Exceedingly Mundane

Another question of the day. These will have to do when I can’t find memes I like! 🙂

QOTD 3/16/05
What is the price of unleaded gasoline where you live? Well, over the weekend it was about 1.96 everywhere around here. We filled up last week and it was a nightmare to watch it tick off that high. I hope it stops soon, but I’ve read it’s supposed to go to 2.10 or 2.15. Ouch.

How much does it take to fill up your tank? Hmm, I don’t let it get so low where the light comes on. I usually fill up once it gets under 1/4 of a tank. Then I really don’t pay attention to the gallons, just the price and then I let it pump till it’s full and it kicks off. Isn’t that sad, I don’t know how many gallons my tank will hold. 16 or 18 maybe? Tim would probably know. I know his truck has a much bigger tank than my car, and his costs an arm and a leg to fill up these days.

Posting this a day late, and only because I ragged Tim repeatedly that I was going to put it on my blog!

He’s such a goofball, but it is a sheer joy to live with him sometimes (sometimes it’s a sheer exercise in exasperation, but that’s not what this blog entry is about!) Case in point, last night I had supper ready and he came in the kitchen. I had my back to him. All of a sudden, he yells “OH NO!” And as I’m turning around (wondering what on earth is wrong, what just happened), he goes “This Pasta is DIRTY!”. It’s whole wheat pasta. Goofball, he makes me laugh still my side aches sometimes. Maybe it’s not funny here now, typed out, but I promise, at the time, it was hilarious. The look on his face was priceless! 😆

Well, today turned out to be a busy day. I had planned to do many things, some of which got done, and others got pushed to the back burner in favor of what Tim wanted to do. 😮

It rained all afternoon and evening, so no walking. Tim surprised me and came home pretty early this afternoon. He has to work tonight starting at 1 AM, although he has already starting moving some files now, at 10 PM, in preparation for the 11 PM project. His main stuff starts at 1 AM. Poor baby, it’s gonna be a long night!

He wanted to get the wallpaper up, since he came home early. He painted on the ShieldZ stuff under where the border will go, then took a nap while it was drying. After a power ranger thingie, he was up and raring to go. I, on the other hand, already had projects and regular chores in mind. I took out all of the cookware from one of my cabinets (the old stuff), ripped up the old contact paper, cleaned everything good, and put down new non-adhesive gripper paper stuff. I washed all my new Calphalon and put it all up, and boxed up the old stuff for a garage sale. Supper was a new recipe, that I need to go type up and add to the recipe database on Hambones. I was ready after supper to wind down and watch my shows (3 tonight), but SuperSlaveDriver Tim was raring to get the wallpaper border up. It’s 10:20 PM and we have just finished. Geez, I had wanted to stop about 3 hours ago! Oh well, it’s up now and looks like this (except no bare spots now!):

Got a ton of stuff to do tomorrow, that didn’t get done today, and we’re looking forward to seeing Jeremy. We’re so glad he’s getting to come, and I just wish he could stay longer.

I hope the rain stops by in the morning. It’s awful soggy in that mud pit of a backyard 😈

Poor Tim has to work again Thursday night, hopefully this is the last one. Then he goes on-call Friday morning! 😀

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QOTD 3/15/05
Inspired by Dale who is recovering from a really nasty broken leg and surgery –

1) Have you ever broken any bones? If so, how and what bone(s).
Nope, I’ve never broken a bone. Knock on wood.

2) What surgeries have you had? Just female (gynecological). Enough to last me for quite a while though. 😀

And for good measure, here’s yesterday’s as well:

QOTD 3/14/05
Inspired by my almost 3 year old son who has learned how to navigate a mouse the past 2 days:

What do you remember about when you first learned to use a computer? Good grief, I was in college in 1983. I remember having to change out floppies on the dual 5 1/4″ disk drives to be able to load my compiler software. What a drag. How I longed for hard drives!

