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Random Blog Notes

June 11, 2008 by Amy 2 Comments

I make notes on my iPhone about posts I want to do. But sometimes they’re too cryptic to understand. Like this one:

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Today the day we get eaten alive

I’d really like to know what wisdom I was going to share with that one. Are we surprised that one was written at 12:45am?

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Plurk

June 11, 2008 by Amy 2 Comments

*Updated with a new link for me.
So I joined the “new Twitter” today. It’s Plurk.com. Try it out with me so I can see how it works. It’s a bit different than Twitter with this timeline thing and lets you do more of how you are feeling than just what you’re doing. Sort of reminds me of the update thing on Myspace. I don’t know, find me here. And if you’re still not on Twitter and want to check it out, find me there.

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Pros and Cons of a Pool

June 10, 2008 by Amy 3 Comments

If you haven’t noticed, with the extreme heat in the area, we’ve been spending a lot of time in the pool since it opened this weekend.  You may be wishing you had one at your disposal as well but there are some disadvantages.  I’d say right now #1 on the Pros list beats all the others but it doesn’t come without work and lots of it!

Pros:

  1. There’s a pool in your backyard
  2. It’s a go-to entertainment tool for parties
  3. It keeps the kids busy during the summer
  4. Your kids are familiar with the pool/water
  5. You get a tan
  6. People come visit you

Cons:

  1. There’s a pool in your backyard
  2. You have to build a deck around the pool
  3. You have to buy furniture for on the deck
  4. You have to stain the deck
  5. You have to buy pool toys/floaties/goggles and usually every year
  6. You have to buy containers to store the pool toys/floaties in
  7. You have to go to the pool store fifty bagillion times
  8. You have spend fifty bagillion dollars at the pool store
  9. You get burned
  10. You have to have a lot of food on hand
  11. You have to wash lots of towels
  12. The towels take too much room in your hall closet
  13. Insurance goes up
  14. Stress level is higher with the kid/water combination
  15. You have to scoop algae/leaves/bugs/hair/unnamed things out of the pool, sometimes with your hands
  16. You have to vacuum the pool
  17. You have to cover the pool (unless it’s 101 outside and it’s hot enough)
  18. You have to clean your floor more often because everyone tracks in grass/dirt from walking in

So yeah, I think that’s my official complaint list on the pool.  But right now, I wouldn’t give it up!

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Bachelorette

June 9, 2008 by Amy 5 Comments

I haven’t posted much on this show this season but WOW tonight’s 2 on 1 date was a shocker!  Fred was such a sweetie.  As she was walking him out I was like tell him you change your mind!!!   Poor guy.  I love his little accent and he’s so open and honest and just a cutie.  Poor DeAnna too.  I think it was so hard for her because she was in his position with Brad and maybe she was feeling that pain again.

And while we’re on it…I definitely think the frontrunners are Graham, Jeremy and Jesse.  Well, and Jason too.  I can see her really settling down with him.  He was so sweet with her when she got home.  I think Jeremy is like the “right guy” to pick.  Graham is the physical connection one.  Jesse is the fun one/feels like herself.  And Jason is the settle down with kind of guy.  I’m not sure which direction she’ll go.  But I do have a lot of respect for her for letting both guys go when she knew she couldn’t be with either of them.

What was up with Graham being last to be picked though??  Just trying to send a message or really down to the wire on him with the way he’s been acting?

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Pool Pictures

June 8, 2008 by Amy 1 Comment

Because basically we’ve stayed in the pool this weekend…

Emma’s first day without swimmies on in the pool! She’s tall enough to reach the bottom now.

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Lexi’s just a silly girl

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Because no one takes picture but me

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Lexi gets ANOTHER cookie

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Pappy and the girls.  I think this picture is great.

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Graduation Day

June 8, 2008 by Amy Leave a Comment

Today (Yesterday since I’m late on this) was all about these people

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Specifically this graduate

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The party was a good time.

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The end

Really I could tell you about how I drank too much caffeine and had to go to bed because my stomach hurt about 8 and therefore did not post this last night but that would take too much time and I’m supposed to be playing Wii with Emma right now…later.

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Weekend plans

June 6, 2008 by Amy 1 Comment

Tonight I think we’re going to hang around the house and try to continue to get the house ready for the party tomorrow. Scott has done all he can on the pool and it’s just a waiting game right now. I need to actually clean the house. I did some straightening up last night but I still need to actually dust, vacuum and such. We’re also planning to finish painting the deck but it has to wait until this evening because it’s around 95 degrees around here right now.
Tomorrow we’ll be heading to my nephew’s high school graduation and then at 4, we’re having his party here.
Sunday will be status quo except I hope we can get plenty of swimming in in the afternoon!

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Pool update

June 5, 2008 by Amy Leave a Comment

Just for the record, when Scott went back to the pool store today, they told him our pool has white mold. I have never heard of this and neither have my parents. “We” have to completely take the filter thingy apart and clean it with bleach then dump $100 worth of chemicals into it over the next two days. They say that will have everything cleared up in time for the graduation party here Saturday night. Here’s to hoping.

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