I have been pretty good lately at updating this sucker

Though not at posting pictures....

ANYWAY
Be honest I can't wait to learn more about you all.This is fun. Hope
I receive it back from you.

Read through the comments below about your friend and then make sure you read
the instruction at the bottom.
Place an X by all the things you've done, or remove the X from the ones
you have not, and send it to all of your friends (including me.) This is for
your entire life:

( ) Smoked a cigarette
( ) Drank so much you threw up.
( ) Crashed in a friend's car.
( ) Stolen a car
(X) Been in love
(X) Been dumped
(X) Been Laid off/fired
(X) Quit your job
( ) Been in a fist fight - But I always say I will punch someone in the head if they are mean to a friend of mine (ANY OF MY FRIENDS)
( ) Sneaked out of your parent's house
( ) Had feelings for someone who didn't have them back
( ) Gone on a blind date
(X) Lied to a friend
(X) Skipped school
(X) Seen someone die
(x) Been to Canada
( ) Been to Mexico
(X) Been on a plane
(X) Been lost - Ummmm yeah the vast majority of my life
(X) Been on the opposite side of the country
(X) Gone to Washington , DC
(X) Swam in the ocean
(x) Felt like dying
(X) Cried yourself to sleep - More often than I care to admit
(x) Played cops and robbers
(x) Recently colored with crayons - AND COLORED PENCILS!!! I made Shrinky Dinks this weekend
(x) Sang karaoke
(x) Paid for a meal with only coins - I used to work @ Uno's I would pay for lunch there all the time with change
(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't
( ) Made prank phone calls
( ) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose
( ) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
(X) Made a snow angel
(x) Danced in the rain - heck Jim and I have limboed in the rain at a county fair where everyone else was afraid to be out
(x) Written a letter to Santa Claus
(x) Been kissed under the mistletoe - I am certain I have but just in case I will buy some this Christmas and tell J to kiss me :-)
(x) Watched the sunrise with someone you care about
(x) Blown Bubbles
( ) Made a bonfire on the beach
(x) Crashed a party
(X) Gone roller skating
(X) Gone ice skating

OK, here are the questions:
What time is it? 10:14 AM
What is your full name? Joy Laurel Clark-LaChapelle
Most recent movie you have seen in the theater? Little Miss Sunshine
Seen a ghost: no
Where were you born? [Boston , MA
Ever been toilet papering? No
Loved someone so much it made you cry? yes
Been in a serious car accident? yes, if you mean there was a lot of damage
Do you plan to have any/more Children? Hmmmmm
Favorite day of the week? saturday
Favorite Restaurant? Pacino's in Florida with Jim when it's warm and we cuddle
Favorite sport to watch? Baseball / football
Favorite Ice Cream? Why on Earth would I pick a favorite
Favorite Shake flavor at a fast food restaurant? Shamrock
Favorite food at a restaurant? pasta
What color is your bedroom carpet? Grey
What is your favorite alcoholic drink? Whatever Kat makes me
Favorite nonalcoholic drink? water
Tattoos? No
Body piercing? ears
What is your favorite vacation spot? Disney
Ever steal any traffic signs? No
Favorite Salad Dressing? Ranch
Favorite Holiday? Thanksgiving
Favorite food? Ice Cream
Favorite sound? Jim's breath when I lay on him
What do you do to relax? Bathy
How do you see yourself in 10 years? Same as now with a better job
Furthest place you will send this? ???
How many times did you fail your driver's test? ZERO
From whom did you get your last e-mail? Dee
What do you do when you are bored? BORED???????
Who will respond to this e-mail the quickest? Whoever reads it and wants to play
Who is the least likely to respond? Whoever reads it and doesn't want to play
Who is the person that you are most curious to see their answers? All
Favorite TV show? None
Ford or Chevy? neither
What are you listening to right now? office noises
How many pets do you have? I can't count
The chicken or the egg? I dunno
What would you like to accomplish before you die? Make a difference

Not for Marianne

Hey all,
I just thought that maybe you would like one of my all time favorite recipes... Okay okay we don't need to mention that I have actually never made this recipe but my Mum does and I love the way it comes out!

