Owner: Full Plate URL:http://fullplate321.blogspot.com/ Join Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:42:24 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: The life and times of a 41 year old stay-at-home mother of 3 kids, along with 2 dogs and 1 husband. Kids are 6, 4 and 3; dogs are springers, and the husband is a hard-working corporate boy. Welcome to my hectic, wonderful life. Site statistics:Click here
Please Vote For Me! 2007-03-09 02:27:00 I know, it's a popularity contest. Just click on the "Top Momma" pic on the sidebar, and then click on the 3 penguins. A lot. Many times. LMAO If you do, I'll bake you some cookies!! See! Bribery can get YOU everywhere, too! And oh, by the way, I have found many great blogs there as well, so check them out, too! Just check me out MORE! Thanks! :)Now read the next post down - it's MUCH more entertaining! Read more:Please
Lee Needs A Lot of Things! 2007-03-08 21:36:00 I stole this idea from Jill, who stole is from Chilihead. What you have to do is google "(your name) needs" and see what comes up. SO funny! These are a few that came up with my name:Lee needs more blue tablets to make the green dye. Yeah, I got too many yellow ones here, and I need green BAD.Lee needs to take a walk. She's way too pushy and obsessive. Wow. Someone has been reading my journal. That, or talking WAY too much to my mother.Lee needs to be removed. Patty needs to be added. What am I being removed FROM? And is this a good thing or a bad thing? And who the hell is PATTY? Shit, I need to take that walk...Lee needs to do an acoustic version of all of her songs. Hey, thanks for noticing. I TOLD my producers that the band was way too loud and the arrangements were WAY too produced, but NOOOOOOOOOOOOO.... See, SOMEONE likes me! Someone wants me to SHINE!Lee hardly needs backup singers. Damn skippy! Who do you think I am, Britney Spears or something?Lee needs to ge Read more:Needs
A Good Handful of Answers for Ya 2007-03-07 15:50:00 Thanks for asking more questions!For Maria:Do you have a best friend and why are they?I have been blessed with a few very close friends, but I'd have to say that my bestest friend is named Janis. She GETS me, if you know what I mean. She doesn't judge me, she is honest with me when I need it the most, and she is kind. AND we share the same sick, sorted, sarcastic, witty sense of humor. She is my laugh riot, my soft place to fall and my kick in the pants, all rolled into one.Tony, here are your 3:What's you biggest regret?Losing touch with old friends. It surely hasn't been all my fault, but I do take some blame there. I miss some old friends terribly.What are you most proud of?My beautiful, healthy, smart, sweet kids.If you were stranded on an island, what 2 things would you want with you (can't be a human or pet)?First thing would DEFINITELY be my music. Can NOT live without THAT. Then it would be pizza. (You thought I'd say lattes, didn't ya?)Why don't all KFC's ha Read more:Handful
More Questions Answered! 2007-03-06 20:55:00 What item can you not live without? 2 things. A good latte and a good bra. Without either, things would get VERY ugly around here.What are the top 3 things you want to pass on to your kids?? A good work ethic, love and respect for family, and my shoe collection to my girls.What were your New Year's Resolutions this year? And have you kept them?You got me. I wanted to get back on the health wagon. I really need to lose some weight, and I just haven't put much effort into it yet. I really have to buckle down.Did you get any questions that were just too "out there" that you're not answering? Well, Kevin's spanking one was just plain funny, but no, no other questions were too wacky. I'll answer anything!Which reminds me, keep on asking questions! We still have a few more days of partying! And don't forget to scroll down to find more funny posts! I've been posting more than usual this week, and I don't want you, one of my 5 readers, to miss out! XOXO
The 4th Time is NOT a Charm 2007-03-05 22:35:00 I thought we were going to buy a new dishwasher. After all the hullabaloo about our existing dishwasher in recent months, I thought that Hubby and I decided not to waste more $ on service calls and just go buy another dishwasher. We searched online. We looked in a few stores. And then the other day, Hubby says,"A Whirlpool guy is coming out on Monday to take a look at the dishwasher." Huh, waaa? I guess he wanted to give this irritable appliance one more shot. (I'll give it one more shot - pass the A Browning 9 millimeter Hi Power PLEASE!)You know where this is going, right?Today is Monday. A guy came from Whirlpool. He took the stinking thing apart and told me EXACTLY WHAT THE LAST 3 GUYS TOLD ME, but he was sweeter. His service call was twice the cost of what the others charged. OH JOYOUS RAPTURE! By the way, the dishwasher works fine for @3 weeks, and then it starts NOT WASHING. The soap cakes up in it's little compartment. Yeah, water goes thru it fine. Yeah, ever
Torn 2007-03-05 16:25:00 This guy cracks me up! His name is David Armand, and is an English comedian and actor. This is his mime style interpretive dance of Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" (in character as "Johann Lippowitz" - an Austrian "interpretive dance artist") Enjoy!
