There is a new show on NBC that is well...as close to a map to the understandings of my mind as any show will ever get....not because of it's group of twenty somethings and their lack of anything honest, or stable, butI would have to say because of the main character and her lack of understanding of herself, yet the complete knowledge of where she is in life versus where she needs to be....
I say all of this but I have only seen one episode.
Quarterlife will be on Sunday nights. check it out! It is about blogging.......everyone who reads my blog should have some understanding and relation to that genre....if not to the twentysomething group....ha.
does anyone else think I watch too much tv?? I think I do!....but now I have a show on everynight except Thur Fri and Sat.....those are my days off, lol....ha ha ha.
A few letters I thought about writing tonight~
Dear Wal-Mart -
I think you need to do a bit more research on the books that you have (or don't have) on your shelves...I watch Oprah, but I don't think she has the best taste in books. I enjoy some of the books she suggests, but not all of them, so be choosey when putting her book club books on your shelf....
Did you know that not everyone that shops at Wal-Mart is white trash? I may appear to be when I shop late at night...I have seen prettier days....but, I am not there to purchase the soft pornographic harlequin "novels" that you so abundantly over stocked.
If you need to know what should be on your shelves, review some of the awesome blogs I have that give critiques on great books....and leave the cheap trashy novels to that of library sales and old lady days at half priced books.....at least put something of quality and newness on your shelves (We have all already read The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns).
Thank You For Your Time.
An empty handed former walmart book buyer.
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Dear Stationary and School Supply makers-
I hate you....only because I love you so dearly. You and only you have been the reason I get excited to go to school.....ever. I knew that if I had a new pen that wrote with dark almost bleeding ink, a new set of fun post-it notes, a brand new box of pencils and a sharpener....I would automatically get straight A's in all of my classes, even gym!
Tonight, for the lack of finding a decent book, I spent the money I wanted to get a book with on random supplies. I have decided that I will carry a mini stationary desk in my purse, tote or whatever you call it (Veida calls it a Mary Poppins Bag). You have supplied me with a pink supply holder, a new pair of small scissors, new post it notes, a small notebook with three sections, eraser set, multi colored variaty pens, pencils, glue stick, and two fine pointed sharpies. I don't really NEED any of this, but I walked by the aisle, and there your stuff was.
Could you possibly put a disclaimer on your packages, not gaurtneeing straight A's or sanity when it comes to the combination of your items.....A new notebook makes me think I could be the next Jane Austen or Stephen King....It gives me false hope (as in my childhood) that because I have a pen and a stack of papers in a planner disguise, that I will automatically be organized and put together....this is all wrong. I still have to accountable for my actions with your supplies, so please stop implying such nonesense.
If I don't see such warnings, I will be forced to buy your items from Target, because there they care enough for their customers mental stability, and close at night, helping reduce the spontaneou purchases of your evil and overwhelmingly not needed but desired products!
Waiting for prompt action!
The owner of a million pens, and 99% do not write like I like.
My new friend Emma helped me out lots! Do you see what I did?? woot woot! I learn something new everyday! (If you didn't catch why I was excited, thats because you were not paying attention! ha ha, jk.....no I couldn't figure out how to make a random word become a link...I tried to search google that only got me to this place and it was impossible, and so i went to a few other places similar, with no luck! So then I made a cry out for help in my posting last night....and she answered my question.....and now here I am littering my page with links!)
And speaking of new friend.....there are lots of people on the sidebar of this blog, who are people I have learned to love to read about....and if you are on the list, and it freaks you out a bit, let me know, and I will take you off, and sadly stop following your blogs.....but if you are on the list, and don't mind, and want to be a DOF instead of a ABIT let me know that too!!!
Now...off to my day! It is chilly outside, and I have the following projects to get done
1) Clean both bathrooms
2) Get Ebay stuff ready to send
3) Follow up with Mazda
4) Make Monkey Munch (pictures and recipe to come)
5) Knit a few scarves (because that's all I know.)
6) Play with new hair cut
SOMEONE HELP ME!
I am new to the whole blog thing. I just tried to search the net to get the help.....I would ask my programmer boyfriend for help, but he asleep....and then he will explain it to me and I will not understand completely.....then he will dumb it down for me, and I will feel like he is telling me like I was an idiot (which I really am when it comes to this, but still, I don't want to admit it)....ok here is my problem.
I want to create a word link....does that make sense? I want to link to an old blog of mine, or a cool one of yours and I don't want to have a huge long url sitting in the middle of my blog.
For Example:
I don't want:
http://laylafrances.blogspot.com/2008/02/emailed-questions.html
I do want:
check out my blog about the emailed questions.
(and emailed questions will be the unerlined and a different color and when someone clicks on it then they can get to that blog)
ACK! I just spent way to long trying to figure it out without any success. GAG
Okay so, today.....I got my hair cut. FINALLY. I didn't do it because I wanted to right that second, I did it because Veida wouldn't let me say no. She wants me to cut my hair super short to spite Jason...but she is the same person who told me to grow it long....she just wants to be a butt head...I don't care really, to me hair grows back and do with it as you please....but for the sake of Jason finding something attractive about me, I keep it long...ha ha.
