Monday, March 31, 2008

Monday: busy and dinner and Flurry

Today was a busy day at work. But it made the day go faster.

Then I had dinner with some friends from church. She made a great fried chicken and some rice and some pineapple cake.

And here is yet another cute picture of Flurry:

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Sunday: Why I need a trip to San Fransico


Because the socks that Ben got me now have a hole in them and I'd like some new ones.

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Saturday: relaxing

Today we didn't do much. Ben seems to be feeling better, but still took it pretty easy today. We also started watching "Dexter" per Tan's recommendation. It's interesting. We watched two and will probably watch more, but it's still out for trial as it is a bit...gruesome.

Being the good cat owners that we are, we took more pictures of Flurry today. I'm sure you're all excited.

Friday: the house is (not) falling apart

So as I'm going to bed, I heard this eeererrppp. Hmm. That's a new sound. I ignore it. Five minutes later...eerrerrpp. Hmm. I take more note this time. I wonder what is broken, but also wonder if the furnace is just making new noises. The furnace turns off. Eeereeppp. Sigh, I should go make sure everything's ok in the basement. Phew, it is. Maybe it's the radon dectector fan. Well, I can't do anything about that. Eeerreerpp. It now sounds like it is coming from the drier. Interesting. Oh! It's my dumb pager. I think my pager has an alarm that goes off at random times. It is kind of driving me nuts.

Friday, March 28, 2008

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Thursday: still not much new

So I will follow Kassia's example and let you all enjoy a picture of me in the past. Hopefully this shows the fashion of the day...else I was a freak. Oh, I'm with my 5th grade teachers

Monday, March 24, 2008

Monday: Stuff

Here's Flurry in action: dipping her paw in the water bowl and then licking it.

Sunday: Happy Easter

Happy Easter! It started Saturday when I had Ben get donuts from the store for me. (I gave up donuts and spice tea for Lent.) Saturday night he decided to hide them. But my donut-sense is so good I was able to find them before I knew they were gone!


The actual day was really good too. I was in a great mood. God is so good. Dusty and Laura came over for dinner and we hung out the whole afternoon.

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Saturday

Friday: Easter eggs

For the first time in my life, I decorated Easter Eggs. I had a blast. I especially liked using the white crayon because it was like using a mystery color...it was hard to tell exactly how it would turn out. More pics here.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Thursday: musings

Hmm, well yesterday's two posts were actually on Wednesday, not Monday. It's sometimes interesting how I can so completely get what day it is mixed up. Except for Fridays usually. Speaking of which, tomorrow's Friday! Yay. I have to be into work earlier than normal, but maybe I'll be able to leave earlier too. We'll see.

I'm rather tired.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Joy

Humorous Pictures
see more crazy cat pics

Monday: I'M NOT A SPAM BOT

I hate those things that make you copy letters and numbers that are hard to see to prove you're not a spam bot for the following reasons.

1) Half the time I can't tell what the letter/number is supposed to be. This is especially true of the ArsD website. I guess the other ones are at least legible.

2) They aren't real words. Real words I can type quickly. These random things I really have to think about and more often than not look at the keyboard to make sure I'm hitting the right key.

3) They involve numbers. Although I use numbers a lot, I'm not really a fan of typing them.

4) They take time.

Ok, so only the first one on one website is any real cause for frustration, but...sigh. If they could at least be words it would be nicer.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Sunday: Happy Palm Sunday

Happy Palm Sunday. During church we could hear the kids upstairs blowing noisemakers and, I assume, acting out Palm Sunday. It was cute.

Also, you can all rest more easily now. I hung the fire extinguisher in an easy to reach location instead of behind a lot of stuff. So if there is a fire, we'll be able to react about 5 seconds faster.

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Saturday: ides of March

Happy Ides of March. Nothing went wrong for us today, so that's good.

We started the day by being super lazy. We woke up and read in bed until around 11. Did some chores, played some Warcraft, etc. Then we had dinner with Jess and Clay (from church). We went to a Thai restaurant and it was really good. I had pineapple fried rice. Then we played hand and foot. There were some exciting times...

