Ya never get sick of 'em - unless they're yours of course ;)

I do have some real thoughts I'd like to post someday... but until I actually get to it, I'll just post cute pictures of relatives instead - this time, it's of one of the only nephews I have - out of 16 nieces and nephews from my husband's family and mine combined, little T-man is only one of 4 boys surrounded by females :) You're a cutie, little T!

Up close and personal

 

Redo

So here's the almost finished redo - Sarah I hope you still like it!

 

I don't have much time, but I just wanted to announce that Old Blue has gone the way of Nemo... except that he wasn't still alive :( Yesterday I changed the water and he was swimming around like a crazy maniac... followed by periods of irractional vertical and horizontial floating and then more manic swimming... I guess the stress of changing water coupled with last weeks fight were just too much... :( I can't believe I killed him...He died in cold blood... wait...

Whoever wants it...

So I did this painting and don't really want it so... The stuff on the sides is actually kinda light purple and I'll even add some little flowers or something to the branches if you want. So whatdoya say? Free art! One of a kind! Otherwise I'll put it in a closet and pull it out on Holloween. :) 

Murmurando...

I have yet to quejarme or murmurar about my family's recent trip to THAILAND so I thought I would just take that opportunity now :) I mean, REALLY - who would WANT to go anyway! Gorgeous beaches, exotic lands, really cheap food... What a disaster! I mean I really feel sorry for my parents, younger brother, younger sister and niece that all went for a week a little while ago to meet up with my brother who decided to take his R&R from the army in Thailand. I'm sure they were all really sad to be FORCED to take this amazing trip to a mysterious and far off country - Or NOT! I mean, REALLY! They've been to more foreign lands than I have and I'm at LEAST 8.5 years older! And I served a mission! In a far of land! Even 2 slightly younger "niece/nephews" of mine probably could have gone, but for some reason their possibly slightly more sane parents didn't seem to think that a 12 and 15 year old wander around a unfamiliar continent was that good of an idea.
So that's it. I wish I had gotten to go and ride an elephant while talking on a cell phone! - The funny thing is that if I wasn't doing such a dumb thing like trying to finish school and GRADUATE, I probably could have!

HOLY JUMPING BETA-FISH!

For those of you who don't know, I am the proud mother of two little beta fish - aka fighting fish - or so I was told.... It all started in February when Joe was out of town for a group project in Mexico - rough life, I know. Anyway, I was reading this book and it said that it was healthy to have pets so... I got one! Rosie (Vincent) became my first beta. Well, soon after my neighbors found out there was a beta in need of rescuing! Luckly I had a tank that would accomidate 2, so... Well, yesterday as I was cleaning the tank, Old Blue made a break for it! 3 times he jumped the wall and was a bid dazed and confused after the final attempt! You'd think that after that, the sucker would take a break - But no! Today when I left the cover off the tank, Old Blue jumped the the divider! Luckly for him and not so lucky for Rosie, he landed in the other side! When I realized I was horrified! When I evven just allow them to see each other, they go nuts! So I was relieved when I realized they were just poking around! Whew! I guess so much for them being fighters!

Post Script - Apparently things weren't quite as friendly as I thought - poor Blue seems to be a little worse for the wear... Definatly not his best week!

Families can be ...

Just another experiment in photography! :)
Taken April 27, 2006 

Standardized ... SNAKES!!

Actually, Joe doesn't start working until NEXT Monday - I on the other hand started YESTERDAY! Whew! No rest for the .... oh, never mind! Boy, did we have a GREAT weekend last ... well, weekend with our friends and family! What a rush! Wait -what was I talking about? Oh! My job! I'm back at my elementary school of choice tutoring kids in Math and Reading as well as helping with/translating standardized tests for the young'ens!
What else am I supposed to be announcing?...

Well, who knows... but there was a SNAKE in my yard this weekend! YIKES!! It was like 2 feet long!! And was about 6 inches from my hand! I thought my dad had tossed a fake one on the ground near me! I mean, Maddy has fake snakes around all the time! HOWEVER, this one was NOT fake! GET OUT!

Graduate and Workin Away!

As far as the promised announcements... here's one for ya! Joe and I graduated! Well, at least Joe did - I just pretended since I'm not really done till August. But we figured it was probably best I walked NOW, especially since we didn't have a CLUE where we'd be come August...

