Wednesday Words

My daughter's latest drawing (she knows what her mama likes - LOL)

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by to say hello! :)

Lots of love and hugs,

Wednesday Words - Random Stuff

Well....this was supposed to have been a WORDLESS Wednesday post with a picture of a beautiful flower arrangement from my dining table - BUT for some reason Google has my thing all screwed up so I can't even upload the darn thing - *sigh*

However, in other news, I have officially lost 6.7 lbs on Weight Watchers so far - WOO HOO!!  I haven't even checked the inches I've lost yet but I can tell that I've lost some due to my pants about to fall off me at work yesterday - HA! 

And speaking of work - I didn't leave the office last night until 9:20 p.m.- after putting in a very looooonnnggg 12 1/2 hour day then having an hour drive home - which means I didn't finally get home and in the bed until 11:00 p.m. and then had to get back up at 5:00 a.m. this morning to start all over again - YUCK!

See....I told you.....Random stuff! HA!  Have a great day and thanks for stopping by to say hello!

Lots of love and hugs,

Wednesday Words - Random Stuff

Well....this was supposed to have been a WORDLESS Wednesday post with a picture of a beautiful flower arrangement from my dining table - BUT for some reason Google has my thing all screwed up so I can't even upload the darn thing - *sigh*

However, in other news, I have officially lost 6.7 lbs on Weight Watchers so far - WOO HOO!!  I haven't even checked the inches I've lost yet but I can tell that I've lost some due to my pants about to fall off me at work yesterday - HA! 

And speaking of work - I didn't leave the office last night until 9:20 p.m.- after putting in a very looooonnnggg 12 1/2 hour day then having an hour drive home - which means I didn't finally get home and in the bed until 11:00 p.m. and then had to get back up at 5:00 a.m. this morning to start all over again - YUCK!

See....I told you.....Random stuff! HA!  Have a great day and thanks for stopping by to say hello!

Lots of love and hugs,

Wednesday Words

Alliye - 11th grade school picture (excuse the light - it is obviously a picture of a picture)

Those of you in NY and NJ and the surrounding areas - be sure to stop back by tomorrow - I have a post that might be of interest to you and your family - especially if you have small children.

Have a great day my friends and thanks for stopping by! :o)

 

Lots of love and hugs,

Wednesday Words, Navy Man and My Lunch Date

Happy Hump Day my friends! Hope you're week is getting off to a good start so far.  Ours is going okay but very busy as usual.  I need a vacation! *sigh*  Anyway..... I wanted to show off a picture of my baby sister (isn't she purty), her stepson (little Ben) and her husband (big Ben) - hee hee hee.  My "nephew" just graduated from Boot Camp and is an official Navy Man! We are so proud of him! :o) And the lucky little toot is going to be stationed in Charleston, South Carolina, which is somewhere I've ALWAYS wanted to go - looks  like I have a good excuse now!

AND... I am SO excited too because today I get to meet THIS lovely lady here for lunch IRL and I.CANNOT.WAIT!! :o)  I  just hope that I remember to take my camera with me and she doesn't think I'm a blooming idiot if I stutter because I'm so excited to meet her in person! LOL   Her blog is one I've been stalking following for a really long time and she just looks like a lot fun to hang out with!  She's so cute and I look forward to our lunch.  She is a fellow New Yorker who always has beautiful pictures of the Big Apple, great recipes to share, beautiful pictures of her family as well as her boyfriend.  Be sure to check out her blog - she's a doll online and I know she's going to be just as sweet as she looks IRL.   Stay tuned for pictures later this week! :o)

Have a great Wednesday - we are on the downhill slide my friends!  P.S.  I finally figured out how to fix my pictures so they weren't all to the right - I'm so stupid - it was really simple - I just had to take the time to look at it! Sheesh! :o)  P.S.  Now Blogger has my paragraphs all screwed up so instead of being "justified" as they always are - I had to slide them to the right just so you can read all of the sentences as it kept cutting off words - UGH!  Oh well... hopefully they will get it all lined out sooner or later! LOL

Lots of love and hugs,

Wednesday Words, Navy Man and My Lunch Date

Happy Hump Day my friends! Hope you're week is getting off to a good start so far.  Ours is going okay but very busy as usual.  I need a vacation! *sigh*  Anyway..... I wanted to show off a picture of my baby sister (isn't she purty), her stepson (little Ben) and her husband (big Ben) - hee hee hee.  My "nephew" just graduated from Boot Camp and is an official Navy Man! We are so proud of him! :o) And the lucky little toot is going to be stationed in Charleston, South Carolina, which is somewhere I've ALWAYS wanted to go - looks  like I have a good excuse now!

