http://www.hillaryismomjeans.com/

Go there. Read. Laugh. Most of them make me LOL, but one made me gag: “HILLARY TAKES HER UNDERWEAR OFF BEFORE TRYING ON BATHING SUITS”

Some of my favorites:
HILLARY INSTALLED KAZAA ON YOUR WORK COMPUTER
HILLARY TRIES TO START THE WAVE AT BASEBALL GAMES
HILLARY NEVER PUTS A COASTER UNDER HER DRINK
HILLARY GAVE YOU PINKEYE
HILLARY REPORTED YOUR DOG TO ANIMAL CONTROL
HILLARY IS NOT ONE OF THE OCEANIC 6

(Thanks to Jen for the link!)

Today in Oklahoma it is 8 weeks before the last frost! And that means…indoor seed starting for me! I love this time of the year, when things come alive again and I get to plan my garden for the spring/summer. I’m usually a fall girl, mostly because that’s when my birthday falls, but spring and summer are really “growing” on me.

Are you planning on planting this year? Flowers? Veggies? Both? I really can’t wait and I would love to hear what other green thumbs are up to!

Because many of you are fairly new readers, I thought I’d link to an older post where I talk about being on a Match.com pop-up ad. Yeah, yeah. Check it out.

I’d like to encourage you all to visit Rocks in My Dryer and read her latest post about meeting the young boy she sponsors through Compassion International. And please, consider sponsoring a child through this incredible organization. The money you give doesn’t disappear into some large account that gets dispersed in who knows how many ways. No. The money you give to sponsor a child goes to that child. Take a moment to look at their website.

Here’s an excerpt from Shannon’s post:

We sat down to eat, and his eyes were as wide as saucers.  This was not only his first visit to the city, it was his first time to eat at a restaurant.  He’s nine years old.

We began to go through the backpack full of goodies I brought from home.  His eyes nearly came out of his head.  He couldn’t believe the clothes (they were a perfect fit) and his mouth hung open at the $1 solar-powered calculator.  He must have said “thank you” to me a thousand times.

The Compassion worker from his project in the village made the four-hour drive with him, and she served as our interpreter.  She and Dissan together told me his story.

He lives in the village, in a mud hut.  Both his parents died last year, and the relative he was sent to live with is very sickl.  So is his six-year-old brother (Dissan is healthy).  Because it has rained so much in Uganda the last few months, the front wall of their hut has washed away.

This boy, this precious boy with the golden smile, does not have parents, and he does not even have four walls.

…

I told him that I promised we would continue to sponsor him through Compassion as long as he needs us, until he’s an adult.  I gave him a long momma hug, which he eagerly returned.  I whispered in his ear the blessing I say over my own kids before they get on the bus each morning:  May the Lord bless you and keep you, may He make His face to shine upon you, may He be gracious unto you and grant you His peace.

Can you match the ringtone with the person it belongs to on my phone? (This may only be fun for people who are actually in my contacts…oh well.)

1. Aaryn
2. Dad
3. Delisa
4. Kyle (younger brother)
5. Mom
6. Granny
7. Ryan (youngest brother)
8. Heather
9. Kevin
10. Mom & Dad’s house
11. GodlyGals contacts
12. Jessica & Jennifer (they are twins and just happen to have the same ringtone)

a. “Nothing Left to Lose” - Matt Kearney
b. “Lovers Who Wander” - Dion and the Belmonts
c. “Alabaster Box” - Cece Winans
d. “Good Little Girls” - Blue County
e. “Low” - Flo Rida feat. T-Pain
f. “Don’t Get Me Wrong” - The Pretenders
g. “Bop” - Dan Seals
h. “Come Back Down” - Lifehouse
i. “Sweet Caroline” - Neil Diamond
j. “You Shook Me All Night Long” - AC/DC
k. “Wildfire” - Michael Martin Murphy
l. “Even the Nights Are Better” - Air Supply

If there is a drop of this stuff on the ground at 5 p.m. I am not going to class.

