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Someday I will have a secret passage in my house.  I will.  It's a promise.

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I have been enjoying Hell

I've been watching this video a couple of times a day since it came out.  It makes me happy.  :-)

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For those keeping score…

Mr. Violet FINALLY bloomed!  It only took him a month. 

Ace of Cakes

While watching a little Food Network today, my little sister asked me how much a cake from Charm City Cakes would cost.  Like the tech-savvy big sister I am, I immediately looked it up online.  In case anyone was wondering, a cake from Charm City Cakes will set you back at LEAST $1000.  Srsly.  From their website:

Because all of our cakes are priced individually by the complexity of their design, we do not have a standard price list.
Due to the care we give to each cake and the one-of-a-kind nature of each order, we require a minimum of $1000 on all of our cakes.

Who buys these things?!?  I can’t believe anyone would spend That much money on one cake.  ONE cake.  Also, if you are wanting one, you can’t just go down and buy one, you have to order at least 3 months in advance.  They are completely booked up until January 5th! 

It almost makes me think I should go into the cake decorating business.

My birthday is in December, but…

…my parents bought my present today.

Unfortunately, I can’t have them until my birthday.  I love them though, and I really need them since my old riding boots have a big hole in the sole that lets in water.

Sunday Project

The thermometer outside finally made it past 50 degrees by about noon today, so I lugged this old card table up from the basement for a painting session.  After three hours, and a whole lot of painstakingly taping off the different areas, here is the finished product:

It matches mom’s workroom in the basement, and now she has an extra table to spread her stuff out onto when she does her scrapbooking and card making.  I think it looks awesome.

King Freckles of the Basement

 

I finally brought all of my books from my old house, and as I put up the bookshelf this evening, His Majesty the King of the Basement supervised from the top of the weight lifting machine.  I shall christen said weight machine, His Majesty’s throne.  No one else ever uses it. 

Found

$2.38, a receipt for a book of stamps, a 4th place ribbon that I didn’t win, a ticket stub for Twilight, a tube of Abreva, a cross charm I once found on the ground, and a sore throat lozenge. 

These are the things I found from last year in the pocket of my winter coat.

Silver lining…

Yesterday was the most miserable dreary day I’ve seen in a long time, but then I found these really pretty pink flowers.  I’m sure they were weeds, but they were pretty nonetheless.

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My email is set up to send any message that has “fwd:” in the subject automatically to Trash.  However, since my sister erases the “fwd:” from the subject line, it tricks me into reading her joke emails.  This was what she sent today:

I would like to know who this Regan character is to see if he has anything else that is worth laughing at.  I tried looking him up, but there are lots of Regans online, and I have no idea which he is. 

Does anyone know who this might be? 

Mr. Violet’s friends made it home safely.

No thanks to Mother Nature.  It rained and rained and rained and rained all the way home.  I thought I was going to have to build an ark.  It wouldn’t have had to been a big ark since it was just me and the kids… I mean, plants.

The dress in the window was lonely…

That is, until the magic shoes appeared to complete the outfit.

I stumbled upon this downtown last night.  Not sure who left the shoes there, or why they would have left them in the first place.

What my family looks like around the dinner table…

 

Just pretend that they are people.

My cat reminds me of a horse…

I sometimes grow grass for my terror of a cat.  It would seem that he enjoys the grass as it is almost immediately devoured. 

Does that not look like a horse at feeding time?  Example follows:

Told you.

Catching up…

9/18/09

I didn’t know that cannas made these weird pod-like things on their flowers.  Apparently they do.  Since then, I’ve dug up all the bulbs for wintering in the basement. 

 

9/19/09

My little brother plays baseball.  He’s also one of the team grunts, and is expected to do all the hard labor, such as dragging the field. 

9/20/09

My little sister and I were waiting for my little brother (who happens to be bigger than both of us), and we were taking turns shuffling these playing cards.  We both thought it would be cool to take a picture mid-shuffle.  It totally is.

