>heh

>http://www.xtranormal.com/players/jwplayer.swf

>watch out for exploding heads!

>the worst insomnia is the one induced by one’s kids.

and as if the constant whinging isn’t bad enough, there is the struggle to keep from screaming “bite me!” to the next unreasonable demand made at 1:30 in the morning.

this is the hour when you find yourself asking, “why is drugging them a bad thing again?”

maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the fact that i’ve been stuck in this house for the past two weeks. i think i’m losing it. well, more so than usual.

ok, and here’s one reason why i’m losing it. just when i resign myself to being up all night; when begging, cajoling and threatening has done nothing to get my wee ones in bed, i make myself a cup of coffee and decide to do a little whining of my own. and don’t you know those little twerps are asleep! so typical.

good night!

watch out for exploding heads!

the worst insomnia is the one induced by one’s kids.

and as if the constant whinging isn’t bad enough, there is the struggle to keep from screaming “bite me!” to the next unreasonable demand made at 1:30 in the morning.

this is the hour when you find yourself asking, “why is drugging them a bad thing again?”

maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the fact that i’ve been stuck in this house for the past two weeks. i think i’m losing it. well, more so than usual.

ok, and here’s one reason why i’m losing it. just when i resign myself to being up all night; when begging, cajoling and threatening has done nothing to get my wee ones in bed, i make myself a cup of coffee and decide to do a little whining of my own. and don’t you know those little twerps are asleep! so typical.

good night!

>another date night bites the dust

>

i wasn’t even sure there’d be a date night tonight. first, because my parents had taken the kids for most of the afternoon wednesday and a lot of times that gives my dad reason to not want to get together or see us or whatever, the next time we’d see them. since the next time would be friday when they usually watch the kids, i kind of expected him to suggest we cancel it for this week.

then thursday morning i was coming out of the kitchen and i stepped on an old hair clip that my kids commandeered as a toy. monster man they called it. anyway, i stepped on it, breaking it and taking a pea-sized chunk out of the arch of my foot. it is still so sore. hubby had wanted to go to the celtic festival, but my stupid injury ruined those plans.

instead, we decided to go to a new greek place near where we used to live. it was actually really nice, though the inside had a very fast food-y look to it. we decided to run a few errands while we were out and it was still early. i know, so romantic, right? i wasn’t doing too bad with my foot at this point, but i was walking a bit slower.

when we got done with that, it was coffee time! for me, it’s not really date night without stopping at the bookstore and having a coffee at the cafe there. we were about three steps into the bookstore when we heard it. what, you ask? the unmistakable sounds of the legendary eric loy.

truthfully, i am really surprised that hubby didn’t want to turn around and walk out as soon as we realized it was him. we hate this guy. except we seem to be the only people who hate this guy. he actually has groupies! i don’t know, maybe all the times sitting so close to this guy’s amp, they can no longer hear how awful he is. we didn’t take this video, but i’ve been telling hubby for a couple months now that we should bring the p&s camera so we can video him playing and our making the disparaging remarks we always make. he finally agreed tonight because poor mr. loy’s amp died in the middle of one of his songs. unfortunately, it wasn’t while he was playing this song nor did it stay dead for more than a couple minutes. *sigh*

we finally decided we couldn’t take it anymore and we left to take a bit of a drive. the photo above was taken during this drive about.

yeah, that’s about it. heh.

another date night bites the dust

i wasn’t even sure there’d be a date night tonight. first, because my parents had taken the kids for most of the afternoon wednesday and a lot of times that gives my dad reason to not want to get together or see us or whatever, the next time we’d see them. since the next time would be friday when they usually watch the kids, i kind of expected him to suggest we cancel it for this week.

then thursday morning i was coming out of the kitchen and i stepped on an old hair clip that my kids commandeered as a toy. monster man they called it. anyway, i stepped on it, breaking it and taking a pea-sized chunk out of the arch of my foot. it is still so sore. hubby had wanted to go to the celtic festival, but my stupid injury ruined those plans.

