the annie blog

We just got done watching “Big Fish” and thoroughly enjoyed it. I read the book not too long ago and loved it. The book made me cry, and not many books do that. So, I figured the movie would make me cry too, and it did. I just love what it has to say. And we ooh’ed and ahh’ed at the lovely cinematography. Beautiful pictures. The trees, oh the trees – you could just sit and pay attention to the trees and follow the story. Beautiful movie.

It’s kind of been an odd day around here. We have been ultra lazy (once again). I don’t mind being lazy once in awhile, but two days in a row starts to stress me out. So, I got all worried and stressed and broke out in hives (I’m so lucky) – finally got that under control and decided I just needed to force myself to do something. So I plopped down in front of the laptop and wrote for an hour. It’s not much, but it’s a start. I should do more, but I don’t know if I’m in the mood. I think I may just read. That’s something productive. Better than staring at the wall. When I start staring at the wall, we all know something’s wrong.

Here are some adorable pictures of my little girl. She is so spoiled she eats her Fan*cy Feast kitty food from a crystal glass like they do in the commercials:

Then Mark made dinner for us – Beef and Broccoli – it’s one of his specialties:

Then he cleaned up in the kitchen while I got to lounge:

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During the summer our sleep habits change drastically. There is no “bedtime” because there’s no time to wake up. It’s not unusual for us to be up at odd hours of the night. Last night I went to bed around 1:00, I had been working on homework, and Mark was the computer working on his play. He came to bed around 2:30. He couldn’t sleep, so at 3:00 he got up to watch TV. I got up with him and played in the Internet. I went back to bed around 3:30. He stayed up till 5:00. We woke at 7:30 so we could go grab breakfast and head to the farmer’s market. We got back home at 9:00 and Mark went right to sleep again. I went back to bed at 9:30. He woke up at 11:00, only to fall back asleep on the couch a half hour later. I got up at noon to find him and we both sat around till 1:00 doing nothing. And when I say nothing, I mean, nothing. No tv, no talking, just sitting and staring at the wall – our brains were foggy. We are now among the living and have gone grocery shopping and are slowly getting ready for dinner later on tonight.

I know it’s truly summer when we’re looking for good movies on at 3am.

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I got this from Stella:

Name / Username:


Name Acronym Generator
From Go-Quiz.com

Ok, I can be all those at some times, but hairy?!?!? ICK!

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Here is my Friday Forum.

1] What do you think [or hope] the summer of 2004 will be like?

I hope it’ll be relaxing and productive. Productive meaning I get a lot of things read and written, and crafted. Fun and long – the way summers should be.

2] Are you planning any summer vacations, weekend getaways,
parties, picnics, outings, etc.?

We’ll go away for our anniversary in August. We’ll probably head to KC once, and we’ll probably have a couple of weekend (or one night) travels someplace. We’ll do little daytrips and some exploring. We also like to explore new restaurants and shops, so we’ll probably go hunting for that stuff sometime too.

3] What has been the best summer of your life thus far?

Wow – let’s see I bet I can actually thing of more icky summers right off the top of my head. Good summers – probably most every summer. I don’t as if I have a “best”.

4] What is your area’s summertime weather usually like?

HOT and humid. When you factor in the humidity, the weather is probably in the upper 90s or low 100s. Insane! Dry. Everything is dry, the ground is cracking, you can’t walk out to get the paper at the end of the driveway without burning your feet. Everything gets dried out and dies. The grass turns all brown. By the time August rolls around, we’re all pretty miserable.

5] What are your favorite summertime foods/drinks?

I like it when Mark grills. He does a good job, and it’s fun to eat too. I like drinking iced tea that I make. Fresh fruits and veggies of the season are yummy too. I really crave big ole salads during the summer. Nothing heavy, just a big salad (I’m thinking of Elaine on Seinfeld now) Ice cream is also good – popsicles, hot dogs, all sorts of summer salads – pasta, fruit, veggie. Mmmmmm!

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We went to our Web Page Design class – lots of fun! Not too difficult, yet. Then we went out to be with a group of co-workers because one of them is leaving and has a new job. So everyone was drinking and doing shots. We each had two beers and called it quits. We weren’t in the mood to get loaded. Plus, they had all been there awhile, so they were already bombed by the time we got there, so you know what that’s like, when you walk in a room and everyone is already drunk and you’re not – not fun.

So, we came home and made a pot of coffee. I need to figure out what I’m doing for the rest of the night though. I’m not sure – I do need to get started on some homework stuff, so I may take that to bed and spread out on the bed and do homework. That way, when I’m sleepy, I can just fall asleep.

Have a good Friday!

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Tonight we have our first web design class. I’m looking forward to it. I am not sure if we have to create a web page, or if they’ll let us tinker with what we have – I would want to play with my blogs, of course. But, we’ll see.

I know I’ve been going on and on about finding a way to mail record albums safely and efficiently. Well, today some yarn I ordered arrived at my doorstep in a perfect size box for mailing albums. I am very pleased. Now I need to get more of the same kind. We’ve experimented with mailers and boxes and shipping sleeves, but they all seem so very fragile. Like, if someone would put something heavy on top of it – the record would break. I know I need to put the word “Fragile” on it, but that doesn’t mean anything – we’ve all experienced broken stuff from the mail. Oh well, I think we found a solution. Looks like that’s what we’ll be doing this afternoon.

