Time for the Thursday Threesome

Onesome. Morning. What is typical first thing in the morning routine?
Go to the bathroom and hit the shower. By the time I'm out, I'm usually fairly wide awake. Just don't be cheery around me before my shower. :) I'm trying to add exercise back into my routine, so this morning I went running.

Twosome. Noon. Ok. Fess up. What do you typically do for lunch?
If it's up to me, I eat yogart and a sandwich, sometimes chips if I'm especially hungry. Again if I'm by myself, I'm either watching a taped tv program or reading. I meet some friends most Tuesdays (the other headshavers from last summer.). I'm going to try to start hitting the fitness center here at Master's a couple times a week again.

Threesome. Night. What are the last few things you do most nights before climbing into bed?
Brush teeth, change into my "pj's," and read at least a chapter in my book.

To start out today, here's one of my results from this quiz at Shana's.

I taste a bit like Almonds. Mmm, the taste of almonds - anathema to many with nut allergies, and a bad sign for many more, as my taste is not unlike that of cyanide. Am I good or am I poison? A risky thing to guess about. What Flavour Are You?

It's kinda funny since I'm allergic to nuts myself. I probably should have put coffee up there since I got that as a choice many of the times I took it. I also got Vanilla and Curry. So what does that say about me? :)

Have I mentioned recently how much I hate wind???? I definately have the sunny part right, but it's cool with a bitter cold wind. Please do keep in mind that I'm a CA wimp, and a Southern CA wimp for the last 6 and a half years. Plus the wind makes my allergies worse. And they're even saying it might rain on my ultimate frisbee tournament this weekend. If so, we'll still play, but at a beach. That would be interesting. Never played any serious ultimate at a beach before.

Got home last night to find out that the manager and maintenance guy had finally come to take a look at the water problem in my kitchen. They said it was coming from the neighbors or my bathroom upstairs. (Got both answers.) And there was nothing they could do until Friday morning. But it was a slow leak and the water shouldn't be a problem if I kept a towel in the hole they'd made. Well, when I went downstairs this morning, I wasn't thinking and slipped and almost fell in the water in my kitchen floor. Had to get rag towels from my car to mop it up. They're supposed to be working on it, so we'll see what I find when I get home.

Well, I spent most of my reading time last night on the computer here. Didn't get anything read in Blueberry Muffin Murder until I went to bed, even though I'm enjoying it greatly.

Went over the Seth and Keirsten's last night. We took forever getting a couple new songs figured out. Hopefully, things will go well. It'll pretty much be up to me. Maybe I should practice when I get home. Afterward, we sat around and talked for about an hour. It was great. Didn't get home in time to watch Buffy and 24, but friendship is more important then tv or books. I wonder if they'll be saying that at Zap's if I don't get the book read for the book discussion on Monday. :)

TV ramblings. Possible spoilers ahead.
Alias - Not too happy with the prophecy storyline. There's enough else going on that I'll keep tuning in. But I hope they drop it soon.
24 - Finally getting some answers. Not that that will help, necessarily. Really wondering how they'll finish this up by midnight.
Buffy - Great episode. But was that an alternate reality, or not? We'll just have to see if they choose to develope that more. But it was a very emotional episode.

I feel all out of whack having not worked on Monday. In a little while, I'm off to Bible study, then it's home to watch The Amazing Race. Probably save Survivor until lunch tomorrow.

Right now? I think I'll post this and see if I can find the rings I've been thinking about signing up for.

I have to add this since I did this really quickly. Found the link at Dana's.

BLUE You give your love and friendship unconditionaly. You enjoy long, thoughful conversations rich in philosophy and spirituality. You are very loyal and intuitive. Find out your color at Stvlive.com!

Blue is my second favorite color. I'll have to post results from some of the others I've found thanks to other people's blogs.

Need to make this quick.

Got back into town last night. I've had better times at home. Things were quite busy, but Grandma seemed to enjoy her party and it was good to see everyone. When I got back, I discovered that we'd sprung a leak in our kitchen floor over the weekend. Need to get home and see what's happening with that.

Busy day at work today. You should have seen the pile of mail waiting for me when I got in this morning.

Have the place all to myself this week since Donald is looking for an apartment for after grad. :( I keep hoping something will happen to change his mind. A guy can wish, can't he?

Shaved my head again. First of many times this summer, I have a feeling. I just love the look and feel.

