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Who Could it be?

Ignorant People and 1st dates

I enjoy my job. Most people can not say that, but I can. I love the people I work with and I love my job. We all get on each other's nerves, especially if we've worked 14 or more days straight, but that's normal, right? Yesterday had to be the worst day so far in the last 7 years at the funeral home. I can't tell all the details, keep that in mind.

I got a phone call from someone wanting to come and discuss a form he/she was filling out. I said that's fine. While waiting for the person I asked my boss how he normally fills this form out and what attachments went with it, because I'VE NEVER DONE ONE. It's not my department, boss #1 always handles this.

Person comes in the funeral home with a chip on his should and starts the conversation off like this..."we are going to get this finished TODAY and you are not going to blow me off" He spoke to me like I was the most unintelligent person he had ever met, then he used our phone to call an insurance company and spoke to that woman like a dog, he was hollering. THEN he took me into one of our visitation rooms, cleared the table with his arm, threw down his stuff and proceeded to holler at me. This went on for quite awhile. I couldn't answer him back he wouldn't let me talk and he would try to talk over me. I had my fill when he said "your mother should be ashamed for bringing such an incompetent person into this world"

insert Long Ranger music

She didn't have a mask, but she did have a pen in her hand and she knew how to point it!!! Sandy came to my rescue. She started telling him the "what for" and as I was leaving the room (I had already told him to get out of the funeral home he obviously didn't listen) he says to Sandy, "I don't care what you say, you are bias, and I don't even know your name..." then some more stuff was said and Sandy had my back!

This jerk was at the funeral home raising cane for about an hour and 30 minutes or so. I bet my blood pressure was stroke level.

Now to first dates...
Taylor had her first date last night. Since you are not allowed to bring a camera in the movies, I had to take their picture with Tbugs phone. Aren't they cute?

Taylor was so nervous. She's not as worldly as Mary Margaret ya know since MM's been on that illegal date and all. She looked straight ahead the whole movie. YES, I stayed and sat two rows behind them. Her boyfriend, Brett, looked at her several times during the movie, bought them popcorn and Taylor didn't blink an eye, didn't move once, didn't laugh, NOTHING. It was so sweet!!!! We carried him home, it was silly to have his parents get out when I was going right by the house on my way home.

drum roll.......

They held hands half way home and she walked him to the door and they kindof sortof hugged.

all together now...

awwwwwwwwww

We saw PerfectGetaway... pretty good suspense movie

What Could Have Been...

This post could have been and would have been all about the drama surrounding a shirt with a collar worn by one very mad 14 year old. Who knew a shirt with a collar could be so dramatic. A collared shirt caused a melt down, a melt down that I was hoping was a thing of the past. But it's not.

This post could have been and would have been all about Taylor's boyfriend, Brett. How he called her up and told he was walking to work on his fitness which caused her to jump on the treadmill and walk, or maybe about the time he called her and said, "I'm going to join the Bible Club at school and so are you!" But its not.

This post is all about one crazy funeral home secretary who was turned loose with the Quill Supply Catalog. Someone should have been watching her. She spent tons of money. She bought, cd labels, printer ink, correction tape, and...

5,000 paper clips and one bottle of white out. Don't need much whiteout cause the crazy funeral home secretary never makes mistakes.

You might be wondering what one does with so many paper clips and why did one order so many paper clips. I could say that I was tired of hunting down paper clips, maybe Jere needed a paper clip to hold back all that hair on top of his head, or maybe Sandy needed a new necklace. But I wouldn't say that.

Catalogue said 100 paper clips per box. I ordered 5 packs. Which is now obvious to me that 5 packs has 10 boxes, which I didn't notice when I ordered them.

Need a paper clip anyone? I might have an extra.

I Survived a Jr. High Swim Party

Hello readers! I survived a Jr. High Swim Party. This was the 2nd Back to School Swim Party here at the Butler house. I think there were about 30 kids here last night.

*I took tons of pictures
*hollered at them twice during the scary movie
*THERE WAS NO DRAMA (imagine that)
*they went through tons of chips and drinks like a tornado
*10 PM I began to worry that some parents might come back for their kids
*pooped by the time everything was cleaned up last night
*group pictures I took did not turn out
*cleaned up spilled drinks only once
*looked out the kitchen window and saw crazy looking line dancing

There were
*two party crashers
*guys
*gals
*best friends
*twins
*volleyball players
*dunking
*nerf water gun fights
*noodle fights
*chicken fights
*the fight of kids against mosquitoes
*girls showing off their flipping skills
*laughing
*screaming
*plots of revenge
*one lost pair of flip flops
*one lost cell phone
*lots items left behind

Not one child was hurt, no one got mad (except me when I had to holler twice), no one left here without saying thank you and saying they had fun, everyone left tired.

