Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1979

On friday night a group of us went to the Melting Pot! The food was good but not worth what some people have been roomered to pay! We found out that you can order cheese dip, a salad and dessert for around $20 per person.

I don't know about this one

You Are An Exclamation Point

You are a bundle of... well, something. You're often a bundle of joy, passion, or drama. You're loud, brash, and outgoing. If you think it, you say it. Definitely not the quiet type, you really don't keep a lot to yourself. You're lively and inspiring. People love to be around your energy. (But they do secretly worry that you'll spill their secrets without even realizing it.) You excel in: Public speaking You get along best with: the Dash

What Punctuation Mark Are You?

Lets see I don't do public speaking and who is "the Dash" anyway?

Your Heart Is Blue

Love is a doing word for you. You know it's love when you treat each other well. You are a giving lover, but you don't give too much. You expect something in return. Your flirting style: Friendly Your lucky first date: Lunch at an outdoor cafe Your dream lover: Is both generous and selfish What you bring to relationships: Loyalty

What Color Heart Do You Have?

Seester to Seester: Volume 1

My seester(Janet), not to be confused with my sister(Yolonda) and I have some funny text message conversation. At least we think they are funny and our mom does too. Wait maybe that's a good reason not to post this?!



Yesterday I was swimsuit shopping and this is what happened..



Me:Does Victoria Secret make good swim suits

Seester: I don;t know I have never tried any of them on

Me:They don't have them in the store but online and I have that gift card

Seester:Oh I think my friend Sheena has gotten some. And she seemed to like them.

Me: I used to have a speedo one that held everything in place but it was stolen :-<>

Seester:How did your swimsuit get stolen?
me: I dont know i was naked all of a sudden!

Me: I left it in a swim locker at the gym then it was gone

Seester: LOL. Did you get thrown out of the pool for becoming instantly naked?

Me:It was french
Seester:So you took a french dip?

Me: They didn't appreciate the bread floaties

Anybody out there?!?

Dear who ever is blog Stalking(not stoking) me-

The world my brain functions in is, well, different? Mostly my veiled attempts at humor are really just me trying to get out of homework.

I am so glad that you have joined me in Lori Land!
I know people stop by but why does everyone have to stay incognito?

I was wondering though, if you might that is if you feel up to it, Leave a message a comment of just grunt and let me know you were here.

Thanks
sincerely
Me

diffrent day diffrent toast

In my quest to stretch the lack of a college fund...I have started eating Toast.
Is there any comfort food easier to make? You pull it out of the toaster and plop on your favorite topping. Presto! Breakfast
The first is peanut butter and marshmallow fluff.
Topped with butter (or a butter substitute)
Topped with your favorite jam
Topped with peanut butter
Topped with honey butter
Topped with butter and sprinkled with a 30/70 mixture of cinnamon and sugar
Topped with butter and dipped into hot cocoa

Topped with butter and slices tomatoes
Topped with butter and slices of bacon
Topped with egg - alone or in combination with cheese and or a breakfast meat - to form an open-face McMuffin style sandwich
Topped with pizza, spaghetti or bruschetta sauce for a quick breakfast pizza (try adding bacon or breakfast sausage to make it more breakfast-specific)

Topped with salsa for a Mexican toast pizza
Rubbed with a sliced garlic clove and spread lightly with butter to create instant garlic toast (Breakfast garlic toast?)
Topped with a light spread of butter and a half teaspoon of finely grated orange or grapefruit rind. Sprinkle lightly with sugar to offset the slight bitterness that comes with the rind.
Topped with cream cheese and smoked salmon
Wonderful or Weird: Topped with cottage cheese and prune baby food (Breakfast Lover Rosie C. writes "...it's great on pancakes... a variation on an old Czech recipe my mother used to make... also nice on toast for a quick treat")
Brunch or Lunch? Topped with hummus for a savory Mediterranean-themed breakfast
Topped with peanut butter and banana

Topped with mushed bananas and cinnamon
Topped with avocado and cheese
Topped with sun-dried tomato, cream cheese and sliced onions
Topped with cream cheese and fresh blueberries

Feeling weird? Topped with peanut butter and cheese
Feeling weirder? Topped with peanut butter and sliced onion

Lest we forget... Topped with Spam
Hot Breakfast! Topped with jalapeno peppers and either butter or cream cheese
Topped with brie cheese, sweet cherries and pecan pieces and sprinkled lightly with baker's sugar

Topped with tangy lime butter
Toast your first piece of bread and spread some peanut butter over it while still warm... pop 2nd piece into toaster and while it's toasting, sprinkle milk-chocolate chips on the first piece... top with HOT 2nd piece of toast, wrap up in a paper towel... viola. Reese-Toast-Sandwich.