(i wrote this for my myspace, but i thought it would be fun to share something a little different here for once. i used to write heart lists. i need to start again.)

i miss my hair being this long:

sometimes i just want to live in pretty music videos

i love people. i love you people. wish everyone knew it. maybe i should say it more. and louder.

i love lots of things really. a short list:

♥ long phone calls
♥ my Bible
♥ hope.
♥ being ready to wake up after a good night’s sleep.
♥ a new year
♥ where i want to go
♥ turtledoves
♥ just for a moment
♥ blackberry picking
♥ porches covered in flowers
♥ “love is an illusion.” “it’s the only illusion that counts, my friend.”
♥ watching storms roll in
♥ everything e.e. cummings ever wrote
♥ inspiration
♥ we laughed until we had to cry
♥ java chip frappucino w/ a shot of mint
♥ “there will come a time…and i will know.”
♥ a glass of cold, cold water
♥ hashbrowns covered in pepper & ketchup
♥ freshly vacuumed floors
♥ waking up early w/out a trace of drowsiness
♥ santa fe, nm
♥ morning rain
♥ “I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. One.”
♥ if i hold you again i will never let go
♥ empty parking lots
♥ two drifters, off to see the world
♥ there’s a full moon over tulsa/i hope it’s shining on you
♥ inky fingers
♥ “i’ll take care of you. i will.”
♥ you stormed my winter palace/you rid my heart of every bit of malice/you’re how i won the war
♥ making sense
♥ the smell of oleander
♥ take a good look, make it last/and when you’ve found the moments’ past/just remember that/nobody loved you like me/nobody loved you like me/nobody loved you like me/nobody loved you…like me
♥ these things take forever/i especially am slow/but i realize that i need you/and i wondered if i could come home
♥ tiny green tomatoes
♥ toes
♥ aeroplanes overhead
♥ remember the time you drove all night/just to meet me in the morning/and i thought it was strange/you said everything changed/you felt as if you’d just woke up/and you said “this is the first day of my life/i’m glad i didn’t die before i met you/but now i don’t care/i could go anywhere with you/and i’d probably be happy”
♥ having plans
♥ the lake.
♥ ceiling fans
♥ sunshine in the backyard
♥ baby strawberries
♥ Virginia
♥ so if you want to be with me/with these things there’s no telling/we’ll just have to wait and see
♥ “why wouldn’t she marry me sally?” “she was afraid.”
♥ mrs. dalloway
♥ “he always hated…anyone that wanted to marry you.”
♥ and you just may be the one
♥ “are you happy?”
♥ a girl called daisy
♥ did you happen to see the most beautiful girl in the world?
♥ “i wish she’d see things more clearly.” “clearly enough to marry you, you mean.”
♥ nothing lasts too long
♥ hat designers
♥ my own true love/my own true love/at last i found you/my own true love/no lips but yours/no arms but yours/we’ll live eternally through heaven’s door/i roam the earth in search of this/i knew i’d know you, know you/by your kiss, by your kiss/you’ve showed true love/i’m yours forever/my own true love
♥ “she’s going to marry that man.”
♥ you can’t love like that twice
♥ “i know that i loved her once and that it stayed with me all my life and colored…everything.”
♥ let the rain fall, i don’t care/i’m yours and suddenly you’re mine
♥ poking people on the nose
♥ “i’d hug you, if i could.”
♥ i can hardly catch my breath
♥ stoplights. golights.
♥ i look up/you’re standing next to me/what a feeling

enough now.

i like songs that go la la la and songs that sound like they belong in a music box. and songs people write (for me). and songs with my name in them.

So glad that this part of my life is over. Not that I was ever hanging out at bars picking up strange, potentially dangerous men.

Internet > bars.

http://www.comics.com/creators/lila/index.html

(Had to have the appointment rescheduled due to weather.)While I’m off getting four very large teeth removed from my skull, you can read one of my more popular posts — The Wedding Post.

Taking a cue from Jen at Jayesel and having my own “de-lurking” day. Because I didn’t back when everyone else did.

So if you’re reading, just say hello! I’d love to know who runs across this randomly and who is a regular reader.