whiskers on kittens and snake skin... not at my house!

Good news everyone!! I am no longer a snake owner!! I realize that it appears that I am dumping pets, have no fear the kids will not be next! And I do still have 2 geckos, 1 bearded dragon, 1 hamster and 2 cockatiels. And as I've mentioned before one of the cockatiels thinks it's a dog, as seen in the video I posted earlier. Matt was a little sad to see his snake go but he really hasn't held him since he was bitten a year or more ago so it was in the snakes best interest to move on. The college student who took him on loved him and wore him around his neck the rest of the day at the pet store, as seen by some friends later on. Mostly wanted to know if he got to stay home today and possibly the rest of the day so he could grieve properly. Yah not!

Another great 13 yr old son moment

OK funny one. I was telling Matt that he can't go somewhere if he doesn't get all of his stuff done. He being a typical new teen still learning to flex his muscles, says "you can't me, you don't have the right." To which my southern raised hackles say Oh Yeah?? Watch me! His dad calls and I told him what was going on and what Matt said to me, so he asks to speak to Matt. Matt says " NO dad it wasn't like that I was saying like how they said in the Pursuit of Happyness, no one has the right to stop me from getting what I want, I was speaking metaphorically". Nice save I think, he's not totally out of the woods but darn if he isn't close!

Girls Night

Since mom couldn't make it to Les Mis last night with me, I took 2 girl friends, Carmine and Janine and we had such a wonderful time! We went to dinner downtown at a place I haven't been to, very trendy and good! We barely walked to our seats as the lights dimmed which made me a nervous wreck! The cast was fabulous!! Every once in awhile I thought Fontine would clip a word to sound more like talking then singing but when she sang it was fabulous! Valjan and Javier were incredible and Eponine of course brought tears to my eye in her final song!! All in all a wonderful evening, I wanted to go right out and buy tickets for another night!!

Gas or rather Petrol problems

We are having the craziest gas shortest right now! I wanted to know if it was affecting anyone else I know accross the country. I went to 7 different gas stations today before I finally found gas and it was only the premium gas, which I didn't care I had to have gas! Even when Katrina went through we had people running for gas but I don't think the stations actually ran out.. did they? Kirk is in St Simons and the bottom of GA and he says there is gas down there. Very odd, anyone else??

Connors Bday

Connor had a wonderful birthday, marred only by the fact that he had to go to school. I tried to tell him whats it's like to have a summer bday, everyone forgets, no one is around... but to no avail. Still he got a new mattress which is back is grateful for! He got legos from lots of family members and money to spend and his very own DS lite that he doesn't have to share! He wanted Chilis for dinner which was fun and then we went next door to cold stone for ice cream! He even had a blue candle with a green flame on his breakfast! Now I have a month off before the next 2 birthdays!!

Turtle

Ok I have to send a quick message out about Swimmy. AJ has had a pet turtle for about 2 years, one of those water turtles. I have not liked the turtle for about a little less then 2 years! The pump never worked so his tank smells like a sewer and it was pain to clean he would eat half a fish and the other half would get stuck under a rock a decay it was all sorts of gross! So we were at the lake fishing and a boy and his dad were so excited to catch this little turtle who lives under the dock and the boy was very sad to let him go. I told him I was trying to give away a turtle and he jumped on the offer. The poor guy even came and picked him up himself! He has no idea what I just passed onto him! Sucker!! The great thing is AJ didn't mind, he was ready to move on. PLus the kid already has 2 lizards!

Elles Bday Party!

You can see my comments on the photos is you put the mouse over them. Elle turned 6 and it was a wonderful day! She started out with her favorite breakfast and then Grandma Judy and mom took her to American girl store and she choose an outfit and a new wardrobe to put it all in! Then she got to go with her brothers to a Primary activity where they ate ice cream for memorizing the Articles of Faith! Then we had all the family and a few friends over for messy ice cream sundaes and she opened some pretty wonderful presents! I would say it was a great day and she loved it! Hard to believe 6 years ago I was in the hospital with her! SO now Connors bday is in 3 days then I have a month off follwed by Matt and AJ's bdays within 4 days of each other! Crazy times!!

One more time for Me

Ok so Mom told me it's nice to share the lame things that happen to me so we can all laugh and they seem to happen to me a lot! SO Sunday I am leading the music in church, during the Sacrament song, the one that is supposed to be really reverent. I get this feeling like my bra strap is sliding off my shoulder. I think there's no way it can go down far enough for anyone to see, but then I think " self you are in a kinda short sleeve shirt today maybe you should glance down." So i glance down and sure enough there is my pink bra strap for the whole congregation to see. And in my defense it is a very pale pink, simply to mix it up! :-) So i casually reach my left hand across my body to try and tuck it while looking like i am merely scratching my shoulder. But it is impossible to push it all the way up with out looking like I am digging around in my shirt while leading music. SO I try to stuff it just inside the sleeve and then i stretch my right arm out to lead the music with a almost straight out arm so my shoulder doesn't bend and so it can stay in the halfway up position. Luckily for me it was a song we don't sing a lot so when I scanned the crowd I didn't see too many people smirking at me! However I think the older gentleman who still can't look at my from the woodpecker incident may have been shaking his head again!

facebook

Ok I joined facebook today, although I'm not sure what I'm doing! But since several friends and family are on it I thought I should as well. I guess thats just for keeping in contact with people where this blog is for actually giving everyone info and up to date details right?

Sweet Home, Georgia

Let me spend a moment thinking of why I like living in GA. HMMM ok let me keep thinking this is kinda a hard question. Well I have a very good friend here, Celeste, thats a good reason to live here. Ummm my kids really like living by their cousins thats a great reason. I like my raspberyy plants those are a nice reason. I do like my house here, expexcially my new carpet even if it broke my vaccum. I like that Kirk likes his job. Those are all perfectly good reason for me to live here right? Anyone want to join me?
A funny thing, they changed the 3rd grade curriculum this year so AJ is not going to be learning about GA history, instead he will be learning about Greece. Funny I think. Probably more exciting, but useful? Who knows.
PS anyone of you who are Diana Gabaldon readers, on her website is a link to her blog, which has a excerpt and a sample of writting from the next book!! It was so refreshing to read Claires "voice" again! Anyone who has not read the books, do not go to the page because it has spoilers! :-)

The Story lyrics

These are the lyrics to the first song on my player that I totally love right now!

All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I've been
And how I got to where I am

But these stories don't mean anything
When you've got no one to tell them to
It's true...I was made for you

I climbed across the mountain tops
Swam all across the ocean blue
I crossed all the lines and I broke all the rules
But baby I broke them all for you

Because even when I was flat broke
You made me feel like a million bucks
You do, I was made for you

You see the smile that's on my mouth
It's hiding the words that don't come out
And all of my friends who think that I'm blessed
They don't know my head is a mess

No, they don't know who I really am
And they don't know what
I've been through like you do
And I was made for you...

All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I've been
And how I got to where I am

But these stories don't mean anything
When you've got no one to tell them to
It's true...I was made for you
Yeah, I was made for you.

My name is Bonnie Johnston and I am a book addict

I have been informed that i sound like a psycho and so i will remove the evidence of this and keep it to myself. :-)