Wednesday: raking

Today was busy at work, which was very nice.

After work I raked. It turns out that our pine tree is loosing it's needles. It's worse that normal leaves, but I also find them more satisfying than normal leaves. They completely coat the grass, changing it from green to yellow. So every time I do one rake I get a lot of pine needles, but since they are so thin about half of them just pass right through the rake. But the grass looks so different every time you do a rake it. And even when you can't tell there are a lot of needles you still get a lot of needles.

Since it is Wednesday I worked on the quilt, although not as much as most Wednesdays. I did manage to get all the pieces cut out though! Yay!

Tuesday: Small group

Today was a rather good day. I got a bunch of work today, which was exciting. Then we were having a potluck at our house, so Ben and I cleaned the house. I love having a clean house. Then people came over and brought really good food. And we played Taboo. And now I'm finally checking my e-mail and such and have cold toes. My blanket is really close but I'm also feeling tired and therefore too lazy to get it.

Monday: blanket

Today I decided to get my computer blanket out because I was a little cool. Well, Flurry was showing interest in being on it so I took it off my shoulders and lowered it so she could have some. She ended up going on the wrong side and being under the blanket.

After a bit she realized that wasn't the most comfortable side of the blanket and went on the top. Awesome, the cat is by me! However, my fingers are getting cold because I don't have the whole blanket now. :( Guess I love the Flurr-ball.
Yeah, it was a rather slow day. I worked on my program most of the day so that I could get a trial version out to a few people.

Sunday

Today was a pretty normal Sunday. Ben played drums in church, so I had time to do lots of errands. Oh joy. But they're done, so that's good. We came home, I took a nap, worked on the quilt, did some chores, etc.

I've been taking pictures of Flurry laying around for about a month.

Saturday: applesauce

Today I made applesause. I've never made it before, but the apples we had were a little soft for our liking...they seemed perfect for applesauce.

It turned out really well and was fairly easy. The hardest part was prepping the apples because they were all rather small and therefore the apple to work ratio was rather low.

We also did our first raking of the season.

Friday: vet and blogs

I'm tired and kind of want to take a nap, but am afraid we will go eat soon...

Flurry had the privalege of going to the vet today. She would have been satisfied to not have this privilage. She got in her carrier happily as normal. On the way there she reminded me that she didn't really like to be in the car. Once we got outside the vet she started hissing. However, since she was in the carrier she had no choice but to go inside. She did however have the choice to let me know she wasn't happy and pretty much hissed or growled for the next 40 minutes as the time for our appointment came and went. She wasn't happy for the vet and when the exam was done the vet said "you can't jump off the table." So she jumped off the table. We quickly put the carrier back together and she happily went inside. After that she only hissed once in a while. Then we went to the car and she was very happy to be in the car driving home.

(Side question...she is significantly worse that this vet than any other vet and they are always running late. Do we try a different vet that is farther away? Or figure that all vets aren't going to be great so at least this one is close.)

In other news, two friends have started blogs! Yay! I now have a higher chance of having something to read when I click the refresh button. It is so sad when the most recent one was last updated over a day ago.

Thursday: batteries

Life is so much better when your keyboard batteries aren't dying. My healing ability significantly increased when every button I pushed resulted in a heal instead of every other.

Hmm, what else...I made a cool wire sculpture/finger toy today. It's yellow wire with one blue wire. The day went pretty quickly, so that was nice too. And tomorrow is only about a half day!

Wednesday: a beautiful day

Today was beautiful out. I didn't get to be outside much due to work, but the time I was outside was wonderful. It is slightly warm and the trees are starting to turn.

A WIP went on vacation today. I ran out of ideas on how to fix it so it got shelved for a while. Maybe when we come back to it later it'll magically work.

And since it was So You Think You Can Dance night, it was also quilting. I finally took a picture for Valerie. I now have everything traced out and just need to finish cutting the white and brown.

Tuesday: bonfire

Today we did a bonfire for Bible Study. It was a very nice one. Heather and Aaron showed up for a little bit, and it was nice to say hi again.

I also had a brownie and ice cream. It tasted really good, but I really didn't need to eat it. Sigh. I've been chewing more gum at work since I often feel like eating but either don't have any food or know I shouldn't be eating. The problem with gum is that after a while my jaw feels all weird and yucky. However, I have been enjoying many interesting flavors since I only like normal minty ones once in a while...something orangish (my favorite), blueberry, and melon mint. Melon mint is still pretty minty smelling so it is kept in a different location so it doesn't contaminate the other flavors. What I'd really like to do is join a gum tasting group so I could try lots of different flavors.

Monday: Hugh Henry

We got to see Hugh today! I was looking forward to it all day.

He was rather charming...and didn't cry much at all. He didn't cry at all while I was holding him which earned him a lot of bonus points in my book. He also holds his arms like I do when I sleep, so we became sleeping buddies.

We had dinner with Clay and Jess and her mom, and it was really a rather funny dinner. It started with Ben's salad dressing problems and went from there.

Weekend: big happenings

This weekend Jess and Clay had their baby...congrats! We're visiting them tomorrow and are excited.

This weekend was also the women's retreat...it was really good. The speaker was Marlyn from Central Wesylean (Aunt C, do you know her?), and she did an amazing job. It was also really nice to get to know some people better and to meet several new people.

