FRIDAY FILL INS

1. It's time for ME TO GET A LETTER DONE FOR WORK. I'VE BEEN PUTTING IT OFF FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS (NOT SURE WHY), AND I CAN'T PUT IT OFF ANY LONGER.

2. YOU REALLY SHOULD CONSIDER COMING TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY; it's not a bad place for A SENSE OF TRULY BELONGING.

3. I must be CRAZY TO CONTINUE TO GET UP BY 6:00 AM EVERY DAY THIS SUMMER.

4. SALVATION IN JESUS CHRIST is the best thing I have ever known.

5. My STOMACH is simply HUNGRY.

6. The last time I laughed really loudly was QUITE AWHILE AGO, I THINK. I DON'T REALLY REMEMBER. (I TEND TO NOT HAVE A REALLY LOUD LAUGH.)

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to DECORATING THE CHURCH FLOAT FOR THE LOBSTER FESTIVAL PARADE, tomorrow my plans include MARCHING IN THE LOBSTER FESTIVAL PARADE and Sunday, I want to REST!

MY LIFE ACCORDING TO SUGARLAND

Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to 15 people you like and include me. You can't use the band I used. Try not to repeat a song title. It's a lot harder than you think! Repost as "My life according to (band name)"

Pick your Artist:
Sugarland

Are you a male or female?
Baby Girl

Describe yourself:
Life In A Northern Town

How do you feel:
Wishing

If you could go anywhere, where would you go:
Tennessee

Your favorite form of transportation:
It Runs

Your best friend is:
Something More

You and your best friends are:
Everyday America

What's the weather like:
April Showers

Favorite time of day:
Already Gone

If your life was a TV show, it would be called:
Speed of Life

Life to you is:
Settlin’

Your last relationship:
Happy Ending

Your fear:
Time, Time, Time

What is the best advice you have to give:
It Happens

Thought for the Day:
These Are The Days

How I would like to die:
Fly Away

My soul's present condition:
What I’d Give

Most Faithful Companion:
Love

My motto:
Stand Back Up

QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS (STOLEN FROM TAMI)

1. What time did you get up this morning?
Woke up at 5:45 AM, got out of bed at 6:30 AM.

2. How do you like your steak?
Medium rare.

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?
Alvin & The Chipmunks (a free movie with the boys)

4. What is your favorite TV show?
Hard to pick just one----Next Food Network Star, The Bachelorette, Dancing with the Stars, House Hunters, American Idol

5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?
St. George, Maine

6. What did you have for breakfast?
1 slice of toast (Mom’s homemade light oatmeal) with light margarine, 2 cups of coffee

7. What is your favorite cuisine?
American, I guess. I tend to like the “Americanized” versions of International food.

8. What foods do you dislike?
Organ meat

9. Favorite Place to Eat?
Mom’s House

10. Favorite dressing?
Light Ranch or Newman’s Own Light Italian (from McDonald’s)

11.What kind of vehicle do you drive?
Chrysler Town & Country

12. What are your favorite clothes?
Anything that's comfortable

13. Where would you visit if you had the chance?
The Holy Land

14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full?
I try to be ½ full.

15. Where would you want to retire?
St. George, Maine, with a vacation home in VA.

16. Favorite time of day?
Early AM, before everyone gets up

17. Where were you born?
Rocklandr, ME

18. What is your favorite sport to watch?
NASCAR

19. Bird watcher?
Sometimes. I actually prefer watching squirrels.

20. Are you a morning person or a night person?
Morning

21. Do you have any pets?
2 cats, 1 guinea pig, 1 rabbit, 1 dog

22. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share?
The concrete for the garage is now fully poured, and we’re trying to smooth it out before it bakes fully in the sun.

23. What did you want to be when you were little?
Patient Account Manager like my Dad

24. What is your best childhood memory?
Having awesome parents and grandparents

25. Are you a cat or dog person?
Cat

26. Are you married?
Yes

27. Always wear your seat belt?
yes, always!

28. Been in a car accident?
A deer ran into my car once

29. Any pet peeves?
Yes.

30. Favorite Pizza Toppings?
Hamburg, Onion and Green Pepper (finely chopped)

31. Favorite Flower?
Yellow Rose

32. Favorite ice cream?
Dorman’s Mocha Chip, Ben & Jerry’s Oatmeal Cookie

33. Favorite fast food restaurant?
Sonic, Wendy’s

34. How many times did you fail your driver's test?
Twice

35. From whom did you get your last email?
Menus 4 Moms

36. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card?
Walmart

37. Do anything spontaneous lately?
No. I am a planner. I don’t do well with spontaneity.

38. Like your job?
For the most part. Sometimes clients can be a pain.

39. Broccoli?
With cheese sauce

40. What was your favorite vacation?
NY with Aunt Jo? TN with Mom? VA or Lake George with Dwane & family? Disney World? Like ‘em all.

41. Last person you went out to dinner with?
Dwane & the kids

42. What are you listening to right now?
A Power Trawler (sp?) working on the concrete

43. What is your favorite color?
Pink

44. How many tattoos do you have?
None.

45. What time did you finish this quiz?
3:31 pm EST

46. Coffee Drinker?
Yes. I like weak coffee with 2 ½ Splenda and a splash of flavored Coffee Mate (especially Chocolate Raspberry or Sugar-Free Vanilla)

FRIDAY FILL-INS

1. A BAD ECONOMY is not the end of the world.

2. Sitting here, listening to the sound of rain falling, I WISH I COULD JUST SPEND THE DAY IN BED WITH A BOOK.

3. LOBSTER tastes so good!

4. Sometimes, putting others first is THE BEST WAY TO GO---IN FACT IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO GO. PHILIPPIANS 2:3 SAYS "DO NOTHING OUT OF SELFISH AMBITION OR VAIN CONCEIT; BUT IN HUMILITY CONSIDER OTHERS BETTER THAN YOURSELVES". (THIS VERSE WAS PART OF MY BIBLE STUDY THIS MORNING.)

