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April 02, 2004
Out of the office
April 02, 2004 - 12:19 PM
I'll be scarce the next few days. My folk's are coming for a visit & bringing their camper, so I won't be around much. Have a great weekend everyone!
Which Poem Are You?
April 01, 2004 - 7:33 AM
| Which poem are you? Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold You're probably strongly political, and a pacifist. Hey, and you're also slightly depressing. You think a lot of things suck and are pointless. Congratulations! 
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Snagged this from Aimee
Did she punch her?
March 31, 2004 - 12:11 PM
I keep meaning to write about this... We went to the mall the other day because the "Easter Bunny" was there for pictures and Madison wanted to go. While waiting for our turn, a little girl about Madison's age came up to her, pointed to the barette in her hair and said "My hair is prettier than yours." The girl's mother didn't hear her. Madison just looked at her kind of weird for a moment. I was holding my breath, wondering how my girl would handle this particular sort of nastiness. Then my Madison, undaunted and always on a quest to make friends, smiled and said "What's your name?" The girl looked kind of shocked (evidently she was waiting for Madison to punch her in the nose??) and said "Madison." My Madison said "That's My name too!" So they played for a few minutes until it was our turn. I'll post pictures of the bunny after we get them back this week. Oh! And in the "big" town we recently moved away from, pictures like this at the mall were around $10 a piece. How much were they here? A professional studio was taking them and they were $1.99. Yup. I love small towns. :)
Back to regularly scheduled...
March 30, 2004 - 8:32 AM
Well, now that things are back to normal, I can go back to posting. The weekend was weird. It was mostly ok for us, other than a bad family trauma. I can't really talk about what happened here, but it did play on my mind all weekend. We did however get all the stuff done we meant to. The dining room is painted now. Yay! We have a funeral to go to on Thursday, so this week is going to seem really short. I think its going to be a pretty sad affair. I don't usually mind funerals that much (no phobias or anything like some people) but this one I am kind of dreading going to. Ok. I need to get going. This entry is kind of all over the place, but I'm trying to get Aidan ready to get out of the house and the kid's have interupted me no less than 18 times since I started it...so bye!
I got it!
March 30, 2004 - 8:18 AM
I think I figured out what was causing the loading problems around here. I had that link referers thing and I think IT was what was lagging things so bad. I took it off and my page is loading almost instantly now. Of course, I have almost nothing left on my page now! I was systematically taking things off to see what was slowing it down, and I'm really too lazy to put them back on. Besides, its a pretty nice non-cluttered look now.
Purple Chicken Pox?
March 29, 2004 - 3:41 PM
Madison came to me a few minutes ago and said she had the Purple Chicken Pox. Oh my. I hope thats the WASHABLE purple chicken pox!
Sorry.
March 29, 2004 - 12:21 PM
I honestly appologize for how long its taking things to load today. I have looked at it for 2 hours and can't figure out what the hang up is. I have a tech support thing sent to diaryland, so I'll see if they come up with anything. Pretty annoying, huh?
Anyone...
March 29, 2004 - 12:49 AM
notice anything different around here? Is it working ok for everyone?
Bring on the weekend!
