Life, Love, and Critters – of course!
Merry Christmas, everyone! Just wanted to get a few pics of what’s been going on at our house. I’m sitting here with my new MP3 player strapped to my forearm, jamming to John Mayer – I’ve already loaded 120 songs onto it! WooHoot! I’ve got a nice big crock pot filled with ham hocks and split peas – it smells so good my stomach is just grumbling like CRAZY. Furbee baby is sleeping, he’s really sweet but sorta snarky, if ya know what I mean?
Attention all Thursday Thirteen blogrollers –
I’ve just gone through and moderated the THURSDAY THIRTEEN BLOGROLL.
I’ve had to remove several blogs from the blogroll. If yours has been removed, it’s because of one of two reasons:
1. You do not participate in the Thursday Thirteen on a regular basis.
and/or
2. The TT Blogroll was not displayed on your blog where I could find it.
If I am mistaken, please forgive me. If you need assistance with getting the blogroll on your blog, just ask. If so many people are promoting your blog on their blogs, it’s only fair that you reciprocate.
Thank you for participating!
My Friday has to be better than My Thursday. First, our Cardinal playing peekaboo out back, he’s just candy. Totally unrelated to yesterdays events.
Second, I have a question. Let’s say you get a gift, from someone you didn’t expect a gift from, someone you never talk to or even see. Let’s say you dream about the gift and how not right it feels to even accept it. What do you do?
Third, while all of my good friends were off bloghopping the TT, I was combating a hacker in my system. Here’s how it went: Leanne visits first blog left in comments. She opens the window, reads Thirteen Things, in the process the open window has gone inactive for no apparent reason 3 times. She has to click the window to activate it, then scroll. Opening comments, the comment page also went inactive several times, as though something is running in the foreground, but nothing is running in the foreground. She begins typing a comment, and the words start looking lkei tish because the cursor is being magically repositioned to the space before the letter she just typed. Thinking the blog she was visiting was cursed, she tries another TT. Same thing.
As you can see from my list of Thirteen’s I visited yesterday, I didn’t get far before I was cussing my fool head off and running Panda Activescan Pro on all three of the puters on our network, spending hours cleaning and eliminating.
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2. Is there one gift you’ve purchased (or made) for someone this year that you really love, and are excited to give?
3. Are you already planning a New Year’s resolution?
4. If you make a resolution, what are the odds you’ll keep it?
5. What is your favorite color?
6. Do you have a favorite animal? What is it? (that’s part of the question.)
7. How often do you visit my blog?
8. How come you never call?
9. You really don’t love me, do you?
10. Could you telll I was just kiddin’?
11. When is your birthday? MM/DD
12. Is Santa bringing you fancy pressies, or coal? Maybe a bit of both?
13. D’jya know there’s only 2 days left til Christmas?
BLOGROLL: Please check my sidebar for the TT Logo and Blogroll. If you’re not on it and you participate in the TT, You can ADD YOURSELF TO THE TT BLOGROLL HERE! Those blogs with the yellow/black exclamation points have been recently updated.
LINKS TO THIRTEENS I’VE VISITED TODAY:
1. Lisa @ The Shizzle
2. Colleen aka Chickadee
3. Marie @ Practigal
Picking up on Friday where my puter dropped me off Thursday…
4. Tommi
5. YellowRose
6. Barbara
7. LadyBug Crossing
8. Nancy @ CraZedMoM
9. Uisce @ Whiskey Talking
10. Lyndsay
11. Colleen @ Loose Leaf Notes
12. Charity
13. Allison @ Geronimo!
14. Ivoryfrog
15. MommaK
16. Ocean Lady
17. Andrea @ Real School
18. Lisa @ The World According to Me
19. Mrs. Fun
20. Interstellar Lass
21. Renee @ Fefyfomanna
22. Crystal
23. Steph @ Mom2mke
24. Running2K’s
25. Kodijack
26. SquashedToad
27. SusiePie
28. Sallwood
29. Jen @ Jen’s Horde
30. Janet @ Fond of Snape
31. Jennifer @ Open Book
32. Craig
33. Kristi @ Life as I know it
34. Judy
35. Jennifer @ Happy at Home
36. D
37. Texas Ivy
38. Lily Bleu
39. Ahavah
40. Angel
41. Shelli @ Shelli’s Sentiments
42. Keb
43. Magnolia Mom
44. Cynthia
45. Dawn @ Neville Farm
46. Kat
47. Holly @ Crazy Momma
48. Sheri & SuZan
49. Cindi
50. Raehan
Leave your link in comments & I’ll do my bestest to visit you today!
