So I'll go first. (Y'all knew I would, teehee!)

My 15-year-old son got his first car! He is soooo excited. His dad (my ex-husband) bought it for him. It's a 1998 Honda Civic, and he is in love with it. It's a great little car too. I drove it to Atlanta for the NWA Fanfest because it has air conditioning and the air is out in my small car.

Here's the problem. When I got back, I went to get the car registered (it still has the drive out tag from the car lot where he bought it), and the County Clerk's Office lady was taking a really long time looking at my title. Then she looked at me and said "you've got a problem". My heart sank. She explained to me that the original owner of the car never signed off on the title. Someone else signed the title, sold the car to the car lot, and they sold the car to us. They signed by Power of Attorney, and the signatures don't even match. Worst case scenario, the car could be stolen. And I can't get the car registered until the car lot fixes the title.

I've contacted the car lot, and my ex-husband has contacted the car lot and even went down there, and the BITCH that runs this car lot is giving us every excuse in the book why she can't do anything, and now we have a car we can't get registered or drive, and my son's heart is broken. I'm ready to go down there and drag this "woman" out onto the pavement and beat her ass, but my ex-husband won't let me (lol), him being an attorney and all. (I get that way when someone hurts my child.)

So now, my ex-husband is in the process is drawing up papers to take this woman to court and we are going to have to sue her to get our money back on the car that we can't drive or get registered, and my son will have to give back the car. I'm madder than hell!

OH NO SHE DI-NT!!

Halo

Thank you Bull. We all need to have one little corner of the world where we can just let it out sometimes, don't we?

I love avacados! But have you seen the price on these little suckers? I was at the grocery store yesterday and they wanted $1.88 each. EACH! FOR ONE! And they were really small and shriviled up. I have a friend who works at the Hard Rock Cafe and they are paying $70 a case for these things. (How many are in a case?) I can't believe it.

No guacamole for Halo anytime soon!

I wish avacados would grow here . . . but they won't. I love them so much. But since I'm getting so much land along with my house, my son and I were just talking about planting our own garden next spring. Just a small one . . . enough for ourselves and to share with friends. We thought maybe some tomatoes, okra, corn, yellow squash, cucumbers, and bell peppers. Maybe some pumpkins too to have for Halloween. These vegetables grow really well here in Tennessee. Other people grow tobacco and strawberries here for profit, but there's no way I would get into that. I don't have near enough land and time for that, and it takes way more work than I would be willing to put into it anyway.

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And on an "Oh No They Di-Nt" Note . . .

I was watching TV today, and I saw a commercial for this new football-toy-like thingy. It is about 3/4 of a football, and then has a flat rubber end so you can throw it up against a hard surface and it will bounce back to you. The commercial featured four children standing still, throwing the football up against a brick house and catching the football as it came back to them.

Are they serious??? Are our American children so fat and lazy now that they need a football that they can throw against a wall and it comes back to them and they don't have to move now? What happened to playing REAL football? Can children not chase a REAL football? I was so astounded when I saw this commercial I just stood there with my mouth open. I couldn't believe it. I seriously think any parent who orders this thing for their child should be strung up in the middle of town square for the world to see, teehee. This is outrageous!

And what happened to parents tossing the football with their children. Where were the parents in this commercial? On the couch? This commercial didn't promote parents playing with their children in any way whatsoever. I have to say, this was absolutey the worst commercial I have ever seen. It should be taken off the air immediately, in my opinion.

Sorry for my rant on that subject but, WTF? And American parents wonder why their children are overweight and lazy. Duh, people, duh!

Halo

I still can't believe this one.

That reminds me of a class I took recently cor CPR and first aid. The person talking said "It's not what you don't do, it's what you do do." When that was said, I turned to the guy next to me to get his attention about what was said and he didn't get it. So I just kept giggling to myself about that. Still makes me smile just thinking about it.

Say it out loud. It's the second part that always gets me. Simple things like this make me laugh.