Sad Days...

My husbands very close friend of 5 years just passed away on Christmas Eve. Today was the funeral. His health has been deteriorating for some time now, but now that he is gone everything is just so final. The funeral was so beautiful. The crowd was amazing. 256 people jammed out his church. That is as big as a wedding. He was so loved. What an inspiration of a wonderful person he was. Full of integrity, honesty, kindness, mercy...all amazing qualities he was full of. He was a light that blessed so many. It is sad to know and see my husband hurting and to see him lose one of a few of his true friends. For some reason once they got to know eachother they just clicked. The had such a deep bond and love for one another. How sad that his family and all of us have to suffer this loss. The good thing to know is he is no more pain, no more suffering. Bless you Dave. We love you. We will see you again.

Happy Birthday To My Friend!

I threw a lil' shindig together for my galpal Miss B. We had all different ages intermixing and it ended up being a very fun night. I busted out my new Chocolate Fountain and Fondue pot I scored specifically for the par-tay on the day after Thanksgiving sale! As all parties do, it did "bend" the bank but didn't break it because I got to delegate a bit on having other attendees hook a sista up by bringing some grub. My buddy friend is now officially 24! I am pushing 28...eeks. I feel like an old boot.

Nice to Know I Figured It Out

A - Available or single: Married baby. Stick a spork in me cause I am done!

B - Best friends: Shaky on one(she'll remain nameless), Rebekah, Crystal, Leticia...my fam.!

C - Cake or pie: Depends on the flavor and my mood. Thanksgiving: the answer would be pie, Birthday: the obvious answer would be cake...I like what I like when I want it.

D - Drink of choice: H2O!

E - Essential item you use everyday: Soap, shampoo...um, shower!

F - Favorite color: Purple

G - Gummy bears or worms: The clear(I like to believe they are pineapple flavored) worms.

H - Hometown: I hang my hat in Cali

I - Indulgence: Desserts and having "me" time to do whateva

J - January or February: February is hands down better because I am usually down & out all through January recooping from the holidays.

K - Kids & names: 2, Fairy Girl and J man!

L - Life is incomplete without? My family to laugh and joke with and just be myself.

M - Marriage date: March 27th

N - Number of siblings: Uno. A sista

O - Oranges or apples: Ripe sweet oranges without seeds

P - Phobias or fears: Being eaten by a shark, or bit, really doesn't matter. Anything shark related scares the bageebeez outta me!

Q - Fave quote: "You hold me by the hand, I hold you by my heart"

R - Reasons to smile: My husband being silly for me, my children and the little people they are...my dog loving me. Friends saying a kind word. Reading funny blogs...I could go on and on. I try to look for the positive.

S - Season: Fall, warm enough to not having to lug around a jacket and everything just becomes magical out in nature.

T - Tag 2 people: Nihilistic, Random Girl

U - Unknown fact about me: I don't have an easy time coming up with fantastic ideas to write about...uh...wait, maybe you already knew that. My bad.


V- Vegetable you don't like: Chard

W - Worst habit: Got a pad of paper, pencil and an hour?

X - Xrays: Do not enjoy having them. I hate the bright light they put on you and that heavy drape...no thanks.

Y - Your fave food: Desserts

Z.Zodiac Sign:Aries

I Never Was Great At Tag...

Thanks to my favorite read, miss Crazy Elaine, I got tagged to do this. Here goes nothin': As for the three people who check on me, go right ahead and do this on your page. I would enjoy seeing what you come up with!

A-Animals, I dig em. Especially fuzzy, little adorable ones. I love dogs best when they are puppies. That is why I buy the mini ones.

B-Blondes or Brunettes? I think Brunettes, being I am one! I like mystery with slight depth of personality. I don't buy Jessica Simpson going from, " Chicken from the Sea?" to "I go home and read poetry to unwind." I am sorry but I just don't downshift that fast. Brunettes are better! They really will read poetry and they ain't trippin' over tuna!

C- Christmas. It is my alltime is my fav-O-rite!

D-Desperate Housewife? Who ME!? If I was a character on the show I would be the ex-lawyer-come-mother with the kiddos running her ragged!

E-Energy or lack thereof! I am gonna go with Lack thereof!

F- La Familia. Family is the most important thing in life. Fo Sho!

G- Great Read. Good Books are a treasure, finding time to read them is Priceless!

H- Holiday, as in The Holiday starring Kate Winslet(love her), Cameron Diaz, Jude Law and oh yeah, the funny but not so good looking Jack Black. Saw this movie twice and will be buying it at my nearest Walmart on the Tuesday it hits the shelves!

I-Incident. Isn't it interesting how quickly someone(me) can loose their patience and want to put the SMACKDOWN on the random pedestrian taking their sweet time heading to their car essentially blocking traffic at the mall?

J-Jokes. Just kidding, I only revved up the engine and semi lurched at them once so that hardly counts!

K-Kidman, as in Nicole. She is superb and fascinating! Wonder how celebrating Christmas is in rehab with her man?