I sent them all home with a nice party favor...

this party favor did not cost me a dime...

plenty of mosquito bites!

Did not find the flip flops
Tim found the cell phone, yay TIM!!!!!


P.S. Did you all notice that the drug Dr. Pepper was within my reach? I WAS STRONG. VERY STRONG.

Texting

Check out this post at 2nd Cup of Coffee...kind of neat

Rules in my house are a big deal. I make them, they try their best to break them. I even have a rule about the bed being made or I can't sleep in it. Tim thinks the bed making rule is hoo-larious, it's my thing.

I have rules about the cells phones. Talking and texting is finished by 8 pm every night. I need some peace. No text messages get deleted until I have gone through the phones (I KNOW for sure that this rule is broken, but I still do it. For example, MM knows to delete the ones sent to her, but has not realized yet that she is forgetting to delete the ones she sent.) The newest addition to the cell phone is NO FAKE NAMES to trick Kaye.

I had my fill of the texting and talking last night. I had to stop it an hour early last night. I felt like my head was on a merry go round with all the texting and Mary Margaret repeating every single text she sent and he sent. Then there was Taylor's texting. She feels that we should have this long conversation about "should I text soinso or should I not". after about 10 minutes of this, I'm like, just text or DON'T. OMGosh.

At 7 the girls had to hand over the phones. There were one or two exceptions, questions that I had asked them to ask a couple of people, etc. As those phones laid there on the kitchen table they looked like they were racing each other. Imagine the phones on vibrate, constantly going off. MM's in on a long vibration than Taylor's. You should have seen them jump up from the living room and run to the kitchen only to see their phones racing across the table and me shaking my head NOPE.

I texted back a couple of times for the girls...they were so not loving that...

Some boy to MM: just txt me a few more minutes
ME: she can't
Boy: um, okay, I don't know who this is but okay
ME: her aunt and I have rules
Boy: Oh, I love that she has rules
ME: you better
(do you all think he was making fun of me? I noticed that he txted this more than once last night.)

Taylor's Friend: Hey what u doin
ME: nothing what are you doing?
Friend: Notin
ME what is notin
Friend: this ain't Taylor is it
ME: nope

later

Taylor's Friend: gonna clip my toe nails now
(I'm rolling on the floor laughing at that one!)
Me: clip 'em girl them toe nails were scaring me
Friend: um, is this taylor?
me: nope, Kaye
Friend: oh hi miss kaye wut u doin
ME: waiting on you to clip your toe nails and tell me all about it
Friend: ur crazy
Me: been told that before
Friend: u scare me
Me: no really you scare me

Fun times...

You all want to be me, I can feel it!

BTW spell check went crazy on this post.

Looks Like a Duck, taste like one too?

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, does it taste like one too?
Duck Eggs provided by Billings Backyard Poultry

Cooking the eggs...notice the double yoke that was in the biggest egg

finished product

Taylor eating the duck egg

The girls and I all ate the duck eggs...

the verdict is in...

they were a-o-kay

actually, they were pretty good. Lots of nice egg white and the yoke wasn't that bad either.

So thumbs up!

Thanks Dianne and Clayton

P.S.
We had home made Fig preserves with our "breakfast" dinner tonight. I came home one day from work and the jar was sitting on my kitchen table. I suspect that maybe Tim accepted it as "payment" for a wrecker call or maybe someone was just nice and gave it to him. I don't know. I keep forgetting to ask him. Anyway, IT WAS DELICIOUS.

Random Junk

For Beth...to get the thumbnail, go to layout, edit your blog roll, check the box that says show thumbnail of current somethingorother. I think that should do it.

