Farewell Friends

I'm sitting on the couch convinced I have Salmonella. I'll spare you the details. Since I want to go out bringing a smile to people's faces here are a few pictures of some funny things.

You know how you get random mail addressed to you or the current resident? This one confused the heck out of us.

So you mean the last resident here was named Big Monster? Or was this a joke from Papa John's?

Do you see the prices on this receipt? Do you see them? Clearance man!!!!!! I got a brown sweater, a blue shirt and a magenta shirt. They are cuteeeeeeeee and different for me. I'm wearing the blue one tomorrow. Good prices always make me smile. Don't ask me why I was at the mall in the middle of a work day getting these clearance prices, but I was, and I got them (I also got my eyebrows threaded too).

This is a picture of my new pajamas. Since TheCount has decided that we don't need heat in the winter I found the ugliest most non figure flattering pj's in target. Aint they ugly? Hahahaha!


This is a close up of the pattern. When I bought these the cashier looked gave me a serious side eye!



Can y'all tell I finally found my camera, lol? I've been a picture taking and uploading fool!

Well, I had a ball!

My mom and my matching Pyrex carrying cases. Read on, you'll see why this picture is even relevant (I'm just too tired to drag it down to where it should be).




I had such a good time this weekend :)

On Friday I made a really good dinner. I simply revamped the Barbecue Beef that I made on Thursday. It didn't come out how I expected it to on Thursday ( I thought it would be the very liquidy kind, you know what I'm talking about?) and I was trying to think of what I could do to make it taste better. I saw a picture of a grown up BLT that Tyler Florence made and a great idea was born! I cooked up some bacon, added lettuce and tomato and tossed the barbecue in some smoked hickory sauce. It was sooooooo much better than when we had it on Thursday. Now I can add it into the rotation, but I still need to get a good recipe for a nice saucy bbq beef sandwich.

TheCount stayed up all night playing video games. Seriously, all night. I fell asleep from about 8-12 he was still playing. When I fell out again at 5am, he was still playing. When I woke up at noon, he was passed out on the couch next to the controller. When he finally got up he took me to paint pottery! It was a very nice surprise. TheCount got the great idea that he wanted to paint an olive tree on his tile. Let's just say that somebody with hands as big as his, shouldn't be trying to do such intricate details. We ended up turning his into a mosaic tile (after I politely pointed out that what he was doing was not very nice looking, lol) and I had to help get into the small areas. We were there for 4 hours working. These are the pictures of us working on our masterpieces. I'll show the finished products when we get them back next week.My tealight holder that matches our bedroom.

TheCount working on his mosaic tile.

On Sunday we went to church. We had a guest preacher from the U.K, Dr. Ramson Mumba.
He was good! I enjoyed it thoroughly. He was funny and very educated. I like it when people come to you with knowledge, not just fluff. After church we went to my parents house because we were celebrating my great-uncle's 81st birthday and I had to help my mom cook. TheCount wanted to wash his car, and my dad was pressed to go out and help him. My daddy aint never helped me wash my car! They were out there for like 2 hours. I was making the same chicken wings that I made for the Super Bowl, and I also made roasted potatoes. We also took macaroni and cheese and green beans. The food was so good. My mom was very proud of my cooking skills. We walked in with our matching Pyrex sets and everybody was talking about how we have been showing off a lot since I got married. What can I say, lol, you know how I do! Everybody also noticed how happy my daddy is to finally have a son. If TheCount told my daddy he planned to go play in traffic hopping on a pogo stick, my daddy would follow right behind him.My daddy crouched down putting air in TheCount's tires

Time for male bonding.

I watched half of the Grammy's with my mommy while TheCount was at a church meeting, now I'm home watching the rest. I've enjoyed them thus far because I love music and talent. I also enjoy hearing Lil Wayne perform like a human not under the influence of anything, lol. JHud made me cry, but so does everything. Ohhh I really liked Justin Timberlake and the Rev. because I love their voices. My momma has an unhealthy obsession with Will.i.am. Like seriously, she thinks he's the only one that should ever perform or speak. When Jay-Z was rapping with Coldplay (or whoever it was), my momma was like, "why does he exist? He's no Will.i.am." HAHAHAHAHA oh mommy, Will.i.am aint checking for you and I am so surprised that she even knows who he is. She saw him performing once and it made her cry and since then, she has been hooked! [ok, album of the year winner...who? I guess I'm out of the loop, I don't even know who they are]

Well good peoples I need to go wash off my facemask and watch one of my favorite episodes of Family Matters. Laura gets accepted to Harvard (but can't go because of finances) and Waldo takes tap dancing lessons (for some reason I love him in this episode). Then it's off to bed!

Ideas Please!

When you are having a slow day at work, what do you do for fun? Any fun websites you visit? Do you go hang out with coworkers, slit your wrist with a dull rusty butter knife, or read a book? Perhaps you disappear for a much needed hair or eyebrow appointment (I won't knock you, I've done it before and I need to do both now, lol!) I need A LOT of suggestions because by 9am I am spinning around in my chair singing to the construction men in the building across from me.

