the Hockey game

My husband took my two middle children to see a Hockey game. Dallas Stars and Phoenix Coyotes.

In order of appearance the Ethan, the husband, and the Rachel.

I know many of you were wondering if the husband was a figment of my imagination but here he is in purple.    🙂

hockey 1

hockey 2

hockey 3

hockey4

Marsha

A Thanksgiving Note

Well Folks, this is probably my last weekend off I am going to get for a long while. I start training for my new job the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Yes, I said Sunday. Who starts training on a Sunday? Apparently, the United States government does. I’m not complaining, not really….well, maybe a little.

Any way the reason for this post is that Thanksgiving is next week and many of you will be traveling to different places around the globe to meet up with family and friends. Keep it safe. Be cautious, Have a good time. Remember to drink moderately. Most of all give that special someone a hug and don’t forget to say “I Love You”.

Your Blogging Buddy

Marsha Loftis

Adopt this movie

This is a neat idea. I have to actually take a look at my check book…yep not a lot in there. I would buy  a few frames myself but my five children prefer to eat.   🙂

I copied the following directly from the Adopt this movie website.

The Concept

Our goal is to raise $1.44M to produce the horror film A Midsummer Nightmare by asking for donations from the generous internet community. Here’s how it works: There are 24 frames per second of film. 60 seconds in a minute, 100 minutes in our film and at $10/frame you’ve got Movie Making History! You, the movie-going, genre-loving freak that you are, adopt frames of our film at $10 a frame (minimum adoption is 10 frames). In recognition of your donation we will place a Donor Name Plate with your name or the name of your business on the homepage of this website.* There are several levels of adoption. The higher the level of adoption the larger your Donor Name Plate and the greater our appreciation!!! There is no limit to the number of frames you may adopt.

And here’s the best part: Adopt a minimum of 120 frames (5 seconds) and you will see your name in the closing credits of the finished film!

We are planning to market the heck out of this website. We will begin with a grassroots email campaign targeting friends, family, chat rooms, horror fan sites, you name it. In turn we will ask that each recipient of the original email pass it on to friends, co-horts, business partners who may be interested, as well. We also plan for press releases regarding this website, our efforts and the film, “A Midsummer Nightmare”, in major trade papers (Hollywood Reporter, Variety). And we hope to get coverage on the many independent film websites that exist. The more we get the word out, the greater our chances of success. To our knowledge no one has ever attempted to raise the movie making capital they needed in this fashion.

We need your help. Wanna help us make a movie? Get in on the NIGHTMARE!

For just 28 cents a day you can send a girl to Camp Mustardseed…

And watch her die.

Adopt a Movie Webpage

A new battery

The Battery Podcast <---Look it's a Podcast. The day had started out so well. The rash that Morgan had from head to toe yesterday had disappeared during the night thanks to Benadryl. At least I think it was the Benadryl. Although she still croaks like a frog. She seems to be feeling much better today. Anyway, this morning I went to get my car washed. It was embarrassing driving it around in the condition it was in. After the car wash I was going to go to Kohls and buy some new pants for work. I had some extra cash in my pocket. This doesn't happen too often so I was going to take advantage of it and buy something I needed. Unfortunately, it didn't take long for the cash to disappear plus a little more. My car was all shiny and pretty. I jumped in to pull away from the car wash and the car goes...click, click, click. I'm thinkin, ok thats not good, so I tried it again and still....click, click, click. I was not happy I said a few curse words that I won't repeat. These things always happen to me. The moment I get a little extra cash something breaks. I called my husband for help. He quickly came to my aid. We had to buy a new battery for my car. I didn't need new pants anyway...actually I did but you know how that goes.

Thanks

Thanks to everyone that has been leaving messages. I apologize for not replying to everyone of you individually but life as a mom, wife and working woman has been keeping me extremely busy. I try to stop by your websites as much as possible. I don’t always comment but I can assure you that I read and read and read.

Your blogging buddy

Marsha

PS: Everybody say WOOT!!!

Nobody’s Watching

I love the internet. I just thought I would say that this morning. There is so much to see and do. Anyway, I watched a TV show sitcom this morning while drinking a cup of coffee. The show called “Nobody’s Watching” was brought to my attention by my friend Jon Baas.

