Life with Mason and Dixon

YouTube - Bono Crying (looking a wee bit like Robin Wiilliams) - U2 in Hawaii Dec 9 '06

YouTube - Bono Crying (looking a wee bit like Robin Wiilliams) - U2 in Hawaii Dec 9 '06

Click on the link above and you will see Bono crying! Why may you ask, is Bono crying? Because he was sad that I was not the winner at 5pm from the radio station when they announced the winner to the trip to Ireland to see the band play in Dublin. :(

YouTube - U2 - The Sweetest Thing

YouTube - U2 - The Sweetest Thing

Click the link above to hear the U2 Song the Sweetest Thing!

My local radio station had a contest to win a trip to Ireland to see U2 in concert in Dublin. Whenever a U2 song played on the radio, and you were the 15 caller to the station you were put in a drawing to win the trip. 4 winners qualified a day for 5 days resulting in 20 names being qualified. I have a 1 in 20 shot. I called everyday every time I heard a song.......the busy signal became my friend. Well, on Thursday on my day off I really devoted time to qualifying for the contest. I almost missed it. I heard the dogs barking and went to see what all the commotion was about. NOTHING, of course. Well, I came back in the room and sure enough I hear the Sweetest Thing playing. I started yelling "Where's my phone". Found it and dialed several times getting a busy signal. Well, I decided to use some visual imagery and started talking to the phone as If I had just won, well all of a sudden in starts to ring and I could not believe it. I won! A CD that is, as I still have to have my name drawn on Friday after 5pm. Hey, it has to be someone, so it should be me. And quiet honestly I can't think of anyone better than moi. :)

Nature Preserve Hike

Hubby and I decided to take a hike thru a Nature preserve close to our house. We had fun. We have gone several time, sometimes early in the morning in hope of seeing a lot of wildlife and once because we are big goons late at night around 11pm on a full moon so we could scare the wits out of each other. And yes I did get majorly spooked. Think Blair Witch project or anything your imagination can create in the dark in the woods. I know, seriously we need better ways to entertain ourselves. In reality the biggest thing living in the preserve is gopher tortoise's. And I think the animal tracks were from a raccoon.

Boycott "ORPHAN" Movie - Petition Spot

Boycott "ORPHAN" Movie - Petition Spot

A new movie called ORPHAN will be released this summer. I encourage any and everyone to not see it but also to boycot the movie with the above link. The premise is that a older child who is an orphan is adopted but that she is a bad seed and is does horrific things to her family. Honestly, society already presents Adopted children as second best or as acts as if a adopted child is the 2nd choice when couples cannot have biological children. Or how many people have your heard say " Oh, you don't want to adopt because you might get a bad kid." I think this movie perpetrates that idea. Yes, I realize that all the above mentioned stuff is a inaccurate, but that is the harm of movies like this.

Tree almost hits my car!

Imagine my surprise to find this at the end of the day, in the parking lot. I always try to avoid parking near trees, but it was the only spot available today. I am also glad that I make it a point to not park close to the curb, since my car has a low front.

This is the branch! Thank God it did not fall on anyone. It landed on the median between the cars, that I walked over after I got out of my car. Can you say major head injury.

This is the view from inside the drivers side of my vehicle.

Today Is my Birthday!!!

Headed to the Magic Kingdom for my day. I decided to take advantage of the free admission to any one Disney Park for your Birthday. Decided to go to the Magic Kingdom. It has been about 5-6 years since my last visit.

We got in before the park opened since we took a special vip tour ( not free) called Keys to the Kingdom. Way Cool. It is a 5 hour behind the scenes tour that includes lunch. You get to go down into the underground tunnels, see where the employees work, the characters, ride a few rides and learn some secrets. For example, all you FSU fans, if you ride Splash Mountain and check out Briar Rabbit befor the drop and listen carefully You will hear him yell "Go FSU". Since the Imagineer that worked on the ride was a FSU grad.

Roy Disney ( Walt's brother) and Minnie. After the tour ended around 1:30, we headed home to check on the boys, then headed back to the park around 6:30pm. Had Dinner at the Magic Kingdom, rode about 4-5 rides and then midnight came and it was time for this Cinderella to head home. It was a great Birthday.

Alex made another real estate investment. We have a Castle now.!

Sunday we headed over to Baldwin Park in Orlando to the 6Th Annual Doggie Art Festival. We took Dixon with us today and left Mason at home. Dixon has been acting up lately so we thought a little one on one time would be good for him. We saw several artist and dog product vendors. It made for a nice Sunday afternoon stroll. Definitely tired out Dixon, he was zonked out once we hit the car and went to sleep again after we got home. Above are a few pics of some of the artist and a cute little dog that according to his owner likes to wear Sunglasses..........hmmmm I don't know but he certainly did not seem to be bothered by them.

5K here we come

This time we were in the lovely town of Windermere for thier 8th Annual Run among the Lakes. What a great place to do a Run/Walk.
Mom and I walked it of course, as did a lot of other people. This one was a little more challenging to walk due to the uneven dirt roads, but we did it. I was a little nervous that Mom was not going to be able to finish, but she did! No medal at the end but we did have Chick Fil A and Panera Bread offering a light breakfast and free water bottles. Good enough for us. Then afterwords we hit up several community garage sales in the area and did a little mall shopping. All in all it was a good Mom/Daughter day. .