Which Brings Us to Announcement #2 - As I indicated before, Joe got a job at a Enginering Co. in Springville called Wencor! We ARE happy to be staying here and working on our house! I just have way too many ideas - which is pretty crazy since I've never been really good with the decorating thing! On the other hand, having ideas doesn't really make them GOOD ideas... so I still might not be very good at the decorating thing..... Oh well! I guess I'M the one who has to listen to it, so BLAH! I want to put in more pics and this post doesn't seem to want to let me do that so... on to the next one!

SO this is a pic I took this last weekend as I was messing around with a new camera I got - It's not nessisaraly a super great pic but I still like it - I call it "Heaven and Earth" - cheezey, huh? :) But hey - it's kinda fun :)

Time and Money! ;)

Well, things MUST have been busy lately cuz neither myself nor several of my close blogging associates have had any new posts in QUITE some time! I haven't checked out on Blue Adagio, but I wouldn't be surprised if she hadn't either! I guess time just flies when you're having fun! Ha ............. HA!....... I'm so funny ;) But don't you fret! There's a lot of stuff to announce and comment on - Like, maybe, the fact that JOE GOT A JOB!! Here in Utah even, so we don't have to worry about moving for another few years at least! Yeah for us! But there's more to say on that subject - pros, cons and ...well, just other stuff :) But more later. For now, it is off to bed! I am SO exhausted, even after a couple hour nap today! So sweet dreams, may all of your wildest dreams come true....
B
;)

You know that new haircut feeling? You know - the one where it feels like everything is right in the world and it's all because you've got AMAZING hair? Ok, so I know it sounds a little vain, but I am seriously high off of the haircut I got today! Maybe it's just because I haven't gotten it cut professionaly for a really long time or maybe because I now have about a zillion colors in my hair again, which makes me feel cool, even if I don't always look it. I mean, come on! If you've got cool colored hair, even if you spill food all down your shirt and have your pants on backwards at least you can say - HEY! At least I have GREAT hair! And since I don't have a picture, you'll all just have to take my word that I look FANTASTIC! Or... at least better than I did when I woke up this morning ;)

ARGH!

So... my house is a crazy disaster (well, everything my husband hasn't already cleaned and or organized), he and I both have 2 more finals, we're having a BIG party outside Friday, our parents are coming and it might RAIN!! AHH!!!!!!!!!! Oh, and as a side note, I'm not even sure my cap and gown are even going to be available because there might be a mess up with the order. No problem though, right? It's all cool!




So Yesterday though, I think someone slipped me a special "Drop-it-all" Drug! Honestly! Thank goodness for family otherwise we would have been eating dinner off the floor instead of the table! (oh wait... we kind of did....)

Free Photography!

I've decided to start spreading the word that I'd really like to get some more experience with photography and therefore am willing to take pictures for FREE! Well, ok, not QUITE free, but only because I only have a good film camera and film doesn't grow on trees! So for about $7 a roll I would be willing to take a bunch of pics and get them developed and put on CD for ya! I'll even play around with a few of them, if you like, giving different options in croping, coloring etc.! So there you go! Just let me know if there's anything B's Photography can do for you! :D I've even got a few other sample pics so let me know and I'll email 'em to ya!

I know, this may sound a little odd, but hey! how else am I going to become a professional amature photographer! ;)

 

Speakers, Pics and New Talent Tricks

For those of you who might not know, I have gone through a slight obsession with paintings, which resulted in a current mild obsession with painting which I decided to nurture through the purchase of an art/painting set and easel that really were more than I should have spent on myself at the time, but in a word you might say I was, well obsessed :) However, my generous father decided to relieve me of the burden and purchase it for me as a graduation gift! Really, I was (and am) delighted! Now only if I could come up with more canvases....

Anyway! Since I'm not the only one graduating.... (actually, I'm not even graduating at all right now! I'm just walking since my husband is really graduating now and since I'll be done at the end of the summer, I wanted to walk in the ceremony at the same time........) my parents wanted to do something equally nice for my husband as well. Me, being the practical wife that I ALWAYS am (as you can tell by my recent purchase mentioned above...), suggested a new suit! I thought, hey! What a great idea for a man about to enter into "real" employment!

Unfortunately, my husband didn't seem to see it my way exactly. While he was grateful for the offer of a new suit, when he realized it was my idea and not my parents, he quickly asked if it would be alright to put the money to another use... namely new speakers. You can just IMAGINE how tickled I was with THAT idea! I mean come ON! We already have 9 speakers set up in our living room, plus an additional SIX outside! What was the boy thinking?!

