Spirits Up....I Forgot the Eggplant

                                                 

Good Monday morning Shiners and Shinettes.  The weekend seems to go by so fast, but never the less; we are here to start another great week.

Well, I know you must be wondering what the heck is this post about!?  Well, this post is about forgetting the eggplant.  I totally, understand that you may not like eggplant but it’s a silly story behind it and a walk through trials that lead up to this title.

I had plans this weekend and many of them fell through, well shoot, all of them did.  I know many of you can relate, when you plan to do something and then all of a sudden BAM, you’re not going anywhere.  Well that was me this weekend.  I had two things that I wanted to do, I wanted to support a friend, and I was supposed to go to the movies but I was not able to because while doing laundry, my dryer decided to just stop working.  Sooooo, as I sat there with one load of clothes in the washer wet, I had another load in the dryer wet.  Great!  One event out the window and the movie ordeal went just as fast, because the money that I put aside for that also went to the Laundromat to dry the clothes. 

While, I lugged 4 loads to the Laundromat, I said guess I will go to the market while the clothes dry and get the odds and ends that I need to cook dinner for the upcoming weeks.  Now this is where it gets interesting. 

My kiddos and I head to the market; I had my cart all ready to go.  Had my good-good list and they had many sales going on so I was happy!  I said” oh let me not forget my eggplant so I can make eggplant Parmesan” I got the sauce, I grabbed, the cheese.  We enter the produce area and there it was the eggplant.  I’m hype now because, at least I can eat something that I want since I can’t venture out like I planned to.  I was focused, I grabbed 2 and asked my son to give me one of those plastic bags so that I can bag them and put them on the cart.  He gave me the bag, and I was on my way.  Yes!!! I’m now chanting “I’m gonna make me some eggplant gonna have me some eggplant!”  (Yes…I do these things and my kiddos just look at me crazy) bit HEY I was trying to perk myself up because I was feeling a bit low from the turn of events. 

We needed to adjust the cart so somewhere in here this is where I lost the eggplant!  Yes lost! 

We adjusted the cart, grabbed the rest of the items on the list, and headed to the register.  Ahhhhh, the young-lady rang up our items, and off we go back home to unload them before going back to the Laundromat to get the clothes.  OK, unloaded the food, and in seconds I’m on my way back to get the clothes and get back home, because , my mind is all on the eggplant that I can’t wait to have!  Bagged the clothes up and walked back home.

After that, I just plopped down on the couch to catch my breath.  Looked at the clock, ok now its 7pm, gotta cook and hereeeeee we go!

Me: Bell (what I call my daughter) where did you put the eggplant

Bell: Mom you didn’t get it.

Me: Ummmm yeah I did, I bagged it up.

Me: We stood there having an entire convo about why I was making it etc.

Bell: Oh I know that mom, but-wait I’m telling you that you didn’t get it!

Bell: The girl never rang it up

Me: How is that?? It was in the cart

Bell: No mom…look at the receipt.

Me: Scanning receipt

Bell: See told you it’s not on there!

Me: Ugghhhh “This is stupid” (One of my fav sayings these days)

Me: Well I have no idea where….!  When I adjusted the cart, I left the eggplant in the hoagie area! GRRRRRRRRRR!

Me: Well dang, no event, no movie and no freaking eggplant!

Me: Well…There is a bright side to all of this!

Bell: What’s that mom?

Me: We have clean and dry clothes….

Me: But I sooo really wanted to have that yummy eggplant which is in the dang it hoagie aisle. However, I take the good with the bad and still I smile!

Me: Breakout the hoagies, I’m hungry! J

Have you ever had a day like this where everything that could go wrong did but you found the bright side and pressed on!?? I would love to hear about it! 

Have a great week guys! #ShineOn

 Ms. Positivity

Intruder Alert

Hey, Shiners and Shinettes…I have a bit of a funny story to tell you guys.  Even though, I know that I am positive, I feel that we are able to let loose and live as well.  Well here goes!

THEY HAVE ME SURROUNDED, I AM UNDER ATTACK, AND I THINK THEY ARE CALLING FOR BACKUP!

LOL what am I talking about????  Squirrels!!!  These things are a bit out of control.  Lately, when I make my morning trip downstairs to my living room to get my day started I begin to hear a chewing sound that I cannot quite place where it was coming from.  My first thought was, ohhhh I pray that it is not mice trying to get in my house!  I stand very quiet for a bit and then I realize that the chewing is coming from above my front door.  I grab a chair, stand on it, and bang on the top of my door so that whatever it is goes away. 

