I can do all things...

Weeeeellll you alll are sooooo NOOOOT gonna believe some of the BRAVE things I did while in Bohol!!! First of all...

This here in the pic below is a 400 pound PYTHON

 AND THIS IS ME IN THE CAGE WITH THE PYTHON!!! YES PEOPLE!!! I got IN THE CAGE WITH THE PYTHON!!! (It was sleepin though!) I was scared buuuut the man REASURED me that the python would NOT be able to SWALLOW ME!!! Ahahaha!!! Actually the weirder part was TOUCHING IT!!! Ooooo its skin was soooo smooth!!!

 I was like OMW!!! They would NEVER let you IN THE CAGE with a python in the US!!! The Philippines is soooo COOL!!! What other country would EVER let you do that??? My brothers were like, UH try ANY AFRICAN COUNTRY!!! Ahahaha...my sis was like yeah and if you gave them a few pesos they would probabley EVEN LET YOU GET INSIDE the python...ahaha!!!
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NOW CHECK THIS OUT!!!
The NEXT BRAVE THING I DID WAS HOLD THIS NASTY LIZARD ON MY ARM!!!

See the freaked out look on my face???? Ahahahaha!!!

EVERYONE WAS LIKE....WOW MARY!!! I can't believe you held the lizzard without even SCREAMING!!! Then I showed them this NEXT PICTURE...Of course a gwapo Filipino guy was involved!!! He put it on my are for me...LOLOLOL

I can do BRAVE THINGS

...through the strength of a handsome man!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

My PERFECT man...

Okaaaaaaaay so I think I MAY hav met the PERFECT man for ME while in Bohol!!! FO realz!!! Okaaaay sooo we were doing this whole tour of the island and let me tell you it is ABSOLUTLEY BEAUTIFUL!!! Soooo we are stopping at this little zoo thing...and we had driven a ways out into like the farm and country area and it was just like soooo tropical and green that when I got out of the van I OF COURSE...wanted to WHAT???

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Take a picture of myself  OF COURSE!!! LOL sooooooo I'm standing on the edge of the road TRYING to get a good pic of myself when these two Filipino young ladies and one Filipino guy come running out to me and they were like...

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You are VERY beautiful Ma'aam!!! Sooo I'm like OH THANK YOU!!! And the girls were like, He wants to take YOUR PICTURE FOR YOU!!! Sooooo I'm like Okay...SURE!!!! AND soooo he did!!!!!

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Then He just...he just FOLLOWED me around AND ANY TIME I was goinna try and get a self portrait of myself with ANYTHING...He was RIGHT THERE...I WILL TAKE IT FOR YOU ma'aam!!!
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But it was like he didn't want anything from me...He just wanted to be there to HELP ME Capture myself...and he didn't even roll  his eyes about it...it was like he could totally understand WHY I would want to capture myself...and he was MORE THAN WILLING to do it!!! what do you all think???

PROPOSAL TIME OR WHAT??? ;) 

♥Mary Frances :)

Orphanage!!!

One of the COOLEST, AWESOMEST things we did on our trip was to visit the orphanage in Bohol!!! It was my sister's idea and she talked to the pastor and they got it all arranged for us to go!!! My sis bought a buncha candy and Dunkin donuts, then we loaded up the van and headed out. When my sis was buying all the donuts, my sis was tellin the ladies at Dunkin Donuts that we were buying them to bring to the kids in the orphanage. One of the ladies was soooo TOUCHED she said to my sis, That is so nice that you would come all the way here to do that. Thank you for loving Boholians!!! I thought that was REALLY cool!!! Cuz Bohol is such a BEAUTIFUL place...prettier even than Hawaii...and they get A LOT of tourists...BUUUT people don't come for THE PEOPLE...they just come for themselves, for vacation....but they have NO interest in the people of Bohol...which is SAD...cuz the people of Bohol are SOOOO NICE...and sweet and FRIENDLY!!!

Here we are in the van, on our way to the orphanage with some of the youth and church members...

 Here we are when we FIRST got there...everyone was ALL SHY!!!! LOL!!!

Here are some of the kids at the orphanage...the oldest child there was 16 and the youngest was 3...

The first group of kids to break outta the shyness...LOL

Sis. Jewel, one of the young people from their church was leading the kids in songs...then I led the kids in Father Abraham...which surprisingly NOT all the Boholians knew...so it was cool to be able to teach them a new song and the kids LOVED it!!!

I'm HOME!!!

Heeeeeeeey EVERYONE!!!

I am FINALLY HOME!!! wooooooohooooooo!!! I'm tellin you all...the flight home seemed to take FOREVER!!! We left Thursday EVENING and flew for like 20 hrs and when we got to Phoenix it was STILLLL THursday evening!!! How WEIRD IS THAT???

And let me tell you all, our trip home was an adventure from the very start!!! We pulled up into the airport in Manila and we get all our luggage out and we took seperate taxis to the airport and so we pay the cab drivers and we're hauling our luggage across the airport parking lot and John is like OH NO!!! He had left his and my mom's back packs on the back seat of the taxi...Cuz he was very distracted when he left...which I will explain to you all WHY soon, SO he is like OH NO!!! My backback had my passport in it!!! So we're like, UH THIS IS NOT GOOD!!! Cuz you can NOT leave without your passport!!!

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Filipino Eybrow Raising!!!

