Ugh - it's pouring rain here and Moira is home today. She was up hacking and coughing until 1am. So - I kept her home. Lucky me!

Please go visit Sandy and give her some birthday lovin' in her comments! {{{Sandy}}}

In response to Shannon's question about bonkos.. Read here to learn all about bonkos. It is a game played with 3 dice. There are 3 tables with 4 people per table. Each table has 3 dice. You play the numbers 1-6 each round and there are 3 rounds. You are partnered with the person sitting around from you. The object of the game is to roll the highest amount of points per game.. Scoring points is simple. During each round, each person must roll all 3 dice. Example: if you are playing round 1, you need to roll as many 1's as you can. A point is received for each 1. If you do not roll a 1, the dice are to be passed clockwise to the next person. If you roll 3 of a kind, it's 5 points. If you are lucky enough to roll 3 of a kind that matches the round you are playing (three 1's in round 1), that is a bonkos and it's 21 points. The game stops when the head table reaches 23 points. Then, the winners move up to the next table and the next game starts. It's a lot of fun and it's a good excuse to have a few drinks! There are prizes awarded at the end of the 3rd round for highest games won, lowest game, door prize, most bonkos.. The age range for my group is 30 - 65 and boy do we have a blast!

Olivia and I did a quick trip to the health food store to pick up a couple things. I also wanted to check out their stock on a few items. It was a little disappointing not finding some of the items I wanted. No big deal. I will have to make a trip to Whole Foods soon. Has anyone shopped there? What do you think? It's about an hour drive, each way. While coming home, I was driving (trapped) behind a ghost car. I swear... I could not see any driver at all. Of course, the car was Buick. Nuff said.

OhmyGosh! A Doug Wilson Fan Site! I am SO there!

(link snagged from AskMen) First-year students at medical school were receiving their first anatomy class with the body of a deceased man. They all gathered around the surgery table where lay the cadaver, covered with a white sheet. The professor started the class by telling them, "In medicine, it is necessary to have two important qualities as a doctor. The first is that you must not be disgusted by anything involving the human body." To prove his point, the professor pulled back the sheet, stuck his finger in the butt of the corpse, withdrew it, and stuck it in his mouth. "Go ahead and do the same thing," he told his students. The students freaked out, and after a few minutes of hesitation, took turns sticking a finger in the butt of the dead body and sucking on it. When everyone finished, the professor looked at them and told them, "The second most important quality is observation. I stuck in my middle finger and sucked on my index finger. Now learn to pay attention!"

Howdy hi gang! I had Bonkos tonight.. lots of fun. I didn't win any prizes though (bummer!) but it's always a good time to hang out and chat and play. My neighbor got me hooked into it and I have been playing for over a year now. Moira had school today but she gets the first week of November off. Gee - lucky me! Hmm - let's see.. what else?? OH - the book club has been updated. Check us out!

Susan asks a great question on her blog. Go check it out!

Oh - TLC is rerunning this weekend's graveyard.. err.. room, design today. Be sure to tune in to this Tim Burton nightmare!

:::yawn::: I just woke up from a 3 hour nap. I am so glad Paul is off today!

I would have posted pictures of me and Mary if they had turned out ok. Paul took 2 pictures and they turned out really blurry. Mary posted a photo on her blog - check it out!

Ok - I fixed the images from earlier today - they were HUGE!

Pictures from Mary's Visit

Mary just left about 10 minutes ago - she is certainly very very cool! She got down here around 1-ish. Paul and Moira got back home shortly after Mary arrived. We had a very nice lunch, chatting about all kinds of things. After lunch, Mary, Olivia and I ended up playing Play-Doh for almost 3 hours! We were just sitting at the table.. yakking and having a great time. Mary is extremely creative and came up with some great looking animals upon Olivia's requests. I have pictures of her creations that I will post up later. The girls were all over poor Mary, who was super nice to the girls. They can't wait for her to come down again! I will post pictures later, after the monsters are in bed and I catch "The Sopranos"!

Ok - Mary should be on her way now!

I am wondering where the heck Scott and Shelley are tonight!

Well - Mary never made it down today due to weather conditions. But, that's ok.. we've rescheduled for tomorrow. It did rain all day so the kids were trapped inside. Paul and I needed to review our mortgage paperwork so I put on a movie for them and they kept reasonably still for a little while. I was SO spoiled tonight! Doug was on both Trading Spaces episodes tonight. AND - looking mighty bootylicious too! I loved the white room. I would LOVE to have an all white room.. if I didn't have kids, a black cat or the fantastic ability to spill things all over my house. BUT - what in the wide wide world of sports was Kia thinking???? ASTROTURF?? For a BED?? It looked like a cross between "Night of the Living Dead" and "BeetleJuice"!! Is she on crack?? Holy Moses. And when the hell did the Dexy's Midnight Runners look come back into style? Oy - I was freaking out, watching her destroy the room. I did laugh really loud when Paige was nibbling at the brownies that Doug had rubbed, with his FEET! The look on her face - muwhahahahaha! I just love "The Doug" ::sigh:: he's just so damn sexy!

Moira and I got back from planting dune grass about 40 minutes ago. We had 6 other girls and their parents that showed up out of a total of 17. Oh well - it was fun anyway. A guy from the local newspaper showed up and took pictures of the troop! Wooohoo! Big excitement there. I couldn't wait to get home and jump in the shower! Mary is on her way! Bread is baking.. and I gotta finish cleaning up! Later gators!

Hello out there!! After dinner, we took the kids to the local firehouse. All the kids in the local schools (K-6) drew posters. There were 2400 posters that were judged. They announced the winners tonight. Smokey the Bear was there as well as Sparky the FireDog. Moira and Olivia got their picture taken with them. They also got to use a fire hose! Of course, not set at full strength - haha! That would have been really funny ::snicker:: It was a really nice time - they also checked out the pumper trucks and there was a REALLY cool ladder track. It was already extended out to full length - wow! Very impressive!

I just took a break from cleaning to make lunch.. Mmmm... what tasty bread ::giggle::