For everyone that was OMGosh they were really in a riptide? Yes. They really were. Tim said it was one of the scariest moments in his life. He said that he wasn't worried about himself at all. Everytime he reached out for Taylor, she got sucked out further because of that boogie board being tied to her wrist. He couldn't get her to take it off fast enough before the next wave pulled her out. I have no idea how long they fought the riptide because I was in my own little world walking up and down the beach with Mary Margaret. I think that Angela, Tim's sister, got pulled in a different direction than Tim and Taylor. When I walked back over to them, a wave literally spit her out and she rolled up at my feet. Seriously. I didn't even see her in the water until she rolled up. Kind of like when you were a kid rolling down the hill type thing. Taylor really did not seem all that scared, but she's a hard kid to read. Angela looked tired and just like someone chewed her up and spit her out. Her hair was wild and spikey looking. Tim was out of breath and went straight to the showers, cleaned up and sat on a picnic table the rest of the time we were down there that night.

The first day of school went well for the girls. They both made a few new friends and have the same lunch! The same lunch is a huge SCORE for me because now I can take them both to lunch at the same time!!! Last year I had to make arrangements to take off lunch early to take Taylor.

Last night was the kick off of the Fall Wednesday Night Youth services. The girls both invited someone. I was really surprised at who Mary Margaret invited and that he wanted to go! You heard me right I said HE. When I dropped this boy off, he said that was the best church he had been to and did I mind if we picked him up next week. Of course we will. Now, before everyone gets the drawers all twisted up, she does NOT LIKE this boy for a boyfriend. They have been friends since the 1st grade and she felt like he needed to be invited to church.

Mary Margaret is still heartbroken over a love affair that's been developing for about 2 weeks now. I warned her that this boy was going to high school this year and I didn't think he would stay with her because of this. And he didn't. All in one day he asked to her to be his girlfriend and by that afternoon he had broken up with her, but still wanted to be able to come over and swim. He texted her like crazy, told her how pretty she was, built her hopes up and finally told her Tuesday night that he liked her now only as a friend. She hasn't heard another word from him. She is crushed. She watched her phone all afternoon and all after church last night. Yesterday, on the first day of school, she did have a few boys ask her if she was allowed to go to the movies, so all is not lost, but she's still moping around.

I have, against my better judgement I'm sure, agreed to let them have a back to school party this weekend if it's not raining.

The exciting life is picking back up!!!

Growing Up...

My girls are growing up. Today they started the 8th and 7th grade.
Taylor

She's changed a lot in the last year....check it out here

8th Grader Mary Margaret

She has really grown up since last year...check her out here

While I was Busy...

While we were on vacation..I was busy taking pictures of this...

and this

and this

basically I was in my own little world

little did I know...

that Tim, Taylor and Angela were fighting for their life. They accidentally swam into a riptide. Taylor had a boogie board with her and the cord was strapped to her wrist. The riptide would get hold of that board and pull her farther out. Tim said that he saw his life flash before his eyes too many times. I walked back to the area where they were all swimming, Taylor and Tim had just walked out of the water, breathless. Angela comes in via a huge wave and rolls up on the beach. I thought it was kind of funny seeing her literally roll up out of the water. I had no idea they had been fighting the riptide and the huge waves while I was playing in the sand.

They were not as amused as I was.


Sister In Law Revenge update
So far I have come up with nothing for Dianne. I did invite her to eat lunch with us at Ameca today if she isn't scared. She texted me back saying..
D: Why would i b scared?
K: Just sayin
D:Fear not! Get thee behind me satan
K: Satan's got nothing on me
D: Im one of those people that when my feet hit the floor, the devil says oh crap, she's up
K: Yeah whatever

She's funny ain't she.

I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE

Watch out Country and Loving It.

I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE

Wii is BACK!!!!

Y'all, the Wii is back.

I made it work! Finally. I struggled. I pulled wires, I rearranged wires. I rearranged electronic equipment. After tons of sweat and huffing and puffing, I get it working. (Okay, I did all that months ago and I've left the darn thing alone, but all that stuff still counts right?)

This morning, I turned off the converter box, turned on the VCR, turned on the Wii and it worked.

Yes, I feel stupid.

All summer those girls could have been burning up the Wii, if I had just TURNED OFF THE CONVERTER BOX.

That's how I roll here at Butler Manor, difficult to the end!

Parasailing 101

When Parasailing you must look your best, example, wear sunglasses to look radically cool...

wave at the camera from 400 feet in the air

scream like a only a girl can scream when dipped in the ocean in the middle of the ride

do not wear a two piece bathing suit, they tend to fall off.

Beg 1million times to go again.

Huge smiles all day.

