Fun animal quiz

You're a Donkey!

Loyal and helpful, you are capable of carrying heavy loads for
others. At the same time, you're a bit ornery about being asked to do things and can
sometimes be a real, well, you know. Regardless, many see you only for what they can
get you to do rather than actual personality attributes you might have. Some media
influences make you seem very funny, while others have made people think it would be
a horrible punishment to end up like you. When you were young, you always seemed to
end up getting hurt at birthday parties.


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Fun Sesame Street quiz

You Are Bert

Extremely serious and a little eccentric, people find you loveable - even if you don't love them! You are usually feeling: Logical - you rarely let your emotions rule you You are famous for: Being smart, a total neat freak, and maybe just a little evil How you life your life: With passion, even if your odd passions (like bottle caps and pigeons) are baffling to others

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We're getting a house!

Yeah! We finally found a house we love, and we're in the middle of the process of buying it! In less than a month, we'll be in our very own home.

As the date comes closer, I get more excited! Yesterday I went to The Home Depot and bought our first new appliances: refrigerator, washer, and dryer. Although it was a little disapopinting to go home with only a receipt and a delivery date. As soon as we get them delivered, I'll take pictures to post. That's assuming I can find my computer underneath all the packing boxes, of course. :)

Oh, by the way, this house is not the house from the previous post. We found it while we were still on the back-up list of the other one. While we were frustrated and disappointed with not getting the first house, we were really excited about finding "our" house, so we decided to go for it. It has a bunch of features the other house didn't: a better layout, more square footage, a master bathroom, a two-car garage (the other house only had a one-car garage), a hot tub, a separate family room, and a fourth bedroom. It's such a great house, I even get excited just typing about it!

Now my evenings and weekends are spent packing and cleaning. I usually dread packing, but I keep telling myself how much I'm going to enjoy our new home. That get's me going. Hopefully moving day will be a breeze.

House hunting

I haven't posted in awhile. Part of the reason is we've been very busy looking for our first house. I have some exciting news, and some not exciting news. The exciting news - we made an offer on a house we really love Saturday morning. The not exciting news - the sellers didn't accept our offer first, but instead put us in a backup position. If we accept the backup position (we will because we love the house), then if something happens with the first position buyer then we get a shot at it. It might take up to two weeks to know if the first position buyer isn't going to be able to buy the house for whatever reason.

I will update when we know more.

Cool marble machine video

This is such a cool video! I love things like this. It's going around the blogging world quickly, so I apologize if you've already seen it. Wait, no I don't. It's so good it's worth seeing more than once!

Click on the watch button in the Incredible Machines box. Enjoy!

Favorite anytime movies

One of my friend's talked about her favorite anytime movies on her blog, so I thought I'd make a list of mine too. These are movies I will watch when I just want to veg (is that spelled right?), stitch, or curl up with my husband and kitty (or all three at the same time!). They are in no particular order.

1. Matrix (The first one is my favorite, of course.)
2. The Princess Bride
3. Lord of the Rings (I'm just getting into the commentaries - great for stitching.)
4. Double Jeopardy
5. Star Wars IV - VI
6. The Mummy 1 & 2
7. Pirates of the Caribbean, The Curse of the Black Pearl
8. The Day After Tomorrow
9. Flight of the Navigator (I need to buy this one still)
10. Ever After
11. Independence Day
12. Indiana Jones (Last Crusade & Raiders of the Lost Ark are my two favorites)
13. Finding Nemo (I need to buy this one too)
14. Aladdin
15. The Shawshank Redemption (Okay, so there's a few I need to buy :) )
16. Men in Black
17. Sabrina (1995)
18. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
19. X-Men
20. Back to the Future (all 3!)
21. The Fugitive (This is one of my Dad's favorites. Dr. (said with a strong newscaster voice) Richard Kimble.)
22. Sahara (I don't have it yet)
23. Speed
24. The Thomas Crown Affair
25. Any Pierce Brosnan Bond film

Okay, I think I'll stop at 25. It turned into more of a favorite movie list in general because I don't own all of them. The first eight listed are the ones I reach for on a regular basis.

P.S. Thank you to those that encouraged me to write an update. It means a lot to me that you check my blog to see how things are going. Thanks! *hugs*

Lazy weekend

We have had a very lazy weekend. I started another jigsaw puzzle in the living room. It really works great to put up the card table. I have an Ott-Lite I use on the table to see the pieces; it shines light on the table but stays out of other people's eyes. This puzzle is a multi-picture of a wolf. It's a bunch of little pictures of animals made up so the shading in the big picture looks like a wolf. I started putting it together sometime last year, and about 3/4 of the way done, I put it away in a puzzle storing thingy. You put the puzzle on the flat piece of fabric, fill the tube with air then roll the tube down the fabric to create a roll of puzzle. But it's not designed for long-term storage as we found out. The air leaks out slowly and the tube shrinks letting the roll relax and lose pieces. We finally put the puzzle away a few weeks ago because it was almost all the way deflated. So now I'm starting it over. There were three good-sized sections still together, but I'm nowhere near where I was before. It was a fun puzzle before, and I'm looking forward to doing it again. I'm planning on watching a movie or two this afternoon and working on it. Fun!

