Exceedingly Mundane

What color are your kitchen plates? well, mostly white. I have 12 place settings of Mikasa French Countryside, and also 4 burgundy ones from Target. I love the Target ones, but they are chipping badly. I’ve been looking at new ones lately… mostly burgundy and yellow, to match the kitchen. The problem with that is that when we move or paint the kitchen again, I will want to change them yet again! I’ve been looking at these from Pfatlzgraf, and also at Fiestaware in Cinnabar and Sunflower Yellow. Just daydreaming though! I imagine we’ll keep the Mikasa for a long time. It holds up really well, it’s never chipped or cracked and barely shows any kind of scratch from knives. Good stuff.

Favorite Board Game? Trivial Pursuit, or Mexican Train Dominoes, although that’s not a board game!

What’s on your mouse pad? Legolas

What’s your favorite color? Green

What’s your least favorite color? Hmmm, dunno

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Not a whole lot “blog-worthy” going on. The sun is actually out today and it’s rather pretty outside. I just finished watering some of the flowers and deadheading my moss rose and petunias. I took some pictures of some of the flowers blooming in the yard and might post some later (yeah, I know, don’t everyone get all excited at once 🙂 ). It didn’t really rain much yesterday either, so Tim decided to mow and do all the yard work when he got in. It all looks really good. The grass is really green from all the rain we’ve had recently.

I finished my latest book last night. I give it an enthusiastic two-thumbs up, my highest rating, etc. I loved it. No other words to describe it. I do believe it’s one of the best books I have read in a long time. Maybe not everyone would like it, but I thoroughly and completely enjoyed it. I read it in two nights flat – I believe that’s a new record for me on a book like this. You can read more in the review I just typed up at Hambones.

More good news on the Vonage front. I got an email from Vonage today that BellSouth had accepted our letter of transfer and they should be transferring our phone line soon; in fact, it’s scheduled for tomorrow. Which will be wonderful – we’ll have unlimited nationwide long distance, caller id, call waiting, call forwarding, Internet voice mail, and lots of other features. All for $24.99 a month. You can’t beat that. I mostly wanted it for the caller id. I have wanted it for a while but just didn’t want to pay what BellSouth wanted for it every month. Now, it’s “free”, or so I think, gotta look at it that way! We’ll have to do some work tonight with the VOIP box, the new phones, and other various hardware issues (read: Tim will be busy doing this stuff tonight!), but hopefully it will all go smooth. Let us know if you can’t get us at the house though! 😀

Well, it took me a few days, but I finally got the few pictures that I took over the weekend loaded into the Photos section on Hambones. I didn’t take a lot, as we have been many times before, and have even been to the D-Day Museum once before. Most of the pictures are of the hotel and our room! First time we had stayed there, and it was really nice, plus I knew from Gail’s comment on my previous blog entry that they had looked into staying there, so I took a bunch of the room (I LOVE having a digital camera!). There’s not a lot of pictures, I guess that’s why I wasn’t in a rush to get them on the website. But they are there now if anyone wants to glance at them! 🙂

Well, it’s official now. We’ll be going to Washington D.C. this summer on our vacation. We booked a hotel room last night, once Tim got approval at work for the days off that he had requested. We’re going to leave 6/29 and come back on 7/5 or 7/6. Right now, we’re going to drive, but I am going to look around and see what kind of flights I can find. I think we’d both rather drive though (although I say that now, we may think differently later on!).

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Well, so far today has been really good. We got up early and went walking. It always makes us feel better to get up and go, even though it’s sometimes difficult to drag ourselves out of bed so much earlier than we would like. I’m definitely not a morning person!

Tim worked quite a bit on Hambones last night, and I read my new book I got at the library. All I can say is “Wow”, I’m loving this book so much. I do believe it’s one of the best I have read so far this year. I’d definitely put it up there with “The Testament” and “The Wedding”. I’m reading “Three Weeks with My Brother” by Nicholas and Micah Sparks. I want Tim to read it after I finish with it, but I see a losing battle on the horizon with that proposition! I’m already nearly half way through it. I absolutely could not put it down last night. I read till my eyes were bleary and nearly popped out of their sockets!

Wendy called at lunch today, from the hospital! They had her scheduled for a c-section today, but as often happens, the baby decided to come on his own terms, and they actually came over Monday morning and Nathan made his appearance! Wendy said she and Nathan were doing fine, so that is wonderful news. Nothing else really matters except a healthy baby and a healthy mom. Wendy said they would go home tomorrow, which is great news.