5. NIAGARA FALLS is breathtaking, really.

6. Well, maybe there is A WAY I CAN MAKE SOME EXTRA MONEY AND STILL BE HOME WHEN MY KIDS ARE---I JUST NEED GOD TO LEAD ME TO IT.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to WORKING ON A SCRAPBOOK FOR ANITA, tomorrow my plans include PICKING UP A FEW GROCERIES and Sunday, I want to WATCH THE NASCAR RACE AT INDY (I'M HAVING NASCAR WITHDRAWAL)!

FRIDAY FILL INS

1. MACARONI, CANNED TOMATOES and HAMBURG make a quick and easy dinner.

2. ECLIPSE BY STEPHENIE MEYER is the book I'm reading right now.

3. July brings back memories of LOTS OF BIRTHDAYS.

4. BY THE WAY SHE ROLLED HER EYES, THE FACT THAT SHE WAS DISGUSTED was obvious.

5. They say if you tell your dreams TO OTHERS, THEY MIGHT THINK YOU'RE REALLY WHACKY.

6. BEFORE YOU HAVE BACK SURGERY, TAKE THE TIME to think it over.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to LISTENING TO BILLY RHYTHM AND FIVE BUTTON DELUXE AT THE ST. GEORGE STREET DANCE, tomorrow my plans include WORKING AT ST. GEORGE DAYS and Sunday, I want to BAKE/DECORATE EBEN'S BIRTHDAY CAKE!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I'm always so proud of myself that I remember your birhtday every year. But then, with a birthday like 7/11, who can forget??? 'Bout time you posted to your blog, don't cha think? I check it every day, and you haven't posted for ages! And, since you live SO FAR AWAY, it's the only way I seem to hear anything from you anymore. Love ya!!!

1. The last thing I ate was LASAGNA and DIET ICED TEA.

2. A BLACK SUNDRESS is something I recently bought.

3. When it rains, it DOES SO FOR DAYS.

4. DWANE was the first person I talked to today.

5. Hugs are SOME OF THE BEST THINGS YOU CAN GET FROM YOUR KIDS.

6. MY TEDDY BEAR PROVIDES extra comfort.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to WHO KNOWS WHAT, tomorrow my plans include GOING TO GORHAM TO PICK UP A GARAGE DOOR and Sunday, I want to MAKE SAUSAGE & KALE SOUP FOR MY FAMILY'S LUNCH!

VIRGINIA

Well, we are finally here in Virginia. What a trip that was! We didn't run into any trouble, and there wasn't any traffic, but it just seemed that we couldn't really make any progress. There were 7 of us traveling together in 3 different vehicles. We were all on different "bathroom schedules", and we had to stop to change drivers, get something to eat, rest, etc., etc. We left our house at 4:30 on Wednesday afternoon, and we arrived in Lynchburg at 3:45 Thursday afternoon. That's almost 24 hours. It normally takes us about 16.

On the way down, we had to stop in Warren, MA to drop Colby ofnf at his Dad's house. What was really amazing is that we had to drive right down Sarah's street! How cool was that? Dwane asked me if I felt comfortable calling her, and I said that while I certainly felt comfortable calling her, I didn't really think 11:30 at night was necessarily an appropriate time to call her. Sarah, we'll be heading back that way sometime between Sunday night, Monday, so don't be suprised if I call you asking to crash!!! :) (It's really not too likely, as we're traveling with Dwane's Mom & his grandmother.)

We had Japanese food for supper last night, and then Dawn treated me to a manicure. We walked in, and the people there were so excited to see her. "Hey, Dawn! How ya doing!" It was like she was the queen or something! Pretty cool. I had what I think is called a "French color" manicure--there is hot pink color only on the tips. I had been awake for about 40 hours at that point, and it took some concentration to be able to stay awake during all of that pampering.

Dawn and I then went to a store called "Ross: Dress for Less", which is similar to a TJ Maxx. She helped me find a really cool black sundress, and then we went to Wal-Mart to find a tank top to go under it (want to be modest, you know). When we got back to Dawn's house, we sat in the car and talked for an hour. We laughed and cried and prayed together. Thank you, God, for seeing fit to bless me with Dawn as a sister-in-law. The evening was an absolute treasure. God gave me Dawn & Sue as sisters-in-law, and I couldn't have gotten better ones if I had shopped for them myself.

Today we are going to the Shenandoah Valley Resort and Kings Dominion (a huge amusement park). Tomorrow, I think the guys are going fishing, and I think that Dawn and I are planning to hit the gym. I'd like to go to Short Pump (an outdoor mall) too, but I'm not sure that it will be anywhere near where we are.

Well, I've got to get moving. I haven't even proofread this, so I'm not sure that any of this even makes sense!!

FRIDAY FILL INS

1. When I heard THAT DAWN WAS TAKING ME FOR A MANICURE I WAS SO EXCITED.

2. ADVIL IS THE best medicine.

3. It's late, but DWANE IS STILL SLEEPING.

4. I LOVE VIRGINIA, (AND MY FAMILY THAT LIVES THERE), always.

5. My eyes have seen THE SUN, AND I ONLY HAD TO TRAVEL 800 MILES TO SEE IT!

6. DWANE SNEAKERS SMELLED strongly.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to GETTING TO THE SHENANDOAH RESORT, tomorrow my plans include SOMETHING FUN, I'M SURE and Sunday, I want to PACK TO HEAD BACK TO MAINE (WELL, MAYBE NOT)!