Today, I’m happy that the lights, phone and Internet are still working!!! 
The lights have blinked twice so far, with the hurricane coming through, but so far (cross your fingers), they have come right back on. We’re all very grateful to have air conditioning, tv, and all the good stuff we are used to!
Mine today is more a “thankful” than a happy. I’m thankful that we have the technology today to predict hurricanes and warn people in advance of what could happen where they live. I’m thankful today that we live as far north as we do! I’m thankful that we have a place to offer to family and friends to come stay, to get out of the path of a hurricane like Katrina.
My happy today was a surprise – Terry, Brittany and Zack came over, and we all went to a movie! 😀
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Wow, this really made my day! My blog buddy Dawn highlighted my blog in her post today, “Meet the Bloggers”. That is so cool, and she is soooo sweet to say nice things about me and my blog. We’ve never met, but I feel like we have gotten to be friends, via the Internet, and as Dawn says — “see, not everyone on the Internet is a weirdo!”. I feel the same way.
Dawn is playing in our fantasy league, she’s the Florida Storm Surge. Watch out guys and girls, she’s pretty football savvy and she just might beat us all! 😀
Go check out Dawn’s blog, and Dawn – thank you so much, this really made my day. You are too sweet for your own good!!
Today, I’m happy that we aren’t under watering restrictions.
I ran the sprinklers (all 3) this morning for over 2 1/2 hours. And my grass is still brown and half dead. After all that water. (Of course, I’m sure it had nothing to do with the fact that I’ve been stubbornly refusing to water for over a week, since they keep predicting we will get rain, but we’ve gotten none, nada, zilch).
See, have a look for yourself:
At least it’s not all dead!
Wowzers, I’m late with this one… saw it posted at Dawn’s blog and realized I had never done this one this week. They post a new one on the weekend, on either Saturday or Sunday, so I’m almost too late — but not quite! 🙂
Word Assocations…
I say … and you think … ?
Fan:: Ceiling …
Scum:: sucker
Lily:: water lily
Humid:: HOT!
Ghetto: slum
Remember me?:: box you can check on certain websites
Polished:: shiny
Compose:: music
Squish:: bug
Future:: Back to the …
Elizabeth blogged about a pet peeve of hers the other day, and got me to thinking. Geesh, I have tons of pet peeves!
The first two that spring to mind are bad drivers. First, there are those that pull out in front of me with not enough room and force me to slam on my brakes, or else I’ll hit them. Secondly, there are those that insist on getting through a red light and pull out into the intersection, thereby blocking the intersection and not letting others get through on their green light. Argh. Drives me nuts.
Last night, I realized another pet peeve I have. This one involves Tim. Now, before I launch into this, I know everyone will pipe up and defend Tim. And they should, he’s a great guy who doesn’t deserve to be picked on in my blog. Like I tell him all the time, you look like an absolute prince in my blog. I never write anything bad or off color or anything that even remotely makes him look anything but perfect in my blog. Up till now, he’s coming out smelling like a rose. That’s about to change. Hahaha.
I went to get my hair cut this morning, and also made a nice long leisurely visit to the library. I have blogged about this many times before, but I’ll say it again. Oh how I love the library! I always have, as far back as I can remember. I love to read, love books, love bookstores, love libraries. I can remember spending a lot of my time growing up sitting alone, reading a book. It was either that or tv (I didn’t have a lot of friends my age in the neighborhood we lived in, and my sisters went away to college when I started first grade). Books have always been wondrous things to me. A means of escape or a comfortable friend I could sit back and get absorbed with.
I can remember getting in trouble lots of nights growing up. I would dig out my flashlight and make a tent with my sheet and stay up past my bedtime reading. My mom would come in and “catch” me, and she would always, always, always fuss at me and tell me that I was going to put my eyes out and go blind. “You better turn that flashlight off!” she’d say.
Anyway, back to present day. I finished both of the Harmony books I had checked out a couple of weeks ago and returned those. I found at least 8 books I wanted to check out, but was good, and only walked out with 4. I’ve added them to my sidebar.
