One magical spontanious moment in time

Have you ever had just one magical spontanious moment in your life that was just great. Well as many of you know my family gave me a ticket to see Bon Jovi for mothers day. Well yesterday was the big day. There were so many magical moments. My "sistar" E, friend M and partner in crime "B" all hop in to the COUGER MOBILE (that is what E called it) and head out for the 3 hour drive to the concert. The first one wonderful moment was that my sister "B" had gotten a free ticket to attend. So we had to pick the ticket up when we got the concert city. She went to the hotel where the ticket was waiting to get it and there were (sit down for this) 2 FREE TICKETS WITH BACK STAGE PASSES. Unreal. We were so excited we squealed. We all took our pictures with the passes around our neck. We get to the concert field, after walking about 30 minutes up hill in 30 degree heat. We go in find and find our other friend C and her friends. Chat and at that point B and myself decided to go and check out what is happening behind the sceen. We walk around, not much to see or happening so we go back out into the croud and watch STATE OF SHOCK. By, are those guys good. We sing, hop and dance. We see a few people we know and show them our passes. When the band finishes we decide to go back inside to see what is going on. There is Randy Backman walking across the field. We don't want to be freakes and go ask for autographs so we just keep strolling. We then go watch Randy Backman and Burtin Cummings perform. B says this reminds her of our old border Aiden so I call my brother on the other side of the country and screem into the message machine that I am 20 feet away from his teen idols. They finish so we go for another walk around. We sit on some stairs and just wait for Bon Jovi to arrive. Everyone is waving to us and saying HI like we are somebody. I try to call E to see if she wanted to come in for a bit to look around at basically trucks and road people. No answer. I guess with the crouds outside it is hard to hear a phone. We get up to go back up to the front of the stage to watch the concert (we are between the 50,000 people and stage). As we walk up pulls 2 Suburban trucks with Bon Jovi. They drive up besides the stage. We run to the front just as Richie walks out (S I took a picture for you) (My sister S wanted me to tell Richie that she forgives him for leaving Heather Lockler HAHA) Then Jon runs out. So wonderful. I said there would be 50,000 people, me and Jon Bon Jovi and I wasn't far from it. B and myself stood beside the stage the whole time and danced and sang. I even think Jon laughed at B at one point because she does this little waving motion sometimes when she dances and she just happened to be doing it when he looked over at her. He stated to chuckle. Then he sang MAKE A MEMORY. Breath taking. When the concert ends I say to "B" lets go back and see if we can see them. She follows me like I am going to jail. We walk around the stage and there is no one there. We see the guys legs under a transport truck, as they are getting into their SUV's. I say "come on B we are getting closer" . There are 2 police on motor cycles who are escorting the band away. They don't seem to really care that me and B are stood there. As Bon Jovi pulls away we are the only 2 people stood there waving. I said thank you for making my life complete. Sounds kind of corny but that is exactly how I felt at that very moment.

The band is gone. There are 50,000 people leaving the concert field, we were like a herd of cattle. It took us an hour, shoulder to shoulder with unknown people. At the end of the walk there was a old covered bridge. My partner in crime "B" and myself were walking through with approx 200 people (that is about full capacity) when some guy, at the top of his lungs, started singing (Bon Jovi toon) SHOT THROUGH THE HEART AND YOUR TO BLAME and everyone else sang YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME. It was just a random moment. Everyone laughed. "B" said "that was so cool". And it was. It just put the topper to a wonderful day.

We meet E and M at a gas station and head back home. We got home 3am. I feel like I have been hit over the head by a dump truck. Guess I am getting to old for these late nights. But you know what, I WOULD DO IT ALL AGAIN.

