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Holiday Loot!

Happy Holidays! Hope you all got what you wanted from Santa! Here is my list of loot received: Bones Season 5 (most desired item I might add) Supernatural Season 5 Design Perfume  (my signature scent, which I was wearing on my 1st date w/John and on the day we got married) Capricorn One DVD Black fleece jammie pants w/white shirt 2 pair of purple fuzzy socks Vanilla jasmine bath set Lavendar vanilla bath set Elvis Presley calendar 2 stockings full of every kind of chocolate imagineable Boston Terrier socks Rainbow socks Fabrige egg pendant 20.00 target gift card 10.00 target gift card Vanilla candle set Banana coconut shampoo/conditioner, lotion, spray, and body wash Reindeer blend whole bean Caribou Coffee Nine West purple wallet (that matches my nine west purple purse!) John's Loot (afterall,this is the OSBOURNE blog, not just April's) Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 1 Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 2 2 star wars tee-shirts 2 star wars action ...

Getting Married in Las Vegas

I got married in Las Vegas in April of 1997. When John and I were 1st planning on getting married, we went to the church I went to from the time I was 4 to talk to my pastor, and to begin making plans. I went and was fitted for a custom wedding dress, chose invitations, all that stuff you do to plan a wedding. As I was doing this, 2 things occurred to me. #1. Its expensive (obviously) and #2. it seems like a lot of the things you do is more about everyone else than about the event itself, which is about you and the person you’re marrying. So I took my Mom and Dad’s advise and began looking into getting married in Las Vegas. It seemed a lot more adventurous, and more about John and I than everyone else, which is sort of how I feel its suppose to be. John and I got married at “Las Vegas Wedding Gardens”, and we stayed at The Riviera Hotel & Casino. I still think of the time we had there fondly, and I hope that the Riviera is there for a while because it would mean a lot to me to ...

where the heck have I been?!

1st let me apologize, I know I have millions of readers out there wondering where the hell I am, I am constantly being barraged with complaints I don't blog enough. ;) In late October I was diagnosed with severe Endometriosis - numerous fibrioids, one the size of a baseball. So surgery of a hysterectomy was scheduled on November 15th. Okay, so that has been complete, and I am feeling fine, and am back to work - so all is well with the world again. No worries.  Mom and Dad are going to more "officially" retire and begin to live their dream, to travel the USA and have Minnesota as their "home base". Right after Christmas, (literally, December 26th) they begin their journey, starting at Arizona, and then moving on to Nevada. Not sure where they will end up next, but they are apprehensively excited. I am happy they are able to do this.  Crohn's wise all is well. Very strong remission. (knock on wood) I am no longer on speaking terms with my younger siste...