Exceedingly Mundane

OK, I have looked at this meme before, but I don’t think I have done one of these. From this site. It’s listed as a Wednesday meme, but the questions were dated last Friday. So this one is really late!!

This week’s is all about your tv viewing. If you’re not a tv person (like my brother) you can just go and sit and play with this lump of clay.

1. Who’s your favorite talk show host? Oprah!

2. Late night talk show? Jay Leno

3. What’s your favorite drama? if I have to pick one, I guess I’d pick “Lost”

4. Favorite comedy? We don’t watch much comedy… maybe the Friends or Seinfeld of old

5. Least favorite show or genre? dating type reality shows

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Questions For May 10th
Sibling Rivalry

1. Do You Get Along With All Of Your Siblings?: I think so, you might have to ask them!

2. Did You Fight As Children?: No, they were so much older. They left for college when I was like 5 or 6

3. What’s The Worst Thing You Ever Did To Your Bro/Sis?:Hmm, I thought I was the poster child for a perfect younger sibling (cough, cough). I’m sure they will pipe up with something, probably lots of somethings, since I can’t come up with anything! 😀

4. What’s The Worst Thing They Ever Did To You?: OK, I have this overwhelmingly distinct memory of getting up in the middle of the night when I was really little, after having a bad nightmare, and going to Suzie’s room. I wanted to sleep with her because I was so scared. Suzie grumbled and told me to leave her alone, so I went and asked Gail to sleep with her, which she let me do! 🙂 I have told this story many times before and neither one of them seem to remember it, but I do!

5. How Often Do You See Them?: Not often enough. We see Gail fairly often, but only get to see Suzanne once or twice a year, whenever she can fly home. Maybe she’ll come back again soon!

Today appears to be one of those days when I might have been better off staying in bed with the sheets over my head! 🙂 Just kidding. I went and got my hair cut this morning, then ran a bunch of errands. I came out of Walmart right before lunch and found a flat bed cart rammed into my car and some paint missing where it had scraped the car. 👿 Then, about 20 minutes after I got home, the cable tv and internet service went out. We were down about 2 hours, Hambones and everything. One of those days!

Well, I feel like I have removed a small portion of the proverbial “monkey on my back” just now. I just entered 3 reviews in the Reviews section of Hambones. Two are for movies we saw two (soon to be three) weekends ago. Ocean’s Twelve and Spanglish. The other is for a book I really struggled with, and didn’t particularly love, called “Blue Shoe”.

I know we’re different from a lot of you in what we like to watch and what I like to read. Tim and I enjoy movies for the pure entertainment and escapism factor of them. We like non-thinking, non-controversial types of movies. The same goes for me with books – I like what I fondly refer to as “chick lit”. Not Harlequin romance or trashy stuff. Not high-brow either. Nor the classics, although I really should be rereading a lot of those. No, I like to pick up a book and be transported into somewhere far away, fun, entertaining, funny, enchanting or otherwise engaging. I like to read to escape, not to be enlightened or educated. Very different from many of you, but that’s me. Just me.

So there (big sigh), having said that, read the reviews at your own risk. They are open to all members and visitors alike on Hambones.org (as are the recipes) – check them out here

Well, Tim called about 3:30 and said they were just pulling out of the parking lot. So he will be pretty late getting in. They needed to stay to cover one of the last items on the agenda, and then their new boss wanted them to stay behind for a few minutes and talk. 🙁

So, since he will be 10 or after, I have another quiet night planned. Got quite a few things left to do before supper time, but then, it’s going to be another quick and easy one. I have some fried rice leftover from our Chinese take-out on Sunday night. I have two Tai Pei brand frozen chinese entrees in the freezer – anyone want to vote on which one to eat? The choices are Bourbon Chicken (170 calories, 2.5 grams of fat) and Teriyaki Chicken (470 calories and 5 grams of fat). Maybe I’ll just toss a coin

Then, it’s TV Time!!!! I am SO looking forward to the 2 hour finale of Amazing Race. Can’t wait! I want Joyce & Uchenna to win, but I’ll be ok with Rob/Amber… still debating on Ron & Kelley. He’s ok, but she’s got a really nasty little streak in her! 🙂 I will watch American Idol too, since they are down to 4. I feel like Anthony will probably leave next, but you never know. I see a Bo/Carrie final 2. Anyway, I’ll have to tape other shows, Tuesdays are our busiest TV night. Will tape the ones I watch, for Tim, and also tape NCIS and House. House is a great show, he’s so acerbic! Anyway, if Tim is not home by then, then I’ll read my book till he gets home. 🙂

My clematis is late blooming this year. I looked back at digital pictures I took of it the last couple of years, and it’s usually blooming by mid-April. It didn’t bloom hardly at all last year because we forgot to cut it back to the ground in the fall. But, I remembered this past fall and it has come back good, but just hasn’t opened up and bloomed.

There are six huge blooms on it, and I’m more than ready for them to start popping open. This afternoon, I went outside and got my wish:

Click more to see another picture and also one of my visitor yesterday afternoon, our friendly neighborhood black cat. He/she only seems to show up if there’s a rat about (Tim saw one Saturday evening run under the deck)

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OK, if anyone out there watches “24”, can you tell me if this was used last night on the show? The phrase “geosynchronous orbit”, maybe when they were talking about the satellites. I woke up this morning, almost chanting this to myself. I had actually forgotten about it, till just now, when it popped in my head again.