 

Help me out folks! As you know, if I don't get sufficient answers I will post this every single day until somebody helps me out, lol.

 

(oh and don't say ask for more work. I'm a contractor and I can't have access to any other clients but my own. I do my own work very, very quickly. I've helped out others, but then they take advantage and ask me to do things like count 250 sheets of paper because they think the copier messed up [true story, and no I didn't do it])

Randomly Random

It feels like Friday. I thought it was. It makes me sad that it's not.

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My eyes are swollen. Not a cute look, lol.

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Bible study was really good last night. No, like excellent, one of the best services ever in life (and I've been to a lot of services). For anybody wondering, I attend this church.

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Our heating bill was $150 this month. TheCount was not happy, it wasn't too much to me, nothing we can't afford. I thought I was going to get sent to time out the way he was acting, lol. Since he only believes in spending money on things we don't need, like tv's, a new bass, and speakers, he turned the heat down. Wayyyyyy down. Heck, who needs to stay warm in winter? Not us clearly because our thermostat is set to 60. I now spend my time sitting in the bed with my heated mattress pad. Bump that, I should not have to see my breath in my own house. Good Lord, why does TheCount torture me so?

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This month I vow to sleep more! I will get at least 8 hours of sleep (9 is my perfect number) at least 5 nights a week. If I do it, I bet by March I will feel and look like a different person. I won't be so cranky, I won't be slouched over at my desk, my skin always clears up when I get appropriate sleep, and I'll probably be on time for work since I won't turn off the alarm and go right back to sleep for an hour or two.

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I just ordered myself a new backpack. I have big plans for this bag! It's cool and has all these compartments. I met my best friend because of my bookbag. I was in college and had a purple bookbag, she thought it was cool that she could always find me in  a crowd because I was the only one with that bag. The next semester, she was determined to top me so she got a bright pink bookbag. Little did she know that for Christmas I got a purple care bears bookbag, so once again I stood out because I was the only person on campus with a character bookbag. That's when she told me the story of her trying to one up me, and it sealed our fate as friends :) The next year I had a Spiderman bookbag. The girls would always be like "oh my, why do you have that bookbag." My response was always "it makes me smile!" Dudes would always just tell me it was cool. I wanted a black barbie bookbag, but TheCount wouldn't let me get it, he said he drew the line at barbie.

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The idiot of the week:

Idiot: I can't wait until spring

Me: Yeah, I know what you mean

Idiot: See, if God were smart, he would have made spring right after the Super Bowl. Cold is nice for the holiday's, but now I'm over it. February and March shouldn't be cold.

Me: Looking around the elevator panicking contemplating just jumping off because I'm sure it is now headed straight to hell!

Weirded Out Wednesday

I woke up at 1am to find TheCount standing at the foot of the bed singing America the Beautiful butterball nekkid while waving his boxers above his head.

 

Me: looking horrified What are you doing?

TheCount: Don't judge me, I was really feeling the moment

Me: rolls over and goes back to sleep

TheCount: Puts on boxers and gets in bed as if he was not just acting a fool

All Night Prayer

To close out our January fast at church we have an all night prayer the last Friday of the month of January. It's a lot of fun, last year it was from 7pm-7am. I only made it until about 3:30, I think, before I had to head home and get in the bed. My church is quite hype so it was no surprise when people decided to do a conga line in the wee hours of the morning. Around and around the sanctuary, lol. Some people were just so hyped up they just felt like running. Our church is big and I do not recommend running around the sanctuary unless you are in shape because you will be embarrassed when you fall out from exhaustion. Anyway, this year TheCount and I got to church at 10 because I needed to take a nap beforehand. The only thing that got on my nerves was this one dude who kept messing with TheCount. TheCount was very quiet and kept putting his head down (we were in the lighting/sound booth). I know TheCount wasn't sleep but the man kept being all loud talking 'bout wake up man! I was giving him the evil eye and kept telling him he wasn't asleep. The night of all night prayer was exactly 2 years after TheCounts daddy passed away (1/30/07) so he just wanted to keep to himself, he was missing his daddy. TheCount did very well and didn't snap on dude but would just look up at him and go back to what he was doing.

 

Our church is located right off of a major road. While we were in church on Friday night a person fell asleep while driving down that road and their car started flipping over and rolled through our parking lot. I saw security run in and get our Pastors, but I didn't know why, apparently that was it. The lady got out of the car unscathed. Not a singe scratch and not one of the cars in our parking lot suffered any damage. She came in to join us for all night prayer after that, lol.

 

I don't know why, but this year all night prayer only lasted until 1am.

PastorT: All right as we close out...

Congregation: CLOSE OUT????

PastorT: All right, as we CLOSE OUT, be careful out there

Congregation: looking around trying to figure out why we are leaving before we get to the conga line or the grocery store trips for more water

PastorT: Oh, by the way, the fast is over

Congregation: WHOOOHOOOOOOOOOO let's go to ihop

PastorT: Now look! Don't go out there and eat like some fools that will never eat again. The food will still be there, you don't have to eat it all in one day.

