CAUTION: Woman In Progress

Cat-FISH, that is. So I had an awesome Easter weekend. The library was closed for Good Friday, so, hello three day weekend! I slept in Friday morning, cooked a nice omelet for breakfast, took my time drinking a nice big hot cup of coffee and snuggled that fluffy devilish pup of mine. It was so nice. Sis1 rolled into town around 10 and she, Mama and I spent the day together window shopping and hanging out. We ate bbq at Sis1's favorite place and got frappacino's at Starbucks and went into every little boutique on Main Street. We went antiquing and I spent my birthday money on a set of vintage glass bowls and fell in love with a coffee table that had an antique trunk lid for the top. I walked away from it though, because, hello...$50, but it hurt to leave it at the store. Like, physically hurt. But, you know, responsibilities and all that. Off topic: I'm currently in the midst of putting up every penny I can in hopes of saving enough money for a new roof next year. Actual...

Because I'm not normal.haha   Unauthorized selfie with family. haha We cleaned that business OUT. #FullBellehs Not sure what the look on Mama's face is for but I loved how chill Libs was among all the noise of the kids. I think the kids were more excited about the presents than Bobo was. lol And of course Libs eventually put Nana to work. #BellehRubs The boy and his helicopter This shameless begging, tho. I got him a camo steering wheel cover to trick out his new-to-him truck...and also match the floor mats he bought. I think I was more excited about it than he was. Do you know how hard it is to shop for an almost 61-year-old man who pretty much has all the little stuff he wants and nobody can afford all the big things he likes? lol So Fadda's Dae (I can't help it.) was good. The food all turned out just as yummy as I hoped it would. So yummy, in fact, that we all pretty much ate ourselves under the tab...

I didn't catch a darn thing but the kids caught about four or five each and Goofus caught three. We all had a blast, though.  Efan and his dad simultaneously caught bass. Most excitement of the day. Mostly because Efan was  holding his dad's rod and reel for him with Goofus was fixing something on Efan's when Efan yelled out, "You got one, Daddy!" and started trying to hand Goofus the rod. Goofus cast Efan's rod, they switched places and immediately Efan yelled, "I got one!" and they reeled them in at the same time. After that we all wanted Efan to touch or rod and reel. ;-) Lyssa had started to despair of ever catching a fish. Efan had already caught about four and she hadn't caught any.  This one was the first of four or five for her. (We lost count.) Bobo was always and forever having to untangle a line, bait a hook or help show how to cast. Needless to say, he didn't get much of his own fishing done.   The three...

Saturday was not my typical shopping and Sonic and home all day routine. Sis2 and I had planned to take the girl to see Cinderella but the kids wanted me to come play first. So I went to play.   The girl did my hair up with a purple braid to match my shirt. She, as you can see, wore pink.     The boy told me I needed to get my brain going. Touché, sweet boy. Touché.   But we had fun.     The girl enjoyed Cinderella, I think. But her FAVORITE part...the part she couldn't stop talking about...was the Frozen Fever short that preceded Cinderella.  It was a pretty cute short. Gives me hope that the sequel they've announced won't suck, as sequels are known to do.   We also treated the girl to a happy meal because she wanted the Barbie toy. Girl after my own heart, she is. But we also had fun playing with the light up table they installed when they remodled. It doesn't take much to amuse us, apparently.   ...

The DP is considering running for president of the world. I figure she'd do as good a job as anyone, especially since she doesn't take any crap offa anyone, can spell "home" and would rather play, eat and sleep than deal with people. Like most politicians. But without all the lying. Would I lie to you? We're still working on her foreign policies (she wants to ban China from all foreign trade because they poison dog treats...I keep telling her not to pick a fight with the Chinese) but she  has  already decided on her platform. "I, Libby Lu Hill, make this promise to my people...I will completely overhaul the Milkbone program. Milkbones will be made available to pups from all economic statuses. There will be no pups left behind." I'm sure the world will be thrilled. Besides, who wouldn't vote for this face? I will chew your face off if you don't vote for me. She thought briefly of asking Milo to run along with her as Vice-Pr...

You know, just about everyone I've talked to since Christmas has said the same thing I did: This Christmas sucked! So glad it wasn't just me. Not that I'm happy anyone else had a sucky Christmas. Just, you know what I mean. It must have just been something in the air. Because I wasn't really feeling the Christmas vibe even BEFORE that disastrous day. The evidence of that is laid bare in the fact that I didn't take a gazillion photographs of Christmasy things. I've been known to fill whole albums with just Christmas photos. This year? Not so much. But there were a few... The Sunday Before Christmas Day After all the gifts were wrapped...alarmingly close to Christmas Day. I should have known I'd be needing a few more of those Seagram's to Jamaican'me Happy.   The Bama Crew passed out after they got here Christmas Eve. Libby wasn't really feeling Christmas this year, either! Emmy was into it, tho. You have no idea how ...