Thursday 13 Shows On My Tivo

Tivo is wonderful...I can't say that enough. The ability to zip past comericials in mere seconds. The ability to set a program to record just by the name. Not having to worry that it may come on a different night than originally planned. Able to watch boys/girls & results in one fail swoop of American Idol. What more could we ask for? How bout the ability to freeze life action football games to run down for chinese food?

Today's Thursday 13 are 13 programs I have currently on my List to Be Watched soon.

13. SUPERNANNY. Love that Jo. I have 3 episodes to watch at my leisure.

12. AMERICAN IDOL. I have last night's and i'll have tonight's result show to watch tonight. What I'm sure I'll do is start watching the girls and by the time I'm finished, the results show will be finished recording so that I can watch it too. The key is to not "catch up" with the live show so that you are forced to watched commercials. You always want to be able to zoom thru them.

11. MY FIRST PLACE. An HGTV show about homebuyers first experiences with buying their homes. I have a week's worth to watch.

10. OPRAH. I have 2 episodes available to watch. Just watched Valerie Bertinelli on there from earlier this week.

9. A RAISIN IN THE SUN. It was a movie on the other night. Looked good. I remember watching the original.

8. Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles (this is a Dale show...one that he watches when I'm ready to go to sleep)

7. BACK TO YOU. I think this is the Kelsey Grammer series on Fox that looked sorta cute. Jury is still out as I've yet to watch it.

6. MEDIUM. LOVE LOVE LOVE this show.

5. CSI...still in re-runs but fun to watch in case everything is not appealing at the time

4. Holiday. It's a movie we got off HBO. Just waiting to put it on DVD to keep

3. SAW 3. I taped it for Dale. Definitely not a Gina movie.

2. FLIP THIS HOUSE. Another HGTV show. All about buying and re-selling houses for a profit.

1. THE BIGGEST LOSER. I'm addicted to that show!!

So pop up a bowl of popcorn and settle in for some mindless entertainment with me.

Going thru stuff

So as most of you know, my mom passed away 2 weeks ago. She had been living down at my Aunt's 2nd home on the back of her property. She had it fixed up really cute...and then she got sick and had to quit work and my Aunt let her live there at no charge...Now that mom is gone, we need to clean out the cottage and get it back to normal so that my Aunt can re-rent it again. So, tonight, I've been down there going thru some of Mom's things to see what I can use, what I want etc. What an awful feeling! I felt like I was a scavenger of some sort! I even took a bag of napkins my mom had in her pantry because I was out!! I've got all her jewelry too...but to anyone that knows me, I'm not a jewelry person! I wear my wedding ring...a necklace that Dale gave me when we got engaged that means the world to me...and the occassional bracelet or anklet...that's it. But she has TONS of it. I guess i should offer some to some of the family...I dont know what's worth what! I dont know what most of the gems even are!

And logic tells me if i dont take it and Steven (my brother) doesn't ...what are we to do with it then?? I've given some things to my Aunt...I'm giving a computer to my cousin...some other cousins have requested some of her dolphin stuff (Mom has a HUGE collection of dolphin things..but I prefer her collection of Angels.)

We're also planning a garage sale on March 8 to get rid of the stuff that doesn't get a home with us. That should be equally morbid.

13 Things I love about My new Home

So, I suppose it's cheating since I've already done a post on what I'd like in a house, but I'm doing another one just cause i can! Grins.

13. The sitting room. It's off the bedroom and it's so nice and big...we wander in there and just try to think about what we're going to do in there.

12. My closet...aka the Bowling Alley. It's huge. I'm going to be using it for both clothes and a gift wrapping arena. (Have I mentioned how much i like to wrap gifts?)

11. The Garden Tub & Separate Shower Stall. No longer do we have to traipse across the house to take a shower. Or, Dale & I can shower & bathe at same time (if i dont use all the hotwater!)

10. Dale has his own office down stairs. I hope to have french doors put in down there...eventually.

9. A real laundry ROOM. not a closet. not a part of the kitchen...but a real live room.

8. All the kids have their own bedrooms and they seem to love them. Can't wait to get them all decorated. We bought Elizabeth a bed at IKEA the other day but can't give it to her til we get Josh's since we promised he could have the first set. But her's was only $39!!! Marked down from 99.


7. A huge garage with plenty of room left over. It will be possible soon for me to actually pull my car INTO the garage. A Dream come true for sure.

6. A Pantry. A good sized one at that! Not a separate room, but a nice sized pantry with an oversized door on it. At the old house, had to put all the food in the various cabinets...

5. What will be a formal dining room. Before, we didnt have an eat in kitchen but did have a "dining area" ...now we have both. I can't wait to get furniture for all these things.

4. Faux Wood Blinds. Silly I know, but this house will have the faux wood blinds instead of those vinyl ones that I've had most of my adult life.

3. a Bar. Not for drinking...but separating the kitchen from eating area and from living room. I'm "inheriting" my mom's very cool bar stools and can't wait to see how they fit.

2. A Front Porch. At first I thought I wanted to put the swing on it..but now i'm seeing rocking chairs and the swing out in an arbor in the back yard.

1. Dale has his own large closet!! Before he had to use the hall coat closet for his clothes! Now he can actually organize things.

This list is not in order of importance as any one of these things is a favorite at any given time.

All Moved In

Can you believe I didnt take any pictures today? Too busy I guess. But we're now all moved in..well to tell the truth there are a few things still left there that need to be picked up but we're lucky that we still have until the end of the month to get everything. Jeff & Christine, Gregg, Steven(BIL...not brother) & a friend of theirs all helped us move. Now granted Dale has been moving things since last Friday when we closed...but the big stuff came tonight and we'll spend our first night here.

Funny thing happened tonight..we were driving in the car and the radio station was doing a special thingy on The Carpenters...one of my all-time favorite groups. I mention to Elizabeth..and the boys who were listening too how she was one of the most beautiful voices in all of music (just my humble opinion) and John pipes up, "You Don't Say!" I about died!! To the unknowledgeable ear that may have been nothing...but that saying was my grandfather King's trademark saying. It was like he was saying, "i'm here with you" ...maybe I was reading too much into it...but maybe not.

Stay tuned for pictures....

Sad Mad

Today, we had the memorial service for my mom. She passed away Saturday morning from cancer. Well technically, she contracted an infection while in the hospital that her immune system couldn't beat because she was no longer producing white blood cells due to the chemo. To complicated an answer tho.

I'm just so sad. That's the only word i know that sums up how i feel. Synonyms of the word include unhappy, despondent, disconsolate, discouraged, gloomy, downcast, downhearted, depressed, dejected, melancholy. And to some extent, I'm all of those at different times. But sad just seems to cover it all.

And I get mad some too. Not at God like I hear some people do. Just mad that she's gone. Mad that she was so young (61) to be taken. Mad at the whole situation.

One lesson my mom tried to teach me more than just about any was independence. To be my own person. To not be dependent on her or others for my happiness. To stand on my own two feet and not Need Her...just love her. But I look out at the big blue sky and I wonder what life is going to be like without her in it. And I find myself forgeting the lessons of independence she taught me. I find myself needing her to make my life whole. The last three years she'd been back in Stone Mountain were a wonderful time. A time when she and I grew closer as she did with my children. I'm missing her so much....and she's only been gone 2 days. We'd go longer than that w/o talking on the phone...but just knowing I can't breaks my heart.

Here's a picture of her that i really like....it's not the one we used at the ceremony but a good one none the less.