instead, we decided to go to a new greek place near where we used to live. it was actually really nice, though the inside had a very fast food-y look to it. we decided to run a few errands while we were out and it was still early. i know, so romantic, right? i wasn’t doing too bad with my foot at this point, but i was walking a bit slower.

when we got done with that, it was coffee time! for me, it’s not really date night without stopping at the bookstore and having a coffee at the cafe there. we were about three steps into the bookstore when we heard it. what, you ask? the unmistakable sounds of the legendary eric loy.

truthfully, i am really surprised that hubby didn’t want to turn around and walk out as soon as we realized it was him. we hate this guy. except we seem to be the only people who hate this guy. he actually has groupies! i don’t know, maybe all the times sitting so close to this guy’s amp, they can no longer hear how awful he is. we didn’t take this video, but i’ve been telling hubby for a couple months now that we should bring the p&s camera so we can video him playing and our making the disparaging remarks we always make. he finally agreed tonight because poor mr. loy’s amp died in the middle of one of his songs. unfortunately, it wasn’t while he was playing this song nor did it stay dead for more than a couple minutes. *sigh*

we finally decided we couldn’t take it anymore and we left to take a bit of a drive. the photo above was taken during this drive about.

yeah, that’s about it. heh.

boring title

have you ever gotten an idea for a blog, but by the time you sit down, start going through the steps needed to get it written, etc and do whatever else you need to do to get it ready, end up feeling like “who cares anymore?”

i was out saturday and took a couple photos with my phone with the idea of blogging about it, but trying to fix the photos up and whatever…i’m wondering if it’s even worth it now. blah.

oh, what the hell. what else have i got to do?

this enormous photo is of my coffee i had saturday afternoon. or early evening. whatever it was. who cares. anyway, it’s my coffee. i took the photo because, if you look at the blurb about how they used recycled material for the coffee sleeve, you’ll notice, too that they say, “intended for single use only”. that struck me funny. heh. yeah. whatever. *yawn*

then i took another photo, but i doubt you’ll be able to see the intention behind it.

you probably can’t see it, but my cup was hardly full of coffee. there must have been a good inch to an inch and a half of foam in my cup. i tell you, since we started going to seattle’s best, the quality of starbuck’s coffee leaves a lot to be desired.

wow, you must just be flabbergasted at how exciting this blog entry is. whoo. yowsa. do i know how to have fun, or what?

zzzzz….

sorry, dropped off for a bit there.

>boring title

>have you ever gotten an idea for a blog, but by the time you sit down, start going through the steps needed to get it written, etc and do whatever else you need to do to get it ready, end up feeling like “who cares anymore?”

i was out saturday and took a couple photos with my phone with the idea of blogging about it, but trying to fix the photos up and whatever…i’m wondering if it’s even worth it now. blah.

oh, what the hell. what else have i got to do?

this enormous photo is of my coffee i had saturday afternoon. or early evening. whatever it was. who cares. anyway, it’s my coffee. i took the photo because, if you look at the blurb about how they used recycled material for the coffee sleeve, you’ll notice, too that they say, “intended for single use only”. that struck me funny. heh. yeah. whatever. *yawn*

then i took another photo, but i doubt you’ll be able to see the intention behind it.

you probably can’t see it, but my cup was hardly full of coffee. there must have been a good inch to an inch and a half of foam in my cup. i tell you, since we started going to seattle’s best, the quality of starbuck’s coffee leaves a lot to be desired.

wow, you must just be flabbergasted at how exciting this blog entry is. whoo. yowsa. do i know how to have fun, or what?

zzzzz….

sorry, dropped off for a bit there.

what an incredibly long day…

so. i didn’t end up going to bed last night. that was fun. i won’t go into the boring details of the whys and wherefors. *shock horror* what the hell am i going to blog about then?

