One for the Money - Stephanie Plum and Janet Evanovich

Check for famous woman event. 

Rose, Julie & Lisa spent this fine Sunday (Jan. 29th) preparing for and being enterained by the movie "One for the Money" based on books about Stephanie Plum written by one of our favorite authors, Janet Evanovich.  The books are hillarious mysteries.  In a prior year, Julie, Rose & Suz even stood in line at a Wal-mart for Motor Mouth for Julie's birthday and Janet gave her a key chain for her birthday.  Before that Rose and Julie read each other Seven's Up on our way back from Galveston.  So saying, we've always liked the Plum books!

Lisa's holding one of the Plum books, Rose is holding our Cluck in the Bucket chicken and Julie is holding a gun in her cookie jar

We all smuggled food.  Donuts (Boston Creme and
 Rose hide the jelly filled), fried chicken and flavored water

Soooo when we found out that the first book was made into a movie, boy were we excited...so we made a plan.  Dress up Jerseylishious, get some fried chicken, a dozen or so donuts and sneak em in to the movie.

The movie was hillarious and we all agreed Morrelli is HOT! hubba hubba.  Ranger was so so but we're hoping in later movies, he'll flaunt his stuff.  Anyway, Stephanie captured her man and we had a great time.

Meet Ralph!

Met Ralph, my purging box!

One of my New Years Resolutions is to purge stuff from my house.  So for the next two weeks, I'm going to purge stuff from my house and stuff Ralph with it!  Then I will haul the stuff off to Goodwill or the trash!  So welcome, Ralph (named so appropriately by Julie)!

Rose

A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down!

Like a spoonful of sugar helping the medicine go down, making a game out of cleaning makes it fun (ya right)! So Sunday, Julie issued me (Rose) a challenge to post on Facebook all the household chores we did that day.

Julie started the challenge with a load of laundry and feeding the pets but most importantly preparing coffee for her highness! Then she folded the laundry and made breakfast bread! Though a B-Disaster movie tried to suck her in Julie continued to play the game while I was still sleeping with unloading and loading the dishwasher and making brownies.

Not to let Julie win or to be tempted to get back in bed, I striped the bed.

Then on to sorting the laundry and starting the 1st load.  I carried the last of the Christmas decorations to the attic.

As I pushed and shoved, I heard the following

"No don't put me up here it's dark and cold

and then it's dark and hot! And I know

you are planning to eat Cake today,

 not today! Let us stay a few more days!"

Julie would not let me beat her, she finished another load of laundry and had the brownies cooling!  I continued on with cleaning the royal throne.



Polishing the mirror!

Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of all?

I was on a roll, I emptied the dishwasher, started another load, cleaned the backup throne, folded and PUT AWAY the towels, and made her royal highness breakfast!

Looks yummy and healthy too! Thank you Nutrisystem!



I started the dishwasher and another load of laundry. Julie shot back with another load of laundry started and folded.  She cleaned the living room and tried to take credit for dusting in advance ("will dust next"), not having it (ya Shea did it).  Julie packed up the Xmas stuff into bags and boxes but she delayed the putting the boxes in the attic until Monday!  Julie took another coffee break and Shea test tasted the bread and gave it a thumbs up!

I made the bed!

I changed the air filters (I didn't let it go over six, no wait twelve months this time).

I started the last load of laundry, folded another load and put it away, Yeah!  I even hung up the white shirt!  I moved on to dusting the upstairs including the fan (yuck) and baseboards.

I don't know what Julie was up too because she said she cleaned the living room again.  I don't think she gets credit for it twice.  But she did make spiced walnuts - sounds yummy!

I moved on to cleaning the shower and found another load of laundry to do (bath mats - UGH!).  Julie finished her last load of laundry and threw in the towel (i.e. She was done for the day).

I continued on the lone gamer, cleaning the microwave, two windows inside and out, and one just window inside. I flew around cleaning bathroom counter and mirror, and downstairs to dusted.  I made lunch in the clean microwave.  And with firework flashing in my eyes (or maybe it was just dizziness from all the fun I had), I vacuumed the carpet downstairs and mopped the kitchen and powder room!

Congratulations, Julie and Rose accomplished one piece of our resolutions!  1 of 3 Facebook Cleanings down the drain.

Barbara Bush Day for Rose & Julie

With our Barbara Bush autobiography (A Memoir) in hand, we met at New York Sub in Univeristy City to talk white shirts, Barbara Bush and the construction of the GWB library (Barbara's son's library, the closest thing we could get to her in Dallas in January).  After some yummy subs, we headed out to the partially constructed library to take pictures in our white shirts (behind us is the library).  We went to the Meadows Museum and wondered around the SMU Campus (Julie's counting this as exercise).  We had fun at our first Barbara Bush (or famous woman) event.

Rose & Julie with our Barbara Bush book at SMU.

Whooo hooo! The GWB almost constructed library.

The people driving by us thought we were nuts.

Don't tell Shea, I (Julie) had our brand new camera sitting in the middle of the road...I was using our cool tripod though.  I was exercising, see how high I jumped.

Reaching for the stars.  It wasn't one of our resolutions but it makes sense that we should.

The sign to the right of us was the only indicator that this was the GWB library.

Julie & Rose in front of the GWB library (camera is on Q).

In front of the SMU Museum and a cool moving metal art thingy.

Dancing to our own toons, but the art was dancing too!

Barbara came with us and Rose is ready to fight for our rights.

Purging!

One of my (Rose's) New Year's Resolution is to Purge.  I didn't even realize I had already started this until Charlie reminded me!  I had my Ex Fiance's vacuum cleaner,  it still worked and I was using it until I recently purchased a new "Animal Dyson Vacuum Cleaner" (the greatest vacuum ever).  But the Ex's vacuum cleaner still works, so I didn't want to throw it away and had been meaning to take it to Goodwill!  But it still irritated me to have it around.

So I gave my Ex's vacuum cleaner to Charlie because his Ex wife got the vacuum cleaner when they divorced.  To make this even funnier, his children told him that their mother's vacuum cleaner broke.  So both Charlie and I have working vacuum cleaners and I've made process on my Resolution to Purge!  I'm so channeling Niecy Nash, no wait Niecy Nash doesn't actually work on the show, so I want to be like, the organizer, Trish Suhr from Clean House!

The Beginning - Our Resolution

You may not believe this but for Christmas both Julie and I (Rose) received a white shirt from our mothers.  When I received the white button down shirt for Christmas from my mother, I did not know that she was giving me what I think is going to the most wonderful gift of my life or at least the year 2012.  When she gave me the shirt, my mother told me that she was giving practical gifts this year and that everyone needs a nice white button down shirt.  She told me that recently, she had seen Barbara Bush on TV wearing a white shirt and jeans and Barbara was saying that this was her favorite outfit.  My mother continued to tell me that the white shirt she was giving me was iron-free and could be worn with jeans, dress slanks, a skirt or a suit.

Well, you are still wondering why this is the most wonderful gift of my life, though a white shirt is a practical gift and can be worn with just about anything.  But as I told you, Julie also received a white shirt from her mother and I was telling her about my mother and Barbara Bush.  Well because it is a New Year, Julie, who is the creative one, came up with this idea for a theme for our New Year's Resolutions.  The theme would be famous women like Barbara Bush and her white shirt.  Since we both have white shirts we could make resolutions with famous women in mind.  So we are going to plan activites to laugh and learn from famous women and fill our white shirts and the blank year ahead of 2012 with wonderful and funny memories.

Happy New Years!