Ciao! Chao! Chow!

I write a lot of crap sometimes, I know...but I have no regrets because I'm sure it felt real to me in the moment. No apologies! I rarely mention my 3 kids because this blog is not for or about children, there are enough of those out there! But, having survived several parties and the Easter Bunny, I can tell you about the 'My Little Pony' counter-culture. It started a few weeks before my youngest daughters birthday, she wanted a 'my little pony' theme and ponies. When I was a child in the 1980's, nothing thrilled my heart more than those damn ponies. Thankfully, I was a good little girl and I saved everything! So my daughters have inherited my pony collection. When I went on ebay to find some for the party, I found an entire site dedicated to psycho pony collectors. Then I became one, I ordered 4 ponies for my daughter, mint condition, from 1984. THEN, upon digging further, I found the people with tattoos and such...I kind of want one. Moving on, I would like to say 'Hello, or whatever' to Sweden, my dream country...I wish I could go there, smother everything in Lingonberry preserves and eat it up! wait...maybe it was 'smother Alexander Skarsgard in Ligonberry preserves and lick it off'...either way, sounds good. I am waiting for season three of 'True Blood' and I dream of that man...(he plays Eric Northman-greatest vampire ever) I always imagine that if I went to Sweden that I would feel like a Hobbit in comparison. My family history is mixed, I am supposed to be mostly German and Italian. I guess the fact that I am only 5 feet tall can be blamed on someone! I would love to visit both places one day...and eat and drink...possibly find long lost family members...I guess I have to appreciate being an American from Memphis, Tennessee. I love Elvis, sweet tea, fried chicken, fried anything...how's that for a stereotype? As I am writing, I am inhaling a huge bowl of my beloved 'fruity pebbles' and thinking about what to do with my day off...the weather is a perfect example of 'warm spring day' which can mean only one thing to me=allergies. Everything is covered in a thin layer of yellow pollen and my eyes are crusted shut...I have also sneezed enough to consider it an 'abs workout'...but nothing can stop me from enjoying such a perfect day after such a long, cold winter...I'm off to throw on flip-flops and find some trouble! xoxo...