White Death 2010

We certainly don’t live in Florida anymore…

That last picture is sorta…umm.. yeah…. {wink}

It’s been a whole lot of fun adjusting to the four seasons, especially this particular one. But winter has been a blast. I lurve it!! Of course, my opinion is subject to change depending on how long this white stuff lasts. LoL!

I hope you are all having a cozy evening, Til next time, much love to you all!

Love At First Bite

Happy Tuesday everybody! I am actually a day behind in Mama M’s Valentine Day’s week long Blog Hop. So, what that means is this is actually yesterday’s question. No worries, because today’s question I have already answered in a previous post.  Moving onto today’s (yesterday’s?) question: What is your favorite date story (good or bad)?

This one was easy peasy. Our first date. It was January 4, 2000. Tommy picked me up at 7 pm. He showed up with a single pink rose. (There’s a back story here about him having to make a good impression here due to him making a previous bad judgment call, but that will have to come later this week, I don’t want to give it away just yet.)

He took me out to eat at a nice Italian restaurant called Bolla Pasta. We talked and laughed so much, that we didn’t even notice that an hour had passed since we had paid the bill. The night was early and we had no further plans, but neither of us wanted the night to end yet. We decided to go shoot pool and watch the NFC playoffs at The Sports Bar (Yes, that’s what’s it’s called. They really stretched their creativity muscle when they named their bar, didn’t they?)

I was sitting on a stool, looking at the pool table waiting on Tommy to take his shot, while Tommy walked around the pool table towards me. I wasn’t even noticing him. As he passed by me, he just casually gave me the sweetest little smooch. It was the best kiss anyone ever gave.

I almost fell over from the heat that hit my face.

You know how they say when it happens you’ll just know? It’s true. That tiny little smooch sorta sealed the deal for me, and I was like a moth to the flame from that moment on.

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Have a great day everybody! I’ll be back later this evening to share with y’all some of the awesome snow pictures we got from the unexpected snowstorm we got yesterday.

Love Is In The Air…

The lovely Mama M is hosting a Valentine’s Day related Blog Hop this week  that is all about you and you better half. After having a quiet week of blogging last week, I am looking forward to a challenge this week.  Today’s question is how did you and your significant other meet?

{Let me do this in my best Estelle Getty impersonation}

Picture it: Memphis, Tennessee, March 28, 1999. I was 21, Tommy was 20. I was fresh, fresh, fresh on the heels of a divorce. Tommy was a sophomore at the University of Memphis, and a bartender at Shooter’s, a local country music club.

I had finally made the decision it was time to begin to date again and asked my friend Meredith to go out with me to Shooters that night for some line dancing. We were having a great time that night, and I was literally the belle of the ball. But there was one guy who really caught my eye. He was wearing a staff shirt and asked me for my number. He was super cute, and had a beautiful smile. He was the bar -back and his name was Charles.

D’oh!

Buuuuuttttt…….   because Charles and I started dating that night, we ended up going on a group vacation to the Gulf Shores in the middle of May that year. And, as it turns out, Tommy went on that trip. And, as it turns out, ALLLLLL of the girls except for me backed out at the last minute. It was me and six guys for four days. I was the princess, and they were my big brothers. We had a blast!

Tommy and I bonded over beer and sand during that trip. We spent the next year as friends. We talked every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night at the club. On the nights it was slow, I would sit at the bar and we would just talk for hours. But, friends is all we were, nonetheless.

Then, it happened. Charles and I broke up at the end of that December, just after Christmas. And New Year’s Eve was fast approaching. Not just any New Year’s Eve, either. The Millennium. I needed a date and fast. And on the morning of December 29th, I woke up, just like every other day, and that day a weird new thought popped into my head.

I’m going to ask Tommy out tonite.

Say whaaaa????

The rest as they say is history.

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I hope you are all having a lovely day. We are having an unexpected snow day, and my boys are out enjoying it as I type this. Until tomorrow, much love to you all!

Fred

Let me introduce you to our newest family member and today’s entry for Black and White Monday brought to you by my mom (AKA: Fred).

Have a great day everybody!!

Ta Da!!

You know how when you have been gone on a trip, and you walk in your front door and see your home for the first for a long time-  how good it feels? Yeah, that’s just what I am feeling right now. I know it’s been a week since my last post, but it’s been for a good reason, I promise.

I have been so exhausted at the end of every day, that the thought of even picking up my pinky finger to tap out a post was simply too much to bear. Why you may wonder?  The answer is in the pictures below:

Those are pictures of the living room and dining room as they were a week ago. (Ok, the dining room maybe more than just a week ago. More like last May. But, that’s neither here nor there.) The living room was all right. It was just needing a little tweaking, maybe some fine tuning. BUUUUT. The dining room. Oh merciful heavens the dining room. Yaaaaaawn city, right?

After a grueling week of nonstop work, school, home school, and DIY Tommy and I are proud to present to you our latest video blog:

Ta Da! from Toni Summers on Vimeo. (Click on “Ta Da” to go to the video)

So, what do you think??? Love it? Hate it? Have you done any dining room over hauls lately? Let me know! Leave me some comment love! I’m beginning to think I’m talking only to myself and the fabulous Ms. D . Be loud and proud, peoples!!

Until next time, much love to you all!

Ohm

This week’s black and white Monday’s picture is:

Snow Day!

We got a smattering of snow (and mostly ice) in the last twenty-four hours. Personally, I am loving it. Not all members of our family share the sentiment:

He’s an old grumpy-puss.  (Get it? Grumpy puss? Ha!)

Anywho…

On that note, I bring you this week’s video blog. Let it snow, baby!!

Snow Day from Toni Summers on Vimeo. (Click on “Snow Day” to go to the video.)

(PS- Before anyone asks. No, that is not real snow falling in the pictures. It is a special effect I applied using Picnik . I thought it was fun, and decided to keep it. If you haven’t tried Picnik out yet, what are you waiting for?)