I’m sitting in jiffy lube waiting for the convertible’s oil change and killing time by looking though pictures on my phone and found this one from the last shuttle launch. I didn’t think I had caught the shuttle itsself but i swear you can kinda see it. Follow the vapor trail along the palm tree and you can see the little light speck on the other side of the frons, just above the street light 
Came across this in my surfing today, pretty powerful images.
Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide
Food expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07
United States: The Revis family of North Carolina
Food expenditure for one week $341.98
Italy: The Manzo family of Sicily
Food expenditure for one week: 214.36 Euros or $260.11
Mexico: The Casales family of Cuernavaca
Food expenditure for one week: 1,862.78 Mexican Pesos or $189.09
Poland: The Sobczynscy family of Konstancin-Jeziorna
Food expenditure for one week: 582.48 Zlotys or $151.27
Egypt: The Ahmed family of Cairo
Food expenditure for one week: 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or $68.53
Ecuador: The Ayme family of Tingo
Food expenditure for one week: $31.55
Bhutan: The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village
Food expenditure for one week: 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03
Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp
Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23
These are apparently from a book called Hungry Planet by Peter Menzel: http://www.menzelphoto.com/hungryplanet/
This was an email forward I got today, but I usually post these things on here, so I’m breaking the chain and posting here 
Welcome to the 2008 edition of getting to know your Friends. Change all the answers so they apply to you, and then send this to your friends including the person who sent it to you. The theory is that you will learn a lot of little things about your friends that you might not have known!
1. What time did you get up this morning? 7:45 and I wasn’t ready to get up. I ended up falling back asleep on the couch.
2. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds, although .. I dont own any diamonds .. I do own a beautiful pearl necklace that my uncle made me (yes he made it for me, he was married to a jeweler at the time)
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Sweeney Todd
4. What is your favorite TV show? Right now? I like Biggest Loser, Medium, Notes from the Underbelly, I probably watch too much TV. Thing is I dont really have a favorite show.
5.What do you usually have for breakfast? Eggos or pancakes
6. What is your middle name? Lynn
7. What food do you dislike?Hmm .. there’s alot .. but mustard comes right to the top of the list, and pickles
8. What is your favorite CD at moment? The mix I posted a few days ago, and Panic at the Disco’s A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out. I’m looking forward to their new CD coming in March, I’m such a dork for liking teenage emo music.
9. What kind of car do you drive? Acura TL
10. Favorite sandwich? #1 Bread & Butter, #2 Peanut Butter (no jelly), #3 Tomato, mozzarella & basil, #4 Roast beef and provolone, heated or pressed .. mmmm. I’m hungry
11. What characteristic do you despise? Deceptiveness – agreed with Chelsi
12. Favorite item of clothing? Jeans
13. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go?? I’ve been on a Greece kick for awhile, but really any place with beautiful bright blue water.
14. Favorite brand of clothing? Gap
15. Where would you retire to? I’m happy in FL, but wherever my family is.
16. What was your most recent memorable birthday? Probably my 25th blowout. I swore off celebrating my birthday from then until I’m 75.
17. Favorite sport to watch? Football, or golf if I want to take a really good afternoon nap.
18. Farthest place you are sending this? Mmmm not sending this, I dont even know where my visitors come from
19. Person you expect to send it back first? First to repost? I’d say Arielle, Keri or Angelle .. maybe Nik because she got the email too
20. When is your birthday? June 21st, 1978
21. Are you a morning person or a night person? I’m more of a morning person then a night person. I can perk up easier in the morning then after a long day.
22. What is your shoe size? 6.5
23. Pets? Big Boy & Little Girl, or Daisy & Frank, either way our 2 mini dachshunds
24. Any new and exciting news you’d like to share with us? I wish
25. What did you want to be when you were little? A vet or zoologist
26. How are you today? Really tired, doing laundry. I’ve come to realize my breathing problems are really effecting my sleep, and I’m not getting good sleep.
27. What is your favorite candy? Apple jelly bellies, skittles, 3 musketeers, the new crispy crunch bar is pretty good too, like a giant kit kat.
28. What is your favorite flower? Gerbera daisies
29. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? Saturday March 1st, I might be joining the family in Disney
30. What is your full name? I’m not putting this one only because I dont want search engines picking it up
31. What are you listening to right NOW? Modern Marvels – Pirate fire power
32. What was the last thing you ate? A chicken hot dog, with cheese, I was starving thats all we had
33. Do you wish on stars? Of course
34. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Burnt Sienna, only because I like the name, I think the color is kinda ugly if I remember correctly
36. Last person you spoke to on the phone? Bank of America .. last night .. fraud dept doing their job
37. Favorite soft drink? Dr. Pepper
38. Favourite restaurant? No idea, for entertainment – Bennihana’s, for variety – Cheesecake Factory, for New England seafood – Kelly’s, fried shrimp – Grumpy Dicks .. I dont go out to eat very often though
39. Hair color? Blondish brown
40. What was your favorite toy as a child? Hmmm .. I’d say probably a stuffed animal or cabbage patch kids.
41. Summer or winter? Summer, I love the afternoon thunderstorms and bright blue morning skies.
42. Hugs or kisses? Like them both
43. Chocolate or Vanilla? Chocolate
44. Coffee or tea? Coffee
45. Do you want your friends to email you back? I’d like them to repost this
46. When was the last time you cried? Eh .. I was pretty emotional this ‘cycle’ I think I almost cried during the Oscars while they were showing the 79 past best picture winners. It wasn’t because of the content of the presentation, but the music they used was from Dragonheart, beautiful score, movies scores do really funny things to me.