Besides blogging, what do you use your computer for the most? Entertainment and communication

Well, nothing really blog-worthy today to note. Not every day can be action-packed, you know! 😀

I ran some errands this afternoon. Took one of my library books back, and checked on the one I put on hold, the next in the Stephanie Plum series (called Three to Get Deadly). It won’t be in till 3/23, unless the person brings it back early. Hope they read fast! Then, I dropped off “Shall We Dance” at Blockbuster and made a special trip inside to get my punch card punched, for bringing the movie back before the due date. They are running a promotion right now for March Madness, for free drinks and popcorn, then for a free movie rental after so many punches. I’m all for free stuff, so it was worth my extra couple of minutes to go inside and have it punched. However, either other people don’t know about this (maybe they didn’t offer them a card when they checked out), or else they just don’t want to bother with it. Because there was one person there dropping off movies, outside, when I pulled up, and then another guy in a tie dropping off movies when I was leaving. No one else went inside to get their card punched. Cheapie me did though!

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1. I wish I had more __________.
2. I usually think about changing my blog layout when _________.
3. If more people would be _________, the world would be a better place.
4. I really should __________ more often.
5. The weather we’re having right now is ________.
6. When it’s time to plant a garden, I’d like to plant ________.
7. When I’m running late, I sometimes forget to _________.
8. When I can’t think of anything to blog about, I usually _________.

My answers:
1. money?!
2. the season/holiday changes or I get tired of the current one!
3. considerate
4. scrapbook
5. spring-like
6. flowers and herbs
7. grab my cell phone
8. do a meme!

Shanna sent me more cute pictures earlier today, so I had to upload them to the Photo Gallery at Hambones. There are two more adorable pictures of Grayson (yes, I know, I’m biased). One is of him dressed for “Go Texan” day at Church, and he’s wearing Trent’s old cowboy shirt he had when he was that age! That is too cute! The other picture is my new favorite in the Gallery – a terrific picture of Grayson and Shanna. Go check them out, they are soooo good!

“Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn’t.” -L.L. Henderson

1) Did you go to college? Yes, 4 years at Belhaven

2) Did you live in a dorm or an apartment? Home for first year, dorm for the last 3

3) Who was your favorite roommate? Kate!

4) What is your favorite college sport? Now it’s football. Back then I probably would have picked soccer, Belhaven’s premiere sport 😆

5) Who was your favorite professor and class? I have no idea, I can’t remember any of them in particular being a favorite.

Pretty spring afternoon translated into a great time to go geocaching, at least for us! The sun was out, the birds were singing, the sky was blue and there was hardly a cloud in the sky. At least until about 5:30. By 6:00 PM or so, it was pouring rain and hailing. We haven’t ventured outside to see if the truck sustained any hail damage yet.

I digress. We went geocaching this afternoon! Great day for it and we had a blast. We did Tim’s kind of geocaches – stomping through woods, underbrush, digging around in the mud and looking for ammo boxes. 🙂 Nah, only one was really like that. We were 3 for 3 today, good afternoon.

Here’s Tim on the way to the first one, near Liberty Park in Madison, and on the back side of where they are building our new Lowes:

This one was very well concealed. Green ammo can sorta spray painted a rust color so it blended right in with its surroundings. One of the more difficult kinds to find!

And its contents (nothing special, we didn’t swap any items out):

After this one, we found two more, and stopped at a couple of different spots at the Rez. One time with food, from Sonic, and the other to check out the fishing at the Spillway:

All in all, a busy and fun afternoon!

We rented another chick flick for me (pooooooor Tim 🙂 ) tonight during the hailstorm. We just finished “Shall We Dance”, which predictably, I enjoyed! You’ll have to ask Tim if he liked it. I think he did, but I don’t think he will admit it in a thousand years! 😀

More word association… have fun!

I say … and you think … ?

Shape up:: or ship out
New Orleans:: fond memories
In the bedroom:: sleepy
All the time:: goofy
Philosophy:: class
Tyler:: Florence
Disturbed:: mental
French kiss:: movie
Solidify:: strengthen
Furtive:: glance

Here’s what is left from our late lunch this afternoon on the deck….

We had a good day today. Got a lot done around here, including all the border down in the bathroom. We also got several errands run. We went to Kohl’s and got the free Dutch oven that was supposed to come with my set of Calphalon that Tim bought me for our anniversary. It was advertised in the ad from last Sunday’s paper, but nothing in the store, no ad, no sign, nothing. Good thing I had kept the ad! We also dropped off some old computer equipment at Goodwill.

