New Name, Old Format

Okay, I had planned to have a new blog and new addy, with a whole new look.  But difficulties arose. 
The voting was a horse race between GOBLIN GIBBERISH, A GNOME KNOWS, and the write-in GNOME DE PLUME.  Numerous voters changed their votes (from which title your guess was as good as mine!) and I had numerous Facebook comments about the title instead of blog comments. So GNOME DE PLUME was chosen. Heck, it's my blog and I liked it the best, :-) plus my first middle grade story involves a gnome, Rory Leafhopper. 
BUT I did change the header to the winning blog title.  *see, see* though I was unable to change the address since the abandoned blog from 2004 was still in existance. AARRGGHH!

So what happened?

--I forgot it was Mother's Day weekend . . . AND I'M A MOM!

Saturday, we went to a premier-type showing of Iron Man 2--Loved it!  Then we chainsawed down a tree--let me qualify that--my BIL chainsawed and my hubster helped, while I dragged limbs and stuff to the trailer.  I did a little more garden clean up, but then we went to a tree nursery (Rutherford's in Catoosa) about 20 miles away.  We buy all our trees from these guys.  The trees are nicely priced and shaped well, plus they plant the trees AND guarantee them!  Can't beat it.  The problem was the county is doing some serious roadwork (one lane traffic, bumper-to-bumper for MILES) and shut the off ramps for the road we needed to turn on--drive one extra mile, turn around to drive one mile back and then exit from the opposite side of the road. 

Gotta love progress!

Afterwards, we ate an early dinner and watched a stupid movie, Land of the Lost. 

Sunday was a lazy day--well, lazy for me, since the hubster cleaned house--until we realized that we needed to get something for my MIL--oops.  So we went shopping and visiting, and ate a late lunch--Ron's--the best greaseburgers in town!  Add Spanish cheese fries (fried jalapenos and onions, with pepper jack cheese) and I was a heart attack waiting to happen!  The hubster and kidlet are playing video games while I blog hop before I sit down to read.

Now before you think this was a lame Mother's day, it wasn't.  We had date night on Friday night with dinner at McGills--a very nice restaurant.  I had a Manhattan steak, medium rare, veg, and mashed potatoes, with a very nice Coppola Merlot.  We planned to skip dessert and hit the Cheesecake Factory for some take home, but one of hubster's biz contacts bought us dessert, Key lime pie and French silk pie.  Yum!  Uh, we rolled out of there and watched Zombieland--funny as hell, though I think it helped that I had a buzz going. Rule #4 *double tap!* 

And no, the kidlet was on an overnight so we didn't even have to spring for a sitter!

Hubster was planning to make Chicken piccata for din-din Sunday night, but I think we'll put it off until  Monday night.  If I ate anything else, I'd probably blow.

Hm, methinks I need to add exercise to my daily writing.  I'll start tomorrow after I get my 3000 words in.  Until later . . .

Write on!