Life in the Fast Lane received another award!

Don't worry...I won't make another video acceptance speech this time. LOL!

I have received the Kreative Blogger award and with this award comes rules that I must follow. Hmmm, kind of reminds me of the Spiderman movie when they said "With great power comes great responsibility" or something like that. LOL!

The Rules.... list 6 things that make you happy then pass this award on to 6 people to make them happy!!!

6 Things that make me happy:
1. My husband - Tom is the love of my life and I can't imagine what my life would be like without him. He is my rock.
2. My boys - Codey and Tanner are AWESOME kids! I guess God knew I couldn't handle anything less... LOL!
3. A HOT Shower - Oh, I can't even begin to tell you just how much I enjoy a nice, hot, shower. I swear, a hot water heater is probably the best invention...EVER!!!
4. Riding a motorcycle - The sound of the motor growling when you accelerate makes you feel powerful, the feeling of the wind pressing against your body makes you feel virtually weightless almost as though you were flying, just being open and exposed to the world surrounding you gives you this feeling of ultimate FREEDOM...it's AMAZING!
5. My family - My parents deserve a medal for all the things I put them through during my teenage years. LOL! And my two sisters are still my best friends.
6. My life - If I were to die today I would die completely fulfilled and content. I love my life!

I'm passing this award on to these awesome bloggers:
1. Nancy of That's Nancy with a Jones
2. Lynnise of Shades of Bleu
3. Jing Jing of This Little Art of Mine
4. Jan of Scrap my World
5. Michelle of Acknowledge and Move On
6. Carole of 3 Dimensional Me

I am exhausted

This has been one heck of a weekend and it's not even over yet. Friday started off wonderful because both Tom and I were off of work. Tom allowed me to sleep in while he got the kids ready for school. After they were out the door he crawled back in bed and we slept until 11:30! OMG! I can't even remember the last time I slept that long. We got a new box spring and mattress set and it just sucks you in and makes you never want to leave the bed. LOL! After sleeping that late we went out to lunch, did a little shopping, ran some errands, etc. Later in that evening we met friends for dinner at 6:30pm. We went to celebrate Debbie (Bones) completion of her Masters Degree. I think 25 or so of us were there and believe it or not they had us all seated at one really long table. Ok, so it was a bunch of smaller tables lined up end to end but you know what I mean! LOL! I had 2 margaritas and OMG! they were strong. By the time I walked out of there I was feeling comfortably numb. LOL! I'm a lightweight when it comes to drinking, in case you couldn't tell. LOL!

After dinner we headed to a club in the 'boro to see my friend Pam's (Goodwill) son perform on stage. Her son Brandon is the guitarist for Framing Hanley. They were the headlining band so they didn't even go onstage until 11pm. The music was awesome, but OMG! did I feel OLD in there! I swear all the people there were between the ages of 18-24 and here I was with my 34 year old self looking like a total mom in the middle of all these kids. LOL! Oh, well... Since my judgment was already impaired by those margaritas I had over dinner I decided to drink a few...or FIVE beers before we finally left at 1:30am. Oh, I haven't drank that much in many, many, years. BUT IT WAS FUN! LOL!

...until I had to get up at 6am to go help a friend, Christy (Dodger), move to a new home. I thought my head was going to explode every time I bent down to pick up a box. Now I know why I haven't drank like that in years! LOL! Now, where's that advil?

Chantele

BUNCO!

Yep! I am a Bunco playing fool. Well, not really...but last night I was on a roll. I ended up winning the most games (29) and the most Buncos (6). I walked away with a really nice prize - thanks Penny!!! I'm just a sub. I don't actually belong to my own Bunco group but hopefully that will all change soon. This weekend I plan on printing out invites and giving them to all my neighbors. I hope at least 11 of them will want to play and we will start our own neighborhood Bunco group!!! Cross your fingers for me that all goes as planned.

Chantele

What a weekend!

Friday didn't start off too well. In fact, I had to work late because we have been overwhelmed with sale orders. Which, by the way, ends on Wednesday so if you haven't ordered yet you better hurry or your gonna miss out on some really cheap scrapbook supplies such as ALL patterned papers (including double sided) are only 6 @ $1.00, all of our past kits are only $20 OR LESS!!!!, and everything else in the store is marked down between 20%-80% OFF! Ok, that was enough of a plug don't you think? LOL! Oh, I forgot the link: Scrapbook Obsessions Online SALE!