Mum's Banana Bread

Ingredients
3 mashed Bananas
3 Large Egg Whites
2 cups of Flour (all purpose is the recommended)
3/4 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Baking Soda

Directions
Mix together bananas and egg whites until fully combined.
Sift in 2 cups of flour after that is mixed in add remaining ingredients and put in a greased loaf pan.
Cook at 350* for 1 hour

Do I have a life?

I stole this from Erin's blog. It seems that people are saying that if you’ve seen over 85 movies, that you have no life and to copy this list to your blog and mark the movies you’ve seen. There are 239 films on this list.

My count is 29! And that incldes one that I may not have seen all of but paid enough attention to that I knew the name. I am not sure this means I have a life.

Oooooh but last night was so much fun I think we started a new tradition. Jim and I went to Joey and Kurt's house and we hid Easter eggs and had a great dinner, it was lots of fun!

( ) Rocky Horror Picture Show
( )Grease
(X) Pirates of the Caribbean
( ) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest
( ) Boondock Saints
( )Fight Club
( ) Starsky and Hutch
( X)Neverending Story
( )Blazing Saddles
( ) Airplane
( ) The Princess Bride
( ) AnchorMan
( ) Napoleon Dynamite
( )Labyrinth
( ) Saw
( ) Saw II
( )White Noise
( ) White Oleander
( )Anger Management
(X)50 First Dates
(X) The Princess Diaries
(X) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
( )Scream
( ) Scream 2
( ) Scream 3
( ) Scary Movie
( ) Scary Movie 2
( ) Scary Movie 3
( ) Scary Movie 4
( ) American Pie
( ) American Pie 2
( ) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp
(X) Harry Potter 1
( ) Harry Potter 2
( ) Harry Potter 3
( ) Harry Potter 4
( ) Resident Evil 1
( ) Resident Evil 2
(x) The Wedding Singer
( ) Little Black Book
( ) The Village
(X) Lilo & Stitch
(x) Finding Nemo
( ) Finding Neverland
( ) Signs
( ) The Grinch (I'm assuming this is the Jim Carrey one)
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
( ) White Chicks
( ) Butterfly Effect
( )13 Going on 30
( ) I, Robot
( ) Robots
( ) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
( ) Universal Soldier
( ) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
( ) Along Came Polly
( ) Deep Impact
( ) KingPin
(x) Never Been Kissed
( ) Meet The Parents
( ) Meet the Fockers
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
( ) Joe Dirt
( ) King Kong
( ) A Cinderella Story
( ) The Terminal
( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
( ) Dumb & Dumber
( ) Dumber & Dumberer
( ) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3
( ) Halloween
( ) The Ring
( ) The Ring 2
( ) Surviving Christmas
( ) Flubber
( ) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
( ) Practical Magic
( ) Chicago
( ) Ghost Ship
( ) From Hell
( ) Hellboy
( ) Secret Window
( ) I Am Sam
(X) The Whole Nine Yards
( ) The Whole Ten Yards
( ) The Day After Tomorrow
( ) Child’s Play
( ) Seed of Chucky
( ) Bride of Chucky
(x) Ten Things I Hate About You
( ) Just Married
( ) Gothika
( ) Nightmare on Elm Street
( ) Sixteen Candles
(x) Remember the Titans
(x) Coach Carter
( ) The Grudge
( ) The Grudge 2
( ) The Mask
( ) Son Of The Mask
( ) Bad Boys
( ) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
( ) Lucky Number SlevIn
(X) Ocean’s Eleven
(x) Ocean’s Twelve
( ) Bourne Identity
( ) Bourne Supremecy
( ) Lone Star
( ) Bedazzled
( ) Predator I
( ) Predator II
( ) The Fog
( ) Ice Age
( ) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
( ) Curious George
( ) Independence Day
( ) Cujo
( ) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
( ) Christine
(X) E.T.
( ) Children of the Corn
( ) My Bosses Daughter
(X) Maid in Manhattan
( ) War of the Worlds
( ) Rush Hour
( ) Rush Hour 2
( ) Best Bet
(X) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