At this time, I say to myself “I’m NOT opening that door so whatever is out there can get me” Not going to happen today.  I head over to my couch and the chewing starts again.  Well, at this point I am ignoring it so I proceed with my day.

As I sit on my couch, I hear another noise.  What in the world is trying to get into my trashcans on my little patio?  I peep out the window and what do I see not ONE but TWO squirrels trying to get INTO the trashcans that have lids on them!  What???  These things are working in teams….So I chase them off, however, this is not a game to them because they BOTH are back!  Ughhhh all I want to do is relax before the kids wake up and get moving for school.  This is MY time and I am NOT to be disturbed!  I shoo them away again, but less than a minute they twins are back but now just staring at me like (come on lady just lift the lid and there will be no trouble) did they just try to punk me!?  I would say so. 

I go back to my couch and I decided to peek out the front door to see if I saw what was trying to get in. (Brave be Braveeeeee) (Heart Pounding) I opened the door, and what do I see a squirrel!!!!  Grrrrr alright, at this point I am NOT a happy camper.  This thing is just chilling on my front landing as if he was waiting for me to open the door.  I shoo him away and what do I see him do….He jumps and goes into a crawl space above my door!  What do I hear…..chewing!  OHHHHHH wait a dang gone minute!  Soooo you’re telling me that you're trying to break in like the little homies in the back!  I CAN’T!!  I get back on my chair and bang on that wall again!  Guess what??  He stops chewing and comes out BACK ON MY LANDING as if he was answering me when I banged!

Now let’s back track….I have 2 of these RATCHET things in the back on my patio, and one on my landing who is trying to break in through MY WALL!  MANNNNN as you guys can see I have an intruder and I’m surrounded by THREE very persistent squirrels that are hell bent on getting into my trash and house!  Shoot, they called backup…I NEED BACKUPPPPP!  They will not go quietly and I am not backing down! 

These things think they gonna punk me….well maybe just a little!

To Be Continued.....

Ms. Positivity

Mood Booster Moments...."I just wanted a Chocolate Ricecake"

Hey there Shiners!!

I have not done one of these in a while and with all that is going on in my life and getting back to Living I must tell you I have had some foolery go down in my life.  I have eaten and missed my mouth completely, I have mixed colors in the wash that should have never been together (blue and yellow...ugh) that was one of my fave shirts ya know!!  (giggles) to plopping down on the side of the bed Oh and TOTALLY MISSING IT...(yes my behind met the floor at somebodies 2 am) to this past weekends well lets call it "Supermarket Mayhem"

This mood booster I tell you is something that you would only see on TV but NOOO guess who decided that they wanted to guess star all of a sudden!! Me that's who...LOL  So let me get to it!

     So I have fallen in love with these

So I have fallen in love with these rice cakes.  I even went as far as getting the strawberry cream cheese to go on top just like the packaging. Oh it is sooooo good! I didn't think I would like it but on a whim I tried it and now I just have to have them. Well off to go grocery shopping.  I grabbed the strawberry cream cheese, shopped some more and right before I left I said GASPS I need to get the chocolate rice cakes.

So we search the aisle labels and finally I found it! Nothing wrong yet but you just wait and see.  I'm looking and looking down the aisle and I found them! Right no problem yet! Well here goes nothing....when I find them this is what is in from of them: do you see the blue and yellow little cardboard displays...ok stay focused! The foolery begins now!

So these things are right in from of what I want so what do you I do I move it and hunni this got ugly quick! These things are full of items that should not be here.  So I have to move the one that looks like the blue one.  Well let me tell you that was not a GREAT thing to do because it started to topple over....yessssss Shiners it started to fall over.  So I have my big pocketbook on one arm and this thing trying to fall over.  Ever see this mess in the market but not happening to you...well think again! The cheap thing is not stable and I have to be the one to fake it like "oh everything is alright!"  NO NO NO this bad boy wants to go down. I'm in a panic now because who in the world wants to make a scene!?? Not Ms. Positivity! Shiners I tell you the truth-I am looking like a total fool because this thing is really trying to meet the floor.  So I get some strength and pull it up and lean it...I'm good now...ummmm no I'm not...it's SLIDING! You got to be kidding me...I swear all I want is my rice cakes....ugh! So I have to catch this thing I'm telling it it wanted to slow dance with me but I was surely resisting LOL, strangely enough it is super quiet and no one is in the aisle. Ok Ok Ok I say to this thing...please don't fall pleaseeeee!!  It holds up Shiners! Thank goodness....so I go looking for my rice cakes and dang it after all of that they don't have not a single one!! I am annoyed to my core...I said oh no you are gonna have at least one of these...I'm on the floor....still eyeing this display, but NOPE none! Soooooo ummmm yeah I must of put the display in front of something that this other lady wanted and ummmmmm Lets just say that I got out of that aisle quick because as soon as she touched the display it fell over! and guess what! She WALKS OFF! 

