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Kinda lonely around here...

Having more car troubles... Back in July my driver's side window slid down and wouldn't come back up. That cost about $380 to repair.

Today, my front passenger side window also dropped down when I shut the door....

Why does it seem like this jeep is just sucking the money right out of me??? I'd like to save up money to make a trip to go see a very special and loverly person... but it's rather difficult when you end up having car trouble after car trouble...

sorry for such a bummed out post today everybody :(....

Nothin' Much

Can't believe it's been two weeks since my last post... and I had been doing so good on keeping on top of it! I got rather distracted with researching my family tree :). I got back to the 1300's on one side of my family and found that they came from royal families in Scotland :). So that was neat :).

I'm now babysitting an 8 month old baby boy Monday through Friday during the day. He's been pretty good so far :).

I'm really hoping for a visit from my two of my bestest friends and I'm also hoping to make a visit to my other bestest friend in Ireland :).

Sittin' Pretty and The Amazing 5 Minute Tennis Ball!

I finally decided to get down on the ground to take pictures of Maximus. I seem to always make him look smaller than he is because I stand above him for his "photo shoots" ;) ha ha....





This is The Amazing 5 Minute Tennisball! Watch, before your very own eyes, this magnificent dog will destroy the ball iin less than 5 minutes! What a fantastic waste of money! :)



I did the worst thing possible just a minute ago.... I showed Maximus his own Vacuum Monster video- and he was convinced that there was another dog in the room with us ;)... uhhh... bad idea.... he's finally stopped barking and has gone back over to play with his shredded tennis ball.

Also, I took Maximus to the vet this morning. 28" tall, 87 lbs.

The Vacuum Monster

BEWARE:.....my voice might be too loud on the video ;).... and I probably taped for too long ;) ha ha....

More Maximus

Today's Favorite

This is my current favorite picture of the moment :).

Pongo, the dalmation that reminds me of Oreo... ("ummm... please won't you pet me???...")

Emily, the girl who loves to give tons of hugs and kidnap my flip-flops

Andrew, my favorite man in zee whole wide world!

Maximus, my current favorite baby :) (He had a growthspurt recently--- he's now 28" at the whithers :)...)

SleepyHead

This is what Maximus does all day.... and when he doesn't, he's as happy as those two bottom pics! I think I'll call him my little Anteater :) since I've decided that's what he resembles! :)

My Own DNA Map Personality Test

Attentive Dreamer

Simply scroll over each block to see how I ranked.

A Bunch of Limes

Our friends, Brian and Jessica, have a lime tree in their backyard. They were kind enough to give us a whole load of them!

As always, I don't enjoy water plain- I must add some squirt of either lemon or lime to it. (I've tried orange slices, and didn't quite care for that...)

I sliced into the lime, expecting to find a pale green interior, and was surprised to find a pale shade of cantaloupe... The taste was similar to that of a store-bought lime, but the smell was more like an aromatic oil :). I don't think I'll die....

Picture Project and Other Blogs

(Sample Picture from my newly uploaded Flickr pics)

I'm quite proud of myself :)... I finished organizing all the pictures on my computer, and then I uploaded about a zillion pictures onto my flickr site :). I'm so proud of myself ;)--- it's nice to mentally check something that big off of your list!

I started another blog the other day... one dedicated to homemaking... I was in a literary mood, so the first post seems rather---- stiff. So I think I'll go back and edit it. And then make it publicly known to people ;) hee hee... Sorry to all your loverly sisters that I shared it with and then you probably thought I was being goofily stuck up :).

And then as I was *trying* to falling asleep last night, it occured to me that keeping up with two blogs might prove difficult- and how much easier and more colorful it would be if I just posted everything onto one blog. But alas, I've decided to keep them separate, so that the homemaking blog is solely about homemaking :).

Off to send my mother all the Screaming Banshee e-cards from Hallmark.com, as she requested :). (She thought the Valentines Day Banshee card I sent to Justin was hilarious :)...)

Some Cute Little Avatars

I always like discovering new avatars.... Here are some ones I just found.

Little Birdy (http://www.hallmark.com/)

Screaming Banshee (http://www.hallmark.com/)

The Screaming Banshee is hilarious.

And my most favorite of all time :)...

The Famous Village poster (www.vllg.com) made famous in Domino Magazine.

My Little Outing for the Day

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For my morning "run" (that means driving ;)....) I stopped by the dollar store and found this DVD, "Martha Stewart's Homemade Holidays," for only $3.00 So of course I bought it. Good thing too... my Blockbuster DVDs didn't come in this morning- and they are now three days late. So now I can have something worthwhile to watch.

Also, I didn't have my coffee pot pushed under the dripper properly and everything overflowed...uck.... so I am now settled and will now have a new cup of coffee and a palmier while I watch my show....

Whitney English Papers Part II

Additional papers....

Whitney English Papers Part I

An assortment of my favorites...

http://www.whitneyenglish.com/

A Quiet Life

The title says it all.... It's quiet down here. My schedule is rather open.... My event of the week is my grocery shopping trip to a city about 40 minutes away. It's a rather big day for me :). I go to Blockbuster, Wal-Mart, and sometimes HEB- if I don't get what I need at Wal-Mart. I'm also planning on meeting weekly for lunch with a friend and her two small children. Right now, she's the only other wife I know around here :).

Not much to say, other than I'm really enjoying DSL. And I'm looking forward to getting settled into a church hopefully soon!