Here is the link to the discussion of what to do wtih my hair http://laylafrances.blogspot.com/2008/01/hair-and-there-ha-ha-ha.html
And here are the results (I will warn you these pictures are the typical myspace quality backdrop...via the bathroom):
I got this email from Ashley Allen, a friend of mine who I used to babysit for years ago....I got really talented.....I could bathe her 7 kids in under 30 minutes, with a total "get ready for bed time" at 45 mins start to finish.....I am still impressed with myself!!! Anyways, she sent info on herself, and I sent it back, but I thought I would share with you guys as well! Enjoy!
Now, here's what you're supposed to do... And please do not spoil the fun. Hit forward, delete my answers and type in your answers. Then send this to a whole bunch of people you know INCLUDING the person who sent it to you. The theory is that you will learn a lot of little known facts about those who know you. Remember to send it back to the person who sent it to you.
A) Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. Movie Theater Assistant Manager (that was fun...seriously...lots of great memories!)
2. Intake Supervisor for an Ambulatory Infusion Center (I want this job back, as crazy as it may seem)
3. Day Care Assistant (ha, fun days!)
4. Glorified data entry for BNSF, aka: Price Management (looking back, I should have stayed! grrr)
B) Four movies I would watch over and over: (there are more than four, but I will limit it for you)
1. My Best Friends Wedding (I saw it 20 times at the theater...no joke, I worked there, it was free and I loved it!)
2. Stella (Gotta love Bette Midler!)
3. Juno (Just saw it yesterday, but I will go with anyone at any time LOVE IT~)
4. The Story of Us ("I am saying Chow Funs because I love you!)
C) Four places I have lived:
1. Arlington, Texas (Current)
2. Quincy, Illinois (early 2000's as a nanny)
3. Fort Worth, Texas (Almost my whole life)
4. Nacogdoches, Texas (Right before, and right after I was a nanny in Illinois)
D) Four TV Shows that I watch:
1. Jon and Kate plus 8 (Mondays...love it!)
2. Biggest Loser (shameless addiction to other people's weight loss....I have blogged about it!)
3. Super Nanny (We have similar styles, but she is so much cooler than me!)
4. Wife Swap (This is a hoot and hollar!)
E) Four places I have been:
1. Cozumel, Mexico (with Shayda while on a cruise!)
2. Salt Lake City, Utah ( A few times to visit friends...)
3. Chicago, Illinois (Labor Day weekend in 2001)
4. St. Louis, Missouri (4th of July 2001)
F) People who e-mail me (regularly):
1. American Airlines Credit Union (every morning at 5:30am)
2. Ebay (win or lose, they email)
3. Stephanie Spratt (usually a cute fun email!)
4. Aaron's teachers at school (maybe once a week)
G) Four of my favorite foods:
1. Middle Eastern (Go figure)
2. Just about anything from Texas Roadhouse (But typically the kaboob with extra veggies and loaded tatters)
3. Trying new recipes.....I know it isn't a particular kind of food, but i love it, it's my favorite!
4. Nachos (I love the crappy sporting event style...but I will eat them anywhere, lol)
H) Four places I would rather be right now:
1. At a scrapbook event (I have to catch up on mine and Aaron's...)
2. At the movies, watching Juno again
3. In a Marriot hotel, their bedding is so soft and squishy comfy!
4. In dreamland...I am sorta sleepy
I) Four friends I think will respond:
1. Stephanie
2. Angel
3. Karen
4. Jennie
J) Things I am looking forward to this year:
1. Getting my car up and running (I am pretty close to that, it may be at the end of this week...everyone pray!)
2. Reading some good books (I am up for suggestions...I am reading "The Other Boleyn Girl"" right now)
3. Simply Sweet Gourmet Creations and it's development
4. My daycare invention and it's development
Did you miss me?
I was sick...for about a week....
Had to send a few packages out (Sorry Lacie for the late Travel Swap...and it wasn't as good as I wanted it to be...I blame being sick!)....Swap packages, ebay sells....etc.
Babysat a few days
Had Valentines Day
Am dealing with getting my car fixed.....I will blog about that when my temper has cooled off...grrr.
Had to see 27 Dresses with Julie
I really have been on the computer, but for a few days, I was Blog Trolling....I love reading about other people....Blog Trolling is like reading a 365 day autobiography calaneder.. without those annoying papers to throw away!
For Valentines, Jason and I didn't really exchange gifts, instead we both got brand new phones....ooohhhhhh.... So for those of you who have tried calling me and was not successful for the few weeks my phone was off....well...it is back on.....and the number is still the same! But most importantly..it appears that Britney Spears and I have something in common...we both have the red blackberry pearl....
http://omg.yahoo.com/week-in-photos-feb-10-16-2008/photos/1372?nc
Lacie....THANKS SO MUCH for your swap items, I got them in the mail the 8th! I love love love it! You were saying how talented I was, but oh my word, you are creative in ways I only dream about! Thanks for the journal, photoalbum and mostly the cute luggage tag!!!
Is it really Feburary already?
Really?
Are you sure?
2008 is already moving along at break neck speed!!
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