And there were two...

Look what I came across in a hard boiled egg I was eating the other day....
twin yolks. So random...well, at least to me. :) Oh, and sorry if that looks gross, it kind of is but I just had to take a picture and show everyone. It's not like ya see this every day. :)

Ramblings

I'm stealing a post idea from my friend Lindsy who does a post of ramblings about once a week I think (correct me if i'm wrong friend).

1. Last night my dad told me he was proud of me. That is always a big boost for a child to hear. He said this for several reasons, most of which I will not go into at this time, but mainly because Friday I told him that my car was still making a sound after we had just had it "fixed" on Thursday. He said he wasn't hearing it but I instisted. He took it back in yesterday (Monday) and they discovered they had not properly installed my new timing belt. Now, I am not one that really cares or notices things about my car usually. It frustrates my dad to no end cause I am never getting my oil changed on time (which means he has to keep asking me when it's getting closer then take it himself becuase otherwise...) or cleaning it out like he does for his precious automobile. So, my pressing the issue and then the guys over at Firestone actually finding something to validate what I had said really gave him a I'm proud of my daughter moment. He doesn't share them with me on his own too often so that was pretty nice to hear. :)

2. Yesterday it was brought to my attention that I was a bit behind in my blog updating. Wanna know who felt the need to bug me about this? One Miss Kristin Gibb. Yeah, I hear you all laughing out there, I pretty much did to. Okay, so maybe I haven't posted in a few weeks or something but if you click here and take a look at her "blog" you will notice that she has only posted once and that was almost a year ago. So...she does not have the authority to point any fingers at me thank you very much. I think someone else should do some updating of her very own. (love you friend!)

3. This Thursday Grey's Anatomy is FINALLY coming back! I am so excited. TV land is getting back to normal, my girls and I are getting back into our Thursday night groove, things are right in the world and I love it.

4. A couple weekends ago I moved some furniture around in my tiny little apartment and let me tell ya, that can really make a difference in your life...well, my life at least. Every couple of months or so I start getting a little stir crazy and thinking about finding a new apartment or something. To assuage (big word, huh) those feelings I just move around some furniture and clean a little. Boy does that make a difference in my attitude. And then when I come home the next night it's like a whole new apartment. It's the best feeling in the world. Even rearranging the appliances in my kitchen helps. (How lame am I?)

5. Dating...hmmm. It's fun....and exciting...and a bit tiring...but I'd like to do more of it.

6. I miss my friend Jenny. She has moved to Hawaii and is doing all sorts of fun stuff like going to the beach and to Jack Johnson concerts and just enjoying the lovely sun...something we Oregonians know nothing about right now. Here are Kristin and I saying goodbye to her at the airport. Oh right, no picture. Stupid blogger is being, well, stupid and won't let me upload anything right now. Pictures will have to wait...sorry friends.

7. If you haven't seen Juno yet then you better get to Blockbuster or your movie rental store of choice and check it out. It is a great movie and has some good thoughts to share. It is also a pro-life movie (even if they didn't quite mean it to be).

8. I have really great friends. They know who they are and they are great cause they listen to me and let me ramble and vent and still love me. :)

Hmmm...I think that is all I'm going to give you today...it's quite a lot to take it and probably completely boring. I won't apologize though, it's my blog and I can write whatever the heck I want. :)

You know you are an Oregonian when..

You throw an aluminum can in the trash and feel guilty. Oh my gosh, YES!

You only honk your horn if collision is imminent and never for anything else.

You consider something a "hill" (not a mountain) if it doesn't have snow on it or has not recently erupted, regardless of its altitude.

You consider "etiquette" a foreign word.

Most of your friends are from California. (or have at least lived there at one time in their lives)

You find a wallet with $500 and give it back to the owner. Is this true of Oregonians?

You used to live somewhere else but won't admit it publicly.

You've ever ordered a half caff/decaf, nonfat mocha grande with sugar-free cranberry whip (or you know what it is at least).

You know a bride & groom that registered at REI.

If someone ran your car off the highway, you might drown.

You'd be miffed if the store was out of your favorite brand of water.

Every day is casual Friday (even Sundays at church).

You hear the word "ferry" and think of boats and long waits.

You think skiing always means being covered from head to toe, in snow or water.

You know that Boring is a town and not just a state of mind. (Although, and I know this because I spend many hours a week in this town, it does help you get to that state of mind and is sadly worthy of it's name.)

Have actually used your mountain bike on a mountain.

You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit under a raincoat.

You return from a California vacation depressed because "all the grass was dead."

You remember the date, severity, time of day, where you were, and how long you were out of power and phone service for every winter weather event in the last five years. HAHAHA!!! Yep.

You have called your insurance agent to ask if your homeowners policy covers falling trees, flooding, or mud slides.

You never go camping without waterproof matches, ponchos, and mattress pads that double as flotation devices.

You believe swimming is not a sport but a survival skill to prevent boating deaths.

You own more than 10 articles of clothing that have the names of microbreweries/brewpubs printed on them.

You think downtown is "scary" because you were panhandled there, once. (This is only true for half the state. I do not fall under this but I know some people who do. Pretty funny.)

You replace your hiking boots with Birkenstock or Teva sandals when the weather gets above 60 degrees.

You believe people who use umbrellas are wimps or Californians, or both.

You actually get these jokes.

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Word of the day: disremember - which means to forget

This word is awesome and I am going to try and use it as much as I can since I disremember things all the time. I love it!! It's totally my new favorite word.