So in the Philipines, ESPECIALLY in Bohol, everyone raises their eyebrows!!! Its like a greeting or acknowlegement, or they answer your question with their eyebrows...its really cool!!! AND I had noticed in A LOT with Jewel, my first sis-in-law, like when she sang it was like her eyebrows danced,  BUUUUT they do it EVEN more in Bohol!!! I mean like your walkin down the street and you say hi to ANYONE, male or female  and they usually respond back with a big smile and some MAJOR EYEBROW RAISING!!! LOL!!! 

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So i was tellin Grace, my new sis-in-law, who is also an EXPERT eyebrow raiser, that in the U.S., when a guy or girl raise their eyebrows at each other its sort of like a FLIRTY move, and if a random guy that you didn't know, just smiled and raised his eyebrows at you, YOU WOULD NOT think he was just being friendly but a TOTAL CREEP!!! LOLOL So we were laughing about it!!!

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Then I told her that when I get back to the U.S. I am going to just smile and raise my eyebrows at all the GWAPO  guys!!! AND if anyone says anything about me being flirty or forward I'm just gonna say...

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I'm NOT being a FLIRT!!!! I'm just being...

FILIPINO!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Back in MANILA Philippines!!!

OMW!!! I am gettin sooo mixed up an confused with the days...I don't even know what day it is...LOL...I jus know that we have one more FULL day in Manila then we leave at 7:40 pm Philipine time!!!

 We left Bohol early this morning and I NEVERRRR EVER thought in a million years that I would say this BUUUUT I was really sad to leave!!! I absolutley LOVED it there!!! it was one of the prettiest places I have ever been!!! ANd the people there were soooo nice and I made so many friends at the church.

Here are we are with some of the youth and people from the church, then the night ended with the youth singing to us and then we all sang together, "Friends are Friends Forever" 

I really, really wanna encourage ALL my friends from the US to go to BOHOL someday!!!

 I was thinking about how most of the people I met may never have a chance in this life to leave that island. Many of them have never even been to Manila WITHIN the Philipines and due to finances and immigration laws, most people will never have a chance to visit the US...but we as Americans can at ANY time, as long as we have the finances and money saved up, can go WHENEVER...we want!!! LETS GO PEOPLE!!! It may cost A LOT of money to save up and buy your ticket and go, BUUUUT think about how much money we waste on things we don't need that don't really count and will NEVER really matter!!! YOU WILL NOT REGRET GOING HERE...to the city of friendship!!!

Unwanted Ones...

The other day we were at Toys R Us...ACTUALLLLLY it was the day after Christmas. Someone, NOT in our immediate family, buuuuuuuut someone had come into some extra cash flow and wanted to take my neice Mary Jo shopping for ANYTHING AND JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING she everrrr wanted...and TRUST me if you tell a child that...they WILL do it...Stanley the doll... NOW has a $35 outfit...LOL!!!

Soooooo anywayZ, we were walking down the baby doll aisle and OF COURSE I was enthralled...because I always LOVED playing with baby dolls as a little girl. So I saw this new baby alive doll that bounces up and down in its crib and I was just like...awwwwww!!! It was sooooo CUTE!!! But as I was looking at the baby dolls on the shelf I was like Oh look...

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  ONLY the black babies are left...there was one Mexican baby and one white baby doll and the rest were black. I was like to my sister, LOOK AT THIS....The ONLY ones that are mostly left are the black baby dolls!!! I'm like, Nobody wanted them cuz they are black...my sis is like yeah I know...I'm like WOW!!! That is sooooo SAD to me!!! ANd I promise you guys I really FELT SAD ABOUT IT!!! I was like Awww...if I had the money I would buy them ALL and take them home with me!!! (I just felt like they were the African kids)

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Growing up I had ALL different color baby dolls and LOTS of black babies...I begged my mom for one and got my first black baby doll when I was 5...it was my most beloved birthday present ever!!! So I said to myself...I'm going to show these baby dolls to Mary Jo, because I know my niece will think that they are sooooo cute and she LOVES chocolate babies...because ANY child that hangs out with me for more than a day will WANT A CHOCOLATE BABY....LOL!!!

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So I show my niece and she is like awwwww!!! I want one!!! So she puts it in the cart with all the stuff that she is getting. AND I'm like YAAAY!!! Thats ONE chocolate baby that is gonna get a home today!!! AND THEN, the man that was taking MJ shoppin comes over and sees the baby and he is like, "Oh no Momma's, NOT that one...lets put it back and get something else for you!

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I WAS LIKE WOW...I could NOT believe it...so MJ, oblivious to the man's reasonin for WHY she couldn't get the baby just shrugged her shoulders and put it back on the shelf...I was like WOW....talk about REJECTION for the poor babies. Had it been up to me...I woulda taken them ALL home!!! (I chose not to because I did not want to go to jail...for doll-knapping...LOL) No other white person in the area may have wanted a CHOCOLATE baby for their child...BUT I WANTED THEM!!!

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AND I got to thinkin about how  that is the way God feels towards EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US!!! Maybe your feeling in life like your sitting in the rejection pile of this world! Maybe you are the one that nobody wants to be around. Maybe you thought that someone at one time was gonna get you and want you and keep you...BUUUUT then for whatever reason you were once again discarded and left behind. You may feel like NO ONE WANTS YOU...BUT JESUS WANTS YOU!

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JESUS LOVES YOU!!! It does not matter to God the color of your skin, the shape of your eyes, your height, the things you have done, your past, your hurt, your faults....JESUS WANTS YOU!!! He wants to pick you up out of the pile of rejects and take you home with him!!! Don't let anyone tell you differently...JESUS WANTS YOU!!! Jesus wants you!!!

JESUS WANTS YOU!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

ITS DONE!!!

