Pictures of stuff

The wall in the local Applebees. We actually lived near Nashville when the Titans first came to Tennessee. It was neat watching the stadium go up slowly.


This is the static sticker on the back window of my car. It is a faery cat celtic design I bought it at the Celtic shop in Gatlinburg a couple of years ago.


My nightstand. See the purple kitty? My oldest picked it out for me year before last when I was in the hospital. She said "I picked it because it is so you".

Have you voted?

Ok, not only am I up for Ms. Blogger, I am also in Sar's caption contest. Today is the last day to vote. Have you voted yet? She has this neat little poll up on her sidebar. Only one vote per computer.

Click the button to go there.

The Legend of Zorro

I rented The Legend of Zorro the other night. It had this gorgeous fellow in it.

Isn't he beautiful?



Oh yeah, Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones were in it too. Both beautiful in their own right. Although I must say Antonio isn't aging as well as most actors.

But back to my favorite character. He's huge for one thing, gorgeous thick black hair. He is also a bit of comedic relief. At one point chugging what I assumed to be wine and belching then later smoking a pipe. Overall the movie was good, but I liked the first one better.

I googled (as I always do) and found out that this wonderful breed of horse is called a Friesian.





This isn't the same horse from the movie, but it is the same breed.

What to do when your heat isn't heating

1. Fiddle with the thermastat a couple of times.

2. Stand in a chair to see if the air coming from the vent is hot or cold.

3. If the air coming out is cold, curse it quietly.

4. Turn off heat and climb into the attic to look at the furnace.

5. Read and follow intstructions on the furnace carefully

6. When having trouble finding where the d**n pilot light is, curse loudly.

7. Go to the internet and google to find better instructions.

8. Climb back into the attic when you realize you need the freakin' model number.

9. Find and print manual.

10. Climb into the attic once again with the manual.

11. Curse the f**king furnace when the f**king diagram doesn't even resemble it!

12. Spend five minutes looking for where the actual pilot light is.

13. Once you find it, curse it for not being in the proper place, then follow lighting instructions carefully.

14. Once back in the house turn heat back on, when the air coming out of the vent is warm, go blog about your f**king experience.

15. Replace furnace with electric one before next fall.

Madonna

Make sure you check out the video on the sidebar. It is one of Madonna's best! Lot's of hotties in it and a pretty little cat too!

Eye Candy Thank You

Bubbles suggested that as a thank you for all the votes I have received I should post some eye candy. Personally I think she just wanted to see some herself. I made sure to pick eye candy that would appeal to everyone.

Valentine

Bald guys and sleeping late

It was a normal day in a little shop down by the river. The guy that plays Lex Luthor on Smallville was making shoes and we were watching. That's when I realized that I couldn't find the baby. I started calling her name and looking for her. I was so afraid she had wandered too close to the river. Suddenly I hear "Momma" . Wait a minute that is my oldest daughter. "Momma." I don't remember her being here.

Then I am in my bedroom, it is still dark and my oldest is standing in the door way. According to the clock it is only 6:23am. The alarm doesn't go off until 6:30am. She said the phone had been ringing. So I check the caller id, and it was Mom. I'm imagining that she had fallen and couldn't get up, but then how did she get the phone??? So I call her back. She said schools are closed. wtf? I can hear traffic on the road below from my bedroom window, it's just zipping by. There isn't even snow left here. So I go downstairs and check the website. It is closed because roads are bad in some areas of the county. When I was a kid city and county schools were separate, but now they are combined. I remember being so jealous that the county kids didn't have to go, but us city kids did.

So I went up and told T that she could go back to sleep, that school was out for the day. I checked on the two year old, because I was still a bit disturbed by my dream. Then I went back to sleep for TWO MORE HOURS before the little one woke us up.

Just my luck, I dream about a guy from a TV show and do I get the HOT super hero? No, just the bald bad guy.

Restless

I've been restless today and a little last night. When I went outside I realized we have a full moon. I have a little box on my sidebar telling me what phase of the moon we are in, but I haven't looked at it lately. Perhaps the moon is making me restless.

