I have a new friend. It used to be a not-so-welcome friend. Read this blog entry to see how I felt about it before. Then, the rat made its presence known. This rat.
So, now a cat is definitely higher on the list than a rat. My new friend. Please, continue to come every day to my backyard, lounge in my flower beds, relax under my glider, preen on the deck stairs, even sit in the patio chair like you did the other morning. Just, PLEASE, catch that rat, or rats. Please.
Appetizer – Where do you go when you want to relax? Hmm, home. Home is my favorite place to be. 🙂
Soup – Tell about something that made you laugh this week. Tim always makes me laugh. Sometimes TV shows or commercials make me laugh. We love the 2 geeky guys in the Sonic commercials. I was reading my book last night and got to a funny part and died out laughing. Lots of little things.
Salad – What is your favorite texture? Chenille
Main Course – If you were to publish your autobiography, what would the first sentence be? I wouldn’t publish my autobiography, I’ve not led an interesting enough life!
Dessert – Do you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? If so, how? No, not really. I used to like to go to the Mal’s St Paddy’s day parade downtown, but I haven’t been in over 10 or 12 years.
YEA! Heard on the news tonight that my man, Brett Favre, will return to play football for the Green Bay Packers again this coming season. Yeee-hawwww! I’m so glad he’s going to play at least one more year. Now I can watch him and my boy Peyton play 😀
Man, it’s been a drought all week at my usual meme sites… today was a banner day and I hit the jackpot!!!! Here’s another one!!! From the Thursday Threesome Meme site
::A Somewhat Aimless Hodgepodge::
Onesome: A Somewhat– We’re in somewhat of a lull between holidays. Are you decorating for St. Patrick’s Day or going right for the Easter season. …or are you just hanging on for margaritas by the pool? Hmm, don’t decorate for either. I have a St Paddy’s day avatar in my signature on Hambones, that’s about it. We don’t have kids so we don’t get to do fun things like dye and hide Easter eggs, wait for the Easter bunny, have a REASON to buy chocolate, etc. So I don’t decorate either. Next holiday for us to decorate is July 4th, when we put out our flags!
Twosome: Aimless– Aimlessly waiting for Spring? What are you just waiting to do once the weather clears up? Waiting to do more work in the yard, and mostly, I’m waiting to get out and go geocaching. And maybe have a picnic and fly a kite. Love those kinds of things, not that we do them much any more (sigh, I miss the romantic days of being newly married!) 🙁
Threesome: Hodgepodge– Where’s the hodge podge collection at your place? You know, that drawer or shelf or cabinet where ‘all the other stuff’ ends up when there’s no place assigned to it. Yeah, that one! Two places mostly. One drawer in the kitchen, and the closet in the study. That’s a hazard. One of those, open the door and hope nothing falls on you, kind of closets 
from Blogcess
1) Do you use a bedspread or comforter? Comforter only. Haven’t tried a duvet yet 🙂
2) What side of the bed do you claim as your very own? Left. Unless we are in a hotel or something and I feel the need to be a) closer to the bathroom b) away from the windows or doors or c) next to the nightstand with the clock/phone. Mostly the left (as you lay down, not look at a bed) 🙂
3) How many pillows do you have on your bed? Do you use them on at bed time? Hmmm, we have lots of decorative pillows that get thrown off at night. During the day we have 9 on there, at night, just the two we lay our weary heads upon
4) When purchasing new sheets is thread count a factor in your decision? Absolutely. The older I get, the more important it gets. Soft sheets are important to me. As is a comfortable mattress. Heck, when you equate it to hours, we spend more hours there than anywhere else, all said.
5) Where do you like to purchase your bedding items? Hmmm, I’d like to splurge and get stuff at Bed, Bath and Beyond or Linens N Things. Our last comforter set came from BB&B and it held up really well. The one on our bed currently came from Target. We’ve had it since August and it’s already tearing up. I usually gets sheets either at Sam’s, or Marshalls. I’ve found several sets lately at Marshalls, by just scouring the shelves periodically.
A new meme site I’m trying…. 3X Thursday – from This Website
Yes, I know I’ve answered memes about books before, but I’m really in a reading mode lately, so here’s another one!
3x Thursday: 03/10/y2k+5: Looks Like We Got Ourselves A Readuh!
1. Do you like to read? How often do you take time out of your busy life to read? Yes, I love to read. I have all my life. I think it’s a wonderful gift to give a child, a love of reading. It’s something you can carry with you all of your life. I grew up loving to read, and I still do, although I go through phases of it now in my adult life. I’m definitely in a heavy reading phase right now. I’ve read 4 books since late January, and have 3 more checked out from the library currently.
