Welcome

Welcome to Spring/Summer on the plains. 

Ugh..

Really it kind of sucks-- and is more or less miserable, with random splatterings of beautiful days mixed in.

I say "Spring/Summer" because, well, Spring doesn't really hang out too long around these parts. The two (spring and summer) get sort of distorted and jumbled together. It's rather annoying actually. 

One of the things I HATE most about living here is the WIND! It sucks in the Winter. You know when it snows it's too busy being windy for the snow to land gracefully on the ground- where it belongs. It sucks in the Spring because it makes an otherwise mild and/or warm day, COLD (because you know a hurricane force gust breeze is always cold- like wind is incapable of being another than cold). 

Moral of the story: Wind is annoying and SUCKS... ruins everything. 

ALSO... another joy of living on the plains is TORNADOES. Wooot woot. Once we really get into the swing of spring you can watch he clouds roll into anywhere from 1-3pm everyday over the mountains. To the average person this may sound breath-taking.... well, let me tell you "Mr-Average-Person" it scares the crap out of me. You see when you mix rain/cold front with WARM/HOT temps you often get this:

Yeah... NO FRIGGIN' THANK YOU! 

Maybe I'm completely off my rocker but the idea of some spiraling gateway to OZ (you know, the Wicked Witch of the West, flying Monkies, clacking red heels....) really doesn't do anything good for me. 

Not really into things coming from the sky with the sole purpose of DESTRUCTION.

Nope!

Not for me. 

Yeah... I'm totally siked for Spring time, then Summer to follow. Ugh huh...

Riiiight.

I Want it Wednesday...

I want....

Yes... I have FINALLY found a set of stainless steel pots and pans that are (or at least are available in) non-stick. 

Behold the Calphalon Contemporary set- sold at Bed Bath and BEYOND! 

I've blogged about wanting an iphone... Well what I really want is a solid no BS answer on whether or not Verizon will be getting one or not- AND when!!! Stop with the games and rumors. 

I want...

Cusinart Blender! 

I want...

Pretty Puma's!

Happy Wednesday All! 

I'm off to the gym and to see an old friend! :) Tootle-lou!

DONATE!

On April 24th I will be walking for 5 miles with my friend Lauren. Why will we be walking, you ask?

We're walking for the BABIES. 

More specifically Lauren's beautiful baby girl, lil' Miss Hannah. 

You see... Hannah was born August 26, 2009 at a mere 3lbs 1 oz. Lauren's water broke at 30 weeks while her hubby was deployed to Afghanistan, and Hannah was born a week and a day later. 

Hannah wound up spending nearly 2 months in the hospital.

We are participating in this March of Dimes event in hopes of raising money for preemies like Hannah!

So if you will be in the Colorado Springs area on the 24th and want to join us please just send me an email and I can help get you in touch with Lauren.

