While shopping for something to drink besides tainted water for our household the other day, we ran into the local Walmarts. I do really try to not shop at this particular location because of the happenstance of getting shanked in aisle 7 but putting all of this fear of safety aside..... sometimes a girl doesn't want to fight the masses at Target for 1/2 stocked shelves of overpriced toilet paper and super fab beef jerky displays. Sorry you are not living in the ghetto (and I say ghetto because someone was shot in the parking lot recently and assaulted as well......)
While looking totally awesome and high class (sans makeup and two-day old clothing which I may or may not have slept in...doing laundry is totally overrated) while berating Celia to FINALLY quit messing with her sister, a woman passed by and said quite nonchalantly, "I really wish you would post more." My eyes might have bugged out of my head because LORDY! I don't write anymore and no one reads this space any longer.
Except for a select few.
Mrs. Kendall listened to quite a bit of my ailments I haven't posted about in awhile. Hello! I am 85 and a hypochondriac!
I might have lifted my shirt for her to view such wounds...
(After giving a calligraphy lesson, I fell down concrete and brick steps.)
Thankfully, I will not die of a DVT or breast cancer or Melanoma. I might die of falling on an arm filled with recently removed stitches that was recently removing 'the Melanoma' and busted open something quite spectacular!
We now have a sign or status blinking in our house, "0 DAYS SINCE SHANA ABOUT KILLED HERSELF AND IS ACCIDENT FREE!!!!"
and NO! I'm not drunk during these expeditions!
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Calligraphy is still VERY steady even with bum legs and all....
I think I had something like a two week break!
Everyone was quite happy to eat at our dinner table and have clean clothes during this hiatus.
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WHILE WE WERE ON A BREAK! We decided to go to the panhandle of Oklahoma!!! to see bats emerging from a cave.
Don't ask me why other than Rich has talked about seeing this view for years.
Yes! We are such thrill-seekers! Most people go sky diving, travel to Mexico or climb the Andes but WE? sit in folding chairs looking for 1,000,000 bats to emerge!
As you can tell, one kid was SUPER-DUPER thrilled about this experience in 1,000 degree heat and humidity!
(The other one is a wonderful trooper! I think it's because she's not hit that "pre-teen" phase of life. yet.)
You see the millions of bats?
No? Yeah, I barely saw them myself. Maybe I should have taken some LSD beforehand to enhance the experience. No awesome experience of bats shitting on your head while you marvel in the fact you may or may not get rabies.
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In summary, these pics were the best of our day trip.
We do like to waste a bit of time on the side-roads that may or may not house 'The Children of the Corn' compounds.
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OH! We recently returned from Dance Nationals in Branson, Missouri (cue the banjos...) which my daughter decided to turn 25 in the process.
Hey!
Squirrel!
Bright shiny foil!
MEANING my train of thought is like, ALL OVER THE PLACE!!!
Here is a picture of me at 21. Notice the smize that Tyra Banks tries to perfect? Yeah, had it in spades.
Actually, I keep flipping from this pic and the one above to see if Celia looks like me just a tenth of the notion that she is full-blooded Ri-CAArdo.
Nope! She's way prettier than me!
Thank god!
She takes after her daddy.
Your poor arm! Ouch!
Every time I see a commercial for Big Brother, I keep wishing you were on it!
Posted by: a | 20 July 2015 at 11:13 PM
I'm a loyalist. That is, I'm loyally a reader. Try not to trip, hrm? :)
Posted by: Nathan Pralle | 21 July 2015 at 08:36 AM
I check in ever-so-often to see if you've written anything. Good surprise today! :) Glad I can keep up w/ your shenanigans on FB.
Take care!
Posted by: Ashley | 21 July 2015 at 09:34 AM
Me too. Always come by and a delight to see an update. Your calligraphy is so gorgeous but your injuries look awful! And BB would be SO much better if you were on. for real.
Posted by: Georgia | 22 July 2015 at 11:34 AM
I'm still reading! Watching for updates regularly.
Posted by: Donna | 22 July 2015 at 01:12 PM
shoot, I posted but it didn't show up! I check and check and check -- so happy that Mrs. K got you to post again. sorry about your fall - love the peek into your life though.
Posted by: Julia | 22 July 2015 at 08:56 PM
should have taken acid lol
Posted by: victoria | 23 July 2015 at 04:52 PM
I check once a week and get giddy when I get to read a new post!
Posted by: Sara Williams | 26 July 2015 at 08:15 PM
I haven't commented in a while. I hope your kids are better than they were at St E. I'm really mad about the Battle of the Block and that my son got married without properly addressed invitations. Sorry about your unwelcome friend. You surely would have been better than these jokers on BB. I'm really mad that the regular shows aren't even close to the DSL state of the house. BBUK was so much better.
Posted by: Bev | 26 July 2015 at 11:42 PM
Still following....and even passed through OK last week...long enough to meet Kristie- which is how I found you....from following her old blog :)
Posted by: Marey | 08 August 2015 at 09:11 PM
How old is your oldest. My daughter is ten and holy hell, I think we despise each other more than we love each other. Whe is this phase over? Good luck to you!
Posted by: Deanna | 15 August 2015 at 11:19 PM
Whoa...that arm. Ouch.
Okay, so funny thing....my computer crashed a few years ago. Everything completely wiped away. It sucked majorly. You know what bugged me almost more than losing my photos (almost, okay...let's be real...because nothing is worse than losing your family photos) it was losing my list of favorite blogs that I followed. They were bookmarked and I just clicked on them...yours was one of them...and because I just clicked on the links each day, I never really paid attention to the URL or anything. And then when I finally got another computer (a Mac this time, because they don't crash as much) I tried following blogs but forgot the names of the blogs I followed. I remembered you blog but not the name of it (I know, I'm so bad...forgive me) and just now, tonight, I decided to try to find your blog to see if you still are blogging....and I found you by typing in your son's name in Google. Because I've always remembered him, and his name is so unique. And so, then your blog was the first to come up. And so now here I am. Long, boring story. I know. But still, I thought I'd share. You probably don't remember me from years ago...but I'm the blogger with all the kiddos. My old blog was called "mommy nine times" but I've changed it since then (the title and URL) I have ten kids now, with one more on the way. www.theyallcallmemom.com I'm now carrying a son, 27 weeks along tomorrow, and he has a fatal diagnosis, so yeah, that sucks big time. I'm carrying him to term despite his fatal diagnosis....because he's my boy and I love him, no matter what. So that's what's going on with me. In case you were wondering. LOL Seriously, though, I'm happy that I found your blog again and I'm going to spend some time now catching up with your posts.
Posted by: Katrina | 02 September 2015 at 12:07 AM
where is Mrs Kendall now? we need her to prod you into posting again.
Posted by: Julia | 04 October 2015 at 09:11 PM