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Let's get right to the " Did You Know" fun, shall we?   DID YOU KNOW... that I have been blessed by the luck of the Irish lately?   I have won 3 giveaways in the last two weeks!! Check me out!  I won an $80 gift card to CSN Stores from Otin . ..a $25 Gift Card to Krogers from Polka Dot Moon (who has a very cool etsy shop btw...) and this morning I won a $60 gift card to CSN Stores from Shannon over at It's Trickey!    I 'm hoping this arrives any day now! DID YOU KNOW... that this photo of Catherine (who looks psychotic here) and her dance teacher, Caitlin (whom she adores ), was taken only an hour before Irish Dancer Girl came down with major illness and had to leave her dance competition?  She could only complete 3 out of 8 dances, poor girl!  We had to high tail it back to Tucson for recuperation asap!  She's doing much better now, thank goodness! DID YOU KNOW... that I HATE clowns?  (my evil sister sent me that magnet a...

We're off to Phoenix today!  Irish Dancer Girl has a feis (pronounced "fesh"...it's an Irish dance competition) up there on Saturday.   Jazz hands are not just for jazz dancin'! Any good luck you can send her way is most appreciated!   I plan on hitting Hobby Lobby, Pottery Barn Kids, Rainforest Cafe and maybe Ikea while we're up in the Valley of the Sun.  Teen Caveboy wants to check out the Heart Attack Grill...for the sandwiches.....yeah....right....you tell me if you think it's all about the burger...                            I know...you can't take your eyes off those ginormous burgers... Sorry to destroy your dreams, Teen Caveboy...if you're really nice though, I'll take you to Burger King and get you a paper crown to wear while you're having your lunch:) Wishing you all a terrific weekend!!!  See you Monday!  Got some great giveaways brewing for next week to...

As I've moved along in my life growing spiritually, emotionally, and blah~blah~blah...I've created a routine that helps me set the tone for my day.  Immediately upon waking up from my deep golden slumbers, I catch the first conscious thought of the day.  I sit with it for a while...meditate on it...and see where it will take me as my day begins.... Normally, I will have thoughts like this... or this....... and sometimes this....(ok...a lot of times this...) You can imagine my shock and surprise over my first thought of today... Here it is in all of it's bubblegum glory... I kid you not...and then I couldn't remember the name of this show!!!  It drove me bonkers for a solid hour!  I remembered Freddie the Frog, Charlie the Owl and Henrietta Hippo...I even remembered Doug and Emmy Jo!  After making myself nuts for way too long, I finally Googled and found THE NEW ZOO REVUE!!!  (thank you, Google for stopping me from going into complete hysteria......

Back in the old days last year, I made up a bloggy thing called "Did You Know? Tuesday" ...It was my very lame and lazy attempt to write a bunch of stuff and pass it off as a post...oops...did I type that out loud???  I meant to say that it was my brilliant way to creatively write snippets of thoughts into one tidy post.  So dear readers, today I bestow upon you the return of "Did You Know? Tuesday" in all it's golden witty splendor....that's right...prepared to be ( bored silly and yawning in about 30 seconds...)  DaZzLeD!....Ready...set...Go!   Did You Know... that my 7 year old daughter received a job promotion today?  That's right!  She was promoted from  "Pack Mule"  to  "Roadie"  for doing such a bang up job carrying her brother's guitar gear to his lesson.  Bravo, Teen Caveboy for offering up such a worthy promotion! (and for promoting child labor...good on you!  High fives all around! That's my...

So, I just finished reading this book.... Jen Lancaster (once again) had me giggling and cackling from start to finish of this book.  It's a memoir where she uses her fashion choices of her youth to tell her story. It got me thinking about what my fashion memoir would "look like" and it hit me like a ton of grosgrain ribbon belts... I'm still stuck in my preppy 80's past (and my 70's hippie/gypsy style, but we'll save the 70's vibe for another day)....especially in the shoe department and with anything plaid.  Show me a pair of Minnetonka moccasins , Sperry Topsiders, Bass Weejuns  and colorful espadrilles and I'll bubble over like a bottle of freshy popped champagne.  As for plaid...I just can't get enough of plaid! I wore these all the time in my youth.... (sporto duck shoe...I had these in multiple colors)     If you look in my closet today, you will still find Tretorns  (now sporting a pink chevron), Sperry topsiders (now in plaid) a...

I'm hanging with the fabulous Mrs. 4444 today and joining the Friday Fragments Fun! Don't be shy!  Clickety on over and join the party! As you may have gathered from my lame title, my brain's on fog alert this morning...hopefully you won't think I'm completely mental by the end of this post!  Fragment 1    Comment Confusion.... As you may know, I've been out of the blogosphere for a bit takin' care of the hubster (aka Meat Sack, Chilly, Dude Who'd Better Bring Home Take-Out Tonight, etc...) I've discovered a lot of weird stuff going on in the blog world upon my return.  For instance, what is up with the massive amounts of comment spam?  Holy word verification, Blog Man! And why are they all connected to penis enhancing products?  (note to spammers...no penis here...I can see how you might think there would be with all of the pink, roses and girlish~ness over here...move along please, you freaks...)   I've seen lots of blogs with the new Comm...