Weeeellll its OFFICIAL!!! My baby brother is a MARRIED MAN!!! WOW!!! I welcome Mary Grace to the Ginty family...NOW I have three sisters!!! Woot, woot!!! I wish I could upload pics but I think I'm gonna have to wait till we get to the US to do that...buuuuuuut...

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I just want to say that I think my brother can officially get himself into the Worl'd Guiness Records for THE SHORTEST KISS EVERRRRR!!! AHAHAHAHAHA!!! The youth from this church recorded so I hope you all can see it...bahahahahahaha!!!! 

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I have been enjoying myself soooooo much here on the island of Bohol!!! I LOVE IT HERE!!! Today we had AWESOME CHURCH...I got there on a Trike ride...we had No AC! We were in a carport...a stray dog came through...we were DRIPPING SWEAT...but we touched JESUS!!!

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Tomorrow we are going to the ocean during the day and then at night to the orphanage here to visit the children...we're gonna bring them candy and donuts and i'm reallllly excited about it!!!

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More later my friends!!! XOXOXOXO!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

My Christmas Loot!!!

Look what I got for CHRISTMAS!!! I felt so blessed!!!

I got starbucks coffee, The book Kisses from Katie, and the two XOXO wristlets from my sis, Crossin in the Sand a Biography about a Liberian missionary and The book the girl in the Dress (About Apostolic Modesty) from my mom, a phone the mass text messages from Joe and Jewel, More coffee and a chocolate baby from Abie, and John gave me a cute jean skirt I had picked out from Savers and a lil money for some hair accessories, my secret pal at church gave me the waaaaay cute purse below, the book by steve and Mary Beth Chapman...which I cried and cried and cried when I read!!! Like I was just sittin there SOBBING....buuut it was sooooo good!!!and a waaaaaaay cute shirt that is ONLY a 1x!!! (Don't be JEALOUS!!!)

I guess if you can describe me from my christmas presents you would say...Apostolic, Holiness LOVERRR, African LOVERRR, Child LOVERRR, Adoption Loverr!!!Accessory LOVERRR, Soializer, and COFFEEE LOVERRR!!!

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 I guess you could sum me up as, CUTE STUFF, CoFFEE,  PEOPLE, AND God... 

THATS ME!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Awkward Bathroom moment #12985309485

Okaaaaaaay soooo here in the Philipines, in a lot of places there are bathroom attendents. This is a person that wipes off the counters, makes sure the toilets are flushed, they sell you tp if there is none...they greet you when you come in....the Filipinos are VERY helpful and friendly...they pride themselves in be known as THE FRIENDLIEST Asians and they ESPECIALLLLLY LOVE Americans...cuz we helped them in a war back in the day....

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So the other day we went on this went on this river boat tour and when we were done and getting in the van to leave, my brother John gets in the van and he was like, OK...THAT WAS AWKWARD!!! We're like WHAT???

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So he says that walks into the MEN'S room and there is a lady bathroom attendent in there...and he didn't see her when he walked in and then he hear's this lady like, HELLO SIR!!! And he like JUMPS cuz he thought he had walked into the ladies room!!! LOLOLOL!!!

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And just being her friendly Filipino self she is like, Come on in Sir! WELCOME!!! Mabuhay! AHAHAHAHA!!! So John is like, UH...hi...lololol! So he decides that he should probabley just go into one of the STALLS...LOLOL ...sooo he goes in and he said that the most awkward part is that when he goes in the stall...

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She  just keeps talkin to him! So did you like our boat ride sir? Did you enjoy yourself? How was the food? He was like OKAAAAY this is...

 DISTURBING!!!!

Gotta LOVE the Philipines!!! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! 

Mary Frances :)

Update..

Heeeeeeey everyone! I am finally updating my blog...my brother is lettin me use his iPad so don't mind all my grammatical errors..it's hard bloggin from this thing... Soooo much has happened idont even know were to start...

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I hav soooo many adventures to tell u all about and alot of them involve toilets...hahahahaha!!!!

honalulu was a blast..I found guys for almost all my friends..hahahahahaha....I can't wait to upload pics for u all We got into manila and was reunite with lil gwapo...he wouldn't look at me until I pulled candy...of course..lol 

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the most popular person here on the island is by far MJ's Stanley doll...hahahah aha u all seriousley should see the Filipinos they are like hysterical when they look at him...they say to mj look mam we like your baby and then we walk and more pointin and hysterical laughter it's pretty funny...I'm kinda jealous of alL the attention he is gettin though...haha

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MY HABITS!!!

Sooooooo some time recently someone tried to set me up with this guy that I just had NO interest in...it just is what it is!!! I wasn't rude, I just said no thank you, i'm more content being a single, cRaZy old maid!!! :))) LOLOL!!!

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Weeeeellll another one of my friends I was tellin it about, who is ALSO single, was like OH you should just go for him...he is a great guy, blah, blah, blah!!! And i'm just like NOOO! LOL My friend is just like, he is sooooooo NICE!!! I'm like weeeeeeellll...maybe YOU should go for him then!!! :)))

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She is like MARY, come on, you really think he can AFFORD...ME??? (She happens to reeeeeeallllly LOVE shoppin and a collector of expensive things!!!) Me and MY HABITS??? I'm like, OH YEAH...weeeeeellll MAYBE he can't afford ME and MY HABITS EITHER!!!

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My sister pipes into the conversation now and she is like...OH yeeeeah...YOUR EXPENSIVE habits Mary!!?!?!?!! As in... GOODWILL, SAVERS and DUMPSER DIVING!?!?!?! (HAHAHAHA!!!) I'm like heeeeeeey don't forget 99 cents only and HELLLLLOOOOO....

