Our First Mardi Gras Parade!

Today was awesome! We drove over to Ocean Springs, MS and enjoyed our very first Mardi Gras Parade!!! It was honestly fantastic! Such cool floats and fun people all around us. We got TONS of beads!!! The munchkin got so many “throws” & “trinkets” she could barely stand up! The parade started about 12pm and we got our seats on Beach Blvd around 11:00am, we sat freezing in 40 degree weather for about an hour but it was well worth it. It warmed up a bit after the parade started, with all the excitement you sorta forgot about being cold anyway LOL! I cant wait till next weekend and all the weekends to follow up to Ash Wednesday because its Mardi Gras Parades from now till then! Next weekend is Mojo fest in D’Iberville!!! Cant wait!!!

YAY!! For Air Force honor guard!!

WHO DAT NATION!!! GEAUX SAINTS!!!

The pile of loot!

No Nonsense and a Nook

I start my CNA class next Monday, kinda nervous seeing how its been 10 years since I set foot in a classroom. Last month when I went down to the JD campus to register and have a look around, I felt like I was back in high school. This feeling was confirmed when I saw a young couple smooching the lips off each other next to a vending machine and two guys flinging food back and forth to each other in the small'ish size cafeteria. At that point I literally said "Im too old for this shit". Regardless Im going to press on and show up for my class on Monday morning with an open mind and hopes of having a somewhat normal classmates seeing how this is a "continuing education course" and not just a regular college class. Im kinda nervous cause I dont know where the class is actually at and I still havent gotten my clearance from Biloxi Regional... I called today to find out what is going on but all I got was an answering machine. Im hoping they are just out to lunch and that they'll call me back in a bit with some good news.

So in other news, our Nooks from Barnes & Nobles arrived yesterday and I love it already! I spent pretty much all yesterday afternoon searching the BN website for e-books and adding some to my wishlist. I also downloaded 5 free e-books. The freebees I got are: Cain's Apples by Bryan Lee, Already Dead by Charlie Huston, My Soul to Lose by Rachel Vincent, and Dead(ish) by Naomi Kramer which Im currently reading and find to be hilarious in a dark comedy sorta way. I also love that its written with alot of U.K. slang. Books that I currently have on my wishlist are: Petal Pusher by Laurie Lindeen, Hairstyles of the Damned by Joe Meno, Pop Salvation by Lance Reynald, Breathers by S.G. Browne, Plague of the Dead by Z.A. Recht, Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, Dear John by Nicholas Sparks and Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton. I also love the fact that I can add personal pdf files on my nook (like my good friend's soon to be book) and also add music to listen to while I read. The lending book part is just an added plus in my opinion too, just need to find someone that reads as much as I do in about the same genres or at least has an open mind. lol.

Personal pdf. documents folder with friends book inside titled "Violet Moon"-- remember that shes gonna be famous soon! :)

Figured I'd show you size comparison between nook and regular size of rolling stone magazine. (BTW, doesnt John Mayer look (to quote Mr. Ned Flanders) Scrum-Diddly-Umptus! on this cover!!??)

Upon start up...

Home screen...

And touch screen of my library with book covers.

And speaking of the nook, I have been busy crafting away with an idea that came to me after searching for something to cover my nook with and finding that they sell covers for about $50.00 a pop! I literally said "To hell with that shit" and decided I could make my own, and so I did and for probably an 1/8 of the cost! After making a few of these, I decided to make some bookmarks for a few friends that havent ordered their nooks just yet (There all waiting for me to try it out and give them the review on it before they commit to buying LOL!) But anyway here they are in true geek-ness!

I even made a Chuck sleeve for the him. :)

Dinner and a Letterbox

So yesterday we went out for our traditional Friday night dinner. We decided to try something new and go down to The Ole Biloxi Schooner. I have to say I absolutely LOVED this place. I could tell as soon as we walked in it was a "locals" kinda spot. We walked in and just about every head in the place turned in our direction, people looking to see if its someone they knew. While eating, 3 seperate groups of people walked in at different times and yet they still all knew each other. It was cute to watch them and over hear their conversations of "Oh yeah Betty you know thats Jakes boy Steven. Yup hes all grown up now has 2 kids of his own, his wife is Laura and is J.J.'s little sister." I truly miss that, coming from a small town myself. The food was wonderful and the prices were unbeatable. He had the seafood platter which was fried fish, jumbo fried shrimp, fried oysters, stuffed crab, hushpuppies, fries and a small salad for $9.95! I had the jumbo fried shrimp platter with fries and a salad and little muchkin had the popcorn shrimp & fries. We all had very full and happy bellies from dinner.

After we were done with dinner, I decided to go letterboxing (www.atlasquest.com for those of you that dont know what it is) for one called The Mad Potter. The clue states that the box is located in a cement planter box in front a book shop in the Charles Redding building, where Howard St. meets the street that is named after the Mad Potter. Now there are 4 planter boxes in that location. Two of which are directly in front of the store front window and 2 that are located East of the front window. Ive search all 4 and couldnt find the box anywhere. Ive searched the planter box thats right where the street signs connect and has a poster of what looks like a man on it thoroughly but still found no such box. Im thinking the box has been compromised in the hands of muggles. I wrote a message to the planter and am awaiting a reply, until then this letterbox shall remain a mystery. So in the meantime Im thinking of good spots to plant my own.

Heres a pic of me finding a letter box while we live in Augusta, GA. This one is from Fort Discovery, which was incredibly hard to get to without being caught by someone whos watching. Its in a high traffic muggle area. :)

From a Lemon to a Corvette!

