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February Five #18

February 18, 2015

Wednesday, February 18 – Ash Wednesday

1. Why do I always begin Lent with things like hitting my head on a cupboard door?
2. Still haven’t defined exactly what I’m going to do this year.
3. Working on the taxes.
4. Finished watching The Way and listened to some of the commentary.
5. Tomorrow is another day – another COLD day! Blech.

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February Five #17

February 17, 2015

Tuesday, February 17

1. Snow is melting quickly today and roads are mostly clear.
2. Rugrats episodes – first season.
3. Lent starts tomorrow – still deciding on plans.
4. Had a little storm blow through here this afternoon – dark skies and 50mph winds. Not ready for storm season yet!
5. Watching The Way

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February Five #16

February 16, 2015

Monday, February 16

1. Snow Day! Luckily, it wasn’t much snow and most of the roads are in pretty good shape.
2. Katie and Becky spent most of the afternoon outside building a snowman (NO references to any stupid Disney snowman please).
3. Got caught up on laundry and cleaning – especially sanitizing due to this latest outbreak at our house. People are on the mend thankfully.
4. Chocolate pudding after supper. Just for me. :-)
5. Oops – forgot about the taxes. Hopefully tomorrow night while Mike’s at bowling and the evening will be quiet.

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February Five #15

February 15, 2015

It’s Sunday and that means pictures!! I still have a lot of photos of stupid stuff from stores, but I’ll save the rest for next week. Instead here are five photos of good stuff I’ve found. Yes, I have really taken that many pictures of stuff in stores. Maybe I should write a book…

Okay – now we just need to find the other four kids’ names.
It’s Chi – a very cute cat who has her own cute little show…in Japan. We watched a lot of them one summer.
Two more music boxes found! These are made in Germany and come with cookies inside. Not as good as the other 3 I found at Walmart a few years ago, but I’ll take them anyway.
Giant Lindt truffles! There were 40 truffles in these things. How do I know? Santa brought me one. :-)
Cassette tapes!

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February Five #14

February 14, 2015

So Matt decided to see my little blog post and raise it a few bits. :-) Here’s his take on Next Generation favorites. I have to agree with his favorite doctor – the one on Voyager was given so much more of a role and Robert Picardo made that role his. He owned it. And his favorite episode? It’s the one I hate the most – ughhh! Anyway – go over and see what he has to say – good stuff.

Saturday, February 14

1. No early morning Starbucks – it wasn’t open yet – so had to get a coffee and croissant at Quik Trip. The coffee was not so great, but the pastry was excellent.
2. Practically getting Walmart all to myself because I shopped very early to avoid all the rush.
3. Time spent with Katie on her Day Out With Mom. (I take one of the kids shopping with me every weekend for some one on one time – something we all enjoy).
4. Taking Joe to the store to get another Nintendo ecard so he could get the newest Monster Hunter game download.
5. Blue Bell ice cream to celebrate Valentine’s Day. I figured it was a good treat for sick kids as well as the healthier ones.

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February Five – #13

February 13, 2015

Ah Friday 13th – how quaint. It is also another Friday Movie Night at our house! For the last five weeks, everyone has been home on Friday evenings so I decided to celebrate by watching movies together. Usually with popcorn. Today’s Five are the five movies we’ve watched so far in order:

1. The Lego Movie
2. Monsters University
3. Despicable Me 2
4. Kung Fu Panda 2
5. Robots

It looks like the movie streak will continue next Friday as well! Hopefully people won’t be sick either – we’ve had a lot around here since November last year and two more people are sick…again. Ugh.

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February Five #12

February 12, 2015

In order to appease my son who asked about my favorite Star Trek Next Generation character I will go ahead and address that now. In fact how about a post of Five Next Gen things! Here goes:

1. Favorite Character – Data with Q as a very close second.
2. Favorite Episode – The Inner Light – This is the episode where a probe takes Picard into the lifetime of another man in the span of 20 of our minutes. It is such a bittersweet story but powerful in so many ways.
3. Least Favorite Character – Oh, God, do I have to pick just ONE? Beverly Crusher – I just couldn’t stand her. I much preferred Dr. Pulaski (who most of my family don’t like).
4. I loved Majel Barrett as Deanna Troi’s mother. A couple of shows really touched on cycles in a woman’s life and I really appreciate those. Good stuff – I need to watch those again.
5. I liked the Q episodes in Star Trek Voyager as well – that was also the last of the series I watched. I always felt that Next Gen and Voyager were more faithful to Roddenberry’s original vision.

Well, there it is…again. And yes, Matt, that is nod to Emperor Joseph in Amadeus.

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February Five – Favorites Edition

February 11, 2015

Okay, I’ve missed a few days so I’m going to list 15 of my favorite things. No – NO – don’t sing that song.

February 11, 2015

1. Favorite movie – Amadeus
2. Favorite book – To Kill A Mockingbird
3. Favorite song – Vacation (out of all the songs I love this really is my #1)
4. Favortie album – Rio (Duran Duran)
5. Favorite tv show – Currently: Downton Abbey Past: thirtysomething and What Not To Wear
6. Favorite magazine – Real Simple
7. Favorite food – ham
8. Favorite chocolate – My top 3 – Godiva, Lindt, Ghiradelli
9. Favorite car – Corvette (why oh why haven’t I mentioned this one before??)
10. Favorite Starbucks coffee – Peppermint Mocha (this as a frappucino is fantastic during summer)
11. Favorite actress – Audrey Hepburn
12. Favorite cooking show host – Nigella Lawson
13. Favorite cookbook – Mom 100 – This one has all the basics for families and she has a new cookbook coming out this summer – squee!
14. Favorite video game – Kind of a 3 way tie – Animal Crossing, Tetris, Hatris (which, sadly never got past the old NES)
15. Favorite thing to do with my free time – shopping

Well, there it is. :-)

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February Five #8

February 8, 2015

I think Sundays this month will be dedicated to five photos for the day. I have quite a backlog of stuff taken with my phone camera (and camera as well – need to get those downloaded too). So here goes today’s February Five – enjoy!

Balloon dogs!

I did this :-)

California crackers

Actually seen in store

Why all the toys preoccupied with poop?!

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February Five

February 7, 2015

February 7:

1. Insurance would be great if it actually served you.
2. Duran Duran’s Rio on a gorgeous day that feels like spring.
3. I am sick and tired of cooking and some days sick of eating. What is it with this food thing anyway??
4. I need to make plans for my three day weekend – I really, really need it.
5. I can’t think of anything else – I’m angry, tired, and ready to go bed. It’s only 5:30pm.

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