Exceedingly Mundane

Along with the cute pictures that Amanda sent me of Ethan and Abby (that I posted about last night, and are now added to the photos section of Hambones), she also sent me a couple that had me in it.

Now, that might sound weird, but it’s not. I’m always behind my camera and there are hardly ever any pictures with me in it. Which, most of the time is fine by me. I’m not photogenic and I don’t particularly like to be in the picture. But, being a scrapbooker and looking back through pictures I have taken since I was 12 years old, I realize the need for me actually being in some of the pictures sometime! Otherwise, if I die, people might not remember me at all without a picture! 😯

Amanda was sweet enough to send me a good picture of me and my dad on Father’s Day, one of me by myself with my beloved little camera (which I’ll spare you of, since it was just me), and this one of me with Abby, who was not quite 5 months old, but such a big, pretty girl!

Thanks Amanda! 😀

I just loaded some new pictures on the Photos section of Hambones that Amanda sent me last night. She has some 4 month photos that she took of Abby a while back (she turns 6 months old in a few days!), and also some of Ethan dressed up at church, over the July 4th weekend. They are so cute, and really great pictures! Of course, I’m not in the slightest bit biased in any way. Go check them out and see for yourself!

Well, a few minutes after Tim brought me the flowers (which of couse, I took a picture of and was back in the computer room, trying to blog about) – he came back inside the house and started calling for me. I thought, gee, did he pick me more flowers or is something wrong?

The answer is ….

He found a baby bird out by the big tree in the front yard! He apparently scared it and he said it was trying to walk out into the street. He scooped it up and brought it inside for me to see. My first experience with a displaced or injured baby bird (no, I didn’t have much of a childhood!).

He got me to get a shoe box and put it in there and had me go look on the Internet to find out how to care for it. Well, every site I went to said first thing to “return the baby to its nest or the area you found it”, and its parents would take care of it. They all seemed to discourage keeping the baby bird and trying to care for it. I went back outside and told Tim, whom was none too pleased. As he pointed out to me, we have a lot of cats in our neighborhood, and that baby bird might be one of those cat’s supper. And he’s right – I went to put the bird back out by the tree where he found it, and sure enough, across the street, there is a cat peering up over its fence. I am afraid now that my baby bird won’t make it through the night. I sat out front for a while, hoping to see its parents come back, but no sign of any bird, just that darn cat.

Tim thinks it is a baby dove, by the way – what does it look like to you guys?

P.S. Ok – update, Tim is still out weedeating and edging and I keep going back and forth, checking on my baby bird. It hasn’t moved one inch. I’m afraid it’s hurt or its parents aren’t going to find it in time and one of these neighborhood cats is going to get it. 😥

Tim got in from work and went outside to cut the grass. He came in a little while ago and brought me these:

Yep, he’s sweet and I’m so glad he’s mine. He’s definitely a keeper!

I just read this story, from the front page headlines posted on Hambones.org. We’ll probably watch this, and I know for me in particular, I intend to follow this Supreme Court nomination process a little more closely than perhaps I have in the past.

We have a neat little personal tie-in to all of this. We had just finished our tour of the US Capitol in Washington when Sandra Day O’Connor was tendering her resignation to President Bush. Tim and I went to the Library of Congress, then walked down to see the US Supreme Court building. There were cameras everywhere and protesters, but we had not heard the news or radio all day, so we had no idea what was going on. We weren’t sure if it was like that every day, or if something had happened. We found out a couple of hours later, when we talked to Kirk on our cell, about Justice O’Connor’s resignation.

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OK, I have seen this one on other blogs, and I’m going to add it to my list to check every Tuesday. You know me, I love lists!

10 Countries You’d Like to Visit

Here’s my answers, in no particular order:

1) England
2) Scotland
3) France
4) Greece
5) Italy
6) Australia
7) New Zealand
8) Austria
9) Switzerland
10) Canada

**UPDATED** – I changed #10 from Belgium to Canada. I actually sort of added this one as an afterthought, and then later realized after I read Elizabeth’s comment, that I wasn’t sure what I would want to see there! I would love to see Montreal, Toronto and also Vancouver, among other places in Canada, so I changed my answer. My blog, my rules!!! 😀

1. What are your two main sources for news? (TV, cable, internet, etc.) Internet and TV

2. While in the car, do you prefer music or talk radio? Why? Music, totally, I don’t listen to talk radio

3. More annoying: commercials or “witty banter” between DJs? Why? Witty banter is more annoying to me. I’d rather have music, but I’d rather hear ads for stuff than most of the DJ’s inane banter

4. More useful in the morning: Weather forecast or traffic reports? Why? For me personally, it’s the weather. No more commute for me! 😆

5. What two things cause you to get angry while driving? Explain. People who block intersections at red lights and people who pull out in front of me too close and make me slam on brakes. Hate those, both of them.

