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Featuring Samwise!

2010-02-06T17:06:00.000-08:00

Sam's new thing is to "Help Heal", and to make sure I don't get attacked by bugs on the screen!

Helping me heal last night. I'm in trouble if I actually have to move my arms though! This is his new thing, since I can't back up enough for him to have lap room to lay on!

Following the Mouse around

I went to go fold laundry, and left Rae hovering near Wyrmrest. Sam found this highly fascinating. At least enough that I was able to walk over, get the camera, walk back, and he still thought the 'bug' was more interesting than me. Ignore the washer noise in the background and the mess around the desk. :-)

And again... silly cat

Does anyone pay attention to time?

2009-10-08T05:15:00.001-07:00

10:20 at night. I had just crawled into bed, and sent C a text message saying I was going to bed since i hadn't heard from him in hours, and didn't know if he wanted to talk before I turned completely incomprehensible.

10:20:30 (30 seconds later) The house phone rings.

Me: Rolls over and answers phone

"Hello?"

"Is this K. H.?"

"Yes"

"This is So-n-So from the American Consumer research...." (They sent me a postcard 3 days ago warning me that they would call and asking if I would be SO kind to give them a bit of my time for this IMPORTANT research when they got around to calling)

"Do you REALIZE that it is 10:30 at night here? I'm already in bed, and was about to be asleep before you..." /gets cut off

"Oh! I'm so sorry"

/slam phone down

Hmm... I wonder who I can report them to for calling at that hour of the night. I'm pretty sure it's illegal....

Thoughts on laziness...

2009-09-03T07:01:00.001-07:00

In claiming to my husband that "I'm going to be lazy on Monday", he, in return, replied "You should be as lazy as you can! I'll grill something for dinner!"

Well, this now means
1. I need to go out and purchase something to grill
2. I need to figure out how to season said meat
3. I need to figure out what else will be served along with meat, and purchase if necessary
4. I need to get meat ready that day – seasoning/marinating it appropriately ahead of time
5. I need to make sure other food will be ready
6. I need to tell Husband food is ready to be cooked.
7. Husband goes outside and plays with meat and fire
8. I cook all other food, and start cleaning up kitchen
9. I clean up the dirty plate for the meat
10. He drinks a beer while playing with fire
11. After Eating, I get to clean up everything.

Exactly how is this being lazy?

Post of Epic Cuteness and a Stowaway

2009-08-09T17:10:00.000-07:00

This is MY box! Iz my pillow!

I love my brother!

Kitty-excercise! Now, if i only used this for more than sleeping!

This guy survived the entire commute to work on my windshield! I couldn't get myself to push him off with the wipers.

True Story

2009-06-02T19:08:00.000-07:00

Heard on the Radio this morning, as they were discussing the Air France flight that has gone missing...

DJ 1 : You know, the Ocean can be over 15000 feet at places in the areas they're looking

DJ 2: That's like hundreds of miles!

Me: *sigh* /change radio station

Blah..

2009-04-11T05:43:00.001-07:00

My fabulous idea of being able ot send in posts from lunchbreak at work has been foiled! Stupid idea of putting a confidentiality clause on every e-mailt hat goes out :-P

Ain't commuting fun?

2009-04-10T12:34:00.001-07:00

Yesterday, I saw a house get pulled over by a cop. In the middle of the highway, on my way home. Yes, a HOUSE. Specifically, the front side I believe, although it’s hard to tell when it’s covered in plastic.

It was one of those modular homes. The ones that are cut in half on the trailers with the “wide load” signs, an escort car behind them (which they obviously can’t see), and traffic backing up for 2 miles because people are afraid to pass a house on the road. But, I had passed the back half without incident, and saw the front half about ¾ of a mile up ahead. In the mean time, I had a cop car pass me in the left lane – no biggie, but an excuse for everyone to show that their brake lights work. So, I’m driving along – watching people slow down for both the cop car AND the house, and I’m slowly catching up to the house. All of the sudden, I see the cop car from the left lane, change into the middle lane and switch it’s blues on. It then straddles the middle and right lanes, between the house and the miniscule escort car, until the house pulls over.

So yes, I saw a house get pulled off to the side of the highway on the way home yesterday by I’m sure a very nice member of the State Police.

Contest!

