Month: August 2008

1. What is your favorite carnival ride?
Wow, I’m not for sure. I would probably have to say the Spider which is sometimes called the octopus.

2. What is the biggest prize you ever won at a carnival or fair?
A big stuffed panda bear for throwing darts at balloons and busting them.

3. What is the most you ever spent at a single carnival game?
Not sure. I don’t think I have ever spent over $5 though.

4. Take the quiz: What carnival ride are you?

5. If you went to a typical carnival and realized you weren’t in the mood to ride the rides, what would you be more likely to want to do to amuse yourself?
Well, more then likely I would have went with some family or friends so I would probably goof off with them and eat a funnel cake and some cotton candy until I am about ready to pass out from sugar shock.

6. What job would you least like to have at a carnival or fair?
The person who cleans up the puke.

Ingredients:
16 Chips Ahoy Chocolate Chip Cookies, divided
2 squares Semi-Sweet Baking Chocolate, chopped
2 tsp. Flake Coconut
16 Miniature Marshmallows

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Place 8 of the cookies, flat sides up, on foil-covered baking sheet. Top evenly with chocolate, coconut and marshmallows.

2. Bake 4 min. Cover each with second cookie, flat side down, to make sandwich. Continue baking 2 to 4 min. or until cookies are warmed and chocolate and marshmallows are melted.

3. Serve warm. Or, cover and refrigerate 5 to 10 min. or until filling is set.

The whole searching for another house is making me want to scream! Add that onto a whole crap load of other situations that I am being put in right now makes for one hell of a stressful situation. My nerves are shot, my stomach is upset, my head is pounding and I fell like pulling my hair out!

Who is the greatest movie action hero?
Hands down, not a doubt in my mind that the greatest movie action hero would be Bruce Campbell’s character Ashely “Ash” J. Williams from The Evil Dead Trilogy. And I think the thing that makes him so great is that he is just your ordinary guy who gets thrown into an extraordinary situtation and acts like a hero as best as he can.

Hypotheticals: If you became president of the U.S. what is the first measure you would enact while in office?
Make cheating on your spouse illegal.

Anything Goes: Who should be this year’s person of the year?
Every hardworking, loyal, faithful and loving mother, father, wife and husband.

No-Brainers: What are your two favorite sports teams?
Cleveland Indians and New York Yankees.

Personals: What part of the world do you yearn to travel?
Japan, Ireland, Scotland, Hawaii, New Zealand, England, Australia.

1. Which do you think reveals more about a person, the contents of their refrigerator or the contents of their purse?
I think they both reveal a great lot about a person.

2. When you visit someone’s home, what are you most interested in looking at?
How the have their home decorated, painted and things of that nature.

3. If you could make it so that one person on earth was physically incapable of telling lies or keeping secrets, celebrities & politicians included, who would you choose?
My husband Mike.

4. Have you ever spilled the beans on someone else’s secret? If so, what was it?
If I have I do not remember but I don’t think I have. I am pretty good at keeping secrets.

5. Have you ever kept a diary? If so, was it top secret? What did you write about?

When I was younger I did.

Before Mike and I’s wedding on December 8, 2001 there was a few set backs for the us. Ones that put a dapper on the whole wedding planning process. The mess that started with the wedding invitations was the thing that made Mike and I just want to scrap the whole wedding idea and elope. See, we had some bad luck with the company we originally ordered our wedding invitations from. I guess it would just be easier to tell y’all the whole story then to just try to summerize it . . . so here it goes . . .

After much deliberation on to go with either Mix and Match wedding invitations or Cinderella theme wedding invites we decide to stick with our theme. So after even more searching for Cinderella invites at a price that would fit into our wedding budget Mike and I decided to go ahead and order our wedding invites from a company called Disney Events (not in anyway affiliated with the Disney Company).

In the beginning of July 2001, I sent a check for the total amount of the invitations to the company. I was then contacted on July 9, 2001 by a representative of the company and was told that they have received my check and that I would be receiving our invitations in about 10 days. We processed to talk about my wedding and the representative went over the invitation details to make sure everything was how it was suppose to be. After my pleasant conversation with the women on the phone I was quite pleased and was looking forward to receiving our invites.

On July 12, 2001 my check was cashed.

After a couple of weeks went by and I had yet to received my order so I tried to contact the company with no luck. They would not reply to the many emails I sent them and their phone number had been disconnected. So needless to say I was starting to panic. Here we had paid the allotted amount for invitations from our budget and it looked as if we were going to have to somehow come up with an extra $300 to $500 to reorder invites.

Not knowing what else to do Mike and I went to the bank and got the canceled check and after inspecting it we found out that the check had been altered. See I made the check out to the name of the company but someone had wrote beside that “or Lisa Wright”. You could clearly see that it did not match the handwriting or even the same ink color as what was originally written on the check. We brought this to the attention of the bank teller and told her what was going on. She then proceeded to call the bank that the check was cashed at. After a few hours we where able to get our money back since the bank failed to take proper precautions.