The First Day of School

I was sad today for a few reasons.  One of them being that Jake was at his mom's and Sarah is off at college - they started school on August 23rd.

Here was the First Day of School 2009

But today I got Boo Boo to play just like last year - so I am not TOO sad -

even with the rain.

Fabulous Friday

LOOK WHO IS FABULOUS TODAY!

My dear Boo Boo La La - found also on twitter @iambooboolala - took her very first horse ride for Miss M's birthday two Sunday's ago...she told me she was scared on Saturday evening, but the second she saw the horses in the pasture on the way up the driveway she excitedly squeeled:

"Do I get to ride the horsies right away!"

I was so proud of her...we even got video.

Now go visit my house twin.

I love a good deal!

Who doesn't?  (that is what you said when you read the title of my blog today, isn't it?)

There are lots of places out there today where you can get a "deal" and yesterday via email I found out about a website where you can not only get a "deal" - you can also get a STEAL! 

Plum District

(Disclosure: Yes, from the company Plum District - they asked me to be an affiliate! I am going to because of the QUALITY I have seen in their offers!)


They are currently launching in some new metropolitan areas - so go ahead and click the link to see if your city is there because !!!!  They have some super terrific STEALS! 

In Minneapolis/St. Paul they have had TARGET!!(even if I am not shopping there just now...), Caribou Coffee, Lund's & Byerly's, and today BRUEGGER'S BAGELS!!!  (compare that to some of the other online coupon sites!!)

And if you don't find one you like - well come back here next week when I officially launch as an affiliate and see what's up then!

The deals and steals at Plum District seem to me to be PLUM to say the very least.  ;)

The Answer Is NOT In This Blog - or Sonnet!

Last night I went to see Eat.Pray.Love. 
Javier Bardem?  Ah - YUM.

It was lovely to go with girlfriends for a night out at the movies.  We moved half the party over to a restaurant in the strip mall we were at - Our Tea House - and it was delicious to share company and chatter.

Good company - people I find easy and cozy to be around in Becks, her sweet SIL Em, and Mrs. Beth.  We shared a good mixture of dishes and my hope is they enjoyed being with me just as much. 

Sometimes I worry I chatter too much!  :P

After that lovely evening I called home and T-bone told me the good news.  Our air-conditioner had died. 

could something not break?  really? 

  So today is the last day of August - I have not faithfully posted all the poems, but its my blog and I'll post a few here and there when I get the chance. 

Let's get angstful!

I walk through the flood
of the quiet and unknown
waiting for someone
I can truly call my own.
I never knew it could be
so difficult to search
I always thought that love
was as visible as my sea
of empty lonliness.

Which of course that last line was re-written from "lonely emptyness" to "empty lonliness" for the pure - I DIE - factor.

Sigh.

I hope you got something out of ANY of these poems. 

And now I hope you enter my GIVE GIVE GIVE...its the least I could do for making you suffer through this month!  :)

Give Give Give - and three little sonnets

Hey - see that in the sidebar?  At the top over there?  GIVE GIVE GIVE?  On Friday it was my third blogaversary and I am giving away a bunch of stuff.  Don't forget to comment, tweet and/or blog about it for an entry!!! 

Now for the words from my very young self. 

These two are on one page - dated again August 1987 - funny thing is that between the two sonnets I wrote, "Am I a poet or just a frustrated scribbler?"

I vote scribbler.

Are all the flowers gone

now that I am?

Are the autumn colors

faded?

Has the crisp air of December

turned to bitterness?

Or is the spring just

now blooming?

Darkness

floods the countryside.

A fire burns

but I cannot

reach the warmth

my companions supply.

This third one is on the facing page- however it has no date and the poems on the NEXT page were written in 1990...so I am not sure when I put this little sonnet down on paper.

Reaching

over the wall

Feeling

all of your warmth

Loving

is it you or me?

Where can it end

the wall, the warmth,

or with me...

I am guessing it was not too long after the other poems, but the ink is different so I cannot be certain.

Again these are all poems written before I was 25 so they are quite honestly a bunch of crap. 

And I am okay with that... ;P

Silly Sonnetts Deux

I have kind of fallen behind in posting these - hmmm, here are two from when I was about to start at the University of Minnesota.

August 1987

Do you go walking
in the night?
Do you think
What might have been?
I wonder
a lot.
Can you imagine
my love for you?
As I walk these streets
in the night.


Goodnight to you
Goodby to love
I have lost you
but
I have love you
over miles
and times unknown.

Three is magic and mystical and prime for a giveaway...

Today is the day that three years ago I decided to open this blog...because of an email from my dear friend Becks at Just Be.  She started her blog and invited good friends via email to come out and take a look...

I adore Becks for the stong and beautiful woman she is - and the fun she reminds me to have.

So now here we are three years later. 
We both still blog.
We both still have fun.

Are you here for the first time?  Might I suggest you get to know me by clicking

About Me

and

There's A Party On My Bloggy!

On those pages are links to some of my favorite blogs I have written...if you can have such a thing as a favorite blog post!

Now for the good part - the BIG GIVE!!!

PLEASE NOTE: I have not recieved any of these items for review - I have not recieved any of these items for free from anyone - I have hand-picked items that I and Boo Boo La La love to give to you who read about Us and Our Family! 

Its a Thank You that is long past due.

First up are some items where YOU actually have a choice in what you recieve!