2009-03-18T07:43:00.001-07:00

Well, the contest lineup has been posted… I have to say, it’s quite nerve-wracking to see your quartet in writing in the lineup! We have 5 quartets competing from our chorus though, which is amazing!

QUARTET CONTEST:
MT East Coast Serenade
1. Basic Black
2. Foreign Exchange
3. Three and a Half
4. New England Sound
5. Cloud 9
6. Relative Ring
7. In Cahoots!
8. Showcase
9. Take 4
10. Back in Town
11. The Long & Short of It
12. Inspirations
13. Blue Notes
14. Sound Investment
15. Omigosh!
16. Escapade

CHORUS CONTEST:
1. Silk'n Sounds
2. Capital Chordettes
3. Chair City Pipers
4. New England Voices in Harmony
5. Women of Note
6. Montreal City Voices
7. Thousand Islanders
8. Harmony Heritage
9. Barre-Tones
10. Sounds of the Seacoast
11. Champlain Echoes
12. Maine-ly Harmony

Quote of the Day...

2009-03-03T06:36:00.001-08:00

Him: So, were you out shoveling while you were working yesterday?

Me: No, I have a husband and a snowblower J

Actual conversation at work today...

2009-01-14T06:51:00.001-08:00

Person X approached me with a menu to the local café today. He pointed to the sandwiches, and asked if I knew what “Focaccia” was.

Me: It’s bread

Him: Is it like a wrap?

Me: No, it’s regular bread (stumbling for the best way to describe it)
Him: So it’s made with flour?

Me: … yes, it’s made with flour.

Is there bread out there that ISN’T made with flour? *sigh*

Christmas!!!!

2008-12-28T15:42:00.000-08:00

Our Christmas day, in 3 pictures and 3 movies :-P

The Christmas Tree! With way too many presents under it!

Jeeves, Enjoying his Bully stick that he opened himself! Silly dog

And Jett getting his Bully stick!

This is quickly becoming the tradition of the Christmas night Pit session. Pit is a card trading game, based off the stock market. It's a nice, quiet, peaceful way to spend the evening. (hah!)

I taped one hand. People playing, starting in the lower left and going clockwise - Greg (Karen's brother), Charlie, Kevin (Karen's sister), Joy (Lindsey's mother), Mom, Lindsey (Greg's girlfriend), and Kim (Lindsey's aunt). Also appearing are Dad, Rosalie, and Papa's shoulder :-)

Strider, attempting to access the catnip inside. While he would have gotten to it, eventually. To save us from having to pick up shreads of paper through out the house, we opened it for him shortly after

The battle of the paper. Between Sam and Strider, for the privilege of being able to claim the paper as ones own.

Hayden Holiday Update

2008-12-23T08:23:00.000-08:00

While I've been photographing events around the house, I haven't done much posting of them. Here's the last month or so, in review :-)

Thanksgiving brought on the need for apple pies. Mostly, one for us, and one for the in-laws. So, that morning, I dutifully made two gorgeous apple pies, and left the one below sitting on the stove, with a rag over it to cool off while we took the other one and went to Thanksgiving dinner with C's family. Now, Apple pies have a tendancy to sink as they cool and form to the apples inside, but when we got home that night, we found a very strange spot on the pie, where it had not only sunk in, but had broken the crust and juices had come up.

Suspect #1 - aka. Strider and Suspect #2 - aka. Sam-wise
Due to his brothers innocent look, lack of interest in jumping on counters, and lack of interest in human food, Sam-wise was found to be guilty, and was subsquently tortured by being held in the air and flipped upside down.
As a 2nd story with thanksgiving and apple pies - I had taken the 2nd pie as we left, covered it in foil, and had it sitting on my lap (on a hot grabber, since it was still warm!) C backs out of the driveway, and 2 seconds later, I'm covered in apple pie juice, all over my sweater and pants. Apparently I didn't seal the foil well. Back into the house, and the hour of planning what to wear quickly went to plan B - whatever's clean and matches!

Here is Sam, showing off the hiding spot for the next month. And no worries, once there are presents there, they'll do flying leaps over them into and out of the tree!

The winter has also brought on a new toy for C. This was two-folded, as it means we had to spend the money, but at the same point, I no longer have to shovel the driveway :-)

Our snow-stick that we got for christmas last year and never got to use!

