You are talking alot…

When I was young, my Uncle Gill used to call me Chatterbox.

Apparently nothing has changed…

Thanks for listening, each and every one of you, I am amazed how much this has become a part of my life.

Happy Posting peeps~xoxox

Rolling with the punches…

Well today I had an open house.

I spent all of last night and two hours this morning getting the house ready. I have OCD, so it is never ok with me to just leave it as is and make sure it is vacuumed. I end up rearranging crap and making it fabulous. So now it is…

No one showed up.

That is typical for open houses. Well mine anyways.

I have never had a successful open house. It is no one’s fault. It just is what it is.

I feel sorry for my Real Estate agent today. I know she is trying so hard, and doing everything that she can do, with little to no result.

It is frustrating for us both. She left me the cutest note after the open house, that totally made me smile…

I sit inside your home and say why…why…

is no one coming here or writing offers.

I just don’t get it!!

No one came :(

TTYS…Anita”

I mean seriously, I don’t even ever need to sell my house after that…ever.

She just, in a few little words, made me feel like all the work I have done, and all the blood, sweat and tears that have come with me owning this house has made it all worth while…

Because it is a HOME…

My home…

It will sell. I know this. So does she.

But after so much time passing and no interest, it is hard to sometimes keep that in perspective.

I am trying to though, I really am. And then today…

I had a sort of bizarre thing happen to me at work.

This lady that I had talked too about three weeks ago came back in…she lives in the same little neighborhood that I am thinking of buying in. She has a two story house there, I believe she also backs onto the greenspace…

Well…today she asked me if I was still interested in living there. I said I was, but was still trying to sell my house.

She said that she is considering selling her place.

Was I interested?

Well, yes…I am. I would love to take a look at her house and see if it will work for me. Not having a real estate agent would be a bonus for that side of the sale, and maybe we could arrange something between us, that would insure she would wait for me to sell and not list it.

We will talk, I am waiting for her to call me back so we can chat about it and I can go over and take a look at her place.

I know that the Universe will provide what I need. Maybe this opportunity was what the hold up has been…maybe not.

I am not sure, but I am optimistic about everything to come.

My future will be all it should be with whatever lesson I need on it’s way.

So… to my Real Estate agent and friend Anita…don’t worry girl…we will get this done, it might just take a bit longer is all.

And to the Universe.

I get it. I am rolling with it. It’s all good…

The doll in the yard…

When I was about 6 years old, we lived on a piece of property, that was on the bottom of the property that my parents once again live on. Get it? Make sense?

Let me explain.

My parents and my brother and I had a small lovely little house on Henry Road, at the time the road was dirt. Two minutes walk up the little dirt road lived my grandparents (Marybelle and Fred) and my Nana, they were my Dad’s folks and Granny.

About a twenty minute drive away lived my other grandparents, my Mom’s Mom (Anne) and her husband Ken, who was my Mom’s step dad…

Are you keeping up?

We lived there until I was in grade 4, we then moved to a bigger house about 20 minutes away from there to a place called Langdale.

My parents lived in that house until my Grandad passed away about 23 years ago. They then sold their house and built a house on the property between my Grandparents house and the house we used to live in…that is where they are now.

Ok, now that we sort of have that straight, lets go back to the olden days…

I was 6, I remember playing out in the yard, we were underneath the picnic table…when you are a wee kid, it makes an awesome fort…

Now I am assuming being typical kids on a summers day, we had stuff strewn about everywhere, not a surprising thing with a 6 year old and a 4 year old right?

My Grandma Anne and Ken came for a visit, and of course we dropped what we were doing and went running for hugs…

Pretty normal stuff…

I don’t remember the in between bits, I assume they stayed for a visit, smoked in our non smoker house and probably had a drink or five and then as they were getting ready to leave, my Grandma walked past my favorite doll laying in the grass, picked her up and said to me…

“If you aren’t going to look after this doll I am taking her home.”

I remember asking her to please leave her, I had just left her there because we were playing. She was having none of it…off she went with my doll.

So let me just interject here, that I had an amazing childhood, my family was amazing and we loved each other to the ends of the earth.

Sadly they have all passed away, except for my parents, my Mom has three brothers that are all fine and well, only one of which she ever sees. Her family was fairly broken up after the divorce.

My Dad’s sister whom I adored, died very young from cancer when my oldest son was just a tiny infant.

My Grandma Anne spent a lot of her life making her husband Ken miserable. I mean she had her moments where she was at least tolerable to the rest of the world, but she nagged poor Ken to death on his deathbed, she died fairly shortly after he did. Probably from lack of anyone to torment, I am sure she is nagging him in hell.

I am not saying that I didn’t love her, but as an adult I realized just how miserable some people can be in life.

I used to clean their house for them for a couple of years after I got divorced.

I couldn’t believe when I went into her bedroom and lo and behold, there was my doll. Seriously.

I went home to my Mom and told her that she still had it after all of these years…I couldn’t believe she had kept it.

