Happy Birthday Handsome Uber-Marine!

Happy Birthday my handsome man!  You "Level-Up" well! 

 I love you!

(Almost) Wordless Wednesday

Happy Birthday Madison!

It's so hard to believe that you're turning the "sweet 16" today.  

You still love to play with your toys and adore snuggling with me anytime.  Thank you for bringing such joy in my life. 

Love you "punky!"

YouTube Thursday

In honor of my birthday today, here's Paul McCartney with the "Birthday" song:

Happy Birthday Maddie!

Happy Birthday little girl!  I hope you enjoy your tuna in juice and dream about catching all of the lizards and squirrels you see each day out the window.  I love you!

Happy Birthday Cutie Pie!

Looking at this picture from our trip to Disney 6 years ago makes it hard for me to believe you're a big middle schooler now.  I hope you have a wonderful day today.  I love you!!

I'm Really Not Dead...

although I certainly feel that way right now.  This summer has been quite a whirlwind with no relief in sight--although if Hurricane Irene heads my way I may get some time off since I probably won't have power to do anything but sleep.  Hmmm...maybe I should invest in a flashlight so I can read too. (Home Depot, I'm headed in your direction!)

I promise to update you soon on all of my summer shenanigans (work) so you know why I've been absent for so long.  Just know that the children invade tomorrow and I have to be up before the birds so I can get there before the crazed parents of the underclassmen and the reigning seniors arrive. 

Fun times, let me tell you.  My classroom (the library) is in no shape to actually let people see it, but because there's a classroom located within my classroom, the students will be traipsing in for their classes.  Yippee.  They'll just have to deal with the mess because I keep getting pulled to do "other" things around the school which means I look like the bride of Frankenstein from running my fingers through my hair in worry.

Oh well, the only good thing is that it's my birthday and I'm giving myself permission to stop off and pick up something yummy for dinner so I don't have to cook.  I'm debating between Olive Garden and Macaroni Grill, so we'll see how the day goes as to how much bread I want to consume.  After all, you can never go wrong with bread, cheese, or chocolate, and since there's garlic involved, I'm so totally there!

Catch you on the flip side!

Happy Birthday Madison!

You're now officially a teenager (at least in human years), but you've been rolling your eyes and giving me attitude since the day we met 7 years ago.  I wouldn't trade a single moment (except for the puking parts).  I love you my little girl!

Happy Birthday Cutie Pie!

I can't believe you're double-digits already! You're growing up so fast and I'm very proud of the wonderful young lady you're becoming.

Happy 10th Birthday!

Happy Birthday...

CUTIE PIE!!!!

I LOVE YOU!!!!!!

Happy Birthday...

to Me!

Yes, I am actually admitting that I'm another year older, hopefully more mature, and definitely full of sass. The picture above is from last years' celebration. I would have put a more recent picture up, but my camera has finally decided that it doesn't want to work anymore, despite being "fixed" a number of times. Booooooooooo. So, I hope to not only find a pair of great shoes to wear for the first day with kids, but I also hope to find a working camera so that I can become a shutterbug again. Of course, this is after the fam and I go out for lunch after church to Kobe's Japanese Steakhouse. No, I'm not having steak--YUCK! But they do cook the food in front of you and put on a great show at a reasonable price. Yay! So, if you're in the area, stop by and say hi. I'll be the one with the ridiculous paper chef hat on her head as the servers sing their version of "Happy Birthday" in Japanese. Have a great rest of the weekend!

Happy Birthday and other thoughts

Dragging myself out of bed is never easy since I am a night-owl by nature. It's even harder when I have to go back to work (teaching), knowing that there's no relief in sight for another 10 months. Why did I go into teaching again? Oh. Right. I wanted to make a difference. Here's to making a difference! Go forth teachers and conquer, I mean TEACH!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my brother and his fiancee!

(Can you believe they share a birthday?) I hope you two have a wonderful day and don't party too hard in London! Although I'm sure you're either working or on holiday--in which case, send pics!

Happy Birthday!

Today is my niece in Oregon's 5th birthday! She's growing up so fast.
Happy Birthday sweetie!

Happy Birthday Amber...

Happy 30th!!

You're getting OLD!!! (Hee Hee!)

Happy Birthday Madison!

Happy 10th Birthday kiddo!

Mommy loves you--despite the fact you hate having your picture taken. It's hard to believe that you came to live with me when you were five years old. My how the time has flown. I hope you enjoy your special birthday dinner. It's your favorite--tuna with gravy!

Happy Birthday Vickie!

I hope you have a wonderful birthday today! Even though I'm a couple of states away, please know that I'm celebrating with you!

Happy Birthday...

Hayley!

May you have a wonderful day as you learn something new in school. You are becoming a wonderful young lady and I am very proud of you! I love you cutie pie!

Happy Birthday...

to ME!!!!

Happy Birthday Madison!

Tuesday was Madison's 10th Birthday! She wasn't too thrilled about having a birthday (are any of us?) but she did enjoy her tuna feast! Just look at her licking her lips! :)I would have actually posted her picture on Tuesday, but my Internet connection has been minimal at best. Since I have the whole wireless thing happening, I had to set up a network between my computer and my parents' computer. Unfortunately, BrightHouse (roadrunner) is unstable, which makes the wireless connection and network unstable--which boils down to NO Internet most of the time. Grrrrrr....Verizon is sounding a lot better!

Happy Birthday!