So, on December 11th, at approximately 11:35 (judging by when the clock stopped) the power went out over most of the north-east. We were in the middle of a WONDERFUL ice storm, and some where between the power company and here (actually, lots of somewheres) The lines decided to not be connected anymore. Anyhow - this resulted in us losing power for about 44 hours. We were lucky - 11-12 days later, and some people STILL don't have power back...

Some of the damage from around the neighborhood

And, as a result of having no heat for that time, Fishy finally left us. Yes, he was called Fishy, mostly because when we had multiple fish, we couldn't tell the difference, so they got named "Fishy 1, Fishy 2, and Fishy 3" The first one we saw was #1, etc. Of course, we have Kitty 1 and Kitty 2 as well... so I think we're just lazy at naming animals.

But C has some great plans to make a terrarium out of the fishtank, once he gets around to it. Meantime, while i'm doing my scrubbing of the house from one end to the other, I cleaned out the fish tank and made my own terrarium. Complete with ceramic happy frogs and a stuffed multi-colored lizard :-)

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2008-11-26T02:47:00.001-08:00

It’s 5:46 AM, and I’m at work. Actually, I was at work 15 minutes ago… there is something seriously wrong with this.

Wildlife

2008-10-30T07:38:00.001-07:00

Long story short… Charlie was home this morning due to a flat tire needing repair. About 9am this morning I get this e-mail from him..

“And strider is crouched down in the front window looking out.. and I’m all like, what the heck are you looking at kitty!

And being the kitty that he is, he says “this is what I was looking at daddy!” (see picture)”

And I’ve attached the picture, but I’m posting this by e-mail, so I’m not sure how it will come out. Will fix after work. You can see the reflection of strider sitting in the window looking at the deer J

....

2008-10-29T04:46:00.001-07:00

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 – 7:45 AM

The elusive “snow” has not made its appearance yet. We are disappointed in the weather station for giving us false hope, as it doesn’t look like there is much chance of it in the near future. L We will be keeping our eyes to the windows though to verify.

I was promised snowflakes! Where are they?!?!?

/giggle

Kitchen Part 2

2008-10-26T14:02:00.000-07:00

Apparently Picassa limits you to 4 pictues... bah!

Anyhow, the final results of the work!

Let's see how long it stays this neat :-P

Kitchen!!!

2008-10-26T13:59:00.000-07:00

One of the few pictures I actually took before. This was actually to show off the curtains, but it was white, with a lot of repair spots on the walls.

Work in Progress. The first coat is up, and the stove is actually moved!

First coat on the other wall.

The temporary Kitchen, in the corner of the dining room :-P

What Altima?

2008-10-02T14:34:00.000-07:00

Here it is! All shiney, and new!
Well... it wont' stay that way for long!

It's a 2007 Toyota RAV4 - with only 7000 miles on it :-D I think that was the biggest seller for me :-) Of course, more room, higher up, and the roofracks are nice too :-)

I must say, it's a bit bigger than I'm used to driving! I'm getting used to it, but it's kinda a weird feeling to be sitting up this high :-)

Good Deeds

2008-10-02T07:44:00.001-07:00

If you do a good deed, and then an event happens, which results in negating that good deed – does it count?

I was in the grocery store last night, it was about 10:15 (yes, I was grocery shopping at 10:15 PM), had just gotten into the 1 open line, when 2 guys came up behind me with a 6-pack and a bottle of wine. Since I had a full cart of groceries, I was nice, and asked if they would like to go before me, since they had 2 items. They graciously accepted, and we went back to waiting for the 2 other people to make it through the line. At this time, another lady had pushed her cart up behind mine. The supervisor on duty at that time made the call to open another line. The new cashier looked at me and said “Ma’am, I can take you here” So I went over to that line. Now, I am much farther ahead than the two guys I let go in front of me, but not because I was trying to be rude.

Oh well – at the same point, the two guys got done paying about the same time as I did….

And if anyone would like to go and hide under the covers until the world straightens itself out – I’d be more than happy for the company. There have been way too many deaths and illnesses in the past week.

sigh

2008-09-30T08:01:00.001-07:00

Note to self… remove signature before sending post. I’ll have to remove that later I guess…

And it's not even 11 yet...

2008-09-30T07:55:00.001-07:00

I can't work… I have to, since I'm here – but we're all in a general shock. One of our 3^rd shift operators passed away unexpectedly last night. I found out when an operator called me this morning on my way into work, but some knew last night, and had a hard time sleeping because of it. I just sit here, looking at the computer screen, and my mind starts wandering.

