Morning y'all....
Thirtytwo years ago today, I was in the "just shoot me and get it over with" stage of 46 hours and 40 minutes of natural labor.
Someone later said to me that I would evetually forget about those pains...Yeah right,...they must have been a man
Listening to great tunes while clearing off my desk. Got much accomplished yesterday while shopping, but still need to head out a little later today to see if I can find a piece of luggage I can use I'm like Goldie Locks...I have one thats too big, one that's too small and I need on that is JUST right. I will be changing planes when flying and don't want my clothes ending up in Kalamazoo while I'm in SC.
Something weird is going on in my life...I'm filling it with color. I made an arragement for my kitchen area that is orange, yellow and red. Then I traded in my navy and white dress for graduation for a blue/turquoise/pale green and white shirt jacket to wear with butter yellow capries...What you need to understand is I've NEVER owned anything yellow

Then I bought several t-shirts..coral, bright blue and green. I'm redoing my front enterance way nitch with white and red flowers....Colors are speaking to me and I'm replying by saying Bring it on ....
I have a whole mess of piddley errands to do...need to find a new bra...uggg...why oh why can't I just insert a straw in my "girls" and just blow them up to be where they used to be. Then I need to return my dress, find a small purse, and stop at Jo Anns to find some buttons. My butter yellow capri's have growgrain bows on the bottom of the legs...I'm into the new comtemporary/taylor look, but the bows have got to go. I'm going to replace them with buttons.
Need to hit Penneys when they open so I need to get going. Norma, you're still invited to my party...so is everyone else in the village

As far as the betting goes, we have a friend who loves to be the "Banker". We don't do anything special...I like to keep it simple. We gather around the TV to watch the parade of horses with everyone ohhhhing and ahhhing at them.
I provide a list of the horses, strips of paper and a silver bowl. We don't worry about 1st 2nd, and 3rd place. Just pick a horse, write his/her name down on one side of the paper and yours on the back, hand the banker a buck for each bet and then sit back and enjoy the race fo the roses. And then when the horses run all heck breaks out in my livingroom with 30+ people yelling for their horse to win. Makes me laugh cause sometimes the guys make the most noise. Then the horse and person who wins gets the entire pot...in case of a tie, the pot is split by the amount of winners. I think last year's winner won 48 bucks...and the year before the pot was split.
In the past hats were mandatory...a ball cap would do...but some of the women and a few of the men took it to extremes. I was going to make this party hatless but I had too many people wanting to wear their hats. I provide food, mint julips...and no-alcoholic mint julips, derby pies and chips and dips. This year people wanted to bring other foods and of course I said yes. Because I have everything on hand from years before set up takes me just about 2 hours. Easy Peasy and just the way I like it. No muss, fuss or stress...
Gotta go...I hope ya'll are having a wonderful day... cy'all later