Monday: a forward

Today I was looking through the quilt blogs...

...it turns out there's one website that's a compilation of quilt blogs and I've been looking at it. I keep adding cool ideas to my idea power point. I'm adding them too quickly. It's a problem. And maybe a post for another day...

and found someone copied one of those funny forwards. I haven't seen this one yet. So I'll share some that I found especially true.

"Truths for mature humans
3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.
4. There is a great need for a sarcasm font.
5. How in the world are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet? (Amanda: I've stopped folding sheets. I just wad them up and stuff them in the drawer.)
7. MapQuest needs to start their directions on step 5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
13.I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page technical report that I'm sure I did not make any changes to.
19. How many times is it appropriate to say "what?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?"

Sunday: thinking the same thing

Today Ben and I seemed to think the same thing at the same time several times.

Like when the NPR announcer said that it would only take $2.50 per person in the US to update the criminal evidence stuff. We both thought about all the other $2.50s it would take to update everything that needs updating in the US and how it all adds up to a lot more than $2.50.

Or when we stepped on small piles of ice instead of in a puddle and declared ourselves mountain climbers.

Or how as we were leaving the house we both said at the same time what we forgot.


We also watched the Superbowl tonight with some friends. It was fun, but I'm not that much into football. I was rooting for Green Bay, so I'm glad they won.

Saturday: powers of ten

In high school I watched this powers of ten video. It's from the 1960s.

Then the other day I saw a similar one that was made more recently. While I kind of like the other one because it is more... logarithmic... and goes the negative powers, this one is cool because it goes out farther into the universe. It's interesting to see what we're able to see that we couldn't see before.

Friday: I forgot to post

i forgot to post upstairs and just remembered after I got ready for bed, so this is a post from bed. i took a wonderful nap on the bed this afternoon. flurry curled up with me and we slept a few hours away. It's always a great way to start a weekend.

Thursday: what was I going to talk about?

I thought that I had figured out a topic for tonight's post, but I don't remember what it was. I shoveled the driveway this morning. We only had a dusting of new snow, but I wanted to get the snow that we had missed yesterday. I got some of it. The frozen layer on top was super thick and so I had to step on it before shoveling to break it up. That's what I was going to talk about. How weird it was to step on snow before shoveling...usually I try to avoid stepping on snow before shoveling. And the mound at the end of the driveway is pure ice. The car has to roller coaster over it to get in and out.

I also took a walk around the house to make sure some of the places we don't normally see were looking ok. They are. I was sinking down to the tops of my boots, so we do still have a lot of snow even though the last storm didn't give us much.

Wednesday: our non-blizzard

Today's blizzard petered out on us. Boo. I was all prepared, and even looking forward to, working from home today. In my pjs. With a cat on my lap. But then when I looked outside and looked at the forecast there really wasn't any good reason for me to stay home.

I probably could have, but it was good that I was at work too. Some things got taken care of in a more timely manner.

And it's supposed to snow again tonight, but when I checked an hour ago it was just melting.

Tuesday: today's happenings

Today is a post about some of the things that happened today.

1. I made my sandwich this morning, which is a normal occurrence. However, I only had one green pepper slice and so I only put one slice on my sandwich. It looked so lonely.

2. I bought a bag of carrots and a small broccoli and have been having them in my lunch instead of baby carrots. I cut the bigger carrots into bite size pieces and so don't mind eating them as much.

3. We were finishing shoveling the driveway as the plow went by the other side of the road. We had two choices A) wait for the plow and shovel the end of the driveway or B) hurry up and beat the plow. We beat the plow, and safely, but if we had been 10 seconds later it would not have been safe any more.

4. Someone tried out a new wire twister at work and loved it. So hopefully we'll be able to buy two. It is fun to be excited about equipment that works like it is supposed to.

5. We canceled Bible Study tonight. The roads probably would have been ok, but ... we didn't want anyone to get hurt. There is a chance of ice and all the cars in the parking lot had icicles on them.

6. I'm tired. I'm thinking about going to bed a little bit early. Maybe I'll get up a little early too and start working. I brought work home in case I can't get into work tomorrow (or want to go in late). We'll see how the weather is.

7. I took a very nice warm shower. My toes were freezing.

8. I got a papercut today.