Happy New Year 2013

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"Happy New Year 2013"

We went to Brian's for a few hours on Monday night to help ring in the new year.  It was a good time, with good food and good people.  Unfortunately John had to be to work at 4:30am the next day so we didn't stay very late.

Jingle Bell 2 miler

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"Jingle Bell 2 miler"
(taken at Satellite Beach Library)

Friends are priceless

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"Jingle Bell 2 miler"
(taken at Jingle Bell Run)

My Pinterest Addiction

Have you all started using Pinterest yet?  Pinterest has apparently  been around for ages (OK 2 years), but I only heard of it a few months ago (OK Maybe 6). 

If you have no idea what I’m talking about it’s a website where you create pin boards.  You know, like cork boards of the olden days.  YOU know that you used to cut comics out of the paper and put them up in your office.  It’s like that, but the WEB is your source.  There is SO MUCH stuff out there.

If you are on Pinterest, you already know what’s up.  If you’re not, you are missing out.  Hit me up and I’ll send you an invite.

Char

Weekend Warrior

My weekend started off great, we went out with friends whom we set up on a blind date.  Cutie Pie (CP) is a long time friend of mine and Mr. Nice Guy (MNG) is a long time friend of John’s.  CP and I started off at her house with a bottle of wine.  Which turned into two, only because I brought a Riesling and she didn’t like it and so she opened a bottle of pinot grigio.  We had a couple glasses while she got ready, and she loaned me a smaller purse and some earrings, since I hadn’t come prepared, as per usual.  We eventually made our way downtown and stopped in at Off the Traxx which is an ok bar with ok bar food.  I crave the fried green beans though and the crabcakes were unique in that they were made with mozzarella cheese.  They were awesome.

We had a pretty spectacular night, and CP and MNG hit it off and seem to like each other.  I’m so happy for them!

Saturday J and I got up and went to get breakfast at Bob Evans, and then we picked up the car from Friday night, and we came home and started picking up the house.  We got a few things done and then watched some TV and went to dinner at our favorite restaurant – Squid Lips.  The food was great as always, and the drinks sucked.  It’s really too bad.  We won’t order drinks from there again.  The beer isn’t cold enough and the cocktails are crazy expensive and tiny.  We stopped at Pubix to get some more marshmallows to dehydrate for our upcoming camping trip, and stuff for Sunday breakfast.

Sunday morning we cooked bacon, eggs and toast.  We tried the eggland’s best cage free eggs, and we definitely noticed a difference in the flavor and consistency of the egg, especially the yolk.  We watched Harry Potter and went on to lunch and run some more errands.  It was a great weekend with just the right mix of hanging with friends and getting to spend one on one time with my honey.

Char

Good Friends

I love these two :)

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"My good friends :-)"
(taken at Meg O'Malley's Restaurant‎)

Pretty eyes

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"Pretty eyes"

Spooks

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"Spooks the cat in his home habitat!"

Where I'm From

Where I’m From

November 8, 2012

I am from clothes hanging on the line outside, from Hellman’s mayo and great grandma’s sweet pickles.

I am from the hot, un-airconditioned SOUTH, playing in the sprinklers, getting a suntan on the boat or the back deck or the hand-dug pond in the back yard that is warmed with water that flows through a pipe that goes through a fire pit.

I am from the Aralias, Gerbera Daisies and the marijuana, the crinkly leaves, the stunning gem colors, and the curious cages.

I am from Ginnie Springs camping at Thanksgiving and Standing Rib Roast at Christmas.  I am from Great Grandma Wood and Great Grammie Glidden and across the Northeast US and across the pond.

I am from the alcoholism and deep stubbornness .

From “Don’t make that face or it’ll get frozen that way” and “Because I said so”.

I am from going to churches with friends and relatives and on special occasions. I am from Montessori School to Sunday School.

I'm from Florida, Germany and Scotland, Great grandpa’s refrigerator Velcro soup, Entenman’s doughnuts and fresh fish and lobster on demand.

From the time on the Peace River when it was “TOO DEEP”, the times the fire department was called to the house because of shenanigans that were too obvious to ignore, to cozy, fun, loving sleepovers at JoJo and Aunt Sandy’s houses.

I am from Great Grandma’s book of our genealogy, The Wood family wall in JoJo’s house, and the love that was never lacking.

A friend and a dog

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"My beautiful friend Chrissy hanging with Diesel and us by the pool this past Summer"

Happy Anniversary Spa Day

This year for my anniversary I went to Essentials and had a massage and a much needed facial!  My friend J went with me and she had a facial and we ate lunch together.  It was a wonderful, relaxing experience.  I did notice that it is much more wonderful and relaxing when you aren't the one paying the bill though.  I do miss those days when my boss would take us for a spa day after a particularly good quarter.  Must be something about having a female boss.  The guys I work with know barely know what a spa is, much less would they spring for a spa day.

I went and visited my mom and dad after and then went home and started to read, but ended up sleeping the rest of the day away.  I can't say I'm too happy about sleeping so much, but I guess I needed it.

Sorry for the phone in post today, but this is all I have.

Char

No, not the SPIDER!

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"Ahhhhhhh!!!!"

They look so darn happy!

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"Celebrating with mom and

her BFF for BFF's bday"

We went to Squid Lips.  The food was exceptionally good.  The pineapple martini... meh.

Goth Daisy and more Black and Whites ~ For What's Next Girls

Soooo... "The Aunt' over at What's Next Girls was talking about Black and White pictures today, and I am also a huge fan.  I just took this one last night....

I thought Goth Daisy was a pretty good title for it, what do you think?

I got a new app for my iPhone recently called Instagram.  It's pretty cool and I can take a picture, add a filter to it and post it to FB, Twitter and Instagram lickety split... unfortunately I can't post them to my blog as easily... so if you'd like to see them, please follow me on Instagram I'm @ChaRoo on there - I'm also going to start sending them to Flickr - I just set up a Flickr account under Cha_Roo, some rat-nose already stole my handle, can you believe it?? I'm totally loving this iPhone.

Anywho, I went through the archives because "The Aunt" was talkin about B&W pics to see what else I could find, and here they are, hope you enjoy!  Thanks for the idea "The Aunt" - Hahaha I guess I need to figure out your name eh?  :) :) :)  BTW, the funny thing, is that I only know her as "The Aunt" because that's what "Jennifer" her niece calls her over at Wild and Precious whom I also enjoy reading.  Check them out if you get a chance.  They're good people :)

Without further ado... more black and whites...

Hope you enjoyed them!  Char

Hairy Situation

My friend J did a fishtail braid for me today.  Love it!

C

Hello and Thank YOU!

I just wanted to say hello to anyone who's wandering over here from Ramblings of a GreenYogurt!  Green was very kind to answer my questions and she mentioned my blog in her post, which was very kind.

So Hi to y'all, hope you make yourselves at home!



"Waving Madly" image borrowed from artpunk's photostream on Flickr


I'm in the process of transferring over a bunch of my old blog archives from two other blogs.  If you want to get notified whenever something new shows up over here, you can sign up to "follow me" over on the right side of the screen there --------->

THANK YOU to Green for being so sweet and kind and FUNNY!  If you didn't get here from there, you should go over there and read her blog too and follow her, because she's adorable, sweet, funny and good people!

Char

PS - Thanks to you Green, I found that for the first time I had a reason to make a label called "Friends" ... thank you!