WALMART!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Happy New Year...

Happpppppppppy New Year from Honalulu!!! :)))

XOXOXO


♥Mary Frances :)

OMW!!! WOW!!!

Sooooo like OMW!!! We leave for our trip EARLY Friday morning!!! Like the plain leaves at * but we're leavin the house at 5:30 am!!! The plan for the next couple of days is this... We leave at 8am AZ time and have a 7 hour flight and arrive in Honalulu at 11 am and I guess it will be like 3pm AZ time but we gain hours going there...which is COOOOL!!! LOL Sooo we have all day Friday there, all day Saturday and then we leave Sunday night or something like that and its another 9 hours to the Philipines...which is waaaaaay better than a STRAIGHT 17 hour flight...LOL!!! Then we are in Manila for like 3 days and then we head to the island of Bohol and on January 7th(15 hours earlier than US time) My lil brother Abie will be a MARRRRRIED MAN!!! OMW!!! I can't believe it!!! I've been beggin him to just have a baby RIGHT AWAY!!! He says NOOOO...buuuut we'll see if his will can break my prayers to God!!! :)))

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WHY I like younger men...

Sooo me and my sis and our friend Renee were hanging out with each other the other night and so were talking about GUYS...of COURSE...LOL!!!! And they were saying how they would go for a guy that was like 9 years older than them and I was like WHAAAAAAAAAT??? Noooooooo waaaaaaaay!!!! LOLOL!!! I was like I rarely even like a guy that is MY AGE... (ACTUALLY to be honest I don't know ANY single 28-year old guys!!!)

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And so my sis was like I just think that it would be HARD to respect a guy that was YOUNGER than myself!!! I was like WHAAAAAT??? For realz!???!! I'm like, I don't think I would have a problem with that AT ALL!!! I'm all there are A LOT of guys that are waaaaaay younger than me that I really LOOK UP TOO!!! (Like REALLLLY THERE IS...i'm NOT just sayin that!!!)

And Renee says... OH WHY???

BECAUSE THEY'RE...

 TALLER THAN YOU!?!?!?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

(Heeeey its a pretty good reason if you ask me!!!;)

♥Mary Frances :)

Christmas Part 1...

Christmas morning...There is something about that anticipation of waking up and OPENING those presents...I remember me and my big brother Joe...we were PARTNERS on Christmas Eve!!! We would sometimes stay up the WHOLE night or wake up at like 3 in the morning and just wait, and wait and WAIT!!! One year, we were soooo excited we went to sleep together on the top bunk soooo we could wake each other up...yes ME AND JOE share a twin size bed...it was a loooooooooong time ago...TRUST ME....HAHAHA!!!

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Soooo We wern't allowed to wake my parents up till it was AT LEAST LIGHT OUT!!! LOL! Mom would NEVERRR put the presents out until THAT night while we were sleeping!!! I remember Joe and I would get up and sneak into the, everything was pitch black except for the glow of the multi-colered Christmas lights around the Nativity Scene, we would peep into the  living room where all the presents were...my mom ALWAYS divided up all the presents into five piles for each of us kids soooo we would try to figure out WHICH pile was ours...LOL...and during all this...we had to be REALLLLLLLLY quiet cuz my dad was always snoozin in there on his recliner...buuuuut I remember we would go in there and EVERY YEAR Jingle Bell Rock would be playing...aaaahhh those were the dayZ!!!

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Christmas Humor!!!

Okaaaaaaaay so i'm not on FB anymore BUUUUUT...I read this version of the 12 days of CHristmas and HAD to post it!!! If your on FB or EVERRR beeen on FB you will totally AGREE with this!!! HAHAHAHA!!! Here we goooo start singin...
On the 12th day of Christmas my Facebook gave to me:

Christmas Eve Dinner...

Soooooo its a HUGE Italian tradition with my family to have this traditional meal the night before Christmas...its all FISH...which is DISGUSTING!!!! LOL! I don't eat ANY of it except the escarole pie, the fried brocoli and the DESSERTS!!! Buuuut its still really fun to do...welll I guess its JUST TRADITION...that every year, the night before Christmas...the WHOLE house would smell NASTY!!! HAHA!!! I don't even like the pasta with crab sauce...BUUUUT even my brother John, who is REAAAALLLLY picky does...He is all I guess it just shows how ITALIAN your NOT!!! I'm like okaaaay whateverrr...its TECHNICALLY an old CATHOLIC tradition that the Italians took on...soooo I guess it really just shows how PENECOSTAL, APOSTOLIC I am!!! OOOooo yeah!!!  HAHA!!! I'm just glad there is NO squid or Calmari junk this year!!! I used to just get nausious lookin at those TENACLES...eeeeeeeewwwwwwwwww!!! LOL!

What my neice is gettin for Christmas...

I can't wait to giv her this baby!!! I like KNOW she is gonna LOVE it!!! I got the doll for five dollars at a yard sale...its like one of those floppy, heavy dolls that is supposed to be like a real baby...like the head flops and stuff...THEN last night I bought the dress for it...the clothes were more expensive than the doll...BUUUUUT...I wanted her to look beautiful when she meets her new mommy!!! I was like holdin the doll in my arms and like my sis is all are you STILL lookin and holdin that BABY??? Are you SURE you don't want to just keep it for YOURSELF??? LOL I was a baby doll fanatic...I played with them till I was 12 and THEN had to FORCE myself to STOP!!!

