Friday Fragments

Join me and others along with our hostess Mrs. 4444 in emptying minds of little tidbits in another edition of Friday Fragments.

Field experiment team left today for Kansas. If you see a caravan of radar trucks and vehicles with weird stuff on top...you know you've seen my group.

While waiting outside with the vehicles I noticed our resident geese hanging out and munching on grass. Guess they were the bon voyage party.

All the rain has brought my lilies back to life. I planted these in my mailbox two years ago. Last year they came back but really didn't produce flowers. This year they will be beautiful.

Friday Fragments

Joining Mrs. 4444 for a fragments edition. Been awhile since I've done one so you know I've got to have some.

We've had record rain and when I mean record I mean really really wet. In May we are going to set the record for wettest month EVER. Places have been flooding that I've never seen flood. Our lake provides water for the town and it went to the flood drain for the first time since it was built in the 50's. That much rain. And it is supposed to rain for the next seven days. I'm thinking kayaks and canoes will be the only way to get around.

This was our backyard when we got 4 inches of rain. That's a river flowing into the neighbors yard. And a lake in the backyard too. It isn't supposed to look like that.

During all that rain we had a couple of big hail storms. BASEBALL size hail hit the house. Our insurance adjuster has been out and was circling hole after hole on the roof. Waiting to get the whole estimate but I'm sure a new roof will be coming soon. Along with gutters, hot tub cover and hammock.

And the rain has kept the temperatures down. In fact I'm wearing a sweater right now. Which I don't think I've ever worn one this late into May. Feels like a fall day instead of spring here.

Whitney has been home now two weeks and cooked dinner for us every night. She's in major practice mode for when she gets an apartment. She still is looking for a job but a couple of good possibilities are out there. She is so earnest about looking and wants one so bad. I appreciate everything that she has been doing to look for one.

My summer at work just keeps getting busier. We finally got review dates for our main grant and preparing for that will take up a lot of time. Add in a seven week field experiment that starts next week where we are sending about 30 people to Kansas to investigate nighttime thunderstorms and I've been a bit busy at work. I'm not sure it will ever really slow down. I keep telling them no more field experiments but they don't listen. Already planning the next one and it will be a dozy. I'm not looking forward to that one.

And there is my fragments for you. Have a safe Memorial Day weekend.

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Lots happening around here. So here goes.

Good news is Whitney has a phone interview next Friday for a dream job. And she may have another interview get set up today. Fingers crossed that something great works out for her.

A lot of excitement at work yesterday and not the good kind. Somebody drove through the security gate at the loading dock and we think committed suicide in his burning car. Sad day. Praying for his family and also for our loading dock guy and the security guard that had to deal with it. We don't know a lot about what happened. But it was on national news because of our building.

We got our refund finally from our missed tour while in London last month. It took a month but I'm so happy to get that refund when it was the company's fault. I have written a review of them on Tripadvisor.

I'm off to San Diego next week for a two day workshop. I'm looking forward to eating at another Top Chef restaurant which just happens to be less than a mile from my hotel. Score a win for me!

We had a tree guy trim back our horribly overgrown bushes. He thinks they will all come back but for the first year they are going to look pretty sparse. It was much cheaper to pay him to cut them back than it would have been to dig them up and start from scratch. I'll live with scruffy looking.

Also time to plant some flower seeds. Last year's experiment with my seeds worked out so well that I'm trying again. I picked a shorter flower so hopefully they won't fall over into the sidewalk this year. 

And with that, I'm done with fragments.

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Trying to get back to blogging. Why does life keep getting in the way?

So I'm in the midst of planning back to back trips right now. On Monday we spur of the moment decided to do a spring break trip. And by Wednesday we had tickets bought to go to London. WOW. So much planning to do now. And then two days after we get back I have to fly to DC for a meeting. Talk about back and forth. I'm going to feel like a bouncy ball I think.

Whitney is coming home today to do her taxes. Super easy but gives us an excuse to see her and talk about the trip. She's pretty excited herself.

My bible study isn't very exciting this time. Perhaps its because we met last week and just talked as a getting to know you thing and this week we watched an intro video and then just talked. I feel like these weeks have been wasted. 

Bought girl scout cookies and have successfully avoided eating them. Maybe I'll just use them for decorations? I remember selling them for $2/box and now they cost $4. Inflation I guess.

I went to a huge craft fair last Sunday and was so disappointed. There was so much that I wouldn't consider "crafty" there. It is held at the fairgrounds and is in 7 buildings although they tour one of them down and some people had to be in the barn area. It didn't smell that great there and I couldn't imagine having to be there for three days.

And with that my fragments are out of my mind. Guess being busy means I don't even have time to cram them into my brain.

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I'm getting a late start on these. Seems to be the song of my life lately.

The geese were at the end of my street today blocking my way to work. They have taken to living at our neighborhood pond and they certainly think they own all land. Not afraid of cars at all.

I'm once again a member of the USA Today Ad Panel. We rank the Super Bowl ads. Anyone can sign up to be a member. I like having my voice heard. Not a lot of people join so I actually feel like I'm a part of something.

So I'm one of those people who watch the game for the commercials only. That's ok...I also watch the puppy bowl on Animal Planet to watch the cute puppies.

We had three straight days of record highs this week while the northeast was getting snow. I didn't feel a bit sorry for that.

The last two times I've filled my car up it has been $18. Gas prices last week were $1.65. Living in a state that is dependent on oil and gas prices, we've had huge announcements of layoffs because of the lower prices. They've already warned us that the state budgets may need to be cut. And tax revenue is down significantly. 

