It's Friday Questions Time!

Questions are found at My Little Life if you'd like to join in.
I lost .6 at WW this past week.  I'm on steroids for the inflammation in my arm (tennis elbow) so I feel like I could eat the house.  By this time at night my stomach is totally not feeling good too.  Add tonight a killer headache and stress beyond words....yeah...not fun times!  So if you can have some FUN with these questions, please do and let me know so I can check out your answers.  :-)

1. Who mows your grass?  Hubby.  I was one of 4 girls growing up so we had to cut grass so when I got married and then had a son...yeah, my mowing grass days are over.

2. Do you have a picture wall or picture gallery in your house (show us! <--- my addition to the question)?

I have 2 corners or portions of walls...one in living room and one in dining room where I've made my picture walls.  Mostly pictures of my beautiful granddaughter.  :-)

3. What book has influenced your thinking the most? Or, what blog? (I want to read what gets people thinking!)

I read books not for deep thought but just to be entertained.  So I can't say a book other than the Bible that has influenced my thinking.  I read a ton of blogs which quite a few are documented on the sidebar of my blog.  I particularly love reading Shelli's blog...she's one of the women who started the Stampin' Up! business and she's so down to earth.  I enjoy Pioneer Woman as of late too.  She has quite a variety in her writings and entries.  I also have many talented friends in the PSP world of which I no longer participate.

4. Do you have allergies? If so, how do you handle it this time of year?  Yes, I have allergies but don't ask to what since I've never been tested.  I do take medicine year round though to keep them under control since times like now where the weather is crazy warm and then cold play total havoc on me.  I'm battling that massive headache now partly because I went for a walk earlier.  UGH

5. What's your go to meal to cook in an hurry?  Pizza!  LOL  If it has to be of some substance it would be the WW pizza type dish I make and we love.  In fact, we're having it for dinner tomorrow.

Have a great week!

5QF

1. Would you prefer having people over for dinner or going to their house?  If my house is clean, then I'd love having them here.  I like to cook so that's no big deal either.  But getting the house clean....yeah...that's the problem.  I hate dusting!  hate it!

2. Favorite Bible verse and why?  (Copied and pasted this...wish I knew it all by heart but I don't)  1 Corinthians 13:4-8  Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.  Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.


3. What was the first concert you ever attended, and the most recent one?  It was one hubby and I went to together but for the life of me I can't think of what it was.  The most recent one was Toby Keith last summer.  I won the tickets off Facebook.  Yay!  AWESOME concert as always :-)

4. The year is 2025. What are you doing, and what have you done?  I've retired and am enjoying life.  I have time to make cards and scrapbook and read.  I also am watching my beautiful granddaughter, Emma, growing up so fast.  Possibly helping watch one of her siblings.  I'd have time to do this since I'm retired.  :-)

5. What's your favorite Easter treat?  Hands down....Reese's peanut butter eggs!  Oh how I love those.  They just melt in your mouth.  


Happy Easter to all. Gained point 6 this past week so I'll need to be a bit more careful this weekend which isn't going to be easy.  I haven't felt real good the last 2 days though so we'll see.


Head over to My Little Life for these fun questions and so you can join in too!

Saturday Musings

From My Little Life you can find these fun questions.  Feel free to jump in and join!

1. What giveaway would you like to do on your blog? Well, if I had hit the Mega Millions last night I'd be inclined to go big but since I didn't....well, can't afford to do giveaways right now.  Sorry.

2. If you had to choose between natural artistic ability and natural athletic ability, which would it be?

I'd choose artistic ability since I have NONE.  I struggle with stick figures!  No lie.  Ask my friends who I play Draw Something with!  lol

3. Do you ditch the coat the minute it becomes "spring" or are you a holdout for more cool temps?

This year I ditched it immediately.  I hate wearing a winter coat let alone mine was tight this year and I hated wearing it so I wore a lighter jacket most of the winter.  Thank goodness it was a mild one. 

4. What would you do if you won the mega millions lotto of 1/2 billion dollars?  Pay off my bills.  Buy land and build my dream house (a must would be a wrap around porch!) with a house for Zach, Amy and Emma also on the land.  I'd have given my nieces and nephews stipends and bought a vacation home.  I'd also give to the church and help out my siblings.  OH....and I'd quit work so I could be a stay at home grandma :-)

5. You are at a hotel by yourself...what do you do?  Turn the tv to any channel I want and lay in bed relaxing!

Good week on WW....lost 1.4 so let's hope we can keep it going.  

