Yael Naim

So I dicovered today who sings the song in the mac notebook commercial. I was so excited. Her name is Yael Naim and the song is New Soul. She makes me wish that I could speak french so I can understand her other songs. I love her voice and for some reason this song just makes me smile every time I hear it. Check it out for yourself. The video clip is at the bottom of the page. 

shh...don't tell

So Jeremy and I were feeling a bit hungry and were looking for something quick and easy. We found that there were two muffins left so he took the apple cinnamon one and gave me the chocolate one. Well I realized that if I didn't have something with protein to go with it then my blood sugar would give me grief later. So I headed into the kitchen and peaked into the rice cooker. The rice was on its last day. (Tomorrow it would be dried out.)  I decided to make something out of the rice for lunch. After looking around I saw that we had a couple cans of tuna and some cream cheese. I put some rice and a can of tuna into a bowl with a dollop of cream cheese and mixed it all together. It tasted great! I ate about half of it and then was too full to finish it so I offered the rest to Jeremy. He wasn't too sure about it but after one bite he was sold. He ate the rest while telling me with a surprised tone how good it tasted. See this happens every time. I almost have everyone convinced that I can't cook. Then I go and do something creative with food and it is such a success that they will expect me to do it again. Sigh. I think I just need to admit that I CAN cook I just HATE to. (Except sometimes.)

P.S. I know that rice, fish and cream cheese is what goes inside a California roll. Really I made sushi without the seaweed wrap. Jeremy and Julian think I created something great though. So....shh....don't tell.

      

This is SO WRONG!!!

So I was standing in my back yard talking on the phone with my Mom and I mentioned that thirty six hours after the snow storm we have almost no evidence of it left. I barely get the words out when it starts to snow again. What is up with that? PLEASE GIVE ME SPRING!!!

   Here is my dream.

Snow????

Ok, so here it is twenty minutes to eleven and there are snow flakes in the rain. That is rare even for the dead of winter. Usually it is not cold enough during the day. Most of the time snow (even mixed with rain) happens at night. Where is the sunny spring weather? I am a snow fanatic but even I am ready for sun and warm weather. I don't even care if it rains as long as it is warm.

Maybe this will help.

Come on SUN!!!

April Showers

April showers bring may flowers. At least that is what they say. I don't think the flowers will appreciate showers like this one.

 

 

Yes these were taken today at about 1 pm.

Look! There's the Sun!

So, I awoke today to see blue skies and beautiful sunshine. I took a shower and got dressed. My sinuses only took an hour and a half to clear. (Yes that is an improvement.) Jeremy was shocked to see me dressed. I told him not to get too excited I don't think I will have the energy to do much today but I did feel good enough to get dressed. Plus I think there's something to be said for getting dressed. It almost makes you believe you're going to get well.  The only thing is that I will not be going anywhere in this shirt. (Horizontal stripes.) The next logical question and one that my mom will likely ask me is why I have the shirt still. Here's the reason. If I get rid of the shirt then I will have nothing to wear with my brown cords. My brown cords are one of my most comfortable pants. Of coarse they need to be replaced as well. There is a small hole in the knee and they are just a bit too short for my taste. In other words today would make me a prime candidate for What Not to Wear on TLC. 

Well I'm going to get myself some tea and play some Spider Solitaire now.

Remind me, Why do I have 5 cats????

So I went to make myself a nice cup of tea. The cats always try to get in the kitchen any time the door is open for more than .02 seconds so it is routine to shoe them out before they get on the counters. Well today they were a bit more resistant to being put out of the kitchen. I finally managed to get Sirius and Moon Shadow out and was pushing Beef with my foot while bringing my tea out with me. Ok, usually the cats will go the direction that they are being pushed but today Beef decided to pull a sudden U-turn and got under my foot causing me to spill. So now I am wearing my tea and I still have to get Beef out. I yelled and that seemed to indicate to the cat that he better run. Now the cats are all out of the kitchen and I had to go change my clothes. Moon Shadow decides to climb up to the shelf in my closet dropping things all over the floor. I got him out, got dressed and finally was able to sit and have some tea.

