Okay Already!!!!!

Hey Yall! Did you read the title to this post? I AM POSTING!!!!!! ENOUGH of the harassment!

I guess all my 3 readers think I am just busting at the seams (well, those seams too!) with hilarious stories of Frannycakes life. So much has been happening around here in my life that I can't really think of anything hilarious. Sorry. Moving tends to make Frannycakes into an unpleasant person. Somehow we always seem to move around the holidays. Not only do I get to move and put away and decorate, I get to do it for the holidays and have Thanksgiving and Christmas and well, that is just too much for Frannycakes pitiful little brain to process. Last week, I did what I swore to myself I was not going to do......I started throwing things in the closet and pretended that I had finished putting everything in their place. I can lie to myself like the best of them. I also am experiencing the letdown of moving into a new house....with my old stuff. You know, the old stuff that has moved with me the 400,000 other times we have moved. Ugh.

Enough of that! I do have a picture that I took with my pink dingleberry last month. This is a picture of Frannycakes with two of her closest to her heart friends, Beth and Elaine.

These two crazy girls called me this morning and wanted me to drive to Charleston and have lunch with them. Normally, I would have jumped right in my car and gone. But Mr. Frannycakes and I are driving to Georgetown later this week to a funeral for a friend who died. So I had to apologize and then kick myself for not going. Oh well.....I need to do a little shopping around here anyway. Alone. Don't make me start whining again.

Thanksgiving will get a post of its own later today. I swear! Pictures included! I double swear!

I am off to take a shower and get ready to hit the stores.

Talk to you later!

Frannycakes is Tired

Congratulations to Jeb and Brandi!

Hey Yall! Tonight, Jeb and Brandi got engaged! I am so happy for them! Looks like next summer is going to be a busy wedding party time for us.


The Happy Couple!



Awwwwww......aren't they cute?


Congratulations to Jeb and Brandi! Frannycakes loves yall!

Update From Georgia

Hey Yall! I promised someone tonight on the phone that I would do a little update. It probably won't be the kind of update that she wants. But here goes.....


This is a picture of two boxes of "put it together yourself, sucker" shelves that we bought at Tarjay for Mr. Frannycakes office. You know the kind....it has 4,298,321 pieces and takes most of the weekend to put together? Mr. Frannycakes practiced using "special" words in different combinations. Many times. And he is so thankful that he gets to start all over again next weekend with the other box. However, the main reason for the picture was so that you, my three readers, can see that we left the box in the living room because it weighed two tons. Carrying it up the stairs to the second floor was not part of the price, so he carried it up piece by piece. Aren't you glad you didn't come over to visit today or you could have helped?



This is a picture of the Intracoastal Waterway behind our house. Did I say Intracoastal Waterway? I meant lake. Did I say lake? Cause it really is more the size of a pond (or ditch as Mr. Frannycakes refers to it.) But I must say, I can almost see the tide coming in and going out, so I'm gonna keep thinking I will see a yacht going by one day.



I may not have any pictures hung and I may not have my pantry organized and I might not be able to drive my car in the garage because of the boxes, but you can be sure that I will have me a few flowers by the front door. How do you like the new wire thingies in the pots? I found them at JCPenney marked down to $8 from $59. And Mr. Frannycakes, who bless his heart never says one thing (scratch THAT) about anything I buy, had a fit. Cause we didn't need it. Can you imagine? One of these days I am going to do a post on how much money I have saved him! And really? Don't they look fabulous by the front door? I knew you would agree with me!



Since Mr. Frannycakes has an office, we, um I, decided that I would also have an office. There was this teeny tiny room by the front door that needed something special in it. And one of Mr. Frannycakes pet peeves is paper work and bills and junk mail on the kitchen counter. So I have put all my bill paying, files, and assorted other crap in this special room. I have tried several times to go in there and get it organized. But every time I do, I start having hot flashes. That is why there is a fan in there, to cool me off! Unfortunately, when I have one of those horrible things, which I have been having at pretty much every breath since we moved here, the fan does not full fill its promise of coolness. Nothing, and I mean nothing will cool me off. I am a wreck, I tell you. A menopausal wreck.



Okay, how did that get on here? Isn't she cute? If you don't know that I love bunnies, then it is time to learn.

So, aren't you glad you visited me today? We actually did have a pretty productive weekend. I hung curtains in two of the bedrooms. Pictures are coming in the next couple of days. Not the kind on the wall, the kind in the blog.....just needed to set that straight!

And you want to hear some exciting news? Jeb, one of our friends from SC, has come to stay with us for a month while he does a rotation at one the hospitals in Savannah. He only moved in today and has already brought some excitement into the house. Aren't friends great?

I will be talking to you soon!

Happy Halloween!

Hey Yall! Happy Halloween! Once again I have been been bullied by anonymous friends and family for not posting. It seems one young lady, I will call Mini Frannycakes, is deeply disappointed that I have not posted my yearly photos of dogs dressed up in Halloween costumes. And I have been told that I need to post house pictures and blah blah blah. Frannycakes has been extremely tired and irritable (just ask Mr. Frannycakes) and is trying her best to put the house together and decorate it so it will be beautiful. I have made countless trips to stores only to come home empty handed. It is very discouraging and exhausting. I did try and take pictures of the house I have done so far, but the battery in our more "sophisticated" camera was dead. So I took some with my new Dingleberry.....some call it a Blackberry....I prefer Dingleberry cause it make me laugh.....and I will post it later.

So Mini Frannycakes, these are for you!


This is for all my Catholic friends.


He really does look like a construction worker, doesn't he?


I couldn't resist the baby bunny!


Chris and Linley need these cuties to come to their wedding!


Doesn't this look like the most precious little baby?

So.....are you happy Mini Frannycakes? Can you study now?

I hope everyone has a wonderful Halloween!

Goodbye Maine

 

Today we moved out of our house. The movers finished around 4 this afternoon and I finished around 5. It was so sad pulling out of the neighborhood and heading to the hotel. The leaves are still beautiful. I am gonna miss this place.

Happy and Sad

 

Hey Yall! Remember a couple of days ago when I told you how pretty the leaves are up here? I wish you all could be here to enjoy them. I am feeling a very wide range of emotions right now. Part of me want to grab some pom poms and do cheers that this southern girl is going home. And part of me wants to sit right down and cry because I won't be able to enjoy all the colors and the snow and the cooler temps that Maine has to offer ever again. And I think I can say with relative certainty that we will never be moving up here again. I can tell you that I have not always felt this way when we moved away from an area. One place in particular I just wanted to press the gas pedal as hard as I could so I wouldn't waste any time getting out of town.

The temps are cool today. When I was deciding what to put aside so the movers didn't pack, I only thought about packing hot weather clothes because I know it will be warm when we get to Savannah. What I didn't think about was that I might need some cool weather clothes for days like today. The windows and doors are open and I broke down and turned on the heat because I saw Weezie shaking in her bed this morning. I mean shaking! I had a fleece throw wrapped around me and so I took it off and put her wrapped up back in her bed. She has not waken up yet! And snoring away. The movers are impressed by her snoring. I think we should enter her in a contest.

Hopefully, the movers will be finished tomorrow and we can leave on Wednesday making our way down to our new abode. Closing there is on Friday and move in on Saturday. Whew! Just the thought of all that makes me want to take a nap.....in a room without Weezie, of course!

Talk to yall later!