Another Quiz ....

Four Names People Call Me:
1: Nissa Rae
2: A-KNEE-sa (It's A-Nis-Sah)
3: Mommy <--- my favorite
4: Honey, Baby, whatever my husband says...

Four Jobs I've Had:
1: Child Care
2:Waitress
3: Toys R Us
4: Pleasant Company Call Center

Four Movies I've Seen More Than Once:
1:  Ever After
2: What A Girl Wants
3: Pitch Perfect
4: Clue

Four Books I'd Recommend:
1: Harry Potter series
2: Anything by Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb
3:  Anne of Green Gables
4: Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove series

Four Places I've Lived: 
1: Eau Claire, WI - born & raised
2: Rock Falls, WI - (for about a year and a half, my Mom's boyfriend lived there so I briefly went to live with her out there - end of middle school/beginning of highschool)
3: I did a 1 month stint in Morganton, NC (when I went down there to meet DB)
4: And now where I live in Washington, near Seattle

Four Places I've Visited:
1:  North Carolina

2: San Antonio (Noah infront of the Alamo)

3:  Las Vegas

4:  Seattle before I moved here

Four Places I'd Rather Be Right Now:
1:  In my husbands arms (later tonight it shall be!)
2: Visiting my Best Friends (in WI, NC, etc)
3:  On a promised vacation to Vegas with all the kids
4: Ireland/England/Italy/Norway trip extravaganza

Four Favorite Foods:
1: Burgers
2: Hashbrowns
3: Stuffed Jalapenos stuffed in chicken wrapped in bacon
4: Lemon Desserts

Four TV Shows I Watch:
1: Castle
2: NCIS (all of them)
3: Criminal Minds
4: Reality TV (Survivor, Amazing Race, Big Brother, Housewives, etc)

Four Things I'm Looking Forward To:
1: Gilmore Girls Revival
2: The day my medical issues don't rule my life
3: the day my husband graduates with his degree
4: Taking my WHOLE family on vacation (we need a bus)

Four Things I'm Always Saying:
.......... other than swearing...... might have to think about this one ....
1: Fucktard (I used to use all the time, until I started seeing it around) Asshat (now)
2: "Why do you argue with me when you know I'm always right?"
3: "Let me give you a hug" usually followed up with somehow hurting said child I'm offering a hug to - never the little ones.... just the older fools ... ha ha
4: "Welcome to..."  Life, Adulthood, Parenthood, Breathing, Living, Invisible Illness - the list goes on and on

What's up Blogger?

I noticed in older posts ....

.......... my pictures have gone completely POOF ...

No idea why ......

..................... it's annoying.......

Foodie Quiz Post

It's been awhile since I've done a blog quiz ... the last one was Q&A thing between DB and I ... so when one of my BFF's asked me to do this with her....  I was like...... um........ let me think about it - okay!