I think I have a brain defect. Some memory chips are not seated properly or some kind of wiring is loose. 😀

Found this while blog surfing… I’m sure there are a lot of these kind of “aha” things, but of course, I can’t think of any right now. If you think of some, post them… and I’ll do the same.

This one is true for me though:

“Why did I call conditioner, “cream rinse” as a child? Did everyone? Why did we stop?”

Growing up, I have a vague memory of having to stand on a stool and having my mom wash my hair at the kitchen sink. I remember conditioner being called “cream rinse” back then. I also remember that I had to use something on my hair called “no more tangles”. My hair is awful, always has been. I envy women/girls with smooth shiny silky hair. Mine has always been dry and very frizzy, and it gets soooo tangled. I always begged for this stuff to be sprayed on my hair (or the equivalent oh those many years ago), so that it wouldn’t hurt so bad. My mom would brush my hair and just pull tangles until it felt like she was scalping me. I hated it.

Name three foods or meals that you loved as a ten year old – and that you still love.

Post your answers in a comment – I’m going to go post mine now! 🙂

I say … and you think … ?

Android:: Data (from Star Trek:Next Generation)
Revenge:: of the Sith!
Knight:: Knights of the Round Table
Stranded:: Lost
Weakness:: flaw
Greed:: money
Walter:: Drake
Dense:: fog
Sheep:: shearing
Propane:: tank

1) What is your birthday, what time were you born, what astrological sign are you, and what city and state were you born in? October 18, I was born on a Sunday morning, not sure of the exact time. (You know, being a Sunday baby makes me an angel!). I’m a Libra, and a textbook one – justice, equality, symmetry, balance, all totally me. I was born in Jackson, MS.

2) Are there any famous events or famous people that share your special day? I have no idea. I could Google it I guess, but I won’t.

3) What did you do to celebrate your last birthday? Tim took me to the mountains, which was very close to what I had been wanting for a year to do when I turned 40 (I wanted to go to Vermont or New Hampshire to do the bed and breakfast and leaf peeping thing, but we went to Gatlinburg instead, still an amazing, wonderful time for both of us).

4) What is your best birthday celebration that you can remember? Going to the mountains last year with Tim is the best birthday I can ever remember having.

5) What is the best birthday present you have ever received? See #4 above 😀 After that, it would probably be the TRUCK Tim bought me the year before, for my birthday! 😛

OK, catching back up on my blogging, had to do the recap of the weekend, and load a bunch of pictures onto the Photo Gallery on Hambones. Now that I’m sort of caught up on that, time for the “exceedingly mundane” parts of my day.

1. I had zero caffeine yesterday, no coffee, no tea, no colas. I’m sorry to report that as a result, I had a vicious headache all afternoon, all evening and even woke up with one this morning. So, after Tim left for Dallas this morning, I decided to splurge and make myself a small pot of coffee – using this:

Let me just say right now – this stuff is GOOO-WOOOD! Ghiradelli Double Chocolate Coffee, with splenda and low-fat French Vanilla creamer, thank you

2. Since Tim is gone to Dallas till tomorrow night late, I decided to not be so meticulous in my normal Monday routine. I did, however, do 3 loads of laundry, catch up on reading the last 4 days of newspapers, watch Oprah (she has no deep dark secret about a daughter, it’s her dog for goodness sake, and a shameless plug for ratings during Sweeps month!), do some surfing on the PC, some talking on the phone, and lots of IM’ing on the computer. I did not, however, do any cleaning, housework or ironing. (GASP) Maybe tonight or tomorrow. Yes, tomorrow. After all, tomorrow is another day (must be channeling Scarlett O’Hara) 🙂

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Two really busy weekends in a row. So busy, I didn’t have time on either weekend to blog about the day or what had happened. So, I’m having to come back a day or so later and blog about what we did… since my blog is ‘exceedingly mundane’, read ahead at your own risk (Long, but with pics)!

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We are headed out to see Tim’s mom (Linda) in a few minutes. Yesterday was really busy, but fun, and so great to see everyone. We ran some errands and did things around here when we got back and I didn’t take the time to stop and blog about it. Today will probably be more of the same. Maybe tomorrow I can catch up!

I went shopping and running errands all afternoon, and stopped back by the house around 4:30 to check and see if Daddy was here, which he was. I was going to run to Kroger or Walmart to get some stuff to make pizza dip, but Gail, Don, Kathryn and Jeremy were about to get here, so I decided to stay put. 🙂 We were so happy to see everyone! Kathryn and Jeremy went and picked up Margaret and Wilson, and then Liz, Chris and David came, so we had a pretty decent crowd.

Don and Tim grilled burgers, hot dogs and bratwurst. I think that Don needs to share the title of “Grillmaster” with Tim, so I have now deemed them each a co-Grillmaster. It was all really good, and we got to sing “Happy Birthday” to Jeremy and wish him a belated Happy Birthday. Happy Birthday Jeremy!

We went to meet Trent, Shanna, Grayson and Ava Clair at the airport. Grayson had a big time with Don, running around in the parking garage, and playing. Ava Clair was fine, happy as a little clam, till Mean Uncle Tim stuck his face near hers and made her cry! I wish we could have gone to the hotel to visit with everyone, but Papa Fred was getting tired, and I’m sure all the fliers were too, so we came home and cleaned up. Looking forward to graduation tomorrow. Liz and Chris’s big day graduating from MC! 🙂

I’ll wait till tomorrow, Sunday or Monday to post pictures. Took some tonight, and Gail did too, so maybe between the two of us, we got some good ones!