Grandma Anne helped me through a tough time in those last years, she bought my wedding rings from me for more than I would have ever gotten anywhere else, and she wore them and enjoyed them too…it really helped me out when things were near poverty level for me, (she willed them back to me when she died) I was so grateful for my family’s help during that time in my life. She was wonderful with my kids, more so than I remember her being with us. Mind you take away too much alcohol and add 20 years. Stuff changes.

She died years ago now, I never did ask her why she kept my doll.

My Mom asked me if there was anything I wanted after she died…

I said yep…I want my doll back.

So maybe she did me a favor, cause now I have a doll from my childhood I never would have had otherwise.

Even though as a child it broke my heart when she drove out of my driveway with my favorite baby in her car…

Sometimes you have to let go of the childhood memories and try and remember the good stuff. I often wonder why I held onto the anger I had over her taking that doll from me, but I did for years, into adulthood…

Such a wasted emotion, and maybe, just maybe if I had asked her why she had taken it, she would have had a reason, something that wouldn’t have occurred to me as a sad little 6 year old girl.

Or maybe not.

But maybe I could have told her how it made me feel, how sad I was, how long I had held onto being mad about her taking it from me…

Honesty nearly always changes everything doesn’t it??

Families are funny that way. We never really appreciate the good bits as much as we should because the bad can get in the way. I have been blessed to have the family I have, all of them, I am thankful for all the love, the laughter the joy and the tears. For the learning, the teaching, good and bad.

No one ever has a perfect family…you take the good with the bad and make the most of what you get. The awesome thing with my family is that we have always, no matter what, been able to laugh our way through pretty much anything.

I am thankful for that every single day of my life.

Who says dysfunctional isn’t a good thing?

Super Sexy Sunday aborted…

I have decided it is time for something new. I am changing up the blog a bit recently, and I think it is time for this to go.

I am not sure why I am done with it. Maybe a little bored, maybe too much of a tomboy, maybe just too damn much work to think of something to be sexy about once a week.

Whatever the reason, I am moving on. I will put something fabulous in place of SSS, something helpful, useful, probably crafty or DYI ish…or maybe something that will include all of the above at certain points.

It will be a surprise.

It will probably be next week, but I can’t guarantee it :) Next week Hannah is coming to stay with me. Tuesday I have more tat work  done, Wed and Thursday will be hanging out with Bill and Hannah, and Friday we head down Island to Sunfest to see Travis Tritt and Aaron Pritchett!!!! Whoot!!!

We are gonna have fun and you KNOW there will be pictures…

So thanks for showing up for Super Sexy Sunday…sorry it’s over, but I am totally over it man…

Trust me, the next thing will be more fun.

And informative.

I have ideas.

A vision if you will…

Stay tuned for more…

and even without the post, have a Super Sexy Sunday my friends xoxoxo

Super Sexy Sunday…

This week I am going to list my five absolutely favorite beauty things, some of them I unfortunately can’t afford all the time, some of them are totally affordable, but they are all fabulous!!

1. Pureology Shampoo and Conditioner…

It is expensive, $25 each (shampoo and conditioner) but it makes your hair feel absolutely incredible and you really only need a tiny amount, like the size of a nickel, even for long hair like mine.

2. John Frieda Collection Satin shine for brunettes…

 I have posted about this product before, but I need to say it again. It doesn’t matter what color your hair is, if you want texture and body and amazing smelling hair, BUY THIS!!! It is about $13 a bottle, but lasts for a long time and well worth the money.

3. Physician’s Formula, hide and conceal.

This concealer is seriously affordable, I have really dark circles under my eyes, that I have tried my whole life to cover up. This by far works the best of anything I have ever used. I paid about $7 for it at Walmart.

4. Maybelline’s Lash Stiletto… 

If you are like me you HATE clumpy mascara, this stuff is amazing, and never clumps, even when it is nearly time for a new bottle!! I paid about $9 for it at Walmart…

5. La Senza (Victoria’s Secret) Lip gloss…

I paid about $15 for two of them, I have seriously had this tube for ages, it lasts forever, I LOVE it and use it every single day. It comes in different flavors. Buy some, really.

Feel beautiful girls!!!! xoxox

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Super Sexy Sunday…

This week we are going to check out some way awesome summer trends :)

1. Super cute summer dress… if it ever gets warm enough to wear it!!!

  

2. Really PINK toes!!! I must get this color!!! Love it!!

3. Love, love, love these Stella McCartney shoes…

4. Silver necklace…Yes please…so awesome!!

5. Great hair, I am working towards this :) So pretty…

6. Coach Purses, what is NOT to love?

7. The best part of summer, Old Navy Flip flops…

8. My new summer drink??? A Mango Margarita!!!! I think so…click on the picture to check out My life as a Mrs…always great recipes!!

9. Cutest bracelet EVER!!!

10. And last but not least, favorite eye color for the summer…isn’t she just totally adorable???