Una Chica

A very nice man delivered these to me - from my stalker! Wasn't that sweet of him?! Thank You, Christopher! (aka husband, aka stalker, aka lover, aka friend)

So many many kisses & hugs in return!! *muahhhhh*

I was sitting outside on a gorgeous September day when this pretty butterfly landed on my chair. I teased it with my finger and it flirted with me for quite some time, walking all over me and my chair! I tried to chase it off several times when it was tickling my neck and my arms, but it kept coming back to play. I had so much fun and I felt what Snow White must have felt with all her forest friends! :-)

 

 

 

 

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I don't sleep like a normal person. Ever since I was about 12 or 13, I have had odd sleeping patterns. When my boys were babies, it changed a little bit. obviously, but not much. Once they would get on normal sleeping schedules, no matter what I did, mine would always revert back to it's odd pattern. I can go up to 3 days with no sleep or just a couple of hours if I'm lucky to get that much. I try to go to sleep, I really do. It doesn't matter what time I lay down or how bad I want it, I just end up laying there thinking about tons of stuff. For hours. It's pointless and it drives me batty.

The one good thing to come out of it is that my husband is impressed with my super-human ability.

Okay, there's another good thing about it. Maybe. It's subjective. I get to watch tons of interesting TV shows & movies to while away the time. Oh - and listen to great music as well!

I bought 3 new books today. They look very interesting. I don't know why, but I seem to be stuck in a trend and reading vampire books in a loop lately. I don't really see a downside here, but I honestly can't explain the habit. Just good reads, I guess!

Anyhoo the books are:
1. Betrayed by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast (book 2 in the House of Night series)
2. Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz (book 1 in the Blue Blood series)
3. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead (book 1 in the Vampire Academy series)

These are all new authors for me and I'm really looking forward to immersing myself in their worlds!

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Hubby called me upstairs to look out the front picture window this morning. Five deer were across the road in the neighbor's yard foraging in their garden. It was really a beautiful sight. We both walked closer to the window and we were talking, quietly mind you, when they all suddenly stopped moving and stared across the road at our house. After 3-4 minutes, they all started moving toward the rear of the yard except the largest one and they resumed their foraging in the treeline. She, the largest one, stood stock still for several minutes, staring across at us. We are both convinced that they had been staring at us, not our house. She stayed right there, right where she was, not moving a muscle and it was totally freaking me out. Her head was cocked just so and she was very watchful of our front window. We cautiously and again, quietly, moved out onto the porch to see if she would react and she did nothing. Her stance was exactly the same for a couple of minutes as she stared at us. She smoothly turned, took a couple of steps and huffed twice at her family and like a shot they all bounded off into the trees.

It was absolutely amazing and such a treat to see them! However, it was also really bizarre. After they took off, I walked over to look into the picture window and sure enough, it was reflecting the bright morning sunlight in all it's glorious brilliance back at me. There was no way they could have seen us in there. Now, although we weren't whispering in the house, we also were certainly not loud enough to be heard from our yard, let alone 100 yards away across the road from the neighbor's yard.

My question is this. Could they hear us inside our house? And if so, how is that freakin possible? It's a conondrum to me!

I wish I had had my camera out, dang it all!

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I really wish the iPhone had categories in it's address book. My life would be so much easier if it did. Between my iPhone, my 8125 and Microsoft Outlook, it's a daunting task thinking about trying to organize the resulting mess. Please, Apple ... Make this happen in a future update! I love my iPhone, but this sucks!

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Uhmm... I forgot that the pool was filling up & it is almost overflowing! All we need is an ocean on the other side & we'd have an... infinity pool, anyone? haha

No seriously. Is it bad to have it that full? Chris is gonna sh** his pants .. or laugh. I personally hope he laughs at what a dork I am! roflmbo

iMeem Mobile application on my iPhone.

2 complaints:

1. I can insert tags into a lj post through Shozu. They just don't get zapped through to my posts on LiveJournal.

2. I have to capitalize everything that needs it manually. Every single thing.

pfft. Those things need work. Other than that, I like it. I still need to upload photos to Flickr, Photobucket or TwitPic to test out that function. Soon...

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It's 83" outside and such a beautiful day. Won't even let pesky squirrels throwing nutshells in the pool ruin this good day! :D

Okay, so shozu worked fine. No error messages, so that is a plus for me. I got them about 80% of the time on my 8125.

I hope there will be updates to include mood, music and especially tags sometime in the future. But it's a fine 2nd option for a lj post. It works. Can't complain too much this early.

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Playing with my iPhone and applications. Finally set up Shozu, which has been on my damn iPhone for-frickin-ever. I wonder if it will work better on the iPhone than it did on my 8125.

Been tweeting alot the last few days and now this is my 2nd lj post in as many days! I seem to really be sticking to it. haha

It's so much easier to just grab my iPhone to post something instead of booting up the pc or laptop. Man, am I lazy!

Some fun things to do on my iPhone:

1. Tweet
2. Take pictures
3. Play Scoops
4. Play Loop Lines
5. Play with last.FM
6. Play with iMeem
7. Listen to Music in iTunes
8. Send/Receive Email

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Curious to see how this goes! It has possibilities!

p.s. Go vote for Jeff! Voting is almost over, people!

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Okay, I'm going to get my act together and start organizing my blogs and services. Some of them might even have to go! The more I surf around to them, I think how time-consuming it is and I don't even do it as often as I should. As a matter of fact, I'm shamefully behind in some most of them! Do I want them? Sure, I guess so. Do I need them? eh. We'll see.

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just in:
Duffy
Rockferry




Track Listing:
New Music01 - Rockferry (4:14)
02 - Warwick Avenue (3:46)
03 - Serious (4:10)
04 - Stepping Stone (3:28)
05 - Syrup & Honey (3:18)
06 - Hanging on Too Long (3:56)
07 - Mercy (3:41)
08 - Delayed Devotion (2:57)
09 - I'm Scared (3:08)
10 - Distant Dreamer (5:05)

I would like one of these for Christmas, please. The set up, err - equipment, not the photo!

What's your favorite thing to drink when it's cold outside?

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The Other Boleyn Girl Philippa Gregory Touchstone 2008 ISBN# 1416560602 English intrigue fascinates me. I've always been drawn to the sophistication, pomp and fanfare of this bygone era. If I could get one simple peek (and by this I mean a jaunt back through time) for just one moment in time, I would probably fall in love with it all. The people, the customs and traditions, and most interestingly enough the rules and regulations. If you knew me, you'd probably scoff upon hearing such a thing coming out of my mouth. But there it is. I've said it. Rules and regulations might not be so bad. In another time and another place. One that is far removed from the independent person I insist on being. Found on: All Consuming: ¤°§malldose§°¤ ¤°§malldose§°¤ is consuming: The Other Boleyn Girl One Boy At War: My Life in the AIDS Underground Crossing Jordan

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