Fun Filled Weekend

Last weekend my hubby and I took 3 days and went up to Clearlake for a relaxing time of motorcycle riding, concerts and gambling. I don't which one I like more ha ha ha. We started out Saturday riding up to Konocti Harbor to check out the gift shop which I LOVE. While there we were comped tickets to the REO Speedwagon, Sticks and 38 Special concert later that night! What a surprise that was. Anyone in high school in the 80's remembers these guys.

So later that night we went back for the concert only to have it CANCELLED less than one minute into 38 Special (the first act) because the stage lights fell from the hoists! You never saw people clear a stage so fast in your life! The picture is kinda blurry but the lights should have been up by the blue tarp. SCAAAAARRRRY

But while we were hanging around waiting for the crazy drunks to exit the location and make the mountain roads safe for us motorcyclists, I took some pics.

This photo is of one of the tour buses that housed some of their equipment. Plus off to the left you can see two more buses kinda hidden

Here you can see four tour buses, check out all those air conditioner on top. You can see the semi trailer that was packed just with souvenirs.

Here is a close up of them. They all had Tennessee plates on them. Somehow I don't picture 80's rock bands from Tennessee lol.

Look at the beautiful lake.

Here is my hubby

Here is ME

Before we went to the concert, we went up Cobb Mountain which is a beautiful ride and stopped at our favorite watering hole. lol Come to think of it I don't even know what it is called. So we'll just call it the Cobb Watering Hole....

These are our friends Bruce and Cindy that we ride around with. They are a hoot!

Hubby posing for more pictures....

This is where we sit each morning and drink our coffee. There are two big beautiful trees and the breeze is just enough, it's like camping it's so relaxing.

OK, notice the white top I am wearing here?? Well there I was, sitting on the chair reading a magazine while my friend is loading her bike. My hubby is sitting next to me as we are already to go just waiting for my friends hubby to lock up the house. All the sudden I look up and notice my hubby looking at my friend and then looking at me. I am like, "What?" "You got something else you can wear?" he says, (Whaaat?!) "What do you mean, what's wrong with what I have on!!!!" My friend pipes up and says, "Mel, you'd wear that shirt to the store not on a bike! This is bike country" I was wearing a light weight pink T-shirt just so you know! I look at my hubby and he says, "Well, you got to look the part". lol So I get up and toss my magazine on the chair and march in the house letting the screen door slam and yelling, "Don't lock up yet I have to CHANGE." He laughs at me an asks why and I tell him that I am not showing enough boob! He cracks up. So I come out in my white spaghetti strapped shirt with the built in bra and hubby says, Hmmmm, so I turn around and march back in the house and the guy is laughing at me harder as I give him a dirty look. I whip out my black WONDER BRA put the white shirt back on and Viola! Boobs! I walked outside and went right up to hubby and put his head right THERE. "Is THAT enough boob for you!!!" lol I thought he would die of mortification and my friend about died as mis prim and proper Melody did this. They will talk about that day forever, how Melody morphed into BIKER CHICK (without the tattoos)

Can you believe the price of gas!!
More beautiful country roads.

Bruce and my hubby

Here are a few homes for sale on the water......$$$$$

Here is the right side of the road...

Here is the left. Amazing huh??
This is Lakeport, I love the store fronts, they have that old time look.

I think this is the courthouse but not sure.

This was such a nice break in our busy life that I had to share it you all of you. I hope you all had a fabulous holiday weekend and said hi to a Veteran somewhere.

Hectic Busy Life......

Okay, life is so busy and hectic right now that I jut did an entire blog on it and I deleted it by accident. That is how crazy my brain is right now. I have been away but hopefully I will be back in full force soon. My company is working on a Nuclear Energy contract that is driving us all crazy and I am working to get ready for my daughters bridal shower and then a baby shower for my son. By the time I get home from work I am to tuckered out to do anything.

I shall be back.......soon......

Most Embarrassing Moment(s)

My blogger friend Valerie at It's a Wonderful Life did an embarrassing moment blog and I decided to do it too. Only, I have two very distinct moments that just pop into my head that will be forever etched on my brain.

Moment #1.
My daughter Jackie needed to get her first training bra. I had been putting it off for quite some time because I just could not deal with it. So one day we finally went to K-mart and as we are looking for bras I am looking around and over my shoulder because I don't want anyone to see me doing this. We pick out a few and she goes to try them on. When she calls me in the dressing room I start to hyperventilate. I am actually sweating and getting faint at the site of my little baby girl in a BRA. I am trying be mature and mommy like, trying to see that they fit properly but come on, how can a training bra NOT FIT. Anyway, we get two bras and I toss them into the BIG HUGE EMPTY CART and I just can't bring my self to go to the counter plop down two bras. Sooooooo, I wander around the women's section and I pick out the first coat I see that is big enough to through in the cart and cover the entire bottom of it. Hide bras and no one knows I have them........clever, very clever. I continued to hide bras by the coat at the check out. It was one of the LONGEST days of my life..... UPDATE: Ladies, I still have that coat actually and recently put it out for the goodwill.....it's time to move on lol.

