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What I Learned This Week – Decorating Edition
As always, I have learned a lot of stuff this week. However, instead of compiling another list about the stuff, I thought it might be fun to actually show you pictures of the stuff. Basically I learned that if you don’t have a lot of success in decorating, you should call in some reinforcement.
So, if you want to save yourself from reading 800 and some odd words, you can scroll down to the pictures and skip the mindless commentary. Otherwise, you may want to grab a coke and pull up a chair. As is usually always the case around here at FITP, Inc., this could get lengthy.
Remember when I wrote that McDaddy and I have been remodeling our basement, turning a second kitchen into a playroom? And then remember when I showed you the bright red and yellow wall with the wall words as a teaser? Well, I wasn’t trying to be all secretive about the rooms, its just that I didn’t want to show you the rooms until the walls were decorated.
And because I have never been much of a decorator, I was afraid to attempt it on my own. Sadly, my know-hows do not match up with my want-tos.
Don’t get me wrong. I love to shop. And I love to buy stuff. But when the time comes to actually decorate with the stuff that I’ve bought, the OCD monster rears its ugly head and then I become concerned with having everything symmetrical instead of actually taking a stab at the decorating. In other words, it’s hard for me to think outside of my OCD decorating box.
Enter my gal pals, Amy and Susan.
Amy and Susan are good friends with a good friend of mine, so by proxy they are my friends too, right?
Right.
After pulling just about every single hair out of my head trying to decide where I should put what, I broke down and called Susan to askbeg her and Amy to come over and work their magic on my walls. You see my good friend has some great walls in her home. And every time I’m there, I find myself saying, “I wouldn’t even think to put that there.” And each time, my friend replies, “I tell you its Amy and Susan. They also have great decorating ideas”. So, after a few minutes of listening to my whine, she agreed and we settled on a date. Last Thursday, they showed up on my doorstep and folks, these gals meant business. I had all of my wall stuff on display and I mentioned that the clock was purchased specifically for the wall directly over the entertainment center.
They looked each other in the eye and then at me and frankly replied, “It won’t look good there.”
Wellalrightythen.
The girls immediately went to work, nailing, pounding, measuring, and leveling.
Yes, I said leveling.
Like I said these girls meant business.
Me? My idea of decorating is ordering a bunch of gold-trimmed Home Interior stuff, eyeballing where on the wall I want the pictures and the sconces to hang all while using my other hand to poke small holes in the wall. Then, I pound the nails in like a maniac doing my best to drive the nail straight into the wall without smashing my beloved thumb.
First, can I just say that Home Interior is so yesterday. I was totally committed to pulling the stuff from the walls and dropping it off at the Goodwill. That is until Susan mentioned the words, rod and iron and paint. She snatched up those sconces and promised to bring them back once she got them painted and said that I would be surprised at how good they will look. Again, I would never think to do that.
Words cannot express how thankful I am that these gals took three hours out of their life to come over to set up my new rec room. Now, how ’bout I stop babbling and get to the pictures. I have a lot of before and afters, so I hope you’ll bear with me.
This is the way our basement looked the day after we moved into our house.

Here are the two pathetic walls before…


Pay no mind to the horrible flash photography. As if the Home Interior groupings aren’t enough.
I know. I know. I told you it was bad.
Three hours (and a recliner eviction later) here is my newly remodeled, redecorated rec room. One of the newly painted rod iron sconces will go beside the picture over the entertainment center. The other sconce will go somewhere else.

And just for the record, McDaddy hates this furniture. I purchased it while he was deployed knowing that eventually it would look awesome in this room. The new carpet and new furniture lightened the room up beautifully. (Hey, McDaddy, I told you so!) Like they say, if Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.
But the best part?
The best part is that the walls in this rec room look fabulous.
Have a look.

That’s the clock that I purchased to go over the entertainment center. (Again, pay no mind that this picture is just slightly out of focus. I was hyped up on excitement and Dr. Pepper when I took it!) Susan suggested I paint the shelf black, but as of this writing, it has not been done.
And take a look at my absolute favorite wall….

It would never have dawned on me to hang my beloved Longaberger baskets on the wall. But I had them and they needed to be used.
Oh, and see this curio cabinet?