March 26, 2004 - 4:29 PM
Just a quickie rundown of the weekend, since it seems I never get a chance to post during the weekend. Tonight, homemade bbq chicken pizza, then Wal-Mart for groceries and some stuff for my flower garden. Tommorow the kids are going to Grandma's and we are coming home to finish painting the dining room. Yay! If we get done early enough, we may even have some time to ourselves to relax, child-free. Double Yay! Sunday? Don't know yet. Maybe we'll start painting another room. We have at least 3 and maybe 4 more to do (if I do the sewing room w/ leftover paint.) Ugh. Did I mention this morning? This should probably go in a different entry, but screw it. I'm too lazy. Can someone tell me, if your drain pipe for your washing machine comes out twice in one year, in two different houses, is there really something wrong with the setup, or is maybe something wrong with the person putting the drain hose thingy IN the drain pipe?? I woke up the first time to puppy pee. On my side of the bed. On the comforter. Yuck! I was moaning and cursing and carrying on about having even MORE laundry to do. DH took pity on me and threw it in the machine on his way out to work. I fell back to sleep and a few minutes later was awoken to Maddie screaming, "There's a flood in the laundry room MOM!" I was terrified that the hot-water heater had burst a seam, because its out there too, but no. It was the washing machine! Again! At least it isn't carpeted out there, but damn. There was about an inch of water all over the floor. I called DH real quick and he wasn't even out of town yet, so he turned around and came back to help me. Thank YOU DH!!! We got it all cleaned up and he headed back to work. This afternoon I fell asleep with Aidan during his nap. I hate doing that because I don't like to leave Maddie alone that long, but it was sort of an accident. I just think I haven't gotten enough sleep all week, but that nap sure helped! I feel better than I have for days now! Weekend? Bring it on!!
Use cloth, save the world.
March 26, 2004 - 8:10 AM
THE DISPOSABLE DIAPER MYTH Swiped link from Aimee Ewww. I honestly never gave a thought to the sewage waste being in the landfill and what a danger it is. It really surprises me that its not a bigger deal...these diapers. How could most people not be concerned about the amounts of diapers filling up the landfills? If I owned a landfill, I would definately make the diapers be bagged seperately and then charge more to pick them up to help find a way to lessen the damage done by them. I wouldn't be surprised if in the future something like that happens, I'm just sad it seems it will have to reach much more dire conditions for them to do it. You know, heaven forbid we try to PREVENT a problem before its a disaster! I'm very ashamed I used paper products on my first child, but I'm happy to say that we have at least 98% cloth on Aidan in his life. It makes me smile to imagine the pile of 10,000 disposable diapers that are NOT sitting in the landfill because of him. (Yeah, I try really hard not to think about Maddie's pile. It makes me feel pretty guilty.) Cloth diapers rock too. I have loved them. I make them myself. I launder them myself and I've never EVER minded. Not one little bit. We do use paper diapers when we go camping, because the one time I tried to use cloth while camping, they stank SO bad from having to be outside in the sun. Eww. Baking pee and poo. Yuck! Other than that though, I can't even remember when I bought a pack of paper diapers last. When we moved maybe? I also like to think about the pile of money I have NOT given the diaper companies the last two years!
PLAY WITH ME!
March 25, 2004 - 8:46 PM
I'm a really, really grumpy bug tonight. (Um, yeah, I think we DO watch Nick Jr. too much) I'm also beginning to worry that I'm bipolar. Maybe its just the weather. Or maybe I just need to go find a puddle to splash in.
Where would you get that?
March 25, 2004 - 9:50 AM
Anyone happen to know where I can buy some motivation?? I CAN'T get moving!
Today
March 25, 2004 - 7:58 AM
Its still March. Sometimes its still pretty cold here in March, but this morning? Its 8am and its already 61 outside. The high is expected to be 73, but I see now that they are forcasting thunderstorms. Oh well. I can take a thunderstorm or two if it means its going to be this warm. I love it when I don't have to run the AC or the Furnace. It seems so often here we have to practically go from turn ing off the furnace to turning on the AC. In the old house (mobile home that was AWFUL on temperature control) we had days where I'd have to run the AC during the day and turn it on heat at night. I'm pretty sure that won't happen here. :) I have to get motiviated. I need to get the kids dressed and we need to go get a new tire on the old van. Oh shit. Aidan just dumped a box of cereal on the floor. AAYEEEEEEEE!!
Yup, I am nuts!
