Family photos and insanity

So Hayley asked me to email her some of her graduation pictures today. I forgot how bad my family is with photos. All of our family photos are this bad. Nothing has ever looked professional.

Dog photo bomb with my mom and Hayley.

My mom was trying to take the photo below. She didn't know how to press the button on the camera. My ex-husband told my mom to hold it down, so instead of holding the button down, my mom holds the entire camera down....aiming at our feet, which is why we are all laughing in the photo. Oh and the dog is there squirming herself into the photo.

Everyone says Hayley looks just like me, but she kind of looks like her dad in these photos.

So Hayley and I are going to the beach this week, so today, she went and did the Insanity video with her boss and another coworker so she can be bikini ready. Well, I'm not sure doing one work out will make you bikini ready, but whatever. She's 18....it just might work for her.

So speaking of videos....when I was getting divorced 3 years ago I bought that P90X. I was living in an apartment at the time. I even bought a chin up bar.

So interestingly enough. One of the days, you are supposed to do multiple chin ups overhand, with hands far apart, and again with hands close together. Then, you are supposed to do chin ups underhanded close and far apart. Well, the funny, yet sad thing about this is that I could not do a single chin up, so the chin up bar and accompanying video were useless. 

Fortunately, I sold P90X on Craigslist....which is also where I bought it and broke even...except for the chin up bar which ruined the area around my doorway causing the apartment to withhold some of my deposit. Live and learn. 

After a week of 14-hour days at work, I'm officially on vacation for 8 days. Yippee. Oh, and the best part, I have MetroPCS so my phone only works in Metropolitan areas and I will not be in one. Oh, and the Wifi at the beach is hit or miss too. I'm going to drink frozen drinks, watch dolphins, go crabbing, and sit in a chair in the ocean with paperbacks. Oh and Bimbo wants me to take her clothes shopping.....not my idea of a vacation, but if it'll make her shut up, I guess it's worth it. 

Hot Dog Legs and disgusting Miley Cyrus

So I was having a conversation the other day about how kids are so tech savvy and all the educational uses of tablets and smartphones.

Well my's daughter's educational learning amounts to sending me this type of stuff:

Hot dogs or legs?

https://www.facebook.com/hotdoglegsofficial


We laughed for half and hour looking at those stupid pictures. But much better wasting 30 minutes of my time laughing at that than me trying to peel that stupid hard boiled egg last week.

So I came home and my dog is sporting one of those sticky tags that stores put on pants. Ironically enough, she is sporting an extra small. Must be off my daughter's new clothes.

I'm so ready for vacation even if its with my daughter. 

So random thoughts about Miley Cyrus and the VMAs. Disgusting. I felt bad for Robin Thicke and his wife as I watched that disgusting display. 

On another note, with my current state of being, maybe I need to have some of whatever she is on. :)



My daughter told me she folded 6000 pairs of panties today at Pink. I told her that her black pants with coral trim didn't match her pink sweatshirt. She informed me that "Pink" girls are supposed to wear a variety of colors....and she said it with attitude.

No more first days of school and Frisco dog park

So I no longer have kids in school. Everyone on Facebook is posting all of their children's pictures for first day of school and they are awesome. I have a great picture of Hayley on her first day of kindergarten, but it is so old that it is not on my Snapfish account. It's an actual photo. She was wearing a  cute pink and white dress and had her hair in a headband. Wish I could post it, but I'd have to go through all my photo albums to find it.

So in honor of all the kids and their first days of school, I'm posting a picture of Hayley today with no school and she worked a late shift last night.

She just took a 2nd job at the Pink store. She is very excited because they gave her free clothes so she can wear them to work.

Funny, but her new boss just called and woke her up and said we need you to work in an hour. Hayley said fortunately she was sleeping in her Pink clothes, so she'll be able to make it in time. We laughed hard about that. Disgusting.

So I went and saw We're the Millers. That was one raunchy show, but yet I can't quit laughing and repeating some of the one-liners.

I took my dog to the Frisco Dog Park for the first time this weekend. She was not impressed. She smelled a few dogs, took a pee, and then tried to follow another couple with a dog out the gate. I don't think we will be going back. I had to use my navigation to even find the park in the first place. From now on, her doggie friends will be the ones in my neighborhood.

Golf Update and Sadness

Played golf with a high school buddy this weekend. He drove up to try out Plantation in Frisco. We had the first tee time on Sunday morning at 7am. What a beautiful day. The swans, ducks, and geese were all out and active. I shot a 98....about typical. I had a birdie and a couple of pars, but two really bad blowup holes involving water. Time to add more golf balls to my bag. So there were some financial penalties this weekend. I should have taken pictures on the course though. Dang it. Also, there is nothing better than playing a 3-hour round. We were done at 10:05am. Lovely.

So Monday night, beautiful full moon. Love that.

So my daughter got a second job at the mall with some free clothes involved. Well thank goodness. She's been delivering pizzas and making $15-25 an hour, but I've spent $900 on brakes and tires just for her in the last couple of months. I knew the back brakes were coming soon, but not the tires too. Ugh.