I was ready to get rid of it, too.
But Susan suggested we paint it, mentioning the words totally, different, cabinet. So, stay tuned for that little trick. The plan is to paint it barn red or farm red. I can’t remember.
So, that’s what I learned this week. How ’bout you?
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Three Little Words
Busy day today.
Worked consignment sale.
Bought great clothes.
For our boys.
Drive home uneventful.
Thankful for that.
McDaddy went skiing.
Took Stevie too!
Girlfriends came over.
For decorating party.
Basement looks better.
Pictures coming shortly.
Before and After.
Suggested I paint.
A curio cabinet.
Shelves and frames.
Pull it together.
Totally different look.
Thrilled with result.
It is late.
I am tired.
That is all.
Thursday Thirteen – Randomness
Each week I try to come up with something creative and intriguing for Thursday Thirteen and each week I wonder if I’m hitting the mark. While I have a whole list of Thursday Thirteen ideas to choose from, the fact is, I’m not in the mood for any of them. It’s been a difficult day and my nerves are shot, so I’ll keep this short and sweet.
Remember last week when I mentioned that me and my van had some sort of disagreement on the big honkin’ hill?
Well.
While driving home today (at a high rate of speed on the interstate mind you) the van and its gas pedal decided it might be fun to play a trick on this ole’ gal and it got hung up somewhere between 68-70 mph.
Shut Up.
I’ll give you a minute to re-read that sentence to make sure you read it correctly.
Yes. You. Did.
Two words for you.
Scared. Todeath.
The cruise control was set at 70 mph and I had just hung up with McDaddy who was headed home from his second home Pennsylvania where he was been working 3-4 days each week for the better part of 2010 when I tapped the brake to disengage the cruise and change lanes.
Only the cruise did not disengage and the van did not slow down even though my foot was attempting the shove the brake through the floor board.
Within seconds I became keenly aware of every vehicle around me. I assessed how much room I had to get stopped, how close the vehicle behind me was and the fact that ten seconds or so later the van was still not slowing down.
Quickly I ran through my short list of options, which included, throwing it into park, throwing it into neutral, and freaking out. I can tell you that freaking out seemed like the easiest option. Which is exactly what I did shortly after getting into the emergency lane and throwing the gear shift into neutral.
The conversation with McDaddy on my beloved iPhone went something like this.
ME (WITH HEART RACING): Hey, the brakes on the van went out and I’m sitting on the side of the interstate in the emergency lane.
MCDADDY: Did the brakes go all the way to the floor? Is the cruise control still on? Is the van in park? Did the idiot lights come on? Can you drive it at all?
ME: Um, I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know and I don’t want to at all because ITS NOT SAFE AND I MIGHT DIE!
MCDADDY: We’ll its obviously time to trade that thing in on a Jeep.
ME: Um, okay. As long as it runs.
MCDADDY: Keep your foot on the brake and start it up.
The engine ran as if it were still going 70 mph.
MCDADDDY: Keep your foot on the brake and push the gas pedal.
The engine returned to normal and I watched the tachometer (or whatever its called) decrease from 3 to 1.\
It is worth mentioning that a situation such as this would not have been a challenge for McDaddy. He possesses the wherewithall to take charge of emergency situations and make quick decisions. I, on the other hand, require a list, a sharpie, a calendar, and at least a 24-hour notice.
This was seriously one of the scaredest (yes, its a word!) events in my life and no, before you ask, I do not drive a Toyota.
I am happy to report that the van is now tucked safely away in the garage and as is always the case in a situation like this, the thing ran perfectly normal for McDaddy as he brought the hunk of junk thing home.
So, with that being said, I do hope you’ll excuse the fact that I am walking down Random Road tonight.
1. One of my favorite iPhone APPS is Words With Friends. It’s a Scrabble type game and if you are a member of the iCult, er, I mean iClub, you can do a search for JulieWV and we can get a game started. Oh, and if you’re looking for about 72 points, play the word Jeep on the triple letter, triple word spaces. YeeHaw!
2. My heart is heavy for my BFF, Becky and her family, who lost their aunt earlier in the week. Death is so stinkin’ tough. Cancer, you suck!
3. While I really love watching American Idol, I do not have a clear favorite this season. I like Big Mike and I think Crystal Bowersox rocked it out tonight!
4. My McDaddy is the original McDaddy.
Just sayin.
5. While she would not have been my first choice based on her lack of musical experience, Ellen is doing a pretty good job as Judge #4 on Idol.
6. And speaking of crazy words, I learned a new one today – encopresis.
I’ll give you a second to look that up. Never heard of it before but saw it on the Facebook and did what I do when I’m on the hunt for something. *coughgooglecough*
7. Apolo Ohno will be on Jay Leno tonight. I will have to DVR it because sadly I’ve spent one too many late nights in front of the TiVo watching my boyfriend Apolo Ohno go for the gold, which he looks good in by the way.
Well, he does!
8. Some girlfriends are coming over tonight to decorate my newly remodeled basement walls. I have purchased some really great stuff but have no idea how to make it all work and pull it all together. So, weather permitting, I might have some pictures to show you very soon! (Hi, Susan!)
9. At this very minute, McDaddy is sitting on the couch with his laptop looking at used cars on the internet because that’s what he does at the first hint of a car situation. He’s found a copper colored Mazda 6 that is a six-speed. Oh, and it is a front wheel drive that will “do just as good as your van if not better on the big, honkin’ hill!”
Can you say Saturn Sky?