AND... I am SO excited too because today I get to meet THIS lovely lady here for lunch IRL and I.CANNOT.WAIT!! :o)  I  just hope that I remember to take my camera with me and she doesn't think I'm a blooming idiot if I stutter because I'm so excited to meet her in person! LOL   Her blog is one I've been stalking following for a really long time and she just looks like a lot fun to hang out with!  She's so cute and I look forward to our lunch.  She is a fellow New Yorker who always has beautiful pictures of the Big Apple, great recipes to share, beautiful pictures of her family as well as her boyfriend.  Be sure to check out her blog - she's a doll online and I know she's going to be just as sweet as she looks IRL.   Stay tuned for pictures later this week! :o)

Have a great Wednesday - we are on the downhill slide my friends!  P.S.  I finally figured out how to fix my pictures so they weren't all to the right - I'm so stupid - it was really simple - I just had to take the time to look at it! Sheesh! :o)  P.S.  Now Blogger has my paragraphs all screwed up so instead of being "justified" as they always are - I had to slide them to the right just so you can read all of the sentences as it kept cutting off words - UGH!  Oh well... hopefully they will get it all lined out sooner or later! LOL

Lots of love and hugs,

Wednesday Words

This will be me tomorrow night - I am going to start taking a kickboxing class - wish me luck that I don't hurt myself! LOL  (I wonder if I will have HER body by the end of it - I am hoping to do this for 3 months to get back into my bikini that I've missed seeing the last 2-3 years - HA!)  *sigh* - a girl can dream, right?!   Anyone want to join me?! :o)

Happy Hump Day my friends!

Wednesday Words

This will be me tomorrow night - I am going to start taking a kickboxing class - wish me luck that I don't hurt myself! LOL  (I wonder if I will have HER body by the end of it - I am hoping to do this for 3 months to get back into my bikini that I've missed seeing the last 2-3 years - HA!)  *sigh* - a girl can dream, right?!   Anyone want to join me?! :o)

Happy Hump Day my friends!

Wednesday Words

GOING HOME:

Boy, do we miss our house! At least we will get to see it for a day next week! :o) (Btw - this picture was taken before we landscaped and took out the "builder basic plants".)  It looks so much nicer now and also has fruit trees down the other side of the house that should be producing a lot of fruit now after 5 years of fruitation.

Two days and counting....*sigh*

Happy Hump Day my friends! :o)

Wednesday Words

GOING HOME:

Boy, do we miss our house! At least we will get to see it for a day next week! :o) (Btw - this picture was taken before we landscaped and took out the "builder basic plants".)  It looks so much nicer now and also has fruit trees down the other side of the house that should be producing a lot of fruit now after 5 years of fruitation.

Two days and counting....*sigh*

Happy Hump Day my friends! :o)

Wednesday Words - St. Paddy's Day Style

Happy Hump Day and St. Paddy's Day my friends!  I thought I would amuse you with some facts about St. Patrick's Day since I didn't really have a post prepared otherwise! LOL  Enjoy! :o)

 1.  Do you know why we pinch people who forget to wear Green on St. Patrick's Day? 

Its an American tradition... in the 1700s, they thought if you wore green, it made you invisible to the Leprechauns, which was good because they would pinch anyone they could see.  So the pinching is to warn and remind you about the Leprechauns. {via yahoo}  (Ironically, some people who live in the Northeast apparently have never heard of this tradition - we were beginning to think it was a Southern thing - LOL)