Asparagus and my veggie garden

Asparagus - a delicious veggie - especially on the BBQ. I had never bought it before as I didn't know what to do with it but this spring I bought some. My sister "S" came over for a bbq and she showed me how she has been cooking it. YUMMY. All spring I have been buying it. Well, my nephews fiance came for supper 2 weeks ago and we had asparagus. She didn't eat it, she said it makes your pee smell. We all looked at her like she was a little nuts (Sorry "A"). This past weekend I went for a hair cut and my hair dresser and myself were talking about my new garden (another story) and how I had just showered as I had been out shovelling horse manure for 2 hours. She asked me if I would be growing asparagus. I said I didn't know. She said "it makes your pee smell". Last night my sister "B" (partner in crime) came to her favorite coffee shop (my kitchen) and said "A" was right, asparagus makes your pee smell. Now I have been eating it fresh from the fridge and I can honestly say I have not smelled funny pee. I am a little distrubed by this whole topic because I am wondering how they find this stuff out. How do these people know this, are they on their hands and knees sniffing the toilot.

Speaking of shoveling manure, we had our soil delivered FINALLY. Only took 2 weeks. Of course they deliver it just days before the weather network announces that we are getting a week of rain. So my husband and myself work like dogs trying to get the soil spread and our garden in. We get up and go to the barn the other morning and get a load of horse manure (thanks Pam) and come home and spread it, till it and rake it. I only have tomatos at this point to plant. Well the rain started at 7 Saturday evening and still hasn't stopped. Of course it has been a dry spring so our property is basically dry - well at least the area where our veggie garden is going. WELL, wouldn't you know it, there are 2 run of drains from our septic field that run out right inside the veggie garden wall. My garden is nothing but a big mud swamp. Tuesday morning before going to work I am out there in my white house coat, with my flip flops, slipping and sliding down the hill, with a pitch fork. I am bound and determined to move some of the rock wall to make a drain for the water. I HAVE TO SAVE MY VEGGIE GARDEN. My husband is looking at me like I am nuts (whats new ha). It worked, some of the water started running of. So I go to work. When I come home I decided to go out (in rubber boots this time) and make a big trench right through the middle of the garden to help drain some of the water. Well, when I stepped into the garden I went up to my knees in mud. My husband came down over the hill with a shovel and rake and we started. We had to remove the rock wall we had built, rebuild some walls. At one point I asked my husband if he just wanted to mud wrestle as the "garden" had that sort of consistancy. We shoveled the mud into the "good" section of the garden. We had mud on our faces, all over our clothes all over the yard, you get the idea. Lets just cross our fingers that this works. My garden went down to about 1/2 its size. I have bought all sorts of seeds but as of today the ground is still to wet to plant anything. But the bonus to this is that because of all the bud I have great skin this week HAHA

The phone

I have come up with a new phone message - to the tune of JACK WAS EVERY INCH A SAILER

We're not here right now
We're out shoveling dirt
Mowing, weeding, planting veggies
Man my back sure hurts.

(chorse really fast)

OH shovelling dirt shovelling dirt
We're out shovelling dirt
From May to September
We're out shovelling dirt

The funny thing is that when I had my winter message on the phone the car dealership called for servicing. They left a message and the lady was laughting. The next thing I know someone tells me that his friends mom has the same massage as me and sure enough it was the woman from the dealership - she had stole my message. WELL didn't the car dealership call yesterday for servicing and the lady left a message - first laughing then the message. I don't think it was the same woman but I am not sure.

I use to work the front desk at our office. I would answer the phones and everyone would say I was singing the greeting. I would be the face greeting clients when they came in. One day, I decided since it was spring, to wear my sandles. I looked down and my toe nails were not painted so I went to the drug store and bought some nail polish, came back to work and put a coat on my toes. Sure enough wouldn't that be the time someone came in to pick up something. And the guy was new to the office so we didn't know each other. (most people who know me understand that I am a little strange) So here I am painting my toes and look up and here is the big guy stood there looking at me. I just laughed and explained, really fast why I was painting my toes at my desk. Of course the next time he came in I thought he worked for a whole different company than he worked for and told him I didn't have any paperwork for him. He just gave me that "you dumb woman" look. Then I realized who he was and put my head down and passed him the papers. I don't think he ever came back.

