{"id":145,"date":"2008-02-09T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=145"},"modified":"2008-02-09T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T13:23:00","slug":"playing-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Playing catch-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll get back to daylilies next Saturday. This morning, I have to get some of these tags taken care of, cause I am getting quite a pile of them.<\/p>\n<p>First &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/thegoodflea.blogspot.com\/\">Flea<\/a> tagged me with the Page 123 meme:<br \/>Here are the instructions:<br \/>1. Pick up the nearest book ( of at least 123 pages).<br \/>2. Open the book to page 123.<br \/>3. Find the fifth sentence.<br \/>4. Post the next three sentences.<br \/>5. Tag five people. &#038; post a comment here once you post it to your blog, so I can come see.<br \/>Okay &#8211; the nearest book to me is Adobe Photoshop Elements6 Classroom in a Book. Wow &#8211; can things get any more exciting that that?<br \/>Here is what it says:<br \/>&#8220;Web galleries come in a variety of layouts and designs and are optimized for viewing images on a web page. <em><font color=\"#00cccc\">hanging on every word, aren&#8217;t you?<\/font><\/em>  For this project, you will work on an imaginary birth anouncement using an animated template. <font color=\"#00cccc\"><em>for sure the birth anouncement will be imaginary!<\/em><font color=\"#333333\"><em>   <\/em>The Online Gallery wizard will guide you through the process of adding photos, applying web page layouts and background styles, writing captions, previewing in the Browser and sharing the files. <\/font><font color=\"#00cccc\"><em>zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz  <\/em><\/font><\/font>The Online Gallery wizard only lets you arrange photos, not edit them. <font color=\"#00cccc\"><em>pretty darn bossy if you ask me.<br \/><\/em><\/font><font color=\"#333333\">And there are no more sentences on this page &#8211; just a big photo of an extremely goofy looking guy who I sincerely hope did not father the child that will be mentioned in the imaginary birth announcement. <\/font><br \/>I know you were hoping for something more uplifting, like a good roaring bodice ripper novel with heaving bosoms and steely thighs, but this is the best I can do.<br \/>Maybe these fine folks can be more entertaining:<br \/>I am tagging <a href=\"http:\/\/purposelyrunning.wordpress.com\/\">Kelly<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/weezeej.blogspot.com\/\">Weezee<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontheupside.info\/\">Kellan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/imbeingheldhostage.blogspot.com\/\">imbeingheldhostage<\/a> and <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/seibelblog.blogspot.com\/\">Amy<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclesofacountrygirl.blogspot.com\/\">Country Girl<\/a> tagged me with the 6 quirks meme again.  Not that difficult, finding 6 more quirks, but I asked my sister <a href=\"http:\/\/weezeej.blogspot.com\/\">Weezee<\/a> if she could think of any quirky things about me.<br \/>1. &#8220;That you are probably the best sister on the planet and you are so modest about it.&#8221; <font color=\"#00cccc\">See? I knew she could help.<br \/><\/font><br \/>Okay,okay &#8211; what she really said was<br \/>1. &#8220;That it takes you like an hour to eat a small plate of food might be considered quirky.&#8221; <font color=\"#00cccc\">I can&#8217;t really argue with this &#8211; though my sister in law Janet eats even more slowly that I do.<\/font><br \/>2. It is wierd that you never move your furniture around at all, and even put furniture in your new house right where it was in your old house. <font color=\"#00cccc\">I like things where I like them &#8211; why mess around with perfection? Besides, you are a furniture-moving freak.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Then I asked Larry if I had any quirks that he could think of and he said that I do not.  Seriously &#8211; he could not think of a single one.  Maybe when you&#8217;ve been married to someone for 30+ years, you are just numb to their existing quirks and praying that they don&#8217;t develop too many new ones.  And I do cook all his food so he has to be careful what he says.  Not much help though.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I will have to think up my own.<br \/>3. I always save the best for last.  This is in regards to food on my plate.  If I am at your house and I eat up something quickly, it probably means that I don&#8217;t like it, rather than that I do.  If I liked it, I would eat it last.<br \/>4.  I am a Chapstick addict.  It has to be the real deal, name brand Chapstick and only in mint.  I keep one in every possible place I might ever need it &#8211; desk, bedside table, car, bathroom, kitchen, purse, camera bag.  Thinking about not having a Chapstick in easy reach makes me very nervous.<br \/>5. I am really really scared of spiders.  I used to make Larry kill them for me, but he is simply not motivated enough to suit me, and rather blase if he happens to miss killing one, so I usually do them in myself.  Preferably with a cinderblock or a 12 gauge shotgun.  Or both.<br \/>6. I am now unable to hold a phone up to my own ear.  Between the bluetooth for my cell and the headset for the house phone, I am totally spoiled about this.  Phones are <em>very<\/em> heavy and my arm gets all tired and I can&#8217;t play Astropop as well if I have to hold the phone up to my ear.  wah!<br \/>And I am tagging  <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/ramblingsrantsandrecipes.blogspot.com\/\">Laura B<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/annoyinglyboring.com\/\">PG<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jandjacres.com\/blog\/\">Jennifer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/yeahlikeihavetimeforthis.blogspot.com\/\">Sara<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ramblingsofadirtypiratehooker.blogspot.com\/\">PirateHooker<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mariesthoughtsonlife.blogspot.com\/\">Marie<\/a><br \/>Rules: Post 6 quirky things about yourself.  Tag 6 people, leaving a comment on their blog so they know and posting a comment here, so that I know I can come and see how quirky you are.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/letshaveanicewinter.blogspot.com\/\">Laura B<\/a> tagged me with this one, by virtue of my visting her blog.<br \/>You have 10 Million dollars and you have to spend it all or you don&#8217;t get to keep any of it.  You can&#8217;t save the 10 mil or give it to charity outright &#8211; and you have to spend it all.<\/p>\n<p>-I can&#8217;t <em>give<\/em> it to charity, but there is no reason I can&#8217;t fill our church&#8217;s food pantry from floor to ceiling is there?<br \/>-I am sure I can figure out other things charity-wise to do with it that don&#8217;t entail actually giving the money itself. <br \/>-I would have a <em><font color=\"#990000\">REALLY<\/font><\/em> nice computer system, with all the best printer, scanner, speaker, hard drive backin-up stuff I could find.<br \/>-I would buy new cars for everyone in our family.<br \/>-Probably build a new house, but probably build it right here.  Can you pre-pay your property taxes I wonder, cause I would do that if I could.<br \/>-Oh the camera I would buy &#8211; you just can&#8217;t even imagine.  And all my lenses would be the anti vibration kind.<br \/>-Take all the family on a really nice vacation together.  Someplace luxurious and completely out of character for us.<br \/>-I would buy every really expensive daylily I ever wanted.<\/p>\n<p>And all of that still would not go through even half the money probably.  But then, taxes would probably take the other half anyway, so maybe I would be in good shape.<\/p>\n<p>If you read this, consider yourself tagged and let us know in comments here when you have this on your blog.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Saturday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll get back to daylilies next Saturday. This morning, I have to get some of these tags taken care of, cause I am getting quite a pile of them. 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