Category Archives: Everyday Stuff

Just an area for what I’m doing on an everyday basis.

Semi-Caught Up

Well, the last 2 days was me playing catch up on things that I’ve ignored Thurs/Fri…..good that I got those caught up, but I still need to get my messages. I would’ve gotten to them, but we had a small tech emergency with the company I work for. Thankfully, our techs are great and got it taken care of.

We just got done watching the final of the John Adams mini series. It was extremely well done. We were impressed with how authentic that they progressed everyone with age and even showed how their teeth got worst with time. It has been a few years since I read that book, so I had to keep googling names and relations…..Wikipedia is GREAT for info.

It has been VERY weird on the weather here. We have had thunder, lightening, hail, snow, rain and sunshine…..each day. Starting at 500ft elevation and up they have been getting snow that sticks. Mt Hood, was suppose to get 8-10 inches. We had gotten hit with a jet stream from Alaska.

Is Army giving inferior guns to U.S. troops?

**This does not surprise me. The government is great at the no-bid contracts….gggrrr They never stop and think that there may be something better out there.  But personally, I smell a lobbyist or a political cronyism….I’m just too cynical.

Barkley’s legacy continues to evolve

**If he goes on to become mayor of his home town, it will be fascinating.   He speaks a lot of common sense truths on issues.

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Nothing Much….but Hi

From Monday until last night, I was pretty busy…stressfully.  Now that I got those days caught up, I hit a brick wall on motivation today.  I did get some work done this evening, just didn’t get as much done I should’ve.    Depending on the weather tomorrow on whether or not I get much done.   It is suppose to be nice tomorrow, before the cold front moves in.  So if it is nice, I want to hit the park.

We watched the debates tonight.  They both got their hits in, but I think Obama got more in.  We are seriously debating on whether or not to register as dems so we can vote in the primary……The problem is that we don’t want to be on anyone registry.

Commentary: An ‘average’ American will never be president

**This author had a pretty good article on why a common man can’t be president………and honestly, would we want one?  Look at Jackson?  And some of our other presidents before and after Lincoln that were more “average.  They sure didn’t leave that much of a mark and some actually made it worst.  George W anyone?  He may have went to Yale..due to daddy and granddaddy, but he sure is not very smart….he is pretty stupid overall.

I want a president who is smarter then me on the issues, looks at all the finer details but balanced with common sense.   What is so bad about that?

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A Real Blog

Well, I started this earlier, then lost it.  Pissed me off.  So lets see what I can remember….it wasn’t much.

I was just sitting here, not doing much….not motivated to do much….even though I should do my messages…..probably will later….lol

I did start going through different blog themes/designs……I really would like to change it up here.
I’ve also been waiting for my picture gallery from yesterday to FTP to the server, so I can post them for all to see without overwhelming my blog.  It was a breath taking stunning day yesterday.  Today wasn’t too bad, about 10 degrees cooler and over casted….but nothing to motivate me to go for a walk.   We are going to be back into the standard rainy spring weather tomorrow.  I know we have beautiful weather coming but after yesterday I’m pretty inpatient.  I would love to have a few of those days during the week so we can go to the park and avoid the families.

I’ve been reading all the news stories on that polygamist sect…..it is sick.  It is one thing for consenting ADULTS (the key word) who want to have multiple marriages….but PUBERTY girls to men 2-5x times older to them….that is RAPE!   Fuck that!  Just because there is freedom to religion doesn’t give you the right to use to RAPE ……Then most of those women are brain washed and controlled….gggrrrrr  That group is no better then the extremist muslims…..and the KKK….

Got our Oregon ACLU cards in the mail the other day….that was cool, it is in our wallets next to our lawyer’s card.  =)

My pictures are finally up.  Here is yesterday’s :  http://tornrose.com/Odds_n_Ends/2008_April/index.htm

Here is a picture from Mar 28th when we ended up waking up to snow.

 

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Just Some Quick Pictures

I plan on doing an actual post, but wanted to more picture editing.  Here is a quick preview of what I took on my walk today….it was a stunningly beautiful .

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Just Stopping In……

I hope everyone is having a good beginning of the week. I’ve been busy, but not the I’m losing my mind kind of busy….thankfully. Now I just need to focus on a few projects that I’ve been putting off, but just don’t feel like doing. Which sucks, because I now have some breathing room for it. It is kind of like an all or nothing thing….I have no idea what.

I originally started this last night…so I guess it is happy hump day…..lol

Well, I just finished up one big project today…..thankfully.  =)  That is one thing down.

It has slowed down from the crazy pace of last week, which is very nice, but now I just don’t want to do anything due to burn out.   I am going to have to force myself to get some things done…some of it isn’t too bad, just a pain to remember how to do it…..like backing up my firefox bookmarks and emails…..then I have to call sprint yet again….seem to think that we like to pay Florida taxes on our phones when we don’t even live there!  That is so annoying.  I’m so glad that we don’t plan on moving to any other state…..we felt more comfortable here within a week then we ever did in Florida after 3 yrs.  =)

Then I need to contact insurance again for the my job….we are opening another office in LA and need to get it taken care of it.  Then I really need to add more things to the store I handle.

I will say the only thing that has been issue since moving here is finding certain foods that we like.  For example, Open Pit BBQ, that is more of midwest thing…couldn’t get it in Florida.  My mom would ship us some from Indiana………lol   But I did find it online and ordered it a few months ago.  Right now, we can’t seem to find fresh ground horseradish for Harold.  So he found that online and ordered some.  What we don’t understand is that Oregon borders Idaho…but we can’t find Idaho potatoes and the ones we find are small.  We are use to big Idaho potatoes, so we are going to see if we can find that online.  =)  Now we need to find bread that we like…….I’ve been looking everywhere for homepride bread.  Just did a search and found this article : Wonder Bread bakery says region has gone stale  Hell, I didn’t even know that wonder bread made home pride.  =(

Been doing good with my workouts, but need to push myself more.  The workouts are hard and exhausting, but I’m not staying sore as much.  Which is actually a good thing, because my muscles are getting better on recovery, but makes me feel that I didn’t do enough….and that is even after feeling like I’m going to collapse during my workout with my trainer….lol  I usually see my trainer 3 days a week, but she had a family thing so I saw her this past Monday and I won’t see her until next Wednesday.  I’m trying hard to remember the different things that she has me do.

It is later then I thought it was and morning comes early for the gym.  =)

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