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So yea! The week is almost over and the weekend is almost here. You know what that means! That Friday Blog Hop is up and running.
I have no rules. Rules are made to be broken anyway right? So what’s the point of posting any. Link up any and all your social networking.
Now if you haven’t noticed, I can’t get GFC… boo to that. So I installed Linky Friends. You can find that on my sidebar. Go ahead and follow me there and also through email as well.
So let another Friday come and hopefully get a bunch of blogs and other sites linked on here

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The best part about being an Orlando resident is that I get to see this
whenever I feel like it. It’s practically in our backyard so its fun to see the fireworks and stuff all the time. I took this photo on our last visit to the park. We used to be able to go every weekend. now with ticket prices going a bit too high now, we can only go once every couple of months. But I cannot complain. That’s more then most people get to go. So this was a fun photo to share.
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Linking back up again with XMAS DOLLY for another week of Monday Music Moves Me. I love this link up. Getting to see so many different musical tastes from everyone.
Saturday nights have completely gone from being fun, flirty, going out to sitting around doing absolutely nothing. Of course, the joys of being a mom and a wife.
I miss those date nights and getting all dressed up cute to go out to the movies and dinner. Oh one day I long for those times again. But what can ya do? LOL this is my life.
So it’s 1:00am and I’m just sitting here watching the oh so fabulous tv show “The Hills” {one of my all time fav shows"}. The daughter is in bed asleep and the husband is upstairs in his man room watching his shows.
I did get to do something today I absolutely love and haven’t been able to do in a while. Can ya guess what it was?
Yes. I finally got to go tanning. It’s one of my most favorite things to do. It relaxes me so much and I enjoy it. Plus, I love being tanned. I get depressed when I’m pale. I love a warm glow to my skin. So it was nice.
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Also, the husband was unpacking a few boxes we have laying around and he found my Nintendo NES from when I was little. I remember getting this for my birthday when it first came out. Oh the memories of horrible graphic video games.
So as you can see, he set it up and our daughter loved playing “Duck Hunt” and he was sitting there playing “Bart Vs. The Space Mutants”. We had a few games found as you can see. But there are about three more trays full of games somewhere still in boxes. So he wants to dig those out and play them. Funny it still works. I’m kind of surprised but then again, I’m not. I’ve taken very good care of it throughout the years.
It’s been two weeks and so the weigh in begins again. Join up with so many others to participate in getting healthy and changing lives!

So not much of a loss. But not too shabby for just seven weeks either. I’m still disappointed in myself and need to try and drop four more pounds by the next link up I do.
I’m now on MyFitnessPal! I’ve done really good keeping up on here with tracking things. It’s pretty fun actually. Anyone else that has this should add me if they wish. Click the button below to become my friend :0)
It’s another week with another Wordless Wednesday posting!
Today I’m sharing photos of the cupcakes my husband made {yes, he couldn’t wait for me} for our daughter’s Valentine Day party at school. If you read my last post, you would know I was totally excited about making these. He beat me to it. But I’m glad him and our daughter had a blast helping him.
After I got home from work, I got to put the hearts on them at least. But they are made from scratch. The icing too. We do the long way and it’s more fun and tastes better too. He found this great buttercream recipe and decided to try it. Tasted pretty good. Very very sugary!
So here are our cupcakes:
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Today was a typical Sunday morning in our house. Woke up and me and the husband had a fight {it’s becoming a daily ritual now} and that took my hormones and emotions off the charts. Damn PMS. I don’t like when you turn me into an emotionally crazy bitch. Yea, it never fails. Wish I could control that shit more.
So I got up and immediately started doing laundry. Still crying and still being moody. My daughter and my husband just know to sit back and pretty much laugh at me. They say I make the “ugly” cry face. I just walk around with that face with tears pouring because one little emotion sparks huge effects. Like I said, damn PMS.
After I was finally done with my rant and tears, I just started cleaning. I only really like to clean when I’m mad. It just pushes me for some reason. The husband can tell when I’m really upset because I just start cleaning like crazy.
So I cleaned and just went room to room and putting away all the laundry as the loads got done. He decided to take a five hour nap. So I felt bad trying to keep the little one busy while I tried to finish cleaning. I had her playing video games, watching Netflix, playing with toys, reading, helping me… she was not satisfied. The only thing this little girl wanted to do was ride her bike.
I told her since I was finishing up, I would take her outside to ride her bike. Sadly, when I went outside to get her bike it was freezing. We are talking like 40 degree weather. No way! Not for us. It was just in the 70’s and 80’s here. Florida never gets below 65 degrees hardly ever. but today, it was freezing. Funny how by the middle of this week, it will be back up to 85 as I just saw on the news. Damn bi-polar weather.