5QF

1. If you were free to just hop in the car and drive, where would you go? Or, if you could hop a plane and go anywhere, where?  I would travel across the United States stopping at every place I have only dreamed of seeing.  If I could get in a plane, I would go to Hawaii since I can't drive there. 

2. What's your most recently read favorite book?  I haven't read a book in too long.  Until I get some quiet time for me lately it's late and I'm too tired to read more than a post on Facebook.

3. What's your favorite Spring Break memory?  We've never had spring break here in PA so I don't have one.  In college, when we had Spring Break it meant coming home so I could work and earn some money to get me through the end of school.

4. What do you put in your child's Easter basket? Or, for those w/o kids, what was put in your childhood basket?  Candy and ALWAYS a cross!  I put all different kinds of candy, gum, beef jerky...it's not limited to just chocolate.  Then I always buy a summer outfit and I used to get Zach toys too when he was little.  Now Emma makes out that way :-)

5. Do you get a summer haircut?  I get my hair shorter than normal because with it being summer, I hate being hot and having sweaty hair on my neck.  I also hate messing with it now that we have a pool.

I lost 2.6 this week at WW so I was quite happy.  I walked 3 days.  We're having the most gorgeous weather and you can't help but want to be outside enjoying it.  My house is a mess but they are calling for rain on Sat. so that looks like it will be cleaning day.  I walked last night but not tonight even though I really wanted to.  But it was more important to me to just be outside playing with Emma instead.  Her giggle when I push her on the swing brings a huge smile to my face every time!

Enjoy the week and the fun questions can be found over at My Little Life.

Questions for Friday

1. Will you run to the store or to pick up a kid looking a mess? Well, I don't have to run to pick up a kid anymore since he drives himself and doesn't live here.  hehe  I have been known to run to the store looking a mess.  HOWEVER, I rarely go to the store.  I send hubby.  Takes care of having to go when a mess!  hahahaha

2. Do you finish a book if it's boring or you don't like it?  No, if it's boring I end up putting it down and not picking it back up.  (Before the days of my Kindle)

3. Beach or mountain vacations?  Most definitely BEACH!!!!!  It rejuvenates my soul!  No vacation for 2 years....I'm worried about the hit it's going to take on my soul.  Today I saw an ad that said "The Beach is Calling You"....that is me!

4. What thing/event says "winter will end and spring is right around the corner" to you?  When it starts staying light longer in the day....so after daylight savings.  With the mild winter we've had I'm still ready to put that all behind us and just enjoy the beautiful 70 degree days we've been having.  Just simply gorgeous!  Love watching all the green coming back into the trees and grass too on my drive to work.

5. Would you prefer couples or family vacation?  Family for sure.  I'm all about family.  I love spending time with them although every year we take my son I swear it's the last time I'm taking him because he's such a pain in the butt.  But I've loved the last few years when my sister and her family from Indy were at the beach when we were and we got to spend time with them and then my sister and her hubby from NC come down and spend at least 1 evening with us.  LOVE LOVE LOVE it!

So join in the fun and head over to My Little Life for the questions and to post a link to your own blog for others to come see your answers.

Stayed the same at WW.  Feet were swollen so was just glad I hadn't gone up.  Now it's time for bed.  Had a super fun night at hubby's Lion's club charter night.  We had a magician perform and he was just fabulous.  I laughed so hard at one point I thought I might pee my pants.  Now THAT is funny stuff!

5QF

Have some fun and take a jaunt over to My Little Life for the questions so you can play along.  :-)

1. Are you looking forward to the time change this weekend?  I had forgotten all about it.  We have a special service at church on Sunday and it's an hour earlier than usual since our Bishop will be coming to celebrate our 125th anniversary.  So I'm not looking forward to the time change since we will lose sleep.

2. Are you getting the new iPad/would you want a iPad?  Ummm...I have an iPad (don't tell Mama) and I'm very happy with it so don't need the new one  :-)

3. If money was not a problem, what is the one thing you would splurge on? A huge wedding for the kids so we'd have everything to make their day special and then some.  Instead we'll be saving, saving, saving! 

