The Great Fire of 2010

Tomorrow is my Birthday.  Except I've decided that I will not get any older than I am right now because 25 just screams "adult"  so tomorrow I will be 24 again.  Thanks.

We are having a crawfish boil in honor of the day of my birth.  And what better way to do that than to eat small crustaceans  that are so hot your mouth is numb by the end of the evening.  My friend Shannon shares the same birthday as me and my BFF from back home, Laci's birthday is today so we are all three celebrating Saturday!

Anyway since we're having a few people over on Saturday, Sean decided he needed to clean up the outside of our house a little, starting with the leaves in the yard.  Our front yard has 9 oak trees in it give or take. We have a yard full of leaves that are waist deep..almost.  Yesterday after my lunch break I was leaving and Sean was in the front yard raking the leaves in to small piles.  When I returned home at 5, Our yard was a smoldering black sea of burnt ashes, plus one tree on fire.  I was very alarmed.  Was Sean alive??   I walked in the back door and Sean's white tennis shoes were on the back porch, they are no longer white, but BLACK.  Apparently when you stamp out a out of control yard fire your shoes get burned..He was unharmed though..by the fire anyways, unharmed by me is a different story.

APPARENTLY, he got tired of raking and decided he would burn the leaves instead and the fire got way out of control.  The small tree on fire was one near the fence line close to the highway.  Our fence line is lined with bushes and trees, it keeps our house a little private from all the passers-by.  So the tree was already dead and was just a 5 foot tall stump. But buddy that thing burned and burned.  When it got dark it was more noticeable and apparently it was more alarming to the people driving by and I had three people stop, pull in my drive way, knock on my door, and ask if I knew we had a tree on fire. 

Ok, now I'm really thankful that there are still people in this world that are good. I'm very thankful that they stopped to warn me, just in case I didn't know.  But Come On People it's dead center in front of my front door, which has a glass door that was wide open.   Thetree is 75 feet from my house and FLAMING.. oh and no chance it's going to fall on the house because it's a 5 foot tall stump... I'm not retarted, I can see the flaming tree.   I don't know, maybe they thought someone was burning a cross in my yard as a warning or something...I'm just glad noone called the fire department but it wouldn't have surprised me to see fire  trucks speeding into my driveway.

So now we will be eating crawfish over a lawn of burnt ashes instead of leaves...not quite so sure it was a good trade off but at least Sean tried...

WOOOOOOOOO

THATS MY LITTLE SISTER!!!  I'm so Excited for her!!!  She's one of 12 Girls to get a call back to try out for the Arkansas Razorback Cheer Squad.  She will be at the Universtiy next year as a Freshman!! I think there were close to 100 videos sent in...or something like that.  Tryouts will be later on this spring.

 Congratulations and Good Luck Melissa!!

Give Away!!

Hey Blog Readers!  I'm doing a BlogSpark today through General Mills! 

IT'S A CEREAL GIVEAWAY!!!

I love cereal too...so they really picked a great girl to give cereal to!!
I eat like four boxes of whole grain cereal a week...is that sad?  ha!

But hey, did you know that Whole Grains can be helpful in maintaining a healthy heart and managing your weight?!!  I sure didn't.  I also didn't know whole grains may also reduce the risk for diabetes and certain types of cancer.


Only whole grains give you the vital nutrience from the complete grain.  As a celiac person, its really important that I get that nutrience from whole grains. Since I can't eat whole wheat flour, I need fiber!!  A great way to get the fiber and antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and other nutreience is to make sure the grains I can eat are Whole Grains!! 

Did you know that General Mills is the Only Leading cereal company to guarantee whole grains in every box?  These include, Cheerios, Fiber One, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Chex --WHICH IS NOW GLUTEN FREE!!!!  Total, and Lucky Charms.

General Mills makes it easy to find the whole grains too.,..just look for the whole grains sign on the box.

Ok so I've decided I'm going to take the Whole Grain Awareness Challenge.   If you want to join me visit http://www.wholegrainnation.com/ to put your knowledge to the test.  I'm going to try to eat 48 grams of whole grain a day... I'm going to start keeping track of it and see if it helps with my digestive system..which Celiac Disease has killed :)   So, 48 grams of whole grain a day...that's easy...I'll just snack on Gluten Free Rice Chex cereal three times a day.

General Mills and Blogspark were nice enough to send me two free coupons for Cereal!! Yay!  They also included all these cool things you see in the photo below.

