Driving to Work

Sometimes I drive Jeff's truck to work. It's a manual so for me to reach the clutch I have to squish the bench all the way up or my short legs can't push the clutch in. Anyway, sometimes my high heels {especially wedges} get stuck between the carpet and the floor. Don't ask how, but it makes it hard to drive.

Speaking of work, I am now the administrative assistant at a small mortgage company. It's pretty quiet, but I really enjoy it. It keeps me busy! So-if you need a good lender for a mortgage, let me know!

The Life Guard Soap Opera: Part II

I admitted before that I enjoyed the banter between the life-guards and the girls who love them. Well, today was just observation. Just the observation of Mr. All-American-Dream-Life-Guard-McDreamy-McGee who brought his girlfriend to the pool. No doubt to see her in her tiny bikini, but to also woo her with his swim lesson skills.

Oh yes, he pulled a double-whammy.

He brought out the kids. As if it weren't enough that he is chiseled, tan and wears cologne to the pool, he also teaches children. Everyone knows how girls swoon when they see the man they love playing with a child. Well ladies-how about 10? That's right. He single-handedly taught 10 children how to swim. His girl friend was suitably impressed. She couldn't take her eyes off him the whole time. In fact, she was probably planning their double wedding with her best friend and already picking the colors for her kitchen. If her name was Heather, the color would be blue. And, of course, he had her sit and watch him right next to the Mom's who couldn't stop raving about what a wonderful instructor he is and how much the kids just love him. And, he also had to be able to give her those side-glances to make sure he was watching. Good thing she was, too-cause pretty sure that little girl who was purposely splashing and kicking him would've gotten beat if she wasn't.

I wonder what their future holds. Probably a beach wedding somewhere in the Bahamas.

Right?

100 Photo Prints for 50 Cents! SUPER FIND!

AND THAT RHYMED!!!!

If you go to Shutterfly before July 13 and enter GET50 in the coupon bar at checkout you will get 50 free photos printed. You pay shipping-which will probably be about $5. Or, you could try to have them picked up in the store. Whatever you wanna do.
NOTE: I like to use Shutterfly because after you pick the photos you want printed you are given a chance to type in whatever you want them to print on the back of the photo. For the last 15 years of my picture-taking life I have always tried to write on the back of photos who (and when it was taken) is in it-cause I probably won't remember in 20 years. They also print the date it was taken for you! FANTASTIC!!!!!If you go to Snapfish, you can get 50 prints for 50 cents by entering the code PENNY in the coupon box at checkout.

The best part about this is by the time you pay shipping, they're really only like 10 cents a print-which is a steal of deal.

The Life Guard Soap Opera: Part I

The YMCA close to our house is indoors. That's lame. Everyone wants to increase their chance for skin cancer in the summer, not be shielded from it! Duh! So Jeff and I went to the one that had the small water park. Which, being only 2.5 feet deep means you have to borrow kids to go there or you'll feel like a complete idiot. So, we grabbed some Ivanovskys and headed out. I enjoy swimming, laying out, playing "spy" and "sardines" with the kids. But mostly, I enjoy watching the high school kids be high school kids.

The following conversation took place between the 16 year old shaggy-haired, 90lb. life guard and the 15 year old busty, tan and slightly taller-than-him girl flirting with him. I got to enjoy 10 full minutes because the big slide quit pumping water and they had to fix it.

Teeny Bopper (as she enters the slide landing next to mine): "Ah!" *flips hair* Looks at the dashing young life guard. You know she is hoping somehow he'll have to do mouth to mouth with her... (Dreaming of Sandlot!!!) "I DARE you to smile! Come on.. smile! SMILE!" She looks at her friend who is waiting down at the bottom, waiting for their approval of her flirtation method.

Studly: This is my smile.
Teeny: "I knew it! I knew you'd smile." She sits down in the slide. "Can I go?"

Meanwhile at the bottom, the other lifeguard gives the thumbs up-it's clear to slide down!

Studly: "Not yet." He teases.

Teeny: "How about now?" She's smiling as big as her cheeks will let her.

Studly: "No. Not yet." He's checking out her swim suit.

Teeny: "OK, how about now?"

Studly: "Mmm.... OK. Now."

Teeny: Smiling at him the whole way down-giggles.

Round Two

Teeny: Bouncing up the stairs. "Hi." ... because she wasn't JUST there 2 seconds ago....