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This is Joey’s completed underpainting. This is the base from which I’ll paint his fur, deepen and brighten his eyes and mouth, and give his coat a nice soft shine.
View my Custom Dog Portrait category to watch the painting as it progresses.
All I can say is MEAN PEOPLE SUCK. Frosty was pushed. There are footprints – he was pushed hard. I tracked the prints back to their source, and I think I know who did it – and I’m tempted to call the cops and file a report. Obviously the jerk had to push hard, Frosty is a well built snowman and didn’t go down easy.
MEME #1, FIVE THINGS
The rules for this particular meme are as follows: Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot. Simplicity itself!
1. Vince
2. Hanuman
3. Running2Ks
4. Chickadee
5. Leanne
Then you get to select five people to pass the love on to. I choose to fill in these spaces with whoever hasn’t done this meme and would like to – so let me know if you do it and I’ll put your links here.
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1. I don’t have a Christmas wish list. I don’t need anything, and I don’t want for anything, either. No one sells replacement body parts, so I guess I’m outta luck this year.
2. I am still working on my Christmas cards.
3. I still have homemade dough ornaments to paint and put together, and ship.
4. I would like to finish Joey’s underpainting this week, and I’m not sure when I’m going to have the chance.
5. I would have liked to finish reading all of the TT’ers from last week, too. I’m sorry that didn’t happen – I tried. I will continue to try every week, that I can promise!
6. I’ve had horrible dreams this week, I attribute it to the sinusitis. I keep waking up crying, or tossing and turning in fear and worry. Then I can’t breathe right for the rest of the night. Blech.
7. I have several more gifties to go, and Saturday looks like it’s THE DAY. THE DAY to get every single thing we’re getting. All in one day. That’s the way to do it! (Except I snuck in some stuff the last few times I ran errands. heh.)
8. Our baby girl (not such a baby anymore) was recommended and accepted into the TEC Program (TEC = Thinking, Enrichment, Challenge) ’cause she’s a smarty pants. Just ask her.
9. My favorite spoil-me-rotten cookies are Pepperidge Farm Raspberry and/or Orange Milano’s. Did you ever notice that a Milano is shaped like and is the same size as the average tongue? “The easier to eat you with, m’dear!” That’s what I’m sayin’.
11. Hubby is home now for the Holidays! WOOHOO!
12. I hope to get to the Church to finish up that mural before Christmas, too. Now that Hubby is around, I just might get caught up on things!
13. I gotta make more cookies. What’s your all time favorite Christmas Cookie, hands down?
BLOGROLL: Please check my sidebar for the TT Logo and Blogroll. If you’re not on it and you participate in the TT, You can ADD YOURSELF TO THE TT BLOGROLL HERE! Those blogs with the yellow/black exclamation points have been recently updated.
LINKS TO THIRTEENS I’VE VISITED TODAY:
1. Momma K
2. Shelli @ Shelli’s Sentiments
3. Better Safe Than Sorry
4. Carolyn @ A Prairie View
5. Chickadee @ Musings from the Edge
6. Kat @ My Single Mom Life
7. Colleen @ Loose Leaf Notes
8. Holly @ Holly’s Happenings
9. Enigma
10. Lisa @ Just a Girl
11. Tommi
12. Marie aka PractGal
13. SusiePie
14. D @ Straddling the Line
15. Ivoryfrog
16. Judy @ Insecure
17. Ocean Lady
18. Fionna
19. Sallwood
20. Tammy
21. Lily Bleu
22. Jakapk
23. Sandra
24. Running2Ks
25. Lisa @ The Shizzle
26. Renee
27. Raehan
28. Lisa @ The World According To Me
29. Suzy
Leave your link in comments so I can visit you today!
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