Monday, August 2nd, 2010
It’s hard to believe it’s August already!
The Boy got a job for the summer (and probably for schooltime as well) at St*ples. He’s having a great time with it. He now has the funds to pay for his own gas and, once he has his debt paid off to the parents for the accident, he will contribute towards his car insurance as well. Plus he spends his own money on video games, entertainment, dates with The Girlfriend, etc.
The Hubby is working hard, too. He had a line review with a prospective customer last month and will hopefully be hearing about the results soon. He’s hoping it all works out and he can keep working his business… but if not, it’s back to looking for a “real” job (you know, a 9 to 5 jig).
I am trying to relax for this month. September and October will be challenging… back to school, church events, and (hopefully) chocolate making adventures will be filling my time and energy.
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Sunday, April 4th, 2010
is change. And the past few months have been leading up to some serious changes in our household.
The Hubby is no longer employed.
The Hubby is now a business owner. And so am I. (But, I am also employed… I was just lucky enough to snag this new position in addition to my current duties of watching General Hospital, eating bon-bons and writing bad poetry a part time job, volunteer work at church, mother, wife and prospective chocolate maker. )
What seemed like a big problem now seems like a big opportunity. The Hubby is more energized, more engaged in his work, and generally happier. (Happy Hubby = Happy Home).
The Hubby now works out of the home office. The home office used to be my office where he occasionally visited and turned on his super old and super loud desktop computer – you know, to turn it on and update it so he could turn it back off for the next six months. But now it is OUR office – him on his side and me on mine. It’s kind of nice to have someone around – after five years of working by myself I now have an office-mate. The only issue we have is the phone – we can’t be on calls at the same time. So that sometimes means one of us puts off a call or takes it downstairs so we can each hear our own conversations.
I’ll keep you updated on how well these changes go over the long term….
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Why are square meals served on round plates?
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Sunday, December 20th, 2009
I’m not talking the canned meat here…
here is one of the spam comments on this blog today:
Do chickens think rubber humans are funny?
My guess would be, yes, chickens DO think rubber humans are funny. And maybe someday (not today… too cold and too much snow) I will ask my mother’s chickens if they want a good laugh and show them a rubber human…then I will know for sure if chickens think rubber humans are funny.
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
knock, knock… anyone there??? Seems my dedicated readership of two has dwindled to none.
Drats.
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
One of my most favorite movies is Dirty Dancing (1987). When it came out on video (remember VHS?), I was working at a video rental store (remember when you went to small, locally owned video stores? Yeah, I worked at one of those). The biggest perk of the job (other than watching movies AT work) was getting advance copies of movies. After all, the owner theorized, how could his employees recommend a movie if they hadn’t seen it?
So there I was, in college, working part time at the video store and The Fiancee (now starring as The Hubby) was on the West Coast on a temporary assignment. So I had tons of time to watch movies. I think I watched Dirty Dancing twice a day for a week. I could quote it, scene by scene. The only thing I couldn’t do is the dance moves. “Look, spaghetti arms. This is my dance space. This is your dance space. I don’t go into yours, you don’t go into mine. You gotta hold the frame.”
Then:
Steel Dawn
Road House
Next of Kin
Ghost
Point Break
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
Forever Lulu
11:14
And now Patrick Swayze is gone. At age 57, pancreatic cancer won out.
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Saturday, September 5th, 2009
One of the hazards of my name – religious signs. This was taken somewhere between CO and CT.
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
If you’re going to dance with the Devil, at least get to know the color of his underpants.
That stuck me as one of the best lines I’ve read in a long time.
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
So, I have been dragging my feet on updating my WordPress… the instructions just seemed impossible. Or maybe I am just one of those people who need to see something in process to make it work, not just the written instructions. I was pretty sure that was my issue in getting pictures to post – that I didn’t have the most updated version of WordPress.
As The Boy has been wanting to earn some cash, I decided to kill two birds with one stone. So I offered him $20 in “mom credit” to update me. So he spent about 45 minutes to an hour trying to upload the new files to my server… then looked at me and said, “this server sucks!”. I challenged him to find me another provider with easier uploading/updating and better service. He found BlueHost and I signed up.
Let me tell you, what a breeze. We got through the install pretty quickly and easily; it installed my old files super quick and before I knew it, all was wonderful. I could upload pictures! Whoo-hoo!
I have thought about changing my theme, but it, again, seemed impossibly confusing. So with the new WordPress update and new server, I decided to try it again. I searched for a new theme I liked, found one, hit a button, and voilia! A brand new look for my blog.
With the new look, I was able to do some housekeeping – cleaning up some pages and posts.
I guess I’ll keep The Boy for awhile (at least, until he leaves me for college!).
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
I’ve been putting it off, but I really need to update my blog. I have so many ideas on how I want to have it structured, but since I had such a hard time installing WordPress, it has scared me off.
I did, however, get around to updating/creating blogrolls. So now you will see some more of the places that I visit on the web (you know, the places I spend hours and hours on instead of doing something productive).
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