Floating along...

Nothing much happening around here still.  I was off yesterday and am off today and SOOOO happy about that, it was a LONG weekend.

Let's see what has happened.  OH, Courtney and Mike went to see Brian White (whoever that is) at the Maulding festival over the weekend....

Court has band practice tonight in Travelers Rest.  At least it's not all the way up past Hendersonville.

Britt is doing great!  The Anatomy and Phys. class is kicking her tail pretty good tho.  The daycare center where she works is keeping her employed, so all is well! Her boyfriend P.J. has an interview with Greenville County Sheriffs or Police department this Thurs., so everyone wish him well!  He has a good job now, but he really wants to go into law enforcement.

We haven't heard a word from Ashley...all our emails are coming back "DELAYED DELIVERY", so no email on or off the boat right now.  She sure did a load of shopping tho while in Key West!  Makes a Mama proud!

That's it for here...I think I'm going to go start my Christmas list now.  Not what everyone else wants, but what I WANT!  HAAAAAAAAA  

I'm thinking gas cards (Spinx please), a carpet spot shampooer (Bissel's Green Machine for instance), towels, every day dishes...the cheaper the better since they seem to vanish from my house, another long Moo-Moo since Courtney has taken up residence with my old one, Wal-Mart cards (I'll definitely have to hide them from Courtney)....hmmm....that's it for the moment!  

I figure I'll get my list out early this year...that way when all my loved ones are out shopping and thinking of me, they can SHOP for me!  heeeeeeeeeeee

Have a good day!  OH...Ashley...my emails ain't getting thru...just in case you're wondering why we ain't wrote you.  We misssss you!!!!

Joan

T.G.I.F. at home

Hello all of my small number of readers.  I read on Sarah Palin's "stolen" emails that a better word for "small", as in a small group of readers, would be "intimate".  I have an intimate group of readers!  HA

I actually don't have alot to post about today WHICH IS A GOOD THING. That means all we did this week is work, school, practice (Court) and work.  Did I mention WORK?! I have put in a TON of overtime and I'm bout ready to put a halt to that.  I miss going to Wal-Mart at 0dark:30am and wondering up and down empty aisles.  If I ever get a job there, it will be the early, EARLY shift.

OHHHH....geeeeze, I hope Court isn't reading this...wait....READING?  BAH-HAAAA  Course she ain't!  Anyways, I ALMOST forgot, her birthday was Tuesday....HA!  NUMBER 17!  

Dang, Mike's getting OLD!  HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

So, I just, as I was typing this, downloaded all the pics from that night and I wanted to share with ya'll my FAVORITE PICTURE....

Isn't this the BEST PIC EVER!  YES, Dad, I took it, NOT MIKE.  

I don't want ANYone to think I pick on any of my daughter's boyfriends.  I would NEVER do that, nor would MIKE.  HAAAAAAA  BUT, included in all the great pics I took at the party, was this one.  I tryed to get a pic of everyone....

  

Isn't that AWFUL!  hee

This is another of my favorites...

Here is a slide show of all of them...I have too many to put individually on here.

I also wanted to show you two pics that Ashley sent me from Key West.  It seems they ported there this week, but left back out yesterday...

She had taken this one of her self at a Subway in Key West.

This next pic was taken on board her boat.  

She had written underneath this pic..."sunset on some island".  

Well, that's about it for me!  I have to work all weekend, so I won't have any photo ops, but know that I carry my trusty cell phone with me with awesome camera in it and I am always ready if opportunity calls!

Ashley...if you're reading this. EMAIL ME.

Joan

Mauldin High Football Game AND The Band performs

Well, alot has happened since Firday. Court, as I mentioned I THINK before, got the opportunity to sing for the Mauldin High Varsity Football team Friday night and did great AND Mauldin BEAT T.L. Hanna (Remember the movie "Radio", it's his team and Radio was there). Dad has the good pictures of that night, and he put his here....
http://picasaweb.google.com/larryandjewel/CourtneySingsNationalAnthemAtMHSFootballGame12Sep2008#5245928024346477682 I LOVE this picture...she's looking up at the Mauldin Cheering section in the stands and they were hollering her name out.....
Then, last night, her band performed in Hendersonville at the VFW there.

Let's see who all was there...ALL the Arnolds, Grandma Terry, Doyle and Ellen...then My Uncle Harry and Aunt Esther, Aunt Aurelia, Mom and Dad and their friend (and mine) Dot.

So, Esther decides she wants to dance and DRAGS Aunt Aurelia on the floor with her! I looked at Uncle Harry when they were on the dance floor and he had his head down! HAAAAA

So, I looked around to see what Silker and Grandma Terry were doing and LO and BEHOLD.....AY Lawwwwwwwwww........HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Mike's Dad and his cousin were video taping in the corner...Here the rest of us were...I think we were mesmerized by the dancers!

And of course, there was a line for the bathroom....ain't these pictures great!

And Mom and Dot..mostly Mom...talked, and talked and talked etc.....................OH yeah...and the band still played....and Silker and Grandma Terry got done with the buffet line and then THEY started talking!

I also wanted to add this pic...notice how they are dressed alike! Who's that I see in the top right corner...OH....Silker and Grandma Terry still eating.....HAAAAAI thought that was neat.

Anyways...we had a great night and Court's band did great.

Courtney was SOOO happy everyone came out to see the band!

