Wednesday: pedometer

I wore my pedometer today. I'm at 7456 right now. Today's walking was probably slightly higher than normal though...yesterday I just broke 6000.

We'll see how long I keep it on. It only totally resets when you download the stored data, which I'm a bit hesitant about. (I think you get like a week or so in between required downloads.) I need to double check the privacy policy.

Tuesday: 701

Post - what is one thing on a post?

mailbox - what do you get in the mailbox?

Netflix - what does Netflix send?

movie - Where are we watching a movie next?

Bible Study - what do we often do with our Bible Study?

Frisbee - what is a game you can play with a Frisbee?

Frisbee golf - what did Ben and I go on one night playing frisbee golf when I almost lost my orange frisbee but we found it?

date - what is the next important date?

April 9 - what happened on April 9?

Mom - what do I get myself on Mom's deathday?

flowers - what is "you don't bring me flowers anymore?" (Someone was singing it...I like the tune.)

song - What do you do with song?

dance - What dancing show do I like?

So You Think you can Dance - Where do I watch this show?

TV - What do you do in front of a TV?

sit - what goes with stand?

stand - How should I stand?

firm - I should stand on firm what?

ground - What is on the ground?

grass - what did the Bible Study girls do down our grassy hill?

roll - what do you put on a roll?

butter - Where do you get rolls and butter?

restaurant - What is my favorite restaraunt?

Dos - what do I like from there?

cheese - what happens when you Say Cheese?

smile - What is part of a smile?

teeth - What do I do with teeth?

eat - What do I eat?

donut

Monday: 700

This is my 700th post. Kind of amazing, actually. There's been some fun posts, sad posts, and boring posts. There are wooden posts and plastic posts. Posts are hard to put in our lawn because there are too many rocks.

I like associating words and since I already started I think I'll continue...good luck figuring out how some of them go together :D

Post

mailbox

Netflix

movie

Bible Study

Frisbee

Frisbee golf

date

April 9

Mom

flowers

song

dance

So You Think you can Dance

TV

sit

stand

firm

ground

grass

roll

butter

restaurant

Dos

cheese

smile

teeth

eat

donut

Sunday: more Flurry

Flurry didn't even try to be subtle about preventing Ben from working today.

Saturday: laundry

At first this just looks like a pile of laundry waiting to be cleaned.


But then you find out that Flurry managed to hide herself in it.


She also helped Ben work today by taking a nap on my laptop case.

Friday: work

Well, I had a nice work day because I left work around 1pm. Unfortunately, Ben is still at work. :( I saw him briefly during dinner with Dusty and Laura, but he didn't stay long.

Here is Ben not working...we can always pretend.

Thursday: hardly hard

Today I was writing the sentence: "To get the connector in the back shell you need to push hard." Then I thought, "oh, hard is an adverb. Should it be hardly? Push hardly. Hardly push. Interesting. Most of the time when you add an -ly it doesn't completely change the meaning of the word."

In other news, I always find it interesting when I have two friends that become friends on facebook, especially since often I have no idea how they would no each other because I know them from two different places. It's a cool friend triangle!

Wednesday: blanket

Today after work Ben and I were cuddling with Flurry (our normal ritual) and I started to fall asleep. (It had been a kind of boring afternoon...busy, but boring. Some days are like that.) Ben asked if I was falling asleep, and I said yes, but I want to get my blanket first. So he got it for me. :D

Flurry has been extra cuddly. Probably because she has nothing better to do, but Ben and I are enjoying it!!

Monday: Flurry's lucky day

Yesterday Flurry finally decided to start cleaning herself again. It wasn't that she wasn't cleaning herself this past week, but she was just cleaning the easy to reach places. Well, during her cleaning frenzy we notice that there was a spot on her good front leg that had no fur and a bump. She kept licking and playing with it, so we figured another vet visit was in store.

We set up an appointment with the vet for this afternoon, but the vet called and said that they had shaved off that area (why? still unknown) and there is always a bump there. We could still bring her in, but it wasn't necessary. We opted for the "not necessary" option.

Sunday: census

Today I filled out the census form. I was kind of excited because I like filling out forms. But then I was rather let down. All they asked, pretty much, was what is your name, age, birth date, gender, and race. Those are boring questions. I was hoping for questions that would get an interesting "snapshot of America" like

"how often do you do laundry?"

"how many trees are on your property?"

"how many computers/person are in your house?"

"of the following list, which adjective best describes you?"

"are you satisfied with your job?"

"do you consider yourself happy?"

"do you buy tuna fish?"

Saturday: a wonderful day

Since today was a beautiful day, we got together with some friends in the late afternoon and played ultimate Frisbee. Yay ultimate! Boo being out of shape. After about 10 minutes I was completely winded. We played a bit more but then the grill was warm so we started the food. Yum picnic! Afterwards we played another round of ultimate which went better, possibly because there were more people and therefore less running.

We continued the night by going to Clay and Jess' for games and desserts. Ah, more fun. We played Nutzee and I lost by one point. I almost tied because my last card to flip was an Ace. I flipped it into my play cards as I yelled Nutzee. I almost pushed it into the middle piles afterwards but decided not to cheat. I'm actually a little saddened at myself that I even considered doing that. Oh well.

There's apparently a bat in their basement, and everyone was slowly going down to look for it. Jess and I were talking and suddenly they come up out of the basement hold a garbage bag with a black thing in it, yelling and running for the front door. Jess jumped about a mile. The black thing ended up being a sock.

