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Thursday Thirteen #23

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

1.  Overtime when you are a salaried employee bites.

2.  Being able to work from home can be a blessing and a curse.

3.  There comes a point when you reach diminishing returns.

4.  My desk at work is ready to be declared a disaster area.

5.  Valentine brownies with icing are a nice little pick-me-up.

6.  I’ve missed HOW many Thursday Thirteens?

7.  Our miracle dog decided it was time to walk on her own the weekend we were planning to put her down.

8.  She’s still wobbly a bit but she can get around well enough to get into stuff in the basement she’s not supposed to be in to.

9.  I’m still trying to catch up from the week and a half that I didn’t sleep while getting up every couple of hours to care for her.

10.  My husband loves Survivor.  I lost interest after the second season.  Is there something wrong with me?

11.  Reality shows bite.

12.  I’ve missed a few episodes of Heroes.  I’m glad they’re online. 

13.  I’ve been a notary public since November.  I’ve notarized 2 signatures.  Why am I afraid to advertise and put myself out there?

Thursday Thirteen #22

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Thirteen Shoutouts

1. Jennifer at Open Book

2. Angela

3. Lisa at Snarkypants!

4. Noladawn at Kids, Cats and Books

5. Tug at Just Tug

6. Leanne at Artist by Nature

7. Carmen at Gone to Plaid

8. Mind of Mog

9. She at The Screaming Pages

10. swampwitch at Anectodes, Antidotes, and Anodes

11. Disgruntled Owl

12. K T Cat at The Scratching Post

13. Mélange

Thursday Thirteen #21

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

Thirteen Random Things

1. I’m currently reading “the five people you meet in heaven“. So far, so good.

2. I think I found a home for the kitten. I should know sometime after 5pm EST tonight. I’m really going to miss him.

3. We’re having spaghetti tonight with garlic bread. Homemade sauce. Yum!

4. I need to get focused and start doing the things I wanted to do for the new year.

5. I started a new blog (a work in progress). I am going to follow a daily bible reading guide and post what I’m reading every day.

6. It’s only snowed twice so far this winter. Nothing significant either. I think total we’ve gotten an inch or less. Very unusual for these parts.

7. I don’t like coffee. Tried it many different ways and still don’t like it. We have a vending machine at work and I tried French Vanilla and am hooked now. I think it might be Cappuccino? Go figure.

8. I have zero motivation at work. After 21 years with the same company I’m ready for a change, but too chicken to do anything about it.

9. I’d better catch up on my TiVo or I’m going to run out of space real soon. I spend all my time on the computer instead.

10. Could I be an internet addict?

11. Almost tax time. I hate doing our taxes.

12. I need to carry my camera with me. I want to learn how to take better pictures too. I don’t take enough pictures.

13. I hate the winter blues.

Thursday Thirteen #17

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Thirteen worthwhile Charities and Volunteer Opportunities

1. American Cancer Society - I give to them in memory of my Mom

2. American Heart Association - I give to them in honor of my Dad

3. American Red Cross

4. Local City Missions

5. Toys for Tots - I give in memory of my son

6. Salvation Army

7. Local Volunteer Fire Department

8. Operation Christmas Child - Also in memory of my son

9. Local Humane Society

10. Central Blood Bank

11. Local Food Banks

12. Presents for Patients

13. Nursing Homes

The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow
Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy,
and fun! Be sure to update your Thirteen with links that are left for you, as well! I will link to everyone
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Thursday Thirteen #16

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Thirteen things I need to get done within the next month

1. Make a CD/DVD of pictures and music for my niece’s wedding.

2. Make cookies for my niece’s wedding.

3. Find a dress for my daughter for the wedding.

4. Get my daughter ready for her solo for the wedding.

5. Get my and my daughter’s hair cut for the wedding (more difficult than you might think!).

6. Set up a website for my nephew’s wrestling team for my sister.

7. A big project at work involving users being able to download our software program from the internet.

8. Post every day for NaBloPoMo.

9. Practice for and participate in the Christmas Program our Church does for our local city mission.

10. Christmas shopping

11. Christmas baking

12. That afghan I started and restarted and restarted.

13. Lose 10 pounds. (HA!)

The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow
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and fun! Be sure to update your Thirteen with links that are left for you, as well! I will link to everyone
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Thursday Thirteen #15

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Here’s your sign (From Bill Engvall):

1. Before my wife and I moved from Texas to California our house was full of boxes and there was a u-Haul truck in our driveway. My friend comes over and says, “Hey, You moving?” “Nope.” “We just pack our stuff up once or twice a week. Just to see how many boxes it takes.”
“Here’s your sign.”

2. A couple of months ago I went fishing with a buddy of mine, we pulled his boat into the dock, I lifted up this big ‘ol stringer of bass this idiot on the dock goes, “Hey, yall catch all them fish?” Nope. “Talked ‘em into giving up.”
“Here’s your sign.”

