Exceedingly Mundane

OK, I think I’m nearly caught up now… I had been really behind on uploading photos to the Photos sections of Hambones. Same with writing up reviews. I just entered 6 reviews in the Reviews section of Hambones. There’s 2 for books (Light from Heaven and True Believer), 2 for movies we saw at the theater (Last Holiday and Glory Road) and 2 for DVD’s we have rented recently (Two for the Money and The Wedding Date).

Also, I think I’m totally current on photos. I have uploaded the ones from Ethan’s birthday party last November, Thanksgiving, misc December pictures, Christmas, the Hammons family dinner in early January, and Abby’s 1st birthday party last weekend. If you’re a registered user of Hambones, you can go check those out in their respective photo albums.

Whew – feels good to get caught up! 😀

Posing some random questions for the day… answer in the form of a comment here, or in your own blog 🙂 Have a great day!

1. What time of day is too late to telephone someone?

2. Have you ever looked up the lyrics to a song online?

3. What’s your favorite dessert to order at a restaurant?

Well, lookie here, I’m something chocolate! Surprise, surprise!!! 😀

Reeses Peanut Butter Cups

Very popular, one of you is not enough.

I saw this in our paper yesterday and nearly busted out laughing. Tim and I have actually had this conversation before. Actually, several times. (He doesn’t read my blog, you know). 🙂 Of course, in the cartoon, it appears the man is the blogger, but still… it’s funny to me! 😀

I say … and you think … ?

Long distance:: phone charges
Meant to be:: supposed to happen
Here:: and now
Endless:: Love
Resentment:: harbors
Insipid:: stupid
Bunny:: Easter
Slogan:: catch phrase
Naked:: as a jaybird
Sarcasm:: biting

We’ve been really busy since I last blogged… nothing earth-shattering, but just staying busy. Here’s the highlights:

Friday night, we went out to eat at our new Chili’s in Madison (we’ve been once before, right after they opened). I was less than impressed. I didn’t like my food and didn’t eat but about half of it and Tim seemed less than thrilled with his also. Therefore, I was able to coerce him into a visit to Cold Stone Creamery afterwards. We got a Black Forest Dream which is chocolate ice cream mixed with cherries, brownie pieces and hot fudge sauce. Yum-o. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. We also went to Lowe’s and did some shopping Friday night.

Saturday, we headed to Hattiesburg for a long day.

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We’re headed out in a little while, to go to Abby’s 1 year old birthday party! 🙂 Will be back late, so I’ll try to blog tomorrow.

I just got back from the library with some new books to read. The library is such a wonderful place for me. I’ve blogged about it before – it’s as good as a bookstore, but better, because it’s free! 🙂 Anyway, I took my little notebook (I keep a little notebook and jot down books I would like to look at checking out, as opposed to buying, at the library) and had several options. Too many really. I accumulated about 5 or 6 books in my hand and then had to decide which to keep and which to check out another day. I went in with the firm affirmation that I would only check out two. I always seem to come home with three, and it’s always pushing it to read all three books in the three weeks that I have before they are due back. Sigh. I came home with three.

One of the ones I came home with is a book I found in the “New Arrivals” section up front and decided on a whim to give it a try. It’s called “Talk to the Hand” by Lynne Truss, and its subtitle is “The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door”. 😀 I have had her previous book, “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” on my list for a while and just had never gotten around to checking it out. I will see how I like this one, and then see about the other later on.

I actually went to check out “Memoirs of a Geisha” by Arthur Golden, but both copies are checked out at my local branch. I guess with the movie out, more people (like me) are interested in the book. I just want to rent or buy the book and read it before the movie comes out. I guess I still have a few months, so hopefully I can get a copy soon at the library.

Anyway, I also checked out two other books (see in the sidebar) – the 4th book in the Zion Covenant series, Jerusalem Interlude, and the first book in the Redemption series by Karen Kingsbury. I think I’m going to have a hard time finishing the Redemption series, because all of the others were checked out at both the Ridgeland and Madison branch. They seem to be really popular books. I may have to start asking to be put on the list for them when they come back in (since I must read them in order). 🙂

Better go get busy reading!

I stayed up late last night and finished the Nicholas Sparks book “True Believer”. I had bought it last summer to take on vacation and read, and of course, never opened it while we were gone. 🙂 It was a quick read and a good book, typical Nicholas Sparks fare. I have another one of his to read that I got for Christmas, called “First Light”, but I think I will wait and read something else in between. I don’t want to OD on Sparks.

I need to write reviews on both books I have finished in the last week and put them up on Hambones. Alas, I don’t think anyone reads them or cares, so I’ve gotten fairly slack in that department. It’s on my “to-do” list though. 😀

That makes 3 for the year, and a total of 911 pages completed. I’m trying to decide now if I want to read something that we have here, like one of the many Grisham books we own and I have not read, if I want to go to the library and check out some books, or if I want to go to the bookstore and buy some books. Decisions, decisions.

