Random Friday

This is my 346th post. 346! Where in the world did I come up with enough stuff to talk about for 346 posts?! Talk about a yawner! Thank you to all of you that have stuck with me through the ups and downs of life here on the hobby farm. Mostly ups thankfully, I am truly blessed. I still miss Buddy though. Don't know when I will totally get over that, maybe never, but again I am blessed to have had him for so many years. :o)

Thank you to all of you that validated my feelings about the Vic*toria's Se*cret pictures blasting us in the face at the mall. I'm glad I am not the only one that finds it distasteful to have boobage plastered all over the place for all to see. This VS is right by one of the sitting areas in this mall, how embarrassing to sit there beside some little old man who needs a drool bib from staring at the pictures? Oh I could go on and on. But I won't. You're welcome.

Took Mom to the Doctor yesterday for a follow up appointment for her knee surgery. She is doing well, the incision looks great and is healing properly. She got her flu shot and I thought I was going to get out of it, having just had pneumonia you know, but nope they gave me one too. It itches today but doesn't seem to be very sore. Rubbing your arm at the injection site really makes a difference. Have you all had your flu shot?

For some reason my link to Jo-Lynne's holiday gift guide is not working so if you want to get to it just go to her home page at Musings of a Housewife and you can get to it that way. There are some unique things, I ordered some things yesterday for stocking stuffers. Also she is giving away FOURTEEN things! She has the most give aways of anyone I know! We all do love our give aways don't we?!

Marcy over at Marcy and Scott's tagged me for a meme. I haven't done one for a while so I'll give this one a whirl. I'm supposed to put down seven things about myself that you don't know. After 346 posts there probably isn't much you don't know but I will try!

1. I love Dis*ney World! We have been going there since my son was 18 months old and he is now almost 33. My parents live fairly close to DW so we always had a place to stay and a car to use during the lean years!

2. Tinkerbell is my favorite Dis*ney character. She is so sweet and I love it when she sprinkles pixie dust around. I could use some pixie dust today.

3. Fall is my favorite season. The colors of the leaves, the cool crisp air, no black flies, what's any better then that?

4. This is probably TMI but I have alopecia areata. I have four bald spots on my head, two quite large and the other two about the size of a quarter. I have thick hair so I can cover it up quite well but it isn't fun. I am having injections in those spots to hopefully make the hair grow back and it seems to be helping. This came on when Buddy got sick.

5. I love funky socks. I like them for the different holidays (thank you Pea for the Halloween ones!) plus ones with dogs, cats, horses, you name it. I hit the jackpot yesterday at Dress Barn as they had a whole new supply just in!

6. Hubby and I worked in Awana at our church for over twenty years. It is the youth program. We worked in several different capacities over the years and loved every minute of it.

7. I don't particularly like to drive. I do drive and go anywhere I want to go but if there is someone else that wants to do the driving I am more then happy to have them do it. I get very sleepy driving on the interstate so that kind of scares me a bit.

There, now aren't those just the most exciting facts you've ever read?! lol! Now let's see who can I nab for this one...........how about:

Pea

Needled Mom

Hippochick

Renie

Callie

Mrs. Mom

If you've already done this one just disregard or if you just don't like doing meme's totally disregard! :o)

We got our final tally on our Paws On Parade fundraiser and can you believe this, after everything came in we raised $42,000.00! YIPPEE! That will help take care of lots of little homeless animals!!!!

Are you all ready for Thanksgiving? Has your list been made for the grocery store? Do you cook ahead and freeze things or do you fly by the seat of your pants the morning of? We are going to have about 20 this year and everyone brings things and helps with the set up and clean up. DIL's Mom, Dad, Sister and cousin K are going to be with us this year so we are excited about that. T and D always love having K here to play with. Wish the ponies were still here so that they could have a ride but they are at the stable. We'll probably make a bonfire in the fire pit in the afternoon. The kids love that and I will have some marshmallows to burn to a crisp! They burn their marshmallows and then want ME to eat them! :o(

Patti over at Nonna's News is having a wonderful give away! She is giving away three different Christmas cd's so we all have three chances to win! She will be drawing the winners on Dec. 1st so get your hat thrown in the ring soon!!!

Guess that's it for Random Friday. Hope this finds you all well and happy. During this season we are all more aware of things that we are thankful for and one of the things that I am thankful for is all of the wonderful friends that I have met during this time of 346 posts! Even though most of us will never meet in person we have made friendships that will last forever. I am once again reminded of all the kindness you showed me when we lost Buddy. Your kind words were a big help to me during that time of sadness. We also laugh together which is great fun. We compare our shortcomings and hopes for the future. Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!!