Regional News

I know that anyone who has been in Jacksonville, Illinois in May will understand my news. The whole town of Jacksonville is out of vanilla. Yes you heard me right. You can not buy vanilla in this town. The gnats get really really bad here and for some reason they dont like vanilla so every year there is a shortage of vanilla. I will plan ahead for further trips. At Walmart yesterday they did say that Absorbene Jr. would work also, but I dont think I want to go around smelling like that all day.

Libby's new tooth

We had quite an eventful day yesterday!! Libby had her friend spend the night on Sunday, and they were playing the Wii, when all of the sudden Libby comes running into the kitchen yelling "MOMMA!!!, LOOK WHAT HAPPENED!!!" she was holding her hand under her chin and half of her front tooth was missing. I guess her friend had accidentally hit her in the mouth with the Wii remote and broke her tooth right in half!! This was our first Wii related injury. I had always heard that you should put the tooth in a glass of milk and take her to the dentist as soon as possible. Well, the dentist was closed and she had already swallowed the half that broke off. So we got an appointment first thing Monday morning and got a temporary cap put on it. We have to wait a month to make sure that the tooth doesn't die before they put a permanent porcelain cap on it. If the tooth does die they have to do a root canal before they put the perm. cap on. $$$$$$$$$$$$$ I figure that after insurance has paid their part of the bill, her new 1/2 of a tooth will have cost about the same amount as our new refrigerator!!

Stylin' in WVa

Ok.. I wore my favorite swim top (the one with the best support). My favorite swim bottoms, that just happen to be fuschia. My Gold and Blue water shoes, which are totally fab! None of which matched or coordinated... top that off with a lovely horizontal striped beach towel. I felt like Miss Hampshire County!

Our friends own about 500 ft of creek front property (almost 50 acres of land). I would take this over the beach anyday! I loved it! We had a great time, I really wanted to stay and never go back to work.

Stop The Phone Book!!

I have lived at my address for less than 4 years.  But oddly enough I have received about 12 new phonebooks in that time.  Today, I received 3!  Do you believe it?? THREE!    I have not used a phone book in years!!! 

I received a lovely two inch book from Yellow Book serving Westminster/Carroll County for 2008-2009. 

Ooh.. lookie here, I have a totally bodacious 2.5 incher  serving Greater Baltimore from Verizon!!!

Oh..  and I can't say enough about the honking THREE inch book serving the entire 410/443 area code from... ooh...  Verizon again! 

I can't take it anymore!! This is the single most ridiculous thing in my opinion...  I wonder if I can find Greater Baltimore numbers in my 410/443 book?  What do you think?  I also can't help but wonder if Westminster is in the Greater Baltimore area..

Hold on.. I'm checking...

Nope...  it ends at the reservoir. 

So, I have decided that I need to figure out how to stop the phone books from coming.  First place to look is, on the book itself... no number, no email... but there is a website on verizon books www.directorystore.com let's go there real quick.  Hm.... I'm not seeing the "take me off the mailing list" link. 

So, I googled the phrase "how to stop phone books" and it got 70,700,000 hits in .26 seconds.  Gee, if I was marketing a product and got hits like that, then I'd be a millionaire.  So, I'm cruising the hits... most are blogs..

I did find this:  http://www.paperlesspetition.org/  so, I signed the petition   .

I also came across some phone numbers to try to call:
Yellow Book: 1-800-929-3556 or 1-888-400-5914
Verizon: 1-800-555-4833...  

Another blogger suggested to call this number :Call 1-(877)-243-8339... I'm not sure who this is, but hey... it might be worth it.

Well, at least I can donate these books to the arts center, we use the paper in my pottery class :")

ONE TOUGH KID!!!!

And I thought labor was rough!!!

Incase you can't read the bottom of the picture, it says " Tyler Cannon shit this 8-point buck on Oct. 29th, 2007".

Blow-Up Bob

Allright, I've heard of a lot of uses for blow-up dolls but this was definately a new one for me!!!

Blow-Up Doll Stands in for Groom

Friday, February 15, 2008

GROVE CITY, Ohio - If one bride felt lighter than air in her wedding gown, her groom certainly felt like air itself as 19 couples renewed their vows near Columbus.
Sheila Smith's husband, Bob, had to go away on business and couldn't make the Valentine's Day recommitment service at Grove City United Methodist Church. So friends brought a life-size inflatable doll to serve as a stand-in.

They dressed Blow-up Bob in dress pants, a shirt and tie, and taped on a head-shot photo of the real Bob Smith.

His wife was blown away, because she thought she'd only be serving as matron of honor for four of her friends. After Sheila Smith phoned her husband to tell him about his air-filled alter ego, she wiped away tears as she told how he laughed so hard he couldn't speak.
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Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.com