Today is My Monday

First: everyone but me woke up with attitudes

Second: the cat tried all morning to get in the house everytime the door was opened and it was opened a lot cause NOT ONE PERSON LISTENS TO ME when I say...get your junk out of the van all at one time.

Third: I have to do prayer cards for a service today and prayer cards DO NOT LIKE ME

Fourth: the belt for my okidata printer has not come in yet and I ordered it LAST MONDAY and the printer is pretty sure that the belt I have is NEAR THE END OF ITS LIFE, its been that way for 3 weeks now, it started while I was on vacation.

Fifth: I have to do prayer cards for a service today and prayer cards DO NOT LIKE ME, oops already said that once.

Let you know later how the rest of the day goes, by the way, its only 9:49am

Comming soon...

Meet Amanda, my niece...

isn't she pretty?

I met her when she was only 2 and a half. She stole my heart with her big smile and those big beautiful eyes.

She's having a baby in March.

I feel really old.

A great aunt...

Baby blankets to make, maybe some cute little dresses, I might be just a little bit excited, maybe.

I might have to break out the old sewing machine...

I have some curtains to make first, for someone who has not complained once that I haven't made them in the last year...

For a very, very long time I have suggested the name Kaye, Jr. to all my friends as a possible baby name, even hinted to a few family members, no such luck.

So, AMANDA, incase you read this...Kaye, Jr. is a lovely name. Remember all the times I let you sleep with me when we camped, I rolled your hair, did your makeup, fixed your hair just like mine.... no pressure.

Phone Calls from Home

We've been back a week now from Florida. I miss being on vacation. Sandy is down there down with her family. So, HEY SANDY'S CREW!!!

I have been bombarded with phone calls from home, my home last week and today. I'm sure you all want to know what the little devils darlings are up to...

Ringing phone...
ME: hello
Taylor: I'm itching
ME: Scratch
Taylor: No, I'm itching really bad somewhere.
ME: Where?
Taylor: I can't say.
ME: No one's listening just say it
Taylor: My boobs itch
ME: Scratch
Taylor: My knee hurts, what can I do
ME: make a list of everything wrong with you and we'll go over it this afternoon and make a choice about the hospital we will put you in for the remainder of your life.
Taylor:Um, okay.

Taylor translates the above conversation to Mary Margaret.

Phone ringing...
Mary Margaret: Taylor says that I'm supposed to make a list of everything that itches so that you can put me in a hospital. I don't wanna go to no hospital, and besides I don't itch anyway, buggy Taylor is itching not me.
ME: That's not what I said to her
Mary Margaret: well what did you tell her cause I ain't doing nothing unless you tell me too.
ME: Are you bleeding?
MM: no
ME: you have nothing to worry about, love you goodbye

Today...
Phone rings
Mary Margaret: I was just swimming along and my nail popped off, what can I do, this is going to bother me all day and the rest of my life.
ME: I'll take you to the nail place and YOU can pay to have it repaired.
MM: Okie Dokie
ME: Please don't call me about the nails again. Call me if you see blood or if the house burns.

5 minutes later
Mary Margaret: now Taylor popped her nail off and I can't find the one I lost.
ME: Is there BLOOD squirting out uncontrollably from your finger?
MM: Nope.
ME: love you goodbye

3 minutes later
Taylor: Um, we are out of the pool now. And I just barely bumped my finger and the chlorine made the nail pop off, its not my fault.
ME: Do not call me about the nails one more time. I'm working. Blood only!!!!
Taylor: OOOOKKKKAAAYYYY, just sayin' it wasn't my fault.

Now for your reading pleasure, Sandy was googling some of our relatives names the other night and found this website that has obituaries, old obituaries. I love old obituaries. In the early 1900's people wrote with great descriptions. This one is my favorite...(names have been changed, just in case)

Death of Mrs. So In So
At 12 o'clock, Saturday night, Oct.6,1906, the Grim Reaper, Death, again entered our household, and with his icy sickle, has cut down the beautiful life of our sister, Mrs.Emma So In So. She has known much of this world's sorrows, which seemed to develop and sweeten her character to such a patient Christian, making her a most gentle mother, kind wife, and sympathizing friend and neighbor. She died at her home nine miles north of Forrest City, of consumption, after a lingering illness of several years. The precious remains were interred in the FORREST CITY Monday, Rev.J.K. So IN So in charge of the funeral services. She leaves a husband, and six children to mourn. She was married to Mr.D.L. So In So in Tipton County, Tenn., where they both resided in 1889, and came to this county in 1900. She was a charter member of the Christian church, and at the time of her death was 31 years, 11 months, and 15 days old. We offer our heartfelt sympathy to the entire family. Forrest City Times Editor. 10-12-1906

I wonder why we do not write obits like that anymore?

