I'll have a PINK Christmas!

OK I really don't have time to post today but I could NOT wait to show you my TREE!!! LOOK... yes... I am yelling.... I LOVE LOVE this tree!  I got it all decorated and set up today and it just makes me smile!  Pastor Mark took one look at it and said he thought that there was something in the church bylaws about no pink trees allowed..... bwa ha ha ha Isn't he just too funny?  I told him that surely he didn't want to give me trouble over a gift from my husband?  He said it was too pink... now I'm sorry but that is like too much chocolate... is that even possible?  My head just does not compute that... and yes... it does compute other things.  Ha!!  I found that I have a pink fleece scarf I wasn't using that I am going to wrap around the base tomorrow for a tree skirt.  Can't wait!

In other Christmas news we finished our decorating this evening.  I am SO proud of us.  It's Nov. 30th and the inside and outside decorating is done and we have 4 presents done.  I haven't had it this together since we moved here so I am excited about that! 

CJ Banks had a one day sale today everything was 30% - 50% off AND free shipping.  I got this boiled wool jacket (in blue) and this sweater in orange.  I probably sound spoiled... but honestly... I had limited things to wear last season because of my new size and now this year, a couple of the new things from last year are too big!  Happy, happy about that, but also needing another thing or two for church/work. 

I was hoping I didn't also sound spoiled with my Christmas list ideas from yesterday.  I totally have no delusions that I will be receiving, nor do I need all those things.  It is just fun to "window shop" so to speak and look at the pretty stuff.  I enjoy reading other blogs where people link cool stuff they have been shopping for so I thought it would be fun to share here on my blog.  Although I am definitely a gift kind of girl (I've been told its one of my "love languages."  Ever read that book?) and really enjoy the giving and receiving I want to do my best this season to keep my focus on the reason for the season which is the birth of Jesus my Savior.  I want to read the Christmas story.  I want to celebrate His birth and God's awesome plan to save us from our sins so that we could be with Him and have peace with Him.  That is what it's all about.  Emmanuel... which means God with us.  How amazing and awesome is that? 

Keeping all that in mind as we begin December I bid you good night and Merry Christmas!  

It's A PINK Christmas Tree Charlie Brown!

Ok.. bear with me while I get the hang of the new post editor from blogger.  Did you know there was a new post editor blogger friends?  No?  Me either.  I found out by accident last night.  I had noticed a blurb from blogger somewhere that was saying that now when you click on "next blog" they have changed it so it will pull up other blogs with the same language and similar content to your own.  Cool huh?  So I clicked next a few times and came across this one.  She mentioned the new blogger post editor here so of course I had to go check it out! So far I am loving it!  Much easier to do photo uploads and placement.  MUCH easier... and also liking the way links are done now.  COOL.  My only complaint was that I couldn't figure out how to add a video so for today's video, I had to go back into the settings and switch back to the old editor while I did my video loading and then switched back... I am sure it's probably easy and staring me right in the face right? 

Well the video is from church this morning.  I always feel a little weird posting videos of myself singing... like ya'll are going to think I'm um all impressed with myself or something.  Um SO NOT the case.  I could NOT sing a note if it wasn't God doing it.  I am a big chicken on my own.  Trust me.  The first time I posted a singing video it was because it was the first duet Darrel and I ever did together.  Since that time, I have been asked to post others.  Honest... I heistated before posting one a few months ago and then God used it in a couple of cool ways so I felt like I did the right thing.  It HUMBLES and amazes me that he can take someone like me and use me at all.  I am weak and struggling and so unconfident so much of the time.  I just keep trying to do my best to do my best one step and one day at a time and I try to obey Him...

The song I sang this morning is called "What Do I Know of Holy" by Addison Road.  Love, love, love that song.  The first time I heard it the words hit me right between the eyes and I bet I hit the back button and listened to it again about 6 times.  Since then it was promptly loaded on my ipod and has become a favorite.  The words just get me every time.  We can think we know so much.  We can think we know God so much, maybe even espeically when we've been a Chrstian for a long time... but wow.. I feel like he keeps showing me that we don't even scratch the surface of who and what He is and what His power is and what amazing plans He has for us.  I feel like that is what that song says too and why it speaks to me so much.  Such truth. 

LOOK what my husband got for me today.

It's a PINK Christmas tree Charlie Brown... sorry... Got carried away for a second.  How can I help myself? It's PINK.  Just last night my husband was looking for outdoor light timers on Walmart.com and came across all these little colored 3.5 ft Christmas Trees.  They had pink!  Sorry... I think I mentioned that... So today, after church and then lunch he askes me if I need to go anywhere else.  I said nope, just home.  However he turns in the opposite direction.  I'm like where are we going?  He said to get light timers and he thought I needed a pink tree for my office.  Oh my goodness... not ony is it a pink tree... it has pink lights... PLUS we found a fuchsia pink topper, fuchsia pink garland and ornaments!!!!  I only have it like "test" deocrated in the photo there.  I need to wait till I get it to work tomorrow to actually put all the pretty pink stuff on it!  I cannot wait.. I can just see Pastor Mark rolling his eyes at me now. Trust me.  He is so NOT a pink person and hates loves to harrass me about it.  I guess he will now have something to harass me about for the whole month of December.... ha ha ha ha..

I should have mentioned on my post yesterday that some of the links I shared with you came from my friend Dawn's blog.  Dawn and I used to work together when we lived in IL.  She was telling me today that she has made one of those ornament wreaths!  I can't wait to see it..With my newly aquired collection of fuchsia pink ornaments... hmmm.... I am now wondering if I could make a pretty pink one.  They had some cool silver ornaments at walmart too that might look good with it.  They also had a cool chocolate brown!