And Guess what!!??  They want to send you a gift basket just like mine!!  ***So Enter to win..All you have to do is leave a comment telling me what you're favorite General Mills Cereal is!!!  Mine is Chex Mix Cinnamon yum! 

And please help me get this give away "out there"  so more people can see how much Whole Grains can help them!!  I'll Choose a winner at the end of Next week 3/12!!! 

Car Keys

I know My blog is usually about my life in the "now" but I have a pretty funny story that I'd like to blog about, I don't know what reminded me of this but I just had to share.  It's really long but if you feel like being semi-entertained then take the time to read it..

Let's travel all the way back in time to the year 2003, My freshman year of college. I had just joined a sorority and we went to all the parties around campus. We hung out with one fraternity in particular that always partied at a guy's house named PJ. PJ lived with is parents in a huge two story house, with a huge deck out back. He lived in the downstairs area, which was like a second house itself with a kitchen, living room, etc. PJ's parents were cool, and would come hang out with us sometime, but for the most part they didn't care how many people were partying at their house, and sometimes there would be close to 100 people there.

We all became really close, those of us who partied together on a regular basis. We were always at PJ's, we'd even have study groups meet at his house to study before we started partying. It was probably the only reason I passed college...those study groups :) PJ's was fun, they started a Midnight Madness party where you woke up at midnight and partied until sunrise...I never did attend those parties, I'd planned on it but once I was asleep, there was no waking me up. There were also White Trash Wednesdays, where you dressed like white trash and partied every Wednesday..hence the name.  My favorite costume was where I dressed as a pregnant woman with a black eye and kept a cigarette behind one ear...(thanks Erin) ha!

There was this one guy, Ed, that we partied with that never knew when enough was enough. He would drink himself into a stupor every night and pass out. It became an on going joke to draw on him with Sharpies once he was out. He was also known for wetting himself quite often while passed out. It's kind of sad now that I think about it, we probably should've gotten him some kind of help, but back then it was funny.

One night me and a couple of my Sorority Sisters went over to PJ's house for a party. Late into the night me and my girlfriend, we'll call her Natoshya, went to pee in the bathroom. We went in together because we're girls and that's what we do. Natoshya was paranoid about peeing in a bathroom with a shower/shower curtain because she was always afraid some immature perverted boy would be back there hiding. After telling me this I laughed and told her there was no one behind that shower curtain and then flung the shower curtain back...much to my surprise, laying in the empty tub, was Ed. He was passed out drunk and there was writing all over him. His pants were wet, and low and behold someone had shaved half of his head bald.

We both screamed because we were so startled that someone was actually behind the shower curtain. Apparently, he had wet himself and so they just put him in the tub incase it happened again. The boys got a big kick out of us being startled and then moved Ed into a bedroom and put him to sleep on the floor.

Well, as the night came to a close we started to get our coats together and leave. That's when I realized that my car keys were not in my coat pocket.  Anyone who knows me well knows that I'm very bad at keeping up with things. I misplace everything that isn't attached to my body on a daily basis. Sean gets really mad at me for it but I can't help that I'm absent minded, I'm really working on it. Anyway, we turned the entire house upside down looking for my car keys and finally gave up and I luckily had a spare key in my gas tank.

The next day I returned to PJ's house to look for my keys.  It was an expensive set to loose...My dorm keys were on my key ring and if you lost your dorm keys then you had to pay 100 bucks.  Not to menion the 50 bucks you had to pay for a replacement key for my Jeep. We had no luck finding my keys and I finally just gave up and kicked myself in the butt for being so careless.

As the semester was coming to a close and it became time to turn in my dorm keys, of course they were still missing.  I just couldn't help but search one more time for my keys at PJ's house. I thought maybe I should look under his deck incase they fell out of my coat pocket and fell between the cracks in the deck. We searched and searched under that deck and I didn't find my keys, but you'll never guess what I did find... A Ziploc baggy full of hair. I held it up and yelled, "PJ, what in the world his this?"  PJ fell to the ground laughing...apparently it was Ed's hair from that night a few months earlier.  After they had shaved his hair off, they saved it to give to him the next day. Ew..

To make the story even more weird... four years later, my senior year I got a call from PJ. His parents were redoing the deck and the flowerbeds around the deck. They had uncovered a set of keys in the flowerbeds that looked like they might belong to me. Sure enough, four years later, I found my keys. Even though I had already paid the fine for loosing my dorm keys, and I had a new vehicle and no longer needed the car keys, I was glad to have found them.

I always find what I loose, sooner or later.