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WANTED!

Two GROWN men, last seen in Target Saturday night around 10pm

Target location: Rocky Mount, NC

unknown dog food spill on Isle 9

one possible dissabled/disoriented male wearing grey John Deere shirt

one highly intoxicated male that can't feel his lips, has a constant "spitting or blowing" sound

If you've seen these two males loitering outside Target please call,

1-800-URSTUPID

Okay, Jamie, Tina, Wade, and myself took an overdue CHILDLESS trip to Rocky Mount Saturday and ate at Ichiban....all three (not me) had been drinking since noon or after,

drank heavily in the restaurant, and acted THE FOOL in Target. I dropped them all off at the door, parked the car, proceeded into Target, only to catch a glimpse of a motorized cart with Jamie driving headed into the bathing suit section...I found the FOOLS and I am not sure what

happened next. Or I am not at liberty to say for fear of being contacted by

the RM police department....LOL!

OBVIOUSLY, we stay around our kids so much its hard for us to act like ADULTS!

We made it back to Northampton Co. but I am not sure how...and I was DRIVING!

(NO<>crazy upon my return!)

Tina, have you figured out how to turn the "child" locks on? We're gonna need them when we go again!

Jamie was feeling "well" yesterday morning but he was a "little sore". I can't imagine WHY...

He only fell down twice, behind Starvin Marvin' and in his own driveway! SORE?

Wade's question yesterday morning was, "where did all those beer cans come from in the yard?"

Will we ever grow up? Probably not enough~ we had a great time acting the fool though

(my jaws are still sore from laughing and smiling!)

Two prayer request

I lived in Union all my life until I moved to Conway eight years ago. The Swanks have also lived in Union as long as I can remember. They have three daughters, all my age and younger. The middle daughter, Melissa, passed away this weekend. I have not heard the official report but I heard congestive heart failure? I was not close to these girls, their mom managed the cafeteria at my school, my mom and dad knew their mom and dad, and we attended the same parties during our high school years. But anyTIME someone this age passes away it hits home and makes us realize once again, how short life could be. This girl never married and never experienced having children...she has missed so much in life. This is also another time that makes you question God and his plans...but again, we have to realize that God needed Melissa no matter how hard it is to accept. My prayer is Melissa is in heaven...and I pray comfort upon her family. I can only imagine the loss they are feeling...

My long time friend from high school was in a bad motorcyle accident late yesterday afternoon. He is in Norfolk with a broken shoulder and crushed pelvis. I am not sure of the details of the accident but I just know he is LUCKY! I pray this accident will somehow change his life. He has always been somewhat "wild and crazy", likes to have a good time, races cars in his spare time, and I need for you all to pray he will have a full recovery. He has a long road of healing ahead. I will keep you posted but as of this morning, he is having surgery on his shoulder, possibly putting in a rod, and I am sure the next step will be repairing his pelvis. Pray that God will use this to accident to change his life. I got this same call about this same guy about 13 years ago, he was in a bad car wreck, luckily he fully recovered from that and I sure hope he will do the same this time. He has been on the road to "disaster" for some time and something surely needs to slow his life down.

Please add these to your prayer list.

PRAISE report!

I have fantastic news about Dad! He had the chemo treatment Friday, did very well again, came home and went straight to church to help with the Youth Rally on Saturday, spent the day at the Youth Rally Saturday, got home around 11pm that night, and had a BIRTHDAY yesterday! Wade, myself, and the girls went to visit yesterday afternoon and he was just BUSY, steady doing something in the yard, raking leaves, etc, and just being his busy old self. Thats my dad!

Mom is concerned because he won't slow down but mom needs to realize that staying busy is just what keeps him going. My dad and I definately have the same blood running through our veins....staying busy also keeps me going! Mom is no one to talk either, she is also doing something herself all the time, LOL!

Now for the PRAISE report....the doctor told Dad Friday the cancer is not in his bone marrow! Thats the best news we've heard all weekend, I will post later about other bad news among our friends. With the cancer not in his bone marrow his chances of going into remission are much higher...and dad was just esctatic with his news! Dad told me he was definately going to beat this now and I replied, "Dad, we knew that from the beginning, I never doubted you would beat this". Praise GOD!

A few things...

Don't forget dad is getting his second chemo treatment today...pray he will have as good a recovery as last time please.

Brittany, my 16 year old neice, was in a car wreck yesterday. She ran off the road, flipped the car twice and is VERY lucky! She has a few scrapes and I am sure she will have some bruising. Pray for my sister, she is having a hard time with Brittany...we all know what it was like to be 16 and so very blind...Pray Brittany will make better choices in life.