Been thinking of things for my Christmas list.  I have mentioned some of these before... guess that means they are definitely keepers huh?  I really would like to have this charm for my "pandora" type bracelet.  I have seen it in the store and it is SO pretty in person.  They also have a really pretty teal/turquoise blue color murano glass charm at Firebirds in the Evansville mall that I like.  This pink heart at Helzberg is a new favorite!  How pretty is that?  I also have a few Vera things on my list like the lanyard in cupcakes pink, and I am thinking about the Messenger Bag in Paprika.  My favorite style has been the Cargo Sling, and now that it has been discontinued, I am wondering if I'd like the Messenger. The Mail Bag is cool too, but appears smaller.  Anyone have that one?   In things that I like but know that we Santa can't afford... would be this awesome snake chain, a Kindle, a pink cricut, and a pink mini Dell netbook w/Internet.  I know, I know, I've mentioned those before.... I can dream right?  I have a beautiful snake chain that Darrel got me quite a few years ago.  It is a longer length that I LOVE, but with my weight loss, it no longer hits between my chin and my neckline.  It now falls quite a bit lower on my chest.  Great problem to have, but I would now love to have a shorter chain so you can see all the pretty pendants Darrel has gotten for me.  I am also in need (yes.. need) of a new supply of my favorite perfume.  I also wanted this scarf in a black/white plaid, but they are only showing orange on the web site now... wonder if that is all they have now?  I have it in orange and in blue and they are my favs.. although I also really like their jersey scarves too.   Clothes would be another fun gift.  I am liking this t-shirt and sweater.  Been liking the clothes at Dress Barn, Kohl's and Coldwater Creek too.

Well it's about time for Amazing Race!  Do you watch?  Only 2 more episodes I think.  This week will be calmer I hope.  I'd like to get the decorating finished, get my Dec. Daily Book going, and kind of get my head organized (a hard job... I know..)  for what I need to accomplish and when this month.  This Sat. we will have Darrel's work Christmas Party. I am kind of looking forward to getting dressed up for that and having a nice evening.  It would also be a good thing if we could um get all the Christmas tree lights working together at the same time... ya think?  Currently the top 1/2 is out again and now Darrel thinks he needs to replace a plug... GRRRR 

I hope you are having an awesome weekend!  Blessings!

So... I'm A Sap...

Why? Um because today I've cried a couple of times over Christmas decorations. Well OK, there is a little more to it than that. This is me. Evidently I got a new dolly for Christmas. Gosh..I just said "dolly" and I heard my Grandpa's voice in my head. He used to call me "Dolly" sometimes when I was little. I had forgotten that. According to the date on the photo this was Christmas 1967. I would have been 1-1/2 yrs old. I am sitting in my Grandma's living room floor. See the cool Christmas tree stand there to the left of me? It rotated and had the lights on it that from what I understand used to cast different colors on a white tree? Is that right Mom? Well Grandma always had all these little figures and things on the rotating part of the stand. The little black and white figure right by one of those lights right next to me was a little candle that looked like a children's choir figure. Here is another picture where you can see them.





















You can see two of them in this picture. One near each big globe light. Um need to ask my Mom what is up with the outfit I am sporting in this shot... Nice legs huh? That is my Mom to the right of me and I am thinking that is Grandma next to her. I am not sure if the person on the couch was Aunt Nan or Aunt Sue. OK.. so fast forward to years later when my Grandma passed away. I was given some of her Christmas decorations and I treasure them. I love that I can look in that picture and see things that are currently in my home. So today we are decorating our tree and opening up my box that had all of Grandma's glass ornaments in it. It also had the little candle choir figures. There were four of them, wrapped in tissue and I thought carefully stored away for this year...














I started unwrapping them and the paper was sticking and I wasn't sure what was going on. Then I realized what they were... then I realized they had melted... and then.. I started to cry. Am I a big baby to cry over little candle figures from 40 years ago? According to the tags on the bottom they cost 29 cents and they came from the dime store. Now they are looking pretty pitiful... rather like burn victims that have survived a fire I am thinking....





















They aren't too bad from a distance as I glance at them sitting across the room! I knew they meant something to me but I was surprised how it hit me to know they were ruined. Now I am not sure what to do with them. I may still save them in a box... it would be hard to just throw them away. See... I'm a sap... what can I say. We aren't sure what happened to damage them. The box of decorations they were in also contains our snow globe collection. A few years after we moved here, a bunch of those were damaged after they were stored in the attic. They must have frozen and the globes cracked and that was the end of that. Those are very important to us too, but I don't even remember crying over those. We started storing that box in our spare room because the temp. is regulated there. Well this past winter we had a pipe break in the attic of that room and had some water damage. We had to crank the heaters up to dry the room and carpet out and we think maybe the box was too close to the heaters? They are the baseboard kind. Guess it doesn't matter. Just still sad to have lost them.




















So let me ask you... what is wrong with this picture? We got the tree this far last night and then we spent the evening having some homemade pizza and watching a couple of movies. We got a free two week trial of blockbuster online so we enjoyed 2 free movies last night and have 2 more sitting here! We watched The Proposal and My Sister's Keeper. Both were good! So we are watching TV and first we think the tree flickered... then it appears to be OK. Next thing, All the lights on the top half go off.... then they come back on... It did this for the remainder of the evening. This is a prelit tree... which is a joke because the only year it worked properly as a prelit tree was the year we bought it. The 2nd year it had a black hole which is currently hidden in the corner! This year we have new issues as you can see. Turns out all the light strands are connected with mini extension cord thingys down the center of the tree and one of those was not working right. Darrel unplugged everything from that one and used our own extension cord and viola! All is fixed! Praying it stays that way because now it is decorated!





















SO Happy to have this much done and its not December yet! We also have outdoor lights up! Yay us!!! I've not finished the rest of the house yet, but these days... less is more. I used to want Christmas in every room of the house. Now.. not so much. I have gotten a little simpler in my old age and the "clutter" in our small house gets to me.. so we've been paring down the last few seasons.














The ornament in the front and back here, both pink... were my Grandmas. They are my absolute favorite! LOVE them. Love that they were hers... love that they are glass and vintage... .love that they are pink and that Grandma liked pink! Love them. The middle ornament was a gift from our friend Ashly. She made it for us last year. She painted a snowman couple... the guy is tall... the girl is short... and she has a pink bow in her hair... Hmmm I am wondering who she had in mind when she painted those? On the back it says "Jesus loves you snow much." Now how cute is that? As you may have guessed/noticed all the ornaments are mismatched and different. We like to use just a mix of favorite and hand made stuff. It's funny but I tend to hang all my favorites where they will be directly in view from my chair...