10. This post is at 1,011 words, so much for short and sweet.
11. My nephew, Isaac Cade is 2 years old today (as of this writing on Wednesday). Happy birthday, buddy!

12. The random isn’t flowing as easy I thought it would. Of course American Idol and Words With Friends are battling with the randomness, but still.
13. More snow today, are you kidding me? Enough already!
I hate to end things on such a cold note, but, that’s just the way the random rolls, I suppose.
Care to share something random today?
Fun, Famous Folks and Forgetfulness
I am ready to relax and ready to write this week’s Not Me! Monday post while catching up on the last five episodes of The Young And The Restless. Welcome to Not Me! Monday!
To kick this thing off, let me start by saying it was not me who spent the last hour and twenty minutes trying to design Christmas Cards that, after finishing would have been free. It couldn’t have been me because I am a technological genius (who by the way most certainly did not spell genius wrong the first time I typed it!) and there’s no way the fuji picture site could get the best of me.
Nope. No way, not a chance!
It also wasn’t me who spent the weekend with ten or so of my favorite friends jammin’ to Michael O’Brien ( you may recognize Chonda Pierce on his right) who is wonderfully talented by the way

Matthew West and Mandisa…

while laughing my butt off (not literally, mind you!) to Chonda Pierce

and listening to the likes of author Karen Kingsbury,

Stormie Omartian and Angela Thomas. Is that a line-up or what? If that had been me doing all of that, you can bet I would have to tell you what a great time I had whooping it up all weekend.
After the conference that I didn’t attend, there’s no way that I completely forgot about a birthday party that my boys were invited to that evening. It couldn’t have been me because I am an organization freak who typically writes important dates on our house calendar, my purse calendar and in the calendar on my beloved iPhone.
Seriously, how is that at 10:30 pm, I remembered that I forgot a birthday party that started at 7pm?
Negligence, at its finest.
I guess that means “Mother of the Year” is out of the question.
And speaking of forgetting things, there is no way it was me who forgot to take her camera along to the conference that she didn’t go to because anyone that’s ever been to a ladies conference knows there will be picture opportunities for those who have the patience to fight the crowd. Especially when Matthew West is there!
Sheesh.
It also isn’t me who has put off dusting the bedroom for two weeks because well? Because that would be gross. And irresponsible.
Ahem!
That’s all I haven’t done this week!
What about you?
This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.
Wet T-Shirt Contest
Well, if that title doesn’t grab your attention, I don’t know what will.
I’ll let y’all know how many visitors stop by Inmates via Google for searching for something to do with a wet t-shirt. I suspect there will be plenty. More on the wet t-shirt contest in a bit.
Last week, I mentioned I was attending a ladies retreat. Fifteen women from my church (and one visitor) enjoyed a weekend of food, fun, and fellowship. Oh, and did I mention food?

