Monthly Archives: October 2007

Silly Stuff

Harold’s mom, Kathy, forward this and it was too cute not to share:

Two young boys walked into a pharmacy one day, picked out a box of tampons  and proceeded to the checkout counter.

The man at the counter asked the older boy, “Son, how old are you?”

“Eight,” the boy replied.

The man continued, “Do you know what these are used for?”

The boy replied, “Not exactly, but they aren’t for me. They’re for him. He’s my brother. He’s four. We saw on TV that if you use these you would be able to swim and ride a bike. Right now, he can’t”

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Semi-Productive Day

Today was pretty productive even though it took me time to roll out of bed. Which is the hard part…….after so many of years of having to jump out of bed as soon as the alarm goes off, I like to take my time and spend time petting our cats……..which are right there meowing at us when they know when we are awake. I’m usually awake, just don’t want to leave the comfy-ness of it. Then I have to get out of bed….I get restless and my body gets sore from laying there…..I can’t handle that. I will say that I’m pretty proud that I haven’t made the habit of taking naps even when I get the urge. =)

After I finally got myself moving….which involved the normal morning surfing of the news and some boards…….and then seeing online how bad Purdue was getting their asses handed to them, since it wasn’t on tv. I went out for a walk…..not enough in the habit yet to call it my walk…..went further back on a back road and found some really nice houses……the hills giving my legs a work out as soon as I got my foot settled into it. I’ve taken so many pictures of purple flowers that I was trying to get pictures of other colors to show.

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Burning Reds

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Sunny Yellows

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Eye catching red.
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Of course, I did have to get a little bit of bluish purples, but to set off the pinks and whites. =)

When I got back from the walk I did a few minutes on the elliptical machine and then hit the shower. I was getting ready to settle down to get some work done, when Harold had a to have a caramel mocha….he has become a fan and is officially a north westerner now. =) So we headed out and also stopped at the drugstore to get pictures taken for our passports, now we just need pick them up……..and then on for our drinks.

I attacked my pile of emails and messages. Took longer then I thought and then some lite online work. Not as much as I thought I would do, but it is a start.

I’m hoping I’m a little be more productive tomorrow during the day, I have a bunch of work to attack tomorrow night that I hope to get done.

More Pictures

I took a longer and a different walk today. I went out to the main road and walked to different entrance of the neighborhood………then went further on down the street then I had been. Found that there was new construction going on and found a back road. I’m thinking of checking that out next time.

You are probably getting tired of some of my pictures, but I figured it was my blog so I can go ahead and post them anyway. =) I’m just so enjoying the different flowers and colors that I just have to share.
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A spiky looking flower.
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I really like the contrast of the oranges the purples……….really makes the colors pop.
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When I saw this, I thought it was some sort of plastic flower, but it is real. Never seen anything like this one before.
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There seems to be a lot of purple flowers around here, not that I’m complaining. =)
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This is right behind our townhouse.

We went into Portland this evening for a small get together. It was nice and laid back. Sometimes getting out of the house helps me to focus on work when we get back.

Our 2 Days

Our goal is to take one day off during the week to do something other then business errands. We are thinking of Wednesdays since that is right in the middle of the week. We made plans to go to the Oregon Zoo and then on to park regardless if it was raining, it usually does it lightly…….no big deal. Well, it started out lightly……………but towards the end it was soaking. Of course, at the last moment I didn’t grab the umbrella and we didn’t have the correct jackets on for it. Boy, we have a lot to get use to in this part of the country. =) But we’ll get it.

So we went to the zoo, it had a pretty cool layout. But the majority of animals were smarter then us humans and took shelter. =) End result being that we didn’t see the zoo at it’s best, but that was our timing. Can’t wait to go back and see it better. What did suck about it was that I was doing good even with being out shape, except for my left foot……….gggrrr……..so annoying

After the zoo the park was out. We were way too wet and it was raining too much. We did need to pick up some milk…………..on to the store we went. We tried a different store near………our 3rd one. I think we found the one that we want to do the majority of our shopping. Much better layout, selection and reasonably priced……that was cool.

When we got home, we attacked some of our work. We focused pretty well and got a bit done.

Today we weren’t too sure on what our plans were going to be. All I knew is that I had 3 errands to do and had to get my nails done. So we divided up the errands and Harold came with me. On the way back we got a GREAT view of the snow covered Mt. Hood when the clouds cleared up some. Damn, if we weren’t in the middle of a main road we would’ve pulled over and took some pictures. Depending on what we need to do tomorrow, I’m thinking we need to go on the back roads and try to get a picture of it if it is clear.

I tried my 3rd salon today for my nails. The other two that I tried I wasn’t too happy with, I think I like this one. Going to try it again to see what other designs they can do.

We are heading out tomorrow night, meeting with friends and business associates. After all our friends and business associates moved from the Florida area that we lived in, we really didn’t get out as much. We really became more of homebodies. Here we actually can have a social life…………got plans through November.

We have ordered me plane tickets for Indy in Dec so I can visit with my family. We are trying to book a trip to Minnesota to visit Harold’s folks, we really need to get out there, but those tickets are 3times as much as to Indy. And the messed up thing, my reasonable priced tickets to Indy have my connecting flight in Minneapolis………..so why are they so crazy just to fly straight to Minnesota and not go on? We were thinking of buying tickets to Indy and just miss the connecting flight and stay in Minnesota………..but it dawned on Torn that our luggage would go one to Indy…….doh.

Nutter……we are thinking of driving out. I’ll be able to hit a few more states that I haven’t been too…..but I hate the pit stops…..stresses me out……….ggrrr We’ll figure out. We haven’t been out there in years……..actually, I sent Harold out there in April to help his mom and her computer, as a good wife should. =)

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Blaha, Blaha…….lol

My head really hurts……it is allergies……I had a couple of peppers hoping that it will help.  Sometimes it does.

I didn’t even touch what I wanted to touch today.  =(

We were having issues with connection again, which didn’t help.  Comcast came back out………of course, no one has seen the issue that we are having…..just our luck, but they are trying.

I really don’t have much more to say, but here are a few pictures that I took on my walk today.

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I’ve always enjoyed this bushes………I think they are call burning bushes?  Not sure.

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Of course, I have to get the purple flowers.  =)

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Just had to get some maple leaves.