It's just the shock of it – He was on 3^rd shift, so I rarely saw him, except for the two weeks that I was training him on the new machines. Most recently, last week. He was working 12 hour shifts for that training, coming in at 2AM and staying until 2pm. Something makes me wonder if that was just too much for him, but that's me trying to put blame somewhere. You always want to have someone/something to blame when you lose someone, the idea of their time being up, is a much harder concept to grasp.

As hard as it is to grasp, I'm a firm believer that everything happens for a reason – even if you can't see that reason right away, or ever see that reason.

<4 hours later>

Well, the initial shock has worn off, sort of. I still don't want to work, but now it's because I want to go get my new car :-D A nice shiny 2007 Toyota RAV4 with only 7000 miles on it! So, it doesn't have all the options my MIL's does, like the sunroof, and the 6 CD changer system, and such – but I don't really need those. What I do need to go get, is a cable so I can plug my ipod in :-D

Will post pictures later :-)

My Father-In-Law is a celebrity!

2008-06-30T14:29:00.001-07:00

http://www.projo.com/news/content/QUONSET_AIR_SHOW_06-29-08_MIAML04_v15.3a3a9d6.html

Rambling and updates...

2008-02-07T11:32:00.001-08:00

Well, it’s Thursday, I have no ambition to work this afternoon, and someone hinted that she wanted more stories to read on blogs, so here I am writing :)

Life here has been uneventful. Busy, but uneventful. It has been way to warm for February, and we just had 3 days of rain. *sigh* I’ve gotten out skiing once between being sick for half of December and January, and now we’re getting rain. I think Mother Nature doesn’t like me :-/ The rest of the time has been filled with work, rehearsals, meetings, more meetings, more rehearsals, and taking care of the house. Oh, and the obligatory trip to Troy for the annual Sousaphone pilgrimage… otherwise known as Freakout :-)

So lets see here, work… it’s been busy. The country seems to be going into a recession, so my company is expanding, going to a 7 day work week, and buying new equipment. Good to know we’re following what the rest of the country is doing ./sarcasm. January started off slow, as most of the machines still weren’t running from shutdown, but now that everything is up and going, my to-do list gets longer every day.

Rehearsals… It’s February, which means my 3-nights-a-week of rehearsals is starting to get to me, and will until June, when 2 of then stop. Now, add onto that we have a show in April and contest, which means longer, more intense rehersals… and you have one drained me. But they’re fun, so I put myself through it :-) I’m sure I will cut back on them at some point, just not yet. What I really need to cut back on is…

Meetings. Ugh, this is where I torture myself. I somehow thought it would be a good idea to let myself be volunteered for Volunteer coordinator for the convention were co-hosting. As an afterthought, I don’t really need something else on my plate, but it’s for the good of the chorus, and it’s over in 8 weeks. But who’s counting ;-)

The house is doing well, considering. We have new curtains for the bedroom, full bath, and kitchen. Which of course means I need to paint windows… :-/ Well, I hung the kitchen ones up already, without painting. The whole kitchen needs a coat of paint, so I’ll pull them down when I get to that point. The basement is in the same condition it has been for a month now, although C and Dad are supposed to start putting up walls soon :-) Yay! Of course, I need to pick out paint colors then :-) I’m thinking tan, with brown and red accents… but C says that would be too much like the bathroom… we’ll see.

Hmm… I’m rambling again… and it all sounds so depressing. It’s not! Really! Just busy. I’m just at the point where I want to go home and stay home. Which I’ll get to do tonight :-) Going away for the weekend throws your schedule off, but the trip was fun, and I got to play “my” sousaphone :-)

I guess I should get back to the data entry that’s sitting in front of me… *sigh* Is it Friday yet?

What winter?

2008-01-08T09:58:00.001-08:00

There is something decidedly wrong with the fact that today has a high of 64 degrees. It’s JANUARY! Where’s my snow! I want to do more skiing still!

*sigh* I need to move farther north.

Christmas!

2007-12-26T10:42:00.000-08:00

Christmas is here!

We spent the morning at the house, opening out own presents, and playing with the toys :-) After that, we went over to C's family breakfast for a few hours, followed by a visit to my family for dinner and more presents.

Highlights from the day.