2. What kind of books (subject matter) do you like to read? Who’s your favorite author? Why? Fiction. Usually total escapism, for entertainment. I like several authors, mostly “women’s fiction”, as I call it. Not Harlequin type stuff, but just average mainstream women’s stories. I like Rosamund Pilcher (but she only writes a new book every 5-6 years), Maeve Binchy (Irish author), Barbara Delinsky, John Grisham and Nicholas Sparks. I just discovered Janet Evanovich and the numbered Stephanie Plum books, and I love those!
3. What are you reading right now? Do you like it so far? Why/Why not? I started Janet Evanovich’s second Stephanie Plum book, “Two for the Dough” the other night. I’m already half way through it, and I love, love, love it. It’s such a fun, entertaining, light read. A little off-color, with some street language and humor, but in a very great way. I’m really loving these books, and definitely plan on reading all nine of them! I’m so glad to have found this series 🙂
Bonus Question for Comments: What’s your favorite book in the whole world? Why? Oh my. One of my all-time favorite books is September by Rosamunde Pilcher. Also loved the Lord of the Rings books by Tolkein.
I was just browsing through some of the posts at the Cooking Light message boards. That’s really my number one place to surf for recipes and cooking ideas. I have gotten a lot of good recipes from this website, their magazines, and cookbooks. Anyway, there are a couple of ongoing discussions there about two new books about “eating as the french do” and “the Fat Fallacy”, both of which talk about eating much smaller portions, really savoring what you eat, etc.
Good ideas, and ones I have been wanting to adopt for quite a while. Next month, it will be 3 years since Tim and I started our healthy eating lifestyle change. We’ve done pretty good overall. Up and down, up and down, but fairly steady overall. Holidays are bad, as we tend to eat a lot more. Winter is bad for me because I have a natural desire to cook comfort foods (chilis, stews, soups, cobbler, etc) and homemade bread. Winter is also bad for us because we are really limited in how often we can walk because of the weather. I don’t like to get sick, and so I often don’t want to walk if it’s really cold or misty or windy.
So… (click more to read the rest)
Well, darn, I am so disappointed that Lost is a rerun tonight. In fact, I am even more irritated to read that there aren’t going to be any new Lost episodes till the middle of April. What are JJ Abrams and crew trying to do, torture us? 🙂
I think Gail told me, and also I read earlier today while surfing, that the next new episode is April 13 and is a Locke-centric episode. It’s titled “Deux Ex Machina”, according to TV Tome Episode List . Translated, that means “God from the machine” and is also a chapter in the book “Watership Down” that Sawyer was reading, which he stole from Boone’s suitcase (according to this site). I’m further disappointed to see only 3 more new episodes listed after that.
April 20 – “Do No Harm” – Jack-centric episode
April 27 – “Greater Good” – Sayid-centric episode
May 4 – “Born to Run” – Kate-centric episode
Well, maybe there is going to be more before the season finale, since it’s rumored that Claire’s baby is going to be born in the season ender. Or maybe it will happen during Kate’s show? Darn. All I know is that I want to see more of this show, not less!
I think I’m starting to get a bit of spring fever, and in a bit of a spring cleaning mode. Of course, today is not a great day for that. I prefer to do spring cleaning stuff on days that are sunny and warm, and I can open the windows and smell the fresh clean air. Today is cloudy, grey and supposed to rain later. Not to mention it’s in the low 50’s, which ain’t really like spring!
Anyway, I spent about 30 minutes this morning vacuuming my mattress and under the bed! I think I got about 1 to 1 1/2 inches of dust and gunk in the canister of my vacuum (most of that was up under the headboard, near the wall, and I must have banged my head 4 or 5 times trying to reach up under there). ICK! I took the sheets and mattress cover off and washed them this morning, and got all industrious and decided to try vacuuming the mattress. I saw This show on Oprah and I shudder every time I think about it. Yuck, tiny microscopic bed bugs crawling around in my mattress while I’m sleeping on it. Anyway, I hope it worked. I think I about blew out the motor on the vacuum cleaner 🙂 trying to get them out!
A good TV viewing night, all around. We watched the guys perform last night on AI, and I have to say, they are head and shoulders above the girls. I will really be glad to let the guys go head to head with the girls so more of these girls can go home. The guys are just so much better this season, it’s really hard now to get rid of any of them. There are still a lot of girls that need to go bye-bye.
