HAPPY NEW YEAR...........

What a year 2009 has been for me!! I am glad it is over.....may 2010 be a much better year!! Starting with this computer.....may it STOP breaking down on me!! I have missed being able to blog these past couple of months....

Happy Thanksgiving to all........

Summer and Todd......

Breezi.........

Oh my gosh......I am having such a time with sweets lately!! Doughnuts especially!
The guys bring doughnuts into work every Friday and Saturday and it is all I can do to NOT eat the entire box myself!!

I have become such a pig! If it is not the doughnuts.....it's the hard candies in the jar on the counter. Yikes!

I feel horrible the past few days and I am so sure it is because of all the sugar...my body is trying to tell me that enough is enough. I have been doing this for months now and I think it has totally caught up with me.

I know I need to stop eating so much junk food.....I try, but I always stumble and go back to putting the sugar into my mouth. Today I feel as if I am stuffed into my jeans.......not feeling good about myself at all.

For health issues I know I am going to have to really try to be good......diabetes runs in my family and I really donn't want that problem.

Tomorrow I am going to really try to be good and get back on the right track!!!

Well, I got my house all cleaned up last night so, tonight I am going to sit on the couch and just rest....yeah, like that will happen!! Why is it women never seem to be able to just sit and relax? I know I should be doing that, but I know I still have a list of things that still need to be finished......

(1.) There are letters and cards to write....
(2.) I need to shave my legs.....
(3.) I need to take the trash out to the curb...
(4.) There are several phone calls to make...not too mention unanswered emails...
(5.) The bird's cage needs a good scrubbing...
(6.) I need to wash and iron.......(oh, that sounds like fun!)
(7.) I need to fix my hair color....NOW THAT IS A STORY IN ITSELF...yikes....!
(8.) I need to do my Bible Study.....
(9.) And the list goes on and on..........

Well, I do know there are a few things on my list I will do tonight, but when my favorite television show begins.....I AM THERE ON THE COUCH WITH MY GLASS OF WINE AND THE REMOTE!!

Tonight I am going to spend the evening cleaning MY house. Whenever I clean someone else's house...I always chuckle to myself..."I DON'T EVEN DO THIS TO MY OWN HOUSE!" Well, tonight my little bungalow with get cleaned. Not that it is terribly messy, but there are a few things that NEED attention. I have decided not to turn on the television.....answer phones....NOTHING that plugs in...NO DISTRACTIONS ALLOWED!! Well, the stereo will be cranked up. Nothing is better to clean house than to have the stereo turned up loud....the louder the better!!

One major job will get done tonight and three minor things....have a goal!!!!

Captain Jack Sparrow and pretty Elizabeth..........

Jeremey and Ashlynn..........

Is it over yet????

I have been trying to sit here and write something, but every time I get a half way decent thought....a little trick-or-treater comes to the door!! I give up!!!!

The kids are soooo adorable....think I give up blogging tonight and appreciate the little knocks I get at my door.

Happy Halloween everyone..............

My Halloween Story....

A man is walking home alone late one foggy Halloween night, when behind him he hears:


BUMP...
BUMP...
BUMP...


Walking faster, he looks back and through the fog he makes out the image of an upright casket banging its way down the middle of the street toward him.


BUMP...
BUMP...
BUMP...


Terrified, the man begins to run toward his home, the casket bouncing quickly behind him.

FASTER...
FASTER..
BUMP...
BUMP...
BUMP...


He runs up to his door, fumbles with his keys, opens the door, rushes in, slams and locks the door behind him. However, the casket crashes through his door, with the lid of the casket clapping.


clappity-BUMP...
clappity-BUMP...
clappity-BUMP...

On his heels, as the terrified man runs......Rushing upstairs to the bathroom, he locks himself in. His heart is pounding; his head is reeling; his breath is coming in sobbing gasps.

With a loud CRASH the casket breaks down the door.....Bumping and clapping toward him.

The man screams and reaches for something, anything, but all he can find is a bottle of cough syrup! Desperate, he throws the cough syrup at the casket...


(and hopefully you are ready for this)


The coffin stops!!!!

The Catalde Family...Tony, Beth, Matt & Becca

Well, I didn't exactly party for my birthday, but I did have fun. Spent the day just on things I like to do. Thanks all for the birthday wishes.......meant a great deal to me!!! Hard to believe I am 29 years old!!!

Gary S. Catalde----memoralized forever!!

Summer and Breezi had Gary's signature tattoed on their wrists today. Looks as if he signed their wrists with his ink pen. I am having mined done next week!!

Tonight I am going to climb into my claw foot tub and take a nice hot bubble bath....much like the above picture....the only thing that will be missing will be the little cat.....

My poor body is aching and I am hoping a nice hot soak will ease my pain. My arthritis is increasingly becoming a problem.......I refuse to see a doctor and have been trying my best to address the issue on my own. Tylenol is my choice a pain relief....that or a glass of wine!!

I believe my issues date way back to the day I was struck by that car going 60-65mph....but maybe its because I am getting old!! Add that to the fact that it seems my choice of work is nothing but physical....lots of lifting and moving things around. Well, at any rate...it is what it is and I know I can get through all of this annoying pain just by relaxing in a nice hot tub!!

I sure could use Ashlynn's cute little ladybug raincoat.........North Texas is experiencing rain once again!!

Ashlynn....A real California girl.....

Today I cleaned house and I am smelling like Pine-sol. I clean a friend's 6000 square foot house every two weeks and I can not tell you how tired I am by the end of the day!

Nothing smells cleaner than Pine-sol. Not the flowery fragrance....the original, good ole smell....it's the best.

A few weeks ago my neighbor, Nimia, was cleaning her big house and she was using Pine-sol for her cleaning chore. Her house is HUGE and she was tossing out buckets of used Pine-sol water between our houses. My windows were open and all that cleaning smell filtrated into my little bunglow. My house smelled as if I had spent all day cleaning. Needless to say I thanked Nimia for making my house smell so clean. It smelled like I cleaned and I didn't lift a hand!!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Let us find a cure and keep those who are battling

breast cancer in our prayers!!!