Answering Three Questions 2007-03-05 14:04:00 Thank you Kevin, for asking me if I fancy being a naughty girl and getting a spanking. He obviously wants me to get some google hits, the thoughtful boy! Answer? Hm. Naughty and spank worthy? Count me in! YeeHA, cowboy! And for those of you who are a bit more conservative, SEX? I don't even know what sex IS. So there. Tell us about the worst job you ever had. (Thanks Maria!) I think that would probably be assembling tachometers for 3 summers in college. Boring and long. But it paid good money!The greatest gift I've ever received? (Thanks Mom on Coffee!) Besides my kids, which is the obvious answer, it would be... oh geez...you are making me think. I would say my diamond engagement ring and wedding ring from my Hubby, since they represent our love and commitment to each other. I know, corny. Besides that, I'd say my Hummel figurine given to me by a dear old friend back when I was a church choir director (see pic). Takes me right back to directing those great Read more:Three
Embarrassed Hairdresser 2007-03-03 20:15:00 Hm. A few of you did ask me the ever popular "most embarrassing moment" question, as if you knew I'd have a quick story about how I lost my top at some gala affair, or how a boyfriend caught me in bed with another woman. HA! I really had to think about this!For years and years (since I could breathe, I think), I guess you could say that I was a Klutz. I would drop things, spill things, and almost ALWAYS tripped UP stairs instead of down them. Yeah, that silly girl you felt sorry for was MOI. I guess I got used to being klutzy, because I don't have a glaring memory of that one "embarrassing moment" that makes me cringe. The best I can do is to share a quick story of how I embarrassed myself onstage. Yeah, Klutzy+Actress = a lot of embarrassment. Yeah, don't forget that I've done a bunch of theatre work in my short 41 years.So I was in play Steel Magnolias, playing Annelle ("It's a little poofy, but I'm nervous") - the character was played by Daryl Hannah in the movie vers Read more:Embarrassed
Welcome to the Party! 2007-03-02 06:01:00 First of all, thanks again to Bill for taking up my blogspace yesterday - he wrote a great post! I also found it entertaining that some of you thought it was ME writing - SO funny. Welcome
to the first day of a WEEKLONG BLOG PARTY here in the blog-o-sphere! My name is Lee (HellO Lee...) and I am your hostess here at Full Plate, and I hope you have a wonderful time!My goal is to share lots of fun stuff with you - my interests, my favorite things, and even some things that I might not share with people in real life. Hm. We shall see! I guess it depends on much I have to drink! So you'll see lists of all sorts, funny stories, questions, games, lots of music for the ears and lots of video clips to make you laugh and stir up some great memories. And I'll definitely direct you to some of my favorite people in the blog-o-sphere, so look for some links to some wonderful people and their wonderful posts. Sure, I'll post my regular monologues, but I'll try to make things fun for m Read more:Party
My Sharona! 2007-03-01 06:23:00 Looking back at a distance of 27 years, I suppose it was kind of stupid, but, back then, what did I know?It was 1980 and I was in love.I met her when I was almost 17. It was summer vacation and she was the cousin of my friend Kim, who lived down the street from us, in sleepy Vauxhall, New Jersey.Her name was Sharona…Sharona was beautiful. She was exotic. Most importantly, Sharona wasn't a local. She was from... The City. Not just any city, mind you... when you live in northern New Jersey and you mention "The City", you can only be talking about New York. I was a goner from the start.She paid me scant attention, because in those days, I was known locally as "The Professor" because I as a kind of doughy and bookish. I was pretty bummed about and wondered when she was going to give me some time. Luckily for me though, I got to stay in her orbit (below her radar screen, of course) because I was pals with her cousin. It was a great summer, and by the time it was over, Sharona and I had b
March Blog Exchange Tomorrow! 2007-03-01 00:19:00 Tomorrow is Blog Exchange
Day here in the blog-o-sphere, and Gunfighter and I have been teamed up to switch blogs for a day. March
's topic is music. "Pick a song, use the title as your post title, and write a post using the content of that song. It can be fiction or non-fiction." Please welcome Gunfighter tomorrow as he sits on my comfy couch and shares his post, and don't forget to check my post out over at his blog. It's a great way to expand our readership and make some friends. Be gracious to my guest host, and I'll see you on Friday!