4. How did you and the Mr. (or Mrs.) meet? We met through one of my best friends at a local carnival.  Both of my best friends were there and he was with his friends.  They were drinking and I kept telling him he'd never remember my number to call the next day....but he did.

5. Summer is right around the corner. Bikini or one-piece? Absolutely NO to bikini.  I will do a tankini if I can get this weight off.  UGH!  I lost 1.4 this past week but it's very slow going.  *sigh*  Patience IS a virtue!

Friday Again

Over at My Little Life you can find these FUN questions to answer and also link to a lot of other FUN blogs.  Feel free to join in.  :-)

1. What's your favorite way to spend down time (alone or with a significant other)?  By myself, I like to web surf and spend time on the internet or watch tv or read.  With hubby, we go out to dinner but it's a very rare occasion that it's just the 2 of us.

2. Are you the kind of person that wants things more as soon as you know you can't have it?

I can be patient and wait but I will continue to drop hints about whatever it is until I do get it.  Some hints he's good at taking....others not so much!  lol

3. If you were given $1000 to spend on yourself, what would you buy?  Stamp stuff probably although I can usually get what I want when I want so it's not a huge problem.  However, with the wedding next year we are trying to find new ways to save money.

4. Do you ever go out to eat by yourself?  NO!  I don't want to sit there by myself.  I'd go through drive thru if anything but usually I will just cook some eggs. 

5. What company would you want to do a blog review for?  WOW!  I really have no idea.  One that paid would be nice.  hehehe

Wasn't a good week for WW.  I gained a pound. My scale said I did good over the weekend and I stayed on plan totally so I was quite surprised when she said I'd gained a pound.  VERY frustrating!  I will be leaving here in about an hour to head for an overnight to attend a Stampin' Up! regional conference in Columbus with Kim and Linda.  Kim and I already talked about our food and how we don't want to totally blow it while we're gone.  Sshhh but I packed up some healthy snacks for all of us.  I hope to finally meet Shelli who started Stampin' Up! with her sisters.  She wasn't in Baltimore when I went 2 years ago (is that how long ago??) so I'm hoping to meet her in Columbus.  :-)  I'm not taking any swaps so I should have some time to look around and get pictures.  

Please say a prayer for our travels.  They are calling for snow and high winds tonight and I'm hoping we get settled in with no problems.  I'll try to be back soon to share some pictures.  Have an awesome weekend!

5 for Friday

In case you haven't noticed, I'm enjoying these 5 questions each week.  Thanks to Mama over at My Little Life and her readers for all the fun.  Feel free to hop over and join in and link up with some other blogs.  :)

1. What do you do when you are really upset to calm yourself down?  Go off by myself...listen to some music.  I used to just get in the car and drive but I don't do that anymore.

2. Do you go all out for V-day or is it just another day?  Just another day.  I got tired of going out to a dinner that was overpriced and having horrible service.  The last time it happened I said that was it and we don't go out anymore.  Hubby always gets me roses and that is just fine with me.

3. Are you more or less productive when Hubs is away?  More productive because I can go at my own pace and not get mad because he's not helping or in my way.  He's going away this weekend so we'll see what I accomplish.

4. What is your favorite time of day and why?  I've always enjoyed late at night.  It's quiet and it was always MY time.  I'm definitely NOT a morning person.

5. What is your go to karaoke song?  I don't have one.  You couldn't pay me to go in front of people and sing even if I was drunk as a skunk (which isn't happening.)  I enjoy listening to others but no thanks for myself.

Lost point 8 this week at WW.  I'm super discouraged but keeping the faith and plugging away.  This time around is so much harder than before.

Weekend Questions

1. How often do you shave your legs in the winter?  Whenever I get the urge.  Not so often that should read.  I used to do better about it...this year I just don't seem to care.

2. Valentine's Day cards for your spouse: funny or romantic?  Funny.  I'm not a real mushy type person

3. What are you most looking forward to about spring?  Warm weather!!!  I hate the cold.  I've seen enough snow (even though it has hardly snowed this winter) and I just want it to be warm so I can go outside and go for a walk.

4. What's your favorite way to pamper yourself?  I don't do this...well, I guess getting my hair done now with Lisa coloring it instead of doing it myself is a pampering.  I love the highlights she puts in.  I'm trying to let it grow a bit for the wedding next year because I have no idea what I'll do with it but I'm definitely having growing pains.