* C got his camera :-)
* The hardest present to come by this year - and we got 2 of them. C got me a Wii - and my parents got us one as well. Since the one from my parents was to both of us, they couldn't tell C - so we'll exchange it and get something else with the money :-) It's amusing that this is the present that people were waiting out in snowstorms to get, and we managed to get 2!
* Dunkins was closed on Christmas - but since it's right across the street from his Aunts, we parked there to keep the street open. We spent the next two hours at his Aunts watching people pull into the drive-thru or parking lot, and try to order/get in the building. There was a sign on the door saying it was closed, yet people would keep pulling the handle "just in case"

I feel like I should be productive, since C and Dad are downstairs starting on the basement. But right now I just want to be lazy :)

Chrismas pictures will be up once I pull them off the mulitple cameras :-)

I now work...

2007-12-19T12:32:00.001-08:00

next to a coffee pot. Or so it seems.

The air in the office gets very dry in the winter – resulting in being shocked by everything you touch. They finally installed a humidification system to take care of this problem. They put a couple of vents round the office, and it was supposed to be fixed. Well, one of the vents is in the cubicle next to mine, which is used as a small printing room. The humidifier has been gurgling all day – just like a coffee pot. You can see the steam billowing out of it. And, since they put the vents up near the ceiling, the moisture is condensing, and we’re having localized rain showers in the building. (We don’t have a true ceiling, we have the open support beams/air ducts/sheetmetal roof look) Good job “fixing” the issue. I think I’d rather stick with the shock treatment.

Dear God-of-colds...

2007-12-12T05:40:00.001-08:00

I’m tired of being sick now. I’ve been feeling bad since last Friday. I’ve now had to miss singing 5 times, and will most likely miss tonight’s as well. I’ve had a sore throat, and now added a stuffy head on top of that. While it isn’t too bad – I’m generally miserable, and I’m tired of it. Even my boss said today that I don’t look like I’m doing better. (although I can probably use that as a reason to go home early)

What do I need to do to have you take this away from me? It’s the Christmas season, I’m supposed to be decorating the house, singing Christmas carols, and buying presents for loved ones. I would like to be in the Christmas spirit to do this, but you’re making it hard.

Respectfully Sick,

~Raeme

You know the day's too long when...

2007-12-07T11:09:00.001-08:00

You need to use your calculator to do 200 x 1.

My weeks over. Now to find look-busy work until it’s actually time to leave

Computers...

2007-12-05T05:24:00.001-08:00

So Dad sent me this yesterday http://h20435.www2.hp.com/# . It's the Blackbird002 series. Since he knows we're into gaming, he said it would be a nice computer for it – for the very low price of $2700 (for the low end model – click on the customize link to see the full range of prices). Now, Dad can get us a discount on it, but it still doesn't bring the price below $2000 :-( . I guess we'll have to keep dreaming. And of course, Charlie wants the liquid cooled one...

It snowed here!! Yay! We got about 5 inches or so at the house. Since we live on a street with one of the elementary schools on it, even though school was canceled, they were plowing while I was out shoveling. Sadly, I think that was the only time they came by – as our street is now a big sheet of frozen slush. I need to get out and take pictures.

And someone stayed up to late last night raiding, and is now paying for it… I think I'll need to go find some caffeine soon.

Tests and snow...

2007-11-20T08:14:00.001-08:00

This is a test e-mail. I realized that most of the time I feel like writing stories to this, I'm at work - when I can't actually get onto here (can't/shouldn't - same thing) So I tried to set it up so I can e-mail to it. We'll see if this works when I get home.

Oh! And we got the first snow today! A real, legit, stick to the ground for a few seconds before it melts snow! Granted, it's supposed to be followed by hours of rain, but oh well!

SNOW! :-D

The Gospel, Tigger, and hugs….

2007-11-19T16:02:00.000-08:00

Warning: I haven’t posted in a while – this could get wordy.

Life in general is good. Busy, but good. It’s mostly filled up with Work, Bells, Barbershop, Choir, the house, Charlie… and two furry four-legged children. Oh, and wow.

NEVIH went to Ontario last week and brought home new shiny 3rd place medals! It took 11 hours to drive up, and another 11 home – but a group of us rented a car, and watched movies, sang, and talked the whole way up and back.

So wait? What does the title have to do with this?

