winter_elf

I am sooooooooooooo behind!! Argh! Skip 200 and I'm STILL Behind!!!! I've only managed to read less than half of the mcshep_match stories, and only got a day left to vote there - ARGH!!! *time! I need more time!* Where's the Dr. when you need him?

I've just been a little off, haven't been reading lj enough to stay caught up and been busy with final planning for the big group 'mouse-house' vacation for a week in Orlando with my local group of friends. Where I'm sure I'll get even MORE behind on everything while running through all the mouse-land attractions and well as a day for the Kennedy Space Center!

I'm back... and soooo far behind on LJ!

5 days of wilderness, bugs and camping in a really beautiful place and I'm even more glad for things like showers! :) The weather was nice and getting hot - it started out in the 80's and got to upper 80's by the time we left. Pretty much bright, clear, blue skys with a few puffy clouds on the last day. Nights were nice (except for the bugs) in the upper 50's. Basically a light jacket and a long sleeved shirt and one was fine.

We had the usual misadventures of injuries and grumpyness, but I think we all had a good time. I'm afraid to get on a scale to see if hotmarscube's cooking had me gain weight or not *groan* The disadvantage of having a good cook along :)

Took a hike, did a bike ride, and two different photo classes - one by the Ansel Adams gallery and one by Canon, shopped and hung out at our campsite. I learned stuff in both photo classes, and I was especially glad for the Canon class - as I have a Canon camera and some tricks to do things with it was nice.

But I'm glad to be home and my cats, after a few hours of 'I'm not talking to you' are back to clinging and trying to crawl into my lap as I'm typing this!

( And here are some pics. I took about 250 total. A lot duplicates and such. Here's 7 of them )

Every week when I go to my chiropractor - I giggle at this ad for the restaurant next door. I mean really.. WHAT WAS THAT DESIGNER THINKING? No, really? I mean, yea, it's Hillcrest, but STILL....


I'm sharing so the rest of you can giggle too.

Ah yes, the wonders of living in CA, sometimes the earth moves. This was a super short 'jolt' quake. I was less than a second long. Just enough to make one jump and the house to squeak, but nothing rattled, shook or swayed . It was stronger up in LA basin, but down here in lower CA, very weak. But strong enough to be felt even for how short it was, so I knew it was a decent magnitude.

For those who don't know - quakes almost always (95% of the time) start off with a 'jolt' feeling. It sort of feels like what happens when jerking awake from a falling dream to me. The 'jolt' is then, usually followed by the rest of the quake - either a rolling feeling or a shaking feeling, which is often stronger and much longer than the original jolt. The jolt always gets my attention, and prepares one for what follows. I was all braced for the follow up here..... and nothing. hmm... strange.

To all the Mom's on my FList - I hope you had a swell day getting pampered and relaxing and NOT doing any housework :)

When planning a group vacation, buy ALL airline tickets at once. No trying to split up to use different people's Credit Cards. ARGH! We tried that last night, and once one group got their tickets, it was not only impossible to find the same flights they choose, or if I found the same flight - it was a LOT more!!!!!

After a fruitless evening and this morning, I finally got something similiar, though I had to pay about $30 more *sigh*

OMG! What was with today?????? Went out at lunch and was almost bowled over with this WAVE of heat that hit me. Yikes, thank goodnes for air conditioned work... though the A/C decided at about 3:30 that it had had enough. At least we only had to struggle along a little longer.

*whimper* the 10 hour days are creeping up into 11 hour days and now we're getting the idiot clients who bring in their stuff last minute, who owe money, and, of course, can't pay. So that means we can't extend them and have to get the return done so they can apply for a payment plan. *groan*

*sniff* and I come home to stuff brainlessly for a while.... and no new SGA stories to lose myself in. WAAAHHHH. Still considering selling my soul to make next years Stargate Vancouver convention. It's so close to being do able. Just the pesky problem of usually right AFTER the 15th its all the catch up work to do that's been put off for weeks. I have a year to work on the boss. And since I'm suffering SGA withdrawal, I went ahead and bought tickets to the August Chicago Stargate convention.

And this was my drive to work this morning. Look at that fog! Yes, I was playing with my phone, and I was surprised that I had to re-format the picture SMALLER. It was way too large to post!



It's also like.. reversed... I don't know why the phone is taking it that way.

I hate the 'Spring Forward' time change. I seem to adjust slowly to losing an hour. This morning me and my alarm clock had an argument. I'm not sure who won.