Lost And Found

Only here at The Compound can you bring in a bag from WalMart, and not be able to find it anywhere three hours later. 

Flashback Friday

Unless you've been on another planet, you know that tomorrow is the Kentucky Derby.  But today is a pretty special racing day at Churchill Downs, too.  It's Kentucky Oaks Day.  This is the big race for the fillies.  But I digress. 

This afternoon, my dear friend KD texted me and asked if I was at the Oaks this year.  I told him no, and that we were partying and betting from home.  But for the next few minutes, he and I reminisced about the year that we went to the Kentucky Oaks.  We were both decked out in our finest.  Mom and Gram made me a very cool hat to wear, and I was rocking out my Kelly green linen suit, with a pale yellow blouse, and finished the ensemble off with my beloved black snakeskin heels and matching purse.  (Note: this was pre-wreck foot reconstruction era).  KD was sporting an awesome seersucker suit and bowtie.  I can't remember if he wore a hat or not.  But we had an awesome time.  The only part that really sucked was me having to wait about an hour to go to the bathroom.  

 

Feliz Cinco de Mayo

TWIT would like to wish all of my Hispanic faithful readers a very happy Cinco de Mayo. 

The 'Rents, along with our West Layfayette, IN kinfolk, will be heading up to our favorite Mexican restaurant to grub down and celebrate.  Yep, it's going to be quite the fiesta. 

Ole!!

May the Fourth Be With You, Not

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned in the past years that I've been blogging that I am not a Star Wars fan.  In fact, I've never seen any of the bizillion Star Wars movies, nor do I have the desire to ever watch them.  That's just not my thing.  But I know that it's a bilzillion of people's thing.  I can't count the number of "May the Fourth Be With You" posts I saw on Facebook today.  Good for you all for celebrating.  You all can cut me some slack on June 3rd when I post something about my Favorite Day of the Year.

Tuesday, Tuesday

If I didn't have a student loan looming over my head, I would quit my job tomorrow and go work at the new Little Caesar's in my neighborhood.  As you know, making pizzas is one of my top three dream jobs.  Yes, this week (and the past few weeks) at work have been THAT bad.

Trivia Update

I am bummed to report that Team Divas didn't do so well again this week.  It was Derby and Rock and Roll themed questions.  You'd think we'd dominate but that didn't happen.  We got beat.  Beat bad.  But we are gearing up for a big comeback next week. 

Once Again, Rain, Rain, Please Go Away

We got over an inch of rain in the 'Ville yesterday, and that put quite a damper on not only the Derby Festival events but on garden planting here in the area.  And we got a good storm earlier this afternoon and are expecting another storm at at minute.  The rain can leave whenever it wants to, if not sooner.  The April Showers should be over and now we should be having May flowers.  

I don't need to tell you that the 'Rents are very antsy because they can't plant their tomatoes, peppers and cantaloupees because of the rain.  We will need a couple of days of sunshine and light winds to dry the ground out or else Farmtown 2016 will be behind.