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Aggravated

Well I planned to come online this AM and tell y'all about our trip to Granby this past weekend (tons of photos on Flickr already) and I may do that later on, but right now, I'm mired in spam hell, deleting about 150 useless spam comments that are flooding my blog. Now I have to do one of those image anti-spam words and that'll take me a bit to work out. Luckily both the kids are down for naps ATM. Wonder how long that'll last.

Oh yea, commenting is inactive for now. The form looks like it works, it just doesn't do anything.

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Brain Dump

ARGH. Had a whole long post written out with links and such and it went pooof! Now I'm tired and it's late and I'm a bit ticked. So I'll recreate as best for you as possible.


Matt found this comic for me. Which is funny because it IS me. I have wanted an awesome treehouse forever. Matt promised to build me one before I would marry him. I'm not kidding either.

Little cutie is outgrowing her clothes at an alarming rate. Especially her one-pieces. She only has 1 or 2 that fit and I really like to keep them in the diaper bag for a full outfit change if necessary. So we bought her a few of those. One we got at Sam's club .. that was $7 … the very same one was $16 at Babies 'r' Us. I found that very gratifying. I would show you a photo, but I can't find it online and I'm way too lazy to take one and upload it, etc. Very cute though. Continue reading “Brain Dump”

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Finally Scrapping


As I mentioned before, I did finally get started on Tabby's scrapbook. It's been going pretty well but somewhat frustrating because I seem to have lost a photo or two (including the one of the pregnancy test that I took) when my mini hard drive got stolen/lost/whatever. I also am realizing that sometimes I wasn't very good about taking photos, so there are some gaps. Anyhoo, here are a sample of my efforts (friends and family only, since some of the brushes, etc. are fuzzy licensing).

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We are Family


We spent the past weekend at a family reunion in Missouri. That's where my mom's dad was born and raised and where a good deal of our family still lives. We met up in the Ozarks near the town of Warsaw, MO where two families have cabins. Most of us stayed at a nearby hotel though.

We had a great time together eating, laughing, talking, playing games, eating, swimming, tubing, reminiscing, and oh, did I mention the eating?? I swam in a lake for the first time in years. The water was so warm (it doesn't get like that here in CO … all our lakes are fed by snow melt) and nice. And there were the hugest bugs I've ever seen.

Miss Tabby was sure a hit, although it surprised me what a hit she was with the under 12 crowd, especially the little boys. She was absolutely exhausted today from all the attention and driving and now we've got to work on getting her back into her routine so we can go away again next weekend. Beaucoup photos here.

Hope everyone else had a nice weekend!

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Attention Customers: GO AWAY

Sometime a few months ago, the LCD cover on our camera broke off. It's not a vital part, but it's protective, so I wanted to replace it. Then when we were hiking in the river near Zapata falls, I lost the lens cap. We keep a UV filter over the lens for additional protection, so once again, not a huge deal, but I wanted to replace it.

I got online and found that the pieces themselves weren't that expensive, but that they weren't available from the same merchant, so I'd have to pay double shipping, bringing the total of two relatively cheap items well over $40. So I decided to pay a visit to Wolf Camera. Continue reading “Attention Customers: GO AWAY”

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Bigboy Laptop

Ended up going home from work early yesterday. This killed me because I really need/want my vacation days (they are the same as sick days where I work) and I don't want to squander them on food poisoning. Oh well. So I went home and slept. Lots. I love sleep even when I'm not sick, but when I'm sick, sleep is even better. Anyhoo, I'm feeling way better today.

My laptop arrived yesterday. I am very excited to get it. But I didn't quite realize how big 17″ is. I don't think it will fit in my backpack. That said, it will be darn nice to play games and work with graphics on. Once I get everything sorted out.

See it came with Vista. I'm a bit opposed to Vista, cuz frankly, I think XP is grand. It's not like when we were all running 98 and it was so awful and it was nice to switch to something that worked. But anyhow, that's where it's going, so we went there with the new computer. Overall, it seems to mostly be a jazzier version of XP. But they put all your documents in weird places. Not sure what that's about. And for some reason that I haven't figured out yet, none of my fonts will load. It keeps saying their names are too long. I've got to figure out what's going on. I need those fonts. Sheesh.

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Nothing Coherent Today!

I have some sort of nasty GI bug … food poisoning, methinks and I'm none too sharp at the moment. So you get the stuff that's rattling around in my brain.

I went crazy yesterday and bought Tabby this absolutely darling luggage. Cuz that's what every 5 month old needs, don'tcha know. I won't tell you how much it was, exactly, but I will tell you it was under $100 and on sale. Now I feel a bit better. It will not get here in time for the trip we're leaving on tomorrow.

Matt bought me a new laptop for my b'day which is arriving today. Hooray for that. I have found that I cannot use my stationary computer with any sort of success since Tabby was born. So now I will have a laptop that will go all over the house to wherever she needs to be. Anyhoo, since it shipped on Mon, I've been stalking it via FedEx's website. It started out in Shanghai, China (yet I still have to pay tax on it!!), then went to Anchorage, Alaska, then to Indianapolis, IN and now it's finally in Denver. It's a little sad that my consumer goods are more well traveled than I am.

Speaking of computer productivity, I actually managed to get Tabby's scrapbook started. This hurculean feat was possible only because I have decided to do this scrapbook digitally. I've always liked this idea, but have sometimes found it hard to get the pages printed as I would like them. But I googled “digital scrapbook printing” or something like that the other day and found Picaboo. Which is exactly that – a digital scrapbook service. They have laods of templates, etc. that you can use to make your own scrapbooks or you can do them up in Photoshop and import them as full pages for maxiumum control freak. I've already gotten a couple of pages done … and I didn't have to take out all of that scrapbooking stuff and make a big ol' mess. Continue reading “Nothing Coherent Today!”