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Weekly Confession

I was watching the hail and thunder and lightning (singular) with the kids this morning instead of getting ready for school; and a little light bulb came on in my head. Yesterday afternoon when I got home from picking up the kids from school I decided to roam the front yard and check on our fruit trees. I put my purse down and looked at the progress of our apricots, plum, pear, apple, etc... but then wound up around back to re-cover the citrus, then went inside through the back door. So this little light bulb, was more of a red, screaming siren. So I rushed outside, and lo and behold, my purse was gone. And it was 7:30 and the kids were still in their jammies.

So the kids magically get ready for school, with no yelling or nagging my me of course, and I grab the spare set of keys and head out to the car. I open my door, and there it is. Worse than it getting stolen, is Kevin (Mr. Organized), finding it on his way to work, then dumping out all of the water (because, seriously, who actually zips up their purse?), and placing it on my seat in the van.

I haven't talked to him yet today, but everyone will be happy to know that I also forgot my cell phone yesterday, so it wasn't ruined in the rain. See? It all works out. Right, Kevin?

Sweet Potatoes

Sweet potatoes are a great food, they keep a long time, loaded with vitamins, and cheap. Like I like my men: old, loaded, and cheap (hahaha)! Anyway.......as an aside--- there are sweet potatoes and yams. All the yams in the markets are really sweet potatoes. The only real yams are the huge gnarly ones grown is Africa. M loves sweet potatoes, and being lazy and stupid, all I ever did was blast them in the microwave..........UNTIL NOW. I have found a way to fix them that is so delicious, I will even eat them. Take one or some sweet pots, peel them and cut them into same size pieces, say about 1", put in pot, almost cover them with broth, simmer until very tender, add some butter and smash them, add a little cream and salt, and viola, a new and great tasting side dish. You're very welcome. Love the lemon cake from Costco. For fun, watch this. Have a great weekend.

I may be 30, but I can still ROCK!!!

SO I've decided to learn to play bass. Well, not exactly. I am actually tone deaf, have NO rhythm, I don't understand, let alone love music, and I have no internal discipline to practice. It hurts my fingers and I feel like a tool. BUT, my bass is very pretty. It shiny bright PERFECT red, with a fuzzy leopard print strap. Very cute. Plus Kevin bought it for me for my birthday, and I don't want to hurt his feelings. So I "practice" with our church's worship team. Because they're willing to humor me.

Long story short, last Wednesday, I was kickin' BUTT. I was good... really good. I could actually hear myself and I could actually feel the rhythm. I sounded great! I was so excited! Except that it turned out I never turned my amp on.

Yeah. That about sums it up.

Why linking out of our blog is stupid by Mary

First of all, short snippets and links that you like should be posted elsewhere. I will help you find a place other than the front page of our communal blog. You should be focusing on riveting diatribes of what makes you tick aka writing more than one sentence - if you could call them that even.

Second, linking out of our blog and jacking up riveting diatribes "below the fold" is rude to the person who can barely get her blog done much less look a stupid pictures. Not that the pictures themselves are stupid but that I HAVE to look at them. This is why I don't respond to emails, I can't stand HAVING to look at things I could give a flying rat's you-know-what about.

Third, linking out of our blog is linking out of our fascinatingly, rich content that everyone wants to read.

Fourth, I am very busy and important and cannot believe I have spent this much time ranting about this new, annoyingly annoying issue.

Lesson: Give me content fast and furious on the page.

try again, nice pics

here are some pics from last week

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here are some nice pics from the NYTimes, enjoy