bee and rose

I'll te ll ya' what's new....there's tainted love at my house. ... My Precious (nickname for my laptop) has contracted an STD...(Stupid Technical Disease.) Some Jerkity McJerk Jerk infected my laptop with a virus.  I am not a happy bee...This virus actually reconfigured my anti-virus software to pretend like it was still working...ugh...It also possibly infected my flash drives too....fabulous (insert sarcasm)..... I will be taking Miss Precious and her flash drives to the Computer Guru tomorrow...these guys know their STD's....I hope there is a cure! I do realize the holidays are over and I really need to change out my header!  I haven't completely lost my mind...yet.....I will be sporting a new look as soon as my computer disease is healed:) Oh, and here's the icing on the cupcake of my day....a huge mountain lion decided to come hang out in my yard this evening!  Yep, it completely freaked me out!  I haven't seen it in the last half h...

Life is slowly returning to "normal" (a new normal) around the Bee and Rose.... I've come to realize during this ordeal with Chilly that I am definitely a C reature of Habit . I found that even during my trips to the hospital over the last month, I created a routine. I always stopped at the small cafe in the hospital lobby for coffee before heading up to Chilly's room. After arriving in Chilly's room, I would fluff the pillows and blankets for him, clean up his tray table, then freshen his water. I would then make all of the family phone calls to update everyone on his condition. I did this every single day in the same order. Shortly after arriving home with Chilly, I realized I was continuing the same routine at home, but now had added dispensing medications, checking blood sugar and blood pressure, and occupational therapy to the daily rounds. I think routine is like a huge security blanket for me. Do you have any routines that are your "security b...

Are you ready to descend into the Friday Fragment madness with me? ~AWWW SHUCKS~ A heartfelt thank you goes to the adorable Michelle from Flirty Bird for sharing this lovely award with me! Michelle creates fabulous hair accessories! Her designs are awesome! I highly recommend a visit to her shop! She is also selling Trash Ties hair accessories which I absolutely have to buy! Here's a little sample of what they can do! Another warm thanks goes out to the very sweet LT from A Day With Two for sharing this wonderful award with me! LT is one of the kindest bloggy ladies you'll meet! I love her "Take Me Back Tuesday" posts! If you have a moment, please stop by and say hi to these lovely ladies! And as always at B&R feel free to grab these awards for yourself! **** ~I Like Mike~ I like guys named Michael McDonald....Granted, I only know two, but I like them both so I'm kind of assuming it's the name I'm attracted to.... I like this one.... You prob...

There’s a new sheriff in town, folks. His name is Johnny Law AKA Johnny Blog-Law . He tried to shake me down a couple of times yesterday thinking I was mainlining via internet connection. He was wrong. I wasn’t doing the hard stuff. I was tokin’ on some Word…as in document…Word document. Incident #1 occured at 9:00 am…Johnny Blog-Law (you know him as Tween Caveboy) leaps in front of me and ‘my Precious’ (the laptop). “BUSTED!” he yells, hands drawn in the gun position. “Step away from the computer, Mom.” Not fazed, I calmly state that I want my attorney present before I agree to anything. “No can do, lady,” he laughs maniacally. “What exactly am I being charged with, Officer?” I challenge him with my evil stink-eye. “Blogging during school hours.” he stares at me disapprovingly. “You got any evidence, Officer?” I ask raising my one eyebrow at him. (This freaks my kids out that I can do the one eyebrow raise…) “Duh…you’re on the computer and it’s 9:00 am.” he smirks with confidence. “...

