Totally an 80s child...

You know you grew up in the 80's if...

You've ever ended a sentence with the word "SIKE."

You can sing the rap to the "Fresh Prince of Bel Air". and you can do he "Carlton."

You are a girl and wore biker shorts under your skirts and felt stylishly sexy.

You know that "WOAH" comes from Joey on Blossom.

Two words: Hammer Pants

It was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.

You wore a ponytail on the side of your head.

You saw the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."

You made your mom buy one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side.

You own ankle pants with openings so small, they needed a zipper to get your foot thru.

You played the game "MASH" (Mansion, Apartment, Shelter, House).

You wore a stonewashed Jordache jean jacket and were proud of it.

Then the next day you wore parachute pants.

L.A. Gear... need I say more?

You wanted to change your name to "JEM" (She's truly outrageous.).

You know the profound meaning of "WAX ON, WAX OFF."

You wanted to be a Goonie.

You ever wore fluorescent clothing (some of us... head-to-toe).

You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off and his cheeks shifted.

You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female Smurf.

You traded Garbage Pail Kids.

You remember the CRAZE, then the BANNING of slap bracelets.

You still get the urge to say "NOT" after every sentence.

You remember Hypercolor t-shirts (and may still have one buried deep in the closet).

You thought She-ra (Princess of Power!) and He-Man should get together.

You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged handmade friendship bracelets.

You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes (and like #18, probably in neon colors).

You know who said, "I know you are, but what am I?"

You remember, "I've fallen and I can't get up" and "Where's the Beef?"

You ever got seriously injured on a Slip-and-Slide.

You had or attended a birthday party at McDonald's.

"Don't worry, be happy"

You wore like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights with high top Reeboks.

You wore socks scrunched down (and sometimes still do... getting yelled at by "younger hip" members of the family).

You remember boom boxes. and walking around with one on your shoulder like you were all that.

You know what happens when you feed a Gremlin after midnight.

You remember when Alf was the most popular actor on TV.

You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool... and don't even flinch when people refer to them as "NKOTB."

You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved by The Bell," The ORIGINAL class.

You know all the words to Bon Jovi's "SHOT THROUGH THE HEART."

You just sang those words to yourself.

You remember watching Magic vs. Bird. (I have no idea what this one is LOL)

You remember when mullets were cool!

You had a mullet!

You still sing, "We are the World."

You tight rolled your jeans.

You owned a banana clip (some unfortunate few still do!).

You used to (and probably still do) say "What you talkin' about Willis?"

You had big hair and you knew how to use it.

You've gone through this nodding your head in agreement.


You're still singing "Shot Through the Heart" in your head, aren't you?!?!?

Austria....

I went on a ski trip last year, didn't ski - I just took pictures and flirted with bartenders for free drinks the whole time! (at least I didnt break a leg!) :-) It was a really fun trip though - I didn't get to go on the Sound of Music tour - but I bought the book! LOL

This is where the entertainment lodge was...

The slopes!

I loved the snowy white trees!

The view...

More snowy white trees....

Another view!

Our Hotel...

Streets in Salzburg...

The Castle in Salzburg...

Dreams and Scotland....

Today I had this really freaky dream. Which is actually normal for me because my dreams are always weird, so consider yourself forewarned!!! They are usually so goofy they are funny though! I think I take after my mom, one of her famous dreams is of HUGE teeth with big smiles chasing after her LOL But lets get to my dream shall we? I was in this hotel. Almost ALL of my dreams take place in hotels (it's the slut in me scratching to get out I guess) and my hand was cut. Well, not just cut. There were two cuts one on the bottom of my hand and one on the top and they both like reached around almost like a venus fly trap. Kindof like big flaps - loose on the top and bottom of my hand. They didn't bleed - you could lift them up and it just looked like the bottom of a cooked bonelss chicken thigh. HAHAHA - so for the most part they stayed shut - and I kept telling everyone I really should go to the hospital and get my 100 stitches but everytime I said it when I looked at my wrist the slices were started to heal, so I would nick the whole hospital thing. I must have dreamed this throughout most of my sleep - and I'm assuming my hand had fallen asleep while I was sleeping or something. It was so real that the entire day I keep looking at my hand trying to get the flaps to move. I don't do drugs I swear. At some point in my dream I was in the hospital, but I dont think it was for the flaps. I remember waking up in the hospital room and I had to pee SOOOO bad, but had to wait for this container to pee in for tests. A coworker of mine wearing rubber gloves (thats when you know the dream goes from good to bad) and he brought me this huge ass tall squared pitcher with measurements going up the side. I had to pee soooo bad I took it in the bathroom - squated over it and filled it 1/2 way. I pull up my undies and get read to go out and damn if I still didn't have to pee! I told the guy to wait a minute and slammed the door and couldnt even wait to get my undies down and proceded to pee right through them and for some odd reason made it squirt upward through the top of my nightgown, a nightgown which I had when my daughter was born 10 years ago LOL! I was going through the oh gross thing and finally was done and gave him the now full pitcher. Glad he had gloves!! I woke up having to piss like a racehorse!! I'm surprised I didn't piss the bed HAHAHA Damn dreams...