Mood Booster Moments....It was trying to get me...Well NOT really

Well shiners here it is....my Mood Booster Moment of the week.

Let me set your mind so you can better understand the foolishness that I am about to present to you.

I was eleven years old in good ole Florida, this was the first time that I traveled alone without my parents.  I went with a neighbor, and I had a tons of fun.  We decided to catch a movie so we found a movie theater, my neighbor watches a movie and I watch another.  Skipping ahead, the movie lets out and their were hundreds of people coming out so I decided to wait for my neighbor over near a bush so she could see me or I would see her.  There was a ledge that I hopped upon but I was not comfortable so I adjusted myself.  Here is where the problem occurs, I sit back way to far and fall back into the small bush and guess what was in the bush????

                                                                                       THIS>>>>>>>>>>>>>(BRACE YOURSELF)>>>>>
Tons of them were all over me, so now I have a phobia of crawling creatures pretty much by these ugly looking things that I wish fall off of the face of the earth so I can get my mind right....Anywhoooo.........

So now that I have given you guys the brutal squeamish background here is how 9/11/2011 at 2:38 AM went......

We-oh my boyfriend and I are relaxing because he just arrived to my house from work.  We are mapping out some plans because his birthday is next month so we are putting things in motion for a great birthday for him and this is what he says:
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BF: Babe ummmmm there is a huge bug over there.
Me:WTH WHERE? as I begin to panic-remember the phobia
Me:OMG TURN ON THE LIGHTS...(at this point my big behind is standing up in the middle of my bed) 
BF:Babe it is ok I am gonna kill it.
Me: OMG WHERE THE HELL IS IT?? I DON'T SEE IT(as if I really wanted to but I need to because I STILL don't see it.)  My BF moves his overnight bag...OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG GET IT WHERE IS IT?? (Poor BF is probably like why is she standing in the middle if the bed screaming while I'm down here with said creature) LMBO!!!! 
BF: Where did it go?
Me: (still standing my big butt in the middle of the bed with the creature NOWHERE near me) 
BF: Oh I see it-it is under the TV stand but I cant get it.
Me: OMG OMG (whining as I am still standing panicing in the middle if the bed now clutching my chest)
BF: WHAMMMM! he kills it....my hero!


Well Im glad that is over, as I am STILL standing in the middle of my bed like a plum fool.
                                       *And here comes the rant*

Me: Babe it was trying to get me!!! (No not really) if you weren't here I would of just died...you hear me DIED! LOL  It would have been on the night stand looking at me like "ohhh look at her there sleeping" And wait!!! What if I were going to the bathroom?! It would of been a puddle on the bleepin floor because I would of been trying to escape that ugly thing....that thing would of had the run of the room!
BF: (Smirking) Babe I killed it.
Me: NO NO NO I would have slept with the kids.
BF: You wouldn't have killed it?
Me: WHAT ARE YOU NUTS!!!!???!?!?!?! Cthu at myself now that it is over.

Shiners I had all sorts of excuses.  I even said if it would have been on me (mind you it was nowhere near me) I would have packed up and moved. Alright, I finally calmed down an entire hour later...(Yeah I know an hour) I get down off of the bed.

A total mess because was now 3:30AM #FOOLERY.....

****But it was really trying to get me though-i'm serious...Man Nevermind-Humph LMBO!!!****

Mood Booster Moments....(Ms. Positivity vs. Ms. Ocean)

Well everyone here it is this week’s mood booster moment.  I know I started this two weeks ago and then and the nerve to go on a much needed vacation.  Well my Shiners I have a story to tell and it will Shorely (spelled that way on purpose) be a mood booster!!

