31 Day Photo Challenge - Day 9

Oy.  It's been nearly a week since I've blogged...making Day 9 actually fall on, like, Day 16.  Ah well...life happens and I believe I warned you at the beginning that this was a blog of little guarantee.

On to the business at hand - A photo of the person who has gotten me through the most.  I have selected my beloved husband for this one.  While we've only known each other 970 short days, he's wiped a lot of my tears, made me laugh till my guts hurt, and promised to love me till death do we part (and looked smokin' hot doing it).

31 Day Photo Challenge - Day 8

I skipped another day ... so sue me.

Day 8 - A photo that makes me laugh.

 
This sad little display is from my sister and her fiance's birthdays last year.  Her birthday is the day before his, so my mom made one cake for the both of them ... and the thing was just pathetic (Mom, I swear, I love you, but a gem like this cannot remain unmocked!).  LOL  It was all sunken and flat and ... just awful!  So when she asked me to "decorate" the cake, this is what happened.

Listen, those silly little frosting tubes are not made for legible handwriting.  Which, truthfully, just added to the hilarity.  Probably didn't help that I was hysterical the whole time I was trying to "decorate" this ridiculous cake-tastrophe (I just made that up). 

This makes me LOL every time I look at it ... I hope you LOLed too :D

31 Day Photo Challenge - Day 7

A picture of my most treasured item.

This is my engagement ring/wedding band set (and Michael's wedding band on the bottom).  The reason I chose it as my most treasured possession is that it's irreplaceable.  My rings came from Michael's grandmother who, along with her brother, purchased the rings for her mother about 40 or so years ago.  When her mother passed away, Grandma got the rings back and held onto them for her oldest grandchild (my husband).  Funny thing is, Michael & I had started paying for a new set of rings from your run-of-the-mill mall jewelry store because he had forgotten all about his great grandmother's rings.  In early January of 2009, we went to visit Michael's grandparents and got to talking about marriage and rings and ... when Grandma showed them to me, I almost died.  I had always wanted an antique wedding ring (okay, I don't know if 40 years constitutes antique status or not, but you know what I mean - a used ring with a story behind it), but just didn't really think it was in the cards, so we started paying for new ones.  Then to find that, not only was Michael set to inherit his great grandmother's rings, but that they were GORGEOUS??  Seriously.  I don't think I could have picked better rings for myself.  They are beautiful and they are sparkly and they are unique.  There's a chip in the large center diamond and I secretly love it.  I think it gives the ring character and lends to its vintage charm.  I'd be interested to know what she (great grandmother) was doing when she chipped it. 

As a side note, I found it quite endearing that Michael proposed only about 2 weeks after we came home with the rings.  I truly hadn't expected it to happen so soon, but he just couldn't wait.  When the man knows what he wants, he gets it.  It's his M.O.

Michael's ring was also given to us by his grandmother, and had previously belonged to a family friend.  His is actually sort of triangular in shape, which is supposed to keep it from spinning around his finger.  At first, he found it sort of uncomfortable, but seems to have gotten used to it.

Love our rings.  Love our love.

Okay, now for the fun part.  I've been told that if you step back and look at this photo from a little bit of a distance, it looks like a ship on the horizon of a very calm body of water.  Chew on that - it's delicious.

31 Day Photo Challenge - Day 6

A picture of someone I'd like to trade places with for a day...

Um...this one is really hard for me.  On the one hand, it would be really easy to say that I want to trade places with, say, Miranda Lambert.  Be gorgeous, have a gorgeous fiance (Blake Shelton), have boatloads of talent and boatloads of money...and still be down-to-earth and not suck at life.

However, I can't help but think that, after a day of fame and money and all that fun stuff, it might make me resent my "normal" life - coming home to a stack of bills and my mediocre existence won't sound like much fun after that.  Hey, judge me if you must - I'm just being realistic.

Therefore, on the other hand, I could trade places with, say, a homeless person.

I imagine that would make me appreciate my situation a bit more.  In fact, just considering it is making me feel a little better about my life ... and worse about my attitude.  Who am I to whine about my overdue phone bill when I have a warm house to sleep in and running water? 

Besides...I'm not sure I can pull off blonde...

31 Day Photo Challenge - Day 5

...which is actually Day 6 because I skipped yesterday...and took quite a lashing for it from the bestie, who insists I should be blogging at least twice a day!!  LOL

Okay, so Day 5 calls for a photo of my favorite memory.  Are you joking?  How am I to be expected to pick ONE favorite memory from the arsenal of awesomeness that has been my life thus far??

So, here's the one I picked ... just understand that there are a million cherished memories in my head and in my heart and it was difficult to pick this one....

But here it is - the day the hubs proposed :D

The reason I picked this one is that, first of all, my friends were there.  And since my friends are so important to me, I felt like they should be involved in my "favorite" memory.  Secondly, um, duh.  I got engaged to the love of my heart!!!  He was so sweet - he planned for everyone to meet at Applebee's after the girls went to see Bride Wars (how fitting...) and had been in cahoots with the bestie so that she could record the proposal.  I found out later that the two of them had spoken by the restrooms and he was panicking because I already had a ring on my left ring finger.  She assured him that I would take it off if given the opportunity to replace it with one with all kinds of sparklies in it.  LOL  She was right.  I actually didn't even give him a chance to put it on my finger - I snatched it out of the box and put it right on!  20 months later we were FINALLY married!  Happy happy day!  Just for good measure, here's a picture of that day, too:

31 Day Photo Challenge - Day 4

A photo of my night.  To me, this seems oddly worded, but I can only assume that I am supposed to display pictures representing my night...tonight.  So...okay...Michael & I went to Costco and Target...so...here ya go.

Wait for it...

BAM!

 Ridiculously good-looking couple!

BAM! 

Wholesale shopping!

BAM!

Evil corporate empire! 

...I don't know where that came from...

I will take this opportunity to explain why we drove 20 minutes from our house to get groceries when we live 5 minutes from a Meijer:  God provides in unexpected ways.  My husband lost his job last month and we are...well...really poor now.  We were very nearly out of food to eat and had no idea how we were going to buy groceries.  BUT -- ta da!!!!  Michael remembered the Costco Cash card he had received when we returned the TV we originally purchased and replaced it with a similar, but slightly less expensive one (so Costco gave us a card with the difference on it).  AND we remembered the Target gift cards that we had received as wedding gifts.  So, we've got chicken nuggets to last us a lifetime and I got a 75 gallon drum of oatmeal for $4 from Costco (have I ever mentioned my love for gross exaggerations??).  I have shampoo and conditioner and ... my husband spoils me absolutely rotten because I also got the completely unnecessary but BELOVED Coke Zero.  So, life goes on, and I trust that God will continue to provide for us and, hopefully, he'll bring the hubs to a new place of employment.  If not, we're gonna have to hope that Bed, Bath, & Beyond starts selling food, cause those are the only gift cards we have left :)  He he he...

31 Day Photo Challenge - Day 3

A photo of the cast of my favorite show ... except this is my blog and I play by my own rules ... so here are pictures of the casts of my THREE favorite shows! Ha!  Take that!

Dexter

Weeds

My Name Is Earl

Good thing this was a quick post - it's WAAAYYY past my bed time!

Peace be with you.