Yesterday we mostly spent at home except for going out to walk. Today I gave myself a mini walking vacation and have just been enjoying being at home and starting on our decorations. I've also browsed the net a bit. Really enjoyed looking at the layouts here. I saved this blog from a link somewhere... can't remember. I don't know if I could pick a favorite. LOVE all the cool stitching, stamping, misting and painting.. Made me want to run to my room and create something. Was reading this blog and noticed she mentioned this. Does anyone have one of these Keurig things? It is goofy that I am interested in this. I am NOT a coffee drinker. I do however really enjoy a good cup of hot tea or hot chocolate and was wondering if I'd like it for that. I noticed you can get Gloria Jean's hot chocolate. Although..some of the reviews seemed to indicate this hot chocolate is better. However I don't know why I am even discussing it because I am thinking a big NO on spending $123 for a cup of hot chocolate seeing as how I can do that with my tea kettle and some nestles! Ha! LOVE this wreath. First how pretty is all the pink... but I love all the ornaments and then hung from that big thick ribbon? I wonder if I could make one? Looks pretty simple. I also came across this cool Christmas Art Journal! I love how the kraft Christmas tree is repeated. Great ideas! I noticed Shimelle is doing her journal your Christmas class again. She does such cool stuff! I had googled "Christmas art journal" to see what I ideas I could find and came across this article. I thought oh cool! Something from The Scrapping Spot... when I started reading.. DUH... it was an article I had written back when I was on the DT! Ha!! Too funny when you find yourself on a google search and don't even recognize it! I've been enjoying Richard Paul Evans books so much lately I ordered this one and this one from Amazon last night! I was very happy to find out there was a new one this year, and one I had missed! Yay! I am IN LOVE with the cool art journals on this blog. Be sure and scroll down and check out all the images. Sooo pretty with all the vintage and I love the mix of stuff! Beautiful! Kayla's blog had this link for baked caramel french toast... sounds like it might be yummy. Here is another pretty December Daily Book. Might get started on mine tomorrow! I have yet to knit or crochet a thing... but I am determined. I am thinking this stocking might be fun. It's kind of plain and homespun.. .but that is what I like about it!

Well I need to go get my hair washed for church in the AM, work on my song a little more (also for church), I am thinking of switching purses... and maybe do a manicure or at least touch up the one I have... We are still thinking of getting our snow globes out too! Hope you are having an awesome weekend.. Blessings!

A Blessed Day

It's been a good day. While I was helping cook I asked Darrel to take some pictures of Thanksgiving. For some reason he interpreted this as "take pictures of my wife..." Cause he took this one... and then for some reason we needed this close up...

How does this apply to "Thanksgiving" except to say I was there? ha! He is sweet.... I helped with the cooking today but my Mom had a ton of stuff done before hand which made things pretty smooth and easy today. Today I was in charge of stuffing... which is what i am cooking here.....





















And yes.... another picture of me cooking stuffing right here.... Did Darrel know there were other people in the kitchen? I am thinking no... he must be enamoured by my beauty right? Right... I am thinking a big no on that one.
















Then he took a picture of all the goodies cooking on the stove. Yum... I was making gravy at that point which was the second thing I was in charge of.

We were just about to sit down and I was a little worried about the gravy. It tasted like the flour/corn starch hadn't cooked enough or something. Glad I realized at the last minute that I hadn't tasted it. DUH... I cranked up the heat at that point and let it boil for a bit and that seemed to take care of the problem.















The third thing I was in charge of was the sweet potatoes. My husband is the only one who likes them and who planned on eating them but that was reason enough for me to make them. He likes them the way his Mom makes them so I asked her a few years back for the recipe. The recipe consisted of her sitting and telling me how she makes them and me taking notes. Which is why my notes say things like (and I quote) "2 or so corn syrup." HA! That is code for 2+ tbsp. of dark corn syrup. Darrel says I do pretty good and that they tasted good. It's the one time of year he gets to enjoy these so I was determined to make sure he got to have them.















Here was the table before dinner. Pretty huh? It was just the 4 of us, but we had a nice dinner together. I missed my siblings and their families. It was definitely a quiet dinner compared to normal! ha!
















See... now I had the camera so here is my sweet husband. Isn't he cute? Did I say that already? Sorry. Can't help myself.















Here is Dad... he would NOT look at the camera. What is up with that? Does he not understand I am a scrapbooker and therefore I need his picture? Ha!
















Here is my Mom who did at least smile at me. She is pretty cute too and a very good Mom. None better!
















Since dinner we have spent some time visiting and relaxing. We watched a movie. Darrel helped my Mom with her Christmas decorations by getting lights on the tree. Is he not the best? See... the best and cute? What could be better?

This may be my favorite picture. See I know that smile. I know that smile because he looks like that when he looks at ME!

Heading home shortly. Hope to sleep in, get my walking in and then spend some time decorating. We also have a homemade pizza and some movies planned for date night. Looking forward to that!!

Hope you have an awesome weekend. I hope to have some December Daily stuff to share with you soon! I am thinking there are lots of projects I'd like to do in Dec. I guess we will see what time permits. I also need to work on a song for Sunday. I am on the lineup for a solo and will be singing "What Do I Know of Holy." LOVE that song by Addison Road and it turns out it goes perfectly with the sermon. Love when God works stuff like that out. Blessings!

Ready For The Holidays

Tanner is anyway... see, he is all decked out for Christmas. He doesn't have a Thanksgiving bandanna so I figured Christmas was the next best thing. Plus look how cute he is. Darrel trimmed his ears yesterday and thought he got them too short but I think it makes him look like a puppy which makes him cuter....the dog that is... not Darrel's ears... bwa ha ha ha! The dog has currently spun himself around the required number of times before plopping himself down on my Mother's throw pillow. Tanner thinks any pillow or blanket on the floor is of course there for him and it would be pure torture to have to lay on the bare floor... at minimum a throw rug is required. We brought him with to my parent's house... by the time we got here I was ready to make him ride in the trunk! Apparently he was upset that I got to ride in the front seat so therefore he could not curl up next to Darrel... I mean I don't blame him...ha!!! But having him pace the back seat doing this little whimpering under his breath thing for an hour gets just a little OLD.....especially for us impatient people.