Right now, my top two in each group are: Bo and Anwar for the guys, and Carrie and Nadia for the girls. We shall see.
I don’t seem to do very well on predictions. I’m going to have to go to the Hambones forum and revise my guess on Amazing Race. I don’t know how much longer the brothers will make it. Although I thought the same thing about Ron and Kelly last week, and they pulled it together and came in second this leg. I want to state on the record, that so far, through 2 episodes, I am not disliking Rob and Amber at all, like I thought that I would. I was fully prepared to root against them, and figured they would annoy me. Not so. I am rather quite enjoying them run the Amazing Race and I like that they seem happy together, seem to work well together, are making smart choices, and are overall just running a really good race. I may have to revise my guess and pick them! Not that they need the money, but so far, that’s my only beef with them.
We also watched House tonight, on Fox after Idol. Really good show. Medical mystery kind of stuff. I really enjoy it, in that we have finally found a show where Tim doesn’t have everything figured out in the first 10 minutes! With the medical aspect, he’s as clueless as I am! 🙂 Which makes it a total joy to watch!
Since I was 12 years old and got my very first camera, I have loved, loved, loved pictures. That still holds true today. I love taking them, I love seeing them, I love putting them in scrapbooks and photo albums, I love looking at all of my digital prints on the computer. And now that we have the Hambones website, I LOVE to put them out there for everyone to see. 😀
I’m so glad people are emailing me pictures to share. Amanda sent some the other day of the Ethan & Abby, and Trent and Shanna sent some of Grayson & Ava Clair, etc. I put two new ones out last night of Grayson that are just adorable. And this morning, I was very happy to look in my inbox and find a bunch from David’s baptism this past Sunday in Indianola. Gail took several of the service and a bunch of great family pics in front of the fireplace. Thanks for sharing them with me Gail! 🙂 I just wish we could have been there…. sigh.
So, go check out all the new pictures when you have time!
Found this site the other day, sort of like a meme. One of those word association things. The shrink (or whoever) says a word and you say the first thing that pops into your mind. Oh my, this could be scary!
I say … and you think … ?
Usher:: Singer
Cherish:: Love
Mistreat:: Abuse
Forum:: Hambones
Systematic:: Routine
Warning:: Weather
Wash:: hands
I wish:: upon a star
Candles:: Yankee
Metallic:: Sound
Trent just sent me two of the cutest pictures of Grayson! He said that he likes to wear this hooded towel like a cape, to fly around… he has special binoculars for playing his spying game, and he wears socks on his hands when he wants to be a cat. These pictures show him with all of them on, the ultimate superhero! Grayson the Magnificent!
Go check it out in their album in the Photo Gallery on Hambones. Cute, Cute, Cute!
I did finish this one the other day, and I really enjoyed it. I didn’t quite like part of the end, but overall it was a good book, interesting characters, great exotic locales, and a good plot. I like a different kind of legal thriller from time to time, some of Grisham’s really seem to run together for me. Anyway, I still have 4 or 5 to go in our library of his, but I’m ready for a change, having read two of his lately (Street Lawyer was as good, maybe better).
I just went and wrote a little review on Hambones… click here to go read it.
I went to the library in Madison today. I love the library. I always have, since I was young. I can remember going to the Jackson library over in Broadmoor, on Northside Drive. I could stay in there for hours. I also remember spending tons of time in the library in Belhaven. Not just studying, but reading other books, looking at magazines, and just daydreaming. I had a spot picked out, a chair by the window that faced the street… I could (and often did) sit there for ages.
I digress. I went today when it was just starting to sprinkle and when I came out, it was raining cats, dogs and small children. I got soaked trying to get back to the car – and yes, that was with an umbrella! I spent a glorious hour or so in there, browing around, looking at books and checking the computer to see where books were, and when they were due back in. I put one on hold for when it comes back in, in about 2 weeks.
I got 3 new books to read. I got the next one in the Janet Evanovich numbered series, the Stephanie Plum books. I finished “One for the Money” a few weeks ago, and got the next one, “Two for the Dough”. I think I will read that one first. Very light, quick reading. A little off-color, but highly entertaining. Then, I think I will read “The Guardian” by Nicholas Sparks. I only have that one, and the one he wrote with his brother, left to read. I have read all of the others. I also checked out “Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas” by James Patterson, based on a review that Amanda entered on Hambones. I have never read anything by Patterson, but am willing to give it a try. Thanks Amanda!
