I just went and looked at a couple of meme sites that I usually check during the week – and I found several that I like and want to do.
I know most of you don’t enjoy the memes (but I do like them, and it’s my blog, yada yada yada!!), so I won’t list them here. You can check the -More- link if you do, however, and you’re more than welcome to play along and put your answers in a reply. 🙂 Have fun!
Today was a really good day! We got a lot done, played with our new toys, saw a great movie and spent a lot of wonderful time together. Here’s the high points:
1. Went walking and jogging this morning, ate a small breakfast
2. Tim worked on Hambones while I worked on my iPod playlists
3. Went to see Batman Begins at the theatre. A really great movie. I used my free Blingo ticket I had won!
4. Went out to supper – went to Applebee’s and had salads (Tim had fried chicken one and I had mandarin oriental one). Good, but notable because we did well eating out (plus we had sandwiches and baked chips for lunch, so we did good on the food thing today)
5. Went walking for a second time tonight before dark
6. We got the iTrip FM transmitter working, both in the house (using the stereo in the living room which is hooked to our Bose surround sound speakers, sounds really good!!) We also got it working in the car, so we will be jamming all the way to Washington and back.
Good day, don’t you think?! 😀
I’m telling you people, you need to be signed up for Blingo and using it to search instead of Google. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love Google, but Blingo uses the same Google search engine, but with Blingo, you can win prizes.
TIM WON TODAY!!!!
He is working on the laptop on Hambones, while I’m making playlists to transfer to my new iPod. He was searching for something, and boom – he won a movie ticket too! Look:
And an up-close version:
HOWEVER – we just realized that Tim was not logged in under his id, and so he just won, like any user could. If he had been signed in, then he and I both would have won a movie ticket. So the moral of the story is – sign up under someone, use Blingo to search — but be sure you are logged in, so you and your friend can both win!! 🙂
Today is the day my mom died, three years ago. I’ve been in a funk for the last couple of weeks – I get this way every year at this time. I have about 4 times of year that are the hardest. Don’t misunderstand – I miss her every day, but around Mother’s Day, the anniversary of her death in late June, her birthday in mid-November, and the holidays (Thanksgiving and Christmas) are always the worst. I think about her every day, and miss her. I miss being able to call her on the phone and ask her something or see how she’s doing. I miss her emailing me. I miss her laughing at Tim and looking at him like the son she never had. I hate that we didn’t get the Hambones website up before she died – she would have loved it. She would love my blog and reading about my day. I emailed her almost every single day the last few years of her life, once I taught her how to use a computer and a mouse! I know she would have loved it.
Tim let me cry this morning and rubbed my head and let me drip salty tears on his shoulder. He’s a good guy, and I’m just really glad that he got to know Dodie and that she got to know him before she died. I know she felt a lot better in the latter years of her life, knowing that I had finally found him and that she didn’t have to worry about me as much any more.
I asked Tim if he would take me out to the cemetery this weekend, and of course he said he would. He’d do anything I asked of him. I want to check on the flowers and make sure they look ok.
I need to call my dad and talk to him, but so far, I’ve been putting that off all morning. I will call him soon and see how he is doing. I’m going to be busy the rest of the day. I planned today like that, have been planning it for a while, to get out of the house, go shopping, keep busy. Not that this day is really all that different from any other, it was hard yesterday and the day before, but I get through it, I just get sad. Ok, I guess I’ll private blog about the rest of this. No sense in being maudlin. 🙂
Whew, I think I finally have most of my research done on our upcoming Washington DC trip. Or at least I hope so! I still have to hammer out a better schedule of what to try to see what days, and what times, but a lot of that will have to be “play it by ear” because of getting tickets and things. All in all, I feel a lot better about having my ducks in a row now, than I did a week ago!
