What NOT to do with your cellphone
or "why you should have cellphone insurance"

When buying a cellphone, some people think the insurance is just another way for cell phone companies to seperate you from your money. Before you decided not to buy that insurance, here are a few true stories of things that have happened to cell phones.

Squeaky Clean

While mopping the floor one day, my friend leaned over too close to the mop bucket and dropped the phone into the nice hot, bleach and soap water. It never worked again.

Apple EWE!

One day while in a rush I, I mean, a friend of mine put a jar of applesauce in her purse along with her cell phone. When I, I mean, my friend got home, she opened her purse to find that the lid had come off the jar and her phone was soaking in applesauce. It was sticky and the buttons would stay down if pushed, but it worked until her replacement phone came in the mail.

Apple EWE number 2

A friend of mine was given a bag of apples for free and put them in her bag. The idea was that the person giving them away was giving them to her before they went bad. When she got home, she found her phone soaking in some sticky liquid and couldn't figure out what it was. Turns out the apples in the bag were so old, they were liquifying in her bag and something had punctured the bag letting all the apple goo run onto her phone.

That phone is hothothot!

I'll try to type this one without laughing too hard... My friend, her husband and her kids went camping for Mother's Day. Her sister had come up later in the day to camp out with them and they were waiting for her hubby and kid to arrive when it started thundering and lightening. My friend grabbed her kids and went down to the parking spot and loaded them in while her hubby and sis put out the camp fire completely. They went to her house and slept there. In the morning, since the weather cleared, my friend went back to the camp site to start the fire and finish their camp out. While getting the fire pit ready, she found a small circuit board, a blob of burned plastic and a small clear window that was on the cellphone. He DID have his phone in his pocket but at some point it fell out while he was tending the fire and that was the end of that phone.

SO, enjoy your cellphone and should ever you think nothing will happen to your phone, well, we thought that too.

Happy Early Mother's Day!

This morning I woke up before the boys. I knew they planned a special breakfast in bed so I snuck out to the kitchen for some coffee. Lil Mendel came out shortly after and we snuck into the fudge rounds and had a special snack and giggles together over coffee. I sat at my computer and checked emails after that and Miles eventually crawled out of bed and started fixing breakfast for me.

I was served a bell pepper egg just the way I like it! He sautee'd the bell pepper first, then dumped the eggs in on top of them and scrambled them together. It was really good with the side of Jimmy Dean maple sausage. Now I love maple sausage, but I think the entire pack (all 12 links) was a bit much for me, so I shared them with the boys.

I received a wonderful pink gift bag with a card attached :) It had the Black eyed Peas CD Monkey Business and the book "Dick Cheney's Survival Bible- DUCK!" that I wanted. Lil Mendel also gave me a keychain that has a book on the end with blank pages inside. It is to help me from forgetting things. Wow! He knows me well!

I've had a wonderful Mother's Day! And since I know you are wonderign why I am celebrating today instead of tomorrow...

Tomorrow is our 12th Anniversary. We won't be together for it. My hubby is in the Navy in San Diego and we're in TN. But we'll be celebrating anyway. I asked his friend to take him out for me, and I have two wonderful gentlemen who will be sharing a very nice dinner with me here at the Rolling Hills Cafe, AKA my front porch. It'll be a wonderful time :)

I've missed my blog!

After a month of phone and internet and router problems, I forgot to post on my blog. We're doing great. This weekend we are traveling to South Carolina for the weekend. We'll be going to Fairy Glen for the weekend and celebrating Beltaine. I won't be able to answer email until Tuesday though. I promised myself that Monday I would spend time unpacking and getting the house organized. And I do better when everything is put back!

Next week my list of accomplishments to achieve are:

1) Clean out the closets.

2) Finish sorting through clothes and putting the seasonal clothes in bags in the closet and other clothes set aside and priced for the flea market.

3) Plan the lesson plans for AO for 22 June to 21 September.

4) Report grades to HomeLife Academy and finsih their portfolio's (good practice for the upper years)

5) Finish the boys bedroom walls.

6) Get the printer and ink on ebay.

7) Post the Trans Am for sale in teh trader... It's $4,000 if any wants to buy it. Email us at dotchi@vei.net

8) Get checks done for the 15th paycheck and ready to mail.

So far I have been doing better with the Motivated Moms chores/ tasks and the A Plan Of Attack lists. It gets hard on some days and I feel like everything is falling behind, but other days I feel great and feel like I can do it with no problems. I think it will help once we have a lot of stuff out of the house.

Well, off I go to finish planning the weekend! Can't wait to be home Monday!