I love a good parade! As a child growing up in the Midwest, I went to lots of them. I actually marched in a few, and rode with Ronald McDonald on a float once! My favorite parades were during the Pumpkin Show in my hometown of Circleville, OH. I spent yesterday walking with Catherine in the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Tucson. It was lots of fun, but I had some seriously aching muscles last night! Now, this is the first parade my kids have ever seen “in real life.” We watch the Macy’s Turkey Day Parade every year. There aren’t many parade opportunities in AZ so I can't wait to hear what my kids will think about their first parade! Oh, and yeah, Tween Caveboy...someone from the Tucson Irish Community got a shot of you at the parade! lol!! Later, we’re hanging around talking about the parade and Connor says, “those Dancing Queens were hideous.” I’m thinking how cute he is for calling the festival queens “Dancing Queens.” Apparently, I have been overplaying my ABBA cd lately. Trying to...

It's Warm Fuzzy Friday! I'm feeling a bit random today. (I think I caught it from other bloggers...) I've got a ramble, a warning, a rant, and experiment for you today! (I'll try to keep it under 30 minutes of your time....hee hee hee...) The Ramble... I found a wolf spider creeping around in my bathroom last night! A freakin' wolf spider! Chilly almost had another heart attack! He doused it with window cleaner to stun it, but it kept crawling! He tried to drown it so we wouldn't have gross spider guts all over the tub. That thing would not give up! He finally resorted to the shoe stomp dismemberment. AND THE TWO HALVES CRAWLED BACK TO EACH OTHER! Finally, I swooped in with a tissue, grabbed the halves and flushed that sucker! Wolf spider bites are dangerous business that can make you very ill and require hospitalization. So yes, I am glad Chilly murdered the wolf spider! (Just so you know how much I love you all...I removed the picture of the spider because it ...

Picture yourself driving through the beautiful desert southwest at sunrise....oh, looky...there's a sign ahead...it says "Beware! Rambling Blogger Ahead! Continue at Your Own Risk!" As many of you know, I live in the desert. Not the sand dune, camel habitat kind of desert, but the southwestern desert of the good old USA. Judging from the amount of email I received about those pig-like demons crazy javelinas around my house, it occured to me that many of you may not be familiar with some of the freakin' scary critters beautiful desert creatures that visit our home on occasion. (yeah, look at my coolness...I learned the "scratch" html...I can't guarantee I won't be horribly annoying with it...continue to read at your own peril...) "Say Hello to My Little Friend(s)" (It really gives it that extra "umpf" when you use your Al Pacino Scarface voice...) The Gila Monster Cute, huh? This little devil's jaws are filled with poison. H...

I woke up this morning to find that my husband had left the TV on all night. I was about to nag him about the cost of electricity, how much this disturbs your sleep pattern, blah, blah, blah, when I rolled over toward the TV and saw this.... Oh yeah...that's right...Ty Pennington was plastered all over the TV screen...I stopped nagging in mid-sentence and curled up in my blankie...(cue the Barry White music...) It seems that this hunkalicious hottie is in my neck of the woods today....mmmm....and it seems that at 2:00 pm, he and the crew from Extreme Makeover Home Edition will be doing a big family reveal not too far from me....yuuummmmyyyy......what's a girl to do???? I start planning my day...hmmm...Cat has dance in Tucson at 3:00 just down the road from where this big reveal will take place...let's see...can I...oops, I mean can Cat & I make it there and get to dance in time???? (I'm getting all bubbly feeling inside...) What should I wear? How should I do my hai...

I am not a fan of the Javelina! They are hairy pig-like creatures from hell... (pronounciation: have-uh-leen-uh or you can just call them your favorite curse word) See those lovely spikes coming out of this stupid jerk's mouth? Those are TEETH! These devil's spawn are nasty business, and in case you haven't heard...I AM NOT A FAN!!!! Now, just so you know, I love most creatures great and small...except for javelinas, scorpions, tarantulas and rattlesnakes...which sucks for me because I live smack dab in the middle of the desert. (Listen Javelinas, the Coyotes visit every day and they don't bother a thing. Why can't you take a cue from them and start showing a little respect when you come by for some prickly pear? Even the bobcat just hangs out in the back catching some rays without raising a ruckus.) I have tried to tolerate these creatures just for the sake of having to share ecological digs. But over the last few weeks, the javelinas have been wreaking flippin...