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Yo, Fat dude, Pay attention!

We were at TKD testing and my dear friend had her rather large camera strapped to her neck. She was snapping pics of the kids doing their forms ect. When she suddenly made this Queenie’s jaw hit the floor. She ran over to change her FILM! Oh yes. She wasn’t shooting with a digital camera. [...]

We were at TKD testing and my dear friend had her rather large camera strapped to her neck. She was snapping pics of the kids doing their forms ect. When she suddenly made this Queenie’s jaw hit the floor. She ran over to change her FILM! Oh yes. She wasn’t shooting with a digital camera. I could not believe it. I have one of those cute little point and shoot Kodak jobs with a 512 MB stick. I have had a digital for probably 8 years. Mostly the same type too. Point and shoot. It works perfectly for most of my needs. This is where that Fat dude needs to pay close attention. I have a perfectly good camera but I really WANT a Rebel XTI. I would do almost anything to have one wrapped up under my tree too. Did you hear me Santa? I want a Rebel. If I can’t have a Rebel…this Nikon D3 would be ok too.

I am not a professional photographer. I would not expect to make one dime off of any of my photos. EVER. I just would love to be able to fill my house with pictures from our life. Great pictures of our life. The things we do. The things we see. Sometimes my little Kodak lets me down. I can’t capture the kids in action very well. If we are out hiking and see something that is more than 100 yards away, I often can’t get nearly close enough with my current zoom. Don’t get me wrong, I love the ease of my current camera, I would just love the versatility of the “big girl” camera.

I used to put all of my prints in these beautiful scrapbooks too. I quit that about 2 months after I got pregnant with my #3 kiddo. My scrapbook hobby has moved over for the new photo preservation hobby…it’s called a 250 gb external hard drive. Heh. Ciao.

I think I might be cheating

We burnt out a bunch of fuses on our Christmas lights. I had strings that were only half lit. Some not at all. I replaced a couple of areas with LED rope lights. The patio being the main one. I can’t believe how pretty it is. The lights don’t get hot nor do they burn [...]

We burnt out a bunch of fuses on our Christmas lights. I had strings that were only half lit. Some not at all. I replaced a couple of areas with LED rope lights. The patio being the main one. I can’t believe how pretty it is. The lights don’t get hot nor do they burn out as fast. Is it cheating? Will my other Christmas lights go on strike now that I have hung up non Christmas lights in place of their friends? Do they know that the LED lights are better than they are? Do they understand that the LED’s don’t give off heat, stay burning longer, use less energy and are therefore much safer than they are? Is it like when you see someone driving a car nicer than yours and you start comparing yourself…or finding fault in them just to make yourself feel better?

I think after the holiday, I am going to put up some more rope lighting. My fence line, my garden, I think the possibilities are endless for me and my new found friend.

It’s a GREEN Christmas

We began our preparations for Christmas this weekend. I am trying to simplify things to keep stress down. It gets insane around here and I am not embarrassed to say that it is my fault. I go butt assed crazy for the holidays. I do. I can’t help it. I am making efforts this year [...]

We began our preparations for Christmas this weekend. I am trying to simplify things to keep stress down. It gets insane around here and I am not embarrassed to say that it is my fault. I go butt assed crazy for the holidays. I do. I can’t help it. I am making efforts this year to make the holidays a bit more green though. At least under the castle roof.

I have begun to purchase LEDChristmas lightstoo. Any of the lights that we need to replace or any new stuff that we are adding, I am hunting down LED’s. They are better for the good ole planet. They give off less heat. The outdoor LED’s burn much brighter than the others. They cost a bit more than the cheapos but in the long run, you don’t have to replace them as often. So, they will save you some green while you are being green. Heh.

I contemplated a real tree this year. I have a fakey that I have been using since the year that Des was born. It is still gorgeous. I take huge amounts of pride in my tree each year. After much consideration, I decided that I didn’t need a real tree. I can keep recycling this one. Wear that thing out. No waste after Christmas that way. For those of you who will have a real tree, be sure to have it mulched up after the holidays instead of just tossing it out for the garbage men. They don’t always do that ya know.

Give Gift Certificates. This saves on wrapping paper. Saves on Gas having to return those unwanted gifts and saves you shopping stress because most of them can be purchased online from the comfiness of your living room.

Use real dishes. I know having a houseful of family is hard. I know that it is a pain in the ass to wash all the china but think about all the trees that you are saving if you use the good dishes on your loved ones instead of handing out paper plates. Besides, who better than family to spoil by having dinner on the pretty dishes.

We have cut back on our lights a bit this year. It seems that way anyway. Smaller house doesn’t need quite so many lights to make it festive. I am very happy with the way things are coming together though. I will try to get some video up once we get it finished. Happy Christmahanakwazica all. Ciao.

My fur children

Many of you know that I have 3 furry kids. They go right along with the non furry ones. Only they are sometimes better to hang out with. My hub doesn’t get it. You either really like critters or ya don’t. I don’t believe that there is a happy medium when they are living in [...]

Many of you know that I have 3 furry kids. They go right along with the non furry ones. Only they are sometimes better to hang out with. My hub doesn’t get it. You either really like critters or ya don’t. I don’t believe that there is a happy medium when they are living in your house. The piles of hair that gets swept up each day (or sometimes don’t) really doesn’t bother me. The dog crap in the yard that needs to be dealt with, doesn’t bother me. The fact that I can not open the front door without them being right under my feet, doesn’t bother me. Nope. I am a critter person. What does bother me is when my stud muffin, Cash decides to curl his fat ass up in the PINK dog bed that we bought for the gimpy girl. It’s PINK. He is my stud muffin. Does anyone else find a problem with that?

I need to get him a new dog bed. I can’t take it anymore. It needs to be something that screams out “I am a boy”. I found this one, which would match the living room ect. BUT then I have to worry that his brilliant self would “accidentally” confuse his couch with mine. He is smart like that. *sigh* Dog beds. What ever happened to the good ole days of Rover curling up at your feet? I guess when I decided that my dogs would be treated as well as my human family, I kinda tossed that out the window huh? Ciao.

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So we have a babysitter

You want to know what we are doing? Nope, no hot club to hit. No romantic dinner out. Nope. We are going out geocaching. Yes. Hiking through the woods. Woods full o rocks, and roots, and branches and poison ivy and …and….and. Whose idea was this anyway? Oh yeah…mine. hehe. We will be covered in [...]

You want to know what we are doing? Nope, no hot club to hit. No romantic dinner out. Nope. We are going out geocaching. Yes. Hiking through the woods. Woods full o rocks, and roots, and branches and poison ivy and …and….and. Whose idea was this anyway? Oh yeah…mine. hehe. We will be covered in long pants, long sleeves and hiking boots because the terrain for this cache is listed as a 4.5. Almost the highest difficulty it can be. I got my hiking boots last year right after we started caching. Sometimes they make me nutso. Sometimes, I am glad that I have them. I think Sunday will be a “thank god I have them” day. I wish I could find prettier boots that would be just a tad more comfy. Maybe Santa will read my blog and take care of that for me. Hiking boots can make a Queenie feel like a special woman, ya know. As long as they are pretty.

I was browsing and found this place: www.metboots.com. They even have gift certificates so I could just pick out my own pretty hikers. Come on Santa. You know you want to make me happy. Look, they even have hunting Boots. Even though I don’t hunt, I still liked some of them. Who listens to labels anyway? If they keep my tootsies dry and safe..I am all over them. Pink cammo would be awesome. *runs off to browse some more*