New hairdo

Terrible picture but whatevs. According to Brent at Pump salon, this is my natural shade. I think it's a bit darker than the natural shade, but I still like it.  Yesterday after leaving the salon, you know, when my hair was actually styled, I felt like IMAP Thurman from Pulp Fiction.

The best Mexican

Tonight I tried something new at El Rio: shrimp fajitas! Delicious!

Treat!

A nice decaffeinated beverage from 2 cool gals. They like me! They really like me!

Zip it. Zip it good.

Went to dinner with a good buddy tonight. We had an adventure & tried something new-- Zips Cafe! It was outstanding and pretty well priced. It was almost as good as a Connie Jones burger.

Aunt Unique's Spray Down

I thought this was cool, so I wanted to share it. Anyway, I based it off of George RR Martin's family trees he does for each house in Game of Thrones. Hey, that bit about the Cornetts being related to a king...I didn't make that up! I have a verifiable source!

HOUSE CORNETT of Dwarf, Kentucky



Family sigil: Copperhead


The Cornetts trace their decent from King Canute, the Great King of England, Denmark, and Norway, the son of Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark. Upon his arrival in Virginia, John Canute changed the spelling of the name to Cornett, which is the spelling used today. The name is pronounced, Corn-it in southeastern Kentucky, and Corn-ette by city folk.

And after that above, I went on to list out the family tree, but I don't want to bore you with that.

Instead, here's a Taulbee tale.

Aunt Eunice’s Big Spray Down as told by Connie Cornett Jones

Once again we were down in Flat Mary visiting my Mommaw Taulbee. Everyone was socializing outside on the carport. The grownups were playing fiddle sticks, and the kids, well, were all running around catching lightning bugs. Mom, Dad, and Uncle Joel (Aunt Eunice’s husband) were waiting on Aunt Eunice to come back from riding her big mare up the holler from Mommaw’s house, they were going to throw horse shoes when she got there. Well, it kept getting later and darker, and finally Uncle Joel said, “Well, Alice, I don't know what to think about your sister. She has got lost on that horse.” About that time, we heard a faint holler. We looked up and saw Aunt Eunice riding toward us. As she got closer, we started smelling this awful odor, and the dogs started to run away from her! Finally, she got close enough to where we could hear her holler, “Joel, get me some tomato juice and some clean clothes! I’ve been sprayed by a skunk!” Everyone started laughing and holding their noses.

New phone

I am posting this blog via my new phone. It rules. Husband is extremely jealous. It is so hard to type on the touch screen when I am used to my keyboard. Oh, but my phone takes 3-D pics!

Morning Commute

These are the new models. A little mini-truck! How cute!

Where do VW Bugs go when they die? They go to a place called Mexico! <---I thought about this on the drive to work this morning when a vintage VW Bug drove by me. "Why don't you ever see any of those on the road? Oh, because they are all in Mexico. I am serious. Mexico is the home of the old school Bug, those Chevy El Caminos (new ones, not old ones), and old Nissan sentras. I wish I knew what those little el caminos were called so I could show you a picture. I know you are envisioning an original el camino, but the ones I am referring to are smaller and were actually made fairly recently.

**Note: I found them! Google = amazing. Chevy Tornado

Another interesting something that happened this morning...I was listening to NPR on the way in, but I really wasn't paying attention until I heard the voice from the dash say, "Fracking." And he said it again and again. What the heck?! Are the cylons coming? What the frack is going on? Evidently, fracking is a term used to describe the process of drilling for natural gas. Pennsylvania is fracking the frack out of the natural gas in its boundaries.

Something great about mornings: Sweet text messages from your true love. : )