I hope I never have to use my underpants as a flag, because after that I could never let my underpants touch the ground. ~ The Lost Deep Thoughts Don’t Fight the Deepness  BY Jack Handey

I hate it when I feel this way. I get introspective and start thinking about life and my place in it. I’m not sad exactly, but I’m also not happy, I just am. The other bad thing about feeling this way is I wallow. The whole mind set allows me to wallow. I wallow in everything… Mostly myself, but also my caffeine intake… I drink entirely too much, I eat whatever  I want, no matter how bad it is for me and I pull the covers over my head and wallow in my soft warm comforters. I close out the rest of the world and think about no one but me. Well I almost close everyone out. There is something about having three children that forces you to deal with them. I can’t say I enjoy it as much as I normally do though.

I need to SNAP OUT OF IT… I will… I suppose. But for the rest of the day I am going to continue the thing that I have been doing so well… WALLOWING.

I have indulged in a large cup of hot chocolate with a giant mound of whip cream on top and a dark chocolate piece for stirring and white chocolate shavings sprinkled over the top. I have my stack of magazines for mindlessly flipping through. The television remote is close at hand. I am cocooned in my comforters and surrounded by my nice fluffy pillows.

One monster all tucked into bed and will let the other two put themselves to bed tonight. There will be no bedtime stories or singing… no last minute drinks of water… just off they go on their own. I am not moving!

SO wallow on I will. Tomorrow I will snap out of it. I will devote time to my family and possibly go to church…

For tonight though I am a self indulgent lump.

ANG

These are some of the images I put on my cards.

I think there were only a couple that I didn’t’ show you guys first.

I have no plans for the day, just hanging around the house with my family.

Hope you all are having a great weekend!

Ang

OOPS… The killer butterflies and frogs were copyrighted and not to be posted without permission! EEPPP…

I didn’t notice so I took them down.

No more killer butterflies… I guess I may just have to make some of my own!. MUHAHAHA…

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SILLY ME… I can just post a link! *hits head with palm of hand could have had a V8 style*

I have been exploring this site all day having fun with the tutorials and looking at the contests.

I also noticed I posted four times today… That is just sick and wrong…

I just don’t seem to know who I am right now. I suffer from a bit of a Xangan identity crisis…

 My Bearded Lady although I love her, has gotten old so I will be trying some new profile pictures. I can’t seem to find anything that REALLY appeals to me. Do any of you ever have this problem?

Yes, sleep ladies and gentlemen, is it overrated?

Poor Dragon…

I have always wanted to stay here.Can you imagine waking up every morning to this…

right outside the door.

Cooper and I escaped for the day and we didn’t take Dragon.

It has been a good day.

I didn’t blog about it but a few weeks ago one of the turtles disappeared. Ben was cleaning out the turtle pond and noticed Oswald was missing. Two days later he turned up in the middle of the road a little way down from our house. He had been hit by a car and was extremely dried out so Ben doctored him back up and rehydrated him and now he is almost as good as new. All of the girl turtles will stare at him and wondered how he got that dangerously mysterious and exciting crack on his undershell.

Well about a week ago, over a week ago actually it was the weekend before last we found a new hamster cage at a yard sale. The kids and I set it up and moved DRAGON, yes, our hamster is named Dragon… To his new habitat.

The next day he was gone. Cooper had opened the new cage door and it wasn’t clear if he had dropped Dragon or Dragon had just been curious and left of his own free will. After a frantic search, we gave up and decided that the little fellow would most likely turn up dead eventually. The first night I thought I heard a rustling in the kitchen but I chalked it up to wishful thinking.

This morning Ben was sitting in a room and there goes Dragon walking down the hallway! Ben called for me and chased Dragon down the hall and under the refrigerator. We put a little food out in front of the door and eventually he came out and Ben made the scramble and grabbed him! I put him back in his cage and then watched for the next hour as he tried to find an out… Our once born in captivity little guy is now hating it… he searched every corner. I watched him hang like a little bat from the wires at the top of the cage as he strained to lift himself up making any attempt he could for freedom.I have pictures, of course but I haven’t downloaded them yet.

 Our menagerie is no longer happy to be held in captivity apparently. Oswald isn’t making any more breaks for it. I guess once you have met a large piece of rolling rubber traveling at high speeds over you, that would suck the desire for freedom out of anyone.  Dragon however is another story, now that he has tasted freedom, I wonder how long it will be before he conspires with my youngest monster for another break out? Just in case the cage has been moved where it will be under constant surveillance. No Great Hamster Escapes on my watch.

Not again.

Today I have been melencholy.

Cooper and I went for a drive.

He just got new Thomas the Tank shoes and he was worried about getting them wet…

He actually walked AROUND puddles!

We drove to the Old Mission Lighthouse.

I only took a few shots because my battery went dead and I left the spare at home.

I know… I am supposed to know better.

As you can see it was a beautiful day.

I’ll definitely be going back in  week or so to catch the fall colors.

It was killing me on the way home because I had places I had wanted to stop and passed up!

Hope the rain isn’t getting to anyone else.

I am set… I will be watching my happy movie and later working on glass and listening to music.

LOUD obnoxious music that I can sing at the top of my voice to and shake my bootie to while I work!

That always helps.

 The narrater did a wonderful post about this day six years ago. If you want to read a post that takes you there in a way few of us were check this one out.

RAINY NIGHT LIGHTS

Just out for a drive.

Took some of the local lights.

MMM yummy.

Have a great day you guys!