Moment #2.
I was standing in the checkout line at the supermarket and was rummaging through my purse for my brush. Just as I grab my brush and whip it out of my purse, out flies a UFO, is it a bird, plane, no its a thin Kotex maxi pad that had been caught on the teeth of the brush! It flew clear across to the next isle. Well, I was mortified as you can imagine. There is just no excuse to cover THAT one up. I did NOT want to go and retrieve it either. I did but I was secretly hoping that if I stayed where I was everyone would forget about the UFO they just saw.

What is your most embarrassing moment or moments?

Lips.....

So, I go to Target to pick up a few gifts and while I am there I thought I would check out what they carried, if any, to "plump up" my aging lips. My lips are beginning...okay, they have been for quite some time.....oh alright, years if you want to get specific, starting to thin out and with that comes lines here and there and everywhere.


As I stroll down the various isles, I can hear a lady asking a customer, "can I help you find something?" Well, I take a wide detour as I don't want to ask anyone where the stuff is. Call me vain, but it's not like asking for a brand of lip stick or foundation etc. Who wants to call attention to their defects! So I am pushing my cart REAL slow and as I round the corner out pops the sales lady, scares the crap out of me.... she must be in her mid 60's. "Can I help you find something?" Shit, I say to myself, "ahhh, my DAUGHTER is looking for a lip plumper and she says they carry it here at Target so I am trying to find it. I have NO CLUE what I am looking for." "Oh", she says, "we have this kind here (some unknown brand) and down this isle here we have, Sexy Motherpucker." I thrust my head back, what the hell did she just say, did she say Sexy Mother*ucker! I said to myself. Then I look up at the package and was shocked out of my zone. I knew y'all wouldn't believe me so I included the package here......"This one is a few dollars more at $10. " the sales lady said, and I am like, "well, I don't know which one she wants so I will just have to call her. Thanks for your help". I was so entranced by this package that I stood there with both packages in my hands and I kept gravitating towards the Sexy one. I even got out my cell phone and made the fake call to my daughter.....lol, the woman wouldn't go AWAY! Well ladies, there was really no choice, I had to get the Sexy Motherpucker lip plumper, I mean I am 46 yeas old and it says it's Crucial for Sexual Attraction!


I know, you want to know if it works? YES it does! I put it on at work and I it was SO tingly I thought my lips were popping out of their skin. I must have looked at my compact mirror a dozen times. lol It is a very thick gloss. So ladies, if you are looking for a bit of plump in your pucker, hahahaha ya only need to try this.

Angels in Waiting

The song you are listening too is Angels in Waiting from Tammy Cochran. She is one of my favorite country singers. Her life story is one of tragedy. She lost both of her older brothers to Cystic Fibrosis. This song is a tribute to them. Please read below a short bio on her from wikipedia.....

Tammy Cochran was a Country singer born and raised in a small rural town called Austinburg, Ohio, which according to Tammy was a perfect place to write a country song. There was also enough tragedy in Cochran's life to write a country song.

She was born in 1972 to Mabel and Delmar Cochran and was the third of three children. Tammy's two older brothers, Shawn and Alan were both born with the disease Cystic Fibrosis. Shawn died from the disease in 1980, at 14 and Alan died in 1991 at age 24. She soon became accustomed to listening to and singing the songs of Loretta Lynn and Barbara Mandrell. Encouraged and inspired by her brothers, Tammy realized that she preferred singing in front of an audience. For the next few years, Tammy sang at her family's local church, and then she entered a talent show contest and won. The next step for Tammy was to join a band. She joined a couple before making her own band called "TC Country" that played at fairs and weddings.

Hope you enjoyed this song as much as I did.

Award!

My friend Valerie over at It's a Wonderful Life bestowed upon me this great award. Thank you Valerie for thinking I am "Kreativ".. Please visit Valeries blog because you will love it! I always race over to see what is happening. :)

I am supposed to pick 7 things that I love and actually my friend Lee Laurie at A Southern Rose a month or so ago tagged me to list I think 10 things I love and I had not gotten to that so I am doing a two for one here so to speak. It was funny because Lee Laurie's 10 things were mine too so here I go maybe I can come up with some new ones. lol


1. I love being the first to wake up early in the morning with a hot cup of coffee and my computer, enjoying the quite solitude.