So what are your plans for Thanksgiving? We are spending the holiday with my Mom and Dad. It will just be the four of us which is quite different. I guess more turkey for us huh? My brother and sister are spending the holiday with their spouse's families. We will miss them, but I am glad they get to be with family too. Darrel's sisters will be with his parent's in IL except for one sister who lives in Florida. Even though it's the 4 of us, we plan to have a yummy traditional Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. Turkey and all the trimmings! YUM. I think my favorite thing is probably stuffing and mashed potatoes with gravy. I think Darrel might pick sweet potatoes although I just asked him and he said "I don't know I like it all..." So maybe he wouldn't miss the sweet potatoes I am making especially for him. Kidding. He is also pretty happy there will be rolls and pumpkin pie. I am looking forward to the food... but also feeling cautious due to the whole weight loss deal. Ever since starting this journey I have NOT allowed myself to say even for one day... oh, it's thanksgiving I won't worry about what I eat today. I know myself and I know in the past thinking that way was always the beginning of the end. So yes.. even on Thanksgiving I WILL be counting points. For me even on a regular day it isn't about what I eat.. it's about how much I eat and I am still praying and asking God for a heart that desires less food because I will tell you ... I still struggle with that. I intend to win the battle though. Don't worry. :) I also intend to be vigilant during the whole holiday season because if you just let it go and say it's Christmas, I'm going to splurge.. Well I know I could put 10 lbs back on without blinking and then I will hate myself when I have that to get rid of again...

In further weight loss news... I finally went down another lb today! I've been stuck for 3-4 weeks. Ugh. That makes 84. yay! Do you remember last year when I got SO happy when I bought my first sweater in a smaller size? You can read about it here. Well I wore that sweater today and let me tell you if I was buying it today... I would have bought at least a size smaller. I was surprised how much difference there was since last year because the weight loss has been SO stinkin' slow this year! So.. makes me feel VERY good to notice a difference like that in my clothes. However slow it may be I am soooooo thankful to still be losing!

Well I may need to go and watch some old reruns on fancast or hulu or something... Dad is listening to bluegrass.. I don't mind bluegrass but I may have hit my quota for the day... Kidding. Oh good... fancast has Family Ties... yay..

To close... a friend had shared this quote on facebook today. It's from Abraham Lincoln and I really liked it so I thought I'd share. "It has seemed to me fit and proper that our gifts should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged with one heart and one voice by the whole American people. I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens." —Thanksgiving proclamation, 1863 Abraham Lincoln

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

No... I did not fall off the face of the earth...

I've been here... at my computer.. working... Thanksgiving week is ALWAYS stressful... what is up with that? Where do I submit a request for a NON stressful Thanksgiving week? Aren't the holiday's supposed to be fun and peaceful? See the problem is that Thanksgiving is a short work week. Good thing right? Well, yes.. except for when that means you have to get your regular weekly work done, PLUS the Church Newsletter which is easily a 6+ hour project, PLUS Powerpoint and a program for our Hanging of the Greens service which is this Sunday Night. Not to mention it is end of the month so there is end of the month accounting/bills to do. At this point I feel like I've been sitting in front of a computer typing for 2 solid days. Ha! I did not work yesterday evening, but I knew I needed to put in some time tonight if I wanted to get done tomorrow at a decent time. When working at home though I get to use my pretty pink computer and mouse... (pretty pink computer mouse..mice... um whatever... are the ONLY good kind of mice... I hate mice remember?) and I got to watch the Dancing With the Stars Finale. Donny won!!! Yay!!! Did you see him go pick up his wife? I knew I liked him! I also managed to make Eclair cake for Thanksgiving.. Well I made the bottom part. Darrel made the top part. We are a good team like that. I did walk 45 min (2 miles) on the treadmill too. Yay me! Staying on the treadmill for longer than 5 minutes is a grand accomplishment in my book! How come you can be doing the same thing you'd be doing sitting like reading or watching TV and still you are bored and want to get off!!!! I always say at least with walking outside you have to keep going because you have to get home! Ha!!!! I wanted to make at least this quick post to tell you I am still alive.. and still blogging... just work is all consuming this week. One more day and I will have surived. I am REALLY looking forward to 4 days off with my husband! I am also looking forward to spending time with my parents for Thanksgiving. I owe my Mom a big hug tomorrow for doing all the prep work for Thanksgiving. My head might have exploded if I was handling that too... ever feel like that? So... I bid you good night..I have to head to bed so I can get to work early and get finished tomorrow. I have the Newsletter done. I have the bulletin almost done. Tomorrow I will hit the programs and powerpoints and bills and I should have it! I'll try and blog again maybe tomorrow night or Thursday. I pray you and your family have an awesome and blessed thanksgiving. We have SO much to be thankful for... so much... Blessings to you!

Date Night Parade

So who would have guessed that date night would start out at a parade? Our initial plans for Friday were to eat in town and then work on our Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes. Well Fri. afternoon I saw on facebook that the "Christmas Stroll" parade started at 6:30 in town! Cool. I knew the Stroll started on Friday but I had been under the impression that it was in the afternoon. I was mistaken because evidently the Christmas parade is all about Christmas lights! Duh... perhaps I should have thought of that. Here was one of my favorite floats. It had a cross in the middle with a Christmas tree around it. Very cool. Here is another good one... plus one of the few photos that actually turned out... ha ha ha...

This one had a really pretty nativity on it. I was surprised what a huge crowd came out for this event too. We met up with our friends Kurt and Lori at Zanders first. It was fun to have a visit plus they had some good seats right inside by the window! We could have stayed in with them, but it was such a nice night out and I wanted to try and take a few pictures... I know... you are shocked. After the parade was over, we were HUNGRY and headed for La Carretta. I was worried the whole town was going to hit the restaurants and we'd have to wait. However my husband is good and cut thru some neighborhoods and got us there before the crowd! We got a table right away but within 15 minutes the place was packed and there were people waiting for a table. Our dinner was yummy as usual and then we shared a fried ice cream for dessert. Darrel said it tasked like it had corn flakes on it. He was kidding. It was good, it was just the cinnamon/sugar coating he was talking about.

So on to Walmart for OCC shoe boxes. We decided to do 2 this year. One for a boy and one for a girl both ages 2-4. Since I do not have kids I have a really hard time doing the older kids. It's hard to know what toys and things they would enjoy. Well I think I mentioned we saw a video at church about OCC and a girl who had received a box and how it had shoes in it and she desperately needed shoes. That made me realize... duh... that we should have been praying over our box all these other years because God knew who would be receiving it and He also knew what they needed in it! So this time, first thing we did was head over to the shoe box aisle. We got our two shoe boxes, put them in the cart, put our hands on both of them while also holding hands and yes... right there in the middle of walmart we prayed for our boxes and who would be receiving them and what should be in them. I am sure that had everything to do with how well it went together. Other years I have stayed away from clothes and shoes because I thought how do you know what size? NOT this year. I felt like there should be clothes and shoes. We also did a pair of socks and for the boy some little "cars" underwear. We did a plastic juice box too and then several toys and hygiene items. I am um noticing a definite pink theme for the girl box... look...

