Exceedingly Mundane

::Butterflies are Free::

Onesome: Butterflies– ‘Tis the end of butterfly season, at least here in the Northern Hemisphere (hey, we have readers and respondents in the Southern); what are looking forward to seeing around the yards and neighborhoods in the next few months. (…besides snow, unless that’s all you have staring back at you during the Winter months!) Well, I haven’t seen a lot of butterflies since our rudbeckia stopped blooming and we cut them back. We don’t see much around here in the way of color in the fall, or any snow in the winter. Fall and winter around here just means everything is brown and dead. Not beautiful, but I’m used to it! 🙂

Twosome: are– Are your sports teams doing okay this Fall? Baseball is down to the final stretch and it’s time to chose up sides! …and football is darned interesting at the six-week mark? No interest? How about curling ? Sigh, our football teams are not doing great. USM is doing ok, but Tim’s beloved Saints are another story. USM is not as good as we had hoped, they have had a rough game or two, but they are doing good overall and we’re looking forward to watching them on TV tomorrow night. We will watch the Saints every week, but they disappoint us a lot. We don’t really get into baseball, but we’re glad for the Astros because of Trent and Shanna. Sorry, curling is not in our vocabulary! 🙄

Free– What is your favorite “freebie”? That ‘buy one, get one free’ sale? …the ice cream cone from your local shop on your birthday? The samples at Starbucks? Inquiring minds and all that… Gosh, I love any freebie! I love sales, I love coupons, I love samples, I love signing up for programs for coupons, points, saving us money, any and all of that. Can’t go wrong with any of this stuff in my mind! I signed up for the Sonic Cruisers club and get coupons every month. This month, for my birthday month, they sent me a coupon for a free creamslush, which I have yet to use… need to do that soon! I signed up for Club Olay online and get free samples in the mail of Olay products. Signed up for myPoints online and I get $10 gift cards every couple of months to spend. I love all of this stuff!!

I’m happy today, more so than normal, because Tim is working from home. YEAH! I love it when he works from home, I just love being around him all day.

It’s gonna be a great day!

Tim was very diligent and patient with me yesterday, and took a bunch of pictures of me on my birthday. I usually have to remind him, but he was great this year and offered before I ever had to bug him about it. I am going to load them into the Photos section of Hambones (and I also have some from Shanna from their recent Disney trip to do, thanks Shanna!!!), but I haven’t gotten to that yet. Soon, I hope, very soon!

In the mean time, here’s a couple of me on my birthday… these are some of the better ones. Be wary of checking out the rest on Hambones later on… I am NOT very photogenic. 😥 As my mom always said “ooh, that’s a bad picture of you Stacy, don’t show that one to anybody!” She hated her picture taken too, and I think it rubbed off on me!

Click the -More- link if you want to see a few from yesterday. 🙂

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I think most everyone knows that I love photos, love taking pictures, try to scrapbook them sometimes, etc. I have a picture in a frame above my computer monitor from 1995, when Tim and I were dating, that was taken on my birthday. Tim was a good sport and played along yesterday on my birthday, to take another one, 10 years later.

The times, they are a changing…. I think I look quite a bit older and at least 20 pounds heavier! Oh well, all true!

Picture in the -More- section….

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I had a really good birthday yesterday. Thanks to everyone for the good wishes, emails and calls. All are very much appreciated! 🙂

If you want to read a more detailed account of my day, click the -More- link and read on!

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Your Birthdate: October 18

Your birthday on the 18th day of the month suggests than you are one who can work well with a group, but still remain someone who needs to maintain individual identity. There is a humanistic or philanthropic approach to business circumstances in which you find yourself. You may have good executive abilities, as you are very much the organizer and administrator. You are broad-minded, tolerant and generous; a compassionate person that can inspire others with imaginative ideas. Some of your feelings may be expressed, but even more of them are apt to be repressed. There is a lot of drama in your personality and in the way you express yourself to others. Oddly enough, you don’t expect as much in return as you give.

Well, the “very much the organizer and administrator” part is totally true, not sure about the rest of it!

