The Train- Stops Here-Merry Christmas To You

I know you have all heard of the famous
PENN STATION right?
Well this is 
PNEUMONIA STATION!

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I am the person that never 

gets anything.

Well, THIS THING got me good!

It got me so good
that I couldn't get a deep breath
without coughing so hard I
lost what breath I had-
so I drove myself to the
ER the other night.

THIS THING
is called PNEUMONIA.
So---

I am taking off for the Holidays
to try and be well for Christmas.

I wish you all a 

VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Me & My Truck
will be staying home!

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I'll see you all after the Holiday.
Be well and I hope you all have a safe and happy 
Christmas Season.

~Blessings from my family to yours~

HOW TO BLOCK A FOLLOWER From Your Blog Or In Other Words SMILE & Say GET LOST

I know most of you probably

already know how to do this.

But...there are a few of you 

(like me) that fall far below the level of

COMPUTER GENIUS!

I have  followers that I 

DO NOT WANT

to be able to read my blog-

or comment on my posts.

Yeah- mean old me.

Many of them have names that I cannot read

and when translated they basically

ask me to support and/or visit their website.

Some are porn and some support 

foreign missions asking for guns and money.

They need lives but they are not

going to find a life on my blog.

Nosireeebob!

Sorry!

Bye-Bye!

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You need to get to your dashboard.

I am embarrassed to tell you that it took me a while

just to figure out how to do that.

Open your blog. 

Go up to the upper right hand corner of your blog.

Click on DESIGN.

On the next screen you will see

MY BLOGS on the upper left hand side.

Click on MY BLOGS.

You will see your blog and the word followers.

Click on followers.

Start scrolling through them.

When you get to the end of the first page

click on MORE then click on NEXT.

When you see someone you want to remove

simply click on their icon.

Click on BLOCK them.

That's it.

You can UN-block them the same way

any time you choose.

To resume looking for others click the arrow in the upper left hand corner

and click on followers again.

Follow the same procedure until you have removed

everyone you want to remove.

I also blocked two bloggers

 that have been coming in

and leaving nasty comments

 about other people's comments.

I don't have time for that and I don't like controversy or drama.

So-byebye to them, too.

So, now they will have to stir it up somewhere else.

I "lost" about a dozen followers 

(make that 14 followers)

doing this.

They are still there but they are in a

 BLOCKED FILE

and they can't get through unless I unblock them.

HA!  Ain't gonna happen, baby!

So---there you have it!

Block till your little heart's content.

But don't block ME!!!!  lol

When that person comes to visit you next time

after you have blocked them

this is basically what they will see

only it will have your blog name on it.

So---there you have it.

If this blonde can do it-

You can, too.,

Laying low and trying to dump this cough

before Christmas!

After all, I want to be able to wear my

SASSY ELF COSTUME

on Christmas Day, right?

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MyHero will be dressed in his regular

outfit. He is going as 

The Caped Crusader:

At least he and his buddy are dumping

their masks for the day.

Have a wonderful Sunday!

FINISH IT UP FRIDAY- 5 Random Things And Blocking A Blogger

I am still cleaning up my picture files.

They are looking better all the time.

Soooo...here we go....some

RANDOM PICTURES

to keep me on task.

Here are BigBoyE, CharlesInCharge 

& Bright Eyes.

Looks like Ethan is the only one that got the

SMILE for the photo memo.

See that striped sweater Charlie as on?

Keep that in the back of your mind.

Their Dad's (Big J) favorite Christmas decoration

is every man's dream 

(and every woman's nightmare)

It stays above ground for exactly 30 days

before it is deep-sixed to the basement

to wait for next year to roll around.

My daughter is a smart girl.

She knows how to pick her battles.

Every little girl needs 

TWO PINK HATS.

Bright Eyes is no exception.

One for her solemn look and one for smiles.

I wanted to give a little belated Thank You 

to my friend, Louise, Cards by Louise

She is just such a sweet lady 

and keeps herself busy making cards.

SweetCheeks could not wait 

until Thanksgiving was over

so she could eat the Hershey Bar.

I saved the Pilgrim and she

saved ate the candy.

Now---remember I told you to keep that

red & white striped sweater 

stored in the back of your mind for later?

You can bring it forefront now.

This is one of my ALL TIME FAVORITE pictures

of SweetCheeks in

THE RED & WHITE STRIPED SWEATER.

The family had just cut 

the Christmas tree down and she

was trudging along behind.

Upon hearing her yelling they turned around

and this is what they saw.

She was caught in the bushes 

and didn't know how

to get out.

I laugh EVERY. SINGLE. TIME I see this picture.

SweetCheeks still DOES NOT think it is funny.

I think I am going to have to buy her a

SENSE OF HUMOR

for Christmas!

Have a great Friday.