Well, I should get going and see if they've figured anything out and maybe wash some towels before I head over the Seth and Keirsten's tonight. Hopefully, I'll get a chance to post more tomorrow.

Today, I'd like to start by wishing a Happy Birthday to my "Trixie Twin." Hope you have a great day with all your guests. Say hi to them for me.

I take back what I said about my friends yesterday. Donald, my roommate, wished me a happy birthday at 12 as we were waiting to fall asleep. Then I got into work today. My office has streamers taped to the ceiling and balloons all over the place. My friend Pete and his roommate came in last night and decorated it for me and gave me a nice card. The best part of it is, we had dinner together last night, and they didn't indicate at all they remembered it was my brithday. And my office did indeed move up the normal afternoon birthday party to mid-morning. I have a feeling they almost forgot I was leaving early. :)

As to my plans, I'm taking off at noon to head up to my parents. Tomorrow is my grandmother's 80th birthday, and we're having a party, so I'm going up for that. Should be lots of fun. Plus I haven't seen my family on my actual birthday for years. So I may not post again until after I get back into town. But if I have a chance, I'll blog once over the weekend.

Thanks again to Mountain Hawk for helping me get the comments section the way I want them and for giving me the link in the first place. Still have some things I need to take care of here (like getting the links at the end of my posts), but it's beginning to get there.

If I'm not around, have a great weekend, everyone.

I'm posting this to see what happens with the comments section I've just added.

Well, think I'll start out today by responding to the new Thursday Threesome

Onesome: Eat: What one food do you love so much that you could easily overeat (be specific here)? I'm going to have to go with Pizza. I'll easily eat a Medium by myself. I've been known to stuff down a large, but usually I save some of the large for lunch the next day. I love cold pizza for lunch. Hm. I'll have to try that next week since the cafe will be closed.

Twosome: Drink: What on beverage do you drink more than anything? Water. Just ask Seth and Kiersten. :) I do drink fruit juice as well. If I do happen to be drinking a soft drink, my first choice is A & W Root Beer. But I drink lots of water during the day everyday. The scary thing is, I still don't think I'm getting my daily requirement.

Threesome: Be Merry: When life has you down, what one thing can remind you to smile? Remind me to smile? A kind word or thought from a friend. A good book I'm reading. Someone or something I love.

Ok, on to other things.

Last night was interesting. I got to church about 6:20. Youth group is supposed to start at 6:30. The room was still dark (in fact, locked) and none of the desks were outside. I went looking for Dave Duron (jr. high pastor) and found out he was at the school's science camp. One of the high schoolers with a key showed up a couple minutes later, and we started getting the room ready. At 6:30, I was still the only adult. About 7 minutes later, some others showed up and we started the game time. At 7 we found out that Dave Beddoe (sr. high pastor) was in an accident on the way over and wouldn't be in. So fellow jh staffer Jon (who was planning to speak) spoke to all of us. Very good. But the entire evening never did feel like it was completely on track to me. But then again, I get out of whack pretty easily.

Dave's accident was the second one I knew of yesterday. Chips, my boss's son and sh staffer, was in one yesterday morning. Before the rain. Everyone in both seems fine, which is good, but their cars are in bad shape.

Then, at the end of the evening, Kiersten and Sara brought in a cake for Seth's birthday. Again, my birthday has been forgotten in favor of someone elses. It really hurts that every year my friends down here forget about my birthday while celebrating lots of others. I will get more happy birthday wishes from friends on the internet then I will from people in town. K took me aside last night and apologized profusely for not thinking about the fact that my birthday was the day after Seth's. And I believe her. But it gets hard when this has been going on for 7 years. I think I'm getting a cake next week since Sara and her mom asked me how old I was going to be as they drove off. But it will be hollow for me since they're doing it because they felt badly this week. Not that I'll refuse the cake. :)

Ok, done with the pity party.

I did get my book finished last night. Wonderful book, and just what I needed to make me smile since I was feeling down. Already written a review at Amazon. Hopefully it's up in the next day or two. And the interview with Jennifer Garner was interesting. Seems like a very nice woman.

The promised rain was more a sprinkle that did nothing but barely make things wet. And cause lots of other accidents. The sky's mostly blue again already even though there are a couple really mean looking clouds around. Don't think we'll get any more rain from this storm, however.

Well, I'm off to sign up for intermural ultimate frisbee before I forget. Then I'll come back and buckle down and see if I can get some work done to make Phil happy before I leave for the weekend. He's working on accounts since no one's pushing to get the statements out. Looks like reconciling accounts next week won't be soon enough. :( Late lunch today since I'll be getting my allergy shots.