Well, much to my joy, the speakers arrived just the other day.... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr........... I was really having a hard time seeing the silver lining to this cloud - which is COMPLETELY reasonable since I am ALWAYS very practical in my purchases.... - (I'm kidding).

Anyway, we got talking and I realized that hubby-cakes is actually thinking of possibly getting into DJing - for now, at least for fun and to get some experience - you know, mostly friends weddings, small dances or parties... that type of thing. Just for a hobby, at least until he figures out if he really likes it or not. So we contacted a friend getting married this summer and she was excited ( I think ) to let him give it a go!

Then the wheels got turning... you see, this same friend let me take her bridals and while I'm definitely not a professional, let's just say I was happy there were at least a few she seems to want to use. Not bad, I thought. Especially for my first attempt at something like this. This mild success bit me with a little bit of a photo bug and tonight I got talking to my sister about possibly buying her quality digital camera off of her when and if she decides to upgrade in the next few months. Next, My Man and I realized we could easily make still photo wedding videos (slide shows being another mild obsession of mine) and provide a projector to make a pretty cool music video to present at receptions! And BOOM! All of a sudden I start dreaming up music/photo wedding and party packages and of the nice $ we could make on the side while enjoying a few hobbies, developing talents and spending some time together!

Ok, so perhaps I'm going a little overboard - but hey! At this point in time, what do we really have to loose?! And if nothing else, at least it helps me not go COMPLEATLY insane with the thought of 2 MORE speakers in our lives! :)

3 more YEARS?!

Ok - so I know that not long ago I posted my feelings about 24 and it's addicting qualities... However...
I just found out that Kiefer Sutherland signed on for 3 MORE YEARS of 24! I mean, come on! Hasn't this guy saved Los Angeles and therefore the world enough already?! For those of you who don't know, this is currently the 5TH season of 24 and honestly, I don't know what else you can possible do to make it believable after this! Jake Bauer - aka my main man Kiefer - doesn't even WORK for CTU - the counter terrorist unit - anymore, they've already blown up or gunned down at least half of LA, CTU itself seems to have more moles and holes than a sieve and the head of their current conspiracy seems to be ...! Never mind. I mean, come on! What else can you possibly DO!!!
Though I do really love 24, for the viewers sake, PLEASE take it to a different country - or at LEAST a different part of the United States! Otherwise, I'm afraid the American viewer won't be able to take it much longer and the people of LA may begin to revolt!
On another 24 issue, I have to admit that while I really enjoy the seasons as they come out, there is DEFINITELY something to be said for sitting down and watching a whole season in a few days! What a rush! ;)

Such BIG KIDS!!

Since my write your own posting hasn't seemed all that popular, I though I'd return to the fail safe plan of posting cute pictures of my relatives :)

WOW!! These are my husband's nieces and nephew. The cutie little baby was just born a few weeks ago. Now for that reason alone, this is a great picture... BUT! Check out the other kids!! Especially that red head on the right - how old do you think that kid is? Well, whatever you guess, he's at least 3 years younger! What a cute bunch of turkeys!!! (as my mom would say) :)

Huh?

Actually, I have this strong hankering to post a new post but for a couple days now, I've been postless! Ok, that just means I can't think of anything all that facinating or not to write about, so today is a write your own post day! Tomorrow too - sure - why not! I mean, besides the fact that 24 had another facinating show lastnight............ anyway, so write what you want! Let me know how you're doing! Post your own post ;)
So fill in the blanks, if you want:
Hi. I'm ______________ (feel free to not put a real name)
Today I feel_______________ because _______________
The weather is __________________
I like Oreo Cookies because__________________________________________
____________________________________ - sorry that one needs a lot of room!!
I recently have _________________________
And finaly
One random fact about me is ____________________________________
So that's it - the comment board is yours!
With love, B

My Grandpa Part 1

Ok, So the explaination to this entry is actually to be found a few posts ago in a post called Grandpa of Mine - But, because of my tecnical errors... I had to repost half of it. It's really not that long, but it's divided into 6 smaller posts I think - half before the description and half after. So a quick summary - This is a paper one of my nieces wrote wonderfuly and I wanted to share - I hope you enjoy (and that she doesn't mind!) heart, me
Part 1