What my apron SHOULD say!!! LOL!!!

Yesturday, my neice MJ was askin me what my arpon said. So I told her it says,

"Pretty girls have a messy kitchen!!!"

So she says OH ok, cuz its on YOU... so I thought it said...
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Duuuuuuude, I'm SPECIAL!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Pretty smile???

I was at the Halmark post office the other day buying some stamps for my mom and couldn't help overhearing a conversation...

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An Old man was paying and the cashier asked him how he was and if he was behaving himself!!! He that yes, he was INDEED behavin...tellin all the pretty ladies they were pretty and the not so pretty ladies....and there is a LOOOOONG pause before he continues and I think he is gonna say that he is tellin them that they are pretty ANYWAYZ... and then he says... that beauty is ONLY skin deep!!! LOL And that they had a real nice smile!!! HAHAHA!!!

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So the cashier laughs and says OH, now i'm wondering what you would say to me??? He is silent for a moment then he says, "You know, you really have a NICE SMILE!!! Real nice!!! Really Christmasy!!! She was like...awww thank you!!! I don't think she even GOT IT!!! HAHAHAHA I was thinkin like LAAAAADY!!! You should NOT have asked him that!!! LOL...that reminds me of a quote I recently read in a book...

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 Beauty is only skin deep BUUUUUT...

 a guy doesn't want to hav to skin a girl....

 to see her beauty!!!

HAHAHAHA!!! I laughed for like ten minutes straight when I read that!!! I mean, I have three brothers so it just seemed like such a typical guy statement!!!
♥Mary Frances :)

MY UGLY CHRISTMAS SWEATER!!!

WEEEEEEEEELLLLLLL here it is...MY  UGLY CHRISTMAS SWEATER!!!

I know, I know, I'm one of the hosts of this and I'm over a day late...what can I say...I was havin TECHNICAL difficulties...LIKE...NOT being able to steal my neighbor's internet and soooo I was DISQUALIFIED...WAAAAAAAAA!!! :,(

Its okaaaaaaaay!!! I know I wouldn't have done very well ANYHOW....I just don't do UGLY very well!!! Its just something that does NOT come natural for me...something I really...REALLY need to work harder on!!! ;) ;)

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Since you can't vote for me...GO HERE to veiw everyone else and VOTE!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Update...

I would like to give you all an UPDATE ON MY AMAZIN life...HA!!! First of all....I am DONE with any sort of cookin and bakin till THE NEW YEAR!!! LOL Today, I made three recipes of homemade pie crust...two huge chicken pot pies...chicken salad...my bbq sauce...reeses chocolate bars and these ghetto lil peppermin things that didn't come out to swell...lol!!!

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I have done two loads of dishes, cleaned the kitchen TWICE ... went to the mall and got my eyebrows done...cuz there is NO way I could hav bad eyebrows on CHRISTMAS...nope...i'm NOT gonna be seein anyone BUUUUUUUT I will be takin LOTSA pics of MESELF!!! AnywayZ, let me tell you all something...I got the threadin method done this time...and it just about KILLLLED me...seriousley...they look AMAAAZIN but I just about died in the process....OUCH!!!! I think I was like REALLLLLY bad advertisin for their lil kiosk set up in the middle of the mall!!! HAHAH!! Im OW! OW! OW!!! The lady is like, OH beauty hurts! Beauty is pain!!! I had to take TWO breaks in the 10 minute process!!!

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ANYWHO...and in between ALL that I have been KILLIN STUPID lil nats...I currently have 9 traps set up for them around the house...YES...I said 9 traps!!! They are aparently attracted to sweet smelllin things AND vinegar...seriousley GOD...WHAT were you thinkin when you created these things??? UGH!!! I've even sacrificed two cups of my carmel drizzle coffee...I discovered the other day...when I went to look at my cup of coffee and it had FIVE nats in it...that this would a good trap...sooo far they are the only trap that has caught anything!!!

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All day long I have been listenin to Lamplighter Theatre!!! If you all haven't listened to them you should!!! Go HERE!!! Also, go to whitsend.org to listen to some GOOOD Christmas stories!!! "A Lamb's Tale just made me CRY!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

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In between all this goin on that I am tellin you all about...I am IMING JAC...who is at work... she works over nights... and let me tell you all something...if from what you all just read...if you thought MY LIFE WAS AMAZIN...check out my BFF Jac's AMAZIN life... her co-workers are tellin her ideas for ME to get rid of these nats and IN BETWEEN that SHE Is tellin me about how her and her coworkers are having HUGE fights over Candyland!!! There is, yellin, cheatin and cussin...the cussin is NOT jac though...LOL...ALL over OUR GAME OF CANDYLAND!!! T said if they break they owe her five bucks...LOL!!!

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Weeeeeeeeeeellll I gotta GO...cuz guess what is currently waiting for me???? Just callin out my name...Mary! Mary! MARRRRRRRRRY!!!! Yes, thats right...A SINK FULL OF DISHES!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Battle Of The Sexes!!!

Playing the game Battle of The sexes tonight...its a game where its basically guys VS girls and the guys have to answer questions trivia questions that girls are more likely know and the girls have to answer trivia questions that the guys would more likely know...at one point none of the girls even knew they were gettin a question asked to them...WHY??? Cuz they were to busy TALKIN to each other to hear!!! LOLOL!!!

