Sunday

I don't know what to write about today. So you're going to get a conversation from several weeks ago that I found hilarious. Since it was so long ago it might be modified a bit. Thanks go out to Amy, Brian, and Carolyn for their inspiration.

Amanda: yeah, they're the ABCs. We could do that with our kids! C, D, E, F, G...I'm not having five kids so that we can get all the way to H though.

Ben: Maybe we can include middle names.

Laura: What real words end in H? Maybe their initials could just be a word.

Amanda: Hah.

Dusty: Duh.

Amanda: But how can CDH or EFGH be a word?

Dusty: It's not. Are there any words that even have their letters in subsequent alphabetical order?

Amanda: no

Dusty: (weird look)

Ben: haha...as in lmno

Laura: hi.

Maybe you had to be there.

Saturday

Today I took over Ben's old monitors as he just got a new one. They're pretty nice.

Flurry started taking medicine for her paw tonight. About an hour afterwards she was limping worse than we've ever seen her. She seems a little better now though, so hopefully it was just a fluke.

The rest of the day was pretty relaxing. We cleaned and straightened the house, I took a nap, watched some Olympics, and played some Warcraft. I got a new Warcraft vanity pet! I also kept killing my hunter pet, but told Flurry that I wouldn't do the same thing to her...I love her a lot more than my virtual flamingo.

Thursday: short track

Here's why short track is my favorite winter event this year:

Announcer: and they're off!

Announcer: as they round the first corner we see the #1 guy in last place. That's a great place for him to be right now.

(Amanda: seriously? Last place is best?)

Announcer: two laps to go! #1 better make a move soon!

Announcer: and look at #1 now! He passed two people on the outside and one on the inside! #1 wins!!

(Amanda: wow. Just wow.)

And then I watched the relay. That was crazy too. People were everywhere, although it wasn't very exciting because two teams wiped out in the beginning.

Wednesday: things ahappenin'

Today was an eventful day!

We received the golden toliet that is going around church. The deal is that you can buy insurance up front to not get the toilet or pay $10 to have it removed. The proceeds go the youth group who are raising money for the 30 hours famine. Yay! I was hoping that we would get it at some point.

I also picked up my quilt. Here is a picture of the back.

I made a vet appointment for Flurry because she's been treating one of her paws a little funny. I'm now glad I did because she was limping a lot more today than we've seen her do in the past.

Finally, I covered up the white paint splatters on our red wall. It looks so much better and really for not that much work. I'm eying a few other places that could maybe use some similar treatment. I also found out that there is still a ton of dust on the high mantles and wall. There is now a bit less dust but I wouldn't call it clean. The remaining dust is rather invisible though, and that's all I really care about.

Tuesday: last night

Amanda: I read my book.

Ben: You did? (When did you have time??)

Amanda: yeah, the front cover.

Sunday: Olympics and quilt2

Today I watched a lot of Olympics. However, it is actually rather hard for me to just sit and watch them because there are too many commercials and random commentaries. So I moved a lot of my housework to the living room (such as laundry sorting). I really enjoyed the moguls and short track the most I think.

I also started cutting some of the pieces for the next quilt, as it is something I can easily do while watching Olympics.

Flurry wants Penny to know that she is doing rigorous testing to make sure the quilt will be up to cat-napping standards.

Friday: school buses

Today we had to do some errands, and we ended up going near the schools just as they were getting out. There were buses everywhere. We ended up behind one. It stopped, two kids got off, crossed the road, and went into their respective houses. We go again. Ten feet later the bus stops, one kid gets off, crosses the road, and goes into his house.

Seriously? I guess I don't understand this new fad with stopping in front of every single house. I can understand wanting to have a bus stop in sight of your house or maybe for elementary schools, but I really feel that older kids should all be able to get out and walk the ten extra feet. Bus stops were good places for meeting kids in the neighborhood (SARAH VANDERBILT WERE ARE YOU NOW?!?) and getting a little exercise and I'm a little sad that they're disappearing.