Thursday: Indian food

1) WIPs. These are things that pneumatically strip wire. Sounds cool, right? Well, there are a lot of them and they need tending once in a while. Since I'm the newest person I get to tend to them. Sounds fun, right? I get to take them apart, put them together...that part really is fun. The problem is that I'm really rather incapable of fixing them by myself though. I think about 10-15 have needed help in the past two months and I've been able to fix one by myself. One. There are currently four waiting for my attention, but I just don't really like them.

2) We went out for Indian food tonight. It was good. We got the yummy mango drink and bread and curry. There are a lot of left overs. The tables had handrails on the sides. We were trying to figure out why, but didn't end up with a good reason.

3) The quote of yesterday: "Can you grab this [stuff I'm carrying]? I need to take out the garage."

Wednesday: white

Today I finished tracing out all of the quilt squares on the white cloth. That means I only have brown left. I didn't really enjoy brown much before because it is really dark and hard to see where the lines are.

So at work we got an upgrade to a program...I was a bit excited, because I didn't really like the old program. There are just a few problems...1) new data can only be accessed on the upgrade and 95% of the people don't have the new upgrade. 2) The upgrade interferes with adobe acrobat which in turn crashes my browser every time I try to open a file. (I can still save the file and open it though). 3) I have no idea what the upgrade changed because on my end it broke some buttons that used to work and fixed other buttons that used to be broken.

It would be rather humorous if it wasn't so annoying.

Tuesday: moving and blog

The Bible Study helped someone move this evening. We went a bit longer than planned, but not too much. We moved a lot of stuff, so that's good.

I (obviously) played the look of the blog again. I still have some changes to make but was excited to get a picture of my own in the background. I then proceeded to lose all of my friend links, so if you could please double check that you're on there (if you have a blog). I used the history of the browser and I think I got most of them back, but I still might be missing one or two that I had.

Monday: wheee!

We get to fall through the floor in one of the fights

Sunday: church

Today Ben and I spent a lot of time at church. Ben played drums, so we were there for practice and then for both services. (I did make a quick detour to get more thread because my first spool ran out last night!) Then after that we went to the youth group kick off because I'm going to be helping with it about one Sunday a month. I figured that since I'm at church anyway because of Ben I may as well volunteer somewhere. So we did a mall scavenger hunt, ate pizza, and played nerf gun wars. It was fun. And I met a bunch of new people!

But I have a slight headache now and am feeling just slightly out-of-sorts. I'll probably read for a bit and then go to bed.

Saturday: stick

Today I was going to put up a door stop in the garage. We noticed a small hole formed from where the door bangs it, so it was going to be a simple matter of just making a real hole and screwing the door stop down. Well, when I opened the door stop package I found out that they had sticky backs! I was pumped. So I just stuck it on the wall and a simple project turned out to be even simpler than I imagined.

Then I tried caulking and had a hard time with the caulking gun. But the places did get caulked and due to a Pro-tip on the caulk itself it even looks rather nice. The tip was to mask off the area getting caulked. So I did that and then when I pulled the tape off I had nice straight lines!

Ben and I went out to eat with Clay and Jess and talked for a really long time, but it was a lot of fun.

Oh, and yesterday we watched "I love you, Man." It ended up being really funny.

Thursday: hello

Hi

Today was a good day. I had plenty of work to do, trained some people on a process that I helped to improve, and took a hot shower.

I also got ready faster than normal because I forgot to turn my alarm on . And then someone decided just to lay there and play with the kitty instead of asking why I didn't get up. Luckily I was ready on-time and even had enough extra time to put away half the clean silverware.

Wednesday

Hmm, I don't really have a ton to say today.

Oh, here we go: a tip.

If your shower is pink, yellow lemonade (we use CountryTime) will clean it right up. Pink might work too. I just kind of scrub it with my foot and it looks a whole bunch better. It would probably look like brand new if I actually used a brush to get in the anti-slip stuff.

And this way our shower gets 100% of the Vitamin C that it needs.

Monday: happy Labor Day

Today we had lunch with friends from church at a park. After lunch we played some volleyball. All three girls ended up on one team, which was rather funny because we all admit that the ball really needs to be in just the right spot before we'll try and get it. However, we ended up losing two, winning one, and then losing another 26-24. So we did ok in the end.

Sunday: quilting

Flurry tried too.

Sunday: no work tomorrow!

So after we got home we decided to take a nap right away instead of eating lunch. We then woke up at 4:30, three hours later, and realized it was time for dinner. :)

Therefore, we're still both very awake. Good thing there's no work tomorrow. I've been doing a lot of quilting and Ben and I played a game.

Sunday: one more unfair thing

Why is it that on Saturday, when I can sleep in as much as I want, I tend to wake up between 8:30-9:30. Then on Sunday, when I get up to an alarm at 9:45, I always sleep until the alarm and have a hard time waking up.

Why can't they be switched???

Thursday

Happy Thursday! Tomorrow's Friday! And then a long weekend! I worked quite a bit on my quilt tonight. Wow...two q words in a sentance. I quickly worked quite a bit on the Queen's quilt. Too bad I'm not quick or a queen.

Not much else is new. I have a ton of leftovers. Yesterday someone brought in bagels, so I had a bagel instead of my sandwich. Then Ben and I went to Chinese for dinner, and had tons of extras. Then tonight I didn't eat all my dinner and I still have an italian chicken in the fridge. That's like four lunches. Pretty exciting. We also have too much salsa in the fridge. We keep trying a new type and deciding we don't like it but then not getting rid of it.

Well, tonight's post is getting a little loopy, so maybe I'll go read. I finished my puzzle last night which was exciting. I thought I had lost a piece but it just got under the mat.