Category: Randomness

Microsoft has a new search client called Bing. I love it! Every day it has a new picture with a bunch of tidbits about the picture that you can click on to learn things. It's quite addicting. You can even look at previous days' photos (I think you can go back a week). And they are all gorgeous pictures!

Yesterday it had this picture!

That would be good old Minneapolis! I could post a picture every day from there! But I am sure I would bore the few of you that are out there! So take a look. Maybe you'll become a Bing fan like I am. Who needs google anyway?! 🙂 Well, after thinking about it…I do. At least I need gmail chat and the calendar. But I will use Bing for searching! 🙂

And by the way….Is it seriously August already!?!?

I thought this picture was so funny. It was from Twitter. They were over capacity and this was the image it showed to indicate their fullness! Ha! It made me giggle.

Anyone that knows me knows I like glitter and sparkles. I would practically bathe in a glitter perfume brush I had (I used it up, so I need a new one…hint hint!). I had on a glittery tank top one day and it made this really pretty pattern on the wall from the sun coming through the window.

I thought it was pretty. It did take a couple tries to get a picture to turn out. This was the best one I could get. I am sure I looked funny standing in the bathroom in the dark doing a dance/jig with my phone pointed at the wall! 🙂

I had forgotten that my website has the ability to do polls. I give it options and you, my faithful readers, get to vote on said options. I need to give it a try.

Now I just need you to give me some suggestions on a poll topic!

Ready…..

Set….

GO!

I spent the morning at Studio at Rush Creek with Paige. We made a bunch of glass pendants for her wedding. I won't tell you what we are doing with them yet, but it will be very cool! We made over 140 of them in just over 2 hours. It was loads of fun!

I can't wait to see what they look like when they are all finished after being fired in the kiln. What a fun way to start off the morning!

Then my mom and aunt came over to help us plant a bunch of the plants we got this weekend for our landscaping. We did some of them yesterday, but didn't finish. We still have a couple more things to buy and plant (including a tree and mulch), but it looks so much better already. I ordered Chinese for all of us to have for dinner after our hard work. We are very tired. And I am very sore!

I also learned this weekend that a good way to meet your neighbors is to plant outside all day. Lots of them stop by and introduce themselves. We meet some really nice people and I can't wait to get to know them better and meet more of the neighbors. I find it fun that instead of telling someone your address, you stand in the front yard, point and say “I'm in the *add color here* house.” 🙂 I love our neighborhood.

It was a great weekend overall!

This is my brother's girlfriend's new kitten. Her name is Emma.

She's so fuzzy! She's a medium hair cat and has the bushiest tail. It's fun to play with other people's animals. After being petless for a couple months, it's really quite nice! So I'll just have get my kitty fix elsewhere. And Emma will definitely fit the bill!

I just can't decide….do I need a twitter account? I keep going back and forth. I am leaning towards yes since I appear to be the only one without one. The thing I really like about facebook is the status updates. Well, that is all twitter is. And If I update twitter, facebook will also update.

The downsides…learning another new “fad”. And then the tedious process of making new “friends” to follow your updates and finding people you want to follow. But then I would know what EVERYONE was doing. So there are positives, too!

I would love your opinions…yay or nay on starting a twitter account?

Something about this weather lately has been making me want to ride my bike. I think all the people riding their bikes around the neighborhood are contributing, too. I want to rollerblade, too, but not quite yet. So last night I suggested we go on a bike ride. Chuck said we should probably eat dinner. So I thought it would be fun to ride our bikes to GET dinner. We rode our bikes to Subway. It was a nice 3.5 mile ride there. On the way back, we went a slightly longer way and found some trails in the neighborhood. So we rode about 7.5 miles and it was so nice. I am not as sore today as I expected. I can't wait to do it again!

I sent in my first Caclulus assignment a little while back and received it graded in the mail shortly after. I have had it hanging on my fridge since I got it back. Here's proof. (It's the blue paper on the right door.)

I had to hang it up on the fridge because I got 95/100! (And a “Great Work!”)

I was pretty proud of myself. I was also a little mad because I made a stupid mistake and should have had 99/100 at least. But I can deal with 95! I am turning in my next assignment today. I really have to stop spending so much time on each assignment or I'll never finish! But the picture below explains how my brain and math work.

Haha! It's so true. I spent so much time in college making justifications for my work and I can't do that with math. It's a different train of thought and I am having a battle with my brian getting it to think logically instead of crazily! 🙂

And I am not sure if this is a good or bad thing, but I seem to understand the Calculus concepts (well, more or less), but I struggle with basic Algebra. Strange. So I am relearning both Calculus and Algebra. What a pain! But it will all be worth it in the end.

Also, it's not very comforting when people ask what I am working on and I tell them “Calculus” and their faces twist and they get this look on their face like they have just eaten something very foul. So after having people do it to me, I am really trying not to do it to other people. Because I know I do. So if I do get that disgusted look on my face for something you like or are doing that I don't find thrilling, just remind me of Calculus. I will immediately apologize. 🙂

I was browsing some of my old photos and came across this one.

This was from a Twin's game a couple years ago. We went with Katie and her hubby Chris. I just thought it was a cute picture of us and wanted to share. 🙂