Lee and Laura

Lee wanted me to post this picture of them.

What a cute couple, don't you think?

Laura and Lee

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Recipies

Everybody knows I love recipes... These are some of my favorites

One Word Tag

Yourself: Caring
Your Partner: Contraversial
Your Hair: Short
Your Mother: Angelical
Your Father: Gone
Your Favorite Item: Nikon d80
Your Dream Last Night: weird
Your Favorite Drink: Margarita
Your Dream Car: expensive
Your Dream Home: Big
The Room You Are In: Office
Your Fear: death
Where You Want To Be In Ten Years: Retired
Who You Hung Out With Last Night: Mom
You're Not: Selfish
One of Your Wish List Items: storage
The Last Thing You Did: napped
You Are Wearing: jeans
Your Favorite Weather: spring
Your Favorite Book: Mystery
Last Thing You Ate: Taco
Your Life: complicated
Your Mood: Tired
Your Best Friend: Myrna
What Are You Thinking About Right Now: Food
Your Car: Envoy
What Are You Doing At The Moment: thinking
Relationship Status: Married
What Is On Your TV: Paula
What Is The Weather Like: Stormy
When Is The Last Time You Laughed: Afternoon

Daddy's Girl

I must have been about 12 or 13 in this picture. It's before the house was remodeled and the kitchen was moved. My dad is so young here.

I MISS MY DADDY :(!

Another oldie... I miss ME!

Mom and Me

This is an old beat up picture of Mom and myself, it's ancient, Circa 1979! We're standing in front of mom's house. Look at those bodies. I wonder what happened to us. Mom is still "slim", but here, she's really skinny. Then look at me... I can't believe how thin I was. I'm thinking this had to be in 79 so that would have made 16 yrs old. This is an old Polaroid that I scanned, so the blob on the top is where the chemicals used for developing leaked into the picture... bummer!

Your Psyche is Red

You are bright, bold, energetic, and intense. Your upbeat, zany energy inspires those who are down. Spontaneous and playful, you also have a courageous and fearless side. When you are too red: you are angry, overprotective, and truly scary. When you don't have enough red: you are depleted and lifeless.

What Color Is Your Psyche?

Okay so the picture isn't that great!!! Nonetheless, I just wanted everyone to take a look at Rowdy after last weeks ordeal of him getting run over by Mike.

Today he was almost back to normal, had it not been for the bad limp he has. He's going to the vet on the 5th for another shot and for a check up on his leg.

I guess he's gonna make it after all!!!

Rowdy: Tough and/or disorderly, yes! That's my puppy!!

It's been a while since I posted anything here... Just wanted to show you all my PSX Hibiscus card!!!

Lee and Laura

Here they are... the love birds. My brother and his girl friend. Don't they make a cute couple? He insisted I post a picture of them in my blog!! Sorry Laura, he said you wouldn't mind!!

Class of 82 Class Reunion in 92

I was very surprised when I came across this picture. I really thought I had lost it. Mike and I were both so young. No gray hair, then again this was taken 15 yrs. ago!!

We are due to have our 25th year class reunion in June of 07!!!

Oh by the way, that's my class reunion... Mike graduated 10 years before I did in '72!

What do you think of my red hair? Should do that again?

OMG...This was forever ago... 01-07-1993

All day long I fiddled with pictures. I was so surprised to come across this old thing, I was 29 years old and holding a Texas size radish that Kenneth Lawrence had grown in his vegetable garden. Mr. Lawrence was always bringing me something home grown to my office, radishes, carrots, tomatoes, even blue corn. On this particular day he came in radish in one hand and camera in the other, he just said "smile"!! He was the sweetest older gentleman any person would want as a friend. He had been snowbound and frostbitten eary in his life. In the end he lost a leg, and later passed on near my birthday. It was sad to lose a friend, I cried...

This picture was taken at the old county attorney's office that was located in the old courthouse annex. I just noticed that I was wearing my ostrich ropers, that must have been about 100 pounds ago... Yikes, that should be incentive enough for me to want to lose weight!!!

Mom's Birthday Card

This is my Mom's birthday card. I started working on it very very early this morning. Everybody seems to have liked it. It's Prismacolored, then I used a blender pencil and Gamsol. I chalked the entire image with a sponge then slightly tea-dyed the edges to give it more of a vintage look. I recently purchased the Prismacolors and I'm enjoying every minute I use them. Before I purchased these pencils, I questioned whether or not I should be doing this. Nonetheless, my Mom loved her card... in the inside is a very simple handwritten message, "Happy Birthday Mom, Love you! Mary Jayne" can't get more to the point than that.

Myrna & MJ

Here we are!! I guess we hadn't taken a self-portrait in about 20 years. I'll try to find the old pictures so you can compare the before and after. Now that'll be a site. Love you girlfriend!!!

Forever Friends
When I hear that sappy little phrase,
“Families are Forever,”
I always wonder
Are friends forever too?

Because if not,
Just stop the world and let me get off!

I will never find another friend
As fun, crazy and more like me
Anywhere in heaven…
Let alone here on earth!

I simply can’t find words to describe
The ways you touch my life.
You refuse to let me be
Anything less than myself,
And you love me
Like no friend ever has.
I can’t imagine getting through a day,
Much less eternity, without you.

Let’s make a pact.
(Yeah, yeah, we’ll keep the ‘forever family’.)
But you and I will be
Goddesses together…
Divine Divas to the max …
Forever, for always
And no matter what.
© 2003 Suzy Toronto

I've been away from my blog

Oh dear... I hadn't realized how long it had been since I'd been in here. I guess I should try to post new stuff more often.
Myrna came to visit my office for the first time today and took some cool pictures, check them out! I just wish she would have warned me so I could have at least "powdered" my nose!

My Best Friend

This is my friend Myrna, a.k.a. myrnabs. I’ve known her most of her life and we’ve been friends since 1984. I’m about eight years older than her and if you figure that out in 1984 she was only 13 and I was 21.
Myrna is a very pretty lady with a beautiful personality. She is the type of person who will take the shirt off her back to help others. Always going out of her way. She is very smart, and I’m very proud of her. She attends college/university (50 miles away) every weekday, often coming home very late at night. She is a great musician and is pursuing her career in music. I know she will be a great band director some day in the near future.

On top of all this she is also a very talented papercrafter. She makes beautiful cards and altered items. She is the one that made my dog, Rowdy's treat jar! (See below.)
Myrna is very special, she is a wife, mother of two beautiful girls, daughter, sister, aunt, and most important to me, she’s my best friend. I would not know what to do without her friendship. I see her like the little sister I never had! I don’t have to say this cause she knows it, but I lover her very much!
P.S. Doesn’t she look pretty with her new glasses?

Rowdy's Treats Jar

I guess that by now everyone knows that I have a dog named Rowdy. My friend Myrna knows just how much I love him so she went all out and made a treat jar for him. Take a peek for yourselves. It took her an etire evening to complete her project. I think it turned out just beautiful. I love it and it's so much easier now to give my "baby" his treats. She went as far as coloring the doggy blonde or light brown like Rowdy. I really like how she did the lid, cutting out circles and arranging them around the big circle. Then adding the pretty polka dotted ribbon around the jar. I just totally love Rowday's new treat jar. Oh one more thing, she even sent her mom to buy Rowdy some treats, ain't that sweet!!!!!

Thanks...Love you Myrna!!!

Mike's Graduation

Mike's graduation, May 2006. He graduated with honors.