“I will never be too old for Bonne Bell Lip Smackers, especially Cotton Candy.” –Heather Bloom 3/2/10

“Sherri, men aren’t asking you out because you aren’t enhancing your moustache.”  –Heather Bloom 3/2/10 

“Gotta stay fit for the ladieeeeeeees.” –Casey Allen, February/10

“I love the feeling of just letting a fad go by.” –Sherri Talley 3/7/10

“Aren’t you a Shreveport landmark?” –Linda Watson Louviere 3/7/10

My son, Casey, will be 21 on Saturday.  In honor of his birthday, this week, I’m posting some of his quotes I’ve recorded over the years.

12/20/1991

Casey is about 3, at home with his babysitter, Delores.  I am at work at KTAL.  Casey calls me at work.

Casey:  “Mom?”

Me: “What?”

Casey: “Get me some juice.”

Me:  “I can’t, Baby.  I’m not there.  Ask Delores.”

Casey:  ”Delores is dead.”

Anyone have a smaller bookmark?  This one I got at the shelter is huge!

Am I the only person in the cyber world who just can’t bring myself to take part in Facebook applications? 

Maybe it’s because I haven’t really given them a shot. 

Am I a bad person because I don’t care about helping neighbors in FarmVille? 

And, since I don’t know what it means to be “poked” in the world of Facebook, I won’t be poking anyone back.  Somehow it feels as if consequences would ensue if I did.

Okay, if I WERE to explore the world of apps on FB and say, wanted to gain even more weight being sedentary at the computer, the most intriguing ones to me appear to be the hearts and Mafia Wars.  Just because they look cool.

So, help me here.  What’s the app appeal?

Suzanna Kay Talley was born in Pueblo, Colorado on this day in 1961.

Suzie is first, my best friend.  I value her as a wonderful mother, fiance, leader, friend, sister, family peacemaker, diffuser-of-tension, social trendsetter (somehow she makes inappropriate comments acceptable), scary-smart engineer, freak of an Ironman athlete and basically hilarious person to be around!

Suzie values the truth.  She’s all about expressing love, being herself and living her values.  Oh, and those spiritual analogies!

“Sher, I know you’re going through a hard time.  Just picture God right beside you with a silver platter.  Just put all of your worries on it.  Don’t take them back!  Just hand them over.”

“Wow, Sher!  It sounds like you’re really happy.  You know, when you are and you trust God that His white robe is just flappin’ in the breeze!”

I really didn’t know that, Su, until you made me see it with your words and conviction.

It’s funny that I was the first person in Suzie’s life to make her laugh, because no one can make me laugh now like she can.

Happy Birthday, Suzie!

If you feel even a fraction of the joy you throw on everyone around you, you will have the best day!

This is where I lived for 3 years of my life.

Probably because I was a teenager, I didn’t appreciate the beauty in this area.  Now, I’m blown away by it.

Chautauqua County, New York.

I went to high school for my first 3 years in this county in Mayville, NY.  I was happy at the time I moved there that the oil and gas industry took us away from Oklahoma into this area.

I was never as sad as the day I left.

This past week, I sat across from my best friend in high school in Mayville and we remembered that day.

I didn’t get to have a senior year with our class of 47 kids.  Instead, the oil and gas industry took us back down south to a school with a senior class of 514.  It’s an area of the country I’ve grown to love mostly for the people I’ve come to know.  And that’s the primary reason I miss Mayville.

The people I’ve come to know again there have touched my heart in a way I can’t explain.

This week, it was like I was 16 and was leaving there all over again.  It broke my heart.

Something about this place grabs you.  It’s not so much the beauty of the area or the slow way of a genuine life as it is the honest heart you see and feel in people right away.  It’s something you can’t forget.

It’s something I haven’t been able to shake off in more than 30 years.

And, that’s a good thing.

A gentleman named Bob is an honorary sibling in the Talley family.

This is fortunate for me, because Bob has a lot of embarrassing ammo on me.  See, his email is right next to my own on my phone.  Often, I accidentally send Bob pictures I mean to send to my email. 

It’s happened again.

Recently, I decided that because of the economy, I’d go shopping in my own closet.  Meaning, I’d try to put together outfits from what I already have instead of spending with reckless abandon.  I quickly realized I don’t have the mental capacity to remember what goes with what.  So, I took a page from the Joe Haynes book of outfit coordination and took pictures of the ensembles to tape to my closet door. 

Only, you guessed it…Bob received one. 

What must he have thought? 

I still like the Garanimals system of coordinating I’m trying to work here, but I don’t think Bob’s buying it.