2. I love cuddling with my cat Tigger even knowing she loves my husband more than me. I talk to her and she just looks at me, he talks to her and it's bla bla bla.

3. I love rainy days curled up on a sofa with a good romance novel and a cup of hot tea.

4. I LOVE TEA PARTIES.

5. I love to go motorcycle riding, or more accurately being the passenger on a motorcycle.

6. I love Costco's Polish Dog and Soda for a mere $1.50!!!!! Such a great deal.

7. I love log cabins in the mountains, would love to own one, would love for someone to invite me to stay in one....hehe

8. I love the Anne of Green Gables Series

9. I love my children.

10. I love my husband

I am supposed to pass this on but I am going to reserve that for a future date as my life is very busy right now....just trying to get on the computer is a task in itself.

I look like a WHAT??

OK, so I went to RiteAid this afternoon and was in the make-up department looking for some deals. Their layout is kinda strange so I am zigzagging through the isles very slowly and the young man (about 17) at the register at the other end of the store keeps staring at me like I am going to steal something. I mean really, me? Give me a break.

So, now I am getting and paranoid and I just get my lipstick and foundation and want to get the heck out of there. I wait my turn at the register, did I mention that he is the only register open? Just my luck. Anyway....there are at least two men behind me buying beer and as I put my items on the counter he says.."This is so funny, you were over in the make up and I was looking at you and you weren't moving, your hair was perfect and you looked just like one of those mannequins at Macy's." Well, THAT was not what I expected to hear. I said, "What? you think I look like a mannequin?" Yes" he says, and I said, "You think I look like one of those wooden mannequins?" He said, " Well, some of those are HOT!, this is a complement to you." Well I just started laughing and I couldn't even bring myself to look at the guys behind me for fear they were already on the floor laughing. I thanked the young man and promply left.


Then I got in the car and I was contemplating...mannequins have flawless skin, great bodies, never get fat and can were ANYTHING and I was starting to feel pretty good by this time... LOL When I got home I told my hubby and he laughed with me.


Later, my hubby and I are on separate couches and I am on the computer and he is drinking a beer and I catch him looking at me. I asked him what he was looking at and he said, "I am looking at my mannequin" ! Then he came over and kissed me. AWWWWWW

The bad thing is....now everytime I go into a store that has mannequins I am going to remember this incident....LOL

This is the real me.

Here are some of my alter egos....

Breakfast At Tiffany's

Hello Dahlings.......I thought I'd stop by Melody's place for a tea in my honor. Please join me won't you?

Don't you just love the cigarette holder? I had to bum a cigarette form a coworker lol

Pink champagne is a must for this classy afternoon...

I know, beautiful isn't it ...

I borrowed these great diamond ring napkin holders from my sis.

I was giving Janeen a sneek peak of my deserts in the fridge and she thought "photo op"

My favorite chocolate and coconut cookies..

My to die for chicken salad sandwiches...

Here is my dessert....

here is my dessert after Janeen got a hold of it. lol She should do photo staging...

These two lovely ladies are Alicia (little mama) and her mom Carolyn..

Janeen and our mother...

My good friend Jenifer and I

These two ladies seem to be playing with my jewelry I had adorned the table with....

are they wearing it?????Nooooo no so....

If they look any closer will they notice it's Avon? lol

Alicia won the first door prize...

Janeen won the second....

Last but not least my GREAT, GREAT Tiffany bags that I made all by my creative self, I am so proud I am..... each guest at my tea receives a little something for coming....(minus the champagne, that is MINE)

Inside I put a little purse size manicure set, a note tablet and a satin sachet of chocolate kisses.

In our small circle of friends who started this tea circle, we each give the hostest a gift. Look at all the fantastic things I got!!!!!

NOW....for those of you who don't know, I am going to be a grandmother in August. These next few pictures show my reaction......

WHAAAAAAT, I am going to be a WHAAAAAAT????

It's a girl?

Really?

I had no idea what prompted those funny faces of mine but I thought I'd have some fun with it and Alicia....

Now dahlings, the time is here where I had to just shove everyone out the door. The task at hand was so large.....

I just had to finish all the champagne before I did the dishes....

I really don't want to do the dishes.... I wish I had a maid....
Good night dahlings and thank you for coming. **UPDATE** There are more pics I couldn't load so hop on over to my sister Janeens blog at chachaneen to see even more! OH, OH and you can't see it because it is laying flat amonst my gifts but Janeen gave me a DVD of Sean Connery in "The Great Train Robbery" after my bit with him in our Oriental Express Train Adventure. What a Sister I have!! :) We had a great time.