My new charm bracelet

I love charm bracelets and I have several.  They're really the only jewelry that I wear.  I got my first one from John and it started with two charms; one for each of the boys.  I added charms over the years and now it's full.  My next one I found in a magazine and it's has hearts of all types.  The one in the magazine was $1200 but I thought, "$1200?? that's nuts" and started collecting hearts charms.  It's just about full but I can't wear it until I get it to a jewelry store because all the charms are tied on with yarn.  My third one is the "new" type that Brighton and Pandora sells.  It has 5 beads that the boys picked out and gave me for Christmas last year.  My fourth charm bracelet is my "buyer beware" purchase.  I found this bracelet on Overstock.com along with a red heart that I thought I would add to my Heart bracelet.  Well, the bracelet showed up with the tiniest links I've ever seen in my life.  I really don't know what it's intended for; perhaps a child's bracelet??  So I hung the one red heart charm on it and called it good.  Turns out I quite like it.

My latest charm bracelet is from my Mom.  After my Dad died, she put together a Brighton bracelet with charms that reminded her of Dad.  She ended up with so many charms that it was too heavy to actually wear so she divided up the charms between my sister and me.  I was going through the charms with Sam and explaining that they're all the things that Grandpa loved.  There's a golfing charm and an ice cream charm and a coffee charm and a L.O.L charm (because Dad told stories that made everyone laugh) and a suitcase charm because Grandma and Grandpa traveled a lot…..then Sam piped up and said, 'What about napping? Is there a napping charm?"

Best Sign in Town

Picked up Abbey from the kennel and drove past my favorite sign in town.

Because 5 is just too damn fast

Washington DC

At the FDR Memorial, Sam reading Roosevelt quotes off the walls….

"We have nothing to fear but fear itself……and spiders…..definitely spiders."

Who are you in Fiction?

I just took the Book Week Scotland 2013 Personality Test

Who are you in fiction?

and it says I'm Katniss Everdeen

who are you??

Time Vampires

So John found this game, Mansion Makeover, and thought I'd like it.  You fix up your mansion by selling items in your house.  It's a search and find game; you look for silly items in cluttered rooms until you have enough money to buy a new couch.  It's cute and he was right, I did like it.  But it turned out that there are more games in this series and I really liked the garden makeover one.  I ended up with a beautiful garden but eventually ran out of things to fix up.  Game over.  Bummer.  But, oh oh oh, then I found AquaScapes where you build fish tanks and, uh-oh, when you get one tank completed you can build another one.  And another one.  And another one.  And then your kid wants a tank so you start a tank for him.  And you have to keep all of the tanks clean and all of the fish fed.  And you can name the fish.  And they talk to you.  And sometimes when you switch to a different tank they'll be all lined up, smiling at you and telling you that they love you.  And suddenly you've lost 2 days of your life.  Somebody stop me….please…..<sob>

Man, I really hate people….

But some of them are really asking for it.

So I'm at Jo Ann's.  The third person in a 9 person line at the check-out counters.  There's naturally only one clerk working but she has called for assistance to things are looking up.  The lady at the counter has one return, one price adjustment and is conducting some type of hostile takeover/kidnap for ransom/unintelligible transaction involving her phone that has the clerk so baffled she's called for a manager.  And just to round things out, the lady ahead of me has squatted on the floor and said, "Oooohhhhh, don't come now."  WTF?!?  And in comes Little Miss Thing who walks straight up to the register to be helped.  "I dropped something off yesterday, blah blah blah….."  Me, "Excuse me, there's a line."  LMT, "Oh, you don't mind, do you?"  Me, "Well, you know what?  Since you clearly need help from the clerk, why don't you get in line with the rest of us who are waiting to be helped by the clerk."  I know your mother told you that you were the most special little girl in the world but you're not.  And if anyone is cutting in line, it's the lady having a baby.  And only because I don't want placenta on my shoes.

You know you're old when.....

Me:  "Ugh, Sam, you sound like a broken record!"

Sam:  "What's that?"