5. Does your tax return go into savings or do you spend it instantly?  Savings.  Usually for vacation but this year it will go in savings for the wedding.

So my 1st week at WW I got on my scale that morning and was totally disgusted because it said I'd only lost like .2 and I was like what the heck!  I'm tracking (using my phone) and following the plan completely with my food points.  OK so I don't exercise but that's nothing new.  Anyhow, got to WW meeting and weighed in and lost 1.4.  Better than I thought but rather disappointing since I was just back to doing it.  However, I guess I need to remember that although it was my first official week, I had been counting points since the beginning of Jan. and my first week I'd lost 5 pounds.  It's hard work and I just want the excess weight to be gone and need to realize it didn't come overnight so it can't be gone overnight.  

Hope you're having a good weekend and here's the link if you'd like to go get the questions above to play along.  My Little Life

My Answers for 5Q

Head over to My Little Life and grab the questions below so you can join in the FUN!!!

1. Do you swim in the winter?  No, no, NO.  The winter cover is on and it's WAY too cold here in PA to even consider swimming in the winter.  OK, enough being silly but NO, I don't because our high school pool is cold when you get in and are in and I've tried but just don't have time anymore.

2. Do you love or hate winter?  HATE HATE HATE.....and Yes, I know I shouldn't hate but I detest winter.  OK, the snow is pretty....the first time.  Then I'm done.  I don't need to see it again.  See it hasn't learned to stay off the roads when it has snowed so I can live without it.  But my family is here and I won't ever live away from them so I'm stuck.  Thankfully this has been a very mild winter...so far!

3. Do you put makeup/actual clothes on when you know you're going to be home all day with just family?  I have days when I don't do makeup and then I catch a glimpse of myself and I scare myself so lately I've been trying to put at least some on every day.  I LOVE days spent in pi's however I don't think I've had one where I'm in them all day since before Emma was born.  But leggings and a big t-shirt are on my body if I'm home all day.

4. How old were you when you had your first alcoholic beverage?  I was in high school.  I learned to drink and be responsible and while others wouldn't agree with how I learned that I know it worked.  I do not drink and drive and never did.  I won't go into any more detail though...some things should be kept private.

5. How many ill calls in a 12 month period do you think are acceptable?  Well, in my school year I'm permitted 10 sick days and 3 personal days.  I try not using them all but ever since I was pregnant so many years ago, I've not been able to build my days back up.

Friday in a Different Place

1. What's the the last thing you bought for yourself?  A sweater at Kohl's only because I had Kohl's cash to spend and couldn't find anything for Emma that was springlike since she has enough winter clothes.  I haven't been buying myself anything since I'm not happy at what size I am now.  

2. What is your favourite meal on a cold winter day? Anything hot.  We had Chili the other day and it wasn't particularly cold yet and it hit the spot.  Today it's really cold and we had pork chops and well it didn't hit the spot as much.    Ever get stuck on what to cook?

3. Have you started looking at swimsuits for this year, and do you buy a new one every year?  Heck no for looking at them.  I can't imagine this body in a swimsuit!  I've really put the bulk of my weight on since summer so none of my suits will fit if I don't get this weight off.  I lost 5 pounds this past week though with going back to eating as I should on the WW way.  It's a start.  :-)

4. If you could be any candy what would you be and why?  Oh wow!  Candy....when I just ate pork chops that didn't hit the spot and I'm doing WW and not eating candy.  Maybe it would be best I not dwell on this one too long.  Candy..mmmmm

5. What are you most passionate about?  My family!  There's a lot of things I can tolerate in life but do not wrong someone I love.  


**Bonus Question: What is your favorite thing to "pin" on Pinterest?
I absolutely LOVE pinning lots of things but my favorites are Weight Watcher recipes and Stampin'Up! cards.  It's SUCH a cool space.  If you need an invite just leave me a message with your email and I'll be glad to send you one.


OK.....Friday questions are being hosted in a "guest" spot over at Kate's World.  Mama and her hubby are off on a beach in Mexico somewhere so Kate stepped in to help out.  Very nice of her huh.  So go on over and grab the questions and play along.  It's really easy.  :-)

5QF

1. What is the weather like where you are and do you like it? This week we've had some snow and it's been very cold and I do not only NOT like it...I HATE IT!  Bring on the sun and 70's.  One bad thing about living in PA....I think I read we have a total of only 53 sunny days in an entire year.  uggghhh

2. When you're sick what do you seek comfort from?  My blanket. I just want to lay on the couch or in bed and be left alone.  My hubby is good most of the time about letting me alone and making me scrambled eggs if I ask (they are my comfort food when sick.)

