Yesterday was the best day I had in a long time!

If you didn't read yesterdays post.. lemme get you caught up..
"We rented a pontoon boat and will spend the day on the St Johns River."



It was such beautiful day for it too.


There were 6 of us; my family of 4 and my S-I-L and B-I-L.

I took my video camera which is capable of taking still pictures. However, it doesn't take them very well. My SIL at Rock-Om took her professional camera and took LOTS of beautiful pictures. Sadly, somehow, I lost all of the videos I took as we cruised the river when I transferred from camera to 'puter.

Most of the pictures you will see will be hers, unless otherwise noted. She loves the wildlife, especially hawks. We were on the Dead River, which might explain the lack of wildlife we saw.



































The only gator we saw was this one















Here are other pictures of the trees surrounding the St Johns. It is so beautiful and peaceful









































We cruised the river for a majority of the day. It was hot, but there was a nice breeze. We cruised to Blue Springs. The water is a chilly 72° year round. The water looks like this














We a had tube This is me on the left, hubs in front of me, "The Boy" in the float and BIL on the right at the boil.. which by the way is UPSTREAM from the swimmin hole. The current is very strong so you have to battle it to get to the boil so you can float back down again.













This is a pic SIL caught of me. I love this pic














This is her driving the boat














And Tiffany just taking it all in




















Even my my words and her awesome pictures cannot describe what a wonderful time we had. To spend it with family made it all the more betterer. (no thats not a typo)

It is something we hope to do more than once a year. It rained about the time fireworks started; which was just as well.. we were all exhausted anyway.

I didn't get up til 10 this morning. My hunny was nice enough to let me sleep in a coupla extra hours. Now I am off to Super Wal-Fart to do some grocery shopping YAY. Wish me luck. I will probably visityour blogs later tonight.

I hope you all had a safe and wonderful day yesterday too.

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Happy Birthday America

Like many of you, I will not be around today. We rented a pontoon boat and will spend the day on the St Johns River. I hope to get a lot of great pics.


Stay safe, don't drink and drive. Remember, it's light, throw, then run away!

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Things I learned while channel surfing

Last night my husband was channel surfing. He stopped on the original movie The Wizard of Oz. I remember watching it as a kid and of course I was fascinated. Watching it last night, I couldn't help but be amused.

Dorothy thought she was in a tornado.


However, when she landed in Munchkinland, I am convinced (like many hippies before me) that she was actually on acid. I mean just look at the scenery.


I thought "What in the hell are the Ooompa Loompas doing in Oz?"


Then one of the little people said something about heroin and I realized that I had assumed the wrong drug.

What?

Heroin?

Yes Heroin, that's what they said.

No .. they were saying heroine as in female hero

Well that makes more sense. But I also realized helium was involved in the making of the movie. Don't believe me? Then how do you explain this?



After that scene Tiffany left the room. She couldn't stand all the singing. Hubs changed the channel.

He landed on the original "Dr Dolittle" Did you all know he was white?


I was just as shocked as you are.

He had just learned how to talk to 499 animals. He wanted to learn to speak goldfish. Hubby said, "Well that's easy, he just has to speak in a German accent"
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And yes.. I started this blog in my head as I was watching last night. Sad.. how very sad.

New Mental

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You want to do WHAT with that stick?

With money (or lack thereof) being the way it is when we get it, we should spend it wisely when it comes to food. We should come home from work ,take the scrounged money to the store and buy smart, cheap food with it for at least 2 dinners. Then we should come home, make the kids put the food away, beg one of them to make dinner. But if you're lucky you won't have to beg because one of them loves to cook and he is a great chef so he volunteers. When everyone else refuses to cook you should grin and bear it, not get pissed off and slam cabinet doors and slam things and bitch then entire time you are resisting the urge to spit in their food while cooking it.

In a perfect world, that scenario never happens because there are money trees everywhere, we sing Kum Ba Yah by the fire every night and everyone is happy. But this is the real world so get over it.

When The Boy called me from work and said he just got paid and if we need money to come get it, I should probably not have ordered from from Pizza Slut right before I went to go get the money. Especially when he works right next to a grocery store.

When I got there, I told him I only needed $40. He said "Good that's all I'm giving you, but there's one condition." I knew what was coming. "No fast food" he said. Shit! I almost lied and told him I was going to the store, but realized he would soon come home and find out that I shamefully lied to him. So I confessed. "Mom, we've got to get out of this habit" he said.

I did good though, I bought a medium pizza 2 pastas and breadsticks. There will be enough for lunch today, so it was ok right? RIGHT? Thank you, I knew you'd understand.

He came home from work last night with a branch in his hand. He didn't say hello or anything . Tiffany, my daughter, said "Oh look a fishing pole!" He just walked in and said, "You know what this stick is good for?" I said "I'm not sure I want to know."
He said, "Every time you order fast food, I'm going to hit you upside your head with it."

Wow, that's a little harsh. Especially when the pots say to the kettle almost daily, "Can we go and get some insert fast food chain here, there's no food here." Wait, aren't these the same kids that begged for fast food when it was our money we were spending and not theirs?

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What a bargain! NOT

I have been boycotting EGreedbay for a year and a half. No buying or selling. I was a helluva seller if I do say so myself. They made some policy changes increased fees so I stopped selling.

I digress. (I love that phrase.. it confuses some non-bloggers)

Someone recently sent me a $10 gift certificate (GC) to use in the rip-off giant auction site of the world. SO I thought what the hell. It won't cost me any money.

I found a reasonably priced NY & Co blouse. (LOVE that store!) Free shipping and under the amount of the GC. So I "bought it now" and tried to pay with the GC. The GC was sent to an email address not associated with my Paypal (PP) account, so it wouldn't work. Somehow, probably because I wasn't paying attention, I ended up paying for it through my PP account. Which had .13 in it. The PP account is linked to my bank account, so of course it took the balance from my bank account.. which has no money in it... so I will be charged $34 for a blouse that cost me $4. I called PP tried to get it resolved, but it would be a huge hassle. So I wrote the seller explaining what happened. I asked if she would refund the money so I could pay with the GC. I have yet to hear from her. What the hell.. its been 3 hours! Shouldn't she be waiting by her email with baited breath? OK OK I am calm again.

So, now I have to hope she is a kind seller and understands my hair color and will have mercy on me. If she does, I will have to call the bank and beg them NOT to charge me the $34.

Now all of this COULD have been avoided if I had remembered that I could add up to 7 email addresses that would associate with my PP account. Instead, I opened a new account with the email associated with the GC.. BUT I could not link my bank account because it was associated with my other PP account. So I had to enter a different account number to even close the account, but after doing that I STILL could not do it because the GC is associated with that email address. Yeah crazy.

So I have been up since 5:30 this morning and have been trying to get this mess all fixed. I had not showered since I woke up. When I finally got things semi-resolved, I looked at the clock and realized I had to be to work in the next 10 minutes... sigh. So here I am stinky at work... maybe this is why they isolate me. LOL

Luckily I live close to work, so I can shower on my lunch hour.

Hey! I'm a poet and didn't know it.

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