Exceedingly Mundane

Tim went to Hollywood Video yesterday to rent some movies. He asked if I wanted to go with him before he left, but I was curled up in my chair with my book and told him “No, you go rent you some movies you want to see, I am happy with my book.” He left and came back with 3 movies. He was trying to be sweet, and rented one for himself (Kingdom of Heaven), one he thought we’d both watch (Legend of Zorro) and one “for me”. What did you get for me, I ask? “Miss Congeniality 2”. Sigh. We’ve seen that Tim. No, we haven’t. Yes, we have. We saw it last year. I don’t remember it. Let me go pull up the review on Hambones – here it is, I reviewed it in July of last year. Oh, ok. Would you take it back and try to rent me another one? NO!

He watched Kingdom of Heaven last night, but I was reading, so I won’t be able to give a review of that one. I doubt Tim will type up a review, he’s not “into that”. We’ll watch Zorro later today, and I’ll try to review that one on Hambones later.

We’re finally having a little winter weather around here. It’s pretty cold and blustery outside, and so far, we’re staying in and avoiding the cold. Tim and I are in the process of upgrading some of the blogs we host on Hambones. We’re currently working on 3 of them. We started last night late and have continued that today. So, today is a blog day! 🙂 Not mine, but for other family and friends. Go check ’em out!

OK, let’s play “answer some questions”. The last time I posted something like this, I had good feedback, so let’s try again. Post your answers in the form of a comment here, or at your own blog. 🙂

1. What are your favorite pizza toppings? List your favorite 3 (or more).

2. What was the last movie you saw (theater or rented, your choice, or both)?

3. What is your favorite fruit?

Trent sent me a few more pictures of Grayson and Ava Clair. Such cutie pies! They are in their album now, go check them out. 3 of them are of Ava Clair enjoying her food and 2 of the kids in the tub. 😀

Friday, February 10, 2006
Feast Eighty

Appetizer
What was a class or course you took while in school that you realize now was a total waste of time? I enjoyed most of the classes I took in both high school and college. Even though my degree is in mathematics and computer science, I really think I’d have to pick one of my math classes. The non-Euclidean geometry class I struggled with was the worst – it was the polar opposite of all geometry (Euclidean) that I had ever taken. A very “think outside the box” kind of class… in this one, parallel lines meet, and you had to plot them out. I had a lot of trouble with this class and I hated it.

Soup
Who is the tallest person you know? I went to college with a couple of guys that were 6’6″ and 6’7″.

Salad
What’s your favorite midnight snack? I try not to eat late at night. If I want something, I try to just drink some orange juice. I guess if I was going to be really bad and splurge, it would be something chocolate. Surprise, surprise! 😀

Main Course
Have you ever found money somewhere? If so, where did you find it, and how much was it? I find money all the time, I think because I’m always looking down. I find coins mostly, but I have found dollar bills before. The most memorable money I ever found was in elementary or junior high. I found 3 quarters lined up perfectly on top of one another in the circle where our house was. I remember being so excited, it’s like someone laid them out for me (there were only 3 houses in our circle), and I was so happy. That 75 cents was more than I got for my allowance for the week, so I thought I was so rich!

Dessert
Where would you like to retire? In the mountains, in a very large cabin with a huge kitchen, a huge great room (big stone fireplace is a must), a room with a pool table, a hot tub outside, and gorgeous views of the mountains. Rockers on the porch, to watch the sunrise and sunset.

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Onesome–Premium – Have you paid for any access to web services? What services? What are they like? No, we don’t pay for any premium anything. The only thing we pay for computer wise is our internet access and domain name registration. I’ve never signed up for premium music or movie services, online or otherwise.

Twosome–Web – For the free stuff on the web, what it your favorite out there? What do you find yourself looking at everyday? Hmm, I find myself going to my favorite message boards and blogs every day, but as far as sites to get freebies…. I can’t think of any off the top of my head! 🙂 I get lots of free recipes at my cooking site, does that count?!

Threesome–Service – What goes on in your mind when you’re out and get bad service from a restaurant or store? Do you let it slide off your back like ducks do to water? Or, do you make sure the business knows your dissatisfaction?you make sure the business knows your dissatisfaction? WELL. Interesting question. I’m more opinionated in restaurants about food and service, but that comes from working in restaurants and serving people, I look at it differently. But, the overall answer is the same – I fume, fuss to Tim later, sometimes blog about it, but I am so non-confrontational, that I don’t ever tell the waiter/cashier/store manager or whoever that I’m dissatisfied. I don’t want to appear rude or inconsiderate, and I don’t like to cause a fuss about anything, so I won’t ever confront them or voice my opinion. In fact, we’ve had manager types come by our table before in restaurants and ask “is everything ok” or something like that, and even if it’s not, I won’t say a word. I just smile and say “fine, thanks” or something along those lines. I don’t like scenes. 🙂

These were harder than you would imagine… I feel very special to have gotten 5 out of 8 correct! Go take it for yourself and post your results in the form of a comment, or at your own blog. 🙂

You Know a Lot About Blogging

You got 5/8 correct! Your not a total blogging geek yet… give it time.