Oh we also did a blanket! What little one doesn't need a soft blankey right? PLUS how cute is that little bear?! He is sooooo squishy and huggable too. We kept trying to gauge how things would fit in the box and at the end swapped out our boxes for a slightly sturdier model with a locking top. Good thing cause look... here it is all packed.

Is my husband good or what? He packed 8 qts of stuff into a 7 qt box and even managed to make it CUTE! I mean he has even got the little bear holding the candies! Can you believe that little dress was like $3? Here is the boy box.




















Darrel picked out the outfit all by himself and did quite a good job. He picked out a lot of the boy stuff. I really liked that. It was fun to see him take care of it and see what he thought a little guy would like. How cute is that little chuck truck? Love it!!















This one was also like a tight but perfect fit. The clothes laid right on top, perfect! I think this is such a wonderful worthwhile project and was so glad to have the opportunity to participate.

Today I got my walking in first thing. The scale has been stalled yet again for at least 3 weeks. It is starting to make me a little nuts again yet forge ahead I will.. I refuse to give up. I know it will move eventually... just hoping it doesn't drive me insane in the process. It was a beautiful day for a walk. I mean its practically Thanksgiving and I was out in my t-shirt and leggings and actually I could have probably been fine in shorts! Beats nine layers of long johns! Ha! After that I did some housework and baked some pecan squares for the Thanksgiving Dinner at church tomorrow night. Those are the best pecan squares ever. They have a TON of butter in them, but man they are good! Darrel took the warm day to go ahead and get a jump on the outdoor Christmas lights! SO glad to have that almost done so early!!! Much less stressful.

Who does the Black Friday Sales? Was looking at the walmart ad here. There is no way I am going because as we all know I am not a morning person kind of girl... and um crowds.. .well that would be strike 2! They sure make it tempting though. They are going to have the $300 Cricut expression (I heard in 4 colors... maybe pink!! I want pink!!) for $188 and I think it includes 2 cartridges. Awesome deal.

Well church calls early in the AM because we are on praise team so I shall head for bed. Hope your weekend has been blessed!

Beautfiul Baby Blues

Eyes that is... After I got my layout all done and posted then I read my title again and wondered if it was confusing?? I hope not. Did this layout for Willow Traders Nov. 2 A Week Challenge #6. The challenge was to scrap something that was beautiful to you. This is the picture that popped in my head. I mean first, its a great picture. Darrel took it. He is a good photographer. This is our niece Amber when she was 16 months old back in June 1995. She was staying at our house for a short while with her parents while they were in the process of moving from Florida to Illinois. In the photo she was busy playing with all the video tapes in the video storage cabinet. I love this shot because her eyes just jump out at me and they are such a pretty blue... see... hence the title. Hopefully I won't have to explain it to everyone huh? Once again a lot of the supplies used were from a Noel Mignon kit. Most of the papers are October afternoon. The paper flowers are prima and I won them! They were the door prize at the last class I took with the Prima/Glimmer Mist lady at The Doodlebug. I stamped the word "beautiful" with my mini Hero Arts alpha stamps... .LOVE those things.. .and also stamped the large butterfly.. also Hero Arts.

So it's been a good couple of mail days! My supplies for my Dec. Daily Album came. I had also ordered the Christmas Kit from Noel Mignon and oh my gosh... that kit is PACKED. I love it and am so glad I got one!! I am a little uncertain about my DDA... lets just make that the new shorthand for Dec. Daily Album. It is exactly what I ordered and Eva did a great job. It's just that an "art journal" is a new thing for me so I was like OK... now what do I do with it? I think I want to add a front and back cover.. maybe and definitely get some larger binder rings. My book from last year needed at least 3" rings. We will see. I am somewhat intrigued and think I can make it turn out cool like I want. I was also noticing Work In Progress Kits has a cool DDA kit. I do NOT need to buy that... I am going with what I have right?!

OK the next challenge for Willow Traders is very cool. It's a sketch but it totally looks like a layout I would do. PLUS we are supposed to make it all glam, get out the bling and sparkle... totally me. I said on the message board that I liked it and that I love "foofy" stuff and asked if that was a word. A friend, Laurie from TSS, said yes, foofy was a word coming from the Latin phoophy which means "stuff Dee likes!" Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !!! I love that!! Totally ROFL at that one and am now considering putting that definition in my sidebar here somewhere or something. That is just too good to be forgotten.

Gracie my love has spent the entire day in the Garage. I just love her... have I mentioned that? She is all comfy on a blanket with food and water beside her and seems very content. She seems to have no desire to be outside. Maybe too wet and cold? I am just happy to know where she is! She cracks me up. Either be gone for 2 days or not leave the garage.... Seems like there should be a middle there somewhere.

Today I am feeling grateful for my home. Our house was built in the 1920's and it belonged to my grandparents. My Dad was born in this house.. LOVE living here. So the house is old, it needs work, it's only 1/2 remodeled, it has 3 acres we don't seem to do a very good job of keeping up with, but I still love it. I love the memories here from when we used to visit when it was Mamaw's house and I love the new memories we have made in the 8 years we have lived here. I am a home kind of person and am very happy to be at home in my house. We feel God here and feel protected here. We prayed for the blood of Jesus to cover every inch of this property and the house and I could give you many examples to show you that protection. God is good and He blessed us so much when he brought us to Indiana and placed us in this home and for that I am very grateful.

Better head to bed. Need to be up and at work early. LOTS to do before Thanksgiving! Why is the week and 1/2 before TG always sooooo hectic and stressful? We may be hitting the favorite La Carretta for date night! YUM. Either that or maybe pizza. We are also going to do Shoeboxes for Op Christmas Child. Those are so fun! Looking forward to it. Hope you are having a good week. Blessings!

A Special Gift

It's late... I know I always say that. Well it is... but anyway, here is a layout I just finished up. It is for the Willow Traders November 2 A Week Challenges. This was #5 and the topic this time was to scrap about a gift. Well this was the first thing that popped in my head. It is a Willow Tree figurine called "Courage." It was a gift from my husband this past Mother's Day. As you might remember, for our Mother's Day service at church, I was asked to be one of the speakers. I was to speak about how God has been working in my life through my weight loss. OK big scary subject to speak about at all let alone up in front of everybody at church. I'd spent my life trying to avoid talking to ANYONE about it. It's always been too private, personal and way painful. But... this time I knew God was leading me to do this and I agreed. Just before the day I was to speak, Darrel spotted this figurine and got it for me. He said he knew what courage it took for me to speak at church and he was proud of me and he wanted me to know that so he got me this gift. Is he not amazing? I mean I think we talked about that yesterday huh?