Calling Supernanny 2007-02-28 14:19:00 My family and I attended a birthday party for our friends' 2 year old over the weekend. The guest list included family, friends and children from 2-6. Lots of pizza and soda, along with seeing our good friends, so I was looking forward to it. Except for...well...for their birthday boy.OMG. This kid was such a brat. Now before you get your neckhairs up at me with loads of excuses and reasons, many of which are possibly valid, let me paint a little bit of the picture for you. This boy is fortunate to not have to be put in daycare. His Mommy works full-time, and Daddy works a few jobs, but has 2 days with his boy a week, and the other days he is with grandparents. How nice! I'm happy to know that the boy is surrounded by lots of love.With that being said, we walked into a disturbing situation - Birthday boy was having a screaming fit and was inconsolable. His grandmother picked him up to calm him and he SMACKED her in the head. OMG. I was horrified. Now I'm sure that so Read more:Calling
Classic Monty Python 2007-02-27 08:50:00 I am SO sick, as are the kids. I leave you with some classic MontyPython
, ala Holy Grail - one of my all-time favorite movies! I can't think straight enough to type any more, so have a great day, and I'll see you on the other side of the decongestant. Sniff.It's only a model. Sh. Read more:Classic
Happy Snow Day! 2007-02-26 16:07:00 Good Monday morning to all of you, my 3 readers. HA! I am here in snow hell. We got maybe 4-5 inches of snow over night, and school was cancelled. (We've had such a pidling of snow this season compared to other seasons, so I won't complain about the snow itself. Really.) Good thing school was cancelled, too. I couldn't get off of this mountain to save my life, which is a very BAD thing. My driveway is long and steep - perhaps 500 feet or so, and treacherous.Why oh why did we buy this house? The fact that I can't get down this driveway without getting plowed out (and some sort of treatment put down) adds to the list of negatives with this house. The builder messed up. A lot. So much so that we had to have $30,000 of work done on our property last summer, with us living with my inlaws for 6 weeks. Thank GOD they like me. (Actually, it went pretty well, but I was worried!) And if I had to live with MY mother, I'd have to hurt someone.Sigh. Hubby didn't make it to Read more:Happy
Weekend Funnies 2007-02-23 22:30:00 I was on the phone with a utility company the other day, and I got SO confused - if you speak Spanish, press 1, if you have your head up your ass, press 2...you know the drill. Made me think of funny answering machine messages. Here are some that make me laugh:Hi! John's answering machine is broken. This is his refrigerator. Please speak very slowly, and I'll stick your message to myself with one of these magnets.Hello, this is KVKE, you're on the air. (or) Hello, you're caller number nine!'Ello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Leave your name and number, and prepare to die.This is the Literacy Self Test Hotline. After the tone, leave your name and number, and recite a sentence using today's vocabulary word. Today's word is "supercilious".My wife and I can't come to the phone right now, but if you'll leave your name and number, we'll get back to you as soon as we're finished.Hi. This is John. If you are the phone company, I already sent the money. If you ar Read more:Weekend
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Observations While Vacuuming 2007-02-22 23:05:00 I typically clean a LOT on thursday afternoons. My husband gets home from work (after being away for a few days) on Thursday nights, and I really want this place to be neat. Clean. I'm not anal. I like things picked up, and I don't think I'm a slob, but I certainly don't have an issue with 3 day old dustbunnies and doghair-rabbits. Hubby tends to like things clean. Ok, that is fair. He says not to go nuts on the cleaning, but frankly, even my house appreciates the attention. So I clean up here and there while he is gone, but the BIG push is Thursday Afternoons.So this afternoon I put away laundry, cleaned the 3 bathrooms (Although I did skip the shower cleaning today), dusted, polished the wood furniture, and vacuumed. Vacuumed rugs and vacuumed the hardwood (2 different vacuums). Cleaned up stuck on items from the hardwood. I can't even imagine having wall to wall carpet down here on the first floor - the food and doghair in a carpet would choke a monkey. The kids ar Read more:Vacuuming