3. What do you need to do before the end of the month?  Buy birthday cards and present.   Hubby, my granddaughter, my Dad....all 2 days apart.  YIKES!

4. Have you ever served on a jury?  Yes, last year I did.  A criminal case.  Was extremely stressful time.  It last a week and I had a VERY hard time after it was over fearing for my safety even here at home even though the defendants live on the other side of the county.  I wasn't sleeping well or doing well with being home alone.

5. If you could be any animal, what would you be and why?  My favorite is a penguin but I'm not sure I'd want to be one.  I also love elephants but don't think I'd want to be one of them so probably I'd want to be one of those ultra spoiled dogs that people have and treat better than they do humans.

Well, that was fun for this week.  Head on over to My Little Life and grab the questions and put your link on her linky to have some fun of your own.  

Back to eating the WW way and not the junk anything you want way.  It's only 3 days into it at this point, but I'm giving it my all and I've made up my mind I need to change.  I HATE HATE HATE being fat again!

Have an awesome week!  Stop back again soon. :-)

Happy New Year 2012

Happy New Year 2012 to you and your families.  May it be one of good health, happiness and prosperity.

Today I've come to some "resolutions" of things I want to make happen for myself.  Jumping on the scale and seeing I'd be way off saying I'd put on 50 pounds when it's more like 75.  That was a hard hit!  I worked SO hard at being successful at Weight Watchers and I've really fallen off track the past 6 months.  Yes, the majority of that I put on in 6 months.  I've had virtually no exercise.  No walking, no gym, no nothing.  So that's all got to change in this new year.  For ME.  I'm very unhappy with how I look and feel having put this weight on.  It's one thing to be fat and just that be how you've been but when you know how it feels to be thinner and to look good....well, this now is just not cutting it.  So I'll be working to make some major changes again.  I'll also be going back to WW meetings.  I KNOW how important they are but I lost making them a priority in my life.

I also look at books longingly and want to spend more time reading, more time stamping and just reclaiming those things that give me joy.

So wish me well.  It's not an easy journey but I hope to climb the mountain and stay at the top this time.

Actual Friday Questions on Friday

1. What's the oldest piece of clothing in your closet?  Well, it's not in my main closet but it is in a closet in our now spare room.....my band jacket from when I was in high school.  We got them at the beginning of our senior year and even though it might be 70 degrees we put those heavy jackets on and wore them for the rest of the year.  I can't bare to throw it out because it has so many good memories attached to it.

2. How many random blog readers have you met? One...when I met Betty at a Stampin' Up! regional.  I honestly most of the time feel no one reads my blog anyway.  Now that I'm off WW, I'm sure she doesn't either.

3. Do you let your kids stay up till midnight on New Years Eve? (Or, if you don't have kiddos yet, did you get to stay up until midnight as a child?)

Yes, I always allowed my son to stay up.  We used to celebrate with my one sister and her family and would be playing card games as the kids played so they stayed up.  Then for the last I don't know how many years we've gone to my youngest sisters and the kids always stay up.  One night doesn't hurt them.

4. What are the gas prices where you live?  I think I saw $3.29 when I was out yesterday.  Since hubby fueled up my car before Christmas and I'm no where close to needing any though I didn't pay close attention.

5. What is one resolution that you know you should do but are too afraid to 

try?  Cleaning out my house of all the excess "junk" and it's not that I'm afraid it's that it's overwhelming and I don't know where to start.  My actual resolution is to get back on WW and lose this 50 pounds I've gained so I feel better about myself again.  Here's to the new year!

Happy New Year!  Jump over to My Little Life for the questions above and to link into some cool other blogs.

Friday's questions

1. What's the best Christmas present you've ever received?  The year my husband gave me diamond earrings before we were married.  The reason was more that he was so romantic and hid them in a jewelry cleaner box.  He's never been one much for romance so it's always been one of my favorites.

