Archive for April, 2008

Thursday Thirteen #28 - Words to Describe Me

Another theme week for Thursday Thirteen
Choose a letter of the alphabet and write thirteen words that describe you that begin with that letter. Be creative and have fun!
I asked the kids to pick a letter (they didn’t know why I was asking) and ‘J’ is the letter they picked. Is there even thirteen adjectives [...]

I’m trying out for American Idol

After two days of playing RockBand with the family, I’ve decided I’m a good (

Things never work out like you expect

Stupid JCPenney. So we got the curtain. And it’s freakin’ YELLOW. Those who know me know how that’s going over right now. I freakin’ HATE HATE HATE yellow.
I ordered this from a picture online and in their catalog. It’s off-white on my screen. Not LEMON yellow. The description said “creamy vanilla”. And while some [...]

Yay for sunny days!

Today
Partly sunny. Highs 65 to 70. East wind 5 to 10 mph shifting to the southeast in the afternoon.
That’s the forecast today. After the rain, hail, and even snow we’ve had for the past two weeks, I’m definitely ready for a nice day. We can get the lawn mowed, do some yard work and just [...]

Thursday Thirteen 27 Places I’ve been to

This is my first ‘themed’ Thursday Thirteen and the theme is:
In order to get ready for vacation time, we asked you to write about thirteen places you’ve visited that you’d recommend.
I saw this theme and knew it was perfect since in just a week we’ll be having our first weekend getaway alone in almost a [...]

Look-alike?

There’s an ad that pops up in the BlogHer section of the side bar —->
It’s a survey to take sponsored by Ragu. There’s a boy in the picture in the ad looking at his food with an expression of disappointment. Every time I see this ad on my site I do a double-take. The kid [...]

Bullet Sunday #16

It’s been a while since I’ve done a Bullet Sunday and there’s so much random stuff going on I figured it was fitting to do one today.

Last weekend the sun was shining, it was close to 80 degrees outside and we had a BBQ. This weekend we’re taking pictures of the snow that fell. SNOW. [...]