Mae @ Rainydayinmay

And finally…

Published on March 25, 2008 by Mae @ Rainydayinmay2 Comments

My pokey self is finally starting to catch up and a winner was randomly picked from my give-away post! (which is sad because my April give away is right around the corner!!!!)

Amydeanne from 160 acre woods is the winner of my top-secret-birthday-gift give away! If you get a chance, check out her beautiful blog and congratulate her!

Thursday…

Published on March 20, 2008 by Mae @ Rainydayinmay12 Comments

This is some kind of a blog record! First I post about the truly beautiful beads I received from Groovy Mom but now I get to post about this incredibly sweet award! She rocks. Truly… She is awesome. Read her. Get to know her…

Go. Now. I’ll wait.

Ok. Are you back? Well that’s not all… Go here:Girlymom4 because she is also completely awesome! (and not because she gave me the award too, but because she really is so kind and thoughtful and wonderful. you should read her too!

I will still be here when you get back…

With this truly beautiful award comes an original Meme, (because Groovy Mom is original and cool, but I feel I may have already conveyed this point so I will cease to push my case.)

1. What is something you have learned in the last 6 months?
wow… That I am capable of being alone. That I am as independent as I hoped I was. That I am stronger than I thought I was, and that it’s never too late to go back and love some one…

2. Name the last food you tried for the very first time. Did you like it?
I try a lot of new recipes, but as for an entirely new food- I don’t know.

3. If money, time, responsibilities, and obligations were not considerations what would your life look like right this minute?

I would spend a portion of each day barefoot on a shoreline. I’d write from my veranda as the sunset over the coast. My dogs would run proudly with sticks along the earthy wall of the sea. I’d serenade the waves with the Cello, cook food for my family with top of the line EVERYTHING from ingredients to appliances and never have to clean a thing again.

4. Working within your limitations what things could you do to create some of the feelings you would expect to have if you were living your dream life?
Now this is a tricky question… I guess, never lay my head down at night without knowing that I lived that day as best I could. To seize every peaceful moment I can and steal away to the sea whenever earthly possible!

5. Is there a current goal on which you are working?
There are a ton. Have you not seen my goal list?

6. What is one thing you could get up and do right this minute to put you closer to your goal?
Put on a scrunchy and go introduce myself to my sewing machine. Then again, it’s 11 and that might piss my family off a bit.

7. Is there something stopping you from doing that one thing right this second?
Three sleeping people… I suck :)

And now I need to pass on this green & yellow square of bliss & sunshine to five blogs who brightem my daily world and make me smile! There are so many…

List of reasons why I failed…

Published on March 17, 2008 by Mae @ Rainydayinmay17 Comments

Ok…

So it’s not a list. I lied.

I have already failed NaBloPoMo horribly, why in the world would I subject myself to it’s chains of bloggy bondage by continuing to sacrifice myself by pelting out lists which were, in all honestly, annoying the crap out of me.

There, I’ve said it.

Me… The compulsive list maker, annoyed by lists. Call the irony police- the end of the world must be approaching. As Chw would say (quite gleefully, I might add) “This is more of a miracle then flying pigs.” But really, I have to pause and wonder- “who would care if pork suddenly became airborne? I mean, really… Fowl flies, some fish apparently fly. Why not pork. Heck, let beef get in on the movement…

So yes, after a recklessly drunken weekend (of absolutely NO drinking on my part, or Chw’s for that matter as he doesn’t drink) I felt completely hung over and sluggish both weekend days. Denae’s somewhat-surprise party on Friday night went well. It was loads of fun and somewhere along the line I got over my fear of doing stupid cranium challenges in front of complete strangers. They say alcohol gives you that kind of courage, maybe that one friend of hers who did drink (because he WAS the only one) somehow freed my inhibitions. Who knew… For years I’ve been holding back thinking I was the one who was supposed to get drunk. Ha!

Saturday night my friend Dandy had a party and so I was off to that too… That’s me, the social butterfly. Sunday afternoon, after a trip to see Horton Hears a Who and then a knock-down-drag-out fight with Chw (not literally, but OHHHH, I felt like knocking him down!) my friend Tenille and her kiddos came over. All in all, it was a great weekend. Lots of sleep, still flat-out exhausted. I blame all of the lists… There is no one else.

And gosh, I am 2 days behind on my blog-March-giveaway. Wanna know something else? I don’t want to decide right now! (can you feel the ripples of shock cascading through the inter-verse???) So, Thursday morning I will post the winner. That means you have until Wed. night to enter here if you haven’t! ok???

10 & MPM…

Published on March 10, 2008 by Mae @ Rainydayinmay21 Comments

There are frozen foods to that, meals to plan, laundry to get caught up on and birthday gifts to buy! So much to do this week that my head is spinning and growing dizzy from it all! (and nope, the dizziness likely has nothing to do with the fact that both of my ears are plugged due to allergies and so my equal librium may be compromised!)

In other news, we did not win the Idaho Powerball amount. So sad. We had such honorable plans for the money too. Normally we don’t play, but when it’s over 200 Million, we sort of feel required to. Ya know? Like, it’s our civic duty…

Oh well…

Today’s list is, in honor of being great big Lottery losers- What we’d do if we won…

1) Buy a sensible, but cute, house.

2) Buy my mom a small house and move her here.

3) Pay off Chris’s parents house.

4) Pay off my car and give it away, give Chw’s car away and buy him a small truck and me an xterra.

5) go on a nice, stress free vacation.

My husband the work-a-holic wants to keep his job (he announces, because you know this is never going to happen so let’s be totally practical about it! LOL) I said I wanted the majority of the rest of it to be divided between investments and a series of accounts… An acct. for Genny; an account with X amount automatically deposited for us, monthly; and that sort of account for my mom. Her health isn’t good and she wouldn’t have to work again. We would probably, at some point, adopt another child.

You know, because it’s never going to happen- but it doesn’t hurt to dream!

Back in the early stages of our marriage, we spent hours planning out our lottery winnings (which we didn’t play because we were dirt poor)… Those were some of the best times from those years. Funny how dreaming is such a beautiful thing. So hopeful and Whimsical…

Monday– Pork Chops with Sage Sauce, Williams Sonoma Cheddar Chive potatoes and steamed Broccoli

Tuesday– Pioneer Woman’s chicken Spaghetti, salad

Wednesday– Homemade Chicken Pot Pie

Thursday– Shredded Beef Enchilada’s & Spanish Salad

Friday– Morning Star Farms Grillers, homemade mac & Cheese, steamed peas