Whee… I was beginning to feel left out since so many popular and self-important bloggers have lost a little Google Page Ranking (John Chow, Darren Rouse, Shoemoney & Andy Beard to name a few)…
Every time I checked my PR with the Google Tool bar (you would think their own tool bar would be accurate!) it was holding steady at PR3, however today when I checked the average over several data centers it appears that I have dropped to PR2…
Oh, well… I say 2 is the new 3! People will just have to adjust their mindsets is what this really amounts to… *shrug*
The spaghetti was pretty good. I think I could have done a better job but any meal I don’t have to cook myself is a good meal. I thought the spaghetti came out a little on the dry side. I prefer mine with lots of rich red sauce. There were plenty of onions and mushrooms but hubby cut the onions a bit on the large side and a tad al dente. I don’t like onions in my spaghetti that I can crunch down on. Well, they weren’t crunchy but I like mine cooked soft. The meatballs were okay but they weren’t spicy enough to suit me, especially when I drink beer.
Speaking of beer, after all my griping and complaining I didn’t even finish my second beer. After I ate my spaghetti and meatballs and garlic bread I still had one quarter beer left. Bleh. I poured myself a glass of Minute Maid lemonade instead. I gave the rest of my beer to the guzzler who was happy to get it. Next time he had better buy two six packs to keep the peace around here though. You never know, one day I might really drink three.
Later we’ll have Breyers chocolate ice cream while we watch TV. And that’s the way we have a big party at our house! hehe
What the heck??? So hubby gets a wild hair and decides to cook spaghetti and meatballs. While the 2 pounds of ground chuck is defrosting in the microwave he comes into the computer room and says “ya know, I think I’ll go to to the Stop and Rob and get some beer, bread for garlic bread and ice cream”. So I said okay, sounds good to me and we’ll have a party.
Now, we seldom drink beer or any other alcoholic beverage but today for some reason I guess we both just felt like it. So my question is this – why in the heck did he only buy one six pack???. I mean come on, he knows he drinks more than three beers, and while I normally only drink two myself I do like the option of knowing I can drink three if I want to.
So he waltzed in a few minutes ago and asked me “do you mind if I drink 4 beers instead of 3″? I’m like, what the??? Why didn’t you buy 2 six-packs? He said he didn’t know, he was in a hurry to come home and make me a nice spaghetti dinner. LOL I really buy that excuse. I just don’t know where his head was.
So I’m on my second beer and of course I let him have one of mine. Arrgh… I seldom drink but I figure if I’m going to do it I might as well do it. I told him if he ever came home again with only one six-pack I was going to make him turn around and go get another one. dang. So now I’d like another beer but neither of us will drive to get more since we’ve already had a few. Oh well, I’ll get over it and I’m sure it is for the best anyway.
Years ago (just after WWII and yes, years before I was born) my grandfather built a house and with that house he included a solar water heater. My grandfather was such a future thinker, but that’s a post for another time.
I have often wondered why solar energy isn’t more prevalent in our country and the world today. I just read about something that I think is totally awesome as I haven’t heard about the BP Solar Decathlon until now.
Sponsored by BP, twenty teams have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to compete in the 2007 Solar Decathlon. These teams will participate in a competition to design, build and operate the most attractive and energy-efficient solar-powered home. Here is the cool part – in October (this week as a matter of fact) all of these homes will be transported to the National Mall in Washington, DC where they will form a solar village and compete in contests to determine an overall winner. Each participating entry will be judged on criteria including style, innovation and efficiency.
BP has sponsored the previous Solar Decathlons also which were held in 2002 and 2005. Supporting the Solar Decathlon is part of BP’s larger commitment to the promotion and use of alternative energy. I think this is totally awesome and I wish I could be there to tour the homes and look at the exhibits. I wonder what they do with the homes after the exhibit is over. I’ll have to do some more research to find out.
For example, I was surfing around and ran across Blogging for Bitter Women. The linked article started out humorous but by the time I finished reading I was giggling out loud. Warning: if the correct words for certain parts of the body that everyone has (but some people take exception to) offend you don’t click the link. haha!