2. Worst/Funniest White Elephant gift ever received?  I've never been part of a White Elephant thing and I'm not even really sure I know what it is.  I DO know though that last year after I'd been at goal weight the girl who had me in gift exchange went to the thrift store and bought the largest bra she could find and boy did she glam it up shall we say.  Let's also say the person I have in the gift exchange this year should expect to see that beautiful bra in one of their packages.  LOL

3. Is your Christmas tree plain and simple (white lights and matching ornaments) or is it wild and crazy (colored lights with lots of ornaments collected over the years)?  We just bought a new tree and it HAD to be multi colored.  Do you know how difficult it is to find one of those prelit that has a decent amount of lights on it???  My ornaments are mostly hallmark ones we've bought through the years for one another and the new shatterproof ones I bought last year because of Emma.  This year she seems to have taken a liking to taking the ornaments off the tree. 

4. "How" do you iron your clothes? The old fashioned iron/ironing board way, the shower, back in the dryer, etc.  Old fashioned iron.  It's permanently set up in our basement and we iron as we go.  My husband irons better than I do!

5. How much baking do you do for Christmas and what are your "must make" items? (I'm looking for recipes here, peeps...)  The past few years I quit baking.  With being on Weight Watchers I didn't need that extra temptation around because with being off work the week after Christmas I KNEW who would be eating anything I baked.  

So that's our fun for this week.  Please play along and go to My Little Life for the questions and to link your blog into a bunch of others.  Fun Stuff!

My Questions/Answers

Head over to My Little Life and as she says "HAVE FUN"

1. What is your favorite Christmas cookie?  My Mom makes these cookies she calls devil dogs which most people I know call them gobs.  Well, the 4 girls of my family have loved these so much we'd sneak down to the freezer and steal them.  We still like them better frozen.  Our kids all love them too!  

2. What's your favorite holiday movie & why?  I love the movies this time of the year. I could sit and just watch Christmas movies all day.  My favorite that I always look forward to is probably the Grinch but since that's not a movie I'm going with Elf.  It makes me laugh.

3. Is there a gift that you bought for your kids that you wish you hadnt after they opened it?

To this day I regret buying my son Xbox and he doesn't even live with us anymore.  When he plays it too long (which is always) he becomes nasty because he has the live version and that's how they all talk to one another....like they are garbage and I really hate it.

4. What is the messiest room in your house right at this moment?  My bedroom.  I need to get up there and take the old carpet out of my son's old room and get a new throw for up there and then I'm going to move all my scrap stuff to that room.  But I just don't have time....or gumption to do it right now.  This has been a long few weeks because I've not felt good.  

5. What is the furthest you have driven for the holidays?  When my one sister moved to Indy we went there for New Year's Eve.  Hit a TERRIBLE snow storm on our way home where we couldn't even see the road.  Scary times and I'll never do that again.  

Have a great week!

Five Q on a Friday

Over at My Little Life, I've found these cute 5 questions each week that keep me posting on my blog so that I don't have to write about the failure I've been at maintaining my weight.  So if you feel like indulging, hop on over and get in on the fun too!

1. What is your favorite Christmas decoration in your house?  Well, my hubby is dragging out the decorations now as I type, so maybe once I see them all I'll have a better idea.  We're SO behind this year.  Amy and Zach moved last weekend and we've been busy helping them get situated.  So hopefully tonights the night it goes up even though it does seem very odd to be doing it and Zach not be here.  :(

2. Do you finish your Christmas shopping early or are you a last minute type?  Well, I'm not typically a up to Christmas Eve shopper but I seem to always be shopping the last days before Christmas.  I need to take stock in what I have to decide what else I need to buy.  Still way too much I know.  Decisions, decisions

3. When do you turn on your heat?  As soon as I get cold.  I honestly can't say when.  We have crazy weather here in PA. so it can be cold as anything one day and hot the next.  Definitely have the heat on now.  

4. Do you ever wish your blog was private?  You mean it isn't????  I mostly think I write for myself.  Occasionally someone may pop on and read but I don't think many.  I'm not very interesting.

5. Do you put your deodorant on before of after you put on your shirt?  Definitely AFTER.  I do not want those white marks all over my shirt.  I'm always in a hurry so my luck I'd be a mess.

See you next week!

Questions on Friday

1. Is there a special dish you prepare that you are famous for?  I cook most of the dishes for Thanksgiving and nothing out of the ordinary.  This year I had to throw away 2 pumpkin pies because after I made them I found out the pumpkin had been recalled and I didn't want to chance anyone getting sick.  About made me sick to have to pitch them and make 2 new ones.  On ordinary days, I try making new things all the time for our family to try out so there's not one particular thing I'm famous for.  But I do have to say...whatever I take they almost always really like.