Hm, Wednesday. What to blog about?

I know, I'll explain what I blogged about last week! I realized later that I really should have explained what and who I was talking about, but haven't had a chance to go back and do so.

Part of my "job" working with the jr. high at church is to lead worship. On Sunday mornings and our SNYFs (Sunday Night Youth Fellowship), I play my guitar. But on Wednesday nights, we have a combined time with the Senior High. And I don't lead it alone. Seth actually picks the songs and leads the singing and thoughts for the time. And he does an outstanding job with it. Much better then I ever could. Well, without lots of practice, anyway. His wife, Kiersten, plays the keyboard we have use of. It's not the best, but it gets the job done. Tuesday nights, I go over to their place and we practice what it is we're going to be doing. Then Wednesday night, we do it. And before you get any ideas about the age, they are my age. Seth is exactly 365 days younger then me. If it weren't for the fact that 1976 was a leap year, we'd have the same birthday.

Anyway, Seth used to direct the handbell choir, but he's given it up this year, and everything's falling apart there. They're both great people and I've enjoyed this chance to become good friend with them. After all, if you're going to spend as much time together as we do, you'll become friends.

I am going to finish The Chocolate Cat Caper tonight if it kills me. It would kill me not to. I'm loving the book. Fortunately, Enterprise is a rerun. But Jennifer Garner is on Downtown tonight, so of course I'll have to watch that. Hopefully, I can get the book finished before that comes on so I can get a good night's sleep tonight.

And, if I may, a brief TV recap of the first part of the week. Alias still rocks. One of their best episodes Sunday night. I'm mad at the WB on how they left 7th Heaven and Angel Monday night. How long before we get new episodes again???!!! Buffy was heart breaking last night. Xander was an idiot. Next week's looks interesting, but I'm going to want them to get back to the Xander/Anya storyline. We'll see if they really do next week or if we have to wait longer. 24 was good. Not one of the most intense episodes, but they had to get some of that stuff out of the way. Next week looks interesting. And I very much want to know for sure what's going on with the wife. I hope it's not going where I think it's going.

And for anyone keeping track of our weather, it's cloudy and dark right now. It's trying to start raining, which we despirately need. I think we're 11 inches below normal right now. And with all the wind we've had, everything's so dry. Hope we get some more rain soon.

Well, so much for starting out this blog by posting every day for a week. O well.

Had a fairly busy weekend. Saturday, tried to play ultimate frisbee, but it was just too darn windy. Have I mentioned how much I hate a strong wind? Well, we had a strong, bitter cold wind all weekend. Seems to have finally died down today. Anyway, got cleaned up from that, then went to Passadena to Crime Time Books. Unfortunately, the books I was going specifically to get, Linda didn't have yet because it was only the second of the month. But she did loan me the uncorrected proofs of one so I could have it read by the time the author is there for the signing in a couple weeks. Does she know how to foster customer loyalty or what? Anyway, stopped by Borders on the way home and they had all four of them. Only bought one however. I'm half way through, and I must say, Chocolate Cat Caper is alot of fun. Once I'm done with that, I'll start the proofs.

Saturday night, I played broom hockey with the youth groups from church. I was actually surprised at the number of kids there considering the next day was church.

Yesterday, I did my normal church/Sunday stuff. Found out that handbells won't be playing again until May. (Don't even get me started on that.) So I might quit now since I was planning to quit around May anyway.

I found that money I was out of balance by today! I really need to reconcile all the accounts this month. I'm so far behind.

But for now, I think I'll head off to review a book I finished over the weekend.

What a day. I really intended to post before this, but I spent the entire day trying to reconcile our main back account to the general ledger account. And I'm still out of balance. I've narrowed the problem down to two months, but have no idea how to go about finding it within those two months.

Yesterday, I mentioned my goal for the month. For the last year, I've been writing reviews at Amazon.com on a regular basis. Well, about the 10th, I realized I'd averaged one a day. So I decided to see if I could keep it up over the coarse of the month. And yesterday, I wrote my 28th review for the month of February! Only 27 are posted right now, but that last one should show up tomorrow or Tuesday. I'm happy, and now I can go back to writing 4 to 8 a month, at the most. Interested in seeing them? Here's a link for you: My About You Page

Well, it's about time for dinner. So I'll post this and go for the day. Have a great weekend.