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| Gluttony: | Low |
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| Wrath: | Very Low |
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| Sloth: | Medium |
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| Envy: | Low |
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| Lust: | Low |
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| Pride: | Very Low |
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It’s time for my last Prius blog entry, for awhile at least. The big questions are how does it drive and will I be buying one.
I just read the Driving a Toyota Prius in Winter dude’s blog (which is an interesting blog, by the way) where he calls the Prius “futuristic” and that’s about right. Driving it feels futuristic and getting into a “regular car” after driving it for a week just exaggerated that feeling for me. Besides the futuristic feeling of it, it drives pretty not bad. It’s definitely a better around town car than it is an interstate driving car. It doesn’t have much pick up and the brakes are seriously sensitive. The wind grabs it a bit but it grabs all small cars and big vans. How does it drive? It drives nice.
I want one. And I believe I’ll be buying one. Someday. Not a white one. And I want one with the back-up camera (don’t even ask me how that works because I don’t know) but not the DVD player. Yep, I want to spend $30,000 for a whaleyboy car. I sure do.
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Okkkkk, I’m a little disappointed that my first book of 2006 was an evangelical novel set in the Carolina Lowcountry. I had no idea Grace at Low Tide was an evangelical novel. TW read it ages ago and I thought “Grace” was a reference to the dog-gone Grace Bridge!
When I started reading the book last night, after a couple of pages I turned to TW and said “ummm there’s a lot of God in here” and her reply was “not really”. Umm if that’s not a lot of God, I don’t want to know what is.
Totally not my cup of tea. Too sappy. To much God and Jesus and praying for me.
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I mentioned in my ABC’s of 2005 that six MP3 players have come through our home this year and now you folks get my oh so knowledgable review. I know you’ve been waiting for this before buying your own MP3 players, haven’t you?
First, the iRiver H10. TW bought this for me for my birthday and at first I was just a wee bit disappointed because I really really wanted an iPod Nano. But within moments, disappointment was a distant memory and has never returned. The iRiver is easy to use, it’s quick and it’s sturdy. Love, love, love this little toy so very much. Loved it so much that I bought one for my oldest daughter for Christmas and I do believe she also loves it.
Next into our world was the Samsung YP-T8X purchased for the 10 year old for her birthday by her father and stepmother. It’s got a really nice display and it is shiny shiny. It plays video but she’s only got a 512mb player and that’s just not going to work. I don’t believe the display and shiny shiny is really worth the money money for that tiny player.
Oddly enough, TW and I had purchased a Creative MUVO for that same 10 year old’s birthday. Easy to use, batteries seem to last a pretty long time. The only problem is the buttons don’t feel “substantial”. They feel like they could be easily broken. But so far, so good. She likes the interchangeable color cases but seems to be sticking with the red. And, she’s had some fun with the voice recorder.
Next up, the iRiver T30 for Michelle for Christmas. Similar to the Creative but the buttons are more substantial. The menu navigation is a little tough to get use to at first (though that could be related to the fact that I’ve played with so many players in the last 3 months) but Michelle has it sussed and is thrilled with it. Nice loud sound, which she loves.
And last but certainly not least, Chris NEEDED the iPod Nano. He could not be persuaded otherwise. He’s an apple nut and loyal til the end. So, his father purchased the Nano. When it arrived, I did what I had done for all of the other kids, I started loading some music on it so they could listen to something besides the pre-loaded crud that arrives with these things. The nav wheel is sensitive! And there are soooo many menu options, I got lost quickly. Then the darn thing wouldn’t turn off and I had to reset it. Sheesh. (Did I mention my brief moment of disappointment at not getting a Nano never returned?) But, it is pretty and tiny and light and I knew he would love it – and he did. I just hope he doesn’t break it or lose it, he’s not the most ummm responsible of the six children… And, I surely hope iTunes is easier to use on a Mac than it is on a PC. What a pain in the rear that was.
There you have it, my MP3 player reviews. The one thing they all had in common was my pure HATRED for putting those little felty covers on the ear buds. That just stunk, with every single player!
