Monthly Archives: June 2008

Ho-Hum

Today was kind of hoo-hum, in that I really didn’t even try to do anything productive work wise, even if in the end I did do some.  During the week we may do errands and stuff, but I actually try to focus on work.  Today was like, what ever……lol

Went tanning for the 1st time in 2 weeks, so my face is slightly red but not too bad.  Did a little house work when I got home.  And then we practiced getting our tent up in living room while waiting for the Belmont.  We figured it out, but they really need to give better directions…at least for the 1st few times and for packing away the frame.  You can never repack it as tight as you got it.  =(  We are going to do a few more times and then time ourselves.  =)  Got the sleeping bags out to see how to zip them up together….didn’t happen….one is a left zipper and the other is a right zipper…you are suppose to be able to put them together, at least that is what we were told.    But it was interesting practice…lol

During this we stopped to watch the last leg of the Triple Crown.  Big Brown didn’t win.  =(   We won’t be surprised if it was the heat that got to him.

The weather let up enough to go walking this afternoon.  Took the camera, but not many pictures.  I just feel that I’ve seen it all and nothing is popping.  Which is disappointing…I love getting nature pictures.  So I spent most of my time walking talking to my folks and making sure that they didn’t get flooded out in Indiana.

We just got done watching the Goonies That was fun to see again, without all the commercials that TV put into it.  And I got some work done while watching.  Debating on setting myself downstairs tomorrow…..just so we can watch some of the movies we have DVR.

Photographers nightmare

**This is just a funny little story that I enjoyed.

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Legendary broadcaster Jim McKay dies

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Jim McKay, 86, a longtime television sports journalist, has died of natural causes in Maryland, according to a statement from the McKay family.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=3430672
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Damn, lost another good one.

RIP.

How Do I Feel?: contemplative contemplative

Cool and sad at the same time


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How Do I Feel?: contemplative contemplative

D-Day

Harold turns to me a few hours ago and asks, “Today is D-Day isn’t it?  June 6th?”

Sure enough today was D-Day.  We totally forgot because we didn’t see any articles on the news sites today….that is pretty sad.

The National D-Day Memorial Foundation 

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Busy, Busy

Well, it has been hard to get work done that last few days…icks….

Thursday we knew were heading to REI to pick up a tent and sleeping bags and stopping by to see a friend after wards, but it took longer then expected.  We knew the tent we wanted to get, we will be putting it together this weekend to make sure we know what we are doing.  But what was confusing was the sleeping bags.  Unless you are doing the basic camping and don’t want to work up to back packing, the normal bags that we grew up with don’t work.  You want the ones that compact as small and as light as possible….so you have to figure if you want down or sythenic….and they aren’t squares anymore.  They are mummy like in shape, then there are men’s and women’s.  Women’s are suppose to be narrower at the shoulders and wider at the hips….well, I have wide shoulders so I ended up with the same one as Harold’s….just had to have my zipper on the opposite side so we can zip them together.  Even camping, I have to sleep on his left side…..too weird not to……lol

After REI, we headed into the city to have lunch with our friend.  By the time we got done it was too late to head home, because we would be stuck in rush hour.  So we had about an hour to kill….so headed over to the 1st smoke free strip bar I’ve even been in and killed some time talking to the girls and throwing them our money.  =)  I can’t wait for February 2009…all of them will be smoke free…I’m so going to love that.

By the time we got home it was after 7pm…icks.  So I had to get some work done before heading to bed.

Today, had my trainer today…..did not meet my weight goal….gggrrr  I’m a little peeved by that.  But got my work out in.  I really needed to get my nails done, but didn’t know if they could get me in.  My new saloon I’m going to works better by appointments then walkins, which is very different to what I’m use to.  But they are consistent on their work and there are 2 designers.  The husband is the main designer and loves to come up with different things, so I’m pretty happy with the work that they do.  The only issue that I have with getting my nails done is the time that it takes…..usually 3-4 hrs since I get a pedicure with a design.  So it takes a lot more time then it would normally take.  But there is no way I could got back to no design….it would drive me nuts……lol

I did get a few things done before I left for my appointment, luckily some of my other work was light.  I will be attacking it some tomorrow.

So we didn’t get our movie night in tonight.  =(  If I hadn’t been tied up earlier today, I would have had time for it.  We’ll probably watch some movies tomorrow after the Belmont.

Here are just a few more pictures from our weekend.

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