( ) She’s All That
( ) Calendar Girls
( ) Sideways
( ) Mars Attacks
( ) Event Horizon
( ) Ever After
(X) Wizard of Oz
(X) Forrest Gump
( ) Big Trouble in Little China
( )The Terminator
( ) The Terminator 2
( ) The Terminator 3
( ) X-Men
( ) X-2
( ) X3
( ) Spider-Man
( ) Spider-Man 2
( ) Sky High
( ) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
( ) Catch Me If You Can
(x) The Little Mermaid
( ) Freaky Friday (The Jodi Foster one?)
( ) Reign of Fire
( ) The Skulls
( ) Cruel Intentions
( ) Cruel Intentions 2
( ) The Hot Chick
(X) Shrek
(X) Shrek 2
( ) Swimfan
( ) Miracle on 34th street
( ) Old School
(X) The Notebook
( ) K-Pax
( ) Krippendorf’s Tribe
( ) A Walk to Remember
(x) Ice Castles
( ) Boogeyman
( ) The 40-year-old Virgin
( ) Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
( ) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
( ) Lord of the Rings: Return Of the King
( ) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
( ) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
( ) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
( ) Base-ketball
( ) Hostel
( ) Waiting for Guffman
( ) House of 1000 Corpses
( ) Devils Rejects
(X) Elf
( ) Highlander (“There can be only ONE!”)
( ) Mothman Prophecies
( ) American History X
( ) Three
( ) The Jacket
( ) Kung Fu Hustle
( ) Shaolin Soccer
( ) Night Watch
(X) Monsters Inc.
(X) Titanic
( ) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
( ) Shaun Of the Dead
( ) Willard
( ) High Tension
( ) Club Dread
( ) Hulk
( ) Dawn Of the Dead
( ) Hook
(x) Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
( ) 28 days later
( ) Orgazmo
( ) Phantasm
( ) Waterworld
( ) Kill Bill Vol. 1
( ) Kill Bill Vol. 2
( ) Mortal Kombat
( ) Wolf Creek
( ) Kingdom of Heaven
( ) the Hills Have Eyes
( ) I Spit on Your Grave(
( ) The Last House on the Left
( ) Re-Animator
( ) Army of Darkness (Shop smart Shop S Mart)
( ) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
( ) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
( ) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
( ) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
( ) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
( ) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
( ) Ewoks: Caravan Of Courage
( ) Ewoks: The Battle For Endor
( ) The Matrix
( ) The Matrix: Reloaded
( ) The Matrix: Revolutions
( ) Animatrix
( )Evil Dead
( ) Evil Dead 2
( ) Team America: World Police
( ) Red Dragon
(X) Silence of the Lambs (and in all honesty I am not sure how I got talked into this one - it traumatized me for a long time to come)
( ) Hannibal

Happy Birthday Needles

Today is Needles' 42nd birthday! In human years that is about the equivalent of living to 126! Pretty impressive for a horse that only cost me a dollar. She has long been blind and weak but she seems to suffer no pain and still can make me smile like few others

In light of that today I am going to tell you a story about my Needles... She has been my best buddy for such a long time that she is a part of me and I don't know what my life would be like without her.
When I was 12 years old I spent every waking hour at the barn, Needles and I would do EVERYTHING together (Break my back, climb impossible mountains, eat hamburgers... Yes at that point we both did eat "Uncle Mickey's" burgers...) Well one of my all time favorite pasttimes was to sit against her hind legs and rest my feet against her front legs and read a book, that way her body would sheild me from the sun or the rain and never once did she try to move for fear I would get hurt. I would sit there for hours and hours and let the world go by. Those are memories that I will never forget and I am so grateful to this beloved beast who gave them to me! Here is the only picture of her that I have at work...