Stay-Cation log Day 1 and 2

SO Friday and Saturday down and I present to you 

Stay-Cation Log 1 & 2 5/25-26...

Friday - I have discovered that i still know how to be lazy. That was the choice for the day. Woke up on the couch thinking went back to bed and slept until 10:30. Spent some time outside with the dogs, sunning myself and letting them lay in the shade. Jack has taken his digging skills to the back of the trailer and crated himself a cool dirt bed. Now I feel like I have to plant flowers there, since he went to the trouble of digging it out. I am planning on setting him loose on my front garden. Digging it up will earn him his kibbles (an bits).

Finished one book - 

and started another - 

LOVE LOVE LOVING them both... makes me want to go to the real Inn Boonsboro and stay there. I think I would choose the Wesley and Buttercup room. 

Or the Nick and Nora room - as in The Thin Man - 

To be able to read about the Inn being built and then see it in real life is way too cool. But there's also the love story the laughs and the mystery. Excellent books!

 Pictures from http://www.innboonsboro.com/index.php

SATURDAY - Anyway - went to bed around 4am and woke up around noonish... UGH hate wasting a day sleeping. BUT today I managed to fix the vacuum and clean the kitchen so I am on top of things. Watched some NCIS, sat outside with the dogs, Watched Kyle Kendrick pitch a fantastic game and the Phillies won and now heading to bed so I can be up early to plant the flowers.

I must admit - I am feeling a bit lonely. If i had friends down here visiting I would be partying and heading to the beach - sometimes being alone can be a bitch. BUT I am alone at the beach so it evens out. Tomorrow ...on to day 3. 

Stay-cation Log- Day .5

Today starts day one of my 6 day stay-cation. Friday thru next Wednesday I am off from the torture palace(& i only had to use 2 vacation days - ummm I rock)and I am staying here at my happy little beach house for the whole time. Why go away when I live in paradise...well paradise in my mind, the beach in others minds. Plus the kids dog sitting in PA so i can't go home and visit when I have my two beasts anyway.


I have plans people... BIG plans. So many plans I am not sure there are enough days in my stay-cation to accomplish them all, but I will try.


I have beers and margaritas to drink, walls to paint, plants to ... well... plant. I have beaches to lay on and books to read and work for a friend i have to finish. Tv to watch and a pool to hang out in. Seafood to eat, a BBQ I have to master and a drive thru at the new Panera Bread I must use immediately. 


As far as I am concerned, my vacation stated at 8:01 pm last night, when I left the Torture Palace I call work. We'll call Thursday night stay-cation day .5.

STAY-CATION LOG STAR DATE 5-24  DAY .5 - 

Objective - 

PARTY LIKE A ROCK STAR

With a 12 pack of Corona light, 3 limes, some kick ass 1800 margarita in a bottle, and pineapple juice to mix with my cake vodka, I have effectively managed to channel Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville up in here. I start with a margarita on ice realizing too late that full size corona bottles do not work for Corona-rita's.


Crisis averted, or at least cleaned up, I proceed to the lounge (aka my living room couch) and settle in for some TBS Big Bang Theory  and some new show. I switch to Corona Lights and make it half way thru Jimmy Fallon ... I remember seeing Will Smith at least... and the next thing I know, I wake up on the couch at 6:20am.


I have the sensation of "crap - gotta get up for the torture palace " and than remember AHHHHHHHHHH I am on stay-cation. So I walk the dogs, manage not to fall, and get in bed to sleep the sleep of the wicked until 10:30 am. So far Life is most excellent.


NOTE TO SELF: After consuming 1 Margarita and 2 Corona Lights before passing out on the couch, I must Google the phrase "Party Like a Rock Star" and see if I qualified.

The Glamorous Life...

I don't really like to drive, so when I do my 50 min commute back to my happy little beach
house every day, I listen to music.And imagine I am playing the bongo's and singing songs in a cover band. Apparently I have become the next Sheila E. 