9/21/09

It rained really hard.  The rain started coming in through the roof at work in the first exam room.  Right in front of where the pet’s owners sit to talk to the doctor.  What is funny about that is that he talked to them as if there wasn’t water dripping from the ceiling.  He totally pretended that it didn’t even exist.  All the while the owners were uncomfortable because the water was almost dripping on them.

9/22/09

I finally got the parts to start my indoor plant growing station in my basement dungeon.

9/23/09

Two pictures for this day.  The first is of the big head kitty sitting on the tack room ceiling at the ranch.  He always climbs up there, and to get down he actually uses a ladder.  I kid you not.  I’ll try to take a picture of that next.  The second is of the big lake.  It was so still that day I almost got a perfect reflection in the water.  The picture really doesn’t do it justice.

9/24/09

My plant growing station is halfway complete.  Mr. Violet is the only plant up there right now, but soon there will be two others.  Maybe three.  Freckles was investigating. 

9/25/09

I caught JoJo (My old grumpy dalmation) playing with Scruffy.  She usually pretends to hate him.  Now I know it’s just a show. 

9/26/09

I went to the dirt track races.  Srsly.  It was loud, cold, and almost fun.  Only almost because it was both loud and cold.

9/27/09

I decided that I needed to add a second light to the growing station.  I didn’t think I was getting all the colors of light Mr. Violet needed to thrive.  He’s doing really well now.

9/28/09

This is part of a new project of mine.  I’m sure you recognize the setting.  It’s where I sometimes eat lunch.  I thought it would be fun to take a picture every time I eat there to see how it changes over time. 

9/30/09

There is a bullfrog that lives in the goldfish pond.  He’s down there by the pump. 

10/1/09

I made myself a fake tattoo and painted it on my arm.  It fooled many, many people, including the middle-aged, twice-my-age biker dude who hit on me.

10/2/09

I ate lunch here today.

10/3/09

When left to my own devices, dinner often looks like breakfast.  Especially when there is scrapple in the refrigerator.  I love scrapple.

10/4/09

I found a skull collar for Trooper.  Now he matches my shoes. 

10/05/09

I got Mr. Violet down for watering and fertilization today.  He looks great.  Basement living is good for him, I guess.  Hopefully, he’ll start blooming soon.  It’s been almost a year since he’s flowered. 

That concludes the major catching up session.  Please forgive me.  I will try to do better in the future.  Taking the pictures is easy.  It’s the blogging them that is tedious work. 

Old, dead mule…

This is clearly a photo of a mule getting it’s head blown off.  Seriously.  According to Giz, it’s the product of an 1878 tech demo for a camera. 

Via Gizmodo

Alternate Universe

Had the Apollo 11 astronauts been stranded on the moon, there exists a speech…

In case you were following my Twitter…

This is what being scholarly looks like…

It was just as boring for me to be scholarly tonight as it is for you to look at this picture.  I feel your pain.

Last night…

I went out for drinks with two of my best friends.  What follows is a really low quality photo of the most delicious specialty pomegranate martini of my life.  This is the second of the two I had, and the empty glass of the first can be found behind the full glass of the second.  The lighting was really bad, and I was using my phone camera, so that’s why the photo turned out so terribly. 

I also must mention that if you hear the phrase “Madoff Medical Scheme” in reference to insurance companies any time soon, it was coined yesterday by my good friend, Terry.  I want him to get the credit he is due. 

“Untitled Art Series” masquerading as today’s photo.

Catching up on life…

I’m only a few days behind.  Srsly.  At least I took the photos…

Last Friday (9/11):

Big trucks tearing down a bridge.  I wish I would have had pictures of going out with my friends who went drinking with me that night because it was awesome and completely luck that we were all in the same place at the same time; however, I will just have to live without since I did not take any pictures that night. 

