the streets. We know we were very lucky, but still its just amazing to see the mess and I am no stranger to hurricanes (real ones in fact). Hope all are recovering across his path.

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Up, Up and Away.............

Can you tell where we will be tonight? At the Balloon Fest!!!! Southern Illinois Airport in Carbondale. Also at the Balloon Fest tonite is 4 on the Floor ( http://www.robcoaudio.com/ ). The weather today is fantastic, overcast and cool. As long as the wind doesn't kick up tonight it will be a perfect night for balloons. The balloon glow is beautiful. If you have never seen it, you must! They will also be having food and wine (one of my favorites). Music starts at 4:30 Cya there

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Happy Birthday to ME!!

Didn't Happen

So last night I'm taking Robbie out for his birthday celebration. I talk him into going to the Mexican restaurant that supposedly does the big sombrero hat etc....(he wanted to go somewhere else, but I talk him into this). We walk in and I quietly tell the guy that seats us it's Robbie's birthday. I'm not sure the guy understands, but Robbie overhears me and tells the guy in spanish also. So at this point it's obvious the guy understands its Robbie's birthday. He even makes a few funny comments. We sit down and a different guy comes and takes our order. We eat, we drink (definitely my theme lately as the scale showed this morning). We finished eating and drinking and the guy brings the check, and I'm thinking any minute now. I finish my beer, still no celebration, no hat, no clapping and singing. I go to pay the tab, and ask the guy "don't you do any birthday celebrations anymore?". Well, after much excitement, spanish speaking and yelling at the first guy takes place, we still had no celebration, my camera has no pictures of Robbie in a sombrero, and I'm very sad (and ticked off) and we have to wait till next year to try again.
:-( Peace

My friends know me so well!

Busy Weekend

(but nothing compared to the one coming up)
Late Saturday afternoon was a surprise party for Paul's 50th birthday. It went very well, total surprise to Paul. Good food, friends and family all together at Paul and Michelle's sports bar The Cellar.

Then on to my friends Rick and Robb's house for dinner and craft night. The dinner was fantastic (chicken and tortellini in a Gorgonzola cheese sauce) and I taught Robb how to macramé. Missa and Rick worked on a puzzle for their craft which took till 2:30 am to complete, but they did it!

Sunday started with a great lunch at the Giant City Lodge. They have a family style fried chicken dinner with all the trimmings which is great (but even better when topped off with peach and blueberry cobbler, oh bad BJ!) Robbie's parents took the family out to celebrate the August birthdays. Paul, Robbie and me.

Next off to a pool party for a very relaxing afternoon with friends. (and more food! notice a theme here).
I'm afraid to get on the scale this morning, but, a lovely weekend once again. Hope yours was too!
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Getting Old.........

Well, it had to be done. I had to do what anyone turning 52 next week would have to do. GET GLASSES!! Can you read that (teehee) I will be able to next week when the new progressive BIFOCALS come in. Yes, I'm old. I guess I shouldn't complain too much, I'm the last person in my family to get glasses. My Mom, Dad and brother all had to do the glasses routine long ago. Its not that I couldn't see, its just my arms got too short. And I was tired of my eyes being tired. DOH! Anyway, those suckers are not cheap, but I guess necessary. And good lord can they have enough frames to choose from. It took me forever. But its a done deal now and I'm actually "looking" forward to it.
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Laundry Woo Hoo!

When the biggest part of your day is being able to do laundry you might want to rethink things.
But
If your washing machine has been broke for five days. You would get excited like me. The motor went out on my washing machine last Thursday, and of course they had to order it and then there was the weekend. The motor came in yesterday and "washing machine guy" came and installed it late yesterday afternoon. Then there were the small foothills of laundry to go through. Indeed I was very happy to be able to do laundry!

I settled in with another Disney movie, while doing laundry. For some reason I've been on a Disney movie kick lately. Sunday I watched Air Bud. Last night I watched Operation Dumbo Drop and then started Ratatouille. But, fell asleep.
Must've been all that laundry.
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Joining the ranks...............

of billions of bloggers :-)
This will be a small journal of what's up with Robbie and I in Southern Illinois. We live outside of Carbondale with two small dogs. Robbie is self employed and owns his own company (Robco Audio) doing Sound Reinforcement and I work at home for a local computer software company. Robbie is also a musician and in 2 local bands. My hobbies are mainly craft related with some gardening thrown in. Well, that is us in a nut shell.
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