Absolutely nothing :)

I am a Congregationalist, go to church most Sundays, and at least attempt not to zone out during the sermon. I welcome other religions, and have no problems if your beliefs differ from mine. Now that that’s out, indulge me by putting up with a bit of religious ramble. In church this past Sunday, our minister was giving one of his patented 3-point sermons (his sermons always have 3 points…) and I was trying to be a good person and not nod off since I was in the choir loft, and EVERYONE was looking at us. (see wedding pictures for church layout) The minister was quoting someone (I forget who) that compared the Gospel to Winnie the Pooh. Huh? Since when does Winnie the Pooh have anything do to with religion? But his point was this. We tend to live our lives like Eeyore – something’s too hard, it’s not going to work, etc. What we need to do is live our lives like Tigger – willing to try anything, do anything, or go anywhere. And he’s right. I know I could be more like Tigger. It won’t happen overnight, or anytime soon, but I’m never one to speak up when I should, or volunteer when I can. Maybe I need to try to change that a bit. One reason being…

I have to sing a solo in a performance on Dec 1st /cringe /shudder /stagefright

Now, about that last part of the title. After the service got out, like usual I had gone up to the robe room, hung up my robe, went and returned my music, and headed back down to leave. As I was going down the stairs, a friend (and fellow barbershopper) was coming up. She asked me to wait, and then gave me a big hug (well, as best as possible with us both holding choir music and hymnals) I was kinda confused when she had asked me to wait, and it must have shown on my face because she said as she was hugging me “Just a hug. I’ve been wanting to do that all morning”. Then we said goodbye and left. Something about that hug made my day a little bit better though. There is definitely something with random acts of kindness and making someone’s day.

Adventures with food

2007-10-25T16:50:00.000-07:00

So I was making mashed potatoes (from scratch) for dinner tonight. Charlie had watched me peel, cut up, boil, and mash the potatoes.

Him: Did you season the potatos yourself?
Me: /inquisitive look
Him: /looks back, waiting for an answer
Me: No dear, I grew the potatoes already seasoned with dill, garlic and butter

*sigh* Men! :-P

Homeowner adventures

2007-09-29T11:45:00.001-07:00

So, Through some friends of Mom and Dad, we were able to get a Free, though used, dishwasher and stove. Kevin and Greg brought them over for us, and installed the dishwasher without a problem a couple weeks ago. Since the stove was Gas, we decided to call in the big shots for it. Aka, Dad.

Now we knew the basic procedure - turn gas off, pull out old stove, put in new stove, turn gas back on, relight pilots. End of story, right?

So dad comes over, and they set about turning the main gas line off (the one to the house mind you - so bye bye hot water, furnace, and the stove.) He takes his wrench, and turns the knob 90 degrees to the "off" position. Took some strength to do, but it moved consistently. Well, as soon as he did that, he realized it was suddenly very loose. Apparently there's a catch in there that you need the "special we only sell to professionals" tool to turn it back on. *gah!* Well, Dad doesn't have one of those, but, he called up Kevin, told him the dimensions, and asked him to make a tool.

So, the gas is now off at least, and while we're waiting for the tool they decide to replace the stove. So, they pull the stove out, turn the gas line off at the connection (to prevent the line filling up with air) , disconnect the stove and carry it outside. I scrape 25 years of grime off the linolium while they're doing this :-/ ewwwww.

And in comes the new stove, with quite a bit more grunting and griping than the one going out. Apparently it's heavier. So they get it up, and near the opening, and I stupidly ask "What's the plug for?". So, after a few minutes, we determine the stove has electric starts, and not pilot lights (woot!). We thought it was still a pilot lit stove, and were't too happy about it, if only for the safety factor. Of course, that now poses a 2nd problem - it's a 110V plug, and we have a 220V outlet. Oh well, it can reach to the one next to the opening for now.

So Dad's on the floor, about to connect the gas line, and realizes something is amiss. Apparently, Stove gas lines are not universal.

Which means the boys are now out getting a new pipe fitting for the stove... not that we currently have a gas supply to cook with :-(

I'll update this with the remainder once it happens :-)

2007-09-19T13:51:00.000-07:00

So, we found some holes in out backyard - thought it was a woodchuck (still do). But we got a have-a-heart trap and put it out int he back yard. This is our furry friend we found in it on Monday after work :-)

I didn't really want to get too close to get pictures!