I wonder if this is just because I chose to wear unflattering clothes today. Stacy and Clinton may still not like my outfit but it is a hell of a lot better than the last one.

As you can see from what I wrote the question is not so much why do I have 5 cats but why do I have the three boy cats. Cougar and Wickett were perfectly well behaved and didn't even try to get in the kitchen.

Truth be told I love all my animals even when they infuriate me.

Better but not Well

Well I am feeling better but I am not well yet. Yesterday I thought I might be but today when I woke up I had a sinus head ache. I seem to be having trouble with my sleeping schedule as well. I am going to sleep later and waking later everyday. That is a difficult one for me to fix since my body naturally wants to be on a swing shift schedule. It seems I was born that way. I just hope I haven't given myself a sinus infection from taking antihistamines when I first got this flu. 

So it seems that we had spring for a minute this weekend.

Followed by more winter.

O-Well it should be back again soon I hope. Not this weekend though it might actually snow at my mom's again. Maybe this is all so I won't need new clothes just yet.

Windows Live Gallery - Custom Buttons

Ok, So this is pretty nifty check it out. I made one for my bank. now I click the button on my tool bar and snap. there I am at the sign in screen. I was even able to create the look of the button. (just remember to save the pic you want to use as a .bmp or bitmap)

Windows Live Gallery - Custom Buttons

What Not To Wear P.S. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired

  Well I am still not feeling well and it is really ticking me off.  I have that feeling like I want to be doing something but I have no energy to do anything. Even things like writing more of my book or responding to my Mom's email about what to wear, planning ahead. Pretty much anything that takes physical effort or any real thought is out. Heather is definitely the inspiration behind this what to wear stuff. She always looks so put together even in "sweats" and we have realized that it takes the exact same amount of energy to put on grubby clothes as it does to put on nice looking clothes. And let's not forget that Stacy and Clinton ("What not to wear") have said over and over that nice clothes can be comfortable if they fit right. This is really true because one of my best looking out fits is very comfortable to wear. My real issue I think is that there are some key pieces missing from my wardrobe right now. For instance I need a pare of brown pants that don't have a hole in the knee. That right there would open so many clothing options for me. When it comes to spring and summer I need more help than a pare of pants. I really need to get new sleeveless shirts. The little tanks with the built in bra are simply inappropriate for someone of my size. I have to wear a bra with them anyway so what is the point. I saw myself in the pictures from last July and the tanks I have now hug and amplify every roll. I don't even want to think about those shorts. Let's just say I am no longer a teen and those shorts have got to go. I think if I find sleeveless shirts and tanks that don't cling to the body like that they will actually feel cooler in hot weather.

         (If I ever do this again just shoot me) 

                       

 

Ok, well I am tired now and need to rest. You have not heard the last of this though. I have much more to say on the subject but that takes way more thought than I can handle right now.

Windows Live Writer

April 07

Ok so I am trying out windows live writer for composing my blogs now. It seems to have a lot of nice features. I don't however seem to be able to use emoticons like I can when I just type from the blog editor that spaces provides though. I can still insert pictures and I can also insert things here that I cannot there like maps and tables. This is a lot like using word. Or the older version of it anyway.

photobucket totally ROCKS.  So now I know how to add emotes to my blog.

Ok so here is how I looked this morning.

And this is how I feel right now.

I am sick as a dog. Well I will write more when I am feeling better.

about myspace

Ok so I talked to Charlie and he said that the buddy thing was actually an ad. He however has been unhappy with myspace for a while now and it sounds like he may create a live spaces. I'm tickled.

I don’t like myspace

Ok, so I checked out myspace to see how it compares to this. I gotta say this is way better! It is easier to edit, it has better security and Mel is pouting because she wants a myspace. I know that her friends are all myspace junkies but there are some things that are public like your location and pic that I think is simply unsafe. Well she will just have to get over it for another 4yrs. I mean in just the short time since i created a myspace account with just my first name and this pic for my profile 

I got several "buddies" sending me messages saying they have a crush on me.  Ok, so she is pretty sexy but still. At least here no one can see my profile but those I invite. Ok so I left the myspace with my mood set to bitchy but now that I have vented I feel