3. I was watching one of those animal shows on the Discovery Channel, there was a guy inventing a shark bite suit. There’s only one way to test that. “Alright Jimmy, you got that shark suit on, it looks good… They want you to jump into this pool of sharks, and you tell us if it hurts when they bite you.” “Well allright….hold my sign, I don’t wanna loose it”

4. Last time I was home I was driving around I had a flat tire, I pulled my truck into one of these side-of-the-road gas statioons, the attendant walks out, looks at my truck, looks at me, I swear to GOD he went, “Tire go flat?” I couldn’t resist. I said “Nope”. “No I was driving around and those other three just swelled right up on me.”
“Here’s your sign.”

5. Recently, when I went to McDonald’s I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets. I asked for a half dozen nuggets. “We don’t have half dozen nuggets,” said the teenager at the counter. “You don’t?” I replied. “We only have six, nine, or twelve,” was the reply. “So I
can’t order a half-dozen nuggets, but I can order six?” “That’s right.” So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets.
“Here’s your sign!”

6. I stayed late at work one night and a co-worker looked at me and said, “Are you still here?” I replied, “No, I left about 10 minutes ago.
Here’s your sign.”

7. A couple months ago, I was eating at an Italian restaurant, when a guy at the table next to mine asked the waiter “Is your lasagna good?” The waiter, not missing a chance, said “No sir, it’s tastes like crap but we hope nobody notices.
Here’s your sign.”

8. I got a haircut and went to work a couple days ago. My boss asked me, “You got a haircut?” I said “No, sir, it’s autumn and I’m shedding.
Here’s your sign.”

9. “I was walking my dog the other day and my neighbor saw me and asked, “You walking your dog?” I said, “Nope, I was walking the leash and the dog ran into it.
Heeeeeeere’s your sign.”

10. I came out of the mall one day and I saw a guy parked next to me with a coat hanger in his window…and I could not stop myself. I said, “You lock your keys in your car?” He says “No, I just washed it and I’m hanging it out to dry!”
Here’s your sign.

11. We were trying to sell our car about a year ago. A guy came over to the house and drove the car around for about 45 minutes. We get back to the house; he gets out of the car, reaches down and grabs the exhaust pipe, then says, “Darn that’s hot!” See? If he’d been wearing his sign, I could have stopped him.

12. The other day I bought a wreath to go on our front door as I was walking out the store a man stopped me and said “hey, are you going to hang that on your door”? I said “no sir, it’s a Christmas toilet seat cover, got the idea from Martha Stewart”

13. I hung those little Christmas lights on my house, you know the kind that blink on and off.My neighbor comes over and says “Bill how do you get those to blink on and off like that”? I said “I’ve got my son inside plugging and unplugging it, plugging and unplugging it.
Here’s your sign

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Thursday Thirteen #14

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Thirteen pictures of the haunted garage our family participated in the past couple of weekends and on Halloween night. We raised money for our friend’s brother who has cancer to help with his medical bills.

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he purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy, and fun! Be sure to update your Thirteen with links that are left for you, as well! I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 13 things. Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!

Thursday Thirteen #13

Friday, October 27th, 2006

Thirteen Things I can always count on.

1. Harley, my cat, sleeping right next to my head every night.

2. Squeaker, my other cat, pushing the bathroom door open 7 seconds after I turn the shower off. (Harley has to be in the bathroom with me the whole time. Squeaker’s afraid of the shower running.) ;)

3. Dixie, my dog, being happy to see me when I come home.

4. One of our neighbors stopping by to chat with my husband for half an hour (or more) 5 minutes before supper is on the table.

5. My kids fighting over who is going to take Dixie out.

6. Being the only one of 3 people on my team to be at work on a Friday.

7. Planning a day off work for “me” time and ending up running errands all day for Mr. Bird, who works part time as a school bus driver.

8. Shoes left under the dining room table.

9. Dixie patiently waiting for me to put my recliner foot rest up so she can stretch out next to me.

10. Gigi, one of our goats, getting her head stuck in the woven wire fence.

11. Laundry on the hall floor NEXT to the laundry hamper instead of IN the laundry hamper.

12. Dog nose prints on the screen door windows.

13. Mr. Bird’s kiss goodbye every morning and his hugs and kisses throughout the day.

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Thursday Thirteen #12

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Thirteen oddities about me.

1. I once crocheted more than 30 afghans in a year’s time.

2. When I eat M&Ms, I eat two at a time of the same color.

3. I don’t like to listen to the radio or CD player in my van. I like the quiet.

4. I count my goats everyday to make sure everyone is safe and sound.

5. I’d rather be in a sweatshirt and sweatpants. I don’t like to dress up.

6. I used to be a math nerd.

7. I’m a computer programming trying to teach myself web design.

8. I applied to become a notary public. Who knows why?

9. I like shows about crime and also paranormal.

10. I’m socially introverted, both in real life and on the net.

11. My husband is the polar opposite of me socially.

12. I’ve helped both cows and goats give birth when necessary.

13. I’m 43 and can’t wait to hit 50. Milestones haven’t bothered me a bit.

Thursday Thirteen #11

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

Thirteen Fortune Cookies

1. Are you more trapped by the way the world sees you, or by the way you see the world seeing you.

2. At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

3. Ideas are funny little things. They won’t work unless you do.

4. A “No” uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a “Yes” merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

5. You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You’ll learn a lot today.

6. We will be known by the tracks we leave behind.

7. There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about.

8. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

9. Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.

10. The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.

11. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

12. One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody’s listening.

13. When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers.