Exceedingly Mundane

Well, Friday turned out too busy to even find time after lunch to do any blogging. I ended up going shopping all afternoon, even though I didn’t feel great. My throat is still a bit scratchy and I just seem generally weary for some reason. Must be our modified sleeping schedule. Anyway, I knew that time was running out to find an Easter dress, so I was on a mission! I had several other stops I wanted to make. I hope Tim got paid yesterday, because I ended up spending a lot of money!

I had to go to the tax assessor’s office first and get the tag renewed on my car. Then I hit Target and bought some more red Kitchenaid silicone bakeware. Tim had given me a set for my birthday and I found more at Target, so I got another piece. I also bought more of their cherry limeade bottled stuff, sugar free, caffeine free, calorie free. 😀 And a few other assorted items. Then, I headed to Bed, Bath and Beyond with a coupon in hand, to get another Yankee candle. I LOVE those things. They smell so good. The scent of the month is Clean Cotton, which I love. They were already on sale there, so with the coupon, I saved almost half off the original price! 🙂

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Friday, March 18th 2005

FQ TOPIC: Green.

FQ1: Something green you like to eat… Broccoli!

FQ2: Something green you like to wear… My favorite sweatshirt… from Big Cedar Lodge

FQ3: Something green you like to look at… Tim’s eyes! Hazel, but sorta green most of the time 🙂

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1. What’s the first physical feature that attracts you to another person? Eyes. Always. I have a huge thing about eyes.

2. Do you read the tabloids (i.e. The National Enquirer, The Mirror)? Nope, no way.

3. Have you ever snuck a peek at someone else’s paper while taking an exam? Nope, I was always too busy acing them on my own! hehehe 🙂

4. How would you describe your vision? I think it’s still pretty good. I don’t think I’ve had an eye exam since I started elementary school! 😮

5. What’s the scariest thing you’ve ever seen? A HUGE snake in my yard that I almost stepped on.

Well, Tim didn’t do the last set of code changes last night with work. They had some other problems/issues at work, and he said that they postponed it till Tuesday night. He goes on-call today, for two weeks, so he would be doing that call anyway, I guess.

Tim watched some basketball last night, started a new book (The Broker by Grisham), and took a “ranger nap” or two on the couch. I read my book (The Guardian) and napped some, too. We were both really tired. My throat is starting to hurt and feel scratchy, so I didn’t feel all that great. Not much else going on!

OOOOHHHH!!!!!! In yesterday’s mail there was a circular from the new Kohl’s that opened up out on Lakeland. On the front is a $10 gift card! Woo-hoo, gotta go out there and do more shopping. Not that they haven’t already gotten a ton of our money. Tim bought my set of Calphalon out there, and we bought some new stuff for our bathroom that we redid. They have plenty of our money already, but heck, if they are going to send me a gift card, they are going to get more! 😀

Sorry guys, Thursday is a good day for memes, so here we go again! Please post your answer in the comments section, if you want to play along! 🙂

1) What was your very first job where you received a paycheck? Good grief, I was 12 or 13 years old and I worked as a receptionist/file clerk at a local photography studio. I loved it though, and the idea of earning my own money was intensely exhiliarating at that age. It didn’t even bother me that I had to have my dad drop me off and pick me up! I worked a few days a week after school and I loved it. Loved the photography too, got a camera that year for Christmas because I was so enamored of taking pictures. That, as you all know, is still with me! 🙂

2) Did the job require you to wear a uniform – – take a moment and describe? Nope, I just wore my regular clothes, whatever I had worn to school that day.

3) How long did you keep your first job? I think I worked there almost a year, as long as they needed me and could pay me. Maybe it was shorter. My memory is terrible and that was a long time ago!

4) When you left your first job was it because you quit or were you fired? They ran out of work or money, or both!

