September 2, 2011

30 Days of Fun ~ Day 8

I'm pretty sure the idea behind 30 Days of Fun was to have them in succession.  You know, like in a row.  But me and rules...well, you've been around long enough to understand how much I love 'em.  Bless their hearts.

Naturally I am a month into the project and only on Day 8 which pretty much means I'm wringing this sucker for everything it is worth.  Much like I do my birthdays.  Yes, plural.  Wait.  Did you not know about my fake birthday?  Oh honey, bless your heart.  If you need to go ahead and Unfollow, I understand.  I won't even tell Santa.

I'm kind of cheating with Day 8 because I'm counting the hours between 5pm Wednesday and noonish Thursday.  It started with a Harley ride to Florida for lottery tickets. What?  I already used that one?  Please don't call the fun police.  There's more!  This time on the way back we stopped for dinner at a restaurant called Mom's Kitchen.  If that right there doesn't tell you how good the food was then ewe wuzn't razed up in the south.

Let me interject right here that I sometimes break my own rules, so other people's rules shouldn't be offended if I can't keep 'em.   I stopped eating meat on May 20th after watching Food, Inc.  In fact I stopped eating most things.  If someone ever tells you that you can't exist on air and water, he/she is lying.  Also?  If you like food never EVER watch Food, Inc.  I can't stress that enough.

Anyway.  Mom's Kitchen.  Sounds totally Vegan, right?  And it was...if you count Country Fried Steak smothered in white gravy as a vegetable.  I'm not even embarrassed to admit I ate every single bite of it and if my friend hadn't already finished his I might very well have snatched it from his plate.  We seriously need a dictionary that is only pictures, and Wednesday's country fried steak needs to be a whole page for the word bestthingIeverate.

I did walk away from half of the mashed potatoes and black eyed peas and bread, so I was also able to leave any residual guilt I might have experienced laying on the plate next to them.  It's the small victories, y'all.

The next part of my fun day was getting together with a couple of friends to do some volunteer yard work for an elderly widow.  By yard I mean acreage.  And by work I mean 145 bushes, trees, plants, fencelines, mowing, weedeating, cleaning, hauling and getting the kind of dirty I haven't been ever.  It was awesome for so many reasons.  I like spending time with the people I was working with.  I like pretending I am Danica and this riding lawnmower race is THE riding lawnmower race for all time!  I liked looking out at all of it when it was over and realizing I contributed to making something more beautiful, and I really like knowing that someone who needed help got it.  I can't think of a better way to start a day.

Just don't wear sandals, K?

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I wrapped Day 8 up in the shiny shack gettin' my Autumn on~









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11 comments:

  1. Oh heavens, I watched the first 15 minutes of that episode with the hamburger. Eeeww! Unfortunately, it didn't stop me from eating....
    I know what you mean about helping someone...best high ever!
    Love, love, love the autumn colors. You rock girl! Have a great holiday weekend!

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  2. Oh sista what a great way to start a long weekend! I have never eaten country fried steak so you know you need to take me there! You go girl with your autumny bad self!!!!

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  3. Oh my word thingy was "hicit" which I am supposin means I better hicit myself a ride down there right now!!!! LOL

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  4. Okay wait this one was better..."shnopoi" I think that means some sort of vegan shnapps? What do you think?

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  5. Really that last one was awesome but I had better stop because I may just have to write a dictionary!

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  6. Hi Juls, you always entertain with your cute,clever posts and i just love all your new beads...especially........OMG i can't pick i love them all!!!
    hope you enjoy your weekend ttfn Lana

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  7. Juls, I watched that whole movie and it was a long time before I no longer cringed when I was buying, preparing, and eating meat, but it's all good now.
    What highway is Mom's on I just might have to make a trip and check out the Country Fried Steak.
    It is such a natural high to help someone that needs the help. Don't you just love standing back and admiring the work you have done, there is just something about a nice manicured yard.
    You've done it again with the beautiful beads, I love that last set!
    Therese

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  8. You are a marvelous soul, Miss Juls. How nice of you to make someone else's day. Feels so good.
    Enjoy the long weekend!
    Erin

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  9. what a wonderful thing to do! and Mom's sounds wonderful! you are killing me with the beads ya know? I think I love this color combination even more than the last ones, but no more money.....
    hope your weekend is wonderful!

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  10. First off, I love your definition of a vegetable! But I just couldn't eat the steak and gravy, glad you enjoyed it so much, something very satisfying abut the whole lip-lickin' scene! Then you did a good deed, thank you for that because today I really needed to know that people do those things - someone who does evil ugly things put a dent in our day, but it's TeMPoRAry! You go, Juls!! Eat all the country fried steak you want! And THEN you produced some gorgeous beads, was this a 24-hour day? They are better than steak!

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  11. Yeah, I'm gonna need directions to Mom's kitchen.

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