As most of you know, I have been doing Weight Watchers since January...13 weeks now. I have lost 20.6 pounds and proud of it...if any of you struggle with your weight you know how hard it is. I have always struggled with my weight and am a classic yo-yo dieter. This time I decided it would be a lifestyle change for me. But the past few weeks I have fallen off the wagon so to speak...last night I weighed in and had my first gain, 1.4 pounds! I was so dissapointed in myself, so I am back on the wagon, swearing off high fat sweets, Mountain Dew, and McDonalds (other than salads!)! I have been pretty dissatrous so I should have known but....oh well. Got to do better and thats why I continue to pay and weigh every week, it keeps me in line. Answering to those scales does something to me mentally. My father in law has done so VERY well and I am so proud of him...I think he last told me he had lost 33 pounds and he has been doing it about 2-3 weeks less than me...give him a hand! He loves sweets more than I do and nothing makes us happier than to eat a good meal and follow with a good dessert...gotta have a low fat dessert from now on!

For those of you that are really bored on Friday! LOL!

Well, I have blogged it all I guess...not really but do you seriously want to hear about my new washer and dryer? Too funny! I am SO proud...but I have to tell you, if you have not purchased a washer and dryer lately, get your pocketbook ready, they are high as gas! My old one's are oversized (4.2 cubic) and I did not want to lose my capacity so in order to do that, the price tag went pretty darn high, and no, I did not get the front load...nor did I price them!

I did THREE loads of laundry last night in three hours, that is a record. I have to admit, I did not research before purchasing so yesterday I read reveiws on the models we purchased and I got scared! Some said it wouldn't do this and you can't do that but I had NO problems. Yeah, it takes some getting used to considering they are digital and have presets but pretty much everything can be adjusted. And I was afraid I would have to use the expensive HE Tide (High Energy is what it stands for I think?) but the manual says nothing about it. I stood over the washer for several minutes at the time watching it cycle through! So, everybody wants me to post my "interesting" life, here is another night in the life of me, watching clothes wash, too boring! LOL!

They were supposed to be delivered around lunch yesterday and I was going to post yesterday afternoon, sorry about that, not my fault. I figured as much as I paid for them, might as well blog them and share them, huh! ;o)

Who cares about my laundry, right Joyce ;o) ???? LOL!!! (Joyce (Wendi and Judi's mom) and I got a good laugh about Gary and Thursday being laundry day for him, his fluffing and folding!)

Dad hasn't missed a beat so far

Just wanted to let you all know Dad hasn't missed a beat so far...I called him at work this morning and he was "too busy to talk"! Well, my, my...can't even talk to your daughter! LOL! He is preparing for a shutdown of some sort and he is ALL into his work and very serious about his planning.

As most of you know, its time to pull out the "praying" caps and get it going...tomorrow is treatment #2. Each treatement is "supposed" to get worse but they don't know my dad! He is already talking about joining Wade and a few of our friends Saturday night at the Japanese restaurant...GO DAD!

He is bald as I stated earlier in the week and I still have not seen him! I have been busy and so has he. On top of work being busy and making invitations, our washing machine started leaking water on Sunday, and worse on Tuesday, so I have been stressed over that, I will have an update on that later today...stay tuned....

there's more to come on Shelley and Such today!

"Got your praying cap?"

Later~

"MayleOuts"

Okay, I have had 5 people ask me about blogging this morning and I find this pretty hilarious! Is my life just that interesting, is it my writing style, or are you just that bored at work? Probably the later but okay...I am flattered I must say! LOL!

I have been busy this week working here and on some birthday invitations. I figure I will start sharing my invitations with you all. Most of you know how much I enjoy doing this sort of thing and I am always willing to make for others. This invitation is created for Princess Jayonna. Jayonna is in Bentlee's class at school. She is a really sweet, well dressed, well mannered, prissy girl and very tall! She will turn 5 in May, not sure of her exact birth date. Like most girls her age, she loves Princess stuff! This invitation is a vellum overlay on white cardstock. I wanted to add some glitter/Stickles but it does in fact make the vellum wrinkle too much. Guess I will have to hold the glitter on these Princess invites. I tied a pretty pink bow at the top to make it even more girly. They are the size of a half sheet of printer paper. I am waiting on approval from her mom before I make the rest. The pictures never do this sort of thing justice, they turned out well. I have to admit I have fiddled around with different papers, printers, text color, etc on this one alot! And if you know me, I am not settling for "okay", I need to somewhat love what I produce! If you are interested in custom invitations email me at snbmayle@hotmail.com, I can pretty much do whatever providing the clipart is available for a character invite. I also do wedding programs, baby annoucements, and party favors. Let me know what you need, my prices are reasonable as well. I have given my little hobby a name, "MayleOuts"! Kinda cool, huh?!