I hate heat. Truly. I would much rather be cold than hot. My theory is that you can always put more layers on. You can only take so many off. We are on Day 2 of 3 of icky, muggy heat. It is 3pm right now and the outside thermometer says it is 98 degrees outside. It is usually only off by a couple degrees so I bet it is closer to 95. But that is still quite hot. I have the 3 ceiling fans going, one window fan on exhaust in Abby's room, an A/C unit in the living room, and one in our bedroom … [Read more...]
It’s Here
My Kindle arrived on Friday!!!!I think I'm in love. lol.Most of the free books that I had wanted were still free. I even found a NASB Bible, the version one of our pastors uses, for $5.80. I love my printed NIV study Bible but its nice to read the same version that is being read out loud.I love that I can read while nursing Abby now. I can hold it one handed and don't need the other hand to turn pages like in a conventional book.There are also even more book to review though one of my book … [Read more...]
Than Again, Maybe Not
Do you ever wonder why computers just seem to stop working? And why do our lives just seem to suddenly come to a stop when the computer crashes?We got our laptop back yesterday, the Acer. It was still having booting issues but it started after 6 tries. Then I turned it off and on again one more time to make sure. Yup. It works.Matt gets up this morning. Won't start. We tried about 20 times. Finally started. Well, the power cord fell out and Matt didn't notice. The battery doesn't hold a charge … [Read more...]
Random Facts About Me You Never Knew You Wanted to Know
- I enjoy kid shows. Disney, Nickelodeon, even some PBS kids shows. I enjoy them. I sometimes think they are better than adult shows. Certainly cleaner. Plus, I like to claim they make me the "cool" sub as I watch the same shows as the kids I teach. :) -I hate surprises. Utterly, truly, passionately hate surprises. Matt is the only person that can successfully surprise me and even those are small things like surprise morning trips for donuts. Parties.....don't even try. They stress me … [Read more...]
April Fool’s… Trick or Treat?
This is has been quite a strange year. And it isn't over yet! And I'm only talking about the weather. We won't even get into everything else that has happened. We had a rather big storm on April 1st. Our April Fool's storm. Now, we have a Halloween weekend storm to go with it. This is my backyard this morning. A bit blurry as it was still snowing a little and windy. We have about 5 inches out there. Since they were predicting 5-10 inches and, being in the mountains, we always get the … [Read more...]
Survived the Storm…Mostly
Well, Irene hit here yesterday after she turned from a hurricane to a tropical storm. My area of the state usually doesn't get hurricanes since we are no where near the coast. Well, this one was different. We got hit pretty hard. The highest count of those without power ended up over 210,000 throughout the state. For a state with our population, that is a very high number. I lost power here but only for about 5 hours. We live on a main circuit with a nursing home down the road. So we tend to get … [Read more...]