AnywayZ, I'm sitting there like...TOTALLY CLUELESS either way!!! Like what's an empire waist??? I'm thinkin like ummmm...like a big girl??? Cuz her waist is the size of an WHOLE ENTIRE EMPIRE??? AHAHA!!! How many tablespoons in 1 cup??? I'm like ummm...is there way we can figure this out mathematically on a CALCULATOR??? Whats a triangular shaped dress called??? What can a woman foil for fashion??? SEWING....FORGET IT!!!  I'm like OMW...I don't know the answers to the questions for THE GUYS OR THE GIRLS!! Whaaaaaaaaat does this say about ME???

The ONLY two questions about females that I ACTUALLY knew were that Sun and Palmolive are the brand names of DISH DETERGENT!!! ANNNNND the name for sections of garlic is CLOVES!!! Ahahaha!!! Soooo the ONLY things I really know about being a girl is DISHWASHING AND COOKIN!!! In other words...THE KITCHEN!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Natural Born Citizen...

I read this and couldn't help but think OBAMA!!! AHAHAHAHA!!! ;)

This just might make your day a little brighter!! You, who worry about democrats versus republicans -- relax, here is our real problem.

In a Purdue University classroom, they were discussing the qualifications to be President of the United States . It was pretty simple. The candidate must be a natural-born citizen of at least 35 years of age. However, one girl in the class immediately started in on how unfair was the requirement to be a natural-born citizen.

In short, her opinion was that this requirement prevented many capable individuals from becoming president. The class was taking it in and letting her rant, and not many jaws hit the floor when she wrapped up her argument by stating,

"What makes a-natural born citizen any more qualified to lead this country than one born by C-section?"

Yep, these are the same kinds of (blonde?) 18-year-olds that are now voting in our elections! I'm NOT gonna lie...I had to read it TWICE before I got it!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

EEEEEEEEEEKS!!!

DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO GET RID OF CITRUS FLIES???? These lil nat like things are driving me INSANE!!! I have literally cleaned, bleached scrubbed and scoured this whole entire house!!! i have been walkin around with Lysol in one hand and bug spray in the other and feel like I can't hardly breath buuuut I hate these things!!!! I WILL NOT ALLOW BUGS IN MY HOUSE!!! THEY WILL NOT LIVE HERE!!! I may die in the process BUUUUUUUT they WILL DIE TOO!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Scarf...FOUND!!!

LOOK what I found!!!

A BRAND NEW SCARF!!!!

LOL!!! Last week during outreach I found this MEN'S SCARF just lying on the ground in front of Arbys!!! EVERYONE'S LIKE...You don't know where it came from...who had it...Mary don't touch it!!! BUT...as you all know...I could care less about that stuff!!! AND LOOK IT STILL HAS THE TAG ON IT!!! MADE IN ITALY!!! Wooooohoooooooo!!!! If it were CUTE I would totally keep it BUUUUT...Idk...i mean its NOT QUITE as ugly as a....

 BURBERRY scarf buuuuuut still its pretty close...LOL!!!
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It is kinda nice... in a masculine sort of way!!!!

IF I had a boyfriend...he would sooooooooooo be gettin this scarf for Christmas!!! SEEE what all you guys are missin out on??? ;) ;) ;) Buuuuut since I don't have no one to giv it to, cuz my brothers would NEVER wear a scarf..unless they were like going to the North Pole or something...i'm just gonna bring it back to Stein Mart and get some store credit!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!  SOMEONE is sooooooo gettin a present from there for Christmas!!! Lets see who ELSE do I need a present for???

♥Mary Frances :)

IF God is bigger...

I found this thought provoking story and thought I would share it with you all...

This is a story about a little girl who, on the way home from church,
turned to her mother and said, “Mommy, the Preacher’s sermon this morning

confused me.”

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The mother said, “Oh! Why is that?

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The girl replied, “Well, he said that God is bigger than we are. Is that
true?”

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“Yes, that’s true,” the mother replied.

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“He also said that God lives within us. Is that true too?”
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Again the mother replied, “Yes.”

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“Well,” said the girl.“If God is bigger than us and He lives in us,

wouldn’t He show through?”

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Read this again…Think….ABOUT IT!!! Think about it!!! Weeeeeelllll Preach little girl!!!! Preeeeeeeeaaaach!!!!

Is Jesus showing THROUGH YOU???.

"Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid."

(Matthew 5:14)

♥Mary Frances :)

UGLY SWEATER CHALLENGE!!!

OKAAAAAAAY FELLOW APOSTOLIC BLOGGERS!!!  
Me and my friend Destiny Hyler from ibanter,  have an AMAZING and FUNNN challenge for YOU ALL!!!  (To be HONEST this was actually ALL DESTINY'S idea!!!) We would like to challenge YOU ALL to an UGLY SWEATER CONTEST!!!!!!

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Post a picture or PICTURES on YOUR BLOG of YOU in your UGLIEST CHRISTMAS SWEATER!!! The voting will take place on Destiny's blog and we decided that it will be the OFFICIAL UGLY CHRISTMAS SWEATER HEADQUARTERS!!! ...you can also find on her blog a list of fellow bloggers that have joined the contest!!! (If you want your name on the list email us or leave us a comment...Me at maryfranceswriting@gmail.com or Destiny at destinyroshelle@gmail.com)

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UGLIEST SWEATER???

YOU ALL get to decide WHO you all think ACTUALLY had THE UGLIEST Chrismas sweater!!!

#1Jacqui

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 #2 Bro. Sam & Sis. Janelle!!!

(They're married...our youth pastor and his wife)

 #3 Seth...

he didn't feel like spendin a whole $7 bucks at Saver's or Goodwill...sooooooo he JUST WENT INTO HIS DAD'S CLOSET!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!