One Envirosax bag - your choice - shipped to you - select your favorite bag from the Flora or Retro Graphics collection.  They are the sets I personally carry so when you use it you can think of me as your shopping buddy!

How about a little makeup? 

Your choice of shade of the Maybelline Mineral Powder Makeup and Mineral Veil
p.s. I won't be buying them at Wal-Mart, but CVS did not have a color chart!

Your choice of color of Maybelline Great Lash BIG!  I personally prefer Blackest Black!!

Want MORE - okay, I can't resist you when you beg...

I love pedicures and flip flops and my little sausage toes...

How about a Silpada Toe ring with a cute little heart dangle for you?

Are you Etsy obsessed like me?  Here is a beautiful pair of handmade earrings from

ColorMeKelley Creations & Three Farm Fresh Dryer Balls!

Hungry?  Thirsty?  How about some Ghiradelli Chocolates, A Starbucks Mug, & $5 Starbucks card!

Last but not least - Let's get Pretty!

What you see above is Boo Boo La La's favorite comb and brush set, hair detangler, headbands, and fun bracelets!  She loves loves loves this stuff...

And Mommy's FAVORITE hair product of ALL TIME - Loreal Everpure Overnight Treatment ROCKS the tresses ladies - even if you do not win I highly suggest spending the few dollars this treatment costs.  ;)

So how do you win? 

The rules are simple - And the winner will be selected using Random.org on September 15th!

1) Comment on how much you love this - I can take it!
2) Tweet with hastag #mommylisa and comment that you tweeted!
3) Blog about my giveaway - comment with a link to your post!
4) PLEASE be from the USA or Canada - I cannot afford to ship this GIVE GIVE GIVE beyond that.

Its simple.
Its fun.
Enjoy!

Mommy Sez

"Come Back Tomorrow for THE BIG GIVE!"

I will be posting for my THIRD Blogaversary tomorrow, August 27th a list of items I love and will be giving to one lucky reader!  Some of BooBooLaLa's favorites are also in the mix.

No company has provided me with ANYTHING, not even the items.  They are all just things I love and wish to share with you!  So get ready to enter!!  :)

Eight and One

Sprinkles at the blog wyldechylde tagged me with these eight questions.  I like to answer them, but do not like to tag others - so if you want to play please...and let me know if you did with a link to your blog.


1. Have you ever seen a ghost? If you have, what's the story behind it? No - I have never seen a ghost, but when I was younger I was sure there was one living in my room that would change my radio station or turn on my stereo.  I called him Ralph.

2. What is your most embarassing moment? Have you got a few years?

3. What was your best job and why? The best job I ever had was teaching swim lessons and being a lifeguard at Round Lake in Eden Prairie.  It was a blast.  Isn't THAT sad?  I loved my jobs in radio too and there are things I like about every job, but that one was the most fun all around. 

4. What was your worst job and why? Probably the summer I worked temp at a bakery warehouse picking muffins off a line and putting them on trays to be packaged and sold in convenience stores across the land.  I still hate the idea of lemon poppyseed muffins.  bleh.

5. If you won the lottery, what would you do with the $?  Make my mom retire, pay bills, remodel my home - or if its a superhugeamount - build a home on a lake and fund research for good things or support an inner city school. 

6. Have you met any celebrities? If you have, what's the story behind it?  Have you got some time?  I have met quite a few celebrities - Tom & Roseanne owned their Big Food Diner when I was working radio in Ottumwa, IA - I got felt up by Greg Brady when they were taking a promotional picture for the station in Indy...I got a total body hug from Peter Tork of the Monkees - many many sports figures, I drove Bill Murray once...They are not that special.  They are nice or not - dorky or cool.  They are just people and they even tell dirty jokes. 

7. What is your favorite childhood memory? My parents gave me a great childhood.  How can I choose?  I guess my favorite time was when we drove to Colorado and back...it was pretty fun.  But all our trips were cool - even the "from hell" road trip to Florida where the electrical went and we could not roll down the windows.  "What DIED up in there???" hee hee.

8. What's your biggest regret?  Hindsight is 20/20 - you can wish you didn't do something, or DID do something, but you have to move on and not think about it.  Sorry - I am not regretting. 

And now for the sonnett of the day.  :)



This I imagined in my head as a "lyric" to an unfinished song...OMG so embarrassing if you could even HEAR THIS CRAP in YOUR head.  Ugh.  Here goes...

I'm in love with you tonight
and I know the feelings right
Its in everything you do
you make me feel so right. 

How Don Johnson is that?

Moving with The Monday Minute

So I don't know where the whuck I was...Ian from The Daily Dose of Reality has apparently passed along his Monday Minute to Heather and Melissa - so let's play!

*Favorite 80's Flick
WOW!  Is this hard because I love anything that had Molly Ringwald in it - except Fresh Horses, that was stupid.  I will say Weird Science because they made that shizz into a tv show! 

*One genre of music needs to be banned, which genre?
Gangter Rap - with the exception of Snoop D - O - Double G. 



*All Time Favorite Candy
Snickers if its frozen - Twix if its not.

*How "flawed" is your driving record
There are no bench warrents out for my arrest.

*What was your High School Mascot?
HAWK!

*What color socks are you wearing?
(what kind of question is this?  Its AUGUST!) None, I have on my standard issue summer-time flipity-flops y'all!

Now you go play nice with the girls too.