Sweepstakes!

Well one half the the Parental Units is now addicted to sweepstakes. Yes it started innocently. This Unit would sign up for Freebies on the web. Then she started to do sweepstakes. Well this unit has won at least three big things. A Martha Stewart gift basket (it had DVD, book, recipes, die cuts, etc), a 50 dollar home depot gift card, oh a t-shirt, and the Three disc box set of Indiana Jones on DVD.

So, this Unit, in retirement, has become a professional Sweepstakes person......

A day in the life of Flick (up to 3:22pm)

Garage cleaner and organized

Well through this heatwave I have found the time to organize and finally unpack all my stuff. I gained 25% of my garage back!! YES!!!! I have toted up like things and have stored them in the garage on racks. It looks great. Even my lovely GF liked it and was impressed. I still need to get rid of a few things but will have to wait until next week as my recycle bin is all full..... sigh.

Kung Fu Panda

Move over Shrek there is a NEW hero in town.... Kung Fu Panda. After seeing this movie with my lovely GF I will make this bold statement, it is better than Shrek. Don't get me wrong, it is very close, Shrek 1 and 2 were GREAT movies, but man, Kung Fu panda was great. I didn't laugh out loud too much as my GF pointed out, it was the internal laughter that hurts because you don't want to laugh out loud just in case you miss hearing the next one liner. This film rocked. It's awesomeness will blind you! Go See it if you dare!

Pink Donald Trump Tie

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Well on a trip to Macy's I found a wondrous thing.... Donald Trump Ties. Now I am not sure if I will get more Trump Ties, but for my first one, I had to go with his trademark Pink tie. It's nice. My GF doesn't like the color. This is me before heading to Roger Rocka's in Fresno for a the dinner show, Annie Get your Gun. That play was awesome. I met up with my GF, her mom, and her mom's friends Amy and Bill. I had a great time, ate some good food, saw a good play. And I also got picked on by one of the Junior Company players. Her name was Kristen, she was singing a song I suppose about a guy who did something to her and how she wanted it to rain on him (they sang weather related songs). At one point right before the bitter chorus she ran across the stage and stop in front of our table and pointed right at me.... and blamed me (part of the song) I was a little shocked as I didn't think she was pointing at me... however she was and she had this horrid glare to go with the finger...... my GF said the girl smelled the teacher on me... hahaha I say it was this damned pick tie.

Practice Swatch #2

ok, so it's been like 6 months since I Knitted. I took finally unpacked my knitting stuff. What I found horrified me... well not really. I guess I had put my needles away in the middle of a row. I had no idea what direction I was working... so I removed the needles. I know that is bad..... but hey. So my WIP because a finished project just like that... no casting off... sad huh. So here is a pic of my finished practice swatch. lol


Of course since this was my first finished project in ages I had to have Flick and River model this bluish bacon like swatch.

Flick was not impressed at all, he just yawned at me..... sigh.

Even when I wrapped it around his tail to show him it could keep him warm, he yawned at me.


He did take time out from yawning to give my swatch a sniff, he told me he picked up hints of catnip and sun spots.


When draped over his head like this he looks like a British Judge.

And now the furmiliation is complete. This will teach Flick to yawn at my finished projects no matter how sad they are.

I thought I might have more luck impressing River.......

River, being a Guinea Pig, automatically assumed that this was some kind of blue food. He gave it a test nibble.

Having failed the test nibble, she gave my swatch a sniff and a close look.

She decided that this was a good swatch to hide her face from... here she mugs with just a Guinea Nose.


River thinks that this swatch would make a good drape for her piggy hut.

I think it looks good as a mini piggy blanket. Well River didn't like it. Not sure how I was able to get her to stay still for this shot. River seemed quiet amused and accepting of my swatch. She knows how to make Daddy happy. Flick on the other hand........

Is NOT amused.

Summer Break

Ok, so I've been uber busy, and now summer break is here. I did kind of just chill last week, but this is week two. I've undertaken clearing up the boxes in the garage, I am 90% done with that. The other 10% consist of me going through the remaining boxes in the house and then storing them in the garage. I'll have pictures up later I suppose. It looks nice and I am thrilled. I put in some rack and they fit all the totes I used when I moved from OC.

On other fronts I am super happy as well. The GF and I are going strong. We went to our second WWE show, this one was the taping of Smackdown she got for our six months. I have pics too. I love her more and more each day. I really do. She gets me. I get her. we are seeing a movie, most likely Kung Fu Panda tomorrow and a play, Annie get your Guns with her mother and friend on Saturday. She also shared with me her fan fiction that she is writing about Harry Potter. Interesting stuff.

Flick is fine. Him and River are doing just fine in their first Fresno Summer. True the heat waves are coming, but they seem to be coaxing. Oh I also have pictures from two play dates that Flick had with Quinn, my GF's dog. cute!

All in all things are good. However I did find out that I have way to many CDs.... I mean TOO many. I think I will be slowly ripping them on to my iPod and then selling them......

I'mbeing bad... I am running the AC right now... Flick really needed it.... yeah that's it.

More to come later and pics too...... I've been saying that huh.... when I do finally get around to blogging all that I have wanted to blog, it will be many mini blogs instead of a super blog... I like running my blog count up.... or something like that.