So I had to tell her it was far too cold to go ride bikes. She was upset and very sad of course. It’s all she has been wanting to do. I felt bad. So I told her I will take her shopping and she can use the gift card she got from Grandma & Grandpa for Valentine’s Day.
So we went to Walmart {that’s where the giftcard was to} and I promised her we would pick out a fun board game. So sadly, they hardly had anything for a selection. But I saw Chutes and Ladders and remember how much I loved it. So she agreed she wanted it and we got it.
I brought her home and we started playing it immediately. She was so excited and had a blast. We played two times and she beat me both times. Little stinker. I don’t know how that happened. I wasn’t even trying to let her win. So she is in love with this game. She kept wanting to play it over and over.
I’m all worn out of Chutes & Ladders. The game has re-vamped itself. It looks different the version I had as a kid. Of course, that was to be expected. Just looks strange to me now. But she loves it. And I’m glad she does.
And I’m excited because tomorrow when I get home from work, I’m going to be making cupcakes for her Valentine’s Day party at school on Tuesday. My husband just wanted to buy store bought ones. But I really wanted to do the fun, crafty mom thing I never get to do and make them myself. This will be so neat and fun. I’m overly excited about it.
I’ll have to stay up late making them but I think it’ll be worth it. I bought everything I need for them today and have an image in my mind of how I want them to look so I think I am set. I really wish I could have sat and baked them and decorated them all today. However, they wouldn’t be so fresh for the party. I’ll post pictures of them once I get to baking them! So I was happy to be able to do the “mom” thing and have a fun game afternoon with my daughter and glad she enjoyed it. I sometimes miss being able to do simple things like that because I’m so busy with everything else. I’m at work 10 hours a day so it doesn’t make a lot of room for “mommy & me” time. So I’m glad to get it in whenever I can.
I haven’t participated in a few weeks and so it was long overdue. So I am! I love these little link ups. I know my blog should be more “bloggy” but these are just so much fun, I can’t help myself sometimes. So here are my nails for this week’s edition of:
This week’s feature color is Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear – Green With Envy
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Back when I was in sixth grade, we had to do a family history report. I never thought about it before then. But ever since I had found out about where my family came from and who they were, it was a fascination I have had ever since.
The funny thing is every little girl growing up thinks she is a princess. I know I always did. Little did I know that yes, in fact it were true. Long ago back in the time of the medieval ages, my ancestors on my father’s side were of noble and royal blood. Our family dates back to the Dutch royals. I had such an uncommon last name being American and hated how everyone mispronounced it.
When we were stationed in Germany {where I grew up and spent my
childhood} we visited my dad’s home land of Holland. My dad has very strong Dutch in his features and 75% blood. While we were there, we found our family members names and our last name engraved in castle walls, and churches and it was very interesting indeed.
After having to interview my grandparents about our family history it was true. My dad’s, grandfather came from Holland and then changed the name slightly to what my dad’s last name {my maiden name} is now to be more “Americanized”. I always thought that fascinating because I can say deep down I really am a princess. And of course, everyone knows Holland for their four biggest things:
And my other 25% of heritage on my dad’s side is Native American through his mothers side. Although I cannot remember the exact tribe at this time. But I know that’s where I get my tanned skin from {which I love}. I wish I could find out more information about that part of my dad’s family.
On my mother’s side, we are Polish & Russian. My grandmother told me so much information about this side of the family. Back during the early 1900’s when the civil war in Russia broke out against the Czar, relatives from my mom’s side tried to escape Russia and by doing so, they had to change their last name to a Greek name to not be caught.They fled to America with a new name {which was my Grandmother’s maiden name} and a new life.
That was my grandmother’s father. My grandmother’s mother was Polish and
very Catholic. I do not know too much about my Polish heritage. I’m saddened by that. I need to speak to my grandmother again to see if I can get more information about it before she passes away. She told me once, but I have long forgotten anything that was of high importance.
It seems like I know two of my ancestry backgrounds so well and two I’m uneducated in. I need to find out before it starts to disappear and no one remembers.
Do you know your family background well? I find it very cool to see where we come from and who we are. Just one of those things I love finding out about myself.
If you recall two weeks ago, I posted a picture of a turtle roaming around outside by my job. Well, this week, I’m going to be adding to my turtle picture collection. But it’s a new Turtle this time!
He’s smaller and I named him “Tiny”. He was outside at my job the other day while I was on the phone during a mini break. He’s cute and I thought I can post another turtle WW. He’s not the same one, so its cool.
So introducing…. TINY the TURTLE
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