March 24, 2004 - 9:43 PM
Ok. I'm pretty self conscious. I blame my mother (as I do most things that are wrong with me.) She is always saying, "I wonder what those neighbors are thinking about this, or, I wonder what those neighbors are thinking about that." So I've noticed that for a great percentage of the time that I'm outside, in my head is running an imaginary dialogue of "what the neighbors are saying." Its gotten a lot worse since we met them. Oh, they are perfectly nice normal individuals, but in my mind, they are picking apart and commenting on everything I do, day in and day out. So I'm thinking of just doing a series of "What the neighbors are saying" just so everyone can see exactly how nuts I am. For instance NeighborGrandma: You should have seen it today. She had that little boy out there and he only had a shirt on. NO PANTS! And you should see what the girl was wearing. She had on SNOW boots with a pair of shorts! And so on and so forth. Its like this running freaking commentary in my head these days! Somebody just shoot me, ok? Or buy me a 7 foot privacy fence? (Oh, and the boy was only outside flapping in the wind for a few minutes while I ran out with the puppy and the boy followed me out. And it was really warm today. So, uh, nothing froze off or anything!)
AWOL
March 24, 2004 - 2:27 PM
I am AWOL right now because the weather is beautiful and my place needs LOTS of yard/garden work right now. I think I worked harder yesterday than I ever have in my life. Today I'm 90% useless, but I've still been out of the house most the day. I'll update with more specifics later and maybe some pictures. :) (Cause I know everyone is waiting with baited breath for pictures of my gardens and such!)
Spring, Sprung?
March 19, 2004 - 10:28 PM
Oh my gosh. The weather here today was unbelievable. It was like being given food after starving for 3 weeks. It feels like someone lifted a blanket off my emotional self. DH came home early. We got the bikes out and rode. Very little. I'm, um, woefully out of shape. I'm sad to say that once around the block almost killed me. I'll keep it up though, and it will get better soon, I know. And THEN, I convinced DH to start the mower for me. We have a huge ass backyard and the bank that owned the house when we bought it had only been doing a little tiny part of it, so the rest was grown up in weeds. We took turns, mowed for two hours (until we ran out of gas) and only got about 1/2 of it done. And that doesn't even include all the REST of the backyard, the sides and the front yard. My folks have an old riding lawn tractor that they've kind of, sort of said we can have. Well, when I ask, they don't say no. Dad just keeps saying he doesn't know how long it will keep running. Whatever Dad! Just give us the lawn tractor! NOBODY should have to mow almost 1/2 a city block with a push mower! NOBODY, I tell you! Ahem. And the kids had great, great fun playing outside all that time. It was in the 70s. We were in shorts. Its supposed to get cold again and that thought makes me want to cry. Oh Weather Fairy, why do you tease me so? Can we PUUUH-LEAZE have at least two months of this weather before anything else? Yeah, I'm a weirdo. :)
A love letter
March 19, 2004 - 10:27 PM
Dear Spider Killer, I love you. You rock my world. You are my hero. Signed, The screaming woman.
Red IS the enemy
March 18, 2004 - 1:02 PM
Anyone know any magic tricks to get red koolaid out of carpet? I've tried vinegar & salt (per something I found online), simple green, and shampooing the stain w/ the carpet cleaner. I haven't used any hot water on it. I'm beginning to think that cockroaches wouldn't be the only thing that would survive a nuclear holocaust. If the end comes, pour a pitcher of red Koolaid over your head and YOU WILL BE SAVED! Grrrrr. I'd also like to get my fingers around the throat of whoever decided light beige carpet is a GOOD thing to put in a house. And a white kitchen floor. I miss my old grubby 70's orange carpets and lineloeum. I NEVER thought I'd say THAT!
Duh
March 18, 2004 - 9:41 AM
Well Gee. Do you think it could have been that my page was loading slow because my internet connection was running at 25kbps? I think my DSL modem was overheating because it was setting on top of the hub. Duh. I'm getting 1250 kbps now that I've fixed it. Jeez. How's it loading for everyone else?
Help me please?
March 17, 2004 - 5:27 PM
You know? It is still taking forever to load. Does anyone out there that knows anything about any of this stuff have any idea why its taking so long to load right now???
But its the middle of the month!
March 17, 2004 - 5:26 PM
I usually only start new pages once a month, but it seems like my blog is taking forever to load right now. So. New page. :)
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