We had fun weather yesterday. There was a short thunderstorm, but I've never been in one so close before! The thunder was not more than 2 seconds after the lightning, and it was so loud! The first thunder clap disturbed me out of a nap on the couch; I woke up very surprised and confused. John and I laughed at how startled I was. We saw a little hail, too.

Shopping/walking

Well, tonight after dinner at Olive Gardens, we did our walking around at Barnes & Noble. I know it doesn't count as aerobic excersice, but I'm tired nonetheless. Tomorrow I will go walking after work. Hopefully it's not raining. :)

By the way, we bought quite a few good bargain books, and I got a cute little set of notecards. Fun!

Walking log

So tonight we went for a short walk to the bank and back. It might have been a mile, but was probably a little less than that. It was already dark and cold.

I want to keep a walking log on my blog. I've seen other blogs where runners log their trips. I think it's a pretty cool idea.

My Mom's cat

My Mom's cat, Cjazz, is now in kitty heaven. He was young at 12 years, but he developed diabetes and was in a lot of discomfort. My parents decided to put him to sleep. The vet went to their house to issue the IV, and they said it was quite peaceful. They're going to bury him in the yard in a spot he loved to sit and watch all the creatures of the area. He was my cat, too, and I'll miss him.

New warm clothes

For work I bought new boot socks and more jeans (stretch boot cut) and a skin-hugging camisole. I also recovered my boots from my parents' house. Today at work my feet were quite cozy considering it was only 37 degrees out!

New link

My mother-in-law started her own blog! This is a big step for her. We sat down with her and helped her get it started. She has been interested in starting one for awhile now. I always love reading her emails to me. She's a good story teller, and I know she'll have some good posts to read.

Starting over

Okay, okay, so I haven't been posting every day. I will start again. Lately I've had a hard time thinking of what to post about. And I don't have as much time anymore just to sit down at the computer and fiddle.

And now that we are done with the birthday celebration, I want to again cut back on sweets and exercise more. I'll just keep writing this down and keep trying to get into this habit. It will be nice when the weather is nicer so we can walk outside more. I'm really looking forward to spring this year.

Friday the 13th - Good Luck Day

I've always considered Friday the 13ths to be Good Luck Days. I believe things happen according to your perception of things. Just believe you'll have good luck, and whatever happens, you can find the good in it. So good luck or bad luck is really just in your head.

Even though I don't really believe in luck, I have one silly superstition. I don't pick up pennies from the ground when tails is facing up. I can't explain why I follow this superstition. Like I said, it's quite silly.

Trying to eat healthier

For a few years now I keep telling myself that I will eat healthier and exercise so that I can be healthier and maybe a little thinner. Well, it's come to a climax now where I don't think I can go on eating junk. So I want to eat more dairy and fruit and veggies. And I want to walk every day after work. I'm writing this down so I can refer to it. Thoughts that don't get written down are never going to take place.

Puzzle games

I love puzzle games. There's one puzzle, called sudoku, that involves placing numbers in a 9 by 9 grid. One of the customers from work created his own sudoku website with a new puzzle every day at www.sudokuplace.com. I've gotten hooked on them. They are great to work on at work while driving between business. Well, my co-worker drives, and I sit and ride.

Mochas and lattes and tea, oh my!

This week I started working on a coffee truck that drives on a schedule route to different businesses to serve people espresso and coffee and some food items. I work with one other person on the truck. I'm quite excited about meeting new people and making espresso. We're out in the elements, but so far it hasn't been too cold. I'll post funny stories as they happen.

Homemade chicken noodle soup

Wow, I'm on a roll. Tonight I used the leftover chicken to make chicken stock for chicken noodle soup. It turned out pretty good, except I ran out of broth. I'll know to use more water for next time.

Yeah for trying new things!

First time roasting chicken

Last night I adventured into the world of roast chicken. I even made giblet gravy! I used a basil/thyme/pepper rub. It all turned out pretty good. Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures.

Then tonight we had homemade pizza with bread made in our bread machine. It was really easy and really good! I'm going to make that more often.

Christmas cookies

My Mom and I usually make some cookies at Christmas time. One year we made seven different batches; it was very fun, but we both have a terrible sweet tooth, so now we limit to one or two batches total. This year we made jam thumbprints, which are like a shortbread cookie, rolled in egg whites and walnuts, with an indentation filled with jam. We used marionberry and raspberry jams, and they turned out very yummy. They disappeared quickly.