Gambling...

2007-09-01T16:29:00.000-07:00

Phoey... we didn't win the megamillions...

....

2007-08-16T14:07:00.001-07:00

Don't you hate it when you think of something great in the car on the ride home... and then forget by the time you get there?

Life..

2007-08-11T14:05:00.000-07:00

Life goes on around here. Nothing really overwhelmingly interesting is going on. Work is, well, work - and like most people, we wish we were millionaires so we didn't have to do it. The house is in it's usually state of disarray, even more so since I started digging through the boxes in the spare bedroom this morning :-)

I wouldn't mind time off to be lazy and just do what I want... but that's not going to happen. it's too much work to go somewhere, and if I stay here, i'd feel guilty if I wasn't doing something :-) So, now i'll just feel guilty for sitting at the computer when I should be doing stuff :-)

We're going over to chunky's in an hour anyhow to see The Simpsons movie :-)

Television

2007-05-09T13:23:00.000-07:00

So, I decided to eat lunch at my desk today, and poked around on Cnn.com, for lack of other available sites to go read (Just about everything non-work related is blocked, as well as about half the work related stuff – and for a while they were talking about blocking Google!) I came across this article about how TV ratings are down. http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/09/tv.missingviewers.ap/index.html Well, apparently there's a whole concern for the advertisers, etc…. not that I really care. What got me was the following statement. < "We let them get out of the habit of watching television a little bit, and it's going to take some time to get these people back in front of their television sets," said David Poltrack, chief researcher for CBS (owned by CBS Corp.).>

Wait a minute!!! Every time I sit down to watch TV, it's always telling me how I need to get out and do stuff, and not be lazy. Right now in my life, I don't watch much tv (I spend my time in front of the computer – not necessarily better, but I don't count in the Nielsen ratings :-)) Stop telling me I need to go outside and do other activities, do things with the family, or get exercise, and then make the statement that you want me to come back and watch TV… I don't like being confused!!! Well, doesn't help them that I don't like a lot of the new shows that are out – I'm definitely not into the reality shows. My television watching includes the news in the morning as I wake up, whatever version of Star Trek happens to be on when I get home (currently, Voyager), and Futurama and Family Guy at night before we go to sleep (or while we go to sleep)

Sorry Mr TV exec – now that the warm weather's here (it's 78F (26C) outside right now!!! (why am I in work?) ) I plan on spending less time watching you, and more time outside :-)

I get to go on a bike ride this afternoon!!!

lol

2007-04-26T15:10:00.000-07:00

Things you find in your husbands CD Collection (which is mostly "loud angry music")

Celine Dion's One Heart..

tehehehe

Another Urge

2007-02-03T05:04:00.000-08:00

So yeah, I feel like typing here again for some reason. Once again, not really sure why. Oh well :-)

Life updates -

* Buying a house in Nashua
* Mortgages are a PIA
* Going to Mohegan Sun this weekend
* 7:15 is to early to be at Church on a Sunday
* Some people have to many crosses to bear
* I'm not looking forward to packing up the entire apartment (again - i'm not moving for a while after this)

So, that's me in a nutshell - this past week has been pretty busy, as will be the coming weekend. I keep saying I need some time off, but I'd just end up playing WoW with V then...

Why?

2006-12-10T18:27:00.000-08:00

Honestly - I don't know. I decided to get away from Live Journal over a year and a half ago - too much drama involved. But for some reason, I've felt the need to have a blog lately. So, we're trying it somewhere else.

How am I right now? Tired. It's been a long day. But then again, Holiday Concert days always are. Pretty much means I was up at 7:30, showered, packed and dressed and out the door by 8:30, and got home around 9pm tonight. Spent the day mostly between church and the In-laws.

Otherwise, Life is good. I spend way to much time at rehearsals. Well, three nights a week, but that's enough :-)

Charlie and I stared to look for a house. We drove by two today - one we didn't like the neighborhood, the other didn't seem too bad. I need to get an accurate picture in my head of what a reasonable house is though, what I have right now is out of our price range. The one house is in Ayer, MA - which I haven't decided if it will cause problems getting to Nashua, NH consistently for rehearsals and performances. Someday before we make a final decision, I'll need to make the drive and see what it's like. As for the house - it's a white split level, and probably will need a paint-job, but that wouln't be too bad. We have yet to see the interior.