So my vacation was held at the awesome Ocean City, MD.  I decided to have a real vacation without all of the modern technology of cell phones, internet, and texting.  Yes I felt like I was going to go out of my mind but I held strong guys!!  LOL Anywhoooooo….Our condo is awesome, very cozy, and about 50ft from the beach.  We drove down Saturday afternoon, arrived, and settled in, then came Sunday.  Sunday was beach day.  Alright, everyone is now getting ready-the kids are set, I am set, and the boyfriend is set too.  We leave out and away we go!!!!

We have walked our 50ft to the beach and its beautiful, the people, the water, and the laughter from the children all around without a care in the world because it is VACATION!  I lay the towels down, take the shoes off, and went in.  Ummmmmm yeah should have taken it slow.  Cold water OH very COLD water!  Okay Okay so that was not the brightest thing to do but I bounced back and got used to the water.  We’re all playing, loving the water…until I open my big mouth and say, “Hey guys wanna sit like we did the last time and let the waves come to us?”  Yes, the kids are excited the boyfriend not so much but he is warming up.  So get ready for the foolery to begin because it does…………….

****In this corner we have Ms. Positivity vs. Ms. Ocean****

Soooo Ms. Positivity is so brave and ready to have fun with this.  The key is to sit in the sand far enough but close enough to let the water flow over you and back into the ocean.  Simple enough right??  WRONG and let me tell you how wrong it went down.  The first couple of waves okay we all got this.  My boyfriend and I are trash talking and having a ball until that one wave!  OK maybe more than one wave-many waves.  It was one wave that caught us off guard we are both sitting and was still trash talking until BAMMMM!  Hey hey hey that was not supposed to happen…That wave smacked us right dead in the face and we are both having a huge glass of Ocean dead in our faces.  How dare her do that to us.  As we scramble to get up, we decide let us do it again.  Well I guess she (the Ocean) really wanted to play.  We sit back down and try it again, this time we say that was a fluke and it will not happen again.  Ha WRONG again…this time she comes to get us…and oh, she does. 

The next wave flipped my body over as if I was nothing.  Hey, I am a thick chick (proud of it) and she had no right to handle me like that.  As I am trying to get up because I feel that, I need to have a heart-to-heart with her she decided to slap me on my back again knocking me back down!  In my head moment: ok you just wait because obviously we need to have a talk!”  I get my butt out of that water and go to sit on my towel because at this moment I cannot see a thing.  (Remember the last mood booster moment yeah just add seawater UGHHH)  I recoup a bit and then my boyfriend tosses sand all over me so guess who has to go and have said heart-to-heart with Ms. Ocean?  ME that’s who!  Great!!!!  So we go back in….(shock value) because my silly-nilly self-forgot just that fast that the water was BRRRRRRR!  Fine I am used to the water once again and Ms. Ocean just continued to play rough with me.  Look I said “I don’t do to kindly with bullies” so I was ready to have my heart-to heart.  

 (More trash talking) Yeah right, she said.  Well she started picking on me again, flipped my big behind over as if I weighed nothing. (Yall see how catty she is?)   Dang her yall, I’m NOT thirsty at all but she really insists on giving me a big glass of Seawater.  Well here was the last dang it straw.  She starts to get cheap shots in…these waves are calm but pack a punch….I think she just gave me a kidney shot.  Oh this is total BS (yall know what that means) But she didn’t stop there as I’m actually trying to recover from that calm but powerful kidney shot, she decides to smack me in the back of my head.  Wham!  Now she has knocked me down…I’m down…Yall heard the term “Don’t kick a man while he is down” Well I guess Ms. Ocean has never heard of that because she came with an on-going assault!  I tried to get up as the water went back into the ocean the sand was dragging me in…by the time I got my butt up here she came again….I’m clawing to get away but oh noooooo she said get back here I want to play.  “Don’t you wanna play Ms. Positivity?”  …..She gets me again (I’m not in any danger), however, I can’t get up if you paid me…I’m scrambling to get a shore but not before she smacks me one last time!  As I finally was able to escape I could of swore I heard her say “Now the next time you come out here watch your mouth because this is my house and you WONT win” I got to shore and grabbed my things and retreated back to the condo.  I didn’t say a single word, didn’t look back…just took my behind right on back.  I so wanted to flip her the bird but ummmm it was only Sunday and I know I would HAVE to return.

Ms. Positivity 4 Ms. Ocean 0