If not please go here and sponsor Lauren/our team! 

~~~ 

On a more somber note:

If you haven't heard Marine "Cpl. Jonathan D. Porto, 26, of Largo, Fla., died March 14 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.  He was assigned to 1st Battalion 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C. " (DOD Press Release)

His proud widow blogged about it as Mrs. P over at A Little Pink in a World of Camo.

This Marine was laid to rest on the 24th in St. Petersburg, FL. 

I post about this now hoping that all of my readers will send donations to his young daughter:

 Donations can be sent to

Aberdeen Proving Ground Federal Credit Union 
ATTN: Collean McKinney for the account of Ariana Ralyn Porto
P.O. Box 1176 
Aberdeen, MD 21001

all checks should be made payable to Ariana Ralyn Porto

I'm thinking that it's the least we can do. I mean, we all dipped into our pockets over the earthquake in Haiti... but here's a real sadness, real close to home; within our military community. 

Show your support for the Porto family, especially Ariana. 

Visit Mrs. P here --- show your support. 

Red Eyes

Last year, while Kev was deployed I spent a lot of time with my neighbor Nikki. 

(we love Nikki, all- just FYI)

She took me along to just about everything that she did including watching the UFC fights. Yes, Nikki opened me up to a world filled with superman-punches,men rolling around on the floor looking like they are doing oddly sexual things to each other jiu jitsu and muay thai, where eye-poking is evil and lets not forget the spankies (but we'll get back to that). All the same I came to quite enjoy this UFC fighting, you know minus a-hole losers like Brock Lesnar, as most people do. 

So last night the extremely weird* Brit, Dan Hardy took on the extremely HOT Canadian, Georges St. Pierre in a title Welterweight bout. 

Dan Hardy is known for being sort of outlandish- he does have a red-tipped mo-hawk after all. Non-the-less I was still a wee bit shocked when he showed up to weigh ins prior to the fight with RED EYES. Very Twilight of him, don't you think?

See... Kinda strange, hmmm?

(gotta say I do love his "I Hate Dan Hardy" T-shirt though... it's completely hilarious.

Either way the red contacts didn't give him vampire strength it proceeded to get MANHANDLED by the gorgeous GSP. Don't believe me take a looksy:

Yup... Don't believe THAT'S a UFC fighter... here's proof:

That's what's up! :)

Happy Sunday all. Hope you all enjoying your weekend. 

*Being British doesn't not make Dan Hardy extremely weird.. he just is and happens to be British. 

Give-a-way's Galore!

I've said it before and I'll say it again... everyone loves free shit stuff. 

Somehow I never seem to win any of these bloggy-Give-a-ways. :( What's up with that? 

No worries... I'm not bitter or anything.. 

*Sigh*

My bud over at The Getts Times is hosting a bloggy-make-over-give-a-way.

and

Our Guamazing Adventure also has a give-a-way going down. 

I guess Spring is making folks feel generous. Well spread it this way I love free shit stuff. 

Beyond that... I'm having a bit of an issue peeps. 

So lemme know what you think!

And this is very serious so don't go acting all silly... crackin' jokes and such. 

Because we all know Rpatz/Twilight/New Moon is serious business right?

Well I told everyone yesterday about how my newly purchased BluRay of New Moon doesn't work on my downstairs/living room, much newer/nicer BluRay player. But it does work upstairs on my older/junky BluRay player. So here's my issue.. problem... conundrum... bugaboo...predicament... QUANDARY: 

Do I return it or no?

Seriously... it works on one player but not the other? 

it's very confusing. 

=(

I Want it Wednesday...

I gotta say I love that I started this I Want it Wednesday... one of the best things I've come up with since I started blogging! :)

Anywhozle...

I want.... to share this great and extremely helpful article with you all about this Healthcare Reform business.

I want...

I think the hubs and I have decided to say farewell to Verizon and get on the iphone bandwagon.

I want...

yea, I still want this... I know you're complaining and wishing I'd just stop yammering on and on about it and just go get one already. Well, I'll have to start saving my pennies because my HP is about to take a dirt nap. :( 

I desperately want... my NEW MOON Bluray to work in our living room! :( for some reason it wouldn't work on the newer Samsung Aquos Bluray player but it worked upstairs on an older Memorex player.. odd. :( 

OOO... that leads me to a horribly embarrassing funny story about the hubby! So New Moon was released on Saturday right? Well, I knew that I'd wind up buying it eventually but I really wasn't in a huge hurry; wasn't going to make a special trip out for it- certainly wasn't going to wait in line at mid-night for it. Kev and I spent most of Sunday with at my sisters with family, playing with the new baby. When we left Kevin INSISTS on going to the Wal-mart to pick up New Moon. I said alright, lets see if they have it on Blu-ray because the one closest to our house didn't have it. :( Surprise, Surprise... Wally-world didn't have it on the Bluray and said that they didn't even have any in their warehouse... OMG! So we proceed to 1 Target and Sears when neither of those had it either we hit up Borders as a last-ditch effort and Borders did finally have it! :) Gotta love Borders (especially since they sponsored my give-away in January for a Sony E-reader)! 

The funny part being, I just wanted to go home after leaving my sisters but Kevin just had to find the movie. 

Yeah, men like The Twilight Saga too! 

lol. 

Curious... what makes it a "saga" versus a series? 

Anywho... Happy Wednesday all. 

I love that people hate Health Care Reform...

... you know because it was working soooo great before. 

Fact: The health care system was/is broken.

Fact: It needs change-- desperately. 

It seems to me: this "new" health care legislation is a lot like our beloved TriCare system. We all pay (even though a pretty minuscule amount) into it... doesn't mean we go to the doctor all the time and have tons of prescriptions. Take me for example... Money is taken out of the hubs' pay EVERY MONTH like clock work for coverage and I rarely go to the doc; I'm hardly ever sick. But doesn't mean I shouldn't have coverage. Doesn't mean I shouldn't pay for coverage. At some point *knock on wood* I may use my fair share of the money being paid to TriCare. I could get hit by a bus later today and be in the ICU for weeks... lucky for me I have health care coverage. huh? Otherwise paying for all of that care, out-of-pocket would really suck. 

I don't have any issues with Health Care reform... I think our lil' TriCare system works. :) 

~~~*** something I forgot to mention: This Bill was only passed in the House of Reps (220-215).. Senate still needs to pass their version and then the two bills need to be reconciled- then signed into law. Interesting people are TRIPPIN' over this still unfinished process. Take a look here. 
Let it ride people. 

In over news...

Army Wives comes back April 11th! 

Woot Woot. 

:)