::Drop Gas Prices! Please Read::
Onesome – Drop – Have you ever dropped something that you can’t believe you did? Was it a priceless item or that big secret? Surprisingly enough, not that I can remember. I am a terrible klutz though and I’m always dropping things and stubbing my toe and running into coffee tables that have been in the same spot for 10 years. 🙂 I did knock over a lamp in a store once, but I can’t remember breaking anything at home that was very valuable or momentous.
Twosome – Gas Prices – How much is a gallon of gas going for where you are? The two gas stations I passed today were both 2.49 for the lowest grade.
Threesome – Please Read – What’s that latest item you’re reading? Is it for pleasure or are you required to read it? Funny that I get this question today! I just got back from the library, and am going to make a separate post about the 4 new books I checked out. I have been in quite the reading mood lately, and thoroughly enjoying myself. I have read 23 books this year, and don’t plan to stop any time soon. I only read for pleasure, but what a pleasure it is 😀
I’m happy because I’m getting my hair cut today! I feel like I’m about 2 weeks past schedule to get it cut, and I’m ready! 🙂
OK faithful blog readers (and a few of you guys are actual Star Wars fans, I know of 2 or 3 in particular!), I have a dilemma. What to do, what to do.
I was surfing yesterday and saw at Amazon.com that the DVD for Star Wars Episode III comes out on November 1. I am in a quandry over whether to buy this one. See, I’m a huge Star Wars fan and I want all the movies. We owned the original trilogy on VHS, then Tim bought it for me for my birthday last year on DVD. We were still buying VHS tapes when Episode I came out, so I own it on VHS. By the time Episode II was released, we were buying DVD’s, so I own it on DVD. I want to must own this one and obviously my choice is DVD, but I’m in a quandry about whether or not to wait for a box set. I haven’t actually read anything about a box set coming out, but I’d rather have that than the individual DVD’s.
So, weigh in with your choice – should I replace Episode I that I own on VHS with a single DVD and buy Episode III in November, or buy Episode III and not replace Episode I and hold out for a box set.
Such earth-shattering decisions weighing on my mind today. Oh my.
Mine is easy today – coffee.
I had a headache all day yesterday, and finally realized late in the day why I had a headache. I normally have tea or diet coke at lunch, so I get my daily shot of caffeine in. But, on Monday, I bought some new drinks to try at the store – Cherry 7Up Plus (they’re good!), but I looked on the cans and they say Caffeine-Free. So, that’s why I had a headache, no caffeine all day! So, I’m going to remedy that early today, I have the last of my Ghiradelli Chocolate Raspberry coffee brewing in my Cuisinart right now. 😀
Tim is back at it again, working on graphics and “techie” things for Hambones.org. Which means one thing – he’s hogging the computer/scrap room. That equals no email for me, no surfing for me (well, except by memory and I bookmark everything), and no scrapbooking for me. WAH! I’m reduced to watching TV in the den and using his laptop to surf. He has to have his laptop later, as he has to do the weekly conference call this week (starting at 11 PM :cry:)
Anyhoo.
I have been meaning to blog about the August blahs. The heat, the humidity, my utter lack of interest in working outside (yes, all of my flowers, most of the grass, and the new tree we planted in the spring are languishing and near death). The August blahs for me also include this absolute dearth of anything decent to watch on TV. I’m glad preseason football is here, but golly gee, I’m ready for all my new shows. I want new episodes of Lost. I want the new Amazing Race to start. I want the new Survivor to start. Heck, I’m so desperate, I might even give some of the new shows a look-see.
So, without further ado, I’ve added 3 shows (Lost, Survivor, Race) to my countdown timers on the sidebar. I have tons of shows that I watch though, so I decided to not put them all over there. Here’s a rundown of some of the others that I like, and when their new shows start…..
(Click -More- to find out!!! :D)
Today I’m happy because I’ve knocked out some things this morning that I really didn’t want to do, but have been needing to do. I’ve been procrastinating terribly on getting them done. But I knuckled down this morning and got them out of the way (at least for a while). I…
1) cleaned the hummingbird feeder and put new nectar in it
2) cleaned out my stove burners (I will be very happy one day to own a smooth top range and not have these coils, liners and underneath the burners to clean)
3) cleaned out the inside of the Explorer, including vacuuming the entire thing.
A sense of accomplishment is a good thing. 😀