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#4 Sheree

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#5 Travis

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#6 Jonathon

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#7 Zach

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 #8- ME!!!

#9-DENAE

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 #10- Liz

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#11- Shannon

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 #12- Delora

Place your vote on the left side!!!

WEEEELLL there were more of us AT THE PARTY BuuuuuuuuuT thats all that participated in the UGLY SWEATERS!!! WHen the voting is over i'll tell you all who I THOUGHT had THE UGLIEST SWEATER!!! Also, one person's sweater isn't really in the contest...guess who's??? Guess who won for the guys!!! Guess who won OVERALL!!!

Click below to see more pics from our party!!!

Thanks for A FUN TIME!!! :)))

GUESS WHAT???

We had AWESOME, AMAZIN CHURCH TONIGHT!!! It was like WOW!!! My hair is PROOF...AHAHAHA...check it out...

BEFORE CHURCH!!!

AFTER CHURCH!!!

Okaaaaaaaaay soooo...I just HAVE to tell you all about it!!!I was just praying before church about STUFF...and I was just telling God...that there are some things that I just don't get...I don't understand...people...circumstances...things going on...and I was just like God ALL I KNOW...IS THAT I LOVE YOU!!! It doesn't make everthing perfect, it doesn't change all the problems...BUT...I LOVE YOU JESUS!!!! AND that song was on my heart... More than anything...I love you Jesus more than anything...More than worldly wealth...More than life itself...I love you Jesus more than anything. (I can't find the song online...I really wanna listen to it if anyone knows who sings it!!!) I just kept praying I love you Jesus!!! I Love you Jesus!!! I LOVE YOU JESUS!!!

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 SOOOOOOO then church started and IT WAS SOOOOO AWESOME!!! Like the power of God just FELL!!! We were already havin a good song service...AND then the choir sang and you could really feel God AND THEN we were all worshipping and then we started singing who's report will you believe? ANd we all started worshippin and dancing and I just felt like really dancing and then I just started dancing like WILD AND THEN...its hard to explain...its ike I was dancing in the spirit BUT THEN I could feel God just take over me and its like he was moving me and the next thing I know I was slain on the floor!!! It was soooooo AWESOME to be able to feel God like that!!!

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I've only been slain in the spirit ONE OTHER time!!! It was at Conquror's Conference at the end of  2007 when Bro. Raul Alvear from Brazil preached. I remember he said everyone that has the Holy Ghost needs to take a lap around the building...NOW I normally don't run the aisles at conferences cuz it can be like a REALLLLLY LONG LAP and I'm usually like still only half way around when the song is like OVER...LOL...BUT he said EVERYONE that had the Holy Ghost to take a lap around the building...soooo like EVERYONE was RUNNING!!!

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Weeeeelll...when I was about half way around the building and it was pretty SLOW runnin cuz we were ALL runnin...but about half way around I remember Bro. Alvear said, Before some of you even get all the way around the building running, God is going to take over you. Well when I got to the front at that conference, I started dancing with a buncha other girls, and then I just started dancing like wild and then the next thing I knew I was slain in the spirit...

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JUST Like Bro. ALvear had said, God TOOK OVER before I had even made it all the way around!!! I remember feeling such awe of God!!! I didn't even really know what had happened...I was actually REALLLLY SCARED!!! I couldn't move and I was like laying there like OMW am I dying or something??? LOL!!! AND THEN since no one was like calling the ambulance, I was like OKAAAAAAAY this must be God touching me or SOMETHING!!! LOL!!!

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SInce that time, there have been several times where I have felt God like that...but I reconized it and got scared and stopped it from happening. Buuuuuut...TONIGHT...I felt God taking over and I was like, I AM NOT STOPPING THIS...I NEED GOD!!!

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I am SOOOOOO thankful that we serve a REAL GOD!!! I am soooo thankful that I serve a God that I can touch an feel!!! Despite ALL the problems and confusion going on...living for GOD is STILL THE BEST LIFE EVERRRR!!! I LOVE HIM SOOOOO MUCH!!! AND when he touched me it was like he was just saying back to me...

I LOVE YOU TOO!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

I WON!!!

I WON THE UGLY CHRISTMAS SWEATER CONTEST!!!!

(Don't BE JEALOUS!!!;)

I couldn't believe it!!! I like SOOOOOO wasn't even trying...JAC totally helped me get started with it and then like 2 hours before it was time to leave...i got TOTALLY inspired with the hot glue gun and started goin cRaZy!!! AHAHAHAHA!!!

Weeeeeeeeelllll I WON FOR THE GIRLZ...then there was ANOTHER winner for the guyz AND THEN there was an OVERALLLL WINNERRRR!!!

 I'll post pics SOOOOON! I can NOT wait for you all to see it!!! ANNNND everyone else's!!! I'm ACTUALLY gonna have a contest on here and LET YOU ALL VOTE ON who YOU THINK Is the ugliest...that will be coming SOON!!! :) ANYWAYZ, I do NOT take it lightly that I won this award...

it is an EXTREME HONOR!!!

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NOW...the BIG question IS...

WILL I HAVE THE GUTS...

TO WEAR THIS AWARD WINNING UGLY SWEATER...

TO BIBLE COLLEGE THIS MONDAY NIGHT???

♥Mary Frances :)

Ugly sweater???

Sooooo our youth Christmas party is TONIGHT and the theme is for everyone to wear and UGLY CHRISTMAS SWEATER...and the person with THE UGLIEST sweater wins an award or something!!! Don't worry...i'll be postin pics!!!