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So I saw this on My Bountiful Life today and it scared me. As TW says making a list like this indicates I have plans for my future and I simply don’t do plans. Well I do but I don’t put voice to them. I don’t talk them out. I don’t even really think them out. They sit in the back of my head til I’m ready to carry them out and it seems to people around me that I’ve just made some snap decision or something.
So I posted a link to it for some friends and thought I’d leave it alone and carry on as usual. Status quo and all of that. But before I knew it, I was surfing the technorati tags for 101 things and 101 in 1001. Hmm interesting. Next thing I knew, I was making my own list.
I’m not sure I like it. TW asked me why and I said I wasn’t sure. She asked if they were things I wanted to do and I said I wasn’t sure. Typical me. I’m not sure which is why I don’t voice my plans. I like being able to change my mind, change my direction, without having to explain to anyone why.
But here it is. My 101 things to do in 1001 days. Tuesday, September 27, 2008 is my “due date”. That in itself feels like enough for me to wipe this post clean and pretend like I never even heard of the idea…
Books
1) Read 25 classics. 11
2) Read 25 Non-Fiction 25
3) Listen to 20 books on CD/Tape. 16
4) Read The Moonstone.
5) Sit in a bookstore for an afternoon and just sift through books.
Computing
6) Submit a blog entry to 5 blog carnivals. 3
7) Try a “family podcast”.
8) Clean out my RSS feeds 10xs. 10
9) Update my blogroll 10xs. 10
10) Clean my spurls/bookmarks 10 times. 8
11) Blog everyday for a month.
Friends & Family
12) Help Michelle create her Cafe Press store and motivate her to keep it going.Now the motivation part.
13) Take Leona for coffee 10xs. 2
14) Call my brother 5xs for no good reason. 1
15) Teach the little kids how to do lanyards. 1
16) Call everyone on smiel ONCE just because.
17) Spend a day having fun with Bethy!
18) Have a mommy & me day with Chris 5xs.
19) Have a mommy & me day with Jenn 3xs.
20) Have a mommy & me day with my mom once.
21) Have a mommy weekend with TW 5xs. 4
22) Have 5 mommy and me days with Michelle. 1
23) Help Michelle create a good recipe book/box. book purchased…
Health
24) Drink only water 10xs.
25) Quit smoking.
26) Have a mammogram.
27) Run 3 days a week for a month.
28) “Drink the Vos Water” everynight for a week 10xs. 😉
Home
29) Get my piano moved from SC to FL.
30) Clean out the clean sweep pile in the garage.
31) Empty out the coat closet so that only coats are in there!
32) Clean out the cabinets and shelves in the living room.
33) Paint RJ’s room.
34) Buy RJ a dresser.
35) Buy RJ a new bookshelf.
36) Paint J’s room.
37) Clean out the cat closet bins.
38) Get TW’s clock fixed.
39) Put away the laundry as soon as it is folded for a month.
40) Cook/eat at home everyday for a month.
41) Bake bread once a week for a month.
42) Clean out the freezer.
43) Get the cats spayed.
44) Do 30 minutes of housework everyday for a month. Darn! 20 of the 30 days!
45) Get Chris’s car towed away.
46) Refinish the grandma furniture.
47) Refinish TW’s antiques.
48) Hang pictures on the wall.
49) Scan family photos.
50) Organize photo albums.
51) Clean out the gardening supplies. working on it now
52) Organize files.
Life
53) Try 10 new restaurants. 10
54) Download new music once a month 10xs. 10
55) Have a Mrs Peel Marathon.
56) Family Game Day once a month 10xs. 2
57) Sit in the hot tub once a week 10xs.
58) Go to church every Sunday for a month 3xs.
59) Watch all of the Star Wars Movies without falling asleep. 6 of 6
60) Take one photo a day for a month.
61) Complete the poetry memorization series with the children.
62) Go to the ballet.
63) See 2 plays. 2
64) Visit a new museum 5xs
65) Go for a bike ride.
66) Go horseback riding.
67) Make a kids cooking scrapbook for TW’s mom.
68) Have a “family portrait” made.
69) Send birthday cards to all family members at least once.