*shrug* i don’t know. let’s find out together, shall we?

since i was up all night, around 5am i decided that i needed to go shopping. i grabbed my camera as i headed out the door, too, because i thought it might be a good chance to get some sunrise photos somewhere other than my front porch. i think i mentioned that i’d wanted to go out saturday. that didn’t happen. it’s too bad, too. that would have been the only way to see any sun at all.

it was a dismal morning. way too many clouds to see any sunrise. it only managed to get lighter, nothing else. blah.

i guess i should tell you that i drove up to that abandoned railroad track that i went to last summer. i should probably put a link to the blog where i posted those photos, but i don’t feel like it. sorry.

i decided a few days ago that i really need to figure out the manual settings on my camera, so i set the little dialy thing to m, which i think is the totally manual settings. i don’t know, i could be wrong. i haven’t looked at the manual since i first got my camera. heh. anyway, as i was driving up to the railroad tracks, i saw a bunch of deer. they were in three different fields along the route that i was going. i thought, “great! i have my camera!” except that it wasn’t so great. i didn’t have the settings right and everything was so, so dark. that sort of unsalvageable dark that there is just no fixing. poop.

anyway, i took quite a few photos while i was there. unfortunately, hardly any of them turned out. i suppose i’m going to have to quit being so damn stubborn about using a tripod. although i am going to blame the wind a little bit, too.

i’m not sure this photo really should have been kept. in the larger sizes you can see how blurry this photo actually is. but i deleted so many! and i seem to have lost one. i have no idea where i saved it at.

after i finished messing around here, i came home and waited. my mom was coming to pick me up at 11 so we could go to my cousin’s daughter’s baby shower. she lives way out in the middle of nowhere around an hour away. i thought i might get a chance to take some photos on the way there, but it started raining.

i did take photos at the party, but they were of my family, so i won’t bore you all with those. i’m sure just trying to get through this blog was difficult enough. yay you!

who says you can’t finish with a thud? again, i couldn’t be bothered to arrange these from worst to best. *sigh*

>what an incredibly long day…

>so. i didn’t end up going to bed last night. that was fun. i won’t go into the boring details of the whys and wherefors. *shock horror* what the hell am i going to blog about then?

*shrug* i don’t know. let’s find out together, shall we?

since i was up all night, around 5am i decided that i needed to go shopping. i grabbed my camera as i headed out the door, too, because i thought it might be a good chance to get some sunrise photos somewhere other than my front porch. i think i mentioned that i’d wanted to go out saturday. that didn’t happen. it’s too bad, too. that would have been the only way to see any sun at all.

it was a dismal morning. way too many clouds to see any sunrise. it only managed to get lighter, nothing else. blah.

i guess i should tell you that i drove up to that abandoned railroad track that i went to last summer. i should probably put a link to the blog where i posted those photos, but i don’t feel like it. sorry.

i decided a few days ago that i really need to figure out the manual settings on my camera, so i set the little dialy thing to m, which i think is the totally manual settings. i don’t know, i could be wrong. i haven’t looked at the manual since i first got my camera. heh. anyway, as i was driving up to the railroad tracks, i saw a bunch of deer. they were in three different fields along the route that i was going. i thought, “great! i have my camera!” except that it wasn’t so great. i didn’t have the settings right and everything was so, so dark. that sort of unsalvageable dark that there is just no fixing. poop.

anyway, i took quite a few photos while i was there. unfortunately, hardly any of them turned out. i suppose i’m going to have to quit being so damn stubborn about using a tripod. although i am going to blame the wind a little bit, too.

i’m not sure this photo really should have been kept. in the larger sizes you can see how blurry this photo actually is. but i deleted so many! and i seem to have lost one. i have no idea where i saved it at.

after i finished messing around here, i came home and waited. my mom was coming to pick me up at 11 so we could go to my cousin’s daughter’s baby shower. she lives way out in the middle of nowhere around an hour away. i thought i might get a chance to take some photos on the way there, but it started raining.

i did take photos at the party, but they were of my family, so i won’t bore you all with those. i’m sure just trying to get through this blog was difficult enough. yay you!

who says you can’t finish with a thud? again, i couldn’t be bothered to arrange these from worst to best. *sigh*

moldy pancakes, anyone?

only a representation of what simon‘s pancakes probably look like now.