It is interesting to note that the retreat started at 5:00 pm on Friday and ended at 5:00 pm on Saturday.
Did I mention there was fun, fellowship and FOOD?
Oh internets.
We ate and laughed and ate some more. We talked into the wee hours of the night about fashion, shoes, our kids, the new cherry Dr. Pepper, and Deb’s yummy no-bake cookies.
The theme was “Garden of Friends” and everything was centered around flowers. Our retreat was based on this book by Penny Pierce Rose. Basically, each presenter was assigned a flower and we presented the flower based on its characteristics and related them to friends in our “garden of friends.”
I was assigned the sunflower. I love sunflowers. I have them all over my kitchen. I love sunflowers both for their size and their color. There are three characteristics of a sunflower. They stand strong, they seek the sun (Son), and they sow seed. In my garden of friends, I have several sunflowers. McDaddy is a sunflower.
As each flower was presented, we were to think about the qualities of the flower and write the names of friends in our “garden” that had the same qualities of the flower being presented. After each presentation we placed the post-it notes bearing the names of our friends on the flower that they represented.

As you can see, we have lots of Violet friends. Characteristics of the violet are humble, unselfish, go out of their way for others and often work behind the scenes. McDaddy is also a violet. (He is a great friend to have!)

We also made these cute candle holders / coaster / whatever you want to use them for things.

We also made a picture frame, but for some reason I didn’t get a picture of those.
Anytime we have a shin-dig, I am in charge of games and entertainment.
I could just sit and read my blog to them, but I’m guessin’ that would get old. So, I try to real hard to come up with some great games and some great prizes.

The first ice-breaker we played involved those a snack pack of M&Ms. Each lady opened their snack pack and had to answer a number of questions based on the color of M&Ms that were in their pack.

Red = tell 1 fact about your childhood per red candy
Green = tell 1 fact about one of your hobbies
Blue = tell 1 fact about one of your job
Yellow = tell 1 fact about your dreams and aspirations
Brown = tell 1 fact about your last vacation
Orange = tell about something you like to do
It was a fun way to learn about each girl and as you can see from my snack pack, there were 18 M&Ms in the pack. It took a sweet forever for fifteen girls to get through 18 or so M&Ms.
After we went back to the “lodge” for the evening, we played a couple more games and then I made a grand announcement.
We were having a wet t-shirt contest.
Instructions – fold a t-shirt and place it in a ziplock bag. Fill the ziplock bag full of water smoothing the air out as you go. Repeat with a different t-shirt in a different ziplock bag. Freeze both ziplock bags. Remove the ziplock bags and announce that you are having a wet t-shirt contest. The first team to thaw their shirt and wear it wins.
First, you can try running warm water over it.

Just for fun, you might try cracking the ice on the side-walk.

Next, pull like crazy!

Finally, wear it!

It was loads of cold fun!
Like I said, there was food, fellowship and lots of fun!
Happy Fall Y’all!
As always, Thursdays are a lot of fun here at Inmates.
I’ve played along with Beth’s You Capture Carnival every week since it started and I look forward to seeing what our next challenge will be.
I was thrilled with this week’s Fall challenge. Fall is my favorite season. With the exception of the shorter days, I love everything about it. The crisp mornings. The windy evenings. The cooler temps. And, most especially the beautiful browns, reds, yellows and oranges. The landscape was stunning last weekend. I spent Friday and part of Saturday at a ladies retreat with my closest girlfriends from church. I snapped most of these on our way to and from the dining hall.

Looks like something had its way with this leaf. It was surrounded by many brown friends, but it stood out to me.

The red barn was the dining hall. You can’t see it from here but the porch is lined with white rocking chairs. It was glorious sitting on the porch looking at God’s handiwork.

This red leaf stood out against the green grass. It smiled thinking he was showing off!

