"A weed is no more than a flower in disguise." -Unknown
Had to get Mike's nephew off the school bus today and this is what he did for most of the afternoon! Normally, he pretends he's a wrestler and uses a humongous bear to practice his moves on. But today, he piled all these stuffed animals up and would jump off of the back of the couch onto them. He thought this was an "awesome idea". I thought "you're gonna break something kid!!" But it did make a pretty funny pic.
I have been chompin on ice since I first got teeth in my mouth! Seriously. And the best ice in the world is at Sonic. In fact, the highlight of my Mondays is getting a Route 44 Diet Dr. Pepper. Yes. I said a Route 44 DIET Dr. Pepper. That's just how I roll.
Well, not really, but it does make me think of cookie monster! It's just another plant in our yard. Some kind of palm thing. 
Mike has decided to play on the church softball team this year which should be quite entertaining. We had to go buy a glove and ball for him today and I never knew that you could get neon yellow balls! My younger sister informed me that they also come in hot pink and that I should have made him get that color. LOL 
Today was a pretty busy day for me. I had to go to our vet to pick up new flea and heartworm preventatives, cut grass, do some housework, and then my sister called and told me she was coming by tonight! Her fiance is a truck driver and she was riding with him for a few days. They were passing thru our town to take a load to Louisiana and decided to stop in for a visit. We were going to eat at the casino buffet, but the line was so long we just had a beer and listened to a band for a while. Then we went to a steak house and we were going to get daiquiris after but were way to stuffed to even attempt to force one down! 
This is what is still alive in a mixed flower pot that I did for my back deck last summer. I thought that the little red flowers were gone for sure because they were just brown twigs during the winter. And the white thing, well, you couldn't even tell it was in the pot during the summer, but it just took off during the cold weather. I've also posted a pic of what it looked like when everything was fully grown and looked really pretty :) You can't tell from the picture, but it was probably a good 4 feet tall from the bottom of the pot to the top of the green leafy plant. (I'm not good with plant names!) I'm not sure if the green leaves will come back up or not because I can't see any of that trying to come up yet but I sure hope it does!
"The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry." 
May luck be our companion
"Life is officially back to normal!"
"When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water."
It's always hard for me to have time to take any decent pictures on Mondays. And I figured y'all are probably tired as all get out of seeing my food! LOL So I just stepped out on the porch and took a picture of one of the azalea bushes there. Then I went to picnik and did this crazy stuff to it, but I really like how it came out! I also posted the "original" so you can see a before/after.
That caption might sound a little harsh, but if you've ever had the pleasure of coming into contact with fire ants you'd understand where I'm coming from! We spent the morning poisoning the massive ant beds that have taken over our yard and also doing the yard to get rid of fleas, ticks, etc., etc...Don't we have such an exciting life! haha The picture isn't as good as it could/should have been but project 365 was my "oh well, whatever" thing for today. 
"Food is the most primitive form of comfort."
I think my nerves are shot! Mike went for more tests today and the doctor called tonight to let him know he wants to schedule him for more tests to check for blockages in his heart. Since he went into the hospital Monday night I have been a nervous wreck and my bowels are letting EVERYONE know! 
When we got home at about midnight last night, it felt so good to be back in our bed. So comfortable in fact, that we didn't even get out of it until around 5 tonight!!
Mike was admitted to the hospital Monday night because of chest pains. After a long night with no sleep whatsoever, and no caffenated coffee in sight! look what i found in the cafeteria!! Pure gold. We were told he should have been discharged around lunch, but the good ol doc didn't make his rounds until 10 o'clock that night!! But at least we got to go home and sleep in our bed.
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I took about a three hour walk along the beach today to pray and try and get some things that I've been going through settled. The tide was out and I just kept going out farther and farther as I walked until I realized that I was sinking up to my ankles. This is what's left after stomping, scraping, and beating the poor shoes to death.