My dad's Favorite threat for dinner...chipped beef in cream sauce on toast, otherwise known as S. O. S.( Stuff on a shingle)
To get you in the mood, here is one of my pumpkins favorite songs
Yeah Toast!
http://toooast.ytmnd.com/
Please feel free to add more recipes to the comments section!

Be careful it's catching!

With the recent out break of pregnancy in my circle, I thought I would give a fair warning to all in my life, it seems to be catching faster than that flu out break this last winter!
With my circle of friends, as to who I am referring, all being Midwives, it is fun to see their reactions at the thought of being pregnant! So for them and everyone else who might soon be touched by the plague, Here are a few pointers on things that do not cause pregnancy!

1. toilet seats- though I wonder how it spread so fast!
2. washing or not washing of hands
3.Kissing-no matter what your grandma told you! This may lead to babies but it in it self does not cause them.
4.Eating Dinner- though I do have more than one niece/nephew who's existence has been blamed on Thanksgiving Dinner
5.Chocolate- I wonder about that one though because the craving of chocolate usually co insides with hormone changes
6. jogging
7. deer hunting
8. wal-mart- I bet if they could figure out a way to make a larger base of consumers they would totally jump on the band wagon!
9. Driving in the carpool lane- I wonder if being pregnant allows you to drive in the car pool lane
10.Homework- in most of our cases we read about babies all day long! though I would think that the actual viewing of births would detour us!
11. The stork- I bet if they did come from the stork the arrival of a baby could really be counted as a surprise! But who knows what you might end up with. Let's look at Dumbo for example, his poor mom, she unwraps her baby and finds ears bigger than he is. I bet she wondered where she was going to get that big of a Q-tip. And then their is the case if Laaambert. I mean the stork gave a baby lion to a sheep!
Conclusion...I don't really have one other than to say...It must be in the Water!

Prayer

Uptight? Who me?

I was speaking to a friend from school the other day and I was talking about how I felt a little stressed out and anxious lately she replied "A little? You just noticed?!?"

Being that she isn't the first person to apprise me of this condition I am being forced to look at the fact that I may appear to be "uptight"

Without actually admitting to such an erroneous statement, I have been doing some research to see if a stranger on the internet knows me better than my friends...here is the test!

http://www.lessons4living.com/stress_test.htm
My score is = 17
1-6 Few Hassles
7-12 Pretty Good Control
13-17 Danger Zone. Watch out!
18+ Stressed Out. You may need help

I take it it is safe to say that I am not completely over the edge, I am just living on it!

Further research has shown that their are basic steps to reduce stress...

1. Leave The Situation- interesting idea... from now on I can just walk away from you in the middle of a sentence when I assume that what you will say next will stress me out or at the very least not entertain me.

2.Take A Nap Or Go To Sleep.- YES at last an excuse for narcolepsy!

3.Take a Warm Bath/Shower- For those of you who don't know I have an aversion to water...as in I don't like it. I mean I could drown with my new found Narcolepsy and all!

4.Listen To Calming Affirmation Tapes/Music.-So now I need to go through all of my music and decide what calms me and what stress me...that in it's self sounds like too much stress!

5.Talk To A *Positive* Friend- So if when talking to me you find I don't abruptly leave in the middle of a conversation then I guess you should deduce that you are a positive friend!

6.DON'T CONTAMINATE THE GOOD TIMES.
"Telling yourself I really shouldn't be doing this as you relax doesn't do you any good. Enjoy the moment. Relish the time. Remind yourself this brief respite will make you more effective later."

Strange where have I heard that advice from before??? Alas, an excuse to do what ever I feel like!

7.PRACTICE UN ATTACHMENT.
"Unattachment is the release of need or expectation associated with a specific outcome," "We become attached to the way we envision something working out, and struggle to make circumstances bend to our desires. Life, however, often has its own agenda, and we are destined to suffer unless we give up our attachment to things working out exactly as we would like."

In other words No expectations besides all of you being the most positive people who have to entertain me I expect nothing from you...there, now I feel relieved!

8. Practice daily Meditation.
I wonder if that word was supposed to be medication?? Chocolate that should do it but how much a day would I need to practice with and how much do I just get to eat?

9. Ask For/Seek Out Professional Support-Help
Here is my new singles AD
SWF looking for SWM
must have no expectations of me
willing to change a CD for me at any sign of stress or unfullfilment
Not bothered by me falling asleep when watching a movie/talking/walking or shopping.
OK with me walking away from you when I don't feel like listening anymore
Must be incredibly positive
And willing to feed me bon bons all day!!

Any takers?

What is the point!

Any fool can have a trophy wife. It takes a real man to have a trophy marriage.

For: Karina and Jason

Last week I went to my first LDS temple wedding. One of the best friends I know was married for time and all eternity to a great girl.