It was a wonderful evening spent with wonderful friends.

Thursday: the good things about working too much

1. I'm not closely counting my hours to make sure I have enough.

2. I don't feel guilty about doing a few random things during the day (going to the vet, having lunch, getting bagels for breakfast) that take away from my time.

3. I have an excuse for not doing chores

Those are poor "good" things. :(

Wednesday: x-rays

The vet nicely sent us a picture of Flurry's x-rays. See how on the right "wrist" some of the bones are separated from the others? That's the problem.

Monday: ides

IDES OF MARCH!! I was going to say Happy Ides of March and then realize that it wasn't appropriate. Then I was going to say Sad Ides of March, but that didn't really work either.

So I decided to just yell it.

Sunday: :(

I spent all afternoon and the beginning of the evening in bed and not moving because of a headache and dizziness. :( If I didn't move it at least mostly went away. It's mostly gone now though...phew!

Sunday: happy Pi day!

We celebrated Pi day last night with some friends.

We ate pizza pies,

played poker,

had pies,

and had more pies.

It was delicious and fun!

Saturday: Flurry take 2

Flurry came home today with her cast. The doctor said it was a bit heavier and has a higher chance of irritation due to rubbing, but Flurry is getting around a lot better. She still isn't happy about it, but she doesn't seem as unhappy as last night either. She was missed last night while at the vets though.

Friday: Flurry

Well, last night Flurry was hopping around quite a bit...remember the paw problem from about a month ago? It never really went away. So I called the vet, and then brought Flurry to them for some x-rays.

She didn't have a broken bone, but she did have some bones that weren't in the right place in her "wrist". So they wrapped her up in this huge red splint which she was not happy about and was not afraid to let everyone know.

We brought her home andshe could barely walk. She ended up laying around most of the time because the cast was so big. Then she kind of discovered she could walk if she kept her left side by a wall to keep from tipping over...she proceeded to escape from the bedroom but then didn't know what to do because the wall went the wrong way. I caught her and put her in the bathroom.

Ben and I started eating, and about 10 minutes later we hear some meows. I decide to go get her and put her on my lap. I get in the bathroom and she's managed to turn on the bathtub water, get up on the counter, and get her paw free from the splint.

Back to the vet we go. By now I'm sure she is zonked out as they are going to try and put a cast on her this time. She also is staying over night. :(

Oh Flurry. I didn't even have time to take a picture of your plight.

Thursday: home

Today we came home at a normal time instead of working late. It was wonderful.

We also had some very annoying problems today due to a "/" that was left out of a part number. We figured it out, but about four hours later and with a lot of luck.

Wednesday: last night

Setting: in the bathroom, getting ready to go to work

Amanda: I must have been exhausted last night. I went to bed early and don't remember a thing until the alarm went off.

Ben: Really??? When I came to bed we had coherent conversation about how you couldn't get to sleep.

Amanda: hmm. Well, I was asleep!

Oh, the irony.

Monday: poll

I'm sad to see that sausage without syrup won. I'm happy though that it barely won!

Today was Day 1 of Crazy Days. It was rather crazy, although at least had some lulls during which I got some other stuff done. The weirdest thing today was a type of coax wire that I was trying to get the coax stripper to strip. It had something kind of sticky on the inner conductor so it didn't strip correctly and then the foil was glued to the dielectric...we had never seen that before. I spent quite some time trying get to the foil off without the dielectric and it just didn't work. It turned out that the foil was supposed to stay there.

Aren't you glad to know that now?

Sunday: PB cookies

We had a potluck at church today. It was delicious...and there was plenty of food. (Phew.) I made the super easy gluten free peanut butter cookies and they were a hit! We have a large family that is gluten free at the church, and so these cookies are a good thing to make so they have something to eat. But other people kept coming by and saying how delicious they were. It was a nice feeling.

Saturday: Henry V

Tonight Ben and I went to see Henry V. On the way there we were listening to NPR and they had their two sound effects guys do a sound effect show-down. I think that being a sound effects gal would be my 2nd highest dream job. It was rather awesome.

The play was good. It was the first time I had seen/read Henry V so I missed a lot of stuff, especially in the beginning. We went because we knew the person who did the sets, and they were great! Afterwards we got to go on-stage and take a closeup look which was cool...I'm not sure I've ever done that before.

Friday: how much?

As normal, we went out for dinner with Dusty and Laura. What was unusual is that we had to go to three restaurants before we found one with less than a forty minute wait. Phew. The Mexican place had a table for us right away, although the service wasn't great. Ben and I were waiting in line to pay our bill, and the group in front of us was dividing up their check at the register...normal for this restaurant. What wasn't normal is that after they left the total ended up being $35722.24. The guy running the register didn't look like he was having a good day.

Thursday: date

Ben and I had a date after work...we went to IHOP and then to see The Blind Side. A very enjoyable evening. Unfortunately, as we were leaving the movie theater the headache that had been threatening all day sort of exploded. :(

Tuesday: Travis

Travis came to visit us tonight! Yay!

Monday: syrup

Every time Ben and I have sausage with a breakfast food (pancakes, waffles, etc), we always have a discussion about whether or not syrup is good with sausage or not. I always say "YES!" Ben always says "YUCK!" Hence the survey on the side.