2. Are you (did you) go Black Friday shopping ?  I did go.  Left the house before 9:30 p.m. with Amy and my youngest sister and we arrived back home around 7 a.m. this morning.  Had a really rough start at Walmart but then hit pay dirt at Target and just kept going.  Had breakfast in there too which used to be a tradition when my youngest sister and another sister and I would go out together.  I missed my other sister but she lives in Indy now so we texted for a while last night but it's just not the same.  Got a good start on my shopping but have a lot to do yet!

3. What are your strangest holiday traditions?  I can't think of anything strange we do.  We're a pretty ordinary family.

4. Pecan or pumpkin pie? (She actually asked "Apple or pumpkin?" I just T-giving'ed it!) I don't like pecan so that would never be a good choice so pumpkin wins.  It would have been really close if it had been apple or pumpkin.  2 of my favorites.

5. When will you put up your Christmas tree?  Usually the Sunday after Thanksgiving but we'll be helping the kids move tomorrow so I'm not sure we'll have the umph left to do it but let's hope so.  I like getting it done so we can focus on shopping in our spare time.

So that's it for this week.  Hop on over to My Little Life for the questions so you can play along too.  It's fun.  Honest.

5Q Weekend

I'm going to have to call these questions weekend since I can't seem to get here Friday.  Though last night I was stamping at Kim's so I have a good reason :-)
Pick up the questions yourself at My Little Life

Have an awesome weekend.  I'm feeling under the weather so will be laid back one for me.

1. Do you have a go to song that always puts you in a good mood?  No, I love music so just about any song can do this.  I love Christmas music too so this is an awesome time of the year.

2. Are you a real Christmas tree kinda person or do you go with a real fake one?  I've never had a real one since my hubby is allergic to them.  Fake it is.  Less mess I think too....so I'll take it

3. What are you thankful for?  Time with my beautiful granddaughter and family.  My parents good health.  Sisters and family to love.  Wonderful friends who always make me smile.  A job to pay the bills (which I like most days!  lol)  MANY things!

4. Which fashion fad from the past do you wish you could wear today?  Bell bottoms.  For some reason I just LOVED those pants but they would look awful on me today.

5. Do you wait until the "low fuel" light comes on before you fill up the gas tank?  Well, I try to pay attention but it's hard because I don't pass any gas stations on my way to work so usually the light is on before I make an effort to get gas.

Questions on Saturday

Take a few minutes and head to My Little Life and see others fun answers and to grab the questions yourself to tell us the answers.  It's so much fun.

1. What's the last thing you spent too much money on?  Well, that happened yesterday when I took a personal day and went shopping with Amy and Emma.  I bought Emma a pair of Ugg boots.  They are so stinkin' cute on her though I couldn't resist.  So we got them a bit big so hopefully she gets more wear out of them.  Already today when she came to my house her Mom had them on her.  :-)

2. What celeb chef would you want to make you dinner?  I don't honestly know.  A lot of those chefs use ingredients that I'd not eat. For being so fat, I'm a very picky eater.  Yes, I did say I'm fat and one of these days I'll blog about that again too.  Too many head issues to go into now but I'm working on it.

3. Where do you hide things when visitors pop over or do you let them see the real deal?  We put everything up on our bed in our bedroom but I am a strong believer in that you better come to see me and not my house.  You are ALWAYS welcome in my house but don't judge if I'm in my jammies or the house is dirty.  It happens.

4. Who is your oldest living family member?  My hubby's Grandmother who just turned 94 but unfortunately she has Dementia and doesn't remember anyone anymore and we've not seen her in a long while.  She's such a sweetie too.  I will always treasure when she came to our house one of the last times and was asking who my Dad was and as I explained patiently, she looked at me and said...I won't ever forget you Denise...but I know she has and it makes me so sad.

5. What is your favorite DQ treat and/or Sonic drink combo (ie: cherry vanilla dr. pepper)?  I have never gone to Sonic even though we do have one so I can't pick something there.  My favorite DQ treat would be a Peanut Buster Parfait and yes, I had one recently.  Now see part of why I'm fat again from above question...*sigh*