I used a lot of supplies from a Noel Mignon kit. They are fast becoming my fav! Love, love, love the mix of papers and products and can get lots and lots of layouts out of a kit. I added some 7 gypsies transparencies, some prima flowers and bling and a little yellow bicycle journaling transparency. I also used some MM ledger paper so I'd have lots of room for journaling.

So last night I mentioned that I had started reading Finding Noel by Richard Paul Evans. I read for 45-50 min. on the treadmill. Then about 11pm I picked it up again and sat here and read till 2AM until I finished! It was such a good book. I had forgotten how much I enjoy his writing. Some of the ending made me cry... and I have stuff marked and underlined.. I liked it that much. I started The Gift tonight on the treadmill! If I hadn't wanted to get the scrap challenge done, I probably would have sat and finished that book! Ha!! I've read about 50 pages and again.. really liking it!! A few favorite lines from Finding Noel were " Man's extremities are God's opportunities." and "Be kind to everyone - you don't know what cross they're bearing and how sweet that kind word might ring." Both things were advice to Mark from his mother. Good advice. Reminds me of what our Pastor's wife always says which is "you don't know their story." Meaning when we are dealing with difficult people, try to show them love, understanding and kindness because we don't know their story and there could be reasons why they are the way they are. There was a really good Christmas poem too. I'll try to remember to share that tomorrow.

That leads me to what I am grateful for today and the thing that comes to mind today is... books and reading. I have loved to read since I was a child. Love it! I think its an awesome, awesome thing. I remember being too young for the reading class, and seeing the kids in that class reading and wanting that so much. I could not wait until I got to read too! I've always been a good reader and a pretty fast reader. Reading is one of my favorite things to do on vacation or a day off and I often read in the car as long as the road isn't too curvy... I read way more in the car in IL then I do here in curvy hilly Southern IN! Ha!! I also love the whole reading kind of atmosphere at like Barnes and Noble and could just curl up in a corner and read for hours after browsing the store and settling down with an armful of interesting books and magazines. It is a favorite date night activity! Reading is good because I am able to read scripture and learn about God's ways and plans. I know being a good reader helped me in school and still helps me in my job and in learning new things. I love how reading can carry you away to another time, another place. I love how a good story can touch your heart and soul. I love how Christian fiction can do that and also teach such amazing truth too about God and His word as well. I am very grateful for the blessing of reading and good books.

I pray you are having a blessed week. I am not so pmsy... ha ha ha... but am still struggling with some emotional stuff this week. Satan really comes after me sometimes with fear and anxiety. I am trying hard to stand firm and remember the truth. I am telling myself to remember this scripture: Matthew 6:34 (The Message) 34"Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes." Hope maybe that thought helps you today too!

I'd Like To Nominate My Husband

For sainthood... seriously.... I need to talk to the girls today... Any men reading (which I am thinking there is not a huge danger of....ha!) you are excused from blog post reading today. Are they gone? OK... girls.. I am in day TWO of some serious PMS.... Are you with me? You know the PMS I mean. The kind where people should not dare to look at your even approaching funny... The kind of PMS that brings to mind an episode of Designing Women. Ever watch that show? Well the Sugarbaker women were discussing PMS and a news story they had read about a women who had PMS and was in an elevator and had stabbed a man with her fingernail file because he would NOT Press 6! bwa ha ha ha... I've always found that funny... maybe its because I completely understand. BAD grouchy, crabby, I am crampy and bloated and just plain uncomfortable PMS.. Are we clear? So just living with me for the past 2 days should be the reason I am nominating my husband right? Um nope... Even in that he goes way above and beyond the call of duty. He put up with my crabbiness all yesterday afternoon and took good care of me. We won't mention my bad behavior and how many times the poor guy probably got his head bit off... Went to bed last night uncomfortable, crabby, emotional and with a huge headache. Got up today feeling a wee bit better... but not so much. Got myself to work even though I wanted to crawl under the covers and stay there. Got a nice e-mail from my husband asking if I was feeling better. He was probably secretly planning on whether or not he should come home! Ha!! I told him some things were better, some things were worse, but I was doing OK. I asked if he could stop at the store on his way home for a few things we needed. One was allergy pills. Allergies are also bugging me. He tells me he may not be able to get allergy pills because it has been less than 2 weeks since he bought the ones he needs and thanks to the meth problem people... grrrrrrr.... the pharmacy doesn't allow him to get more yet... In my emotional PMSy state... yes.. pmsy is a word... I am ready to cry over allergy pills. I know.. I soooooo do NOT come off good in this story. Just wait. It gets even better. Trust me. We realize that I don't need the allergy-D pills so he will be able to get me some and he stops at Walmart since he goes by there on his way home. I leave work just a smidgen early to drop my new pretty pink silk top at the dry cleaners before they close because yes, I manage to wear it for all of um what 4-5 hours for church and lunch and slop lunch on the front of myself yesterday.