We checked out the Ridgeland Multi-Purpose Trail late this afternoon. Walked at a really good pace for about 40-45 minutes. I logged right at 5000 steps on my pedometer (4990 to be exact). It’s really pretty, the part we walked bordered the Natchez Trace so it was wooded with lots of birds, squirrels and trees to keep us occupied.

After we finished walking, we stopped by Tim’s office to pick up his coffee cup. It hasn’t been run through the dishwasher in a couple of weeks, ick-o! I had also been wanting to go for several months, since Tim had moved into a new office with Michael. They share a really nice office! 🙂

We just got back from Blockbuster. I got some free rental coupons in the mail, to use over the next 3 months. Those are in addition to the ones I earned at erewards.com. I got 6 there after answering numerous surveys over the last few months. It’s so nice to get something free once in a while. Tonight we rented Manchurian Candidate, based on Gail’s recommendation. Will post a review after we watch it, or rather, add our comments to the review that Gail already entered on Hambones.

Hey, anybody that is out there reading this… if the pictures are not showing up properly (as in overlapping), it may be because I am sizing them for the current “style” that I am using. I thought I had figured out the software, where to set the default style, but it’s either not working, or else, if you change the style on your end, you don’t pick up the style I’ve set for my blog.

If you’re still seeing the Pink Lilies style, that’s fine, but I’m currently using Fresh Mondrian. I’m sizing the pictures to fit in there…. so, you can scroll down the sidebar until you see the drop down box for Style, and pick Fresh Mondrian.

Hope that helps!!

We started working on a new project this morning. We’ve picked out a new border for our master bathroom. It is a beige and burgundy one that will go a lot better with the new comforter and bedroom stuff we got last fall (old stuff was blues and greens, the new stuff is burgundy, green and gold palette). So, this morning we started taking down the old wallpaper border.

After just a couple hours of work, we have the border down! Tim is going to do a bit of woodworking while I clean up, and then we’re headed out the door. Got a few errands to run, and mostly, we just want to get out in the sunshine. Today is a pretty day, although a bit windy. It’s already in the upper 7o’s with lots of sunshine, so it feels like spring. No day to stay inside all day doing wallpaper! 🙂

I finished another book last night, Two for the Dough, by Janet Evanovich. Another really good book! I won’t enter reviews for any of these other books in this series (nine so far, I hope she’s working on more!!) on the Hambones website, since they are all part of the same series and all along the same lines. Same style of writing, just different plots and new “bad guys” each time for our bounty hunter heroine Stephanie Plum to hunt down, in a most hysterical fashion. I am going to start me a Word document though, and track all the books I read this year. This makes number 6, and I’m very pleased with that.

Up next: The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks.

Tim and I celebrated our ninth wedding anniversary yesterday. I was afraid he had forgotten again, so I decided to buy my own flowers… 🙂 I got these pretty purple irises at the grocery store where I stopped to pick up potatoes and salad stuff to go along with the flank steak I had marinating at home.

They look like spring to me!

I was going to buy Tim a set of router bits that he had found at Home Depot, but he found a cheaper set last weekend at Harbor Freight and bought them. So, I didn’t get him anything else, because I figured he had not gotten me anything. Wrong. He surprised me with this:

I’ve got to get busy and get them washed and figure out where to put them. I am probably going to hang on to a couple of pieces of my older cookware for a while, and I am really out of space in my cabinets in the kitchen. Plus, the ad in Kohl’s this week (this is the set of Calphalon that is made exclusively for Kohl’s and sold only there), showed that if you bought a set, you get a free 4 qt Dutch oven. Well, Tim didn’t know about that and no one mentioned it at the store. So, we’re going to run out there today and see if they will honor the ad. I might also pick up another piece or two! There are several individual pieces in this line that I will want to get eventually. They have a wok (I use mine a lot), several griddles and grill pans, and an everyday pan. I will have to save up to get the 4 quart saucepan, but I will need that one eventually.