Congregation: Hahahahaha...let's go to ihop

 

I'm not going to tell you how many people got sick because they put too much food in their systems too quickly. We haven't been eating meats, sweets, dairy, or white flower/potatoes for a month. Perhaps pancakes, waffles, sausage, bacon, hash browns, coffee, and ice cream wasn't the best meal to eat, lol (and Pink, it wasn't me that ate all that so don't go fussing at me).

 

We did get one major prayer answered during the fast. My sister in law started coming back to church. She hasn't come in 2 years, since TheCount's daddy died. She was married to TheCount's brother. He passed away in 2005, when she was 7 months pregnant with their child. They also had 3 other children (1 hers, 2 his). She kept coming to church even after that. During the looonnnngggg custody battle with his kids' birth mother (she is a drug addicted, lazy somebody), she kept coming to church. When TheCount's daddy died, she got mad and hurt that God would keep doing to our family. It didn't help that her parents who had been married for over 30 years also got divorced. She was hurting, and rightfully so. For the past 2 years we have been praying that she would come back. 3 weeks ago during altar call I was looking and I was like "heyyyyy I recognize that weave, it's sis-n-law"! You remember the story of the prodigal son in the bible? When the dad through a big feast when his son came home? That's how everybody treated her. When they saw her in the lobby they did a double take then would come running over screaming. It was hilarious. People timidly asked, "you coming back next week?" She said she was and she did. You know old folks don't hold their tongue, the pastors momma was like, "bout time you brought your tail back in here." Sis-n-law has a sense of humor so she wasn't offended or anything. Good times man! But I am glad to be eating normally again. Today's lunch? Scallops in garlic sauce with white rice! Yummmy.

We are the Champions my friiiennndddddd

Hear ye, hear ye! All of you hoping for an upset in the Super Bowl, are now at home or work upset because of course the Steelers won :)

 

Pre-Game

  Since we were going to watch the Super Bowl with some new folks, we had to bring a dish, because it's just rude to show up empty handed. I was a little nervous because I don't like cooking for other people because I'm scared I'll mess up. I decided on some chicken wings that they had in the Food Network magazine...delicious! I was so proud when the man of the house came up to me and told me my chicken wings were banging :)

 

We almost didn't make it to their house to watch the game because I was about to get into with a lady in the Food Lion parking lot. Y'all this lady was cussing a baby out. The little girl couldn't have been more than 6 and this woman was dropping F-bombs on her like there was no tomorrow. She was parked next to our car and once I realized she was talking to a child I tried to hit her with the car door. Since we were in TheCount's friends Lexus, TheCount jumped once he realized what I was doing and caught the door. So then I was just getting mad and I started saying stuff like "you don't cuss out no baby, what is wrong with you. She is a child that made a mistake, how dare you..." as TheCount is stuffing me in the car. The lady was glaring at me, but didn't dare say anything because she only has the strength to cuss at children for spilling juice.

 

The Game

 

Jennifer Hudson did tha thang, lol. Did y'all hear  her? Amazing!

 

During the game I had a 2 hour text battle with one of TheCount's friends. He was supposed to come watch the game with us but he decided to stay home. His friend is always going against me since the day I slapped him ( I can't remember what he did, but I was so offended I couldn't help myself). I wanted to put some of the texts up here but they only made sense in the context of the game so I won't. That was a good game though! I thought we were going to lose it. I had my terrible towel covering my face and I was crying out in agony. TheCount was finding my misery quite hilarious. By the end of the night I had everybody in the house waving my terrible towel around singing the praises of my team, lol. However, it should have never been that close! I'll have to make a trip up to Pittsburgh to talk to the team in the off season.We will not put TM through that again! I think I will also arrange a reunion for Mike Tomlin and Will.i.am because I am convinced they are brothers and even though Will.i.am said he didn't want to meet his dad, I think he would enjoy his brother Mike.

 

Funniest line of the night:

Lady at the party: "Black folks are on the come up, it's our time to shine. Head of the country, head of the republicans and super bowl champion coach. Aint no stopping us now..."

 

The Commercials

 

Budweiser- Let the horses go. That was stupid and very boring

 

Pepsi- They had us screaming laughing! If I drank soda, Pepsi would have beat coke (ummmm what was up with that bug commercial?) and had me at the store buying it up.

 

Doritos- Y'all why did my sister call me and tell me she went out and got doritos because of the commercial, lol. We are some dang fools and advertisers must love it.

 

Career Builder- Did y'all see when that man was drinking gold! HAHAHAHAHAHA The whole house was like "is that gold?" in unison.

 

Don't get me started on g.od.ad.dy ugghhhhhh those commercials anger me every single year and I love me some Danica Patrick, but that was a bit much.

 

What were your favorite commercials and HOW BOUT THEM STEELERS?