I was tagged by Shanna for this 5 things quiz… not going to tag anyone else, but any and all are welcome to play… just cut and paste and put in your own blog, if you’d like 🙂

5 Things I plan to do before I die:

1. Go to England and Scotland with Tim
2. Visit all 50 states (with Tim)
3. Eat dim sum in Chinatown in SF
4. Learn to ride a horse
5. Go whale-watching

5 Things I can do:

1. Organize/Plan/Make lists
2. Remember song lyrics from most songs
3. Bake a good chocolate cake
4. Give a good massage
5. Get things to grow

5 Things I cannot do:

1. Swim well
2. Watch scary or gory stuff on TV/movies
3. Donate blood
4. Sleep in a room with lots of light or noise
5. Decorate or put color combinations together

5 Things that attract me to members of the opposite sex:

1. Great Eyes
2. Integrity
3. Sense of Humor
4. Thick hair
5. Broad shoulders

5 Things I say most often:

1. I love you (to Tim, every day)
2. Dookey
3. Whatever
4. I’m sorry
5. Do you want to go eat Chinese?

5 Celebrity Crushes:

1. Orlando Bloom
2. Clive Owen
3. Matthew McConaughey
4. Tim McGraw
5. Viggo Mortensen (but only as Aragorn)

A year ago today we were up in the mountains on a wonderful vacation. We went to Gatlinburg, did a lot of hiking and exploring and even a little shopping. 🙂 Fond memories….

Here we are a year ago today!

I thought we’d do a little ‘this or that’ this week! Enjoy!

Which one?
1. Lemonade or Iced Tea? both!
2. DVD or VHS? DVD
3. Gold or Silver? silver
4. Baseball or Tennis? tennis
5. Spring or Autumn? Autumn
6. Diet or Regular? I drink Diet, but I’d rather have regular, but can’t afford the calories!!
7. Hearts or Stars? hearts
8. Snail Mail or Email? email
9. Shop: Online or In-Store? both!
10. Credit Card or Check? credit card

Kudos to Shanna for being spotlighted at Blog Carnival about her recent post on comedy shows to watch on TV. Blog Carnival finds great blog posts about different topics (this one is in their On Television section) and highlights them for all of their users to read. Hooray for Shanna for being singled out from the THOUSANDS or maybe MILLIONS of blog entries out in the blogosphere!

You can read it here, or of course, at Shanna’s blog here at Hambones.

I say … and you think … ?

On the verge:: just about
Tempestuous:: stormy
Coherent:: clear
Near death:: almost dead (huh??!)
Illiterate:: can’t read
Why not?:: Why?
Period:: final. That’s it.
Long lost:: love
Torrid:: love affair
Nail:: polish

Do you see pumpkins? This is a blog design I worked on last week for Gail, then I decided to swipe it for myself when she wanted to use a picture she took in the mountains last fall. Hope it’s working right now! 🙂

Another busy weekend for us. This makes 4 weekends in a row where we’ve hit the road. I’m ready to stay home some and “git some stuff done around here” (said in my best Southern girl accent).

Yesterday, we went to Tim’s parents house. Dad came and hung out with Tim and Mitchell some, and they all went to the “other land” and worked on bush-hogging, clearing and planting for the upcoming gun season (deer hunting). Linda and I did some stuff around the house, went to Walmart to get organizers, and then worked for a while in Brittany and Zack’s rooms – cleaning up, cleaning OUT, and organizing. I hope they will work harder to keep their rooms neater, and help their grandmom out more! 🙂

Today is football day, as always. We love the NFL here, you know! I think after the game is over, we’ll probably head out. It’s so pretty today. We may go back to the new subdivision that we discovered last Sunday afternoon and drool over all the new houses that they are building. I found 2 or 3 that I could easily move into. Loved, loved, loved them. Big kitchens, some with birch cabinets, tile, hardwood floors, some had tongue-in-groove ceilings, one had brick archways, great houses. Tim could buy one for me for my birthday in a heartbeat! 😆

and a dollar short. But, in my defense, I had not seen this meme before, but ran across it a few minutes ago while surfing. So, drumroll please, for the first time ever… the Saturday Special Meme:

Autumn Favorites

1. Favorite Autumn Activity? Well, since we don’t have much fall here, my choices are limited. Here, it’s probably planting pansies and decorating some for fall or Halloween/Thanksgiving. If we’re in the mountains, then the answer is easy – hiking on a crisp fall day. 🙂

2. Favorite Autumn Meal? Any kind of soup, stew or chili, or else brats on the grill. Probably a toss-up between brats with sauerkraut, or taco soup.

3. Favorite Autumn Drink? Hot chocolate or apple cider with some red hots thrown in.

4. Favorite Autumn Weather? Geesh, anything cooler than here. A perfect fall day for me would be 60’s and 40’s at night. We rarely get those here though, we’re lucky to get that in the winter this far south! 😀

Well, we’re headed out in a minute, for Tim’s parents house. He wants to work on deer stuff. Something about bush hogging and planting and getting stuff ready to shoot poor innocent deer in a month or two. You know, Bambis. 😀