Studly: "Whoa-you have to wait."
Teeny: "What! What do you mean!?" She is obviously delighted, 4 extra seconds with Prince Charming! Who could ask for more???
Studly: (waiting for a moment) "OK. Now you can go."
Teeny: "Are you suuuuure?" As she slowly, ever so slowly sits down on the slide.
Studly: "Yeah, I'm sure."
Teeny: "So, like, can I go?"
Studly: "No. You have to stay."
Teeny: "OK... NOW can I go??"
Studly: "Fine."

Round 3... Round 4.... Round 5... Round 6... I threw up a little in my mouth... Round 7....

This carried on til I slapped them both.

Free Things to Do in The Woodlands for the 4th!

For tomorrow! BEST DAY EVER!!!! I loooooove the 4th of July. So, y'all ready for this????

Starting with Friday night there will be a free patriotic concert at the pavilion. Gates open at 6:30 and they will shoot off the canons for the William Tell Overture.

The Waterway fountains will have patriotic music in sync with the giant water fountains through Sunday. They start the show at 6pm on the weekends.

Nigel Edison will be playing country music at North Shore park at 7pm.

Red, Hot and Blue festival will be at Town Green with lots of free activities and hot dogs!

The YMCA in the back of The Woodlands will be hosting Splash Day from I think 6am-6pm

All Woodlands pools will be free 12-4pm

There is a duck race at Rob Fleming Park off Gosling Road. Watch for free-or purchase a rubber ducky for $5

The Parade will be at 9am and starts at the MethoDome (that huge Methodist Church on Lake Woodlands) and ends there as well. You'll wanna start lining up at 8:30.. somewhere along the route.

Find this info at the REAL source right here!

Another fabulous five dollar or less find

Hooray for coupons! If I had bought all this not on sale at Bath and Body Works and without coupons it would have cost $30. Instead I used three coupons and bought things that were on sale for a total purchase price of $2.24. Can we just say BOOYAH!

Optimus Bee Responds

My buddy Dustin is hilarious. He has a blog where he just writes witty things. I find myself reading it religiously because I love a good laugh. If you haven't laughed in the last couple hours, I highly recommend reading his blog. It makes me laugh. Take this post for example:

"The Internet is full of people looking for answers to things. This is how I like to screw with them. The following are via yahoo! Answers.

Original Post: How do I get rid of a beehive? I have a nest under my porch and every summer there are tons of bees all over my yard. Anyone know how to make them stop coming back?

Bee master (ME): Have you tried the honey technique? Dip your hand in honey get really close to the hive and lure the bees away. When they get tired of making their own honey and realize that you have an abundant source of free, non union honey they will move to the good life. Then just smear all that honey on a neighbors door preferably the one you didn't like anyways.

Optimus Bee (also me): lol the honey hand only works in Canada you need to lure the bees from hiding by pretending to be their queen. The queen of the africanus Beeimus calls her bees with a low hum like sound. As everyone knows bees will not sting their queen so get as close as you can and hum loudly when you are designated as the new queen...."

To finish this hilarious post you will have to click here. Feel free to leave him a comment, too! Doesn't this make you want to go and leave some answers for stupid questions that people ask? I think I found my new thing to do when I'm bored...

Wogging-It's a sport!

I have never been much of a runner. Twice a week I muster up enough gumption to go walking/jogging. Usually I go for how long I've run rather than distance. It's lot easier to "run" for 15 minutes, turn around and then just go right home and know I got my 30 minutes in. However, I've always wanted to run a marathon. I mentioned in an earlier post that I wanted to do a half marathon to get me started. Then Connie and Haley both offered to train with me and I almost wet my pants. They're real runners. Haley just did a half marathon, and Connie just did a marathon AND a 188 mile relay run! Which, by the way, you should read about here. It is pretty impressive. I got tired just watching the video.

Connie at the summit of Avon Pass

I've decided that if I want to be like my marathon-inspiration Connie I'm going to have to start doing something more than 30 minutes here and there. I'm going to have to start seeing how many miles I go when I wog. Not that it's that interesting, but here we go. Progress posting will start this week. If I can figure out how far I am actually running. I think need a GPS.

Ketchup Face

Jeff and I had Rush all day today while the rest of the family was in the 103 degree heat watching Emma's tournament. Here's a short list of fun things to do with Rush.

1. Let him take a nap on the couch-then you can hear him when he yells randomly, "Ball!!"
2. Give him a banana. Go to the bathroom, come out and find the banana GONE. Spend an hour looking for it.
3. Take him to McDonald's and let him dip EVERYTHING in ketchup, then when he runs out of items to dip help him eat it directly out of the cup.
4. Let him wear your tennis shoes.