Beach Pictures

Tell me what you think. I think I should have started taking pictures about 15 minutes earlier. It did not look this dark at the time.

Deep Sea/Ocean Fishing

Tim and Garrie went deep sea fishing in Florida. Is it really deep sea fishing or is it deep ocean fishing? Just wondering.

In a previous post I joked and said that we chartered this boat for them...

They finally decided on a charter and headed out Thursday morning at 5:45 am to hit the open waters. The name of their boat was the Fish On.

There were two other people, father and son, going on this trip with them. The father and son had been on this trip before, boasting that they knew the owner and all they wanted to do was get out there, catch their limit and head back in. They did not want to stay the full 6 hour trip that they were paying for. As they headed out, the "know it alls" started to get sick. The boy started to feel like he was going to vomit. The dad started to look sickly. Thought they had done this before!

Garrie was afraid that he would be the one sick...he doesn't look sick in this picture.

Their trip was delayed. Of course they didn't get the charter that ran smoothly, they had to wait for the crew to start the boat, someone had eaten a banana the day before and dropped part of it into the bilge pump. I know its not a great picture, Tim took this with his camera phone. (I sent a real camera)

Tim and Garried ended up catching the limit for themselves and the two "know it alls". I think that Tim said they caught somewhere around 125 lb to 150 lb of fish, red snapper and king mackerel.

Later that night, Garrie cooked some of the red snapper with lemon juice, butter, and lemon pepper. It was great.

That night, a new neighbor moved in. He brought his own monster grill with him. He shared some of the snapper he was cooking. It was pretty good too. He grilled it with some season all and added shrimp to the top of the fish. The neighbors partied hard the rest of our stay.

I just noticed that it looks like they caught the GIANT version of Nemo in the movie Finding Nemo. OMGosh I ate Nemo. I ate a WHOLE Nemo. That's like killing Bambi.

Tim was our entertainment for the vacation. There will be a post all about him soon.

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Parasailing

*First, I've done something to my computer. When I pull up Explorer, everything is huge and a little blurry. If anyone knows what I have done, leave me a comment. It's getting on my nerves."

As you all know, the girls parasailed. I left my camera with Tim and Angela to take pictures from the beach of the girls.

Doesn't that look like fun? Tim took a few other shots while he had the camera. Some were not very flattering and have been deleted from my camera. He tried to talk all that smack about how I better not delete them, blah, blah, blah. Of course, I was not the only one he took pictures of. I found one of an old man sunbathing, it was not a pretty site, let me tell you. He did manage to get a picture of the banana float as I crashed.

This last picture is of the townhouse we stayed in. Yes, this is the real picture, no joking this time.

I have to clear up a little matter. In the post titled Just Kidding, some people thought that I lost my camera in the Gulf of Mexico. What I meant was...I let Tim take it out on his deep sea fishing trip in the Gulf of Mexico and it was not my GOOD camera. I let him hold my good camera ONCE the whole trip. Guess what he did with it. Took pictures of my ear, my rear, my neck, my front, every possible angle. I love him.

Vacation is Ending

Vacation is ending. I don't wanna go home. We are thinking of selling our home and moving down here and buying this...

But found out all we can afford is this house without a parking spot.

We ate dinner last night with movie stars. The tops they have on has magical powers. The made them be TOTALLY SILLY almost to the unbareable point.

Giving Tim the camera was a mistake. This man had his shorts pulled down past his crack tanning it.

We toured the Pensecola Naval Museum. I think it is probably the best museum yet, the USS Alabama was pretty neat too.

The girls go their nails done.

Angela and Garrie got on our LAST NERVE beggin to ride go carts. We finally took them and look how happy they are. The deal was, we take you go cart riding and we don't hear those words come out of your mouth again! They still begged everytime we passed a go cart track. Mary Margaret and Taylor did not even ask one single (several million) times to go, go cart riding.


Right now we are packing up, gonna hit the beach one last time, and then head to Wynne to sell my house. Garrie and Tim plan on opening their own deep ocean fishing charter, let Johnathan (Angela and Garries) son run it and Angela and I are goning to sit by the Ocean and supervise.

See you soon!