tried to blog, but...

Tried to post an entry yesterday, but after the second failed attempt I gave up :-( Wasn't much interesting, anyway. I'll try one of the links again, though; it is well worth a read: from cold ground (see link on sidebar), the bulwer-lytton awards.

Ok, keep your fingers crossed, let's try this again....

ps (July 26) guess the posts worked after all; see below :-) It took awfully long for 'em to appear, though...

stoopid f*@#$234kng blog!

Had a blog all written and everything, and the blogger won't post it. So now I have to start again!!

First of all, from netwoman, the 20 question personality test.

Here's my "score":

Wackiness: 30/100
Rationality: 60/100
Constructiveness: 54/100
Leadership: 24/100

You are an SRCF--Sober Rational Constructive Follower. This makes you a White House staffer. You are a tremendous asset to any employer, cool under pressure, productive, and a great communicator. You feel the need to right wrongs, take up slack, mediate disputes and keep the peace. This comes from a secret fear that business can't go on without you--or worse, that it can.

If you have a weakness, it is your inability to say "no." While your peers respect you, they find it difficult to resist taking advantage of your positive attitude and eagerness to take on work. You depend on a good manager to keep you from sinking under the weight and burning out.

I guess that's pretty accurate. I'm on the "cusp" for constructiveness, though, so here's what I could be on another day...

You are an SRDF--Sober Rational Destructive Follower. This makes you a font of knowledge. You are cool, analytical, intelligent and completely unfunny. Sometimes you slice through conversation with a cutting observation that causes silence and sidelong glances. You make a strong and lasting impression on everyone you meet, the quality of which depends more on their personality than yours.

You may feel persecuted, as you can become a target for fun. Still, you are focused enough on your work and secure enough in your abilities not to worry overly.

You are productive and invaluable to those you work for. You are loyal, steadfast, and conscientious. Your grooming is impeccable. You are in good shape.

You are kind of a tool, but you get things done. You are probably a week away from snapping.

Hmmm... any comments from the peanut gallery? Yes, I know I need to fix the commenting; blogspot's comments are kind of tedious. Sorry!


One more thing, though; you have to go check out coldground, he posted a link to the Bulwer-Lytton Awards. Bulwer-Lytton was the guy who wrote "it was a dark and stormy night". The award winners (and some of the non-winners -- losers, I guess) are hiliarious!

more on the new house

Wow, they changed the blog posting tool since I last posted anything. It hasn't been that long, has it??

Well, in any case, we now our connected in our new home; internet, phone, new alarm and everything.  Never mind that the alarm is a little flaky (good story there ... I'll get to it) at least we have it.  Still waiting on the yard, but Joe's gardener friend in Chilliwack says to wait until late August anyway for doing anything in the yard.  Blinds should arrive in two weeks, but they're at least ordered.  Thank goodness it's been a lot cooler the past few days; 35 Celsius is a leetle too warm for me, especially with nothing to shut the sun out of the house!  And the hard-baked mud outside the house radiates the heat back at us, which doesn't help.  Oh well!

To Tina (and anyone else with young kids who may be reading this):  I found a great new idea for Xmas gifts; I bought some fabric paint at Michael's and Kaitlyn is going to decorate a t-shirt for her cousin Danielle's birthday.  They have some cheap t-shirts for about $5, in varieties of colours.  They also carry fairly inexpensive sweatshirts, I think.  They also have canvas tote bags so I got a couple of those; figured the Grandmas would love some of those. Only problem is I'm not sure if the paint is non-toxic.  I'm fairly sure it is, but not 100% sure.  For Kaitlyn it's not a big deal; she is fairly clean when she does this type of craft but for the younger ones ... hmmm.  Anyway, we did one as a test, and it was a lot of fun.  We tried using brushes to paint the shirts, but that was a failure, I recommend just squeezing the bottles straight onto the shirts.  I also bought a couple of stencils and that worked like a charm :-)  Just wanted to pass it on; I had a lot of fun with it too!  Didn't try it with Andra, though.

Speaking of Andra, she's crawling like a little speed-demon, all over the place!  She started about a day after our big move, so her timing was good.  It's kind of weird having her mobile because she has been so "babyish" and kind of laid back about stuff like mobility until now.  Such a change from Kaitlyn!   And other babies I could name :-) 

new house

Well, we're in the new house, AND we have a fridge and stove finally! Yay... moved in on Saturday, found out that the fridge and stove wouldn't arrive until Tuesday. Grrr! Had a few talks with Sears over that. No phone until the 19th, and no internet until tomorrow. So we're a little disconnected for a while.

things to do in house: get window coverings, lay sod and gravel/flower gardens in yard, build fence, finish basement ...

but I am happy to say that the jet tub is a big hit, especially with Kaitlyn. She went swimming in it yesterday (and I mean quite literally, swimming). Must run, have to find out how to get a fancy dancy garbage can so they'll pick up our garbage on thursday :-)