70) Send Christmas cards.
71) Use my tanning gift certificate.
Money
72) Buy the “perfect house”.
73) Buy a whaleyboy car.
74) Go 2 weeks without Starbucks.
75) Don’t order from Gatorfood for six months in a row. 6 months!
76) Save 10% of my paycheck 12 times. 10
77) Donate another 10% of my paycheck 12 times. 7
Travel
78) Convince Michelle to visit 3 colleges she has not considered attending.
79) Visit Mona!
80) Visit the Hunley.
81) Take TW to Edisto.
82) Take Michelle swimming with dolphins.
83) Go and visit my mom in Charlotte.
84) Visit TW’s mom and sister.
85) Go to NYC with TW.
86) Go to DC with the entire family.
87) Spend a weekend at Isle of Palms.
88) Take the kids back to St Augustine.
89) Go camping, in a tent.
90) Go to Michigan.
91) Go to Panama.
92) Visit 5 unusual roadside attractions. 2
93) Go to longest yard sale event (127 corridor).
94) Attend Blogher.
95) Attend SXSW.
96) Go to Vancouver.
97) Go to Hawaii.
Work
98) Create good WLC templates.
99) Answer 5 posts a day on “core” 10xs
100) Take 10 real days off from work. 9
101) Keep records for performance appraisals.
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A – Animoprhs reigned again this year as the series of choice for RJ. Barely beating out HP and the Half-Blood Prince. Here’s hoping she moves along in the new year.
B – Blogs, Blogs and more Blogs. They defined the year for us in ways I cannot even begin to explain. And I suspect they’ll be on any reflecting over 2006 list we may create next year.
C – Melissa got off the boat but TW and I stayed on the cruise in January. I don’t want to cruise again and TW doesn’t either but we oddly spent some time pondering queer family cruises and author cruises and Panama Canal cruises. Weird what cruising does to you. It’s something they put in the water or the food or something. My mom, aka sockmouth grandma, has moved part time to Charlotte to be closer to the Heir to the Throne.
D – My old Dodge Caravan no longer lives in the driveway. I signed it over to Chris when his Camry died in January and then he traded it in for a Tercel at the end of the summer. E and I miss the Caravan quite a bit. It was part of our history and it was sad to let it go.
E – A very large elephant has been purchased in the hope of having a grandchild to give it to next year. Jenn & Ronnie are officially “trying” (though have not yet succeeded).
F – Who’d have thunk Prince Joe would choose to play the flute… and almost enjoy it for more reasons than practicing has the potential to drive his family insane? Who also would have guessed his weird FCAT testing science fair project would net him a ribbon and inclusion into the regional science fair? Educational standards are weird.
G – Gamecube was purchases, as promised, when the Prince held up his end of the bargain and our lives have not been the same. Unfortunately he is no longer holding up his end of the bargain but the Gamecube remains. We need to work on that. E became Gameboy crazy, as well and the Grace Bridge is no more.
H – Homeschool or school at home? Whatever, we’re still doing it with Michelle. Speaking of Michelle, hair color and style changed and changed and changed. 2 of the 3 Hermit Crabs live on! Hazel the pink roomba has been a much loved addition to our lives.
I – My iRiver birthday gift is the BEST! 6 MP3 players entered our lives and the iRivers beat the iPods and the Samsung and the Creative hands down! TW and I enjoyed our first (and so far only) trip to IKEA in October. We need an IKEA!
J – RJ has discovered Practical Jokes, thanks to Nick magazine. She’s not very good at them but she tries hard and it’s amusing.
K – Keep, Sell, Trash! The fixation TW and I have acquired for Clean Sweep resulted in a Clean Sweep Birthday for me! We’ve not really been all that successful at following through but we’ve made some attempts and that counts for something, right?
L – Chris moved out of the house and in with his g/f and her mom in LaCrosse. We thought he would be moving back in before the end of the year but the move back home date has moved to February. The lemon tree finally produced lemons! 4 NEW laptops came into our home, 3 have survived!
M – Middle School for his highness, Prince J and magnet school for RJ and E. This means a lot of driving and a lot of pretty tough homework for all three.