Saw this at a blog I check out sometimes… I love food, so it’s hard to pass up

1. Eggs? Fried or Scrambled? Fried, but I’ll eat them both ways
2. Chocolate covered cherries? Yummy or Yuck? YUM!
3. When eating a salad, what type of dressing do you prefer to use? Honey Mustard
4. Peanut Butter? Creamy or Crunchy? Creamy
5. If you HAD to eat only one flavor of ice cream for the rest of your life, what flavor would it be? Duh. Chocolate.
6. Thick or thin crust pizza? Thin or hand tossed
7. Salsa? Hot, Medium, or Mild? Mild or Medium, never Hot
8. Toast? Lightly toasted or practically burnt? Very lightly
9. What is your FAVE food item at Taco Bell? Chili Cheese Burritos, and not all Taco Bell’s have them. The one in Hburg near Mark’s house does NOT have these, stupid people

AND LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST

10. When are you MOST LIKELY to pig out during the course of a day? Afternoons are tough for me, about 3 or 4, I get really hungry and tend to nibble

Feast Seventy-Eight
Friday, January 27, 2006

Appetizer
Choose one: Popcorn, Pizza, Pretzels, Peanuts, or Pasta. Hmmm… PIZZA!

Soup
Describe your personality in terms of a particular vehicle. Is there a Reliant? I think I’m pretty steadfast and reliable

Salad
If you won a shopping spree, from which store would you want it to be? Well, these days I would really love to have all new appliances, so probably Sears so I could get Kenmore Elite stainless steel appliances for the kitchen, and an hE (Jetson) washer and dryer.

Main Course
Which television show re-runs do you enjoy watching? I like old episodes of Friends and Star Trek Next Generation

Dessert
If you could look into the future, how far down the road would you like to see? 10 years? 100 years? A million? How about 10? Would be nice to see where we would be

I was reading this article in today’s local section of the paper about our new Grandview Theater that is opening in Madison in mid-February (actually, on Gail’s birthday!!). I hope the link works, but I know that if it does, it will only be for a short time. I don’t think the Clarion Ledger or MCH keeps story content on their website for more than a week.

Anyway, it’s part of the Malco theater chain and it’s supposed to be really nice. We had initially heard it was going to have a strict dress code and an Internet cafe, but from what I’m reading in the paper, that’s not exactly correct. The dress code is apparently still be discussed. Here’s what it does say about the other amenities at our new theater:

“The 17 screen theater, which cost approximately $14 million to build, offers all stadium seating, state-of-the-art digital sound, expanded concessions, an arcade, party rooms and an Internet cafe. The Italian style lobby, complete with fountain, strives to provide a ‘five-star hotel atmosphere’. Couches and chairs in the lobby will provide seating as patrons wait for movies. One side of the lobby offers a room with a fireplace and tables for customers to sit and eat chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks and pizza from the menu at the concession stand, or desserts from the dessert case. Across the lobby is a room offering Internet availability. ‘We’ll have computers on the tables so people can check their email and surf the Web while they’re waiting for their movie’. The capacity for the theater is about 3200-3300. The 2 largest screening rooms seat 334 each.”

Also, tickets here will be more expensive than what we pay at Northpark or Parkway – it will be $6 for tickets before 6 PM and $8 for after.

Anyway, we’re really excited to have it, and have it so close by. Can’t wait to see what they have showing the first couple of weeks; I hope we get to go soon after it opens! 🙂

Tim installed this little program on our Hambones server a while back, so that we could see where we were getting hits from. It includes a country section. Whenever I think about it, I go and look at the countries that have recently visited our site. Now, for most websites, this wouldn’t be a big deal. Most sites are on all the search engines, and they get hits from all over the place. But – we have our site restricted, and the search engines, such as Google, don’t mine our site. So, it’s “under the radar”, so to speak. I always think it’s so cool when people from other countries find our little friends and family website.

If you’d like to see, click on the extended entry, and you can see what countries have visited our site, in December and January. Also, there’s a little geography question at the end.

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I normally do the Tuesday Twosome from this site… I checked several times on Tuesday, and it was the one from last week. I finally gave up. 🙁 Then, this morning, I was reading Sindee’s blog and saw she had done it, so I realized there were new questions after all!

A little late…

1. What are the last two thing you downloaded onto your computer? a free game called Splash and an update to iTunes

2. Would you go bungee jumping or sky diving? No. I am absolutely petrified of heights, I don’t think I could do either of those if my life depended on it

3. Do you prefer a Bath or Shower and in the morning or night? I like showers in the AM, to get me going. If I’m sore or not feeling well, I love to take a nice long warm bubble bath at night before bed.

4. Who was the last person you went out to dinner with and where did you dine? Tim and I went with Philip and his twin daughters, Hayden and Meredith, to Abner’s last Sunday for chicken fingers.

5. What is the last infomercial you saw and have you ever ordered an article from an infomercial? I don’t watch informercials, and so have never ordered anything from them.

I got nothing today… nothing interesting or even mundane to talk about. Feel free to talk amongst yourselves 🙂

OK, I take that back, I do have a couple of miniscule tidbits. I exercised again this morning. For the third day in a row. Monday was hips/thighs, Tuesday was arms/shoulders with weights, today was abs/back with Pilates and yoga stuff. I think that covers most of my body – I hurt all over and am sore in all kinds of horrible places. The DVD’s I ordered on Monday shipped last night so, hopefully, they will be here soon. In the mean time, I bought this purple yoga mat at Walmart yesterday.

Other tidbit, I’m doing a lot of research online for our upcoming vacation. Tim has asked off for several days at work, around our anniversary in early March. It’s a big one, so we’re not quite sure where are are going or doing. Offer suggestions if you’d like. 😀