Monday: Memorial Day

This morning I got a donut for breakfast. On our way to Dunkin Donuts we realized that the grass had started to pop up.
We went to Dusty and Laura's for an excellent cook-out
...and delicious desserts
And came home to discover there was a visible difference in our lawn. (Same area, different lighting...it's hard to see the difference.)

Sunday

Today was a nice day, especially knowing that we don't have to work tomorrow.

Friday: more walls

As we enter the story, Ben is trying to find a location at work and has been walking around for about 20 minutes...

"And then I ran into a wall where the room was supposed to be. I go around trying to find a different way in, but can't. Since I have nothing better to do, I start asking around to see if anyone else can help me."

Dusty and Amanda: "Nothing better to do?"

Ben: "Well, I can't drill a hole through the wall."

Laughter.

Dusty: "I was thinking more along the lines of real work."

Ben: drill sounds.

Hmm. Maybe you had to be there.

Thursday

Today was an average day. Good things, badish things, in between things. I'm excited for the long weekend even though we don't have any special plans.

Wednesday

I noticed the other day that King size m&m's don't exist anymore. They're "Tear n' Share." So I shared some. But I still think that is a dumb size name.

I'm also rather tired.

Monday: the current lawn

Well, the landscaping is pretty much done. The lawn has been seeded and the green stuff is an anti-erosion something. (Not grass :( ) We were told it would be a few weeks before we actually had a lawn, but if we're lucky some grass will start growing at the end of the week.

Saturday: Aaron and Heather's wedding

Some friends of ours from church got married today. :) It was beautiful.

Friday: Science museum

Today we went to the Ithaca Science Museum.

We made robots. Here is Morg my back massager:Here is Bob, Ben's dog excersizer


And I rode the triceratops
There was also a cool ball machine thing. Kind of like a Rube-Goldberg machine.

Thursday: Happy Happy

Happy Birthday to Jamie.

Happy Anniversary to Ben and Amanda. We went to see a waterfall and just had a really nice day in Ithica. For dinner we had a Buffalo chicken egg roll appetizer that was really good.

Wednesday: Landscaping

We have some dirt.

Tuesday: 22 minutes

Today I lost my pen cap. 22 minutes later I found it. If it had been 8 more minutes, a bucketload of paperwork would need to have been filled out. Phew.

Sunday: Happy Mother's Day

Hmm, it turns out that my "recent picture with Mom" collection isn't really large. So I present some older "pictures with Mom."

Thursday: more pics :)

Flurry (playing with Ben)

The tree with the removed dead/low branches and rocks from where they dug the wall. One will make a nice sitting spot.

The other wall.

Wednesday: golf

Ben and I went to the driving range with some friends after work.

Here's the latest on the landscaping. The back wall has been started. The picture is very blurry, but at least gives an idea.

Tuesday: we have a wall!

Hmm, the stone and the dirt contrast more in real life. Ah well, it's a beautiful wall.

Monday: rocky ground

Landscaping started today. Here is a large rock they took out of the trench behind it. The size of the rock and trench are hard to see. :(


Here is all of our retaining wall...

And here is the electric and gas lines. We'll note that they are supposed to be buried 2 ft underground, but, uh, aren't. Ben dealt with this situation which luckily could have been much worse before telling me about it. Yay Ben! He knew I would stress and there wasn't anything I could do about it.

Sunday: thanks to Discover card

Well, after several, several years of saving up our cashback bonus with Discover card we finally decided to used some of it. We got a new printer.



WoW news: I finally hit exalted with Shattered Sun. Why do you care? Because I can now make a super healing trinket. The problem is that I need about a gazillion more mats before I can actually make it.

Also, this new Shattered Sun area has caused some serious inflation/deflation on the auction house. Today I would like to complain about cloth. It is more economically wise to make a stack of bandages and vendor them than to sell the cloth on the AH. However the environmentalist in me screams bloody-murder at this. I feel like I am polluting my environment.

Saturday: a nice day.

Saturday was a nice day. Travis was over and we enjoyed that. We also watched Serenity, which culminated the Firefly series. It brought together a lot of plot lines, so that was nice.

We also had some friends from church over for dinner and games.

Friday: wine tasting

Tonight I went to a wine tasting with Laura and several people I didn't know. It was pretty fun. I had an apple and a raspberry wine that I liked. The rest of it...eh, just ok. But it was fun to do something different and meet some new people.

Thursday: sitting in a raid

Well, we're back to our least favorite boss fight...council. It has an adjective in front of it. Illidian's council? Illidari council? Whatever, it doesn't matter. We pretty much always take about ten tries to kill them. And it isn't as though we're still learning the fight. We just can't do it.

Anyway, so we just all died and now were waiting for someone new to come in so you have to listen to my ramblings. I've already checked all my comics and tried the crossword puzzle and even looked at the news. I've also checked the bank accounts (still no economic stimulus check).

So work has been a little annoying the past few days. I just feel like I'm trying to fix a lot of stuff that is broken. Hopefully it'll get better in a few days though. I've also been "invited" to present at a meeting for some fairly high level people on what I'm doing. I'll admit, I figured the first "presentation" I had to give would at least include some people that I know for support. Oh well, I've given enough of these types in school that that part should at least be fine.

Oh, we just killed them. I didn't think we were going to. It was kind of a how-many-people-can-die-and-we'll-still-win? Now onto Illidian which has some of the same problems but at least we haven't beaten it yet so it feels a bit different.

