Life, Love, and Critters – of course!
If anyone wishes to participate in this week’s 2nd Thursday Thirteen, I just finished putting together some code to make it purdyful and FUN!
If you have the type of blogging platform that allows you to publish at a later time, I thought you might like to grab the code if you’d like to work on yours early.
Please, if you have any troubles with the code or questions about it, just lemme know!
Grab the code and view the format here : THURSDAY THIRTEEN
Blah blah blah degenerative disc … blah blah comes with age .. motherhood .. blah blah .. no visible compression .. blah blah physical therapy.
The end.
Do you see that? There’s a ding on my catfish! Oh noooo! (And have you voted for him lately? Huh? Have ya huh? Well go on, vote!)
I noticed the ding at the VIP party a few weeks ago. Last week while my sis was in town, I took her down to Minuteman Press (my sponsor) so she could see it in person. I studied the ding, fretted over the ding, and this week I must repair the ding. I’m not happy about the ding one little bit! This coming Sunday, August 21st, the Catfish will be on auction and each one will get a permanent owner and home. My catfish will be ding free when this happens.
That, my friends, is my dingy little topic of the morning.
Oh! How could I forget, I should also find out the results of the MRI today. Wahoo! (/sarcasm) ouch.
And over here to the right you see a fine plate of food, which isn’t fast food, either! I cooked! This is Mark’s favorite home cooked meal (at the moment). It’s super easy too, because I’m a lazy cook, in case you want to try it. I marinated a couple of chicken breasts, pan fried them until the outsides were done in a stew pot (chili pot, whatever you call that thing, I’m no expert!), then followed the instructions on two boxes of PastaRoni cooking the chicken in with the noodles. Yummmmmy stuff there! We use the angel hair pasta, one parmesan and one of the herb sauce. Those little yellow pellet things on the plate? That’s corn. I’m serious! It comes in a can! Isn’t that COOL?
Okay enough horsing around, I better get back to work! Happy Monday to you!
I just love this pic, it’s in my new gallery (under photography) along with some others that I haven’t shown here in my blog, and I keep looking at him but put off showing him for some reason!
Here’s a fun little tidbit, when Mark was in Iraq, I had changed my IM “chime” to a roosters crow. Every time he logged on then, there was a resounding “cock-a-doodle-doo!!!” throughout the house as I also left the speakers on full blast. Nothing was more reassuring and exciting to me than hearing that (damn) rooster crow!
Nowadays, however, not so much! If I hear a rooster crow on TV, at the zoo, wherever, I about choke on my heart for some reason. What once used to calm me is now something that I find somewhat startling and maybe even a little terrifying!
I really am that nuts. (Ask around, I’m sure any number of people can confirm that.)
So, dear friends, some of whom used to get an earful (on the phone) of crowing on occasion, how do you feel when you hear a cock doodly-doing?
It is. It’s entirely too early to be awake, but I am. I was up just before 6AM, hubby getting all dressed up in his studly uniform for a weekend of drill. We’ve got birthday dinner plans for him tonight, so I’m hoping he’s home in time for his steak & potatoes! 😉
I’m working today, and it’s raining, so it’s a great day to be working! Right now I’m (writing in my blog) uploading my photography to my new gallery, then for the remainder of the day I’ll be finishing up another custom blog graphic.
The MRI yesterday was really wierd, by the way. It took a half hour, that’s one noisy piece of equipment! I should have the results Monday, no later than Tuesday. I also saw my chiro lastnight and with the pain I’m having now in my back he mentioned “herniated disc”. Not official, but that’s what he said since my pain is shifting, becoming stronger on the left right where the nerve bundle comes out from the spine, and dull pain moving down the right leg now instead of the left. Hey at least I don’t walk like Egor anymore, all hunched over and dragging my leg behind me! Now I kindof stand up straight and just have wierd spasms every now and again. Jeez it sucks to get old!!
With that, I’m going to get back to work! Hope your weekend is off to a great start!
I thought it might be a fun thing to start up a Thursday Thirteen thing. If you blog, I’d love for you to participate!
Every Thursday, I’ll post a list of 13 things about me, trying not to repeat anything from my 100 things list. These things will be fun, recent things even, that will give you a little more insight into what I’m all about, like it or lump it! LOL
So, bloggers, if you want to participate, I’d love it! Your list can be purely fiction, non-fiction, or a bit of both – it is totally up to you. Thirteen things is all I ask for, and what do you get in return? Linkage! If you do it, leave a comment here and link me to your Thursday Thirteen. I will be sure to update my entry with links to yours, and then you can continue the chain if you like! I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 13 things. Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!
My Thursday Thirteen:
1. I’ve given up giving up my creamer for black coffee!
2. I cut my own hair, and I’ll be getting my clippers out today. I think!
3. I’m working on another custom blog graphic that’s pretty complex.
4. I bought a new office chair last weekend!
5. I hate thongs. (See Michele.)
6. I “met” a new blogger yesterday, KB, and she’s very cool!
7. I cleaned my desk last weekend and found a book of stamps.
8. I recently purchased three books: (1) How to Draw Cartoons for Comic Strips, (2) How to Draw Cartoon Animals and (3) Drawing the Head & Figure. Yes I know how to draw, but I am always up for improving my skills!
9. Some of you know about my affection for pretty things to write with. I am the proud new owner of the full set of Staedtler Triplus Fineliners. They rock.
10. I was on the phone most of the day Tuesday, and at the end of the day in the middle of my last phone call of the day, my cordless battery died.
11. It’s all recharged now.
12. I’m very much a plain Jane when it comes to jewelry (cross/chain, wedding ring only). I put my watch on only when I leave the house, along with a very special bracelet given to me by my bestest buddy Paige last Christmas.
13. I am in the process (right now, just hung up with the chiro’s office) of scheduling an MRI to find out what’s really wrong with my back!
THURSDAY THIRTEENS AROUND THE WEB
–> Sandra over at The Crone’s Corner shares 13 things here!
TECHNORATI TAG: Thursday Thirteen
| Your Birthdate: January 15 |
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With a birthday on the 15th of any month, you are apt to have really strong attachments to home, family and domestic scene.
The 1 and 5 equaling 6, provide the sort of energy that makes you an excellent parent or teacher. You are very responsible and capable. This is an attractive and an attracting influence. You like harmony in your environment and strive to maintain it. You tend to learn by observation rather than study and research. You may like to cook, but you probably don't follow recipes. This number shows artistic leanings and would certainly support an talents that may be otherwise in your makeup. You're a very generous and giving person, but perhaps a bit stubborn in ways. |
Snagged from Pamibe!
Welp folks, you’re now reading the blog of a juried member of MCFA, and my work will be exhibited in the (brick & mortar!) RiverCenter Gallery during the 2006/2007 exhibition schedule.
WHOOHOOO!
This is a huge step forward, so those of you who already own my work, hold on tight!
P.S. Those of you who voted yesterday for my Catfish “Trapped”, thank you!! I’m not sure votes were registered though, and it looks like the code is finally showing accurate results. If your vote registered, you’ll see the current results – if not, you can cast your vote again! (psst…mine is the very last one on the page!)
I know a few of you have been waiting for my new gallery layout to go live. Well it’s allllmost ready, so I’ve decided to show you and see how you like it!
There are a few more things that need tweaking, of course, it won’t go live until it’s all done. I’m going to work on it for a little while this afternoon as I wait for the mailmain to bring me that ONE piece of mail that will tell me if a jury thinks I’m any good, which for some reason always gets me in a tizzy.
Anyhoo, tell me what you think about that new setup! I’ll be in there doin’ stuff while you’re looking.