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Sooooooo Jac volunteered to help me come up with one...said she was headin over to Goodwill and would stop by if she found anything for me. So when she stopped over at the house to show me her stuff...she had like THE CUTEST hoody everrrr on...I was like OMW...I looooooove your jacket!!! Its sooooooooo CUTE!!! Then...just to be a bRat...I couldn't resist sayin...

Sooooooooooo...

 is that what your wearing to the party tomorrow night???

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!  
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!! 
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!! 
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Just KIDDIN!!! JUST KIDDIN!!!
She knows I LOVED IT!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Does it bother you???

Soooo recently, someone was trying to set my friend Jac up with a single guy in his THIRTIES!!! Annnnd we hadn't even seen a pic of this guy or NOTHING...it was just like all TALK!!! LOL So we're like talking about it and I was like, sooooooo like, does it BOTHER you that he is in his THIRTIES??? Cuz that just seems really waaaaaaaaaaay older...Im all I really think it would bother ME!!!

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Sooooooo Jac kinda pauses and thinks about it for a second then says,Well Mary, I AM 28 years old...thats getting close to thirty! So I'm like, Oh yeah, huh...THATS TRUE!!! I forget that your 28 NOW!!! Then Jac kinda pauses again and says...

 ANNNNNND MARY...

YOUR 29!!!

I'm like, HUH?! Oooo! OH YEAH...thats RIGHT!!! I AM 29!!!!

BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

 

♥Mary Frances :)

I wish...

I was holding a seven-year-old I bring to church on my lap last week and I was smoothing her cheeks and I said...YOU ARE SOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!! And she said...I'm UGLY!!! I said, I SAY YOUR BEAUTIFUL!!! And she said, Weeeellll...I SAY I'M UGLY!!! I sighed and said...I wish I could give you some of my self-esteem!!! HAHAHA!!!

Seriousley though, I wish for Christmas...I could give some away...I wish I could make people see the beautiful person that they are!!! I've NEVERRR been able to understand how these beautiful girls can't see what they really are!!!! I used to think that girls just said that they were ugly cuz they were fishin for a compliment...but i'm startin to realize that people are seriousley lacking self-esteem...I take it as a personal mission to help change that...LOL... Any of you girlZ out there tonight....feeling down...feelin ugly...YOUR BEAUTIFUL!!! NOT because of what anybody else has said...BUT because GOD MADE YOU!!! The only way you could get any prettier is to love God more!!!!

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 "It is the holiness of God that makes us beautiful. Christ in us is the beauty that  radiates to the entire world.There is something about a strong relationship with God that brings a radiant, ravishing beauty that will not be overlooked.  Real Beauty comes from God."

-Bro. Garrett from Apostolic Standards Bible College class)

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The MORE you love God...the prettier you'll be!!! :)

♥Mary Frances :)

COME ON CHRISTMAS!!!

OMW!!! You guys...I'm soooooooooooo hyper!!! Its CHRISTMAS TIME aaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnd THIS song makes me even MORE hyper!!! You all have GOT to listen to it!!! Its Called; COME ON, CHRISTMAS by Matthew West...its sounds a lot like a Micheal Buble song...I LOVE IT!!! Its soooo happy and Jazzzzy and makes me bounce and twirl and whirl ALL over the room!!!!!!! ENJOY!!! :)))

Come On, Christmas

Come On, Christmas!
(Written on the beach) by Matthew West

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I left the lights up all year round
’cause I couldn’t bear the thought of taking ‘em down
I’ve been singing “Jingle Bell Rock” since July
all the Neighbors look at me like I’m crazy but I
Got a feeling that I just can’t shake
It’s lasted 365 days
Now I’m too excited, I can’t sleep a wink and
I stare at the snow outside my window just thinkin’

Chorus
Come on Christmas
I don’t why you’re taking so long Christmas
I’ve been waitin’ all year for you to get here
and I can’t take another second
Can’t you hear me beggin’?
Hurry up Santa Claus
I’ll give you my number
Just in case your reindeer get lost
And I sure wouldn’t mind
If you’re early this time
So, Come on, come on, come on Christmas!

Go HERE to listen to it!!! :)))

♥Mary Frances :)

HATERRRR...

I just found out...THAT...one of my bestest friends in the WHOLE world is a total Mary Haterrrr!!! I was SHOCKED...when I found out...and I am SURE you all will be too!!! If your wondering WHO it could possibly be...weeeeeeeeeelllll....HOLD ON...I'm about to tell YOU!!! ;)))
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The current MARY HATERRR award goes to THE ONE AND THE ONLY...

KIMMY KAT!!!

YES, I know, I too was SHOCKED to find this out...this is how the news to me ALL unfolded...

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We were havin a lil phone convo the other day, Kim had called me, seeking MY ADVICE, no surprise there eh? ;) Seekin my advice an forgiveness to someone...you know, who should forgive FIRST??? and in all my 28 years of WISDUMB, said, Oh just be the one to forgive!!! (LOL!) ANd she said, yeah, buuuuuuuuut...and I said, weeeeeeeellll JUST REMEMBER...your the one with THE HOLY GHOST!!!

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And Kim says, Oh...THATS TRUE!!! Your RIGHT!!! MAN!!!

I HATE it when YOUR RIGHT!!!

ANd I, still in my aura of WISEDUMB and total humility said...

WOW!!!

You must REALLLLLY HATE ME THEN!!!

AHAHAHAHA and Kim said....

Shuuuuuuuuuuut UP!!!!

Awwwwwwwww I LOVERRRS my little HATERRRRR!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)