Soap

I have always loved Bath and Body Works. My favorite products that they sell are the hand soaps and air-fresheners. I don't like spending $6 on soap though so that why I love the in-between retail season. They are putting out all the Christmas stuff and so now is the time to buy your favorite fall products.

I love this cinnamon raisin cookie soap! I wash my hands and it smells just like homemade cookies. I know some people don't like to buy products that smell like food because it makes them either want that food or makes them of course smell like that food. I don't mind though. If you smell me and I remind you of a cookie maybe you'll think I'm sweet. :)

I typically like my house to smell fresh. It is hard to do since we have hound dogs in the house. :/ (When we got back from Japan we said we were jut going to let them sleep in the laundry room. Otherwise they were going to be outside dogs. Yeah, that didn't work out. They just look so sweet and sad...) I fell in love with the bamboo scent of air-freshener and then they discontinued it. I hope that it will come back. Maybe they made it into a spring or summer product. I liked the bamboo scent because it smelled fresh and clean. I typically think that lemon is a fresh and clean scent. (That reminds me, I need to mop the kitchen and bathrooms sometime...eventually....meh..) So when we went into Bath and Body Works we had the intention to buy a fresh smelling air-freshener. Low and behold we found a seasonal fresh smell on sale! Autumn Apple. It is fresh and clean. I am happy to add apple to the fresh smells appropriate for the house. 1. Bamboo 2. Lemon 3. Apple.

Do you know of any other fresh smells that aren't overpowering but make you think "clean?"

Refreshed and Revamped

I just got back home from California today. I went and visited one of my best friends Annie.

We had a great time. You can see in this picture her little girl Bella is hiding. But here is another shot of Bella in all her princess warrior glory.

We really didn't to too much of anything and it was just what I needed. We played a little cornhole,

                                                             rummy and speed.

What a fantastic trip! Annie made me her famous beef stroganoff and egg salad. (Not together of course.) Both so yummy! The night sky in El Centro was gorgeous! You just know that God loves us when you see that many stars. Unfortunately I don't have a picture of that to share with you, but it probably wouldn't do it justice anyway. 

One night while I was there we went for a walk around her base, the sky was just stunning. As we passed one of the houses there were people outside and they said hi and we said hello back, one of them though said "Ello Govna" in there best British accent. We laughed and kept walking on our merry little way. Then Annie got the bright idea to talk with an accent for the rest of the night. We only made it about an hour, but it was so much fun. I couldn't stop laughing. I think the next time I feel a bad day coming on I will just start talking with an accent. How could anyone have a bad day when they speak with an accent?!  

It is good to be home. James did a pretty good job maintaining the place. Hip-hip-hooray! I will still have to do a women's cleaning though. Sorry guys, you just don't seem to have the same eye as we do. Or you fake it to get out of work....hmmmm. ;)

When I arrived home I went and hid in my closet with the door open to let my babies come and find me. It took them forever. They were smelling all over the room. I was trying to stay still and not laugh. Then Bandit found me and Daisy right after. Daisy jumped up right away all happy to have me back. Bandit is too, but James said he isn't feeling well lately. I noticed it after I let him in and out a couple of times. We will be making a trip to the vet tomorrow to see what's going on. Poor baby!

You may have noticed that I did a little switch-a-roo with the blog. I changed the name to fit more of what I want this blog to become. I will no longer be emailing every post. I will email when I feel it is worth sharing. This is still a public blog so you can feel free to pop on by whenever you want! I love you all and hope you enjoy the rest of your week! 

Where oh where?

Saturday James and I went on a little road trip to Mississippi.* Well, it was supposed to be little. The directions mapquest gave us were wrong and on top of that, the address that the website had to where we were going was also wrong. (I would have chose to use google maps, but James still likes mapquest. This is not the first time mapquest has failed me.)

Going up past one of our turns for about an hour was admittedly my fault, so that added two hours to the trip that was supposed to be just under three. I was looking to see how far we were on the road for and it said 117 miles, little did I know that was the wrong column and that was supposed to be total miles traveled. Oops.

This is when I called my best friend who could look up new directions with the wrong address on her computer at home. You see, when we got back from Japan and signed up for our phones, we (meaning I) were scared of technology. What? Why? Isn't Japan like the most technological place in the world? Perhaps, but it is also in Japanese! So no, I was never exposed to cool or fancy things due to the language barrier. So we got phones that were just phones. Very basic.

I actually still like my phone. It does what I need it to do. I absolutely hate texting though. Maybe I would like it more if my phone had a keyboard. It used to be rude to text first because it would cost about 10 cents a text unless you had it in your plan. Gone are those days. Now people seem to think it's rude to call first. Not me. If I give you my phone number it is to call me, not text me. If I can't get to the phone just leave a voicemail. I will call you back. On the other hand if you text me. I will most likely read it, respond in my head and mean to text you back later and then never do. So now I'm the one being rude and you think I'm mad at you.

Ok, now that that spiel is over with... lol. We arrived at our destination in Mississippi** after being on the road for SIX hours! Yikes, six hours on a three hour trip. We need a GPS. We plan on buying one for ourselves the day after Thanksgiving. No we are not going to wait and see if Santa brings us one. We needed one like yesterday Saturday.

Here is what I need YOU to do. I need you to comment on this here blog and tell me if you have one. I need to know:
              1. What system you have.
              2. If you get to pick the voice-over (yes, this is important.)
              3. If you love it or hate it and why.


*I totally just spelled that in my head "M I crooked letter crooked letter I crooked letter crooked letter I hump back hump back I"
** and again



           
           

Let it be

This song seems sad, yet I love it. Paul wrote this after his mother died and she appeared to him in a dream saying all would be well.

It is a relaxing day today. I plan to clean out my car and do some laundry and such. I have 5 days off in a row and I am very thankful for it. It is fall now and while everyone else seems to be speeding up with their schedules I seem to be slowing down. It's nice. I hope to catch up with some things and just let everything be. I love knowing that life goes on. Even though most people say they hate change and I usually agree (big changes anyway.) There is something comforting about that fact there is constant change. Change in the seasons, growing older and wiser. Watching children turn older each year. It is just a nice thought. No matter how much stuff you have going on in your life or how little stuff you have in your life, it just is. God is God and has everything in his hands. He is in control in good and bad, so just let it be. Everything will be and is fine. I'm going to enjoy the day and hope you do the same.

Thankful

I'm thankful for weekend getaways. 

I'm thankful for best friends.

I'm thankful for tailgates and country music with good friends.

I'm thankful for time to blog again! 

We have been pretty busy lately. Our days off have been pretty packed but fun. We went to Atlanta two weekends ago. James celebrated his 26th birthday last Saturday. We had the Jason Aldean concert make-up day on Sunday. Yesterday we were both off and we went up to the Bass Pro Shop in Spanish Fort. I plan on going back there to do some shopping since they had a bunch of places to shop. :) Today I had to work and get groceries and tomorrow is church. I'm looking forward to a day where I wont have any plans at all. That sounds nice. Hope all is well with you!