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Twitter Moms
I just joined this community for mom’s that use Twitter. I love it! Here’s a group I just formed. If you are interested in tattoos at all, please join. :) I have protected Twitter updates as I get a lot of spammers for some reason. Just let me know who you are and I will add you.
Technology
Violet has already got the flip-phone thing down playing with Greg’s cell phone from work! *LOL* She’s 16 months old. She also plays Mario Kart with Pap-Paw, she likes that. She has a V-tech as well.
I don’t think you can really get technology out of kids lives, it’s here.
I remember back in the day before email, cell phones and computers in our lives, in our home. We always encouraged reading, coloring, play-doh and playing outside if it was nice! I remember playing outside as a kid until the sky turned that purple color. Then I knew it was time to go inside for dinner. We rode bikes, roller skated, just hung out. Then Atari came out with Pong! Remember Pong?
We bought our first computer the year we got married, 1984. It was a Commodore 64 and we played games on it. We also learned a lot about computers that year and for the next few years. I so wish we had bought stock in Microsoft, can you imagine?! Over the next few years we built our own computers, I have one that’s a few years old, it works, so I hang onto it. We had a Packard Bell at one point, haha, I remember how that thing used to lock up. That was when Greg decided to build our own if possible.
With the girls, computer time/video games was for a reward after homework was finished and we limited it a lot. Our oldest was 16 before she was given a cell phone, we gave her a very used car at the same time. She’s 23 now. Our youngest got a cell for when we needed to pick her up from activities. I think she was 14 or so. She’s almost 20 now. Read more
Running Girl
I guess I’m officially a runner now. I just ran the 5K loop on the treadmill at the gym this morning. I finished in 44 minutes. It’s not great, but it’s not bad considering I just started to run about a month ago. I’m very proud of myself. I think I will keep running a mile on Mondays, time doesn’t let me run that loop on that day, but once a week I’m going to run the 5K loop.
Greg’s been so supportive, he’s talking about entering into a 5K with me in the Spring. Oh wow. I know that I can finish it. I won’t be first that’s for sure and I know that I won’t be last. I’ve never done anything like that before, it’s a goal I guess. I’m going to try to get my time down a little, just so I know that I will be in the middle of the pack vs. the end!
I really liked running in high school, I was on the track team for one semester. I think I liked it, I can’t remember a lot about high school, those bad memories!*LOL*
New look!
I’ve just given this blog a new look. It’s the same style sheet as the previous layout, but it’s one that I really like. Very PINK, very GIRLIE, so beware if you click out of your reader! :pinkgrin: I love it though. I will probably do one for Halloween, I think I have one already made around here somewhere.
Fall TV, finally!
Anyone else super excited to have some TV shows to watch? We’re watching “Fringe” and are really into it. These are the shows our DVR will be recording this season. You can find them all here: Fall Schedule
This doesn’t include: Entourage, Big Love, The L Word, The Tudors, Dexter or Weeds that we do watch on HBO/Showtime
Monday nights:
Samantha Who? Boston Legal How I Met Your Mother Two and a Half Men CSI: Miami Prison Break
Tuesday nights:
Fringe The Biggest Loser: Families
Wednesday nights:
Pushing Daisies Private Practice Old Christine *America’s Next Top Model *recorded on Friday nights*
Thursday nights:
Ugly Betty Grey’s Anatomy Survivor: Gabon CSI SNL Weekend Update Thur. 30 Rock
Friday nights:
The Ex List New Numbers
Sunday nights:
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Desperate Housewives Brothers & Sisters Amazing Race
This makes me SO mad: DirecTV will premiere Friday Night Lights‘ third season starting Oct. 1. We have cable, so, I have to wait! Grrrrrrrrrrrr.
News and more news.
I just made reservations for our car for our next trip to Atlanta. We’re leaving here on the 26th of November for four days. I made the hotel reservations last month. Thanksgiving hopefully will be at my brother’s house with his family and then we’re going to see my sis-in-law and her family over the weekend. (We is including Jess who lives there. Jacqueline and Violet are flying down with us as well!) My mom was supposedly coming to join us, but, I don’t know what’s up with that. She keeps changing her mind about things. I haven’t talked to her in a while as she’s really aggravating to me right now. Hopefully we’ll be buying the plane tickets around my birthday next month. It will be good to see my niece and nephew. I saw Rachel in August, but I haven’t seen Steve in years, just on Facebook and My Space. We talk through texts sometimes. I also want to get some good family photos of Tina (Greg’s sister) and her family with ours. 
We’ve never done that, so I thought it would be nifty-cool. We’re heading to the Aquarium on the Saturday after Thanksgiving with them, Violet will love that!