It was a pretty fun day-I think my favorite part is when he would smile at me and say, "Nana!" The good news is that Jeff and I proved that we can successfully keep a baby waby alive! Hooray for us! Now maybe Ben will stop worrying about his cat............

Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett *updated*

In honor of the Pop Star's death-hundreds of mourners gathered in Liverpool, England and performed "Thriller." News spread like wildfire across Facebook and Twitter.

Watch the Video

Michael Jackson, the self-anointed "King of Pop" who revolutionized music, died after suffering cardiac arrest Thursday. He was 50 years old.

The Los Angeles Fire Department was called to Jackson's residence at 12:26 p.m. P.T., according to the Los Angeles Times. Paramedics performed CPR on Jackson, who was not breathing when they arrived at his home. He was rushed to LA Medical Center, just six miles from his home.

"For a long time he was unquestionably the most famous person on the planet," Jed Hilly, the executive director of the Americana Music Association, told ABCNews.com.Farrah Fawcett also died today. Her spokesman, Paul Bloch, confirmed that the iconic actress died Thursday morning at 9:28 a.m. PDT.

Her long-time partner Ryan O'Neal told People magazine Thursday, "She's gone. She now belongs to the ages ... She's now with her mother and sister and her God. I loved her with all my heart. I will miss her so very, very much. She was in and out of consciousness. I talked to her all through the night. I told her how very much I loved her. She's in a better place now."

I am so bummed about Michael Jackson! I remember seeing a poster of him when I was about 4 at Amanda Webb's house. I thought he was a very pretty girl, and then someone said "No, that's Michael Jackson!" He's probably the first star I knew who they were and what they sang. When I found out he was touring in London I tried to see if we could be there the same time-but it didn't work out. I was really bummed about that. ... and now he's gone. Well, may they rest in peace and bless their hearts. Don't forget to watch 20/20 tonight at 9.

Bakerella Visits Pioneer Woman

I love getting together with my sister Tiffany and sister-in-law Tonia. We just sit around and laugh and talk and talk about everything, their kids, life, what we're going to do this summer, what we did last summer, whatever. Lately our big topic is blogging. We talk about our blogs, we talk about other people's blogs, we talk about what to blog, blog blog blog.

Anyway, we all really like Bakerella's blog and Pioneer Woman's site. We sit around talking about Pioneer Woman and Bakerella like ugly girls looking at the cheerleaders.

"Oh... my... gosh... She just gave away three kitchen aids!" We whine.

"Who does that???" We sneer.

"Seriously!" We roll our eyes.

But you know deep down we're really just hoping to be as cool as them. And we really worship their blogs. Anyway, one of those days they were talking about the two of them and I said,

"You know those two got together and had a cupcake baking party, right?"

You would've thought someone announced WWIII, or that they won the PCH money.

"WHAT??? How did we miss this!? Oh my gosh, google! Google now!"It was shock that we weren't invited, irritation they didn't know til then and awe that these two people really did indeed exist, and they got together. It was like finding out that Santa Claus was real AND friends with the Easter Bunny. And they spent the summer making eggs and small silver bells. You can imagine how the next 45 minutes was spent. I imagine someday VH1 is going to have a show about the 2000's and one of the big topics will be blogging, and they'll go down as internet celebrities. Anyway, I know most of y'all know those two and I'm sure it's old news to their die-hard fans but I thought I'd throw this out there anyway.

Here's Bakerella's side:

Bakerella: Day One

And Pioneer Woman's side:

Pioneer Woman: Last Day

104 But it feels like 110

Seriously? Why?

New Blog Address: www.tewinlove.com

Just for kicks and giggles I wanted to drop the blogspot.com to see what would happen! Theoretically www.tewcute.blogspot.com should still work, and should still take you to my blog! But I've noticed it not doing so hot-so just in case point my blog link to www.tewinlove.com

I Heart Girls Camp

I am leaving Wednesday morning for Girls Camp until Saturday! Hooray! I am actually really excited, and I'm glad Heather asked me to go! Here is what I am expecting:

• My hair braided in a lot of little braids
• "Kum Ba Ya" stuck in my head
• 100 degree heat
• Rain
• Friends
• Bugs
• Skits

How much fun is this going to be?? It will hopefully be as fun as Camp Liahona was!!! Alright, Deanna, Kristen, Princess, Melissa, Angela, Eden, Whitney, Haley, Jessica, Janelle, Heather and anyone else who went to Liahona or Girls Camp....

Name a Favorite Camp Memory!

Oh no you didn't!