Happy Birthday to Me!!

As the headline says, I turn the big 35 today (ok, maybe a little more than the big 35, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it!).

Not a whole lot to say about yesterday or this morning.  It's really been an uneventful last few days.  The youngest son, Jacob, who is 17, has been at KY lake with his friend and his family, so, it's been so so so quiet.

Now, for textango.  I'm up to over 160 texts!!  AWESOME!! And I'm looking for texting buddies, so come over and join.  Love to have ya!

Moving forward we are now on Day 3!  I need to do some design work to the blog, but I guess that will have to wait until a time comes that I have a quiet moment alone.  I don't see that happening!   My textango texts are up to 70 something.  That is amazing!   I wonder if I have a chance of making top texter?  That would be so awesome!          Now for a word about yesterdays cinammon rolls.  They were DELICIOUS!!  Well the first few that came out right anyhow.  I'm going to have to learn what temp to fry them at because towards the last few the outside of the roll was nice and crisp but the inside towards the middle of the roll was still very doughy.  That was disgusting to bite into a roll of dough :(         Hubby and Jacob went fishing yesterday, caught quite a few fish, including a 10 lb catfish, so that was supper last night.   Fried fish, fried cinammon rolls, I see a heart attack waiting to happen.  We don't normally eat so much fried food but yesterday we definitely did our share of heart clogging!             Until tomorrow!  Have a great day everyone!                                                                                                                                             

Day 2, oh, and Fried Cinammon Rolls

Day 2 and all is going well with TexTango.  I would have to look at my phone to see exactly what my number is but it's the 20-30 range.  Not much, but it's easy and it's money.  What else could a person want?        Oh wait, I know!!  Cinammon Rolls!!  Earlier in the month I bought 4 packages of the Pillsbury Cinammon Rolls that you put in the oven, bake, and than smother with icing.  I have 3 left in the fridge, so, no problem, right?  WRONG!!  My oven is on the blink.  Actually, I broke it.  Not on purpose and it's probably more of a malfunction than me breaking it, what happened was I set the oven to self clean and it burned the heating element in half.  Luckily I have a very handy husband who knows how to change it.  The problem with that very handy hubby is it takes him forever to do anything!  So, while I have 3 packages of Cinammon Rolls just begging to be baked, I have no oven to bake them in.      So, after much thought I've come up with an idea.               When the kids were little I used to fry canned biscuits and coat them with sugar and cinammon.  Voila, they had homemade donuts.  I wonder, what if I try to fry cinammon rolls??    Yeap, I'm going to do it!   I'll let you know tomorrow (or later this evening) what happens with this!  Wish me a yummy yummy treat!!!                                                                                                                                       

In the beginning..........

We had a thing called telephones.  I used one as a child.  And even more often as a teen.  We had this curly thing that constricted where we were while using this funny looking device.  But still, it did the job.  As a teen, I normally layed on the bed and gabbed with my best friend while looking up at the ceiling.  Or coloring, or listening to music.  That was until mom, dad or one of the annoying siblings picked up one of the other lines, instructing me that my time was up.                                                                                                                                                                                           Towards the end of those awkward teen years, and into my 20's and married life, we got something new for keeping up with our friends and family.  By now, I was really missing mom and dad and those siblings I had once thought so annoying.  This was a telephone with no restrictions, well, except for the fact that you had to be in the house or the yard!  And it was mainly the house until they were far more popular.....than we could venture out of the house, maybe to the car or garage, while chatting it up with the other person on the other end.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The kids were growing, the oldest was 10 when I got my first cell phone.  And shortly afterwards, the first cell phone bill.  WHEW!!!!  I realized quickly that this thing (at the time I thought it was little, but thinking back, what a gawdy sight it was!) was only to be used in time of dire emergencies.  Honestly, we did not use it much.  I think we maybe had 250 minutes we could use on it each month and a bill of almost $75!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           So, now we're in the day and age that hubby and I both have a cell phone.  We also still provide coverage for our youngest son, our oldest son and our daughter.  There are still 2 more sons but luckily they are providing their own service.  A phone bill for 5 people with shared minutes and unlimited texting (and unlimited data) is costing us just pennies more than that single phone was costing us.  It has also taken place of the nearly extinct house phone, which I thought would never happen. But I haven't had a land line phone in nearly 3 years.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               When the kids first asked me to start texting I told them it was a silly, unnecessary little feature but they ALL agreed to take on other chores to pay for the service.  So we got it.  I still thought it was silly.  And than it got annoying, because all they did was sit with a phone in their hand and not even up to their ears.  They held them like a video game controller and "talked" to their friends non stop.  Funny, how something I couldn't even hear could annoy me so bad.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       And the funny thing, do you know what made me start texting?  I was tired of yelling at the kids to wake up, to come down stairs for dinner, to go feed the dog, to run to the grocery because someone drank the last of the milk.  I would just grab the phone and text them (yes, most of the time they were just a few hundred feet from me), and not have to hear "but mooommmmm".........so texting became my best friend.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        And now for us blackberry and android users, we have a great new APP (Oh, here's a whole new blog, APP's!!!) called textango.   While I could get into all that they do for the texting population it's probably just better to go to their site, and if you'll just click on the word textango it'll take you right to it..                                                                                                                                                                             So begins my textango blog and journey for one year.  They'll be lots of updates and I hope to see lots of you here to support me watch what I'm winning, who I'm texting, and just all that I'm wanting to let ya'll know.  Leave me lots of love and lots of support.   And by all means, TEXT ME!!  270 999 9082!!  Mary!!