I went and got weighed and measured today at Jenny Craig! I’ve lost 9 pounds and 11 1/2″ in 9 weeks! I received a piece ribbon that was almost a foot long! So cool to actually see the inches like that. I’ve been running on the treadmill at least three times a week and I’m increasing both my speed and distance. I also work out on the bike some days after running and on the weight machines as well. I bought new shirts @ Target the other day in size SMALL, which is amazing since my boobs haven’t changed, just the way things fit. I also now own a pair of Levi’s 505’s. My first pair. :pinkgrin: They have NEVER fit me correctly, in my entire life. I have tried them on here and there, but, finally they fit. I hope to have this pair for a while, just fitting looser by my birthday in a few weeks. The food isn’t as expensive as it was when I first started as I get a discount and I also bought a coupon for $65 to use for 6 weeks. I get a free breakfast, lunch and dinner each time I use that and then after next week, I get even a bigger discount each week as I will be past week 10.
I sold my D40 the other day to a gal that I know through scrapbooking. I didn’t use it on my last two jobs and I haven’t used the lens at all since getting the 50mm, so I sold that as well. She’s giving it to her daughter to use. She’s taking photography classes and probably will next year at college too.
Cute Violet update: She now says Nana and finally Pap-Paw. It’s so adorable. I took out my phone the other day and recorded her saying Nana. Then, Greg came home and we were all in the kitchen when he walked in the door. I asked Violet who that was and she finally said “Pap-Paw”. He grinned from ear-to-ear and just melted. I think she’s got him around her little finger! I taped her saying that the other day and I have to make it into a ringtone. She’s definitely heading into the terrible twos, showing her stuborness every day if she can. It’s more pronounced any time she’s tired, so we take that into account. She’s eating pretty much all table food, just oatmeal at night to keep her belly full. We found some soy yogurt at the grocery store, but I cannot find a way to make a cake for her. Wendy, any clues? She’s allergic to both eggs and milk!
Jacqueline is doing well at the college courses she’s taking and just had her first test in all the classes. She’s doing well with the separation, so is Violet. Greg usually takes her to the backyard to swing and slide on Monday and Wednesday nights. He gets her so tired though! *LOL* We went and shopped today for some things and we walk around the grass while waiting for “mommmmmmmm” to get out of class. She loves walking around!
Hopefully I will be scrapbooking next Saturday for a while at the all day crop and then again on the 18th of October for CroptoberFest! I have all the photos, just have to put them with paper and scrapbook them.
I donated some things to a local women’s shelter recently and I offered to volunteer when I can. I just received a call from the gal today, I hope to be in touch with her tomorrow sometime and get a schedule pounded out. I have a lot of free time on Friday’s, so maybe once a month for a few hours. It’s a shelter for infants/toddlers as well as providing medical care. We gave away all of Violet’s little baby clothes to them along with food, diapers and wipes.
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Fall
I think that it’s really starting to get fall-like here. It’s windy today, even though it’s in the 80’s, the rest of the week’s forecast should be in the 70’s.
Blackberry Curve in PINK!
Friday I called Verizon and then went into the store and bought a new phone! I bought this one. It does everything I need it to do, sync with Outlook for my calendar and tasks to do, text messaging, a browser so I can use it on trips, at the store, wherever. It will be really nice at Thanksgiving when we go to Atlanta, I can check my email from anywhere, not just on my laptop.
I’ve downloaded the following to it, just in case you have one and want to add something that you don’t have.
Theme I’m using right now. I like this one as I can move around the icons to what I want on the short screen and I love Pin-Up girls, so this is it for today at least. There’s a lot of themes on there and I’ve downloaded a few already.
Google Maps Gmail Google Reader Google Google Mobile
Flickr Twitterberry Viigo Crackberry Yahoo! Go
It came with a lot of things already on it, like Facebook and AIM’s.
I signed a one year contract, I’m in a 2 year right now and purchased the phone for $239 with a $70 rebate. Can’t beat that! :pinkgrin:
They transferred all my contacts for me and then I synchronized it with Outlook so I have addresses on there too. That’s one thing that I always find myself lacking when I’m at the post office or the UPS store. I called one of my friends to get Jess’s address once, remember Cindy?! *LOL*
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Netflix Movies at Home- Next in the Netflix Queue
- 001- The Backyardigans: Into the Deep
- 002- Balls of Fury
- 003- The Backyardigans: Mission to Mars
- 004- The Backyardigans: Polka Palace Party
- 005- Avatar: The Last Airbender: Book 2: Earth: Vol. 2
- 006- Avatar: The Last Airbender: Book 2: Earth: Vol. 3
- 007- Avatar: The Last Airbender: Book 2: Earth: Vol. 4
- 008- The Backyardigans: Movers & Shakers
- 009- The Backyardigans: The Snow Fort
- 010- The Backyardigans: The Legend of the Volcano Sisters