Okay onto my travel pictures... today we have Scotland. We drove all around and here are some of my favorite shots, the rest are posted
HERE and I highly recommend taking the time to see them - they are awesome! This thing never matches the pictures to my lil blurb with it but hopefully you can figure it out ;-)




Wanna run off to elope at Gretna Green? Not much to it!


William Wallace Monument



Loch Ness




Catchin crabs in the rock pools!



Rainbow on the water...



View from rental...



My absolute favorite pic!! - Eilean Donan Castle



You believe this? 1030 at NIGHT on the beach!

Ask and ye shall receive....

Well FUZZ asked for pics - so I give you pics - these are my favorites - but if anyone would like to see all my pics you can go HERE (click on Ireland Pics) to see all. This was like 4 years ago and I had my dinosaur panasonic digital camera, not the best quality but it's better than nothing ;-) We spent 10 days driving around Ireland and we went everywhere except for Dublin, Connemara and Belfast - Belfast had all that fighting going on and we just couldn't fit Dublin and Connemara in. There was rain everyday, which is usual for Ireland - how the hell do you think it stays so green? :-) Our trip was in August and we needed jackets everyday. When we drove the Ring of Kerry we had bad fog and it was very overcast - we didn't get to see a whole lot but what we did see was breath-taking. I would definitely recommend driving around and seeing the sights instead of just going to one place. It's very easy to get around and the maps are very easy. We did wind up on several one lane roads filled sheep, but it just added to the experience :-)

Next post I'll put some Scotland pictures up - they turned out much better and it was an awesome trip as well!


Cliffs of Moher




Bunratty School (Girls leftside - Boys rightside)




Bunratty Castle





Church in Tipperary





Church on the Ring of Kerry




Ring of Kerry view

Couple Ireland pics....

I thought I'd post a couple more pics from Ireland. These are of the home (Kinitty)that my great great grandmother grew up in (I think 6 lived in this house) and also one of my mom, our Irish cousin Mary and me when we met for the first time... I have tons of Ireland if you'd like to see more! ;-)

Cead Mile Failte!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!! I love being Irish :-) When I woke up today I had a little pinching contest going on with the kids because they forgot to wear their green - within about 5 minutes all 6 were up in their bedrooms throwing clothes around trying to find something green to wear ;-) I thought about taking them to the Riverwalk because I hear they dye the water green for the holiday - but figured it wouldn't be worth it to drive all the way over there for a "look kids green water!" only to have to drive back again LOL So I took mine for haircuts and we hit walmart while we were out. Tomorrow I'm taking them to Seaworld - give me strength! I think maybe I'll hold off on touching up the roots and let the grey all hang out for once - then I can get me one of those little electric doohickey's and just zoomie zoomie around the park all day with the 'grandkids' :-) I'm serious! bwahahaha!

The picture above is Blarney Castle - it was overcast that day - but most days in Ireland are very wet :-) That hole thats located under the top ledge just above the windows is where you have to lean across to kiss the blarney stone - did you know you had to do that? A guy sits there and holds onto you while you lean backward, grab onto bars and kiss the stone. Here is a pic of my brother kissing it... Its crazy - all that to get the germs of millions of other people's germs on your lips LOL But hey, it's lucky so why the hell not!? ;-) (I did it too but my pic is all boobs so dont even think I'll post it!)

You gotta play....

To win! Okay so I'm on this big kick lately where I find myself in Valero standing in line and saying - yeah give me a quick pick too! Wishful thinking? Maybe... Addicted? Almost... Have I won? A big kickin screamin 3 bucks. Do I want to win more? Hell yeah like a gazillion would be nice :-) And I've been thinking - I just gotta win, I've already got it all spent! Yep... Just a matter of time...