Tuesday: People loved my pep talk

Monday: pep talk

We need to be like a litter of cute white kittens. Except Shiro, who drowns white kittens and therefore needs to be a black puppy. Anyway, we'll saunter up to Illidian being all cute and all so he doesn't expect anything. Then we'll go all PYCHSO KITTEN AND SCRATCH AND BITE AND KILL ILLIDIAN! We have to put our heart into it, just like kittens do. They don't care about anything except hurting their prey. Then once he's dead we can go back to being all adorable and innocent and get our white kitten points. But during the pychso kitten stage we have to put our soul into it.

Sunday: patio furniture

We got a house warming gift from Dad today. We ate dinner by it. It is cool because the tiles can be changed whenever we get sick of the color...we just need to go pick up some new ones at a local hardware store.

Saturday: home improvements

Today Dad was around so we painted the spare bedroom "popcorn." It is a white color, but since the trim is white-white you can see it is off-white and it looks really nice.
We also got a laundry shelf put up. This turned out to be oddly difficult, especially since I wanted the extra wide shelf.
Hi Dad.

Thursday

Well, Dad stopped by for dinner yesterday and that was fun. Ben finished cleaning the house while I was out and it looked awesome when I returned, so Dad was able to see a picked up house. Yay!

Tuesday: long day

Today was a long day. Work was busy, but not quite busy enough to make it fly by. Then came home, quickly ate some dinner, went to Bible study, came home, did some work for Amy, attempted to clean up and at least make some of the house look presentable for Dad. Now I'm going to bed.

Monday: flashback II

I'm rather tired right now.

Update: badges

I have to badge to get in and out of a lot of doors at work. Probably about 30 times per day right now. This always involves waving my badge at a reader.

Today I was walking down some stairs to a non-badge door, only to discover I'm waving my badge at it. Sigh. At least it opened.

Then I was going out of a door that you only have to badge into. I went through the door and then waved my badge at the reader...as it is wasn't sure that I should have been let out.

Hmm. This was a lot funnier in my head. Well, I still think its funny.

Saturday: flashback

This morning I woke up...and went to work on a paper for Advisor Amy. Well, it's almost done.

This weekend is being slightly stressful. There are a lot of things to do between not having done anything last week, Dad coming this week/weekend, and it being nice out and wanting to do some spring cleaning type stuff. I also managed to stain my work khakis, and don't know how I feel about that. Normally I'd chalk it up to being dumb and move on. Except that I might be in the same situation, and again stain, my pants. So do I start wearing jeans? That's rather unprofessional. Sigh. The not-so-big decisions that are so annoying.

Friday: picnic

Today was a beautiful day. We went on a picnic for diner.

Thursday: the future and flowers

This is what I want to be able to tell my kids..."When I was your age the dentist cleaned our teeth with instruments of torture. You're lucky that you just have the inconvenience of sitting in the chair for an hour while the Zapamouth painlessly cleans your teeth."

Ok, fine. My grandkids.

My flowers are starting to come up:



So are my weeds. The weeds are growing faster.

Wednesday: mouth

I have a canker sore on my tongue. It really is the worst place to get it because it always makes it hard to talk and eat and I can't put any medicine on it...it just doesn't seem to work. I also have a dentist appointment tomorrow that I haven't been flossing for. I hope they don't hurt my tongue. I tried rescheduling, but they didn't have anything open until June. :(

Monday: uh oh

I've started getting spam comments. I might have to implement the dreaded "type these almost illegible letters that make no sense into this box."

Monday: Firefly

Ben and I have started watching Firefly. We're only half way through it and I'm already sad that there is just one season.

My favorite character is Kaylie. She kind of reminds me of myself, only smarter. And cuter. Wow, I've been thinking about this post all night and that was all I can come up with. Just you'll have to watch the show yourself and see what I mean.

Sunday:

We made it home easily and safely. :)


I love this picture

Saturday: more fun in the sun

Today we went out on the boat again to Fort Meyers. I had a delicious fruit salad for lunch. I love fruit salads. I also got burned, even though I tried really hard not to. I was red after yesterday, but not enough to hurt. Today the sunblock must have just not been enough. Yay for ibuprofen. The hurt is gone. I love medicine.

Friday: Florida

Well, Ben and I made it to Florida. The trip down here was surprisingly smooth, actually. We spent some time just hanging out and in the pool with everyone on Thursday. I ended up falling asleep around 8pm (keep in mind we got up at 4am), woke up for about 45 minutes to go to bed, and then slept until 10am. I must have really needed some sleep.

Today we went out on the boat. :) It was fun and warm. It's fun having everyone around. Jacob loves playing with Ben and Ashlyn has a lot more of a personality than she did at Christmas, so that's been fun too.

Jacob: I have reasons why you shouldn't through me in the river.
Me: oh yeah? What are they?
Jacob: The fish might tickle me.

Wednesday: 6 years

To Mom.

I love you. I miss you.

~Amanda

Monday: why I need to emulate my cat

The last post was boring. I'm trying again.

Flurry loves yogurt. It could easily be her favorite food by the way she acts around it. She tries to get it using one tactic, and when she is pushed away she tries a different tactic. Then a third tactic. Then back to the first.

My prayer life needs to be persistent like my cat trying to get yogurt. My cat is almost always successful, why shouldn't I be?

Monday: whoa

Work was either a lot of fun or frustrating today. Needless to say, I was rather out of it by the time I left work.