Random playlist

I finally got around to figuring out how to format the micro SD card for my phone. I got one from a friend, and now I have all of his music on my phone--all 200 some-odd songs! (and trust me, some of the songs ARE odd!)

My shuffle went from Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher" to "Mood Indigo" by Duke Ellington to Blue Oyster Cult to JP Sousa....

Weird...

Does anyone know...

...whattt ttthe ddealll issss withhh kidddddss writtinggg exxxtrraaa lettersss innn allll theirrrr worrdsss? Cann theyyy nottt typee? Orrr dooo theyy nottt knowww howww tooo spellll? Anyybodddyy knowww?

Thanks to Kelly

I have found a fun little interior design quiz.

My results are:
58% Nantucket style (living there must have rubbed off on me)
25% arts & crafts (good, cuz I like doing them!)
17% Wine Country style (woohoo-love wine!)

Now I need a couple of grand to decorate my house with the furniture they suggest...

Long overdue pics

Here are some photos of the ice storm that happened back in December. Ya know - the BIG one - the one where I had to cancel my house warming party (I SWEAR that's still going to happen one of these days!) and most of the area had no power for at least a week?

Yeah - THAT ice storm.

Unfortunately, I only got a few pictures out before my camera battery died, and not having power, I had no way to charge it. (obviously)

So here are a few of the pictures of the crazy ice storm damage in our backyard, which we're still trying to pick up.

spring is losing its battle

I know the pic is pretty small - it was taken with my cell phone - I'll try to get a better pic. If you can't see it, they're crocus sprouts that are coming up from the bulbs I planted in the fall. Now the snow is just going to cover them up! ugh...

American Idol

So far, we have Michael, Danny and Alexis.

HOW THE !@$@# did Michael get through?!?
He shouldn't have even gotten this far. Anoop and Ricky were far better - even that really obnoxious Tatiana was better than Michael.

argh

stupid snow

GO AWAY!

I'm sick of slipping and sliding! I saw flower shoots coming through the snow today and I want them to stay.

blueberries beware...

I want to plant blueberry bushes in the side yard come spring, but the boy is worried that blueberries will roll down the small hill and get caught up in the lawnmower. This is how we know that he doesn't eat much fruit - how big does he think these blueberries are?! He's seriously afraid that the berries will mess up the mower!!

silly boy...

valentine's dinner

We went to the Gondola Restaurant in Leominster - it wasn't too bad. The service was somewhat slow, but the food was pretty good. I had eggplant gondola - it was eggplant wrapped around cheese, kind of like manicotti. The boy obviously had ravioli, what else?

Tonight I made cajun catfish, homemade french fries, and garlic bread. yum!

how did I get that?

Big bruise on the back of my knee. No idea how it got there.

I am a lucky woman

The boy went out at 9:45 tonight and looked for a half hour to find Cool Whip for me. He wasn't successful, but he did it.

Wow.

random "Buffy" info

Did anyone else know that Alyson Hannigan (Willow) married Alexis Denisof (Wesley)? Is this common knowledge, or am I just missing things here?

wow. cool. :-)

A day in the life of a teacher...

TEACHER: George, go to the map and find North America.
STUDENT: Here it is!
TEACHER: Correct. Now class, who discovered America?
CLASS: George!


HAROLD: Teacher, would you punish me for something I didn't do?
TEACHER: Of course not.
HAROLD: Good, because I didn't do my homework.


TEACHER: I hope I didn't see you looking at Don's paper.
JOHN: I hope you didn't either.


TEACHER: In this box, I have a 10-foot snake.
SAMMY: You can't fool me, teacher....snakes don't have feet!


TEACHER: Ellen, give me a sentence starting with "I".
ELLEN: I is....
TEACHER: No, Ellen, Always say "I am."
ELLEN: All right... "I am the ninth letter of the alphabet".


TEACHER: Max, use "defeat", "defense", and "detail" in a sentence.
MAX: The rabbit cut across the field, and defeat went over defense before detail.