And it's a glamorous life...

Things I've learned in slower lower...

Things I’ve learned living in slower lower...

In Delaware, turn signals are optional.

If the speed limit is 50, the car in front of you will be going 45.

In a 10 mile stretch of road, you will have 8 different speed limit changes…and there will be police everywhere.(I'm looking at you Rt 24)

If you are following the Mountainaire Live chicken truck, you will need to use your wiper blades for flying feathers. You should also be aware of escapees on the hood of your car or…under it.

Based on #4, you should plan on eating something other than chicken for a few days after following that truck!

Yard sales are not limited to the yard. The side of the road or a patch of grass in the middle of an intersection will be set up with sale items aka other peoples junk.

Bars close at 1am. Not at 2 but 1am. Believe me when I say that lost hour of not drinking will NOT help your hangover the next day.

You know how to pronounce Nanticoke, Lewes, & Zwaanendael.

You know that Atlantic Liquors really is the “Greatest Liquor Store in the World”.

Here we “go to the beach” we do not “head down the shore”

Flip-Flops are footwear all year long.

They cancel school when it’s foggy. It’s called a Fog Day. (photo from retiredindelaware.blogspot.com)

Living at the beach doesn't lessen the joy and peace of seeing the ocean. Now I can just see it whenever I want.

Positive Sunday Thoughts & some new quotes

Time for some Sunday night positive thoughts...and some new quotes from me.

"If you have to listen to those nasty voices in your head then do so only long enough to tell them to Shut Up, sit down and meet their replacements... the positive voices that will kick their butts!" ~Stacey

"Sometimes, when you think everything can go wrong, it does. Instead try thinking that everything will go right and allow yourself to be pleasantly surprised by the power of positivity." ~Stacey

Every woman and girl should say this to themselves every day!

LOL my friends know this is so true about me...

Stay positive... Stay Happy!! It really is that simple. ~Stacey

now you're just somebody that I used to know

But you didn't have to cut me off

Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing

And I don't even need your love

But you treat me like a stranger and I feel so rough

Now you're just somebody that I used to know...

So as it happens with me, I have found a new song I am so currently obsessed with that I listen to it 3 or 4 times a day. I am not right but hey, that's just how I roll. There have been many, and there is no rhyme or reason as to why I fall in love with them, I just do. They all mean something to me and speak to me in a variety of ways. God, don't you just love music? Here's my latest one...

Gotye - featuring-Kimbra

Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over

Part of me believing it was always something that I'd done

But I don't wanna live that way

Reading into every word you say

Me? read meaning into every word you say? nahhhh Never! ...ahem Yeah, it's a girl thing I think. Exhausting but we still do it. Well I used to to anyway, for a bit. This guys voice is just doing it for me. And adding Kimbra to it makes it even better!

I heard this song a few weeks ago and was hooked. It's not on the 'sick of it' rotation yet (like they do with every good song) so it's hard to find it. I could never figure out what it was called and then I saw it in a commercial for Glee 2 days ago and last night that's how I found it.

Matt Bomer & Darren Criss

I love what they did with it, I love how they made it about a brother to brother relationship. Plus - that Matt... deliciously easy on the eyes don't you think?

Well you said that we would still be friends

But I'll admit that I was glad that it was over...

But I still think Gotye's version is better. You see his pain as he sings of the end of a relationship, and the  inevitable disintegration of the "we'll still be friends" promise we use like salve on a wound.

Hmmm deep tonight - See what music does to me? 

Rewind 2 years...

Rewind 2 years... the man in my life was trying to decide if he was staying or leaving, with me. He had been stringing me along... I mean pondering his decision for a few months and all I heard play in my head was this song.





Adele makes everything hauntingly beautiful when she sings it, but this is just fantastic. Oh and my story? He didn't choose me. As Garth Brooks said many years ago ..."Some of God's greatest gifts, are unanswered prayers."