Thursday: middle of the year

Happy Middle of the Year. It's flying by. It's feels like just a short time ago it was the beginning of the year and my day-by-day calendar was very full. Now it is amazingly half done. :)

As middle of the year days went, it was very nice. I got to eat lunch outside. I only had a few people in my office needing help. And...Grid started working!!

What is grid you ask? It's a mod to help see what's going on in the raid. Monday my grid looked like the one on the right. Now it looks like the one on the left. While I guess it might not mean much to you, but can much more easily see ALL the spells that I have on people.

Ben always laughs at me because my mods as a whole seem to have a mind of their own as to when they are going to work and when they aren't. I'm just glad this one is working again.

Wednesday: hazardous wastes

Ah, hazardous wastes. I know they aren't supposed to go in the trash and yet I never had enough gumption to actually bring them to the correct recycling location, so they just sit around the house. I know, sounds scary, doesn't it.

Luckily, Laura finally has a reason to get rid of her hazardous wastes, so we're going to trade some wastes and each bring them to their proper disposal area. At least, I think that is the plan. One place might take all of them. Yay for housecleaning!!

Besides that...nothing super interesting has happened in the past few days. Work has been really busy and has flown by, but nothing really interesting has happened. I watched So You Think You Can Dance and think it is pretty obvious who is leaving tomorrow...unless the judges feel the guy/girl ratio out be too out of whack. I also really enjoyed Alex's dance, and am having a hard time picking a favorite this season.

Monday: elephant

Hanneke and I suddenly enjoyed being African Elephants in high school, which brought forth a long love of elephants. Therefore, thanks to Brian for finding this gem...

Sunday: hiding

Ah, some more pictures of Flurry. Ben played drums in church this morning, so the morning was pretty busy but we took it easy the rest of the day. We had several chores that we needed to finish and I had a long nap to take. :)

Saturday: Flurry take 3

For some reason my camera ended up in my pocket today while I was doing chores, so Flurry got a several pictures taken of her.

She doesn't get to go in the garage very often, but once in a while I find her on top of the car. This is the first time I had a camera.

Oh, the classic sink pose.

Friday: the last Friday

Today was probably our last Friday night with both Dusty and Laura (although we will see them again next Saturday.) It's been a long standing tradition that we go out to dinner and do something on Friday night. It has lasted about six years and two states.

We started the night by going to the Dugout. Last time the four of us where here, a few months after we had all moved here, we come here and had terrible service and terrible food. It was much better this time, although the waitress forgot to bring refills. Then she said she forgot to add the extra toppings to the check. But then she forgot that she didn't forget, and the toppings really were on the check.

Ben and Dusty doing something cool with the iphone. It took a lot of pictures to get a good one of both of them smiling.

Laura cleaning up after we made apple crisp.

I've decided not to be too sad (yet), as Laura is still around and we'll get to see Dusty a few more times in the next month. I think it'll be a lot tougher on Ben because he normally sees Dusty every day at work. :(

Thursday: the best moving-help day ever

After work we went over to Luke and Rebekah's to help them pack. (Side note: since we were over that way and didn't have a lot of time we stopped and Joe's McDonalds and got to see him for a few minutes!)

Anyway, this was day two of packing up the truck for Luke and Rebekah, which worked really well for Ben and I...I think we only had to bring down two loads of stuff. Oh, Ben had to help with one desk, but that was the only heavy item. I swept and swiffered. Sandra did an amazing job cleaning the stove. And then we were done! Sweet. While I would have happily helped move more things, it was nice to have it be an easy day too.