Gonna keep seachin, searchin

So I’ve been searching off and on for a particular album from Shirley Ellis.  Many of you only know her only by the Name Game song.  But I know her for a few other songs.  Sadly I have not been able to find the album I really want.  I have been stalking Dimple Records, took a gander at Amazon and E-Bay, but I’m not willing to pay over $70 for an album unless it’s some special collector’s edition that I’ve been dying to have and will just keeping going up in value as time goes on.  But it’s not one of those, it’s just an album that I would love to have in my collection.  So I have enlisted the assistance of a friend/co-worker in Southern California to keep an eye out for when she is out and about and happens to stumble into a used record store.  I would like to also go scour a few in San Francisco to see what treasures I can find there, to me that would be fun.  For others it might be boring.  So here is my plea, if anybody is out and about and happens to stumble into a used record/music store.  Here is the album I’m looking for. 

Shirley Ellis – The Complete Congress Recordings. 

 

If you find it, please let me know where you found it.  I would be most thankful and probably jump up and down like a high school girl that finally got the dude she’s had a crush on to ask her to the dance.  Yes I will be that excited. 

Fun with Ketchup

To bad this lovely art was ruined with french fries

Can you see it?

I can totally see the light and it’s so pretty. Personal goal is for this time next year to completely out of debt except for my normal monthly bills and a house payment.  I’ve felt like I’ve been swimming, sometimes drowning, in this mucky mess for years.  But little by little it’s been chipped away at and I dance, sing and whoop–n-holler when one bites the dust.  I busted my butt working two jobs for years and doing what I needed to do to make sure my bills were paid.  Even if it meant eating Top Ramen for weeks.  Today another one bit the dust and it will be in stored in the paid off folder I have in my filing cabinet.  I’m so freakin excited!!!!!

It's the little things

So I came home Thursday night only to find a pair of flip flops that were left behind by nieces and an empty soda can on the table with a sealed envelope underneath it. 

I looked around the house for that one thing that stood out but found nothing, just the shoes.  So yesterday when I got home I went to go enjoy my Redneck Paradise and thought I should really water my flowers since it's been a few days and they were starting to look sad, wilty and hot.  I noticed the hose was curled up all nice and neat compared to how I left it then looked over towards my flowers and saw this

My dad built me a little planter :)  He and the girls had brought it over Thursday with some flowers and I didn't notice it until last night!  I need to plant the other flowers but don't yet know where. As I was watering my flowers I just smiled and felt so loved.  It's totally the little things in life that mean the most and I love coming home to these little surprises.

New Chapter Beginning

After my little melt down, a nice long talk with my wise father, some encouraging words from a friend and singing Zac Brown "Let it Go" and the Supremes "Can't Hurry Love" at the top of my lungs in the car I'm starting a new chapter in my life.  Tomorrow April is going to help me with my (gulp) dating profile and it's game on.  I've also decided to fully get off my tucas and do something about my weight and half ass exercise.  I don't want to take on the shape of my mother, even though I'm half Portuguese and we are hippy anyways, I will do what I can to do to keep it at bay.  So I will start with this motivator

So cheers to my new chapter and lots of fun dating stories ahead to be shared!!

Eat your heart out rich and famous

That's right, it's time for the millionaires to be super jealous.  I have a house with a total dream pool.

Complete with a brick for a little added support, two sand chairs for relaxation, two Rubbermaid chairs as end tables and a fish net to keep it clean.  Surrounded by dead grass and a under a tree for that tropical beachy feel.  Yes my friends, this is high class redneck living at it's finest.  I have eaten dinner in my pool and Fabio thinks it's one gigantic water bowl.  If you listen you can hear smooth jazz coming from inside the house and there are cold drinks in the fridge.  So kick back and enjoy as life cannot get any better than this!

Disclaimer:  Pool boy has yet to be acquired, so you have to get your own refreshments