::Happy St. Patrick’s Day::

Onesome: Happy– No matter what’s going on in your life, what always makes you smile? Tim. Thinking about him, seeing him, spending time with him, looking at pictures of him, anything that has to do with Tim makes me smile. 🙂

Twosome: St. Patrick’s– St. Patrick’s Day is March 17th. Do you celebrate and wear green? Drink Green Beer? Ignore it? I try to wear green, but that’s about it. I have had a blinkie in my forum profile on Hambones for a couple of weeks, though. I used to go to the St Paddy’s Day Parade downtown years ago, before I met Tim, but it was small then, and not a big deal. That was before Jill Connor Browne and the Sweet Potato Queens got so big. 😀

Threesome: Day– What day of the week is your busiest? Tell us about your schedule… Monday is the busiest day for me. I try to not do things on the weekends like chores, cleaning, errands, etc, so that Tim and I can spend all of our time together. So Monday is my catch-up day and usually the day that the house is the dirtiest. About half the time, it’s also my big grocery shopping day. Not that I’m complaining though, I have it made and I know it!

Geez, I’m cold this morning. Don’t know what it is. I just went and fixed myself a cappucino to try to warm up. It’s cold and dreary outside, but I’ve got the heat running in the house and I’m still cold.

Not a lot going on yet…. I will post a meme or two later. Jeremy has already left for the studio. We had a great visit with him, and just wished 1) that he could have stayed longer and 2) that Kathryn had been able to come with him. Maybe next time! He played a couple of the tracks from the new CD that they are mixing this week. We really liked the two that he played, and are looking forward to the new CD. Jeremy said the tracks should be up on their website for downloading, so I can’t wait for that! I’ll post the link as soon we get it, so others can go download them too, and enjoy them. 🙂

OK, off to drink the rest of my cappucino and hopefully warm up. Happy St Patricks Day everyone! Hope you all have some green on! That’s the poll on the homepage of Hambones today, are you wearing green?!

Sitting here watching TV with Tim and Jeremy, it don’t get much better than that! 🙂

Let’s see, not a big blogging-event kind of day overall, but what the heck, I don’t usually have much to blog about anyway! 😀

We slept in a little late today, as Tim got up and worked last night starting at 1 AM. Things went well with their code project though, so that was really good. Today was a dreary day, very cloudy and grey and actually pretty cold. Rained and misted a bit too. Not a great day to get out and about, so I stayed home. Got a lot of misc chores and things done around the house. Jeremy got here about 5 PM and had supper with us (pork chops, peas, green beans and roasted potatoes), and then we watched a bunch of TV. Poor Jeremy, they were all shows that he doesn’t normally watch, so he had to suffer through all of them!

Not much else going on, hope everyone out there had a great day! 🙂

Another question of the day. These will have to do when I can’t find memes I like! 🙂

QOTD 3/16/05
What is the price of unleaded gasoline where you live? Well, over the weekend it was about 1.96 everywhere around here. We filled up last week and it was a nightmare to watch it tick off that high. I hope it stops soon, but I’ve read it’s supposed to go to 2.10 or 2.15. Ouch.

How much does it take to fill up your tank? Hmm, I don’t let it get so low where the light comes on. I usually fill up once it gets under 1/4 of a tank. Then I really don’t pay attention to the gallons, just the price and then I let it pump till it’s full and it kicks off. Isn’t that sad, I don’t know how many gallons my tank will hold. 16 or 18 maybe? Tim would probably know. I know his truck has a much bigger tank than my car, and his costs an arm and a leg to fill up these days.

Posting this a day late, and only because I ragged Tim repeatedly that I was going to put it on my blog!

He’s such a goofball, but it is a sheer joy to live with him sometimes (sometimes it’s a sheer exercise in exasperation, but that’s not what this blog entry is about!) Case in point, last night I had supper ready and he came in the kitchen. I had my back to him. All of a sudden, he yells “OH NO!” And as I’m turning around (wondering what on earth is wrong, what just happened), he goes “This Pasta is DIRTY!”. It’s whole wheat pasta. Goofball, he makes me laugh still my side aches sometimes. Maybe it’s not funny here now, typed out, but I promise, at the time, it was hilarious. The look on his face was priceless! 😆

Well, today turned out to be a busy day. I had planned to do many things, some of which got done, and others got pushed to the back burner in favor of what Tim wanted to do. 😮

It rained all afternoon and evening, so no walking. Tim surprised me and came home pretty early this afternoon. He has to work tonight starting at 1 AM, although he has already starting moving some files now, at 10 PM, in preparation for the 11 PM project. His main stuff starts at 1 AM. Poor baby, it’s gonna be a long night!