And finally, what would fall be without a pumpkin? (Or in this case a cat?) At Stevie’s fall party, each child had to bring decorations for their pumpkin. I think his cat turned out pretty well. You might notice that just above his right eye there is a knot. Remember this post where I mentioned that he fell on the playground and I got called to the school to freak out do a medical assessment. The bruise is still visable eight days later.
Happy Fall Y’all!
Hop over to I Should Be Folding Laundry for more fall folliage.
This Week’s Lessons
Between school consolidation meetings, McDaddy going back to work after successfully reconstituting after the stupid deployment, pre-school starting, fresh grounded faith and an endless list of DVRed material that needed tending to, I am pooped.
Did I mention that pre-school starts today?
For my almost-four-year-old?
It’s almost more than I can comprehend.
Man, I know it sounds so cliche’ but seriously, where does the time go? Wow. You’d think by now I’d be ready to enjoy some free time, but I’ve learned this week that I’m not as ready as I thought I’d be.
I’ve also learned that when you’re having dinner with the girls at Logans before the fresh grounded faith conference and the group leader gives you a wristband required for admittance, you should probably make for sure that the wristband is on your wrist or at the very least in your purse, or else you might end up leaving it on the table at the restaurant.
Oh, and just in case you are planning a trip to Krispy Kreme doughnuts anytime soon, you should know it is cheaper to purchase a dozen than it is to purchase half-a-dozen. Unfortunately buying more = eating more. Just sayin.
And lastly, when your hubby has a heap, ahem, I mean JEEP that happens to be his hobby, you should be aware that JEEP is actually an acronym for ‘Just empty every pocket”.
And speaking of McDaddy…
He introduced me to a great web-site. It’s great if you’re in search of some great entertainment. It’s called People of Walmart (dot com).
Sweet mercy, I laughed hysterically. There are pages and pages of crazy people. It’s a wonder I got today’s blog post written. Me and the crazy? We are great friends.
Oh, and one more thing.
I’ve learned that after a six-month deployment, 2-3 night away business trips are not that big of a deal.
That’s it.
Head over to Musings Of A Housewife for more What I Learned This Week posts.
Oh Deer, What Do We Have Here?
I fully intended to wow you with my photographic skills for this week’s You Capture Challenge.
Because this week’s challenge is to “Photograph something (or multiple things) that you have never photographed before…the world is your oyster.”
And since the world is my oyster, I thought I would take some really artsy, fartsy shots that looked really cool.
You know, like the Snickers Ice Cream bar, the produce growing in the garden beside my house, the transmission of McDaddy’s Heap, ahem! I mean JEEP, not because the transmission in the JEEP is cool but because McDaddy is a faithful reader and because it would make him all kinds of happy if I photographed the transmission of any vehicle we own for display on my blog, and maybe even the stained glass windows in our lovely little church.
Unfortunately, my ‘want to’ didn’t meet up with my ‘how to’ so the really cool stuff didn’t come out as artsy, fartsy as I would have liked.
My photos were shot over Labor Day. The McFamily was camping with 11 other families from our church.
Here’s what I captured….

In case you have no idea what this is, it is a bowl of peppers that helped to make these….

Which happens to be about 412 shish kebabs. There were shish kebabs for days! It is worth mentioning that I have never taken a picture of peppers or shish kebabs before now. Typically, they don’t last around my people long enough to be photographed.
Luckily, our group devoured most of the shish kebabs before this gal came nosing around….

As you might imagine, Bambi was not interested in this bacon wrapped back-strap.

And lucky for Bambi, our friends were camping this past weekend…
And not hunting.
Visit I Should Be Folding Laundry for more You Capture posts.
Next Week’s Challenge - Macro. Get up close to the object.
I Couldn’t Be Happier!
Well, its back to the grind here at From Inmates To Playdates and the break is over.
It wasn’t me who enjoyed a nice, long week free of the telephone, the television, the internet.
Seriously, it wasn’t me because that wouldn’t be possible. Would it?
Going an entire week without various technological gadgets would be unheard of. So, nah, there’s no way that could have been me.
Unless of course you count the wonder of the iPhone which I don’t because I am not likely to search the internet and get lost in layers of blogs on the iPhone. Facebook, maybe. My e-mail maybe. But not layers of blogs.
And I know most of y’all know what I mean by layers of blogs.
While I did peek in the window a few times here at From Inmates To Playdates and even let myself in the backdoor once to approve a comment, I even took a much needed bloggy break except for the few times I picked up a pen and paper to compose a couple of Thursday Thirteen posts while picking at McDaddy’s brain and then Stevie’s brain respectively. I also wrote one What I Learned This Week post and one Works For Me Wednesday post. So, a big fat thank you to my BFF Becky for minding the store while I was gone. I left her with ten drafts to use as she saw fit. She made sure one got released to the blogosphere each day.
I think she deserves a nice round of applause.
All together now.
CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP. THANK YOU, BECKY.
We had a fabulous time and had wonderful weather. Our boys put thousands of miles on their bikes and I was perfectly content to sit and stare at McDaddy all. live. long. day.
Did I mention I was glad he was home?
I also got reacquainted with the stove this past week.
I’ll give you a second to process that.
I made pancakes 5 out of 7 mornings and also made spaghetti, manwich, hotdogs, and roasted lamb.
Ok, so I’m totally kidding about the roasted lamb, I really just wanted to see how many of you were still with me. If you’re still reading, I thank you because I know I happen to be rambling.
It wasn’t me who took 76 pictures in 7 days, but I will be happy to share some of them with you over the next few days and weeks. Here’s one of my favorites. It was one of our great adventures from this past week. The boys loved climbing over the rocks and called it “the best trip ever!”
Oh, and I totally didn’t stand behind my fellas and yell, McDaddy, hold onto him!!!