L-Loosen' Up My Buttons Babe, but you keep frontin' me...Snoop Dog is one ugly gangly mo fo. He looks like a total criminal! Spooky long one with gangsta eyes. Creepy.

M- Mandarins are some great tasting fruit! Why is it that the big mesh bags filled with them that people are selling on the side of the road always taste so much better than the stores?

N-Never say never, you just might surprise yourself!

O-Ophelia(see, brunettes dig poetry) Rayne, the name I wanted to name my daughter when I was pregnant until my husband said, "Oh right, come here Ophelia and let me feel ya!" I changed my mind.

P-Purple is my favorite color. As if you hadn't noticed...

Q-Q-Tips are a necessity. I like to get in there and get nice and clean.

R-Reckless driving. I plead guilty. I used to have a nickname in High School my principal gave me," Crash." I hit a parked garbage truck...Stupid thing! I hit a lot of things actually, another parked car, a fence(actually I flipped through two), a deer(atleast that was a moving target!) Don't worry, it was all the other drivers faults!

S-Sandy Beaches. White Sand. Or black sand. Doesn't really matter. I just wanna be there enjoying the sun and ocean kicking back someplace amazing and tropical.

T-Taintor. Anne Taintor. One funny chicka who uses vintage pictures of ladies and jazzes them up with hilarious captions. Go find her in the bookstore and have a laugh on me!

U-Umpqua Bank, what is up with them? They seem weird to me. Don't know why really, they just do. Whatever...

V- Vacation. I need one desperately. A week would be fine, two would be better. I want to go to Ireland and get down with the Irish. Or ofcourse Italy would be amazing. I need a magic money tree.

W-Whitney Houston is finally making some right choices by leaving her crazy, dead lipped "Poison" man, Mr.Bobby crazy Brown!

X- Y,Z! X is freakin' hard, didn't what's her name, Christina Aqguilara change her name to X-Tina for awhile there when she was rockin' the skunk hairstyle and grabbing her crotch more than Michael Jackson? I think so. Glad that stage passed.

Y-Years. They keep coming and they keep going.

Z-Zany. I want to do more "zany" things. Keeps ya young. I am not making my New Years Resolution to be more zany though, no thanks. That just sounds retarded! Who does that?

Happy Birthday!

Here's some thoughts I wrote on the Holiday. Hope you enjoy.

It’s that time of year again! The hustle and bustle of Christmas. December is the only month I can think of that I cram 3 months worth of activities into 31 all too short days! It’s so easy to get completely overwhelmed with the mad shopping sprees, searching for those perfect gifts for those special someone’s. Getting your heels clipped by another shoppers eager cart, juggling work dinners, church functions , children’s plays, babysitters, family get tog ethers, not to mention wrapping 30 plus odd shaped gifts to jam under the tree all in the name of holiday spirit. This is my Christmas reality and probably yours as well. And it is just exhausting. Not to say that any of these functions are bad or unimportant, because they are. Otherwise we wouldn’t do half of them and really there’s no getting out of them even if we wanted to. You cannot pull the covers up over your head and let December pass you by so this Holiday Season I am challenging all of you and myself a few things. First, live in the present. No I’m not talking about when you are up to your neck in wrapping paper and you feel like you’ll never tackle the complex job of wrapping all those presents. I’m saying when your watching your child or grand children decorate the tree, instead of making mental to do lists I challenge you to sit back and really take the precious sight in. Even taking this thought a step further , try your best to not only live in the present, but also to Stay in His Presence. The word presence and presents sound very much alike but one is entirely different from the other, and although both are talking about gifts one has a price tag and the other is priceless. His presence will take us through anything with peace and keep our eyes on what its really all about anyway. I got to thinking about my friends this past year whose birthdays fell on a holiday, everyone always says it stinks to have a birthday fall on a holiday and of course the worst would be Christmas because you would get overlooked. There is a important thought in that statement. No one wanted their birthday on Christmas because in all the business of doing the Christmas norm you wouldn’t receive the acknowledgement you desired being that it’s your day. This holiday season I pray we all remember who’s day Christmas really belongs to, tuck it away in your heart and cherish Jesus for the amazing blessing He is. Live in the present, stay in His presence and keep in mind that when you strip all the “stuff” surrounding Christmas away, all that truly remains is a baby in a manger, the Savior of our world.

Wowee! I am BACK!

Alert the press! Miss Informed has officially figured out how to get back on this frustrating machine! What a frickin' PAIN in the back, literally speaking! I guess if you aren't frequently posting that eventually they make you sign in on this deal, which is fine if you REMEMBER your username and password which come to find out, I did not. Luckily my ginko biloba has kicked in and I am now back to tell you all about it! Are you all surviving this madness called CHRISTmas season?!! I barely am scraping by. My son had massive vomiting in bed with me all night last night, and I am sure that more than once he rubbed his sweet wet puke face against my innocent cheek. My fingers are crossed and I am praying I don't come down with this one folks....makes for a fancy Christmas season. Would someone hand me a burp cloth please?!!! Send me some "WELL" wishes. Until next time America, Cheers to Airborne!