Here is what else my Word of the Day email had to say about this word:

Did you know?
English has been depending upon the word "forget" since before the 12th century, but in 1805 a new rival appeared in print — "disremember." A critic in 1869 called "disremember" both "obsolete" and "a low vulgarism," and later grammarians (so that's what they are called, didn't know that either) have agreed; it has been labeled "provincial and archaic," and in 1970 Harry Shaw opined that "disremember" was "an illiteracy," adding, "never use this word in standard English." (By 1975, Shaw amended his opinion to "this word is dialectal rather than illiterate.") "Forget" is indeed a vastly more popular word, but "disremember" still turns up occasionally, often in dialectal or humorous contexts.

I still will try to use this word often and do my share to bring it back into regular use.

Also, I apparently disremembered that we traveled back to Winter and was confused when I had to drive home from the gym in a blizzard. March 28th should equal sunny, not hot and not too cold days with some rain but no, March 28th, 2008 equals very cold temps that produce winter like weather. Yesterday I talked to Jenn, who is in OK, where it is something like 80 degree's. They are experiencing Summer and we are experiencing Winter. Hmmm, I don't know which place I would rather be, except maybe in a place that has Spring weather, weird I know.


Oh, and I just found this picture that I can't believe I have not shared with you all already.

Donna (one of the "redheads" at the front desk) and I walked around the displays that were all set up for the Sportsmans Banquet a few weeks ago and came across the best thing ever...a makeshift shooting range. Yes, that's right folks, there were guns in our church. It was GREAT! And they weren't real guns, just air riffles I think, with little hour glass shaped pellets. I think Donna said they were .22's. I have no idea (as you can tell, I'm sure) about this stuff so who knows if I'm even saying any of this right. But the guys that were running it let us sit down and take a few shots. A few shots turned out to be quite a lot and we turned out (to everyone's surprise, including our own) to be pretty good. :) We got to shoot paper bulls-eyes, a wooden squirl, balloons and christmas lights. The Christmas lights were my favorite because they would explode when you hit them. Talk about a rush! The picture above shows Donna and I showing off our bulls-eyes that we each took only 6 shots at. And yes, each shot hit the paper...and each shot hit inside the smallest circle. It was great and just too much fun! I went home and told my dad that he needed to take me to a shooting range. Maybe I should join the military. HA!! Maybe not.

A quote I heard recently that if you know me very well you will find very funny and fitting.

Jack Donaghey: "Your here early."
Liz Lemon: "Well, I gave up caffeine so I've been going to bed at 5:30."

from the show 30 Rock

Lots of catching up...

Hmmm, where to begin.

Today it snowed in the Northwest. What the heck is up with that? I'm pretty sure it's spring and March is almost over. We have some weird weather in these parts. And poor kids that are on spring break and having crappy weather. Now, I'm one who loves Fall and Winter and the cold weather but there is a time when it's nice to get a break from the freezing cold weather and get some much needed sun and not have quite that bite in the air...and it's called Spring. We get to bring out some of our more warm weather friendly clothes and put away the sweaters and big fluffy jackets. Oh wait, not this week. We've gone back about 4 months in weather. I wonder if it means anything? Like a super hot summer or a really mildly warm summer? I'm not huge into super hot weather (more cause I hate sleeping and sweating during those warm nights) so my vote would usually be for the later but today I'm hoping for a nice warm spring and a hot summer. Any one else care to share their thoughts on this crazy weather we are having? Oh, I will say this...I went out to get some pictures of the snow around the church but it had melted and the sun was shining. That is more like it. Let's keep it that way please. :)

I also realized, well, not really realized cause I already knew this but, I love the color green. Besides painting the office two different shades of green (although that was not the original plan but sometimes it's hard to tell exactly how a color will turn out when it's put on the walls) I have a lunch sack, travel tumbler and thermos that match...without me evening knowing or planning it. Don't worry, here is a picture so you can believe me...

Now, these items were not bought together or with each other in mind. I bought the lunch sack back late last year sometime, my sister made me the tiny tumbler about 3 or 4 years ago for Christmas using a picture that Karl took, and she also gave my dad the thermos last year for Christmas (which he never uses so I stole). I think the love of the color green runs in my blood, or at least is something I share with my sis, apparently. I made this discovery this morning and just thought I would blog about it. How boring am I? Oh well. :)

Let's see...Saturday my dad and I colored Easter eggs. Didn't end up doing an Easter egg hunt but oh well. It was still fun to do the "traditional" coloring of the eggs any way. And you can't see them here, this picture was taken at the beginning our coloring time, but one fun thing to do is to put rubber bands around the eggs and then color them, or color them then put the rubber bands on and then color them again. Aren't those some snazzy mugs? ;)

Oh, and I am so SO SO excited that the writer's strick is finally over. We (Beks & Kristin) already have plans for a Welcome Back party for The Office next Thursday. We are going to watch it on Kristin's super huge tv and Beks is dressing like Dwight and I'm bringing the crossword puzzles...okay, maybe not but wouldn't that be funny if she did dress like him? I think I might pee my pants.

One final thing to mention and I'm sad because I didn't know about it until today and the month is now just about over. But...March is National Nutrition Month. In all honesty, that is every month in Tabitha Land but still, it's fun that they chose a month to celebrate nutrition. But don't stop celebrating on the 31st. Let's keep it going all year 'round. :)

There's more to catch up on but I do need to get to work, hehehe. So bye friends!