Last Saturday (9/12):

I wish I would have had a picture of my friend sleeping in my bed in my blue camo shorts.  He looked really funny.  Unfortunately, I have no picture of that, so this picture of a really huge mushroom and my foot will have to do.  Mind you, this picture is deceiving since my foot was much closer to the camera than the mushroom.  The mushroom was at least 2 1/2 feet wide.  The biggest mushroom I’ve ever seen.  Srsly.

Sunday (9/13):

I really like this “Dead End” sign.  It makes it seem as if you drive down that road you will die a very painful death.

Monday (9/14):

This is a potato.  I think it looks like a video game controller.  It was fun to pretend that it actually was a video game controller for life… It didn’t control anything.

Mangos!!!

I found dried mangos on sale for less than two dollars a package!!! I love mangos, but usually can’t have them because they are more than double that.  I know… random… but I’ve learned not to be picky about the things that brighten up my day.

I also had an AMAZING horseback ride today.  I can’t even begin to describe it.  I wish I had a picture.  It would be at least a thousand words. 

Your wish is my command.

Today, one of my coworkers wished aloud that we had scrubs with our logo and our names on them.  I quickly snapped a picture of our logo and told her I would make her one. 

I really enjoy being a genie. 

6 years ago…

Six years ago, I graduated from high school.  At the end of my senior year of FFA, my advisor awarded me with the “Outstanding FFA Member” award.  I was supposed to get a plaque engraved with my name on it, and my advisor assured me that he would have it engraved and get it to me ASAP. 

Somewhere along the line, I completely forgot about the award and the plaque.  Six years is a long time, and it slipped out of my mind.  A couple of months ago, my FFA advisor passed away suddenly and unexpectedly.  He was a good guy, and I’m thankful that I got to work with him all those years ago. 

I had lost touch with him, but he never forgot me.  Yesterday, my mom brought me a plaque that says “Outstanding FFA Member Award” and it is engraved with my name.  According to the High School principal, my advisor’s biggest goal for the summer was to get those plaques engraved.  Maybe it was because he knew something was going to happen to him… maybe he just realized that 6 years was quite a long “as soon as possible.”

Like they always say, it’s better late than never.  I was really happy to finally get my plaque.  Even if it was 6 years late. 

I did not forget 13 or 14…

Srsly, I did not forget yesterday’s photo.  I just didn’t get home until 3 a.m. from the photo’s venue and went straight to bed.  No, it was not a bar or anything like that.  It was an honest-to-goodness circa 1951 drive-in movie theatre.  The historic Barco drive-in in Lamar to be exact.  Unfortunately, it was really too dark to get a good picture, but I did take this crappy one (There are some better photos of it in this flickr stream). 

I think it’s of one of the previews, but I can’t remember.  If you squint your eye’s just right, you can kind of make out the line of cars there underneath the screen. 

Today’s picture features a set of keys.  My set of keys to be exact. 

I was at work today, and I tossed my key’s over to that table, but instead of landing on the top, they bounced off of the edge and I thought they were going to fall on the floor.  Amazingly, one of the keys got caught in the edge of the drawer there, and there was no crash as gravity took it’s course.  It was really crazy.

Now, I am tired, and shall retire to bed.

Long story…

I took this photo with every intention of blogging that it has been raining for two days straight.  It turned out that within an hour of taking the picture, and before I was able to blog about it, it stopped raining.  Imagine that. 

So then I decided to take a photo of my little pup with my real camera, but I didn’t have the card in, so I couldn’t get the photo off of my camera.  After that, I took a this picture, and I guess it’s technically today’s photo, since the rain photo fell through. 

The problem with this photo is that I don’t really like it.  I think JoJo looks kind of weird.  I guess when we’re riding in the car she’s all business.  She does love going in the car.  I don’t know if you can tell in this picture, but by this time (three hours after the first picture) the sun was shining like crazy. 

In conclusion, I don’t like either of today’s photos, but nonetheless they are today’s photos, so I guess I’ll just have to deal with it.