Things I Love Tuesday: Part 10

91.  clean sheet night
92.  camping next to the river
93.  funny people (Mitch Headburg)
94.  date night
95.  audio books
96.  ice cold water after brushing my teeth
97.  laughing out loud
98.  road trips, with good music and even better snacks
99.  lazy saturdays, cuddling in bed
100.  being free ~ freedom!

Things I Love Tuesday: Part 9

81.  my iPod
82.  the smell of freshly cut grass
83.  soaking up the serenity in the mountains
84.  receiving a great gift
85.  home interior photographs
86.  lazy summer mornings
87.  road trips
88.  a clear schedule
89.  home organization (totally satisfying!)
90.  beach walks

Things I Love Tuesday: Part 7

61.  used bookstores
62.  photography
63.  new pens and notebooks
64.  fortune cookies
65.  organic smoothies
66.  liking what i see in the mirror
67.  suntans
68.  a true bargain
69.  pretty tattoos
70.  StumbleUpon

Things I Love Tuesday: Part 6

51. Big Blue Bears

52.  Nature Hikes

53.  Flowers on the wall

54.  Short hair, cute dresses and Texas sunshine

55.  Winged feet

56.  Laughing Dog Productions

57.  Common interests

58.  Nightfall on the lake

59.  Turtlespirit (my sweet friend Susan)

60.  Orchids with faces (look close)

Things I Love Tuesday: Part 5

41.  mommy/baby time in the soft green grass

42.  figuring out Photoshop

 43.  43 things (very interesting)
 

44.  Lego art

45.  amazing music in my soul! Drum Sex by Brent Lewis

46.  the smell of peonies

47.  my playful kitty

48.  big shoes/little shoes

49.  remembering last summer's baby belly

50.  baby buns

Things I Love Tuesday: Part 4

31.  playing in the river

32.  The way my oldest daughter makes her bed

33.  red lipstick

34.  our forever rings

35.  Mario's Pizza

36. baby feet

37.  cute scarves, hats and mittens (the only reason i look forward to colder weather)

38. giant sun flowers

39.  the word “serendipity”

 40.  the huge pomegranate tree in my front yard

A Horse of a Different Color

Ok, so I managed to have a moment to myself to check my e-mail; there were none.  When I signed out, my homepage popped up with some of today’s “top stories”.  Since I’m pretty much over the Royal Wedding thing, and have not one care about Bin Laden (other than to doubt he is actually dead—probably hanging out somewhere with Elvis and Jimmy Hoffa) I came across this picture.

Photo credit to Yahoo.com

For those of you who don’t know, “Yum! Brands” owns fast food restaurants such as KFC and Taco Bell.  The Kentucky Derby is pretty much self explanatory, but for those of you just joining our planet, it’s a horse race.  As if I wasn’t already grossed out by fast food, especially Taco Bell and KFC, they went and advertised like this!   While meats in the US are inspected by the FSIS,( Food Safety and Inspection Service)  the USDA grades meats into eight categories:   Prime, Choice, Select, Standard, Commercial, Utility, Cutter and Canner.  The latter of the three are used to make ground beef and other items such as hot dogs.  It is fair to make mention that this “grading” system is optional.  Given the present advertisement, I wonder if they’ll add a ninth category…Derby. Eeeeewwwwww!

(Shhhhh.....If you listen carefully, you can hear a million PETA activist preparing to tear down my door.)

Note:  For those who don't know me, I love animals.  I have four spoiled rotten, over fed, lazy cats, not counting the neighbor's cat who sits on the kitchen window each morning waiting for his morning ration of crunchy morsels and some lovin'.  I also have an equally spoiled Australian Shepard who we love dearly.  Bet they'd like the Derby grade.