He wanted to get the wallpaper up, since he came home early. He painted on the ShieldZ stuff under where the border will go, then took a nap while it was drying. After a power ranger thingie, he was up and raring to go. I, on the other hand, already had projects and regular chores in mind. I took out all of the cookware from one of my cabinets (the old stuff), ripped up the old contact paper, cleaned everything good, and put down new non-adhesive gripper paper stuff. I washed all my new Calphalon and put it all up, and boxed up the old stuff for a garage sale. Supper was a new recipe, that I need to go type up and add to the recipe database on Hambones. I was ready after supper to wind down and watch my shows (3 tonight), but SuperSlaveDriver Tim was raring to get the wallpaper border up. It’s 10:20 PM and we have just finished. Geez, I had wanted to stop about 3 hours ago! Oh well, it’s up now and looks like this (except no bare spots now!):

Got a ton of stuff to do tomorrow, that didn’t get done today, and we’re looking forward to seeing Jeremy. We’re so glad he’s getting to come, and I just wish he could stay longer.

I hope the rain stops by in the morning. It’s awful soggy in that mud pit of a backyard 😈

Poor Tim has to work again Thursday night, hopefully this is the last one. Then he goes on-call Friday morning! 😀

from This site

QOTD 3/15/05
Inspired by Dale who is recovering from a really nasty broken leg and surgery –

1) Have you ever broken any bones? If so, how and what bone(s).
Nope, I’ve never broken a bone. Knock on wood.

2) What surgeries have you had? Just female (gynecological). Enough to last me for quite a while though. 😀

And for good measure, here’s yesterday’s as well:

QOTD 3/14/05
Inspired by my almost 3 year old son who has learned how to navigate a mouse the past 2 days:

What do you remember about when you first learned to use a computer? Good grief, I was in college in 1983. I remember having to change out floppies on the dual 5 1/4″ disk drives to be able to load my compiler software. What a drag. How I longed for hard drives!

Besides blogging, what do you use your computer for the most? Entertainment and communication

Well, nothing really blog-worthy today to note. Not every day can be action-packed, you know! 😀

I ran some errands this afternoon. Took one of my library books back, and checked on the one I put on hold, the next in the Stephanie Plum series (called Three to Get Deadly). It won’t be in till 3/23, unless the person brings it back early. Hope they read fast! Then, I dropped off “Shall We Dance” at Blockbuster and made a special trip inside to get my punch card punched, for bringing the movie back before the due date. They are running a promotion right now for March Madness, for free drinks and popcorn, then for a free movie rental after so many punches. I’m all for free stuff, so it was worth my extra couple of minutes to go inside and have it punched. However, either other people don’t know about this (maybe they didn’t offer them a card when they checked out), or else they just don’t want to bother with it. Because there was one person there dropping off movies, outside, when I pulled up, and then another guy in a tie dropping off movies when I was leaving. No one else went inside to get their card punched. Cheapie me did though!

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1. I wish I had more __________.
2. I usually think about changing my blog layout when _________.
3. If more people would be _________, the world would be a better place.
4. I really should __________ more often.
5. The weather we’re having right now is ________.
6. When it’s time to plant a garden, I’d like to plant ________.
7. When I’m running late, I sometimes forget to _________.
8. When I can’t think of anything to blog about, I usually _________.

My answers:
1. money?!
2. the season/holiday changes or I get tired of the current one!
3. considerate
4. scrapbook
5. spring-like
6. flowers and herbs
7. grab my cell phone
8. do a meme!