Living up to Expectations

When I first started blogging I told everyone I knew about it, put a link in my signature line in my emails, and advertised it on my myspace account. Then I started working, switched from myspace to facebook, and quit blogging. Now I am trying to get back into it, but I am not telling anyone. I know that when people have a goal, say losing 10 pounds or quitting smoking or whatever, that they're supposed to have a support network of friends to keep them on track. But I am not a support network kind of gal and this blog isn't something that is going to keep me from dying of lung cancer or a heart attack. So ... I am just doing it to do it. I am writing for me and for anyone who happens to decide to look. And if I keep it up and my friends and family start noticing then that's great. But if not, then I guess I won't have to worry about posting new blogs and not living up to anyone's expectations!!!

Live and Learn

Today while I was checking out at the grocery store Chase found a dime and a penny on the tray in the Coinstar machine. Instead of putting them in his pocket, he put them into the machine. The machine then cointed his coins for him and gave him a ticket to redeem at the customer service desk. If you've ever used one of these machines before you know that they charge a fee if you want cash. You can use the machine and get 100% of your money back if you turn it into a gift card to certain places like Lowe's or Amazon.com. Chase wanted cash back for his dime & penny. He got 10 cents. Lesson learned!

Animal Magnet

Sometimes I feel like an animal magnet! We already have three dogs, three cats, a stray cat that lives on our front porch, an aquarium that has four fish and a snail, and a science experiment with something that used to be a mealworm and is supposedly in the pupa stage before becoming a beatle. I think it might be dead, but I am not really sure. Anyway, last week Kenny and his cousin Austin came home with this puppy. At first they both tried to convince me that one of our families should keep him. Then they wanted to walk all over the neighborhood looking for his owners. I let them check several houses near where they first saw him, but eventually just made them leave him right where they found him. I know that wasn't the best thing to do, but I am just a little overwhelmed when it comes to animals. If you look at my post with pictures from 2010 you'll see that my boys found a puppy not that long ago. Does this happen to everyone or am I just an animal magnet (aka sucker for lost pets)?!?

The Junk Drawer

Do you think I really need all of this stuff? I don't! I don't even know how this happens. Every single time we move I clean out the junk drawer. I throw away pens, pencils, notebooks, markers, old batteries, etc. We move a lot so the junk drawer in my house should not look this junky. The funny thing is that we have only been in this house a year. When we first moved in I distinctly remember putting one pair of scissors, one roll of tape, one small post it note cube, and about 10 pens in this drawer. Then today I opened it to try to find something I needed and this is what I found! Where does all of this crap come from anyway?!?!?!?

Gettin' All Fancy

First of all, please forgive the poor quality of the photo. It was nearly dark and it was raining. To top it off, Kenny was the photographer. He was trying to capture a picture of me to put in our Photo of the Day Album on facebook. I am rarely in the pictures because I am usually the person behind the camera! Anyway, this is our fancy grill. That is my fancy grill set up. And the hat on top of my head ... well, that was serving as my fancy umbrella! I am not a big fan of grilling food. Don't get me wrong -- I love to eat grilled food! I just don't know how to actually do the work. It might not help that we move so often that I refuse to spend more than $15 on our grill. Maybe some day when we are done moving I can get a real grill. And by real grill I mean something with more than three legs that would prohibit my mother from spilling grilled vegetables all over the deck. But that's another story for another day.