N – Neopets have lost their lustre, a little. But our pets haven’t died!
O – TW got an office! With a Window! Joy!
P – Jenn and Ronnie PCS’d to Charleston and that makes me happy, happy, happy! PRIUS aka whaleyboy car! TW got me a PRIUS, for CHRISTMAS! And she didn’t really violate any Denise rules to do it.
Q – Qatar was on our radar and will be again next year.
R – Riley aka Heir to the Throne joined the family in July. I still say my sister should go back to being Childfree By Choice… and give me the baby!! The dirtbag retired after 25 years in the USAF. And, E is still rat crazy and created a rat sun bedroom to prove it.
S – RJ is still synchronized swimming. Though she seems less enamoured than in previous years. In fact, “oh man do I have to go?” is frequently heard when she’s asked to get her suit on and find her goggles and nose clips.
T – Tree work was finally authorized and accomplished. Good for the backyard and our electric and cable wires. Not so good for the front yard where the much loved tree in front is less loved because it is not so cool. Three turtles remain and are threatening to take over the living room.
U – Ulcerative Colitis is out, Crohn’s is in. Whoopeee.
V – We three women, (TW, Michelle and I), finally saw the Vagina Monologues at UF, together.
W – “My girlfriend the webmaster” is a phrase often heard around here. TW got a maddening nice new job in her department.
X – RJ’s x-rays after a skating incident led to a cast over the summer. Not so fun when you love to swim and scooter.
Y – My yellow smiely coffee mug lives on, who would have guessed it would have survived this long (10+ years).
Z – Chris is pondering life as a zookeeper, veterinarian or some other animal type handler. This means he’s going to have to go back to school, doesn’t it? And stay in, doesn’t it?
Originally seen on Underpaid Kept Woman!
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Troll: A love story – now that was a weird book! I can barely believe that I spent time on this little bit of fantasy but on the other hand it was oddly endearing. Weird but endearing? So that’s why I spent time on it!
A gay man and those who love him (which include a veterinarian, a Filipina mail order prostitute bride, a not-gay man who is really gay, some other really smart dude with a lot of books and a troll cub). WEIRD, WEIRD, WEIRD.
Really short chapters with bits of troll lore and news articles and stuff tossed in between the chapters. Weird, weird, weird.
I mostly didn’t understand the abused Filipina prostitute mail order bride bit. Was that really necessary to the story? I mean really.
I don’t think I can actually recommend this but if you’re looking for weird gay boy troll stories, this is a good one.
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OK this is coming to you courtesy of Heresiology but is dedicated to my friend Karen. Please do read the post, it’s a nice Solstice celebration recap. And at the bottom, this classic…. (Maybe I’ll get the little kids to sing it tonight while I record them on the iRiver…)
‘God rest ye, Unitarians’
To the tune of “God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen”
Gods rest ye, Unitarians, let nothing you dismay;
Remember there’s no evidence there was a Christmas Day;
When Christ was born is just not known, no matter what they say,
O, Tidings of reason and fact, reason and fact,
Glad tidings of reason and fact.
Our current Christmas Customs come from Persia and from Greece,
From solstice celebrations of the ancient Middle East.
This whole darn Christmas spiel is just another pagan feast,
O, Tidings of reason and fact, reason and fact,
Glad tidings of reason and fact.
There was no star of Bethlehem, there was no angels’ song;
There couldn’t have been wise men for the trip would take too long.
The stories in the Bible are historically wrong,
O, Tidings of reason and fact, reason and fact,
Glad tidings of reason and fact!
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OK ladies and gentlemen, are there any ladies and gentlemen actually reading this? Hmmm, whatever. I am proud to encourage you to run, I mean click, over to the GREAT Dr K’s nice shiney blog, Mad About Medicine and read read read. And add it to your RSS feed and keep reading reading reading all of the time. Dr K is the real deal. I’ve had the honor of talking to him about all sorts of interesting stuff, including the lack of smoke in blues clubs and cell phones dropping in toilets. Click, Read, Comment, Enjoy. I do, truly and honestly, recommend this particular blog by Dr K!
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