Food Survey
1.     How do you feel about golden oreos?  .....  I think they are okay - I can forgive that... however, the person who created Oreo Thins?  They need to be shot.... that's all I got to say ....  
2.     What is your favorite dessert topping?  .....  I can't say I have one?  Maybe ...  pie.  Pie is the best dessert topping....  
3.     What is your favorite flavor/brand of bubble gum?  .....  Lemon - ha ha ha - but, I'm not joking.... 
4.     Favorite cheese?  .....  Cheddar? Colby?  noooooooo PEPPERJACK!
5.     Favorite Lunch Meat?  .....  Summer Sausage ... or Ham cuz we can't get the other where we live.... 
6.     Favorite ice cream flavor? .....  Mint Chocolate Chip
7.     Best looking food?  .....  Anything that I'm craving is amazing looking at the time
8.     Best food to put cheese on?   .....  ANYTHING .... but not chocolate...  definitely not chocolate
9.     Best sexual food?  .....  Hot Chocolate - don't ask - you don't want to know
10.   Best tasting drink in the summer? .....  Lemonade 
11.   Best tasting drink in winter? .....  Hot Chocolate
12.   Best food for a night out with friends? .....  burgers & fries
13.   Best foods to eat with a roll? .....  a roll?  (I'll take that to mean bread) ... ah, sandwich ... 
14.   Messiest food, in your opinion? .....  tacos, best messiest food ever
15.   Easiest food to prepare?  .....  Salad?  Sandwich?  
16.   Cheapest food you ever ate?  .....  I have no idea... a burger from Crap-donalds?  (Guess I won't get any McDonald's endorsements with that one.) 
17.   Most expensive food you ever ate?  .....  anything DB has made, everything is expensive.  
18.   Stinkiest food you ever ate?  .....  no, I don't eat anything that doesn't smell good
19.   Favorite dipping sauce?  .....  Ketchup, Ranch
20.   Best pizza topping?  .....  I am a supreme girl.... minus the olives
21.   Favorite potato chip flavor?  .....  BBQ
22.   Most toxic substance you ever ate?  .....  Soda
23.   Most calories you ate in one meal?  .....  I don't keep track
24.   Favorite soda?  .....  Dr. Pepper
25.   Favorite flavor of juice?  .....  Grape Juice
26.   Favorite Vegetable?  .....  peppers
27.   Favorite fruit?  .....  grapes
28.   Worst canned food?  .....  SPAM
29.   Best side dish?  .....  Potatoes 
30.   Worst fast food restuarant?   .....  Wendy's  (just not a fan) 
31.   Best restaurant?   .....  Bakers Square (I miss it!!)
32.   Best smelling food?   .....  most of the time, anything my husband makes
33.   Favorite appetizer?   .....  Salad for the good side, Mozzarella sticks for the bad
34.   Favorite cookie flavor?  .....  Chocolate Chip? 
35.   Favorite cake flavor?  .....  Marble 
36.   Favorite pie flavor?  .....  Lemon Supreme (Baker's Square) 
37.   Chocolate or rainbow sprinkles?  .....  Chocolate SHAVINGS 
38.   Ketchup or Mustard?  .....  ketchup
39.   Best food to have on a date?  .....  BURGERS and fries - I am not a "I don't eat" kind of girl
40.   Most share-able food?  .....  Popcorn (with peanut M&Ms) 

It's been awhile....... or ... For-Ev-Ah!

Sooooooo ....  yeah.  I failed, super quick, at the whole 366 day thing.  Um.... yeah.

FAIL!

Whatever...  I had good intentions.  You can tell by the amount of unpublished entries I have.  What?  You can't see them?

Well... they are there.........  like... 30 of them.

Anyway ........ need to jump right back in right?   RIGHT!

So........

Here is the skinny from today......

The adopted one (Kale) was all up in my biznitz (nah not really) and wanted to know if any of his forefathers were in the Revolutionary War.  SO I found one.  Yep!  I was sending him all the information and .......

When I was telling him more about it (this is after he was in my room like 300 times this morning waking me up making conversation about the little bit I sent him in a message last night telling me how cool it was) ... and I was telling him that I had seen that one of his whatever times great granddaddies was the Grandfather of multi-million dollar many hats Howard Hughes JR & SR.  Well, so I was trying to find it and I FINALLY figured it out and then I realized something....  something just ain't right about all this.   So I managed to pound out a FB status about it ...

Clusterfuck of Genealogy ... written word vs. documentation. So doing Kale's genealogy - Cookson side - we ran into a "Your 5x Great Grandfather was the Grandfather to Howard Hughes and Great Grandfather to Howard Hughes Jr." AWESOME, right? WRONG. Now we're in a confused state..... because Howard Hughes' father was Felix Hughes... Felix Turner Hughes ... but... Felix Turner Hughes had an imposter of (I think, a cousin) Felix Moner Hughes. For some reason, Felix Turner Hughes disappeared during war and the other Felix (Felix M. Hughes) took his place. BUT.... one of them had no kids, and the other had a crap load .... so .... where is Maury when I need him to tell me who da daddy is? Seriously ....... (and that wasn't the only cousin to take the place of a cousin in this story of the Hughes.... oye!) Although - it doesn't matter for the fact that Kale's genealogy is intact, because, his 5x Great Grandfather, had his 4x Great Grandfather who was Felix's (the real one's) brother John. Did you follow that? No? Well ... now you know why we're confused....