Go figure.

I found this cute little quiz over at Kaliblue's.

Your Passion is Pink!

You're the type of woman that would never get described as passionate... Oh but you can be passionate at times - you just don't let it show. Your passion most shows through in your sweet and optimistic attitude. And chances are, most people are very passionate about you!

What Color is Your Passion?

Game Time

Stolen from Xmichra:

It’s time to play a game, dontcha think?

And this is an easy one that you all can play along with, here are the rules:

1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open the book to page 123
3. Find the fifth sentence
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences (#5,6,7) on your blog, along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it. Just grab what is closest. No cheating.

He nodded with a half smile that was trusting and grateful and kind. He went on out the door. I stood trembling, listening to him make the stairs, and then the carriageway.

From Blood Canticle by Anne Rice. I haven't even had time to read this book yet! Maybe that's what i will do tonight.



Here is the overflowing bookcase just behind my seat at the desk. You can see the book I used on the top of the tallest stack! I really need to get another book case, or two. The other three I have are just as full!

Little B playing in her first snow

This is the first snow that B has been old enough to play in. She spent a lot of time pushing it around with her feet.


This is right after she fell over and got snow on her forehead and face a little. Being the great mom I am, I snapped a pic before helping her up and brushing her off.



Trying to get snow off of her mittens.

We finally got snow!!!

This is the first snow that has stuck all year, and the first good snow we have had since the day I brought little B home from the hospital! (two years ago) The snow even covers my pink Tinkerbell decal on the backwindow of my car! You can just barely see it if you look close enough.

I will post my HNT later. I finished the Firefly series, so I should be posting more regular now.

Missing Blogger

Ok, so I haven't been blogging much lately. You see I saw this movie Serenity on DVD. I had seen the trailer at the beginning of another movie and meant to see it in the theater, but didn't make it back and forgot about it. So I finally saw it. Very good if you are into SciFi, space ships, but no aliens.

But on with my story. Chris clued me into the fact that there was a whole short-lived series that goes with the movie. Being the good geek that I am, I had to see it. I actually looked for it before I saw Serenity but couldn't find it. Then, last week when I was trading my movies at Blockbuster, I found it. So I have been using most of my evenings watching it. I am up to disk 3! It is really good. It is called Firefly, and it is taking up most of my spare time.

Also, I know I need to update my links, some of my favorite places aren't on there yet! If you aren't there and I visit you a lot, I'll probably get you there soon.

Have you hugged your teddy today?

B's new bed

Here is a picture of B's new bed. We had to run out and buy her a new one after Daddy broke the old one. The old one had those little hard plastic latches at each end of the front panel to hold the piece in place. Apparently Daddy yanked to hard once and it popped off. Now, being fair, the bed was about 11 years old. My aunt used it with her youngest then passed it to me three years later when I had my oldest. B was the third kid to sleep in it.

When T was this age, she moved to a toddler bed, but little B still falls off of stuff too much for that! This bed is a convertible one. It is so neat! That front piece that is lowered in the picture comes off and it becomes a toddler day-bed. Then when she out grows that we buy a new frame and the back part can be used as a headboard on a full sized bed. Needless to say, this chick is getting her moneys worth!



And to top it off, as if we hadn't scarred the baby for life enough. About a month after buying the new bed the front part broke! A small piece of wood splintered off where a screw had gone in wrong. Manufacturing glitch. I called Babies R Us where we bought it, and they let me bring in just that part and swap it with another from a different box. Now, I started to take the part off with B in the room, she just bawled! Poor baby. So I took her to her Grammie's house came home and swapped it out, put it back together, and picked her up. She doesn't even know I did it!

Reflections of T

Here is T riding her new bike from Santa. It's a pink and purple Schwin. Santa has good taste.











Here are a couple of pictures of her outside last week. Yeah, it was really that warm. It is in the 30's this morning though. No wonder we are all sniffly.