I really don’t think we have anything planned for this holiday weekend. I hope to see a movie or two – maybe rent a couple. That seems like a good plan. Especially because today is pay day. The college isn’t open on Fridays during the summers, and since we get paid on the last working day of the month – today is pay day! I’ve never understood why lots of education places only pay once a month. That can suck. Because it seems like you’re loaded during the first week of the month, but then by the last week, it seems like pay day was ages ago. I especially hate December. Since it’s the last working day of the month, we get our check like December 10th or something, then we don’t get another one till the last day of January. That’s like 7 weeks – during the holidays! It sucks! I try and prepare for it, but the last week in January is always miserable for everyone at the college. Very odd pay schedule. My sister-in-law is a teacher too, and they get paid that way too? Why? I mean, every single employer in the world has budget issues and would probably love to hold off pay day till the end of each month. But that’s the way the cookie crumbles…

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We just got done putting stuff on ebay. We have lots of old records from a donation, and we’re piling them up and selling them in groups. The shipping part sucks. Albums aren’t fun to ship.

I’m not real tired, so I guess I need to figure out something to do till bedtime. Read?

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Mark was supposed to be home by 3 at the latest, but he got tied up with people and won’t be home till after 5:30 tonight. Boo-hoo. I’m not gonna start cooking anything till I hear from him. I’m not sure when he’ll be home, that, and it’s supposed to rain like crazy, so that may delay his trip home. So I’ll just sit and wait and see.

I am feeling kind of lazy now. I may snooze for awhile. The weather is incredible for napping.

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went to the grocery store this morning to pick up some chicken for tonight’s meal. Then I grabbed some boxes to ship our ebay stuff in. Now I’m contemplating making something for myself for lunch, or should I just eat cereal? Chances are I won’t decide and I’ll end up not eating lunch.

Today I need to vacuum, so I guess I’ll get that out of the way when I’m done here. Then I suppose I’ll watch General Hospital and wait for Mark to come home. He’s gone on a recruiting trip. He left early this morning and he’ll be back late this afternoon. Tonight I’ll fix dinner for us and then we need to sort through some stuff we want to put on ebay. Other than that, that’s our night.

I should write though. I seem to write better when the lap top is either outside on the screened-in porch, or when it’s in my bedroom. But I don’t think I want to go outside today, it’s only like 73 degrees, which is awesome, but it’s so humid. You start dripping the moment you go outside. Unreal. So I’ve got the ceiling fans running inside because it also gets a little sticky and stuffy inside when it’s that humid outside.

I think I’ll procrastinate that vacuuming and play with some memes:

This one is from Homework:

Do you have a codified housework schedule, or do you fly by the seat of your pants? If you have a schedule, how is it organized? Room by room? Chore by chore? Do members of your household rotate chores on a regular basis?

I have a schedule, like I do with everyhting in my life. It’s organized by the day of the week- – each day has a certain thing. I am the only one that does it, though Mark does empty the dishwasher. During the summer I do my “spring cleaning” and designate a room a week till the whole house is done.

This one is from The Wednesday Mind Hump:

Today is also National Blueberry Cheesecake day. As a warm up, using the letters B-L-U-E-B-E-R-R-Y reveal some interesting facts about you.

B-I really have brown hair
L-I love blueberries actually
U-I wear my undies in order
E-I have his extra tendon in my right thumb
B-the name Bethanie is a cross between Beth and Stephanie – since my parents couldn’t make up their minds.
E-I rode on an elephant in a zoo once
R-I’ve been drag racing once
R-I was raised Roman Catholic
Y-My kitchen is yellow

01. You are battery operated – what are you? What size batteries do you require and how many?

I want to be a fairy princes doll that grants wishes to people with a wave of my wand.

02. Ohmigosh! You’re on the cover of the National Inquirer (or other trash magazine)! What is the headline? Give us an except for the inside story?

Bethanie breaks up Ashton and Demi! Ashton Kutcher has dumped Demi in favor of Bethanie!

03. If you could be ANY sex symbol (living or dead) who would it be and why? What question do you think you’d most get asked?

I suppose I’m supposed to be a girl, but I would love to be James Dean – I think people would ask him about his sexually the most – my answer, “Who cares?!?”

04. You are lighter than air, you float. C’mon, introduce yourself – what are you?

I want to be fairy dust. I glitter and float through the air.

05. Your blog just won an award for being the best. What is it for? You’ve also been given an “award” for being the worst. What is it for.

The best would be for just being honest and nice. The worst would be for unimaginative stuff. Once I get things how I like them I never wanna change.

Extra credit hump: In honor of National Blueberry Cheesecake Day, what’s the most creative use for a blueberry you can conjure up?

I’m gonna be clean because I adore blueberries. I just got a mail order catalog the other day that had blueberry mustard and blueberry salsa in it – that’s pretty creative.

This is from What’s On…Right Now?:

What’s On your ‘favorite summertime snacks’ list Right Now?

Blueberries, strawberries, Oreos, cereal, bagels, iced tea!

Ok, enough procrastinating – off the vacuum!

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