Garden

Well our soil finally showed up last night - 3 beautiful loads. Now we have to move it to our area of the garden where we have preped for the veggie garden. Just went out and bought tomatos. I know I have to many but they were so cheap I couldn't resist. Last time I planted 10 plants I had at least 1000 tomatos. I ended up making salsa. I know that is what will happen again. Of course last year I only planted 4 plants and only got 2 tomatos. That was sad really. Trying to split those tiny tomatos up 4 ways for each of us to share a taste HA. Wrong family. I must have been day dreaming there for a second. Those 2 tomatos tasted mighty fine (don't tell the kids that - I didn't share) The year that we had 1000 I had every window lined with green tomatos. The bushes were so full they were falling to the ground so I ended up picking a bunch every day. I tried to do fried green tomatos - GROSS. I used them in sandwiches, soups, sauce - everything we could think of. I guess I will have to read some Martha Stewart magazine and see what she is doing with hers.

Speaking of Martha, we have been landscaping our front yard AGAIN. I made a simple statement about the lawn does not look finished and I mentioned what we should do. GUESS WHAT we did it. We put liner and mulch all across the front of the yard, whipper snippered the ditch (we put in a rock wall a few years back) and last night we put lights all across the front. Around 11 my husband woke me up to ask if I wanted to take a walk around the yard. He said it looked just like a Martha Stewart yard. Needless to say I grunted and went back to sleep - or at least pretended I was until he shut of the light and went to bed. Our hard work has paid of thought. The yard is spectacular.

To much information

I am sure I have the words DEAR ABBY written across my forhead. Maybe it is the way I listen to everything, taking in any usless information that comes my way. People just volunteer information to me especially strangers in stores.
One of my co-workers (a 48 year old male) has took it upon himself to inform me that he has planter worts. Why he felt I should know is still quite a mystery to me. Every day he comes in and sits in my office and gives me the latest update of the worts. Duct tape seems to fix planter worts, just like it fixes everything else - did you know that? I had heard a rumor. Did you know that BLAH BLAH BLAH - that is what I have been hearing - a bunch of nothing about planter worts. Well, thank God, this morning he came in to announce the the last 3 came out last night. LIKE WHO REALLY CARES. Will I miss his 4 time a day updates NO, NOT AT ALL.

Must be Raining AGAIN

It is raining outside today. I shall do my most favorite thing, the one think I just love to do on rainy days (you already know if you have been following my blog). I am going to meet my girlfriend A for lunch at Cora's. We see each other 4 or 5 times a year and pick up where we left of. We use to eat lunch every day for approx 5 years but then she "retired" and my office moved location so now it is just when ever we get a chance to meet. We will sit, drink coffee, eat yummy food and talk about everything but nothing of great importance. At the end we will hug and say see you next time and yes, we should get together but we never do. Our lives are so busy. A is a wonderful woman and spirit. Her sister died 10 years ago and left behind a 2 year old and 6 week old. "A" was just starting to enjoy the "empty nest" way of life. Bought herself a motor cycle, started travelling with her husband and girlfriends. She even got blessed with a beautiful grandson 4 years ago. Around that time, her whole life changed and she became legal guardian of her sisters children (now 6 and 8). I am sure there are days when she is pulling out her hair and would like to go back to being "empty nest" again but one day those 2 little children she took in to her house, will look at her and say THANK YOU. She has given these children the most wonderful life. I think "A" is a hero. Everyone has a HERO in them somewhere, we just have to look and see where it is sometimes and sometimes it may take years for it to appear.

I am a hero

After reading today's blog, my sister emailed me and had to say this - I feel like a hero right now

There was a guy who got fired in the states for saying that to a customer. They record the calls and his supervisor was listening and he got canned. He then did the talk show tour and I think he’s writing a book. Maybe it’s all because of you! I’m teary eyed just thinking how you inspire soooooo many to succeed