Today is the 1st Birthday of Misadventures of the Dynamic Uno! It's hard to believe that it's really been a year since I've started blogging, but yesterday was the infamous Gasparilla parade, and I blogged a bit about that after finding my pirate name last year. Thank you to everyone who has checked in every now and then to see what "misadventures" I've been up to lately. I've looked at the stats for the blog and found readers from all over the world--which is completely surprising to me. After all, I'd love to travel the world, and to see that people from those various areas are actually "reading in" is pretty cool. I hope this next year is even better for you--especially with all of the changes that are happening in my life at the moment. (More to come on those in later posts.)

As I'm sure I've mentioned before...I LOVE my new job location! The people are SO nice and wonderful to work with--even the grouchy ones. I HATE the drive though and can't wait until I move closer to work. Right now my routine is to get up at 4 am and I have to leave the house a little before 6 am so that I can be at work (hopefully) by 7 am. Then, I leave work around 3:30 pm or 4 pm and get home around 5:30 pm or 6 pm. Needless to say--I'm a walking zombie right now. I keep telling my self that I only have to deal with this horrible drive for another4 weeks or so until I move, but I think I'm going to have to figure out something else before I keel over, 'cause we ALL know that I am NOT a morning person! Thank goodness for Vanilla Coke being put back into the 20 oz. bottles again! (Not so good for my hips, but great for the caffeine factor!)

Friday I actually had a Girls' Night Out with my neighbor Maggie, and my friend Dawn and her sister Robyn. We went to the local Mom and Pop pizza joint and stuffed our faces. (Okay, so I'm the one that actually stuffed my face--hence the 2 pounds I gained this weekend--but it was SO good!) I had been craving gooey cheese foe the entire week, so I convinced them to come with me. I ate so much I was sick to my stomach, but it was completely worth it! It was fun to get out with the girls and laugh our heads off over "stupid stuff" and oogle the cute (single) guys around us! We ALL still think our mailman is HOTT and I'm trying REALLY hard to get a picture of him before I move! Maybe then I'll even get a phone number....hmmmm..I could be on to something here! Anyway, there's a bet going on to see who will get to him first. I think Maggie's going to win because she's home during the day, and well, I order a lot of stuff online, so she can just open the door and accept the package for me, as she has so graciously volunteered to do. Oh boy, is all I can say! :)

Today I attended church via online broadcast (I LOVE technology!) and now I have to get ready to meet my family at Outback (gee, what a horrible thing to have to do) so that we can celebrate my grandparents' birthdays which happened earlier this month. Getting together with family is always interesting, so this should be really fun. :)

My aunt called me yesterday and said that she upgraded her cell phone and now has bluetooth technology. Hello? My aunt?! My grandmother also has a beautiful lavender phone which is so much better than mine. I am SO jealous! How come I can never come across these deals when it's time for me to upgrade? I always end up paying through the nose and end up with a jerk of a salesman. The killer is that we're with the same company. Grrrrr.... Oh well, at least they'll be able to keep in touch more and won't have an excuse otherwise. Hee hee!

Have a wonderful week! I know I will...once I get over my driving lag.

Monday, Monday...

Yep--only this week, I'm off of work! (Yippee!) Okay, so I'm supposed to be paying homage to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., however, I spent the day goofing off, just because. :) It's also my grandma's birthday--although we'll probably celebrate this coming weekend since this month has just flown by. That way we can celebrate my grandpa's birthday (which was at the beginning of the month) too. Happy Birthday Nanny!!!

I have only spent two days at my new work location and I LOVE my job again! It's like sunshine and roses--which is quite a difference from the other place. I feel bad for the two women I'm working with because I'm more like a deer caught in headlights right now rather than an actual contributing member of our team. However, I'm giving my self another week to acclimate before I buckle down and get some things truly accomplished. After all, this school is double the size of my other school, AND I actually get to be a librarian rather than a secretary because..we actually have a secretary!!!! As I said, sunshine and roses....

Congratulations to TK and Rachel--this season's winners of The Amazing Race. I must admit, I was liked all three teams in the top three, so I would have been happy either way. (Although Don's grandson is a JERK.) I kind of wished the father/daughter team (Ron and Christina) would have won because they were so close, but TK and Rachel didn't lose their cool during the entire race and it paid off in the end--literally! I just wish I could get a video done to send in for an audition, but I have a sneakin' suspicion that the show may stop relatively soon--mainly because the audience is dwindling. That would be a bummer, because I really don't want to audition for Survivor.

Okay--you HAVE TO see the movie The Bucket List!!!! I went with my friend Maggie this morning and the movie is awesome! (The language leaves a lot to be desired, but it's typical Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.) I wish I had brought my quote notebook along with me because there were so many poignant lines that I would have loved to write them down. Definitely take some tissues though--there wasn't a dry eye in the house--and that includes the men! Wonderful movie!!! I may even have to add to my bucket list--especially after watching the movie. The main point the movie was trying to make is that you should live every day to the fullest because you never know when it's going to be your last. Don't sit on the sidelines of life--jump in with both feet and have an adventure every day rather than waiting for the special moments.

In other news, I'm moving...yes, again. I have about a month to get things ready, which is tons of time! Hopefully I'll be able to move things a little bit at a time rather than all at once--less stress that way--but, we'll see.

I have to get things ready to go for tomorrow--I'm driving a lot farther now (until I move) so I have to make sure I have everything ready to go because 6 am is when I head out for work, and we all know I am NOT a morning person! :)