I just added two new movie reviews to the Reviews section at Hambones.org. We rented 3 movies this weekend and have watched two of them so far – The Pacifier with Vin Diesel and Miss Congeniality II with Sandra Bullock. We also rented another old one on my list “Wimbledon” with Kirsten Dunst, but we haven’t watched that one yet.

I also added comments to two reviews that Trent entered over the weekend – to movies we have seen and enjoyed. Check out Trent’s review of Star Wars Ep III and King Arthur. Thanks Trent!

Tim is working on the backup server for Hambones tonight, so I’m catching up on some newspapers and magazines in the den, and using the laptop to do a little surfing. 🙂

Saw this on someone else’s blog – you must pick one:

Pepsi or Coke – Coke
McDonalds or Burger King – Burger King
Adidas or Nike – Nike
Chocolate or vanilla – CHOCOLATE
Cappuccino or Coffee – Cappuccino

Post your answers in a comment or on your own blog, if you’d like to play along 😀

Being nerdy today. I’ve been working on some stuff behind the scenes on this blog today, since we made some changes over the weekend. Lots of stuff to move around and update the links.

Also, I’m starting to get a little frustrated with the podcasts I have subscribed to. I spent some time last week finding a couple of podcasts and putting them on my Ipod. Now, I have finished listening to them and I want them to go away, be deleted from my iPod, but no matter how many times I clear them or delete them from iTunes, they are still on there. ARGH. This is starting to annoy me.

I just downloaded a new podcast for Battlestar Galactica that I want to listen to. We watched the season premiere (taped it Friday night) over the weekend and it was good. Very dark and lots of bad stuff going on, rather intense, but a really good show. I’m so glad it’s back for the rest of the summer now. 😀

Oops, I forgot to mention yesterday that among other things, I also loaded a few new pictures of Nathan Lee that Wendy had sent me last week. He’s such a beautiful baby! Go check them out in the Photos section of Hambones, if you’re a registered user. 😀

Not a whole lot going on today to blog about. Tim and I spent most of the afternoon working on Hambones. All behind-the-scenes kind of stuff, and a few surprises in the works. 🙂 More to come at a later date!

We also talked to Suzie some today about her computer and getting a new one. Lucky Suzie!

We went to grab some quick supper at the Pizza Inn near us, and it was packed. Over near the window, we spotted none other than Bernie Ebbers eating with some family members. I wasn’t sure it was him, but Tim agreed with me. We also noticed most every person in the restaurant seemed to look at him and so we decided it must have been him. I felt really sort of sad, and as I said before in a previous blog entry, I have mixed feelings about his sentencing.

Afterwards, we went to rent a couple of movies, then Tim very graciously agreed to go with me to do the grocery shopping. Sweet Tim!

Off to watch a movie 😀

Just a test post… moving some stuff around behind the scenes on the blogs and the Hambones main site.

😀

Tim worked from home yesterday and I got out and ran errands yesterday afternoon. Went to the bank, library, Target and Sam’s. Checked out 2 audiobooks on CD and one hardback book. I shouldn’t have gone, I have other projects to do, but I heard the library calling my name as I drove by! 🙂

Tim called while I was out and said that Gail and Don had just called and were on their way down from the Delta and wanted to know if we would want to go out to eat and maybe to a movie. Fun! We didn’t have anything planned, so that sounded like a blast to us. We went to eat at Margaritas. The guys had fajita quesadillas and the girls had shrimp quesadillas. We porked out on chips, salsa and queso before the food got there and I really wasn’t even hungry! But, of course, me being me, I ate all my quesadilla anyway!

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Tim is working from home today. I’m so very glad, because he is really just about totally wiped out. He’s still working, but I know that it’s a lot better to work from here (less interruptions from others in the office, email, phone, IM, etc), and I hope he can get a lot done from here. He had to work again last night, till about 2:30 or 3:00 AM.

He sent me an email last night about 6 or 6:30, entitled “I am having one of these days” and it contained just this graphic:

His buddy Moe in Dallas sent it to him, and he thought it was quite fitting! 😀 I hope he has a better day toay!

I am all out of whack today, with him here sleeping late this morning and now working from home. Don’t get me wrong, I love having him here, but I do tend to alter my schedule to fit his. So, I didn’t work out this morning, and here it is, nearly 3 PM and the errands I was going to run all day are not getting run. In fact, I really don’t want to go! I’d rather stay here and be with Tim. I miss seeing him the last week or so, he’s been working so much we’ve barely had any time to spend together. Plus, they are predicting an 80% chance of rain this afternoon and I really don’t feel like sloshing around with groceries and bags in the rain. Oh woe is me! NOT – I have it so made in the shade! 😀