47. What is under your bed? part of sean’s weigh bench that I use to coax the dogs out from under the bed.
48. What did you do last night? Installed Drupal on a site and played with it
49. What are you afraid of? Spoiled food
50. Salty or sweet? Salty
51. How many keys on your keyring? I dont carry a keyring. Wait, I do, but all it has on it are those keytag card things, I think I almost have 20 of those stupid things now.
52. How many years at your current job? 2.5 years bookkeeping, 1 year photographer
53. Favorite day of the week? Sunday, my usual really really lazy day
54. How many towns have you lived? 7 I think
55. Do you make friends easily? Yes
56. How many people will you send this too? Whoever stops by to check my site
57. How many will respond? No idea, but if you do repost this, leave me a comment!
I’m watching the Oscars tonight and they’re reminding me how many movies I want to see. I might have to sign up to netflix again. Here are a few that I can think of right now
Stuff that should be on DVD soon if not already: Juno, Enchanted, Ratatouille, Across the Universe, Bee Movie, Gone Baby Gone
Movies that are still in the theater or not released yet.. the links go to their trailers, have fun! Definitely, Maybe, Semi-Pro, The Other Boyeln Girl, Be Kind Rewind, Horton Hears a Who, Smart People, Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Sex and the City The Movie, Harold & Kumar 2, Kung Fu Panda, Wall-E, The Dark Knight, He’s Just Not That Into You, The Happening
So I’ve watched Las Vegas on NBC for awhile now .. I’m a fan .. there’s also not much else on Friday nights that I like watching .. anyways .. apparently NBC announced today that they’re canceling the show. Fine, whatever, I’ll get over it .. EXCEPT they left with a huge cliffhanger that might haunt me for the rest of my days. Okay, not really, but the last episode that aired, they left the pregnant character clutching her belly and showed blood on her hands. Now c’mon .. they have to come back with a mini season or something to wrap up the stories don’t they?? Ugh I hate when they dont wrap up shows, and its not like this was a first year show, this was its 5th season. Oh well.
Yesterday I went to the seafood fest with my neighbor. We thought we were going to walk there, but luckily her husband drove us to where the traffic started and dropped us off, saving us a mile long walk that seemed alot longer then a mile. So we got there a half hour after it opened .. and all the parking WAS FULL! Unbelievable that so many people show up for this thing, and they get there before it opens. So first things first, I have to get cash and we buy tickets, the ATM fee this year was $5, and tickets were $1.25 each and most meals cost 3 to 4 tickets. Ouch. There were really only 2 things I wanted, one was the souvenir beer mug that cost 7 tickets! We have one from last year that we use daily for water, so I had to get it. 16oz beers were only 2 tickets, not so bad. So we got our tickets and our beers and started looking for her friends. They had gotten there before 10:30 am and set up a canopy tent with lots of chairs underneath, it was perfect to hang out at. I got some fried scallops and she got her linguine in clam sauce & shrimp kababob and we headed back to the tent. A few hours later we headed back home .. her husband drove us back on their ATV this time .. we were hanging on for dear life while he drove 45 mph home .. it was crazy scary. After a much needed shower, I took a really good nap .. it was a fun day
There’s nothing like having your little one sleeping on your chest I also have little girl sleeping across my lap … Its hot here
Is tomorrow .. I really didn’t think I was going to go this year, but I was driving by today and saw all the beer trucks and booths ready to go, and I started to realize I really wanted some fried seafood and beer. Well it turns out my neighbors are going, and taking their ATVs & golfcart (you get to pass the parking line) .. so I’m going to tag along with them for a few hours If anybody wants to meet up email, call or text me, and get there early .. it opens at 11 .. I’d say aim to be there when it opens .. otherwise you’ll be stuck in line (and you still might be in line then).
Last fall I made this mix for Liz .. and I’ve been listening to it ever since. Its pretty rare for me to keep listening to a mix for more then a month, so I decided that this should be shared with the world. Plus I just listened to it like 3 or 4 times in a row while sewing tonight I’m not exactly sure why I like it so much, there are a few songs from commercials and off of Gray’s Anatomy, and alot of girl singers, the music is pretty chill, I guess that makes good sewing music, not really distracting, easy to sing along with I hope you guys have a chance to take a listen.
As always with my mixes, if you want a copy, just let me know
I picked up quilt kits last fall, fully intending to make quilts for my little girls for Christmas. Well Christmas came and went .. and last weekend I decided to give Halle’s a shot before her 2nd birthday party. To my surprise I had the whole front (the quilt part) done in less then 2 hours. Today I finished it off by added batting and the back piece, so now its finished, and its actually snuggly I didnt actually ‘quilt’ the whole thing .. meaning stitching through all the layers to keep them together forever. I’m nervous that it would look terrible on the back, so I’ll try with the kit I bought for myself later
As a bonus here are a couple puppy pictures. The other day Daisy was lounging on the futon with her head on a pillow and the blanket gently draped over her .. but I didn’t have a camera. So I got up for the camera and of course she left her spot .. but a few minutes later she was back almost in the same position .. she has quite the life huh?
The flash always attracts the puppies
This shot is just funny .. that’s Daisy on top of Big Boy (I think she fell on him) while he’s yawning
It wasn’t flickr or youtube, but a plugin I installed a few months ago to look at the statistics of this site, just for shits and giggles .. but apparently it was screwing things up Goodbye wassup!
Also .. I canceled sewing wednesday apparently, as I’m sitting on my couch not in the craft room
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