I finished a lot of my projects yesterday 

SOOOO I hope to take pictures of the

DINING ROOM REDO 

and post them tomorrow.

edited to add:
Do you ever get those crummy comments
where there is tie-back to someone's blog
that you would NEVER promote in a
million years?
Did you know that you can block followers?
I just took 5 or 6 of them off.
Of course, your follower count goes down
but that doesn't bother me.
I never realized I could block them.
IF you want to know how and don't know
I can do a quick post about how to do it.

That's it- I'm off to eat ice cream
and watch soap operas like
Love Is A Many Splendored Thing.
~(is that even on anymore)~

The Girls Hit The City- CHICAGO

My daughter and her hubby

and the three girls

took a much needed break

from the stresses of everyday life.

While some of us looking for rest and relaxation

might head for the beach or a cabin

they headed for CHICAGO!

CHICAGO AT CHRISTMAS

is gorgeous.

The girls were so excited to go
and they had a ball.

I hope they get that growth removed

from the top of Lulu's head

before it gets out of control.

I can see Lulu rolling her eyes right now.

Her literal side would insist on telling me,

"That's a REFLECTION, Nana"

They saw some beautiful lights-

and visited some wonderful exhibits

and each one got some one on one time with Mom

While the girls were shopping at 
THE MALLS of CHICAGO
Little Cousin CJK, who was left behind,
had an exciting time, too.
He got to make his first cash purchase at
THE MEN'S MALL.
(that would be Fleet Farm)

There might have been a mini-meltdown
in the parking lot when he realized that he 
COULD NOT 
play with his new toy while he was buckled in
his carseat.

However-all those exciting moments
CANNOT COMPARE
to THIS!

ELVIS IS ALIVE AND WELL
and roaming the aisles of 
WALMART!
Although something looks a little fishy here to me.

 Those girls should have stayed home.
They could have seen history in the making!

HERE IT IS! How To Wrap Socks So They Are Something Special

Every year I like to post this little

-ahem- tutorial on wrapping 

SOCKS or MITTENS.

Prepare to spend a lot of time

IN THE BATHROOM

after you read this!

Is there anything more

mundane to wrap than SOCKS????

You KNOW that

you just don't want to

stick them in box

with a bow on it.

Right?

Look! Here's an answer to

your wrapping dilemma.

Well, peeps,

Here we go~

First you must get a sock..

well, make it a pair because

one sock won't work for

MOST people.

How about something like

these-?  Cute, huh?

Then you must find some of

those short peppermint sticks.

You can buy them or

someone might send them to you.

Then you must let the

peppermint stick

SNEAK UP ON

the SOCK!

Before you can say

Alla-ka-zam-whoheebobster-helloworld

that peppermint stick

has jumped into the sock

and worked its way down

into the toe.

Can you see it there?

I've pinched it to make it stay

and now I am gonna roll

that little sucker up

into what I like to call

THE SOCK ROLL.

Well, GREAT, we got ourselves 

A SOCK ROLL

NOW- what the heck are do we do with that?

Welllllll....

There's another kinda roll

lying around my house

cuz I've been saving them.

Used toilet paper rolls.

No..No..Not used toilet paper..

Used up empty rolls.

They look like this when they are naked.

Don't worry about that little bit of

white tissue left-you won't see it soon.

Find some foil based wrapping paper.

Foil works best because you can

bend the edges down and you

don't have to glue/tape it

lest you want to.

Wrap that foil paper around

that roll leaving about 1/3"

extending over each end.

Simply bend the paper down

so that it overlaps the edge of the roll.

You will not see this when it is

done but you can glue/tape if if you like.

Then..

Sneak up on those socks and

stuff them in the roll.

A roll in a roll.

I'm just keeping myself rolling here!;>)

Remember you won't see this at the end.

Then, take some sweet tissue paper

and cut an 18" x 18" piece~

or thereabouts.

Center the roll in the middle and

starting at one end,

roll that baby up and then

twist the ends so that it

looks like a big old fat

piece of taffy.

Toilet Taffy

Laffy Taffy!

Now is that cute, or what?

I only need to tie a bit of ribbon

around the twist and I'm done.

And, when it's unwrapped

they will see the shiny foil roll

and NOT this..

Cuz the only place we

REALLY want to see THAT

is in the bathroom.

And we don't even really want

to see it there because that

would mean that someone

like MyHero..

not pointing fingers here but it

has happened

has used the last piece on

the roll

 and neglected to replace

it and there is none to be found

making me want to scream

bad words...naughty words...

Okay-that's it-

Now get rolling and wrapping

cuz there's not much time left!

And I'll just say a little prayer for you

to have to go to the bathroom

a whole lotta times

(if you need empty rolls

to wrap your socks)

cuz I am just nice like that!;>)

You can always TRY this if you need

empty rolls in a hurry!

I am just FULL of .......what

good advice!