OH – and I don’t know if I had written this in my blog yet, but Kirk (my nephew) got us setup for a private tour of the White House, including the West Wing. He and Nichole are going to go with us, on Sunday afternoon. We’re really pumped! We will have to go back to the hotel and clean up, and dress in nicer clothes than what we will be normally wearing to do our sightseeing in July temps, but I think it will be worth it. So cool! ❗
We picked up the car this afternoon and the sound is still there, when you shift into overdrive, around 50 mph. It’s not as pronounced as it was before they flushed out the transmission fluid and replaced it, but it is still there. I’m not overly confident but Tim seems to think we will get to Virginia and back with no problems, so I’ll defer to his judgement. I don’t know nothing about cars! 😀
I think I’ll call it a day. Got a long day tomorrow, lots of shopping and errands!
How very timely!
::Road Trip With No Stops::
Onesome: Road Trip– How do you feel about road trips? I mean, no planning, no prep, just up, up and away! Have you had any good ones? Lately? Love road trips, except ours are usually well-planned. Tim does a lot better with spontaneous than I do. We took 2 road trips/vacations last year and are leaving in less than a week for our big trip this year. Tim and I prefer to drive on vacation, and spend that time together in the car. We have worked out a really good routine through the years, and travel really well together. 🙂
Twosome: With– Ah! Who do you/would you/could you take a road trip with? …and where would you be off to? We can go anywhere, and plan to one day! We want to visit all 50 states, although we will fly to some! We have found we don’t travel as well with other people, and not very well at all with kids. Slows us down too much 🙁
Threesome: No Stops– Do you drive non-stop when you take your planned trips, stretching your endurance to the limit of your bladder? …or do you have your rest stops pre-programmed into your itinerary? Tim is a very type-A focused kind of person and he gets in the car and wants to go, go, go. That is more apparent on the way home, he is a bit more loose on the trip out, but very focused on getting home on the return trip. We stop for fast food breaks, but go through drive-throughs and keep going. Then we try to combine pit stops with gas fill-ups, although Tim is usually pretty good about stopping for me if I can’t wait! He is like a camel, whereas I think my bladder must be the size of a small pea! 😀
Had to take the car into the shop today and it seems to be the transmission going out. Tim is having them flush the transmission fluid and pump new back in, in hopes that will hold us over for a few months or maybe a year. He thinks it’s some kind of bearing going out and it will be several thousand dollars to get a new transmission. So, even though the plan was to get another vehicle for me in 3 years (we’re on an 8 year rotation plan, and Tim got his truck one year early), it looks like it will be a lot sooner. Blech. I hate being off track with the savings and vehicle plans.
Let’s see, a short update. Tim worked Tuesday night/Wed AM till about 3:30 or 4 AM, then slept late and went into work before lunch. He was working on a problem and didn’t get in till about 6:45 PM, then we went walking and had a late supper. We pulled one of our movies out of our DVD library and watched last night. I was tired by about 10:30, and poor Tim’s sleeping patterns are all out of whack.
I spent quite a bit of time yesterday on the computer – I worked on adding photos all morning, and spent a big chunk of the afternoon working on research for our upcoming DC trip. Got a lot more I want to do before we go though!
We didn’t go walking this morning, just took the car to the shop, then I got Tim to drop me at the house and take his truck. I spent a while in the yard all morning, putting out Miracle Gro on some of the flowers and shrubs and watering everything. Not really anything exciting going on. Obviously! 😀
UGH. I had so many photos to work on, and I finally got them done (still have some older ones to restore, but I’m up to date with new ones). I “promised” myself that I would do the photos first, then do all the housework. See, I played hooky yesterday and went to the museum and shopping with Linda and the kids. So, I am really behind on housework. But, I mean – yuck. I do not want to clean house. At all. Nothing. Normally I like to have things clean and orderly, but it is just not working for me today.