LCD Love 2007-02-22 12:00:00 So the hubster is shopping for a new television. You need to understand that this man is the king of research. He checks EVERYTHING. Then he thinks about the space it'll go in (Living room - you know, the ADULT side of the house, as opposed to the family room, which houses toys, dog hair and a few cheerios that got away). Who has the best return policy? He checks websites. He leaves messages on forums. Believe me, I appreciate him being so thorough. And every now and then, he asks what I think. Me. WHAT DO I THINK?Honey, I don't care what you get, at this point. You want to get a huge LCD flat panel TV. SUPER! I will love it. No, I don't care about the size. It'll be in a room that I won't be in most of the time when the kids are awake, so anything you put in the living room will be nice. An extra treat for when I want to curl up, eating my bonbons. Ahhh... flat screen love. It's YOUR bonus from work, and I'm thrilled that you've decided how you
Happy Happy Birthday to Moi 2007-02-21 06:10:00 Happy 41st birthday to me. Look who I share a birthday with!Left to right, top to bottom:Tyne Daly (actress), Richard Beymer (actor - Lead in West Side Story), Kelsey Grammer (actor), Rue McClanahan (actor), Nina Simone (singer), Jennifer Love Hewitt (actress), Alan Richman (actor), Charlotte Church (singer), Sam Peckinpah (film director), David Geffen (record exec, producer), Erma Bombeck (American humorist), Anais Nin (author) Read more:Happy
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Speaking of Celebrations... 2007-02-20 22:18:00 Here is another reason to party!You are all invited to a lovely shindig hosted by 2 sistas at 5 Minutes for Mom. Yes yes, I'll be there, complete with high heels and party hat! It's a week-long party, you can make new friends, you can win PRIZES and, gosh darnit, you could even sit next to me! And I'm more entertaining than 5 pounds of poop in a 4 pound bag!(My mom used to say stuff like that. Oh my. That isn't good.)Anyway. Check it out! Read more:Speaking
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I'm Too Sexy For This Supermarket 2007-02-20 15:55:00 I think I committed one of the 7 sins of motherhood this morning. I went out of the house in my pajama pants. Yes, I had a bra on, and yes my socks matched, but no, I hadn't taken a shower. See the pic of me before I left the house on the right? Bahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.Now I know that the thought of leaving the house in my jamma bottoms sounds GOD awful to some of you. With 3 kids and a later than usual (well, it's usual - who am I kidding?) wake-up, I was in a rush. My comfy jeans were in the wash, my leggings weren't readily available, and yes, the socks and bra WERE. (Besides, I got a lot of help with my bags in that outfit, as you can imagine.) Lighten up! I moisturized! (Last week. I think.)So I start my broadcast day this tuesday with a classic video. Please don't hate me because I'm gorgeous. It's not like I had toilet paper sticking out of my shoe or something. GEEZ people. Don't be so judgmental! :-) Read more:Supermarket
Good Monday Morning 2007-02-19 14:10:00 I usually have a love-hate relationship with Monday
s. I usually get up at 3am to see Hubby off at 4am so he can catch his 6am flight out to work. (Yes, for those of you who don't know, he works in a few states over Monday-Thursday of each week.) I iron his clothes and pack him up Sunday night and then, at 3am, I cook him some breakfast and finish up packing his luggage (I'm such a good wife!).Hubby leaves at 4am, and I usually struggle to get back to sleep - it's usually after 5am when I can fall back. I am up @6am to get all 3 kids up. From there I feed and clothe these anklebiters so we can ALL get out there and drive Pumpkin, my 5 year old son, to school. The rest of my Monday is typically filled with injecting lots of coffee into my bod and dragging my big old ass through diaper changes, errands and peanut butter sandwiches. By the time "24" comes on at 9pm, I am fighting a couch nap.Today was a bit different. Hubby is taking the 9am flight, so he didn't have to leav Read more:Morning
Next Time I Won't Be So Strong! 2007-02-18 04:39:00 There is a good reason why I should be going through a drive-thru at the local coffee hang-out, hotspot (the one that starts with Dunk and ends with Nuts) to get my latte, and the good reason is this:If I can't get to the drive-thru window because there is a delivery truck PARKED in the drive-thru and BLOCKING all traffic to the drive-thru, then I have to park my vehicle and go inside the local establishment. And if I have to stand at the counter to order my latte, I also have to look at this:NOT good for my thighs. What do they say, "over the lips, onto the hips?" Read more:Strong
Friday Night Funny 2007-02-17 01:49:00 INSTALLING HUSBANDDear Technical Support,Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slow down in overall system performance — Particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5 and then installed undesirable programs such as NFL 5.0, Local Poker 3.0, and Golf Clubs 4.1. Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system. I’ve tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.What can I do?Signed,Desperate————————————————————Dear Desperate:First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, While Husband 1.0 is an Operating System.Please enter the command: “http: I Thought You Loved Me.HTML” and try to download Tears 6.2 and don’t forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update. If that application Read more:Night