Are you still with me? I get home to find that the kittens have pulled off my cushions and pillows on the back porch and have knocked over all the plants and little hay bales that are out for fall... NOT happy about this. The kittens have been on my "list" for a few days now because someone.... who is lucky they have not been identified because that is they only reason they are still alive... peed on my glider. ON THE GLIDER.... My favorite, handed down from my great grandfather, freshly painted and cleaned up with an expensive cushion on it glider. That glider... NOT happy with the cats... Except of course Gracie. Her I love. This stuff did not happen when she was the only cat so we don't think she is the guilty party. So NOT happy to find they had been all over the porch again. This of course improved my pmsy, grumpy, crabby, I'm uncomfortable mood by leaps and bounds. Please tell me girls that just one of you has been there. Is there hope for me? I get inside and manage to convince myself to get on the treadmill. Be VERY impressed... Did NOT feel like treadmilling... I did it anyway. While I am on the treadmill Darrel gets home. The first oh 30 seconds are good. Then the dog starts having a fit and in my PMS induced haze... this ANNOYS me... My poor husband doesn't correct the dog, that I could hear anyway, ..... this was not good for him. Then he doesn't like tell me hi, give me a kiss like normal.... not good for him.... Now... gee, maybe the poor guy didn't appreciate getting crabbed at about the dog ya think? To give myself one tiny 1/2 ounce of credit which is probably less than I deserve in this story, When I got off the treadmill (50 minutes while hurting and cramping... yay me...) I do give him a huge hug and apologize for being a crazy person. I tell him I still feel yucky and that I am sorry and that he was the one person I wanted to see all day long. At this point we realize the potatoes I put in for dinner have now cooked too long and are starting to disappear. You know how the inside like disappears when you cook them too long? Yep.. so now we have dinner issues to deal with. We get some other potatoes cooking and I trudge my way to the shower to get cleaned up quick so we can eat. It is at this point that I find the bag sitting on my vanity stool. So let me set this up for you again. My husband has put up with me for 2 days. He comes in the door after a long day at work only to get crabbed at yet again by his pmsy wife. He is patient and kind thru all of this and not only that... he had brought me a present and was likely holding it WHILE he was getting grouched at. OK.. do I feel about 2" tall at this point and NO that is not my actual height...















Look what was in the bag with the few grocery things I asked him to get. A month or so ago, he was going to be at Walmart and I asked him to check and see if they had a Crop-a-dile big bite. I had heard on the message boards that they came in pink now and Walmart had some. I could find no evidence of a pink one existing even on the mfg. web site so I doubted this information UNTIL I saw one at the Doodlebug Crop in Sept. When the Big Bite first came out they were orange/yellow and I bought one and then returned it right away. I decided I didn't need it and figured as soon as I did buy one, they'd come out in pink. I wanted pink. I know.. you are shocked. So now that I knew they existed... I was on the hunt for one. Well that first time at Walmart, he didn't see any. Then, about 2 weeks ago on date night, Darrel had run back to Walmart way late at night because we were having furnace issues and the repairman had told us we needed to get a carbon monoxide detector and that it was VERY important. We had forgotten, so he had went back out to get one. (This was his idea. He was concerned about "me" sleeping if the furnace was giving off fumes. We have been smelling a slight gas smell in the vents when the furnace kicks on and the HVAC guy thinks our heat exchanger could be the problem) It was like midnight and my AMAZING husband spotted big bites while he was there and texted me to see if I wanted one. I had a little spending money, but had just spent a good amount during date night so I turned it down. When he gets home, he mentions they were in the clearance aisle. Now I get worried because now they will probably be gone and I won't get one. That was the last we discussed it and I forgot about it. Until today. Today after a day and 1/2 of crabby... he remembered and went looking for it. He said he thought "she's having a bad day, she needs something nice to brighten her day." Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww... Can you believe him? Then the man comes home with a present and gets in trouble for absolutely no reason.... Am I like the worst wife ever??? Well after I spotted my gift.. I headed straight to the kitchen to find him and then he got a huge hug and kiss and apology and more hugs.. .and yes... some tears... I cannot believe how amazing he is? Can you? So see... absolute sainthood.

So.. before the whole PMS saga I had been intending on blogging about my husband as my grateful post for today. Little did I know he was just going to go and prove my reasons to be grateful. I so do NOT deserve him. I am SO beyond thankful and grateful and blessed because of my husband. He is my best friend, my companion, my biggest cheerleader, my supporter and encourager, my helper, my boyfriend, my prince, my helpmate, my soulmate, my shopping buddy, my romance, my friend. I know I said that but he is such a good friend. He gets me. He understands me and cares for me and puts my needs above his own. He cares about my fears and traumas and yes even volunteers to stand in my place to have a pie put in his face. He is the best. There are not words to adequately describe how MUCH I love this man. I wonder every day how God could possibly love me so much to allow me such amazing love in my life. He sent His son for me and then he gives me this awesome man to show me everyday how amazing God's love is.

Back when we were engaged, the pastor who married us, Pastor Art, told us to read 1 Cor 13 every day for a month. When we came back for our pre-marital counseling the following month, the lesson he wanted us to learn from that was that as humans, we aren't capable of loving each other like 1 Cor 13 describes. What he wanted us to learn is that we need to let God love our spouse thru us so that we could have that kind of love. My husband demonstrates it every day. From my story you are probably thinking um me... not so much... honestly most of the time I'd have to agree with you. Thanking the Lord that He and Darrel still love me even when I fall pitifully short....

So now that I have confessed my poor behavior.. I am going to go and either work on my next layout for willow traders (challenge #5, which is about a gift) or read. I started a new book today while on the treadmill. Yes, I am all coordinated like that now... Just don't watch me too closely. I started reading Finding Noel by Richard Paul Evans. It took me less than the 42 pages I read to be reminded that I love Richard Paul Evans writing. He is good. The first book I ever read by him was The Christmas Box after I saw the movie on TV. So good!! You should read it if you never have. I just may pull it out this year again. Finding Noel is also a Christmas story which came out 3 years ago I think. Then 2 years ago I bought The Gift. I am determined to get them read this year. It is already pretty cool... in Finding Noel, it is set in 1988 and the guy mentions having a 16 year old Malibu car. Um in the 80's my husband and I were dating and he had a 74 Malibu. Also in the story there is a character named Yvette. Yvette is my middle name. Cool huh?

Hope the rest of your week... and mine... is awesome! Blessings!

Gratefulness

I've been noticing on several blogs lately that people are using this time leading up to Thanksgiving to list things they are thankful for. I got to thinking about this even more when I did my "Blessed" layout the other day and have decided... even though I am a little slow to get on board here.. what a good idea! I'd like to use the time remaining before the Thanksgiving holiday to share some pictures and thoughts on things I am thankful for. Are you with me?

Whenever anyone tells me to list things I am grateful for, the first thing that comes to mind is that Jesus saved me. He died on the cross for my sins and saved me. I am SO grateful for His sacrifice. I am so grateful for His love, His forgiveness, His patience with me, His repeated second chances when I mess up... OK who am I kidding... like 100 chances would be more like it. I am so thankful that being saved depends on what HE did - NOT on what I do. Praise God that we cannot earn salvation because let me tell you, if it depended on me being good enough to earn it, I fall way short. I mess up and struggle all the time even though I try so hard not to.. OK and some times I don't try so hard either... I am thankful that I have known Him and wanted to live for Him since I was a child. I am thankful for a family that raised me teaching me to know Jesus. The layout above is one I did a few years back for my Book of Me. I wanted to document my faith in Christ and how it began and what it means to me. Being a Christian is who I am. You have to start there with who Deanna is.. all the rest of the things about me are gravy... Hopefully that makes some sense outside of my head... bwa ha ha...