Now that she has the 2nd job, I told her she needs to put herself on a payment plan with me. I won't charge her for all of it because I want her to hit her savings goal and move out. Hahaha. But, it does put a damper in my style to pay for those car expenses. I prefer to spend my money on golf, sushi, and pedicures.

So today, Hayley and I are looking at my kitty's huge FUPA and my daughter says its time to put Peaches on the Jenny plan. I wholeheartedly agree. 

Very sad. In the last three weeks, I've had two of my friends tell me they are getting divorced, one got unengaged, and another just had a breakup. I'm right there with them all. I'm wondering why all the breakups so suddenly. For the hopeless romantic, and also with my own recent break up, it makes me sad. 

More single girl fun

I decided that is been too hot to play golf and I need an indoor hobby. Well I go to the hobby store and look around. I see this nice kit where you embroidery butterflies on the end of white pillowcases. I'm thinking that sounds awesome even though I'm not much of a hobby girl. Well, I buy the kit and it tells

you what color of floss to buy so I buy the 15 colors.

• Day 1: I come home and start reading the directions, but it seems complicated because they have 3 stitches and I'm just trying to figure it all out. They have a chart to show what stitches on the pattern and what colors and how many strands to use.
• Day 2: Ready to start. Oh wait. I don't have an embroidery hoop.
• Day 3: Purchase embroidery hoop.
• Day 4: Ready to start. Put my pillow case on my embroidery hoop. Oops. I don't have embroidery needles.
• Day 5: Busy, busy, stuck in traffic, go to Target, but they don't have embroidery needles.
• Day 6: Go to Walmart and get the needles.
• Day 7: Finally, have everything I need to start. Realize it's a lot harder than I thought. It takes me 4 hours to do one butterfly.
• Day 8: Okay, I'm starting to get it a little. Things are looking up.

Had a great day shopping with Hayley on Saturday. We had a blast. 

We did our Nicki Minaj impressions with the headband bangs we found at Ross. 

We said we'd eat healthy, but stopped at Wing Stop instead. Shopping for cheap jewelry at Sam Moon. See girls in car next to us....four of them...take selfies with the phone. They catch us watching and laughing and then they are all laughing. It was a long light, so we all laughed a long time.

 My daughter can be so mean, but she can be so much fun to be around...when she's in a good mood.

I'm thinking about cleaning my golf clubs. The weather is supposed to cool down this week, so I'm ready for some golf again. Maybe I'll give up the embroidery until winter. I did get my driver and 3-wood re-gripped.

Vacations

So I was out with the girls the other night and we started talking about Colorado. I started thinking back on some of my vacations there. I went fly fishing and rafting in Buena Vista, skiing at the various resorts, and my all time favorite Colorado trip....The Broadmoor.

I went on a golf vacation at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. I turned to my ex and said "I want to live here". He said "Colorado?" I said "No. The Broadmoor". This is the best hotel I have ever stayed at in my life. Everyone who works there is super nice.

My second favorite hotel is Casa Marina in Key West.Very expensive drinks, but there is a liquor store across the street. They also had a really high end breakfast buffet, but I found the Cuban diner across the street. Good and inexpensive.


As I adjust to being single again, I realize I need to get back to my vacations. Going to start light with my daughter as I'm on a budget. We are going on a driving vacation soon, but she is still 'researching' where she wants to go

Breaking Up is Hard to Do

I have been with my boyfriend for 2.5 years. Had lots of fun times, but things were really changing since my daughter graduated from high school and may be moving out this year. And if she doesn't, I may have to cut out the cable to give her more incentive to leave. Just kidding. I want my cable and Internet.

I was going to meet his parents this month, and I was cleaning out my house so I could move in with him. He made it clear he doesn't want to get married. Well, that didn't sit well with me. Leasing out my house, getting rid of my furniture, and going to live with someone, and no commitment. And, add on the fact he got a new dog recently that would like to eat my cats, and McKinney....blah. 

He asked me if I would really be happier without him in my life. Well, I really had to think about that. I know that I'll be very unhappy for a while.  I also think I would be unhappy to settle, so either way, it just sucks for now, but it too shall pass. The joke is that you must get under another man to get over a man. Just kidding....not my style, but I find that humorous....thanks Joanna.

Tahoe golfing with Joanna.

But for the good news. I've lost 5 lbs already this week and there is no extra junk in my house. I've made at least 12 trips to drop off all kinds of stuff to donate to Frisco Resale. So time to talk myself up....like my daughter does. I'm cute, funny, a hard worker, creative, and fun to be around. So now I have a plane ticket to Harrisburg, PA. You think US Airways will let me change the destination to the Virgin Islands?

So for starters, focus on spending time with my girlfriends, golfing, and maybe even working out. I used to know a lady that would burn sage to cleanse an area. Maybe I'll do that, but probably not. I'd probably set my dang house on fire. I've had enough close calls. Pot roast on fire in house in Austin in oven. Back yard fire from grill at house in Arlington...had to call fire department for that one, chicken wing fire at house in Grapevine (Diane....you remember...that is the moment I decided to get divorced from the kid's dad because he had a fit that I almost burned the house down) and burnt pork chops here recently while I forgot about them and was working in the yard.