The fourth (and final) hand just started. The boys are winning by 4000 points, which is pretty much too much for the girls to take back without a miracle. Amanda lays down her cards. Sweet! The girls are off! Jess plays and lays down a lot of cards. When it comes back to Amanda, she lays the rest of her hand and gets into her foot. Poor boys, they still haven't laid any cards down. Jess gets into her foot. Clay tries to lay down but comes up five points short. Amanda finishes! Yay! Well, still probably not enough to win, but fun. Clay looks in his foot. THREE red fives. Oh, maybe the girls can win after all. The points are totaled...The girls win by 500 points! It was an amazing comeback, one for the books.

Friday: Happy Pi Day!

Well, big things were afoot over here on Pi day. We had pizza for dinner:


Then we watched "Duke and the great Pie War"
And finally topped it off with some delicious home-made pies (and cookies, but we didn't eat those).

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Thursday: Today felt like Thursday

Here's how the knitting is going so far.

I got my second monitor at work working! Huzzah! I've been waiting for about a month now.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Wednesday: It still isn't Thursday

All week I've thought it was Thursday. Luckily, tomorrow really is Thursday so hopefully that'll work out for me.


Travis stopped by this evening. Here he and Ben are playing his with his birthday present.
Here is Flurry showing us her favorite part of the upstairs: the humidifier. It has water. Therefore, she loves it.

Monday, March 10, 2008

Monday

It was about 4:00pm today when I actually realized what time it was today. The day flew. Not in a bad way (like I have way too much to do), but a lot was going on and I was staying nicely busy.

I had a dream that someone sent Flurry to me all stuffed in a jar and I was going to do an experiment on the handedness of cats.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Sunday

Ah, today went by way too quickly. I could blame it on the lack of an hour of sleep, but I'm not sure that really would have changed much in the end. We ended up going to a lunch at church for new people, had some errands to run, and so by the time we got home it was already mid-afternoon. We also went bowling this evening with some people from church and that was a lot of fun. I didn't break 100 though :(. Like normal.

Friday, March 7, 2008

Friday

I think my time of easy days is done. :( I got things 1-3 off my list today (those were the absolute must do-s), worked on number 4 (also an absolute must do, but let's be honest, its been on that status for a week. A few days won't hurt.) And numbers 5-20ish? Uh, someone else is doing 7, I did 5 at the last minute, and can hope the rest don't bite me later. Well, I'm sure that's more than you wanted to know. I think I finally got the video working...

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Thursday

Wow, today went fast.

And we got library cards :)

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Wednesday

Today went by quickly. It was nice. :)

This weekend I got a little webcam from Dad. It is supposed to be for a laptop and so doesn't work well with my computer yet, but it's been nice. It also takes movies. So I made one of Flurry. She did a really good job the first ten seconds, after that it gets boring.

Hmm, I tried to load it but it doesn't seem to like it for some reason. It isn't that long (about a minute) but maybe that is too long for this. I don't have any video editing software to chop off the last part though, so I guess we're out of luck this time. :(


Monday, March 3, 2008

Monday: oh, it's Monday again

Hmm. I always have so many thoughts of things that I want to say throughout the day and then proceed to forget them.

1. I wonder if my kids will read this and if they'll enjoy it. It would be fun to have them read entries when they're the same age I was when I wrote it. There might be some bleak years, but I've been journaling on and off since I think 8th grade. Maybe younger...my handwriting looks really bad in the first few journals.

2. I gave myself a raise this week by changing my tax deductions. It almost feels like cheating, but not really.

3. We got a quote from the second landscaper today. Luckily, his prices were about the same as the first ones. Unluckily, his prices were about the same.

4. It was rather warm here today. I almost walked up the hill for a meeting, but then decided it was too late.

5. Oh! I got some presents for saving money today. The first was a pen that also doubles as a laser pointer and a flashlight. The second is a digital tire pressure gauge. AND the digital tire pressure gauge has lights so you can take the pressure in the dark. Phew.

6. It's Nathan's Birthday! He had a fun blog post. Here he is many many years ago.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Saturday: thoughts

-Sometimes I which I had a camera following me around like the do in The Office. Sometimes I just want to give it a look.

-Flurry has taken to dipping her paw in her water bowl and then licking it. It seems incredibly inefficient, but looks very polite.

-In WoW, I wish the druid forms had something to distingush individual characters. I'm in a raid with three trees right now, and it gets confusing as to whether my spell went off or not.

-I hate short USB cords

-I wish I had the motivation to do some of the cleaning and picking up around here that really needs to be done.