Speaking of Zombies

We watched "Wicked Little Things" this evening On Demand. It was one of the freebies, but it wasn't too bad. I don't like gorey, and this wasn't too gorey. Creepy little zombie children though...

drip drip drip

A few drips still here and there

argh...

Watch out!

Mother Nature hates us...

I am SO SICK of snow! This was the kind of snow that hurts to shovel. It was thick, heavy, wet, and sloppy. It was NOT an easy clean-up!!

Then there was the whole ice dam situation. I come downstairs this afternoon (I spent most of the day upstairs playing on my computer and grading) and I hear a strange noise. Turns out, it is a practical DELUGE of dripping water in the bowed window in the living room. I move everything out of the way and get towels. LOTS of towels-the dripping went right through most of them. I call husband-no answer. I call mom-no answer. I call stepdad-no answer. I call in-laws-no answer. I call aunt-she tells me to call uncle. I call uncle, and FINALLY get ahold of someone!! He says it's most likely an ice dam, and to wait till the boy gets home because he doesn't want me on a ladder or on the roof when no one else is home (he doesn't want me there even when someone IS home). I look out onto the porch roof from the second story window, and I thought I saw the problem - there's an overhang from the main roof over the porch roof.

The boy finally gets home and gets stuck in the driveway. I hadn't had the chance to shovel since I found out about the leak. I had been trying to find ways to stop the flood. No luck.
I go out to help the boy, he heads to Home Depot to find a roof rake. Again, no luck.

I shovel the driveway, he shovels the roof. It doesn't seem to stop the waterfall in our living room, because all of a sudden the fire alarms are going off. Turns out the water started flowing through the living room smoke detector and caused it to go off. I unplug it from the ceiling, only to be soaked when the water pours out on my head. Luckily, most of the water came out on my head, and it was just dripping after that.

I finally get ahold of my stepdad, and he thought to have me check the crawlspace to see if there was water up there. BOY was there water up there! The rug in the crawlspace was soaked - we left handprints in the rug as the water seeped up. We cut the rug in half and rolled it up. The boy ran his section through the house because it was so completely soaked that it was dripping. We mopped up the crawlspace to see where the water was coming in from. We pulled a piece of insulation out of the way to discover the ice dam was actually on the main roof.

Back out onto the porch roof again....

The boy tries shoveling off the main roof on the side of the front dormer. Success! The water slows down and eventually stops.

We go back to shoveling the driveway, which was interrupted when the fire alarms started going off.

We have a quick dinner of mac n' cheese - organic, no less! (ann would be proud)

Then we start getting ready for bed. I went into the basement to get the towels out of the dryer to lay out by the window just in case, and I step in a puddle.

ARGH!

There's water on the basement floor. We don't know WHERE it came from. It was in the middle of the floor - not near a door or window. There wasn't any dripping through the ceiling or down the walls we could see. We mopped that up, and will have to check on it tomorrow morning. It's kind of strange that with all of the rain we got this summer, we didn't get ANY water inside of our house.

I replaced the towels in the living room, and noticed that we'll probably have to repair part of the ceiling around the fire alarm. There is a significant bubble in the ceiling plaster. It's empty - there's nothing in it, but it's only going to dry, crack and crumble off. I did manage to pop the bubble on the wall - I removed the water and it seems to have shrunk back up to the wall again. We'll see if it holds.

Oh - and did I mention that a stupid plow nailed our mailbox??

I have great friends

'Nuff said.

I'm happy


:-)

After all...I am my grandfather's granddaughter

In my self-defense, I didn't order the Power Juicer off of the actual infomercial. But I did get it. (from Macy's).

I made my first glass of juice this evening after dinner. It was REALLY good too! Even the boy liked it! I combined 2 oranges, 1 carrot, and a starfruit. (I only added the starfruit because I needed to do something with it before it went bad)

I'm excited - fresh juice!! Yum!

so much snow...

Is it just me, or have there been more snow storms this year than in most recent years? Global warming my butt...