Date: 2008-05-31 14:22 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public Tags: funny

more cat pictures

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Date: 2008-05-03 12:44 Subject: Chair Security: Public

OK fine! I'll update. I was on vacation in NC this week. I sat in this chair and stared out at the lake when I wasn't taking pictures, editing pictures or looking at other people's pictures. Or eating. Or hiking.

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Date: 2008-03-31 18:25 Subject: 101 Things Update Security: Public Mood: accomplished Tags: 101things

Cross-posted from 101things

Completed this month:

#32 - Pay off the car.   Mailed the check last week.   I'm debt free for the time being!

Progress this month: 
#20 - Try a new recipe every month.   This month, I made black bean soup in the Crock Pot for the Young Adult Dinner at church
#25 - Check tire pressure once a month 3/33
#42 - Perform an SBE every month - 3/33
#73 - Clean out the car once a month 3/33
#98 - Watch a movie every month for a year - this month was Salaam Bombay!
  

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Date: 2008-03-16 22:25 Subject: Happy Pi Day Security: Public

I did indeed find MoonPies at the Memphis Airport.

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Date: 2008-03-16 21:14 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public Location: Nashvegas Mood: grateful

Well, it turns out I was in downtown Atlanta on Friday night when the tornado it.   Fortunately, I was UNDER the city on MARTA on my way home from the airport.   My flight was delayed by an hour so that we could fly around the line of storms instead of flying through it.  When I saw the storms, I greatly appreciated that decision.  I saw a fire on the ground in Alabama that looked like it had probably been started by a lightening strike.   Then I watched the dark clouds and brilliant lightning and explained where rain and lightning come from to the 7 year old girl sitting next to me.    When we landed, the storm was headed toward Atlanta.   I got my bag and hopped on the train.  We got to Five Points, the train stopped for a few minutes before Peachtree Center where two guys hopped on and seemed very excited about something, but I chalked that up to drunk basketball fans.   The train stopped again after Peachtree Center and the driver said something about "circuit out ahead" and then after about ten minutes, we proceeded to Civic Center.    Of course, when I got in my car, they said something about a tornado on the radio, but I didn't put two and two together until I got home and saw the destruction on TV.   I was probably underground between Five Points and Peachtree Center when the tornado hit the Five Points/Peachtree Center area.  The guys on the train had either been in the station or trying to get into the station when it hit.   Pretty wild!    No damage to the office building, despite the fact that it's just two blocks south of GWCC and the Dome, both of which sustained some impressive damage.   I'm at the National Disaster Medical System conference this week, so I won't be back downtown until Thursday.

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Date: 2008-03-14 11:31 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public Mood: hungry Tags: pi

 Happy Pi Day, all!    Maybe I can find a Moonpie at the Memphis Airport this afternoon.

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Date: 2008-03-13 18:36 Subject: Delta Sunrise Security: Public

View from my hotel room window. I think that's a heron in the bottom left.

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Date: 2008-03-09 12:11 Subject: A LOLCat...I mades one. Security: Public

moar funny pictures

Thanks to sanba38for the pic. 

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Date: 2008-02-24 14:09 Subject: A fun way to help libraries! Security: Public Mood: good

Visit Dewey Donations to help get books get to the libraries that need them! 

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Date: 2008-02-19 22:52 Subject: And the Award for the Best Opening Line of a 419 Scam E-mail Goes To... Security: Public Mood: amused Tags: observed

"Dear Friend, Do accept my apologies if my mail does not meet your personal ethics."

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Date: 2008-02-16 13:40 Subject: 101 Things Progress Update Security: Public Location: home Mood: accomplished Music: Indigo Girls Tags: mission101 progress

Crossposted to mission101

Complete:
#43 - Renew CPR/AED Training. Renewed CPR, First Aid & AED. I think it will expire in February 2010, so I'll need to renew it again then, but this one's technically complete

In Progress: 
#20 - Try a new recipe every month - this month's recipe was a light version of Chicken Parmesan from a Weight Watcher's cookbook.   Turned out really well!   2/33

#23 - Buy fewer plastic bottles - haven't purchased bottled water since early January, except a couple of gallon bottles for a workday at the nature preserve.

#24 - Use cloth bags for grocery shopping - I'm doing really well with this. Cleaning out the car once a month helps because I can make sure there's always a stash of tote bags in the trunk of the car.

