making it up as i go along
I've been tagged by Ani!
1. The book nearest me: Manual for the new camera … does that count? If not Marley and Me, the book Matt's currently (re)reading to me.
2. Stretch your left arm, what do you touch? my bulliten board
3. Last thing you watched on TV? Monk
4. Without looking, what time is it? 9:15
5. What is the actual time? 9:18 Continue reading “Tagged”
Of course, it was another busy weekend. My day on Friday started extra early because we had our quarterly breakfast meeting at work … but that allowed me to leave earlier too and go home to hang out with Loki and have a nap. In the evening, my parents and Kelly picked me up and then we went to get Matt from the airport. After excellent Chinese cuisine at East Cafe, we went to the Denver Museum of Science and Nature to see Body Worlds. It was a neat exhibit made slightly less enjoyable by the large crowd it drew. They had the exhibit open round-the-clock since this was the last weekend and even when we went at 9:30, it was packed. Continue reading “Another Busy Weekend”
I saw on the Readymade Blog where you can customize a pair of Chuck Taylors to your specifications (within their parameters of course!) and even put your name on them (sorta like Nike ID, i suppose). If I didn't already own a bazillion pairs of sneakers, I might have to get them …
Anyhoo, you customize the inside and outside color of the shoes (so you could have two-tone shoes if you like) and then the stripe on the back, the tongue, the laces, the stitching and the rubber color. You can also have about 8 characters in Arial or some scripty font for a personalization. Sadly this is not enough room to write something snarky or witty (“Felony Flyer” or “60-Buck Chuck”). More's the pity.
Ever since we got out of college (over 4 years ago), Matt and I have been wanting to get a digital SLR… but it was never quite the right time, money wise. In high school, and some into college, Matt used his film SLR, but by the time you pay for film and processing, film photography is a pricey hobby, so his film SLR has been sitting on our shelves, collecting dust. Digital with its instant and free development is such a nice way to go. We've been doing fine with our smaller, cheaper digitals. But sometimes, there's a shot that requires a really fast camera (think Loki), or a macro lens and you just can't get the shot you want. That's kinda disappointing. So after saving for a good while, we bit the bullet and purchased the Nikon D200. Matt's camera was a Nikon and so his flash and lenses all fit the new camera, so it's not as expensive a proposition as it could be. We were going to wait a bit longer and save s'more dough, but we're going on our Yellowstone trip next month and we want some time to play around with the camera and get used to it before we leave. I can hardly think of a better place to take a ton of photos than Yellowstone … woohoo! 
5 Things Meme, stolen from Lisanne.
5 Things In My Purse Backpack:
1. peach lip balm
2. Real Simple magazine
3. Nintendo DS
4. mp3 player
5. exacto knife painted to look like a fish
5 things in my fridge:
1. iced tea i made over 2 wks ago and haven't yet sampled
2. Annie's all-natural shitake & sesame vinaigrette
3. fresca (peach flavored)
4. leftover pizza in varying stages of decay
5. peach spice jam (and about 10 other varieties of jams and jellies)
5 things in/on my desk:
1. a stack 6″ high of stuff i need to “file”
2. my tivo remote
3. my disk for Sims 2
4. various pens, pencils
5. nail clippers
Usually, I'm a champion sleeper. World class. I get into bed, I fall asleep and I sleep straight through the night. Rarely do I dream (or that I remember anyhow). It's nice. Lately, though, sleep has been a bit tricky for me and I'm not really enjoying it. I woke up at 2:30 last night. Tossed. Turned. Listened to a book on tape (Girl of the Limberlost, in case you're curious) for over an hour. Nothing worked. So I found myself playing my new favorite video game, Lost in Blue around 4 AM this morning. I think Loki thought I was insane. He would open one eye, look over at me, kind of exasparated and go back to sleep. Lucky dog. Finally, around 5:30, I drifted off to sleep. Gues what time my alarm was set for? Yep. 6 Continue reading “Who Needs Sleep?”
Friday we had my company picnic which is always a good time. Beer and brats, you know. Saturday, went to our neighborhood garage sale with friends who have babies or are about to have babies … my neighborhood is FULL of rugrats, so practically every sale has a ton of kids stuff. Didn't buy anything for me, but the kiddos got good stuff. Followed that up with lunch with Matt's bro, errands, and loads of housework.
Sun morning, we snuck in a trip to the theatre and saw Pirates, which I found to be immensely enjoyable. Johnny Depp is superb in his role and the rest of the cast was great too. We didn't anticipate that being so long, so we had to rush to get up to my aunt and uncle's house to celebrate my cousin's 13th b'day. After that, back home and s'more laundry and housework and to bed.
I was just looking at my calendar for the rest of the month. It is jam-packed. And it seems like every time I turn around, there's something to add to it. And of course, once we get into August, we've got my b'day, my dad's b'day, our anniversary, and our anniversary trip. Is it any wonder I need toothpicks to prop open my eyes?