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Yesterday was our anniversary 24 years! I have been married longer than I was single, Yikes Anyway people seem impressed and ask us how we do it So here you go dear internet just for you . The secret to a long marriage. Sometimes, two people ,after living together a long time, dont like each other ALL the TIME. They annoy each other. I know they love each other, dedicate their lives to one another, blah blah blah Yet Sometimes, they get an urge to slam a fork in the other ones head for breathing through his Stupid nose so loud. But ..... Wait for it here is the wisdom...... You continue to be polite. Pretend its an annoying coworker you have to put up with to keep your job. Pretend it is an annoying family member during the holidays. Pretend it is a random stranger who is in line behind you and making that awful noise I promise, the urge will pass and you will like each other again. He will do something sweet and you will forget all about that urge to scream Fo

Spring is here My town has lots of lovely colorful trees like this. When we moved into our little home we had a cherry tree in our yard too. It had beautiful birds like this living in it. Then it was struck by lightening. Now it looks like this And these live in it Yes we are slowly but surely becoming the Addams Family of our town YAY

It has been over a year since I quit my day job and went with my at home business and I have never been happier. I like to joke that I quit my job a year before I left which is not fair to my past employer. Here are 10 Signs that you should quit your day job. You visualize sticking a pencil in the eye of a coworker every time you hear her fake booming laugh You thow quarters in the mens urinal just to see them disapeer within an hour You come in a half hour late take an extra half hour during lunch and leave an hour early You secretly hope each summons to the bosses office is your dismissal You never check your voice mail You never read your email You start throwing things away rather than file them and wonder when anyone will notice (sadly no one does) You havent done your job properly in so long you have to ring tech support because you forgot your log ins You dont know a coworker was on a two week vacation until they bring in pictures. You cry on Mondays. If any

I had to go to the court house to pay our property tax I took my mother with me so I would look doubly sad trying to struggle to pay my property tax late Poor me Taking care my poor mother Poor me dont I look sad and pathetic? They were nice anyway and didnt care I paid late Then they told me about some silly exemption that I wasnt aware existed would reduce my taxes by 1k a year and gave me some magical pink paper to apply. 20 years I have been paying 1000 dollars too much 20 years! Now who is the pathetic one? Anywho, I think our courthouse is lovely All this marble for such a little town and the vaulted ceiling We took the elavator up because mom said no way could she take those stairs. She headed for the stairs to go down on way out. Me: Dont you want to take the elavator Her: Oh no going down is easy Her: Ooooof, ugh. as she stumbles down two stairs catching herself Me: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA omg that is hilarious Me: I am going to pee my pants Her: Shut up M

Easter dinner was lovely But, whenever the family gets together we have to go on and tell the stories. Course we always laugh as it is quite comical I love my family They are all so funny and the best trait amongts them is we can laugh at ourselves It's a good thing because when my brother and I get together we always start in on my mom. This year she said we always laughed at her when she tried to discipline us. Her: I dont know why you always laughed it would make me so mad. Me: Thats because all you would do is yell, Stop looking stupid. Bro: No sometimes she would yell Stop being stupid. Me: Or tell you to Get your thumb out of your ARSE. Bro: She get mad if you laughed too. Me: I guess it made us look stupid. Bro: No I think it made her look stupid is why she got mad. Her: Oh dont be stupid. LOL Either way, she was hilarious. And yes I do on occasion, still look stupid.

I love my adopted town I have said it lots of times before on this blog I love how quaint and silly the lifers are that grew up here. I have lived all over and really feel at home in a city. I would never have conversations like I do here in my smallish community Convos like this: School paper arrives home for girl years ago in show choir. Time Date and location Location was: Meet behind the old jail. WTH? So I call the school Where is this? Behind the old jail. I dont know where the new jail is have you an address It is kitty korner to the Kruse building Are you serious? Yes you know the Kruse building! I didnt know you named your buildings silence......... Dont you have a street Addy It's the NW corner off Main So it's on Main? No the Kruse building is on Main Seriously?? I need a street addy or we wont be there. Hold on........... Finally some janitor got on and gave me an addy. But Isnt that just so cute?