So – I officially declare that housework is a nasty, shouldn’t say it, four letter word. 😛
I feel like I have pictures coming out of my ears! I am soooo behind on uploading and transferring digital pictures to my PC and the Hambones Photos section. I have a few from Shanna of the kids (already loaded this AM, in their own album), and a ton from Father’s Day (working on those now – two albums, one of misc Father’s Day pics and a separate sub-album of all the pics I took of the kids playing on the water slide). I also have a whole photo CD that Jeremy sent from his recent mission trip to the Philippines. And, then yesterday, I took a bunch of Brittany and Zack at the Natural Science Museum. I’m going to try to focus on these today and see how many I can get done.
Of course, this is just transferring and loading. Printing is a whole other story. I am 2 or 2 1/2 years behind on printing out digital pictures. Good thing I like to look at them on my computer! 
Here’s one of me and my dad on Father’s Day:
OK, edited to update – I think I am now caught up on all the photos! Whew, only took about 6-7 hours (some last night and most all morning!) 😀
I’ve been so behind with transferring and uploading pictures, and in this particular case, with blogging too! Not that it’s especially noteworthy, but Tim discovered a turtle in our yard last Thursday morning. He went out, headed to work, and spied him in the yard, by the side of the driveway:
Now, this doesn’t seem particuarly interesting to anyone else, but I’ve lived here twelve years next week and I have never once seen a turtle in our yard. Since we have a fence in the back, I’m assuming he didn’t come from the ditch behind our back fence. He must have come from the lake across the street. I’m not quite sure what he was doing here or how long he stayed. I meant to go back a little while later and check on him, but me being me — I forgot! Here he is up close:
Well, phooey. Yesterday was such a good mail day. I got a new magazine and my free Blingo movie ticket that I had won. No such luck today – I got a U.S. District Court Jury Questionnaire to fill out. BLECH. Not this again.
Just got back from my outing with Linda, Brittany and Zack. We went to the museum, then met Tim for lunch at King Buffet (Chinese). Then, I took Linda and the kids to Michaels to shop, then back to swap out cars and they headed to the Walmart in Brandon on their way home. Everyone had a good time and I took pictures, which I’ll try to upload soon. My list of photos to work on for Hambones keeps growing and growing!
I’m headed out in a short while to meet Linda, Brittany and Zack at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science here in Jackson. Tim and I went once before, a couple of years ago, with Mark, Amanda and Ethan. They have a new exhibit up, a full size replica of “A T Rex Named Sue” – so that should be pretty cool.
Tim slept a little late this morning, as he has to work tonight. I just talked to Amanda and she is home with Ethan and Abby today. They called from the daycare yesterday that Ethan was running 103 or 104 fever. They took him to the doctor and it’s not his ears this time, but just some kind of infection. I hope he gets to feeling better soon and that Mark, Amanda and sweet baby Abby don’t get it!
I still have lots of pictures to post on Hambones, and will have more today after going to the museum with the kids. I have a photo CD that Jeremy sent of pictures from their mission trip to the Phillipines, some new photos from Shanna of Grayson and Ava Clair, and all of the pics that I took on Sunday for Father’s Day. So, once I get those posted, I’ll let everyone know. 🙂
As previously reported here, I won a free movie ticket on Blingo last week. I had expected it to take 4-6 weeks or maybe more before it showed up in my mailbox.
Well, I was wrong! My free movie ticket came today:
I checked out the info listed on the ticket, and all of the theatres in our area accept this movie pass. Tim and I had already made a date to go see Batman Begins this weekend, before we leave on vacation. Guess who will be a cheap date?! ME!
We got to see both of our dads yesterday for Father’s Day, which was great. And all of Tim’s family too, so that made the day even better.
We started out early – we left here in time to stop by the house and drop off food before going to church. My dad met us at Tim’s parents house and we all went to church together with Tim’s family. Afterwards, we went back to the house and Mark, Amanda, Ethan and Abby had arrived. The guys grilled out (steaks, sausage, chicken, hamburgers), Linda had fixed potato salad and lots of veggies and I brought Gail’s crunchy slaw. We had tons of food and it was all great!
