Please Stand By

I gave up the 30 day thing when I got to "a detailed account of your day" followed by a "detailed account of your week". Mostly because I don't care so I can't fathom that anyone else would.

What DO I care about? Check out that countdown! It's not exact, but it's damn close and it says right around a week until the end of a very long and sometimes difficult year.

So please stand by if you choose to do so. I don't know how long it will be before I post again. Maybe it will be tomorrow. Probably it won't be. Maybe it will be after we do some visiting with friends and family or we go to Las Vegas. I don't know. But I don't know why I wouldn't be back.

So we'll just see how it goes. :)

Day Twenty Four - Where I Live

Day Twenty Four - Where I Live

I don't think you are suppose to put out there on the internet where you live. Here's what I will say...There is no place like home, and I'm not there.

The saying in the Army is "Home is where the Army sends us." I'm not buying it. Home to me has always meant Texas. Since I've moved away from Texas, I've learned that home really is "where the heart is." Home is where my people are, where I can be me and where I feel at home. Where I live now will feel a lot more like home in a few weeks. And until we make it back to our REAL home, we'll make the best of where we live.

A Website--Day Twenty Two Revisited

Likely my most visited website other than facebook and hotmail is www.google.com.

Seriously, need to know who sang that one song whose 4 words you can recall? Easy, google it! Found a giant pale green moth, want to know what it is? Google it!

Actor in some movie? Google it!

It's just so easy. I have no idea what we did before Google. Encyclopedia Britannica?

Day Twenty Two - A Website

Day Twenty Two - A Website

HA! In my excitement to find a good YouTube video, I skipped right over Day 22 and "a website". I thought finding a video would be tough. This could take for.ev.er! I'll be back tomorrow with one or a few...

Day Twenty Three - A Youtube Video

Day Twenty Three - A YouTube Video

Well, THAT's a lot of leeway! Just any ol YouTube Video? hhhmmm....lemme see...

OK, so I just spent WAY too much time fooling around looking at videos. I settled on this one because:

1. I love ONJ

2. I love this song

3. This is from a concert I had on VHS and watched about 238,385,751 times. :)

and, you got lucky. I was *this* close to putting XANADU!

Day Twenty One - A Recipe

Day Twenty One - A Recipe

I'm not much for cooking, but it isn't as though I don't try. It just isn't something I love to do, and with my husband's limited palate, I don't venture out to try a lot of things. But this is something he asks for specifically. It's not a whole meal, but when I say we're having tacos, he specifically asks, "can you make the season? It's way better than the packet!" :)

Day Twenty - A Hobby Of Yours

Day Twenty - A Hobby

I kind of think Day Nineteen and Day Twenty are somewhat interchangeable. Fantasy Football (yesterday's post) is a talent as well as a hobby. My hobby is scrapbooking, now digitally, and I think it is a talent as well. Here is a layout of which I am particularly fond from our Hawaii vacation scrapbook.

I love the pointing and little hotel pictures and the panoramic scene across the tops of two pages.

Day Nineteen - A Talent of Yours

I got to be in the "studio audience" of the Time Warner show "Fantasy Huddle"! They came to tape the show at Ft Riley today! It was fun!

Coincidentally, I think playing Fantasy Football is a talent, and I think I'm pretty good at it. Good enough to win this little beauty over 13 guys, twice in 10 years! :)

Day Eighteen - My Wedding

Day Eighteen - My Wedding.

How funny. I just watched our wedding video the other day. Maybe it was in the back of my mind because I had read ahead the topics of this daily posting deal. I don't know, but I really enjoyed watching it. For most of the standing there together I am trying not to cry and managing to have alternating looks of mad and scared to death.

The terribly sad part is that shortly after the pastor announces Mr. and Mrs. Barthamel (completely mispronouncing my new last name), the dvd starts sticking. There is no video of the reception. I need to get some cleaner and see if I can remedy the issue. If not, I will take it to a specialist. I really want to see the whole thing!

And I really wish we could do this about every five years. I don't even have to be the bride. Just to have all of our friends and family gathered would be so so great. I miss our people.

This is one of my favorite photos of the day.