Avon Deer

I was thinking about the Avon perfume bottle that my aunt got me in the early 80s. I wish that I had kept this cute bottle. I decided to go onto ebay to see if someone was selling it and actually found it. I had thought that Sweet Honesty perfume was in it but it was Charisma. There was a doe one that had that perfume in it though. It is tempting to get the silver fawn but I don't know if I really should be spending 10.00 with the shipping cost on such an item now. I should save that money for souvenirs at the US Open in a couple of months.

Mad Libs

I remember having so much fun doing these Mad Libs with my classmates and friends in grade school in the early 1980s.

Hershey Park - 1974

I don't actually have memories of this vacation but it looks like we were having a good time at both Hershey Park and Valley Forge State Park in Pennsylvania. The goat that mom and I are petting is so cute. Now I feel like having a Hershey's Kiss.

Our Flowers/Latest News

My brother got these flowers at Home Depot a few weeks ago. He has since planted the ones in the top photo along the front walkway. They all look very nice in our yard. I took a picture of this a few days ago and will post it in the future. I'm not much of a plant/flower person. My grandma gave me a cactus once and I wound up overwatering and killing it which I felt so bad about.

Our township sent us a notice saying that we have to either paint or pressure/powerwash the fence or we'll get fined. We had a month to do so but now it is down to 2 weeks. My brother will be doing the powerwash on the deck as well. They both do look pretty bad.

I have been having problems at this site which is very frustrating for me. I can't seem to figure out what to do about them. I try signing in but it won't let me and says that there is an error and that the page can't be found and a few other things that I can't remember. I get here through the link in my Facebook and never sign out because I am afraid that I won't ever get back into my blog which would be upsetting. I have tried leaving comments on some posts but it won't even let me. I'm afraid that this will start happening on others too. Does anybody have any advice for me as to what to do about this. I tried the help center but just got confused there.

I appreciate all the comments that have been recently left on my posts and will try to reply to them as soon as possible. I just have not had the mental energy to even use the computer lately. Plus even when my brother isn't here I hear his voice in my head criticizing me for using his computer. He has been criticizing me for even more things these days even for me putting cucumbers on my sandwich and when I accidentally drop stuff which seems to happen even more when he's around because that boy makes me so nervous.

I hope that everyone has been doing well lately. I'm looking forward to reading more posts and leaving comments on the ones that I still can do this for. I am pretty sad about not being able to do so for the others.

My Newspaper/Moch Frap Time

We used to get the full subscription to the Star Ledger but we had to make cuts in the budget because of rising expenses in other areas like the cost of gas so now we only get the Sunday subscription which also includes Thursdays and certain holidays. It's kind of strange that they don't have a weekender subscription though. Thursday's edition has the sales flyers in it. I really miss gettting the paper everyday esp. on Wednesdays and Fridays. For the past few weeks I have actually been going to Shop Rite very early in the morning on those 2 days for the paper. I pray that my brother will not wake up early and interrupt my nice, quiet paper reading/mocha frappuccino drinking time. He is very rude and doesn't care that it bothers me that he talks as I try to read. He would just say that I'm crazy if he knew that I do this. I am up at 4:30 and at the store before they even brought the papers in and put them on the shelf. I love the Ticket and Munchmobile section. In the summertime they go to different places throughout NJ and have a theme every week. It was pancake, waffle and french toast last week and 2 of these aren't that far from me - Westfield and Elizabeth.

I started out only having a mocha frap 2 days a week - on Sundays and Thursdays but now that I get the paper on the other 2 days I have it then too. The two things go together well for me. I do have a banana as well because just the mocha frap would not be a very good breakfast. I now have this on the other 2 days as well in addition to Saturdays when I am reading the Entertainment Weekly which comes on Fridays and I save it for early the next morning. I really am going to have to cut back on that drink though because even on sale it is 5.00 for the 4 pack and I am having to cut back on my savings fund for important things like new eyeglasses just to have the money for this. Sometimes I feel like I am addicted to the stuff. I think that the price of it will be going up soon because I read that the price of coffee is increasing so maybe it will be on sale for 6.00 instead. I have to have it despite that. I usually drink decaffinated coffee but this is definitely not decaf. I kind of feel a little energized after drinking it but also a bit jittery. I will be just going to the store for the paper on Fridays from now on though - probably.

My 2 Scooby T-Shirts

I love Scooby Doo! I got these 2 t-shirts at the Warner Brothers store in Woodbridge Mall. It was disappointing when that store closed down there. The top one was actually in the kids department and is and extra large. I could have gotten the large and it would have been an even better fit. I have a few other Scooby shirts too. I don't care if that Stacey on What Not to Wear says that it is too childish to be wearing such shirts. I think it's cool to wear these. I would be too embarrassed to wear ones with my favourite music stars and TV shows on them though.

My Polish Barbie

This is actually Mom's Barbie that she bought in the early 1990s, I think, but she said that I could have it when I recently asked her. I really like these International Barbies. I wish that we had gotten the Russian, French and English ones also so we'd have all my nationalities/heritage. Well, I'm actually part Ukranian but I don't think that they had this specific one, only Russian Barbie. I'm sure that I would be able to get them on ebay or elsewhere now but they probably are considered a collector's item and cost alot. I saw an Italian Barbie at Walmart the other day but it did not seem to be made as well as the ones from when I was a kid or even from the early - mid 1990s. They had retro Barbies there also, including the Peaches and Cream 1985 one that I still have from back then.