'cuz it makes my apartment smell...mossy

yesterday was my mother's birthday.  my family came to my house for dinner.  (well, it was lunch.  but in the south we call that dinner.  especially on a sunday.)

anyway, i didn't take one picture.  sad.  BUT we did sit around and quote movie lines.  (as well as talk politics, theology, and make fun of my brother...it's just what we do.) 

my niece & i share the same love for old movies, jane austen, musicals, and ridiculous comedies (think Muppets, what about bob?, three amigos)

i don't know how many lines from you've got mail we quoted.  

but it was a lot.  like, a lot a lot.  {hence the reason for the subject of this post.}

like a bouquet of freshly sharpened pencils...........

so random.  :)

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so over the weekend my parents took my boys on a hike.  they picked persimmons along the way.  that afternoon we cut into them, to check out the seeds.  

do you know this weather forecasting trick??  some say it's an old wives tale, but i've found it to be true more years than not!  and guess what those sticky little persimmons told us this time?

that's my dad's hand.  and that's a spoon shape on that seed.  spoon = shovel, which means  lots of heavy, wet snow will fall this winter.

but this is arkansas.  much like our football program, the weather around here is pretty unpredictable.  {sigh.}

meanwhile, i'm putting up more twinkle lights...........

haven't seen you've got mail???  seriously?!?!  go get it!!!  like, now!!!!  

we're going to sell them cheap books and legal addictive stimulants.

if there's ever a trivia game on movie quotes, i'm all over it.

happy monday!!!  later this week i'll be showing some new crafts i've done!  fun times.  i promise.

that was a perfect blend of poetry and meanness.

i know.  i have to stop.  i'll try.  i promise.  come back for crafty posts.  no movie quotes.  i'll really try.

yes, it's fall

it's fall here in the great pig sooie state.  {if not from Arkansas, you have to follow SEC sports to get that}

i'm a spring/summer girl, through and through.  but fall really isn't so bad either.

we had a cold snap, but we bounced right back.  temps in the 80s, 70s, now today i'm freezing my hiney off.  welcome to arkansas.  {see the twinkle lights i finally hung up on my deck?!?  oh, love them.  so much.  ok, so i hung them a couple of months ago.  but i don't think i'd shared that with y'all yet.  bad blogger.}
  

i've been sweating thru all my cute fall clothes i recently purchased.  but this weekend i should be able to do all the layering i love to do in the fall.

which reminds me, i'm currently updating my phone.  and i found this picture i texted my husband.  from the TJ Maxx dressing room.

disregard the freshly washed post-workout hair!!!!!  and the fact i'm wearing ZERO makeup.  {don't judge.}

does anybody else do this?  text outfit pics from the dressing room?!?!  no?!?  just me???  i bought the jeans, which i thought might shrink some when washed.  i was wrong.  {sigh}  i'm terrible at picking out jeans.  i always buy too big!!!

anyhooooo, i do love to decorate my porch for fall.  LOVE IT.

i usually go way overboard on pumpkins.  but this year i only got a few.  basically b/c our favorite pumpkin patch closed down.  {sigh}  sad, yes.  but it did $ave me $ome moolah.  

ok, so this is weird.  anybody had this trouble???  we had our house painted over the summer.  and now 3M command strips won't stick to my front door.  weird, right?!?  they fall off!!  i'm perplexed by this.  seeeeeeeeeriously. 

so i had to use a strip of linen fabric attached to a command strip on the other side of my door.  bizarre.

so how do you hang stuff on your front door???  i need answers.  share with me.

happy fall, y'all!!!!

bunheads follow up

my bunheads post received a lot of feedback.  hopefully this means i've made some bunheads followers out of some of you.

let me, however, clarify:  i didn't start watching the show from the beginning.  i caught it on the day of the season finale.  i started at episode 4...or maybe even 5.  i doubt i would love it so much if i'd started at the beginning.  the pilot is...interesting.  but probably wouldn't have been enough to hook me.

but episode 2 has a phenomenal dance sequence to this song.  and ever since i saw it, oh my...i've been hooked on this song.  listen.  love it.

i can't find the dance sequence on youtube.  but if you can watch episode 2, For Fanny, the dance is at the end of the episode.  it's worth it.  i promise. 

but for now, just enjoy the song.  and disregard the creepy picture of his album cover.  (creepy, right??!?!?!)

i read that the new bunheads episodes begin in january.  anybody else excited?!?!?  

in the words of Little Bill....

hello, friend.

yes, it's me.  yes, i haven't blogged in awhile.  yes, i feel like a slacker.  yes, i'm back.

i just texted my husband this picture.

busy day, i texted.  i'm exhausted.

to which he replied, been out shopping?

i immediately texted back, i wish.

this picture doesn't quite show the magnitude of these heaps of laundry.  and quite a bit had already been put away.  if i had gone out shopping and came back with this much stuff...well, it's safe to say i'd have a lot of 'splainin' to do.

and i'd be paying for it.  {ahem...can i get an amen?!?!}

anywaaaaaaaaaaay, it's monday.  all the floors have been steam cleaned, all the laundry has been washed or is being washed, everything out of the dryer has been folded and most of it put away.  yip-to-the-eeee.  

i'm feeling quite productive today.
and quite proud of myself, i must say.

and now i have to figure out dinner.  {sigh}  after such a productive day, would it be cheating to call in a pizza?  that's kind of becoming my monday night ritual.  why break the tradition?

i promise better material in my future posts.  i'm a tired housewife today.  {wink}