Our Pastor has been doing a sermon series on fear or rather on becoming fearless... Teaching us about replacing our fears with faith. Faith in Christ and Faith that God is in control. If we are His then we need to know what He says and put our faith in that and not in all the scary headlines and happenings in this world we live in. Because obviously there is plenty to be scared of right? Well fear and anxiety is something I struggle with at times. It's been an issue for me since I was a child and has been even more of a gripping thing since I was treated for depression during the 90's. So this topic has my attention. This series Pastor Mark has been teaching is based on the book "Fearless" by Max Lucado. I was wanting a meditation from the book for our bulletin this past week and came across this Fearless web site. Good stuff. You can read the first chapter there and plenty of other good resources and other excerpts too. This was what I shared in the bulletin this week:

“Jesus got into a boat, and his followers went with him. A great storm arose on the lake…” (vs. 23-24 NKJV). Wouldn’t you hope for a more chipper second sentence, a happier consequence of obedience? “Jesus got into a boat. His followers went with him and… suddenly…a great rainbow arched in the sky, a flock of doves hovered in happy formation, a sea of glass mirrored their mast…” Don’t Christ-followers enjoy a calendar full of Caribbean cruises? No. This story sends the not-so-subtle and not-too-popular reminder: getting on board with Christ can mean getting soaked with Christ. Disciples can expect rough seas and stout winds. “In this world you will [not ‘might,’ ‘may‘ or ‘could’] have tribulation” (Jn. 16:33 brackets mine).Christ-followers contract malaria, bury children, and battle addictions, and, as a result, face fears. It’s not the absence of storms that sets us apart. It’s whom we discover in the storm: an unstirred Christ.

OK that is good and it helped me so much the day I read it.. and now I am wanting to get and read the whole book! Good stuff!

Have you heard any of Steven Curtis Chapman's new album Beauty Will Rise? Oh my goodness.. it is beautiful, powerful, raw... it's awesome. It's on itunes here.. that is where I purchased the album. This has got to be some of Steven's best work. His raw emotions and honesty, and then ability to turn that into trust and praise... it reaches my soul. Just the title song alone... coming from the death of his young daughter and singing a song talking about how beauty will rise from the ashes... wow.. only God can do that. Only God can bring that kind of peace in tragedy. Part of the lyrics say: I can hear it in the distance, And its not too far away, Its the music and the laughter, of a wedding and a feast, I can almost feel the hand of God, Reaching for my face, To wipe the tears away, Say its time to make everything new, Make it all new.... wow... the image of Jesus wiping the tears away brings tears of my own... Powerful awesome album...

Was doing some Internet browsing for crochet patterns yesterday. Been feeling in a crochet mood but not sure what I want to make. I used to crochet like everyday. For some reason I got away from it when we moved here. I have done a little, but nothing like I used to. I think the scrapbooking thing like took over! Ha!! There are lots of cool free patterns out there and I have quite a bit of yarn and thread on hand so it would seem I should be able to come up with something huh? I like this wrap. Something different about it that I really like. I also came across this cool scarf crocheted out of recycled silk yarn. Seriously thinking about getting some of that and trying that pattern. I am wondering if it is soft? I also found this "mystery" crochet project which turns out to be a hanging Christmas tree made out of Granny squares. Cute huh? Found lots of stuff on the lion brand yarn site. (you have to register for their site to see the patterns, its free) This scarf is really pretty. I am wondering if I'd like this ponchette thing? Seems like that would be warm around your neck under your winter coat. Love this prayer shawl... So nice and big! Look how pretty this lacy scarf is. Look at this pretty magnolia afghan. Love that. Thinking of trying to make this backpack too. Anyone else crochet?

Anyone ever made pumpkin gingerbread? I saw this recipe today and was thinking it sounded good. Have I ever posted the link for this baked fudge by Pioneer Woman? OK how yummy does that sound? Jen.... we've got to make this for Christmas or something don't you think? I was also wondering about her chocolate chip cookie recipe but am not so sure I'd add the coffee granules or the flax seed... These look pretty good for Christmas but I'd have to totally be in the mood to do the whole roll out cookie thing... OK this one looks pretty yummy. I might try it first. I love her great photos and her writing style cracks. me. up! Oh... look at these dipped peanut butter pretzels... YUM..

So back to work tomorrow... and as I was telling my husband... I think I need Phoebe to write me an intimidating note for my lunch. Did you ever see Friends where someone takes Ross's turkey sandwich so she starts writing him notes so people will leave his lunch alone? Well I am thinking I need one of those notes. I work at our church. It's a big place and lots of people are in and out... that is a good thing.. .but when a girl works there, she might keep a stash of oh say a couple diet Pepsi's, maybe an apple, a hunts fat free chocolate pudding... maybe a weight watcher meal in the freezer. Nothing wrong with that right? Well since there are food occasions at church, people tend to think if they find something sitting in the fridge that its there for the taking. Totally understandable. So what is a girl to do? Well she puts all her stuff in a walmart bag, ties it closed, and has her name on it. I mean one day Kay brought left over pizza for lunch and at lunch... it was gone...One of the youth had been there and hungry and there were ladies working in the kitchen that day and they thought it was left over from some event and so he ate it! Ha! Funny... but can also leave you standing there hungry cause um our little town does not have anything even close to a McDonald's OK? So.. thus the bag with my name on it... Well lets see... this past week alone, I know someone has been in my bag... NOT me... at least twice. I am my Mother's daughter... I KNOW when my things have been disturbed... It's a sickness... I always tie the bag twice in a knot. TWICE this week the handles were just looped over once... now... what does someone think is so exciting in my lunch bag? I'm like... it's weight watcher food people... what could be exciting about that? Plus... you don't want to catch me on a day where I am also like too tired and too cold and now um too hungry.... that could like be dangerous... Just ask Darrel... So spread the word... hands off the lunch bag. I mean I don't mind sharing if you are really in need of some lunch. I'm nice like that honest... Just please don't be rummaging thru my lunch for pilfering purposes... I might have to get all mean on you... I have my moments honest.