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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way…
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
I wonder if Charles Dickens had any idea these words would be considered an excellent synopsis for describing the condition, “motherhood”. Literally - I have experienced The. Best. Times. I have experienced The. Worst. Times… Light and Dark… Hope and despair.
Mercy… holding my newborn babies for the first time - kissing their pink lips and counting all ten toes… That was when Heaven was at the edge of my lips… it was at the tips of my fingers. And within mere days I would “go direct the other way” as sleep deprivation took over. Nothing prepares one for this. Nothing. It is rite of passage… a very dark passage.
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I took this picture in December. We were driving home from a wonderful Christmas in Colorado with family. On the way back we passed through Snowville, Utah. Of course… I HAD to take a picture of the Snowville sign… as we drove snowly slowly through the snow storm through Snowville… Say that 5 times fast. I dare you.
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It’s Monday? Right? I had to check because it sure hasn’t felt like a Monday… it’s felt like a Ohmyheckwillthisdayeverendday.
In the past, I was a fairly frequent participant in Make Me Laugh Monday, simply due to the fact that making myself laugh is something I enjoy and do quite frequently. Simple minds…. Aaaanywho - but you wanna know what I enjoy even more? Making YOU laugh. Yup. It’s all about YOU here at Jennyonthespot. However, MMLM has been absent the last great number of Mondays. Let me explain a bit… Make Me Laugh Monday was the brain-child of Absolutely Bananas. She decided to take a break from MMLM and passed the torch to All Things Cherished. Sadly, All Things Cherished has had to take a break, and hopefully a short one. Hugs to you Storm…
With all of that written - I am looking for a new name so as not to be a stealer of the genius, alliterative title Jenny (hot name!) at Absolutely Bananas gave to Mondays. But until then… I will use this title once more - for I have a couple of funny things to share…
This first item came from Blozulfog - in an email she titled, “for your Monday make me laugh”. She’s always got my back…
O.K. The following baking fail picture is NOT MINE! Give credit where credit is due… and the credit goes to — Running Stitch!
This… what did she call it???… “Failure to rise” (haha!) was created by the adventurous Running Stitch - baker extraoridinaire! In all my life… mercy. This is awesome. But I want to know - was the pan tossed or washed?
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I let Olivia run wild with my camera on her last day of kindergarten - way back in June. It is very educational to see images of life through her eyes… After looking through her collection of photographs, I learned something about people her size… Eye level for our precious kindergarteners is approximately at adult butt level… Thus, a very flattering picture of *ahem* Olivia’s mother’s butt.
Does my daughter’s eye level make my butt look big??? Continue reading ‘The last day of kindergarten…’
And in 10 days we should be feasting like rabbits kings!
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Not too long ago, my husband’s aunt (a.k.a. - my aunt too!!!) emailed a few pictures of her son and his new fiance’. Perhaps I should be more specific - pictures of their butts! Can I just say, I love this family. How can you not love people who send you pictures of their butts so you can poke fun at them and publish their butts on the world wide world of internetting? I know. You are jealous. Yes you want them to be your family too. I never knew, that when I said “I do” nearly 14 years ago, one day I would be cropping and “touching-up” my husband’s cousin’s butt . Never knew.
Without further ado, another branch of my family tree.
Ummm, Matthew? I must ask my public -
I’m sorry… I had to do that Cuz.
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Now Cousin Matthew wants to know:
I can’t tell - your BUTT is in the way!
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Look at these crazies! I think I love them more than ever!
1, 2, 3… A regular methane triple threat!
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Drum roll please……………
I love you crazy family! My hubs didn’t get to choose his family. However - I did have a choice. But(t) I said “I do”, and I married him anyway… I guess what I am trying to say is… … … “I’m glad we’re family!” Thanks for stinking your butts out there for me. **smoochy, smoochy, huggy, hug, hug**
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Serious. Ya heard of Face Your Manga? Well, I first heard of it this morning from Evil Chef Mom when she commented on my last post. Girl, you are so cutting edge, becuase you know what happened???…
I logged onto Twitter and all the tweetples were all “What’s with all these avatars?…”Whut, whut, whut!!!” Twitter was all a-twitter! And I was all - waving my hands in the air with my “already know about this thing attitude” and not Twittering because my hands were waving and not typing! And then Mamikaze of Life on the Run @’d me on Twitter and was all, “http://faceyourmanga.com“ and I was all - “I know! I know!”
And I did totally face my manga this morning, but didn’t save her because I wasn’t happy about the curve of my chin…
But that’s it folks. It looks like I am going to need to commit here. Manga - game on!
Ooops. Wrong picture… Lemme try this again…
Me. Then… 
Manga Me!
My only complaint - no braces… no nose stud capabilites… and my eyes are not the same size. Golly I’m tired.
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Well, if I wasn’t full of myself before, I should be now because look who I look like - A LOT… On a likeness scale of 0% to 100% (with 100% being identical twin-ness), me and this hottie are like at 90%:
I. Know! I have no idea who she is, but I don’t care because she’s not ugly. OK, now I know who she is and well, save the inappropriate content - we have something else in common beside our good looks - she’s Czech, and word on the street is I am part Czech too!
I would like to thank The Bloggess for introducing the My Heritage site to me. It is just what I needed to prove to the world what I have been trying to prove since I discovered mirrors — I should have ben a model… at least from the chin up.
Oh wait. Da@# it.
Did you hear that? My ego balloon just popped. I’ll give you 63% of a likeness why:
and Myra at We Make Three recently asked if I would like to be part of her very fun and very brilliant musically-minded weekly post - Mixtape Monday. I! Know!
In keeping with the bent of my personality - I said, “Yes!” I mean, a whole post about ME and music and ME? Like, of course! I love to serve my public. I’m a giver. I was born that way. My middle name? Giver. Mmmm-hmmm…
Aaaaanyways… on Mixtape Monday, Myra features a different blogger who has made the world a better place all due to her fabulous taste in music and his/her top ten songs on his/her iPod. Mixtape Monday - isn’t that a great title! Isn’t that a great idea?! Oh, AND she asked for a picture. Dudes, I totally grabbed a picture that one of The Retro people took at one of their gigs. I was all “in the zone”, either dancing with myself or rockin’ the Casbah. Or both.
You want to know my top ten? I’m not telling! You ned to go visit Myra at We Make Three! Oh, and leave a comment - it’s like a virtual hug! Give her a hug for me!!! Go there as I do my part to spread the linky-love that makes to blog-world go-round in perfect circles… and also to read all the yummy, lovey, ever-so-true things she wrote about Me - lil’ ‘ol Me!
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