I finished the book “Redemption” by Karen Kingsbury and Gary Smalley last night late. Tim had to work really late, so I stayed up late and finished my book. I really enjoyed it (it’s the first in a series of 5 books by the same 2 authors, about the same family) and I’m really looking forward to reading the others.

I just checked online and the other 4 books in the series are available at my local library. A couple are currently checked out, and one has a hold waiting on it, so it may be a while before I can get through them all. But they are there and available, and I’m very patient. 🙂 I love that I can sit at home in my pajamas and bring up the card catalog from my library online and look and see a) what is available b) if it’s checked out c) when it is due back and d) if someone else has a hold on it, waiting for it to return. I love the Internet

I’ll try to get a review up soon in the Reviews section of Hambones. That brings my number of books read so far in 2006 to a whopping 5. 😀 Pages read are at 1461 (see sidebar counters). I think that’s pretty good, don’t you?!

Today, I have a lot of laundry and cleaning to do. I hope to try to work out again this afternoon, and if I have time, I’m going to catch up on several days worth of newspapers. Once I’m caught up on the papers, (and I’m not watching all of our TV shows!), I will try to start the next book in the Zion Covenant series (Jerusalem Interlude).

1. Do you have an iPod/mP3 player? If so, what kind? Yes, I have an Ipod, 30 gig photo that I LOVE 😀

2. How many songs are on your player and of those, how many did you purchase online? about 1100 or 1200 right now, and a very small percentage of those were purchased online. I’m going to buy 2 albums soon though, so my online purchases are going up soon. 😉

3. Do you tend to listen to a certain type of music when you are sad/down? If so, describe: Hmmm, I guess sappy songs or sad songs. Not sure. I think when I’m down, I don’t tend to listen to music, I usually stare at the TV or read.

4. How much memory does your player have? Do you think it is too little, just right or way too much? I have a 30 gig. It’s enough for me, but I wish it was the video model and not the photo…. not that I’d pay 1.99 for episodes of Lost or Battlestar Galactica, but I think it’s cool. 🙂

5. What two types of music (jazz, pop, country, rap, etc.) do you listen to more than other types? Country and Pop

And, here’s a bonus – a picture of my beloved iPod, with the red Tough Skin that Tim got me for my birthday. I love it, because I’m clumsy and klutzy and I feel like when I drop or bang my iPod now, it will survive with its Tough Skin keeping it safe. 🙂

True or False (and feel free to elaborate)

1. I consider myself to be very organized. Yes 😀
2. I tend to get more done when I’m pressed for time. Pretty Much, I think it helps me focus
3. Multi-tasking is something I do often. These days, I don’t have to multi-task as much as I did when I was working. But I can still do it, if required.
4. I might be a perfectionist. Hmmm, well, ok, maybe
5. I enjoy Mondays as much as I enjoy Fridays. True
6. If I didn’t make a list (or hang a post-it note) I’d forget what it is I need to do. Absolutely True
7. I have no problem asking for help when I don’t understand something. True most of the time, might depend on the task or person I’m having to ask 🙂

Dance, Dance, Dance!
Everyone is carried away with the newest craze, Ballroom Dancing.

By the way. . .
Do you like to dance? We never dance, at home or out in public. I’ve been watching Dancing with the Stars though, and trying to get Tim interested in taking ballroom dance lessons with me. Well. You can imagine how far I’ve gotten with that. Zero. Zilch. Tim relented and said he might consider line dancing at a local country place, but that’s the only concession he’s made.

If so, what is your favorite kind of dance? None yet, but I’ve enjoyed watching all of them on the show. I’d love to learn to waltz.

What’s your experience with dance?
Did you take lessons as a child or maybe you were a disco queen? None! No lessons ever. I was on a drill team in high school, but it was more precision moves than dance moves.

Be honest, can you move on the dance floor, or should you just watch? Well, honestly, I’m probably terrible, but I’d like to try 🙂

Another busy day… the last of our party guests just left. The first arrived about 11 AM and we had lots of food and lots of fun. Believe it or not, I didn’t even take a single picture, so I won’t have any pictures to post. And sadly, my team lost, so I’m not too happy at the moment.

Back to your regularly scheduled blog tomorrow. 😀

Been really busy today, getting ready for the Super Bowl Party tomorrow, and catching up on stuff we haven’t had time to do all week. All work and no play makes Tim a dull boy, so we’ve played quite a bit of Sudoku on the computer today, also. We got all of Tim’s hunting clothes washed (special stuff, special circumstances) and put up for the season. Got some things done outside and inside. Went to the new Italian place in Madison that opened yesterday (Alexander’s) and had supper. Lots more, but that’s the high points. 😀

I saw this posted at my favorite scrapbooking board…. Click here to go take a quick spelling quiz. It covers 15 of the most commonly misspelled words in the English language.

Have fun! Be sure to post your results in the form of a comment, if you’d like to play along! 🙂

Happy Anniversary to my little blog “Exceedingly Mundane” – I’m celebrating my one year anniversary today. A year ago, I put my first blog entry online here at Hambones. Previously, I had been using the Journal feature on the main website, but I was very limited in what I could do. So, I looked around, did a lot of research, and settled on WordPress to use for the software. Tim helped me get it all setup, and a year ago today, I typed up my first entry.

And the rest, as they say, is history. 🙄