Um…wow…

This must have been a surprise…

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Still on a semi-hiatus.

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NP: Evening weather report. Rain coming.

Where’s Sophie? In her crate, the sleepy head

Mood-o-meter: Tired

New favorite show on the telly: Leverage

Taking a brief hiatus…

…see you later.

Promise.

It’s over, Part 2

I should not be blogging — I have a splitting headache.

If it were a migraine, I’d be down and out, but this one is a garden-variety-likely-caused-by-a-change-in-barometric-pressure type.

Tylenol either does nothing or is just taking the edge off it.

Wah!!!

Anyway, I still have a job. My week furlough now seems like a dream. I likely have another coming up in the near future.

…better end this before I get any more incoherent.

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NP: Star Trek TNG…some of these earlier episodes have been…shhh!…silly. There. I said it.

Where’s Sophie? Here in the living room, chewing the dickens out of her Kong. Just can’t get the rest of that treat out. I hope it keeps her entertained for another hour or so…

Waiting for: Fringe to come on and then bedtime.

Pat on the back to: DH, who went out to get us some fried chicken for supper.

Only because I read to the end…

…of Sylvia’s post where she says: “OK, so I tag everyone who has read this! LOL!” that I feel duty-bound to comply — so without further ado, here goes nuttin’!

The Rules:
~Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours.
~Link the person(s) who tagged you.
~Mention the rules on your blog.
~Tag 6 following bloggers by linking them.
~Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they’ve been tagged.

…but if you have read this far, consider yourself tagged…

Quirks? I have a few:

1. Mid-morning snack at work consists of string cheese or milk and citrus fruit salad.
2. My left contact goes in before my right, thus disrupting the whole of contact-weardom.
3. I watch Dog Tales via the computer every Sunday morning.
4. I collect obituaries. No, not every one I read!
5. I hate shopping.
6. …but I don’t mind buying over the internet.

As you can see…

…it’s been a slow-blog-month here at The Shape of Yellow.

I pretty much know why I’ve been mostly below the radar — no one wants to read the rantings of an overwhelmed-with-it-all person.

But right now, I think I can just about see around the bend … so here’s a bit of what’s been going on – the good parts – in random order:

• I just bought tickets to see Hal Holbrook’s Mark Twain Tonight! presentation this Friday night! H and I will be going. It’s at a beautiful renovated theatre in downtown R-town. And we get to park in H’s work parking lot — what a perk!
• My workplace is encouraging its employees to join Tangerine — a corporate wellness program — that has an online personalized weight goal, a weight tracker, and calorie counter. I log in what I eat and the program totals up the calories eaten and compares the ones spent exercising. Cool, huh? Anyway…it seems to be working for me.
• DH, H and I visited with J and her rat boys last Saturday. Made me miss Carney. It was fun playing with the youngest one of the three — he loved being snuggled and skirtched behind the ears.
• My dad has been having health problems since December, however the doctors are getting their heads together and are coming up with a game plan to put him right again.
• All the months of turning down the Rinnai to the lowest temperature setting to have lukewarm water filling up the washing machine ’cause the cold water filter was all limed up have come to an end! DH used nearly all of his vacation last week working on what’s been broke around the house — and the washing machine was on his list! He even knocked down the cobweb city that was growing in the laundry corner of the basement. My hero!
• Netflixed the first season of Laredo and had some fun watching a show I loved as a kid. Anyone else remember it?
• Finished watching Martin Chuzzlewit on Netflixes “watch it now” feature. Pretty good Dickens, that.
• We are supposed to have rain and ice pellets on Thursday. I really want blue sky and sun. Oops…this list was about the good parts…
• I crocheted a couple covers for the couch pillows…a basketweave pattern…out of the tweedy yarn that once was a simple awful poncho I made. Like I always say — be ruthless when tearing out crochet boo-boos — the yarn is still good for something. Oh and I also made two star-shaped recliner arm covers with it. “Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.” Something like that.
• Easter service at church went well. One young lady sang a special — her older girl at her side…and then the youngest daughter got away from her dad, ran up to the stage, picked up the candle holders on the communion table and turned around to grin during her mom’s solo…
• It IS spring, ice pellets or not…

Things that make me go “huh?”

Stopped by The Christian Homekeeper to see what Sylvia was up to and there was this quiz…

You Are a Yellow Crayon

Your world is colored with happy, warm, fun colors. You have a thoughtful and wise way about you. Some people might even consider you a genius. Charming and eloquent, you are able to get people to do things your way. While you seem spontaneous and free wheeling, you are calculating to the extreme.Your color wheel opposite is purple. You both are charismatic leaders, but purple people act like you have no depth.

What Color Crayon Are You?

 

…uh, that’s me all righty!…

 

 

 

 

 

Eureka! That’s Greek for “This bath is too hot!” — Doctor #4

See what happens when I speculate that dry rot is attacking H’s patio door?

In exchange I get a quick tutorial on “how to post bigger pictures in my blog”! Isn’t this sunflower just the prettiest thing?

Yep, I am still stumbling fitfully with all the techno stuff that creates this blog, but I now know dry rot when I see it.

Oh, never mind … you would’ve had to have been here.

Dear Sir or Madam

…will you take a look? I want to be a blog writer!! BLOG WRITER!

Sigh…got that out of my system & quirky thought processes. (Oh no … it’s still there! Stuck in my head!)

Let’s just say this day has my stress-o-meter redlining and smokin’. Oh how I hate that.

In other news: left a pathetic “help me please” e-mail for my youngest daughter in hopes that she can give me advice on how to raise this blog baby. It is so basic I am ashamed and will not tell you what I can’t figure out. I am so trying to not embarrass myself on other people’s blogs…

I really need to find a newbie that is struggling along like me. <looks around expectantly>

Okay so now what do I do?

Here I have this blog baby and I am not sure what to do with the lil darling. “Write what you know” I read somewhere. Well that makes sense — except now I feel rather slow and stupid.

I am in awe of the people who blog so spendidly… so I guess I am off to look at their beginnings.