#25 - Check tire pressure monthly - 2/33, did that this morning.   Rear passenger side tire was a little low, so I'll need to keep an eye on it.

#32 - Pay off car - $500 closer. If I get travel reimbursements in a timely manner, I will call for the payoff amount next month and see if I can swing it.

#42 - Perform an SBE every month - 2/33

#48 - Go to at least two (non St. Bart's, non-symphony) concerts a year. Saw the Mikado at GPC (cathalexp   as a Schoolgirl!) -not REALLY a concert per se, but I'm counting it. 1/6

#50 - Try five new (to me) Atlanta area restaurants each year - went to Babette's on Valentine's. YUM! 1/15

#56 - Attend Taize services in Atlanta at least three times a year. Went Monday. 1/9

#59 - Visit churches (and attend services when possible) while traveling. Attended Ash Wednesday service at Grace Episcopal Church, Charleston, SC. It turns out that this is the church where my father sang in the choir when he was a little boy.
 #67 - Visit cultural/historic places of interest while on business travel. Grace Church, Charleston, built in 1848, plus I strolled through the Charleston City Market.

#73 - Clean out the car once a month - 2/33

#83 - Go a year without reading women's magazines (exception: O if stuck in airport). OK, I read the February issue of O, even though I wasn't stuck in the airport, but it had so many good (non fashion/beauty) articles that I'm countin this as progress. The interview with Pema Chodron, Martha Beck's article on attracting your heart's desire, and the article on Wally Lamb's work with female prison inmates were all really good.

 

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Date: 2008-02-05 20:38 Subject: Paul's Sepia Security: Public

Every once in a while, my GPS takes me somewhere interesting, even when I don't use the "avoid interstate highways" function. This was taken in North, South Carolina.

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Date: 2008-01-29 19:37 Subject: Progress on 101 Things Security: Public Mood: relaxed Music: Elvis Presley - Amazing Grace Tags: mission101 progress

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mission101

 

#42 - Perform an SBE monthly - 1/33

#43 - Renew CPR/AED certification - class scheduled for 2/11

#81 - Get hair cut every 6-8 weeks - got my hair cut 1/22

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Date: 2008-01-20 15:54 Subject: Icicles and Snow Security: Public

We got some snow yesterday, and it got really cold last night, but it's starting to warm up again.

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Date: 2008-01-11 20:19 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

X-posted  to mission101:

Made a little progress this week:

15.  Keep a party journal
Got a little photo album, started editing photos from New Year's Eve, wrote down the guest list (except for the couple who came with Brad and Amy, whose names I can't remember)

 23.  Buy fewer plastic bottles
Got two Sigg water bottles so that I can take DeKalb tap water to work rather than buying bottled water (before you laugh at me, the water at work tastes like it came from a swimming pool.   It's nasty.)

30.  Continue investing in Roth IRA 
2008 Contribution went in this week (I actually placed the order last year)

32.  Pay off car
Made another $500 payment on it.  

71.   Carry a more professional looking bag to work
Got a faux-croc satchel in red from NY & Co.   - a fun color and texture, but more structured and nicer-looking than the ratty totebag I was carrying.   Slightly smaller, too, so less conducive to junk-hauling.   I think I've been carrying it to work since Tuesday. 

81.  Get hair cut every 6-8 weeks
Um, I tried to get an appointment.  Nobody called me back.    Writing that here should help me remember to call back on Monday

101.  Write about 101 Things achievements in LJ
Check!

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Date: 2008-01-09 19:06 Subject: The LIST! Security: Public Mood: accomplished Tags: 101things

(Cue dramatic music...)

OK, instead of New Year's Resolutions this year, I'm doing 101 Things in 1001 Days.    I feel accomplished just for coming up with the list!

 

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Date: 2008-01-09 19:05 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public Mood: annoyed

Dearest New Years Resolutioners at the gym:

If you can send someone a text message while walking on the treadmill, YOU ARE NOT GETTING A WORKOUT. That is all.

Love,

The woman who is glaring at you and waiting for you to fall off so that she can step over your body to claim your treadmill

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Date: 2007-12-30 18:52 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

Read this before writing any New Year's Resolutions. No really!

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Date: 2007-12-24 19:14 Subject: Merry Christmas! Security: Public

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Date: 2007-12-21 22:19 Subject: Wreath Close-Up Security: Public

Merry Christmas, y'all.

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