2.  Was St. Patrick really an Irishman?

St. Patrick was the patron saint of alcoholic Irishmen.  Praying to him on a certain day was said to cure liver disease and keep leprechauns out of your wife's knickers. {via yahoo}

3.  Is St. Patrick's Day only celebrated in the United States?

No.  Its the only national day celebrated world wide.  {via yahoo}



And here are 25 quotes I just came across on Google for even more of your amusement:

1.  If you’re enough lucky to be Irish, you’re lucky enough! –Irish saying


2.  Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. –Unknown

3.  Here’s to a long life and a merry one.

A quick death and an easy one, A pretty girl and an honest one, A cold beer – and another one!
– St. Patrick’s Day Toast

4.  It is better to spend money like there’s no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there’s no money! –Irish toast

5.  An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass to keep from falling off the earth. –Irish saying

6.  There are only two kinds of people in the world, The Irish and those who wish they were. –Irish saying

7.  Irish diplomacy is the ability to tell a man to go to hell so that he looks forward to making the trip. –Irish saying

8.  An Irishman has an abiding sense of tragedy which sustains him through temporary periods of joy. –Irish saying

9.  The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried. –Irish saying

10.  Anyone acquainted with Ireland knows that the morning of St. Patrick’s Day consists of the night of the seventeenth of March flavored strongly with the morning of the eighteenth. –Uknown

11.  May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow, and may trouble avoid you, wherever you go.
       -Irish blessing

12.  Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don’t want to press your luck. –Unknown

13.  A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have. –Unknown

14.  The list of Irish saints is past counting; but in it all no other figure is so human, friendly, and lovable as St. Patrick – who was an Irishman only by adoption. –Stephen Gwynn

15.  St. Patrick… one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish. –Charles M. Madigan

16.  May misfortune follow you the rest of your life, but never catch up. –Irish saying

17.  May your home always be too small to hold your friends. –Irish toast

18.  May your glass be ever full, may the roof over your head be always strong, and may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you’re dead.  —Irish prayer

19.  May you never forget what is worth remembering or remember what is best forgotten. –Irish blessing

20.  In Heaven there is no beer that’s why we drink it here! –Irish saying

21.  May God bless and keep in good health your enemies’ enemies. –Irish blessing

22.  May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past. –Irish saying

23.  Here’s to you and yours and to mine and ours. And if mine and ours ever come across to you and yours, I hope you and yours will do as much for mine and ours as mine and ours have done for you and yours! –Irish toast

24.  May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live. –Irish saying

25.  Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord-and it makes you miss him. –Irish saying

Well, there you have it - interesting facts and quotes that I bet you didn't know before this morning.  I hope I was able to prepare you for today with all of these and that you can now go and amuse your co-workers and friends! :o)  Personally, I WISH I were staying home today as I always dread the holidays like this due to all of the people who flock into the City for the St. Patrick's Day parade right.down.5th.Avenue - where I work - UGH!!!  Maybe today I will take my camera and see if I can get a few shots of it all instead of staying at my desk.  It is supposed to be a gorgeous and sunny 65 to 68 degrees today so I should really take advantage of it, huh?!  

Have a great day my peeps and don't forget to wear Green so the other little Leprechauns don't pinch you ! :o)  Maybe tomorrow I will have some pictures to show you if I venture out at lunch today.

Lots of love and kisses, 

 

Wednesday Words - St. Paddy's Day Style

Happy Hump Day and St. Paddy's Day my friends!  I thought I would amuse you with some facts about St. Patrick's Day since I didn't really have a post prepared otherwise! LOL  Enjoy! :o)

 1.  Do you know why we pinch people who forget to wear Green on St. Patrick's Day? 

Its an American tradition... in the 1700s, they thought if you wore green, it made you invisible to the Leprechauns, which was good because they would pinch anyone they could see.  So the pinching is to warn and remind you about the Leprechauns. {via yahoo}  (Ironically, some people who live in the Northeast apparently have never heard of this tradition - we were beginning to think it was a Southern thing - LOL)