If I had been given a chance to make a toast I would have said," Karina, everyone keeps saying how Lucky Jason is to have found you and I agree but I want everyone to know how lucky you are to have found Jason! First off he will try anything you cook for him, even cilantro cheese burgers, trust me they were BAD and he will eat it! If you ask for his opinion on the recipe he will tell you it was probably not your best idea but he eats it anyway!
When your sad he will go any distance to be there for you just to remove some of your pressure.
some things you probably don't know... he will change your car battery in the middle of the winter at 11:00 at night in the dark with a flash light.
He will listen to your absurd story's for hours and never roll his eyes!
He will share his testimony with everyone because he wants them to be as happy as he is! Now that he is married I am sure we will hear his testimony of marriage over and over!
Mark Twain said
"After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her."


Now we all know how blessed you are to have found each other....blessings to you both

Look at those teeth

He just thinks his hat is too funny!

I stopped over to the Swains to give Landon a few things my mom made for him!
It was good to see him in a good mood!
Every time I see him he is either tired or just getting over something!
Stacie swears he's usually happy all the time!
I guess he just likes to be home!

Promised Pictures!

GO shorty it's your birthday!!

Happy Birthday to the best little boy on the planet!
As most of you know my computer is fried!! so I can't load pictures! but in the interest of time I might head down to walmart and have them put on a CD tonight! That way everyone can see how amazing Little Landon James has become!
Yesterday I went to the discovery gateway with the Swains. It's always so much fun to see them!(I will give details when I post the pictures)
Today we are planning on going to the park to let Landon smash a cake, It's a little cold so lets hope it warms up!!!

I am forever grateful for my relationships with the Swain Gang! I love this family like they are my own! I can't imagine my life with out them!

Now I know what's wrong with me!!

they call it AAADD
-Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

This is how it manifests:

I decide to water my garden.

As I turn on the hose in the driveway,
I look over at my car and decide it needs washing.

As I start toward the garage,
I notice mail on the porch table that
I brought up from the mail box earlier.

I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.

I lay my car keys on the table,
put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table,
and notice that the can is full.

So, I decide to put the bills back
on the table and take out the garbage first.

But then I think,
since I'm going to be near the mailbox
when I take out the garbage anyway,
I may as well pay the bills first.

I take my check book off the table,
and see that there is only one check left.

My extra checks are in my desk in the bedroom,
so I go inside the house to my desk where
I find the can of Dr pepper I'd been drinking.

I'm going to look for my checks,
but first I need to push the Dr pepper aside
so that I don't accidentally knock it over.

The dr pepper is getting warm,
and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the dr pepper,
a vase of flowers on the counter
catches my eye--they need water.

I put the dr pepper on the counter and
discover my homework that
I've been searching for all morning.

I decide I better put it back on my desk,
but first I'm going to water the flowers.

I set the homework back down on the counter,
fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote.
Someone left it on the kitchen table.

I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV,
I'll be looking for the remote,
but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table,
so I decide to put it back in the livingroom where it belongs,
but first I'll water the flowers.

I pour some water in the flowers,
but quite a bit of it spills on the floor.

So, I set the remote back on the table,
get some towels and wipe up the spill.

Then, I head down the hall trying to
remember what I was planning to do.

At the end of the day:

the car isn't washed

the bills aren't paid

there is a warm can of dr pepper sitting on the counter

the flowers don't have enough water,

there is still only 1 check in my check book,

I can't find the remote,

I can't find my homework,

and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.

Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today,
I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all damn day,
and I'm really tired.

I realize this is a serious problem,
and I'll try to get some help for it,
but first I'll check my e-mail....

The Fam

From 70 to 15

Burrr! It's a lot colder then it was in Dallas 2 hours ago!
I am sitting in an airport in Denver and thought I should up load some pictures.
Last week my grandpa Mergell died after along couple of years.
All of us kids flew/drove to Dallas for the funeral. Though it was a solme occasion, it was nice to see Dad and Bev. We took some family photos!

Me, Jason and Janet!! We all are a bit sweaty But hey it was a good time! We got to see some old friends and dance the night away! This was Jason's and my 3rd New Year's together! Next year we will be adding the "wife" so it will be even more fun!

My good buddy Matt! He always insists on picking me up!

Janet and Jason cutting a rug!

Get down get down get down!!!

Christmas Eve

This is the begining of the Christmas morning mess! clockwise: Jon, Alex, JD and Joey

The Kids had more fun making the cookies then anything else all night! We about left a vial of insulin out for Santa!

Uncle James reading the Night before Christmas...this is the first time that this many kids sat and listened to the entire story! ** baby James is the 4th kid from the left***

Over the River and through the woods...

more like over the mountains and through the frozen plains! That is a semi truck in front of us!


Once we got to Nebraska the wind died down!
Those amber waves of grain are beautiful!!
Lucky for us but Unfortunately the storm blew south of us and
we got trapped in Nebraska over night!
so much for our one day trip!

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