We are thrilled to have McDaddy back at home where he belongs.
Oh, and I even saw one of these during our trip. But, you should know that it was not me who foamed at the mouth when it pulled up.

Sweet mercy, I love that little car.
My life is complete again.
My sweet hubby is back.
Tonight, we shared one of these,

Yes indeed, things are back to normal around here.
And, I couldn’t be happier.
See.

And, it obviously wasn’t me who thought about sucking her tummy in before this picture was snapped.
Sheesh.
That’s all.
Carry on.
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Thursday Thirteen – The Letter M
I had hoped I would be composing this week’s Thursday Thirteen from an international location. Instead, I am home in my big, blue, bloggy chair. For reasons unknown, I was not able to make the trip to see McDaddy, but I am happy to report it has been rescheduled for two weeks from now.
Nevertheless, we are half-way through the alphabet this week.
That makes me happy because that means we are also half-way through this stinkin’ deployment.
This week’s letter is “M”
Here we go!
1. Marquis – The shape of my engagement ring – which I happen to love!!!

2. McDaddy – My sweet hubby who I miss so badly. I am praying that we can be together in nine short days.

3. MySpace – I started blogging on mySpace in June, 2007. “A Piece Of My Mind” was home to my first 264 posts and a very small community of readers that seemed to enjoy my daily dose of crazy over there. After a few weeks, I started sending my blog out via hotmail to a hand-full of family members who asked me to share them. From there, my “readership” grew and so did my love for writing. In November, 2008 I unveiled From Inmates To Playdates and I love my new digs. (I have no idea why I would have taken a picture of my laptop with my MySpace page pulled up, but here it is! I might mention that the picture was taken just weeks before LASIK surgery.)

4. Motorcycle – McDaddy has had a motorcycle ever since I knew him.

For all of you motorcycle fans, that is a Suzuki Intruder. Apparently our boys will love motorcycles too.

For all of you motorcycle fans, that is Alex on his Step 2 motorcycle.
5. Michael Phelps – If you’ve spent any time around the hallowed halls of Inmates, you know that I often refer to Michael Phelps as my boyfriend.
The man. The machine. Phelps.

6. Mathematics – Not my strong suit. It’s a wonder I can even spell it. Don’t ask me to do anything with numbers because it is a pretty safe bet I’ll get it wrong.
7. Magazine- Back in 1988 I was reading a Teen Magazine and noticed an advertisement for pen-pals. For one dollar, the magazine would pair you up with another reader from another state. I chose the West Coast and she chose the East coast. For that dollar, I was paired up with a gal from Winslow, Arizona, Billy Gene. We wrote to each other faithfully for ten years. When I was planning my wedding, I wrote to her to ask if she would be a bridesmaid. She and her mother flew to West Virginia for our wedding. McDaddy and I visited her home during one of our trips to Phoenix and met her entire extended family. Twenty-one years later, we are still good friends. It was the best dollar I ever spent.

8. Maryland – You may recall I spent several hours on Saturday in the emergency room of this hospital, Frederick Memorial Health Systems.

9. MRS. – I got my MRS degree on May 23, 1998. It was one of the best days of my life.
10. Massage – One of my favorite things in the world. If I were to ever hit the lottery, I would have a massage every. single. day. of. my. life.
11. Major- My sweet McDaddy was promoted to the rank of Major last year. I am so glad our last name is not Payne.
12. Milk - We drink 1% in our house. I dunk cookies, poptarts and doughnuts in milk.
13. Movie – My favorite movie of all-time is Dirty Dancing. I could watch it time and time again. I especially love the last dance scene.











