My life in bullet points

• Josh took the batteries out of my mouse. I don't know why. I want them back though because touch pads are not as cool.

• I wanted to share my favorite picture from last weekend, but it's so hard to choose just one!

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• I had a great weekend this week too, but no picture evidence. It was nice to just relax and have fun with Andrea and Emily that included many of my favorite things - seeing them of course, going to the movies, Gondoliers, shopping + great sales, starbucks/barnes & noble. I'm ready for a repeat just talking about it.
  
• This is the third week that I have gone without being in the worship service. I miss it. And I love that I actually miss it.
  
• Less than two weeks before Gage makes his grand entrance.
  
• Beth Moore + Psalms is awesome. I, however, am a slacker.
  
• Did I mention I love good sales? This weekend I bought 5 tops and a dress for an average of $2.51 per article of clothing (yes I did just pull out the calculator)
• My car is starting to act it's age. Something else needs fixed. I mean, I shouldn't complain because the way car things run, an extra $40 isn't too bad. But the new tires it needs aren't going to feel too good.
• Josh has an interview on Tuesday. They definitely called him up awfully quick, so hopefully that's a good sign. On the downside, it's not full time, but has potential to get there.
  
• I finished Twilight ... tonight. I will be reading the rest of the series, but am not exactly sure how I feel about it. Eventually, I'll give details, but I'm still formulating right now.
  
• Good job to anyone who did more than skim this list. (There will be a quiz later)
  

For you married people

You HAVE to see this video - a song about "business time". But nothing crazy, so you can watch too Mom. It is hilarious. Josh and I saw it on the retreat last weekend. Oh and if you're not married yet, of course it's not like that at all. Especially the part about nothing on tv. :)

Oh yeah

And I also meant to say that
1) We had an awesome weekend, resulting in some awesome pictures that I will share shortly
2)All our fish died. Sad.
3) Seriously, every day we woke up to a dead fish until they were all gone. Sad and frustrating.
4) I am supposed to be working right now. Also sad. Mostly because I'm not doing it.


So, I should probably go do that now. ... because putting it off just makes it take that much longer ... and it won't take that long if I start now ...


... sigh...

okay, okay, I'm going!

Who you calling old?

I bought this new purse. I don't buy a lot of purses because (other than the obvious that they cost money) I don't switch them around much. I thought this one would be good since it had brown and black so I never have to clash. I wanted to get *ahem* someone's opinion on it and they said it looks like an old lady purse.

Now I don't always take this persons fashion advice, but now I'm scared to take the tags off. Will I actually carry it or will I think it looks too ... mature.

So I'm taking a vote. Do you think this is cute and stylish? Ugly as sin? Nice for someone a little older? Let me know what you think and you could win a purse of your very own! (For only $15.00 shipping and handling and a short trip to Walmart.)

I know

I haven't been around much this week. I've thought about blogging, but a couple things held me back.

1) My wonderful new computer has Windows Vista. I was told Vista is a pain, and it is true. I have spent hours trying to get everything to work right, including being able to log-on to some stuff I needed for work. And discovering after Josh and I both worked on it, that the cd we have to install the printer is not compatible with Vista, so we had to unistall it and download instead. So, I didn't really want to be near my computer. Theoretically, everything is working now. :)

2) This has been a stressful week. Partly because I let myself get behind in everything. And partly because we are going away for the weekend. So not only did I need to catch up, I needed to get ahead in things like work and laundry.

BUT, did I mention we're going away this weekend? Woohoo! I am ready for a break. The ministry team at our church has a retreat every year and since Josh is part of leadership at DC we get to be included. So, not only are we getting away, but we are going with some great friends. We are leaving tonight so I better go get busy.

It's Here!

I am the proud of owner of a new Toshiba laptop. (That looks something like this minus the frog.)

My Dell served me well - okay it served me - through all of college. And after all the work I do on the computer at home, (like real work that I get paid for, not just this kind of thing) it seemed like time. It was overdue for retirement anyway.

We ordered from Overstock last weekend and it arrived today. That's great service for only a $2.50 shipping charge. Now I just have to get all my files switched over and we're good to go.

Say it isn't so

Sadly I have to admit that I am much more interested in who get voted off than who gets voted in.

Look what I found!

I love this girl! And this pic. :) I love that Krystal is one of my longest friends. And that can't get rid of me since she married into the family. ha! AND that my new little nephew will be here in five short weeks.

More fishy fun

Our tank has grown some in the last few weeks. Well, the tank is the same size, but it now has more in it. :) I thought I would introduce our new fishy friends.

This is the underside of our chocolate chip starfish, Episky.









These are our clownfish. The orange one is Lumos and the black one in Nox. They're buddies.







This is our bright little crab. His name is Diffindo.













And lastly, even though he has been with us the longest, is Reparo. Reparo is pretty timid, so it's harder to catch him swimming around in the tank.


That's probably all the additions for now. We may expand more as more funding comes through. lol Mostly it is Josh's hobby. He has to do all the dirty work like add more water and check the levels, blah, blah. I just get to sit and enjoy. They are pretty relaxing.

You ain't got no alibi

Last weekend we celebrated our church turning four. After church services we went out to the park/lake for a picnic. The weather was absolutely perfect, btw. Of course, we had potluck style so everyone brought food. I made a cake on Saturday night and even had some confetti icing on hand so it could be festive.

Instead I ended up with this ...
U-G-L-Y

You would think it's hard to screw up a cake mix and can of icing. But I made it look easy and I'm going to share my plan with you so you too can make an ugly cake.

Step 1: Remember, you will be traveling with this cake, so you need to easily transport it. After considering the size and shape of your cake-taker bake a round cake.

Step 2: Go to get cake-taker (while cake is cooling) and remember that you don't have a round one after all. It is a rectangle.

Step 3: Put icing on first round. Set second round on top of first and realize that it is upside down leaving the two highest points of the cake touching and resulting in a large gap all the way around.

Step 4: Try to fill the gap with icing and realize that you are running out of icing.

Step 5: Also now see that gravity is taking hold of your cake and the top round is breaking into large chunks.

Step 6: Figure at this point it can't get much worse, so go ahead and force the lid on even though the cake is too tall.

Step 7: Go to Kroger and buy a pre-made cake.