Oh yeah!

I almost forgot. Don't know how I could, but I got one of these on Saturday:



It's pretty freaking sweet too. It's an LG Dare. After carrying the same phone for two long years and since it broke recently, for my birthday I splurged. I splurged on my son and my daughter too and got them one also. My hubby took my daughter's Env which he has always loved. Everyone is happy. This thing has a 3.2 megapixel camera which is pretty awesome. I used it at a horse show that we went to on Saturday night and took some pics with it as you see here:



This was taken from quite a distance and yes, I know it doesn't look super professional but that's pretty darn good for a cell phone camera, at night....a very dusty night. I filmed a video with it too but I am too tired to go look for it. Ha! Anyways, one of the features I really love is the keyboard and how you can flip it and it knows to turn into a qwerty keyboard. I love a qwerty keyboard on a phone. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE! It has a lot of features I have had no time to play with but eventually I will get it figured out. On a scale of 1-10 I give this phone a 20. Check them out if you get a chance.

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

One Hundred

Degrees that is. It reached 100 degrees today and it has been miserable. I really feel for people that work outside in this stuff. My daughter has been in band camp since last week but this has been the hottest day so far. During my lunch hour I drove over to pick her up and she was uncharacteristically quiet. I was hoping that was not due to the heat because I hated to go back to work and worry about her passing out or something horrible like that. Actually the whole thing had to do with her boyfriend. Speaking of which....why do 15 year old girls think they HAVE to have a boyfriend? Why can't they just hang out with friends and have fun? Currently she has had the same boyfriend for about 7 months. Before that she dated this guy for 9 months. When will she understand that just hanging out and having fun with guys AND girls is fun enough. I like the current guy good enough much better than the one before. This one is at least not super over protective. Now that she has moved up to high school, I am hoping she will see that there is a whole lot of other things out there and she will just be a fun loving girl for a while. With no boy. At least not a boyfriend. Anyways, here is my pic of the day.

Enjoy!

My desk where I do my work! Whooohoo!

Hey you all!

I am blogging from the lovely town of Seaside Village, Florida. So far we are halfway into our lovely week long vacation (if you take out the 3 days we were at my mother-in-law's - Ugh! Torture!) It has been beautiful this week. If I had anything to complain about at all it would be the 2 days of jelly fish infestation. Those little suckers look like they would hurt! Kids are catching them in nets and laying them on the shore to look at them, which makes you sure that you keep your flip flops on. Daughter and her friend are having lots of fun but so far have not been able to find any "hot" boys. According to them anyways. One morning hubby and I got up and walked to the beach early and sat out on a pavillion to drink coffee and it was heavenly. The first morning we were here the water was crystal clear. The next two mornings they have been murky and loaded with marine pests. We are making a huge pot of spaghetti and then we will head out to explore the town once again. Every evening people come out and congregate in the village and line up at the various places for ice cream, milkshakes, t-shirts, and all of that sort of stuff. This place is pretty much amazing!

Pic of the day:

My morning view!

Wow

It has been a long time since I blogged or posted anything. I guess not much is going on or I never have time or something like that. I am still working at the large university, and have recently switched to part-time which is great! Hopefully I will have more time to do this. I started a running program this week to try to get myself in some sort of shape to start running on a more frequent basis. Of course I am starting off slow and am building up, so fingers crossed I stick with it THIS TIME! Ha! I went to the dentist today because I had a tooth that has been hurting for like 3 days. I finally gave in and decided to go because I was really sort of scared it would interfere with our trip to the beach next week. Wouldn't that be just awful? I had to go through all kinds of torture and I am sitting here with my mouth throbbing because somehow some sort of food item became lodged under my only crown that I have over a cracked molar. Ugh! Earlier this month our beach plans were almost interrupted when I got called to jury duty. Not only jury duty, but jury duty for a highly publicized capital murder trial in our area. I tried to get deferred, but the judge would not let me due to the importance of the case so for two days I sat in court listening to everyone else complain about having to be there (which made me feel bad for complaining). On day three I was excused (thankfully!). I don't think they liked the fact that I had already pretty much made up my mind. I remembered a lot of the details of the incident which happed 2 years ago. So, I was out! Anyways, now that I am typing all of this, it really sounds like a lot has been going on.

Making Progress

Okay, we are making progress. Here we are putting the kitchen back together. These pictures really do not do the new color justice. I would say the color is more a paprika color (Sherwin Williams color Habanero Chile.) It's very pretty! I guess we will start on the family room tomorrow. More pictures to follow. It will be much better when we are absolutely done!

Want to see the best little girl trumpet player in the world?

Okay. There she is. Tallulah herself - on the right of course! This was taken at our local Jazz Festival.

It's Over!

I was officially released from the orthopedic doc yesterday. Yay! I went in for my final visit and the two surgeries I had on my hand were successful. After months of physical therapy, the joints are still tight and the scar tissue still has not released the tendon so that it moves smoothly, but that may still come with time. My doc says there is still a chance that I could develop arthritis in that hand before I do anywhere else, but he joints are lined up good and maybe that will not happen.

On a much lighter note, hubby and I are painting our kitchen and family room this weekend. Here are some before pictures and I will post some after pictures when we are done. He is doing much of the painting and I am doing all the supervising. Until I get full strength back in my hand so that I don't drop things, I am going to be the bi-stander on projects such as these. Me dropping paint all over the place...not good!

Before: (Please note my helpers taking a break - totally unacceptable!)