Ok, so, what was I saying? Oh, yeah, Friday didn't start off too well cause I had to work late. Usually I'm out the door by 2pm - 3:30pm at the latest. On Friday I didn't leave until 6pm. I know, that doesn't seem like "late" to most of you other hard working folks out there but that was 4 hours later than I was supposed to leave and I, for once, had plans on a Friday night. LOL! Before marriage and kids I used to look forward to my weekends because no matter what happened all week I knew I would always have something fun to do on the weekends. But I guess things all changed when I got married, had kids, and then 15 years later I discover I have turned into a homebody who never goes anywhere except to go shopping, work, or out to eat. Kind of sad when you think about....so, lets NOT think about it anymore. LOL! Anywho, to make a long story short, I had made plans to meet some friends in Nashville to attend a Haunted House at 7:30pm. Tom and I arrived at Death Row Sanitarium to meet a group of about 20 or so SCRC members. Since there were so many of us they didn't allow us to all go in together and ended up breaking us up into several smaller groups. Tom & I went in the first group. We had fun. I can't say that it scared me at all but I would give out the occasional "OH!" when something would pop up unexpectedly. It took us close to 45 minutes just to walk through the entire thing. It is in a huge warehouse so I think you definitely get your $10 admission worth. Afterwards, we all went to Hooters for dinner. No, it's definitely NOT my favorite place to eat but OH WELL!! While we are eating we all decided to go to another Haunted House after dinner. So, we all went downtown and went to the Slaughter House. I don't know if it was the alcohol that I drank during dinner but this one did seem better than the first one but it was much shorter. I think we walked through it in about than 15 minutes and it cost more. It was $15 whereas the other one was only $10. But, we had a great time with our friends and have already made plans to go some more haunted houses next weekend!

Saturday we got up early and went on a 294 mile motorcycle ride with some SCRC friends. It was a little chilly when we started out but within an hour or so we were already pulling off our sweaters/jackets because the sun started shining. It turned out to be a beautiful day and RickRick lead us through some awesome roads in this beautiful state of TN. We were even able to go to the top of a mountain and watch the TN Treetopers, a club of hang gliders jump off the mountain. Now, I WANNA LEARN HOW TO DO THAT!!!!!!!! Wow! To watch them take that giant leap of faith as they literally step off the mountain is amazing! I took tons of pictures because it was just so surreal. Afterwards, we split apart from the group and headed home around 4pm because I had a Pure Romance party to attend at 6:30pm. I had a great time with some of the SCRC ladies and didn't get home to well after 1am.

Tonight some friends are coming over and Tom is working his magic on the grill. He makes the BEST steaks EVER!!!! Always so juicy and flavorful. My man can work that grill! LOL!

Chantele

It's strange isn't it

Isn't it strange the way life seems to speed up the older you get? I'm only 34 and my days seem to vanish into weeks and the next thing I notice it is a whole month later. It's October already. Where the heck did the summer go? The weather here in TN has cooled off dramatically in the past week or so. Just this morning I actually had to turn the heat on in my car while I was taking Tanner to school. THE HEAT! Just last week it was 90F and I was riding my motorcycle in a t-shirt and blue jeans while feeling the sun on my back. This morning it was 47F and I had the dang heat on in the car. Tom is planning a bike ride for some friends of his next week and the high temps are only expected to be in the upper 70's. I'm so not looking forward to taking off at 7am in 40 something degree weather. {Sigh} I want my summer back!

I decided to decorate my house the other day with fall stuff. I figure I can't pretend it's still warm and summery so I might as well enjoy the beautiful colors of fall while I'm still indoors. I bought this cute giant looking bottle cap at Hobby Lobby. It was half off and I thought it was cute so I brought it home and hung it on a door in the hallway. Not bad for only $4.50!

Yesterday Tom and I went to Martins Greenhouse in the 'boro bought these HUGE mums for only $9 each! These suckers were in 12" pots and I haven't seen them that big for that cheap anywhere else so I snatched two of 'em up and put them in pots outside my front door. Kind 'of purdy huh?

We posted the new Scrapbook Obsessions kit picture yesterday and the addons have almost completely sold out already. I've already got plans doing something with one my favorite pictures with this kit. Doesn't Sugar look adorable? Poor thing...I better go give her a bone for being such a good sport about getting her photo taken.

Chantele