Challenge: Lottery

Blog Challenge - Day 14

Half-way through the challenge!  Are you tired of reading that random-ness that is my life?! 😉

Carry on.....

If I won the lottery, I would buy Jim a few acres of waterfront property on Gull Lake with a bad ass fishing boat.  

There would be room for a guest house for Bill and Charlene to spend the Summers in Minnesota. 

 This is what our evenings would look like.....

I'd take Delanie to Paris then buy her a flat in either New York City or San Francisco.  

I would buy Tracey & Doug a home in Cozumel.

I would hire the best doctors in the world to treat Charlene's MS.  

I would buy Garrett & Maci a house close to Jim and I on the lake.  Jim and Garrett could start a fishing guide service so they had an excuse to be on the water every day.

I would open a boutique that only sold items that gave back to the community.

Challenge: Earliest memory

Blog Challenge - Day 13

Instead of my earliest memory, let's talk about a few of my favorite memories.

Not following the challenge rules.......that's how I roll.  😎

Favorite memory #1

The first big snow storm after we moved to Minnesota.  

I was in the front yard taking pictures (I know.....shocker!) while Garrett and Delanie made a snowman.  Garrett got a wild hair up his butt and stripped down to his boxers and ran down the street.  Y'all.....it was 15 degrees outside!  

I almost wet my pants laughing so hard!

Favorite memory #2

During Delanie's first year of Marching Band, she played the quad drums.  They were as big as she was.  Jim and I were watching the show and she had a solo.  She nailed it!  I was so happy I started crying right there in the middle of the parade. 

Favorite memory #3

Every single second of the long weekend Charlene and I spent in New Orleans last year.

Challenge: Fridge

Blog Challenge - Day 12

What's in my fridge?

Oh Lordy......if you knew how many arguments discussions Jim and I have had about this very thing!

Jim has a super-sensitive stomach so he's very particular about how food is stored.  On the other hand, I have an iron stomach so I think the instructions on food containers are more like suggestions.  😏

Perfect examples:  Pickles & Ketchup

I cannot stand cold pickles or cold ketchup.  I know it says "refrigerate after opening" but I would prefer to keep them in the pantry.  

I've had to give in on the ketchup.  Thank goodness Jim doesn't like pickles.  :)

OK, what's in my fridge.....

Milk

Eggs

Three kinds of butter (what....why?!)

Bloody Mary mix 

Apples that are two weeks old 

Sugar cookie dough

Leftover fried chicken from dinner 

(Jim will probably eat these before I wake up in the morning)

17 bottles of water

BBQ sauce (I put it on EVERYTHING)

Cream cheese

Enough cheddar cheese to cause a road block

Soda

Pepper jelly bought from a sweet lady at the Farmers Market

Salmon spread from the local deli

An unopened bottle of Limoncello from our trip to Italy

This reminds me that I need to make a grocery run soon.  😀

Challenge: Favorite things

Blog Challenge - Day 11

My favorite things.....

Every person in my completely dysfunctional family.

Summer in Minnesota.

Holding hands.

Whispered conversations in the dark with Jim.  

When someone cries happy tears.  

Traveling.

Organizing a creative space.

Cupcakes.

Hot chocolate with peppermint.

Friday nights on the couch in my pajamas.

Tulips.

Shoes.

Diet Sunkist orange soda.

Getting so emotionally vested in a book that you miss the characters after you're finished reading.

Being Southern.  

Challenge: Best feature

Blog Challenge - Day 10

I would have to say my best feature is my twisted sense of humor.

I'm the first one to laugh at myself.

I'm sarcastic 99% of the time.  

The dirtier the joke, the funnier it is to me.  

For some reason, I really have to get to know you before I open that part of myself up.  I think people are surprised at my sense of humor because I come across as shy or quiet when I'm really the opposite.  

Challenge: Bad habits

Blog Challenge - Day 9

I'm an interrupter.  It's horrible......but I'm working on it.  

I have absolutely no will-power.....especially with ice cream.  

I am super stubborn.  

I totally suck at follow-up.  

I wake up really slow.  Trust me, you don't want to talk to me when I first wake up.  Let me come to you and we can stay friends.  😉

Challenge: Purse

Blog Challenge - Day 8

OK, can we just take a minute to drool over my purse?!

Holy balls......I love this sucker!!  It's big enough to hold my journal and iPad......that's a must!

Jim bought it for me while we were in Italy.  Click here to see our Italian adventure.

Back to the challenge.......what's in my handbag.

Flash drives 

Brighton wallet  (another gift from Jim several years ago)

Burts Bees lip balm

Inhaler

Euros

Ear buds

Allergy meds

Ice Breakers cinnamon mints

Measuring tape (you would be surprised how often I use this sucker!)

Face wipes

Sunglasses