CELAWLOR's CalorieKing Blog
Thursday, December 4th 2008
Done!
My Christmas shopping is done done done. This may be a personal record for me. AND I have just 14 days of work left for this year.
officedepot.com and I are no longer friends. I believe their call center is located in a Spanish speaking country. That's different. I've never heard so many "I'm sorry for the inconvenience, ma-am" in any one 15 minute segment of my life!!! It's possible I've never had that said to me so many times in my 32 years, combined.
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Tuesday, December 2nd 2008
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iPhoto and .MacO.M.G!!! It is so amazing.
I am testing some really cool things I just figured out. I took a picture of some of my most favorite ornaments on the tree with that new camera. Here is, arguably, my most favorite:
It was a Kindergarten art project. The teacher dipped my son's hand in white paint and had him hold this little blue glass bulb. It made snowman-type shapes on the bulb that the teacher went and added glitter, little eyes, noses and buttons to. ...
Monday, December 1st 2008
I have EXACTLY 17 days left of work this year.
Nothing else to say, really. 17 days will go by very quickly and then I will get lots of time off to be with my family and enjoy myself.
Sunday, November 30th 2008
I WON!
I beat the camera. Neener-neener. I did, however, read through some of the manual afterwards so that I could see what I bought. Truth be told, I didn't do a bit of research on this camera before I bought it. It was a total gut-instinct thing. It's pretty cool, though. There are additional lenses you can buy for it for close-ups, wide angle shots and distance. That makes me pretty excited. Photography used to be my only hobby. I believe it can be revived, now. I've had...
Saturday, November 29th 2008
I sold some furniture yesterday and my Dad helped me to deliver it. I found out why he was less than thrilled about the baby news, too. He had no problems "lecturing" me in the car during the whole trip.
I developed toxemia/pre-eclampsia with my son and they had to induce my labor five weeks early. He was in the NICU for five days. Dad said he didn't understand why I would want to go through this again since "it almost killed me last time." That is not true. It COUL...