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I Don't Have to Like Them, Right? 2007-02-15 16:02:00 My son has been invited to a birthday party today for a fellow classmate. This boy is...a brat. There, I said it. Pumpkin has come home many a time with stories about "Michael." Poor kid doesn't care for school that much, and gets in trouble a lot. And for some reason, the boys in his class gravitate towards him!Now, there is a separate story, having to do with Michael's mother. We used to be her neighbor, back before we lived in this house. She was nice enough. She was ready to rent us one of her houses, since our family was growing and the townhouse we were living in was getting small. Then she got pregnant with Michael, got engaged (not sure if that was the order of things) and THEN found out that Michael's Daddy was MARRIED. EEK. At that point, she kinda kept to herself, we found THIS house, and poof, never saw her again.Until Pumpkin started school.There she was. Her son was going to be in my son's class! I was civil. I was nice! And she acted lik Read more:Right
Pass the Sour Cream! 2007-03-10 22:53:00 Our new LCD 46" TV was delivered yesterday. Hubby and I could've sat there on the couch for HOURS, not saying a word to each other. Wait. That is what happened!Big screen TV's are evil. And AWESOME. Especially when they are HD TV's. YOWZA. Read more:Cream
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Home Sweet Home 2007-03-11 22:14:00 We went for a ride after church today. We like checking out open houses from time to time, to see what is offered out there, and I can always get ideas for decorating and new floor plans (because one day we want to build a home).Now the housing market is soft, and we really don't want to sell our house/ buy another house here in Connecticut (if we move from here, it'll probably be down south), but checking out houses can be fun. We even check out houses down in Florida, when we are down there for vacation! (btw, we are planning on going down to Florida again in a few weeks!)Now to my point. I understand that people are anal. I can be, at times. (Ok, NOW I'm giggling) But if me and my entire family have to take our shoes off JUST to look at the inside of your house, I have NO interest in giving you my money & I have NO interest in buying your house. Maybe you guys in blogland understand how people can be this anal, but come ON people. I would NEVER ask ANYONE to take the Read more:Sweet
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Doggy Chauffeur? 2007-03-13 14:31:00 Conversation in the van this morning, on the way to Pumpkin's school:Pumpkin: I'll be the King!Princess: I'll be the Queen!Pumpkin: Sweetpea, you can be the Princess!Princess: And Mommy? You can be the PUPPY!And there was much rejoicing. Woof!
I'm a Kid from America; from 1981 2007-03-12 23:06:00 So if you watch Disney Channel at ALL, you've heard of a "new" song by the Jonas Brothers, called "Kids of the Future." The song was originally called "Kids in America
" by Kim Wilde, back in 1981. I was a freshman in high school, if you can believe it! Sometimes I get tired of remakes, especially when the title or a lot of the words are changed. I'm not saying that those 3 brothers aren't talented. In fact, I really liked the original song - it reminds of wearing flashdance sweatshirts and neon earrings. And don't get me started on my hair.(Kim Wilde's Kids in America is here. The Jonas Brothers remake, Kids of the Future is here.)What remakes do you like, and which ones can you do without? And do you even KNOW which songs are really remakes?Kim Wilde's Kids in America Video.Kim Wilde's Keep Me Hangin' On Video.(Another Remake!)
Just One Word 2007-03-12 20:38:00 Use ony one word…..Not as easy as you might think. 1. Where is your cell phone?purse 2. Your Vehicle?van 3. Your hair?dark 4. Your mother?absent5. Your father?missed 6. Your favorite thing?naps 7. Your dream last night?climbing 8. Your favorite drink?lattes 10. The room you’re in?kitchen 11. Your ex?idiot 12. You are?tired 13. What do you want to be in 10 years?alive 14. Who did you hang out with today?kids 15. What you’re not?skinny 16. Muffins?coffeecake 17. One of your wish list items? curtains18. Where is the ______ ?wine 19. The last thing you did?shopped 20. What are you wearing?jeans 21. Your favorite TV show?24 22. Your pet(s)?sweet 23. Your computer?lifeline 24. Your life?blessed 25. Your mood?sad 26. Missing?book 27. What are you thinking about right now?napping 28. Your Shoes?closet 29. Your work?fulfilling 30. Your summer?waiting 31. Your favorite color? purpleThanks to Heather for the Meme! Go check out her great blog!
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