So we didnt get the electric car, in fact it was a HUGE disappointment. He left with his co-worker Joe on Friday morning to fly up to Knoville Tennessee. He also rented a penske truck & trailer to drive it back down here to Biloxi. So he gets up there and heads to the "dealership" to see the guy hes been talking to about this car. The guy happily shows him the car and lets him take it for a test drive. He didnt get but down the street and it died on him, Joe had to walk back to the office and get the salesman. Once they got it started again, he started to make way down the hill when it died again. They brought it back to the lot and started to look it over more closely and soon found pretty much EVERYTHING that could be wrong with it was wrong with it. Everything from dead batteries, major rust, boots being cracked so badly they were spitting break fluid on the rotors. It was such a huge disapointment for him, so the guys went to lunch and talked about everything and he decided that even if the guy would give him the car for free, he would still have to sink money into it to fix it up. Seeing how that wasnt even worth it they decided it would be best to walk away from the deal. He calls me up and lets me know whats going on and I have to say I was totally pissed, not at him by any means; it wasnt his fault the car was a pile of junk. No, I was pissed at the man trying to sell him the pile of junk mostly because we could have avoided paying over $600.00 bucks in plane tickets a deposit on a penske truck and the hassle, if he could have simply gave him a list of things that were wrong with the car. I was absolutely livid! I agreed that he should just walk away from the deal and just come home.

Two days later we drove over to D'Iberville to our favorite comic book shop & exotic pet store to have a looksee and on the way back we see this small dealership. He spotted a VW Beetle and wanted to stop and take a look at it mabey test drive it, so I stop and we get out have a look about the Beetle, when he spotted it, our Harley! Ok no not a Harley as in motorcycle but thats what we are calling our new Corvette! Yes thats right we bought a Corvette! We actually did take the bug for a test drive and tried to be practical about it considering we have children but both of us knew what our hearts desired. In all fairness its was a great price and its a freakin Corvette!!! Shes a silver 1992 corvette in pretty cherry condition, has some superficial things we need to fix like the fiberglass under spoiler, because the previous owner ran it over a parking lot bumper and ripped up the under side of the fiberglass and the seals around the windows, but other than that she is perfect and beautiful! So lesson learned... When given lemons, just throw those bitches away and buy a Corvette! LOL!

Its been a while.

Its been a while since I posted... ok ok, so I forgot all about this niffty little blogger thingy, so I'll give you the run down.

We have moved!!! Woohoo!!! Yippeeeeeeeee!!! and a ki yay mother f&$#@% to Georgia... Haha! Im so glad to be rid of that evil state. I do miss our back door best friends. I know what your thinking, you perverts but not that kind. They are our BFF's that lived just across the lawn from my back door. They are the glue that held us all together while living there, namely my sanity. I miss them alot and their most adorable daughters, hell I even miss their dog! Haha! I am glad to be in Mississippi, I love the city of Biloxi, theres so much do and see... Hello Beach!!! Hello Casinos!!!

We have settled in just fine and are getting things rolling. I will be starting college at MGCCC for nursing (the CNA program) Cheers to me for finally going back to school. Hes is working on finishing up the last of his classes for his Bachelors and I am completely thrilled and proud of him and our little one (whos not all that little anymore) just celebrated her 4th birthday!

We spent Thanksgiving with my mom and dad this year and Christmas in our new home. It was our first time spending Christmas at our house, we actually had to buy our first tree! His mom and dad came for Christmas as well and that was really nice. I spent Christmas day pretty much in the kitchen, we snickered about "knowing my roll" aside from opening presents. The munchkin and I decorated rice krispy Christmas houses (sorta like gingerbread but ya know, with out the ginger bread part.) I made a full Christmas breakfast and TONS of food for dinner. Ham, Turkey and all the sides!!! We had some new friends come over and spend Christmas dinner with us and the munchkin got to spend some time with her BFF twinzee... you have no idea how much these too are identical to each other!

In brand spankin new news we have bought a TOTALLY ELECTRIC car! Yes, thats right TOTALLY ELECTRIC! This little baby is made by Wildfire and comes from China it runs completely on batteries which means its 100% eco friendly and were no longer supporting overpriced gas corporations! YAY!!! We got a most excellent deal on it too, a whopping $6,000! And it will also qualify us for a federal tax credit, Thank You Obama! Im totally excited to own this awesomely cool car, He will be going with a friend from work next Friday to pick it up in Knoxville, TN. I will post more about it after we get it home. Heres the website for more info: www.wildfiremotors.com

There's always a first.

So we have approx. 78 days left until we leave this place. Which is still feeling pretty much like FOREVER for me but hey at least I have a time line now right? I dont mean to have such animosity toward this wretched poor excuse they call a city. Its just that Im plain happy to move, this wasnt one of my most favorite places to live a but I cant say it was totally bad, I did have good times in there too. I did make some friends (some of which have blown my mind, and not in a good way) and some which I know I will be friends for life with. I chalk the whole thing up to a learning & cultrual experience. Oh yes, trust me living in Georgia is a culture shock. In fact people should be required to have a passport to visit down here! Im not saying that where Im moving to is going to be a 100% better but all Im saying is Im hoping! HAHA! Its his birthday this weekend and I am happy, not sure what to make for his dessert since we did the dinner already last weekend with our besties. Last year was dessert sushi and I have a feeling thats gonna be a hard one to top. At the moment I havent gotten any creative ideas yet but Im also known to pull those outa my ass when you least expect it too. Ok thats it for now.. :P