2.  Was St. Patrick really an Irishman?

St. Patrick was the patron saint of alcoholic Irishmen.  Praying to him on a certain day was said to cure liver disease and keep leprechauns out of your wife's knickers. {via yahoo}

3.  Is St. Patrick's Day only celebrated in the United States?

No.  Its the only national day celebrated world wide.  {via yahoo}



And here are 25 quotes I just came across on Google for even more of your amusement:

1.  If you’re enough lucky to be Irish, you’re lucky enough! –Irish saying


2.  Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. –Unknown

3.  Here’s to a long life and a merry one.

A quick death and an easy one, A pretty girl and an honest one, A cold beer – and another one!
– St. Patrick’s Day Toast

4.  It is better to spend money like there’s no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there’s no money! –Irish toast

5.  An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass to keep from falling off the earth. –Irish saying

6.  There are only two kinds of people in the world, The Irish and those who wish they were. –Irish saying

7.  Irish diplomacy is the ability to tell a man to go to hell so that he looks forward to making the trip. –Irish saying

8.  An Irishman has an abiding sense of tragedy which sustains him through temporary periods of joy. –Irish saying

9.  The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried. –Irish saying

10.  Anyone acquainted with Ireland knows that the morning of St. Patrick’s Day consists of the night of the seventeenth of March flavored strongly with the morning of the eighteenth. –Uknown

11.  May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow, and may trouble avoid you, wherever you go.
       -Irish blessing

12.  Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don’t want to press your luck. –Unknown

13.  A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have. –Unknown

14.  The list of Irish saints is past counting; but in it all no other figure is so human, friendly, and lovable as St. Patrick – who was an Irishman only by adoption. –Stephen Gwynn

15.  St. Patrick… one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish. –Charles M. Madigan

16.  May misfortune follow you the rest of your life, but never catch up. –Irish saying

17.  May your home always be too small to hold your friends. –Irish toast

18.  May your glass be ever full, may the roof over your head be always strong, and may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you’re dead.  —Irish prayer

19.  May you never forget what is worth remembering or remember what is best forgotten. –Irish blessing

20.  In Heaven there is no beer that’s why we drink it here! –Irish saying

21.  May God bless and keep in good health your enemies’ enemies. –Irish blessing

22.  May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past. –Irish saying

23.  Here’s to you and yours and to mine and ours. And if mine and ours ever come across to you and yours, I hope you and yours will do as much for mine and ours as mine and ours have done for you and yours! –Irish toast

24.  May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live. –Irish saying

25.  Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord-and it makes you miss him. –Irish saying

Well, there you have it - interesting facts and quotes that I bet you didn't know before this morning.  I hope I was able to prepare you for today with all of these and that you can now go and amuse your co-workers and friends! :o)  Personally, I WISH I were staying home today as I always dread the holidays like this due to all of the people who flock into the City for the St. Patrick's Day parade right.down.5th.Avenue - where I work - UGH!!!  Maybe today I will take my camera and see if I can get a few shots of it all instead of staying at my desk.  It is supposed to be a gorgeous and sunny 65 to 68 degrees today so I should really take advantage of it, huh?!  

Have a great day my peeps and don't forget to wear Green so the other little Leprechauns don't pinch you ! :o)  Maybe tomorrow I will have some pictures to show you if I venture out at lunch today.

Lots of love and kisses, 

 

Wednesday Words

Like my post title this morning? I just made it up - LOL

We are getting more of THIS right now:

I sure hope it doesn't end up LOOKING like that today though! UGH!  I am SO ready for Spring! *sigh*

Happy Hump Day my friends! And if you didn't get a chance to sign up for my giveaway yesterday - be sure to go check it out - you still have 2 full days to enter!

Lots of love and kisses,

Trac~ :o)

Wednesday Words

Like my post title this morning? I just made it up - LOL

We are getting more of THIS right now:

I sure hope it doesn't end up LOOKING like that today though! UGH!  I am SO ready for Spring! *sigh*

Happy Hump Day my friends! And if you didn't get a chance to sign up for my giveaway yesterday - be sure to go check it out - you still have 2 full days to enter!

Lots of love and kisses,

Trac~ :o)