Dad is working on fixing up his pictures, so I'll post the weblink to those when I get it...I'm sure his pictures won't the superior quality as mine, but he's learning! BAH-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

More later...and THANKS for EMAILING us, ASHLEY...she finally emailed!!!!

Joan

Courtney's Band

I don't know if I mentioned it before, but Courtney is in a band now! I don't know if they have a name or not, (Courtney keeps forgetting to ask) but they have been practicing and they perform this weekend at the V.F.W. in Hendersonville, NC. They are a traditional Country Music band and all of them are great musicians. I can't wait to hear them!

We haven't heard from Ashley is a few days and I have been worrying over the weather, the Russians and whatever else I can come up with.

ASHLEY, IF/WHEN YOU READ THIS, EMAIL YOUR MAMA.

I know she's having the time of her life and she keeps telling us how much she loves the Coast Guard, but we miss her. Even the dogs miss her.

Well, that's all from me. Britt just got off work and Mike and Courtney are in the den watching TV and I'm fixing to get my clothes ready for work tomorrow and go to bed and watch the weather channel till I fall asleep.

More later....

Joan and Herd

Video from Grandma Terry's Birthday Party

I was reminded the other day that I hadn't put any pics on here of Grandma Terry's 90th Birthday Party.

Well, sure enough, I hadn't - WHICH is a humble reminder to myself that I am only one person!

My head is so full of knowledge, things sometimes gets stuck.

SO, I created a little movie of the pictures. That way, I can get them all on here at once. MUCH faster!

I have to work this weekend, so today is "clean the house up" day. Yesterday was "go grocery shopping and take Court to the eye dr." day. I actually took a pic of Court waiting on the Dr. to come in...un-beknownst to her! hee hee!! She HATES it when I do that! HAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAA! Don't she look THRILLED to be there!!!!
Well, that's about it for the moment!!!!
Have a good weekend....
Joan and Herd

Thrusday....

As I stated in my previous blog, this morning, I arose at my usual 0dark:30 and as if on autopilot, I hopped in the van and took off to McDonalds and got my large cup of coffee and headed Verizon, my 3rd home. It seems as if my camera lens on the back of my cell phone had cracked and I had to get it fixed. So I did.

THEN, I headed to Wal-Mart. Woo-HOO! Ours ain't nothing fancy, just functional. It looks as if there are alot of cars here, and I was amazed! Could it be that other people do as I do?

Well, in I went and it was mostly empty. Good

Notice the empty asiles (sp?)? My kinda store.

I would actually have been in the store earlier, but I sat listening to talk radio in the van and I drank my coffee.

Sarah Palin. Now, THAT'S a woman!

Which, then left me perplexed.

I thought finally I would vote Democrat since Hillary is gone and Obama hates war. Now, here comes Sarah.
Geeeze.
Now I'm gonna have to make a choice. But then I thought, hmmmmm...I'll just do what I've always done in these elections when I can't make my mind up....

I'll let the dog decide!

Not Cujo, because he doesn't speak a lick of english...he REFUSES to learn english, only spanish.

Boomer is only in it for the food. he wants lower grocery prices and lower sales taxes so his double cheeseburgers and strawberry milkshakes (his FAVorite) I get him from McDonalds don't cost so much. period.


Now, Buddy....
He helped me with the last election...in fact, he even went with the to the polls! He had to wait out in the car tho. We're going to take this very seriously this time and watch the debates. He's SO excited!
Well, that's it for today!
Courtney gets to sing the National Anthem tonight at the volleyball game at Mauldin High School and Britt has to work. OH...Big Brother comes on tonight too! Mike likes that one!
Ya'll have a great day!
Joan

Heard from Ashley...FINALLY!

The baby called FINALLY. First, she emailed and said she was fine. She was a little sick the first two days they were out, but got over that.
She is tired from working so many hours, but today, they got to their first port...the Keys, in Florida! Only for 2 hours tho, which gave them time to gas up before they head out again.

She LOVES the sea! She said she saw sea turtles, dolphins and flying fish!. Anyways, she called me just when I got off work today and was SOOOO excited, she was talking a hundred miles an hour about everything she could see.....which is where these pictures come in.

This is a view from where she was standing watch....At first, I wondered if there was hedges IN her boat, but I realized that was on the pier BESIDE her boat. DOH!


This second pic is of the boat beside them...it looks like a buoy tender to me, but what do I know! I watched "Dirty Jobs" one episode and they had this on there...



Anyways, that's all the pics she sent...these are from her cell phone. She said she hopes to go snorkeling at their next port, wherever that is.
Picasa has revamped itself and I quickly, and with my usual expert abilities, put this together of Haley's birthday party pics...I will be able to add music to it and other neat things after I figure it out...

I'm off work these next couple days and I am SOOOOOOOOOOO excited about that! I like my job, but it sure is nice to not have to set the alarm clock. NOT that I sleep any later...I always DREAM of sleeping till like, 7am, but I still wake up around 4:30-5am.
Mike and Courtney have gone to the fairgrounds. I didn't want to go because i don't Habla de lingo piquito whatever.
Britt has gone to the firing range with P.J. or Peeeej, as we call him. She BETTER get home and study for her Anatomy and Phys. class.
Well, I'll post more tomorrow after I sleep in till like, 5:15am! ha I think I'll get up and head to Wal-Mart when I get up..what a better way to start your day than sunrise at the Wal-Mart parking lot.
I think I'll even stop by McDonald's and get a cup of coffee on my way there... Ahhhhhh yes....living the dream!!!
Joan