That’s just one article on the blog, I enjoyed other posts and have added it to my feed reader for my midnight readings. A girl has to have a hobby!
I haven’t really mentioned it because I think it is probably uncool, so I’ll just hint that my husband received a substantial inheritance recently. I’d venture to guess that we’ve moved from upper lower class to lower middle class, hehe.
Honestly though, we haven’t spent one thin dime so far that we otherwise wouldn’t have spent. I do see a nice Christmas in our future and I have my eye on a nice pair of earrings or maybe some nice jewelry for a change.
You know, I don’t really want something super expensive. I’m especially partial to the Rhodium-plated pierced earrings but maybe I’ll get kinky and get Cammy’s silver handcuff earrings. I predict that this is going to be one heck of a Christmas!
This is a picture of FanceePantzz when she was happy – before the white devil (Lilly) came to live in our house. My husband built this tree for the cats but FanceePantzz claimed it as hers the first day. When Lilly came to live with us Fancee went up the tree and stayed there for almost 2 months.
I’m happy to report that Fancee has finally decided to come down and visit me in the computer room now. Fancee growls whenever Lilly even dares to peek in here and I have the squirt bottle handy. I lock the computer room door at night so Fancee can have the run of the room and is able to use the litter box without being chased halfway through.
I’d still like to find a good home for Lilly. She really is a good and sweet cat (except for the one issue) and as much as I hate to admit it, I think Lilly is the smartest cat we have. I know she is going to make someone a wonderful pet.
I don’t have a Living Will or Durable Power of Attorney. I did make a Last Will and Testament years and years ago and named my son as my sole heir. That was before I married my present husband and I read somewhere (probably some legal book) that when someone marries it makes the will null and void. So I guess I really don’t have one. Hubby and I have an appointment with an attorney next week to make our wills and such. We also have to talk to him about issues with my mother-in-law’s estate.
The Old Lady always said she had taken care of everything so that my husband would not have a hard time when she died. She did have a prepaid cremation policy and written instructions for the cremation and services, etc. She wanted one song sung at the graveside, “Amazing Grace”, one prayer and that’s it. She didn’t want services in Florida but wanted them in Iowa instead. So that part was pretty easy. Well, easy so far. The services won’t be held until the spring so that means hubby will have to fly to Iowa for that. I might even go to Iowa this time, but knowing myself the way I know myself I doubt I’ll make that trip. (I didn’t fly up for his father’s funeral in 2004).
The problem now is that we can’t find her will. We found a copy of a will she had made in 1993 but we cannot find the original anywhere. We really, really didn’t want to have to go into probate and I’m still hoping that doesn’t have to happen. Thankfully all the money was already in my husband’s name, either as beneficiary or as co-owner of the bank account. There isn’t a money estate, there is only a property estate which is her home and car. I hope the lawyer will be able to help us with this.
I think this lawyer should be a pretty good one. He represented my ex-brother-in-law’s wife during their divorce and really cleaned out the brother-in-law. I always said that if I needed an attorney this guy is the one to go to. I hope everything turns out to our benefit.
I was talking about McDonalds the other day and someone asked me about this video. Prepare to be grossed out.
Edit 09/25/07:
Ann from Feeding Time at the Zoo left this comment regarding the video. I’m not sure how many people read comments here so I thought I’d link it so it gets a bit more exposure. The only thing I take exception to is “be careful whose bandwagon you jump on” because I don’t really care for McDonald’s regardless of what anyone says, pro or con. I don’t like it – but I don’t mind if others do.
When my mother-in-law was in the hospital my husband and I each downloaded a game to play on our cell phones. Hubby downloaded a chess game and I downloaded a Scrabble game. I beat the computer on my first try! (on easy mode, hehe)
While I was looking at other games on the Verizon website yesterday I noticed that the Scrabble game uses air time to play. Uh oh! I didn’t realize that when I downloaded it. I’ll have to pay more attention to that if I get another game. I don’t like to get the ones that use air time. Oh well.
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