Not Me! Monday! More Odd Reasons to Celebrate!

(Just pretend that the date above says Monday, January 5, 2009!)

Yes, another adventure into the world of denial! All those things that you would never, ever admit to anyone face-to-face - but are perfectly willing to publish for all the world to see on your blog! Thanks to MckMama at mycharmingkids.net for providing us with this outlet.

I did not, nor would I ever, give my rat terrier, Dixie, doggie valium just because she was frightened by all the fireworks on New Year's Eve. I think the neighbors on the next street over hired professionals this year! Starting about 9:15 you would hear a loud "whump", a few seconds later the explosions would shake the windows and light up the entire area! They kept this up for just over THREE HOURS!!

And I certainly didn't spend part of that same New Year's Eve on the bathroom floor . . . . . trying to coax that same Dixie Dog out from under the toilet where she was vibrating in fear!

At great risk to my personal health I didn't choke down enough black-eyed peas to cover my luck for 2009. And I did NOT mix them with a healthy portion of rice and a very UNhealthy portion of real butter!

Finally - I am not spending endless hours doing laundry because someone around here didn't do any at all last week! And I didn't feel sooooo ambitious this morning that I decided I would do ALL the people blankets, doggie blankets and change the sheets today, too!

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And - here are our excuses to celebrate today!

5- Bozo the Clown's Birthday (1959) - A childhood icon for us old folks!

5- National Bird Day - Be sure to cover your car!

5- Hamburger Birthday (1889) - We'd all starve to death without this!

5- National Bean Day - and this!

5- National Whipped Cream Day - Yummmmmmy!

5- Mr. Ed's Birthday (TV Show 1961) - A horse is a horse, of course of course . . .

5- FM Radio Birthday (1940) - Wasn't is always there?

IT'S NOT ME MONDAY TIME AGAIN!

I did not start doing my laundry yesterday - and quit right in the middle of it. Got enough done to get through a few days. Might finish it today - or might not!

And while fixing a pretty darned good spaghetti dinner this week I would never dip into that new container of chocolate chip ice cream in the freezer!

Saturday, while fishing (not catching), I certainly DIDN'T peel several shrimp and feed them to those really cute little sand pipers that were running up and down the beach!

And I would NEVER EVER pick most of the lima beans out of my mixed vegetables while eating the other night and feed them to the doggies! Who knew rat terriers liked lima beans?

Finally - - I could not have taken a 2 hour nap Sunday . . . nope, not me. It's too close to CHRISTmas and I have way too much to do to be taking naps!

And what didn't you do this week - - hmmmmmm? Leave me a comment!!!

MY FIRST "NOT ME MONDAY"

For those of you not familiar with "Not me Monday", it is the cheapest therapy out in the cyber world - thanks to MckMama - at My Charming Kids (see link on the right)! What did you 'not' do this week?

There is absolutely no way possible that I just fed my husband and myself TV Dinners! Nope, not me - a good wife would never do that this close to Christmas!!

I did not stay up until 2 o'clock this morning just to finish reading a really good book! I knew I would never sleep well unless I knew 'who done it'!

While putting up the outdoor Christmas decorations I did not convince one of the neighborhood teenage boys to give me a hand - and his mom wouldn't let me pay him! Me??? Use teenage slave labor??? NEVER!

When one of my Grandsons (Little W - who is 9) announced he wanted a tatoo - it never crossed my mind to picture him in a black leather jacket sitting on a big old Harley!

That's it for me. Leave me some comments on what you didn't do lately.