I've wrapped my head around it now. It is said (and I have seen it in a few places now) that Felix M. Hughes wasn't a cousin, just a neighbor of the same last name. He took on Felix Turner Hughes name after the real Felix Turner Hughes died during the war. Now, Felix M. Hughes (the real one that turned imposter as Felix T. Hughes) is the one that fathered Howard Hughes (as Felix T. Hughes) ... but it's documented places that it's truly Felix M. Hughes that married and had children. Boo - so - sorry Kale, no relation... I take that back, no biological relation - but an adoptive family way - yeah!

Ummmmmmmm yeah.  So.........

Yeah.

There was that.

Took me all day to gather my brain around that one..

But in all that time - from this morning until tonight .....  I had an eye DR appt ....  and yeah.

I need glasses.  YES I HAVE GLASSES... but they are the kind you can get from Walmart for ten bucks ... yeah...

Now I need REAL glasses....

I think the my sensory thresh-hold has disappeared tonight. Had an eye doctors appointment. Now..... a little history here - my parents, one is nearsighted - the other is farsighted, together ... they "perfected" my eyesight. That's the joke that's gone around anyway - since I was little. Now, my last eye appointment three years ago (big no no with Diabetes!) I just needed a mild reading glass, something I could just get from Walmart - a +1 ... nothing major. I ended up picking up a +1.25 or a +1.50, I forget which but they have worked for the last three years. I had to replace them once, because they somehow got broken in my bag, and that's it. I love my glasses. So today - at my appt ... I was telling my eye doc (after he yelled at me - whoops!) how my vision has been really blurry lately and how I am having a really hard time seeing, and even my reading glasses haven't been working for the past couple of months. So he's flipping the lenses, and I definitely need an eye glass prescription. Then we do the reading glasses and holy crap. I need BIFOCALS??? Ummmmmmmm no thank you. He said the reading glasses thing just comes with age, usually everyone starts needing them around 40 he said. LOL. And my sight isn't so bad, but my astigmatism is REALLY bad now. That's what's blurring my vision up pretty bad. So yeah. Oh and no diabetes symptoms in my eyes - woooohooooooo  Guess I'm getting glasses! Too bad insurance won't cover any of it. Bugger!

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Yeah....... so that happened.

And then ....... this made my day.  I was feeding my little grandbelly and ....

Totally made my day....

Happy Valentines Day!

We have been celebrating - mostly a bit early.   But this morning, I got breakfast in bed!  Thank you honey!!

My REAL Valentine this year! LOL...  no really - they are all my Valentines!

Nate's bags tonight ....

Couple days ago, we ended up going to see a movie at the THEATER (gasp) ... last time I went, it was for my birthday - going to see Pitch Perfect 2 ... which we got into for free.  Not so lucky this time! LOL... but the movie was AMAZING!!!

Now, if you haven't seen the movie (SHAME ON YOU) and if you haven't seen the previews....  I guess that there is a whole movement going on where guys are messaging their girlfriends the following graphic ...

With a tricky little message like.....

OR........ 

Most likely if they DID let them watch a trailer - it was probably this one........


When it was totally ..... more like.........




And you know about this little.....  "friendship" ....









But not me........ I was like......... Ryan Reynolds in in spandex ....... HELL YEAH....

Shhhh don't tell DB.....

Ha... ha..   There was a scene in strip club, we're even....

They do EXIST!!!!!

Me ..... today .....

We went to the store, grocery store, and I had to stop.... I thought these Bonsai Trees looked like Mandrake Root from Harry Potter ....

Then I saw this........... a MONEY TREE!!!   They DO EXIST!

DB got these ....  it's a Diabetic Coma inducer ..... but I still had one.  BUT OMGosh - you bite into it and all the cream shoots out the other side.

So I threw some cardboard outside - thinking that the bone head child who takes care of garbage and recycling would pick it up and put it in the recycling.  But nope.  So I was standing on the porch... and this is what I saw.

LOLOLOL....

I got some Tulips ....

Finally put these up.

Bubba made this....

And then he spent time with this beauty ....

I <3 her!