You can watch the show by clicking on the following links. I think you will enjoy this show. It’s a comedy about a couple of friends that send in a tape to all of the networks stating they could come up with a better sitcom. Watch it you won’t be disappointed.
Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

My accent

so I did this little test today. My Stephanie insisted I take it. so I did. For added fun I added an mp3 so that you can actually hear what I sound like. My microphone isn’t working real well so you might have to turn your speakers all the way up.
Marsha’s Accent mp3

What American accent do you have?

Your Result: The Midland

“You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
The West
Boston
North Central
The Inland North
The South
Philadelphia
The Northeast
What American accent do you have?
Take More Quizzes

Age appropriate Candy?

So you do your best to raise your children the best you can with the resources you have. You try to instill good moral values…and then something out of the ordinary happens. Your child does something that catches you off guard. It’s a good thing…Let me explain.

Me, Heather and Ethan took the Morgan out trick or treating. Stephanie and the Rachel were left at home passing out candy to the children in our neighborhood. Anyway, Morgan’s pumpkin was filled to the brim with candy so we returned home to sort out the good pieces and give the Morgan the rest.  🙂

I was sitting in the loft watching TV and eating Morgan’s candy. The doorbell rang as it had done probably 100 times during the evening. Trick or Treaters were at the door. Morgan decides she wants to help the Stephanie pass out candy. The task is done. The door closes and I hear Stephanie say to Morgan.. “Morgan the next time little kids come to the door don’t give the hard candies to the little ones they might accidently choke.”

Apparently the STephanie had been passing out age appropriate candy treats to the neighborhood children all evening. Who would have thought? I feel somewhat awful that this never occured to me to do such a thing.  Kudos to “The Stephanie” for looking out for the well being of the little ones in the neighborhood.

Halloween 2006

Here is a couple of pictures from our halloween. Morgan and Ethan are the only two that dressed up for the event. Ethan didn’t want to dress up but we made him dress like Shaggy from Scooby doo any way. 🙂 We won’t mention that he fits into his older sister’s khaki pants. Sorry couldn’t get more pictures but the digital camera wasn’t charged up and quit working after a couple of pictures were taken.

the Big box

…so I received a big box in the mail from fed-ex via the federal government. With the box came instruction not to open said box but to take it to my scheduled appointment next week. The box will be opened at the appointment. Kind of makes you wonder what kind of tortuous device is in the box……do you know how hard it is going to be to stare at that box for the next four days and not be able to open it…?

I will take a picture of the box as soon as I discover which child has the digital camera. 🙂

PS: If I suddenly stop posting all together next week it’s because I have unknowingly enrolled in some secret government project. 🙂

Morgan’s Birthday Story

Here is another story written, illustrated and podcast by my daughter Morgan. I will upload the pictures to the story tomorrow morning. It will probably be necessary to turn your speakers all the way up to here the story. The volume on the computer was turned down.

Click on the link below and hear Morgan tell her story.
***Morgan Story***

My birthday party

birthdaystory 1

When it was my birthday party it was a sunny and bright day.

I wanted it to be this way.

Friends were over and were playing line-up tag scatch.

It’s a game that when you turn into a line

You try to tag someone and then when you are tagged your supposed to scatch three times

birthdaystory 1

I went inside to cool off

She said what would you like

I said “I will like a glass of water, please

“OK, it will be done right a second”

then I got my drink

birthdaystory 1

I went in my room

I had make-up in my room

And I had a purple bed and a pink mattress

A yellow pillow
a purple roof

And a yellow floor

My room is on the top floor

Second on the right

My lipstick was red

And I had this kind of powder that you put on your cheeks

birthdaystory 1

It was almost present time

Finally it was 9 o’clock

I got everything I wanted
I really wanted a guitar

And then I opened my presents

The square one was my new pillow

birthdaystory 1

Time for cake

It had purple icing On top and the bottom

and had strawberry stuff inside

It was vanilla and had blue candles

It had three candles in it

Cake was delicious

So yummy

I got to blow out the candles And make a wish

My wish was

This was my best birthday party of my entire life

And I wish my other birthday party was just like this

and I wish I will get a new kitty cat

The End

2.59

I made it to round two in the Livemansion.com contest.(**I’m doin the happy dance**) I scored an overall 2.59 out of a possible 5.0. I guess that makes me a little better than middle of the road. Now I need to come up with a one minute movie of myself that will entice the other actors/actresses/producers/directors in the contest to vote for me.