We tried two new recipes this week. One was definitely a keeper and we will make again soon. Basil Pesto Chicken only had a few ingredients and super simple to make. The other was a frittata recipe that tasted ok but nothing special. So out goes that recipe. 

My hectic work week finished with all the stress yesterday. Got all the proposals done and my last progress report turned in this morning. Now I can concentrate on all my regular job duties. It felt so nice to go home last night and be able to turn my mind off of work. I slept much better.

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Mrs. 4444 is giving me the prod to get some kind of blog writing done this week. After last week's success I'm such a loser this week.

After 70 degrees earlier this week that saw me doing my walk outside our the lake in our neighborhood, Thursday morning had a dusting of snow on the ground. Ah weather, you make me giggle.

On the above mentioned walk, I decided to try and run some of it. Last year I mentioned I wanted to actually run a 5K not just walk it and I didn't get anywhere with that one. So I did some running on Monday and it went really well. I'm in much better shape and didn't get as winded. The next three days though my thighs were going to die every time I got up and down in a chair. Wowser. I won't be running on the treadmill but when it is nice I need to maybe start it outside.

The Christmas stuff is finally down. Somehow I lost one of my s'more ornaments and I was extremely puzzled. Hopefully it will show up next year when I unpack them. Snowmen continue to be around my house though since winter goes through February.

I've been looking at my work trips that will be coming up this year. Quite a diverse group of places to go. And that doesn't even take into account vacation spots. I just might be able to use my frequent flyer miles for a free ticket this year!

We have a big deadline next week for some proposals we are submitting. 12 of them all due the same day to the same announcement. Needless to say we will not be getting funding for most of them but it is good for people to submit.

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What is this? I'm blogging three times in one week after taking a couple of weeks off? Is it magic? Maybe so. Just keep reading and enjoy it.

Last night my women's group had a bunco night. It had been years since I played and it was a huge hit. We had three groups going (there was probably 50 women there) and it was a ton of fun. Everyone hoped that they would do it every month. They would have to work out a different day since we normally have bible study on Thursday nights. That starts in a couple of weeks. We are doing Malachi by Lisa Harper.

The sun came out yesterday and decided to stick around for more than one day. And temperatures will be in the 50's!

I need to take my tree down this weekend and put away Christmas decorations. I've enjoyed the extra time with the lights on but alas all pretty things must end. Plus if I get the tree put away I can start working on puzzles again.

My new assistant has been here for two weeks and I'm encouraged by how hard she is working and picking things up. I think I made a good choice!

Whitney is happy to be back at school. She only has four classes this semester but three of them are acting like capstone courses. So she will be working on lots of business plans and should be quite the expert when she is done.

The gym has been super busy with all the new year resolution people. As long as I have a treadmill to walk on I'm happy but getting a parking space means parking way far away. Not a problem except when it is 20 degrees and I'm in shorts. But I've increased my time on the treadmill because it was seeming too easy. That means more time to read my books.

And there you have it...a complete fragments post!

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Time to join Mrs. 4444 for Friday Fragments.

This weekend is homecoming at Whitney's college and they are doing parent's day at her sorority. She's in charge so we'll be going up to see her. Plus we need to take her winter coat to her since next week the cold air is coming. She hoped she could wait until Thanksgiving for it but Mother Nature had other plans.

We will be stopping by the Christmas store on our way home to get some extra poinsettia flowers for our tree. We got them last year and need some more and that's the only place that had these specific ones. I'm also on the hunt for a new tree topper after our fiasco of last year and not having one at all the year before.

Today is my assistant's last day. The good news is I got my hiring freeze approved one week earlier than I thought so maybe I can get someone to start working in December. With the winter holiday here I thought it might be January before I could hire someone. Crossing my fingers.

I still haven't cooked my spaghetti or acorn squash. I keep meaning to and it just is too late when I get home. Last weekend didn't work because we had company. Good thing they last a long time.

Since when did tv series have fall finales? All the shows I'm watching are doing this. Is it another way to get people excited to wait over a month for a new show?

Stupid criminal was a guy who got arrested for burglary. It wasn't the fact he did it, it was the shirt he was wearing. A monopoly shirt with Go Directly to Jail all over the front of it. The police had to do what the shirt said, right?

Friday Fragments - Boo Edition

Some kind of record for me. Four straight days of blogging. Love Fridays for Mrs. 4444 edition of Friday Fragments.

I'm a little out of sorts this morning. Our power went out last night for about two hours. This never happens. I can count on my hand the number of times it has gone out for that long in the 20 years we've lived in the house. No answer as to what happened but I figured out I need a new battery for my alarm clock. One good thing came out of it.

Stupid criminals this week are a pair of robbers who robbed a house. They were doing fine until they accidentally butt dialed the police and started talking about the robbery. 45 minutes later the police were able to track the gps coordinates of the phone and arrest them.

Fall has arrived today with a freeze warning out for tonight. Last weekend I had the air conditioner on all weekend. Quite a change.

Tomorrow is the National Weather Festival at work. I went last year but will skip it this year. After all I work with these people and really can't learn anything. I know I should volunteer to help out but I just don't want to. Plus the football game is right in the middle of it and we have people coming over. It probably is better to use that reasoning.

In our quest to eat more vegetables, I bought two different types of squash. I plan on making the spaghetti squash this weekend but I'm not sure what to do with the acorn squash I bought. Any ideas?

I'm about to have to adjust my drive home from work. They are building a Walmart Neighborhood Market (that we don't need) right on a terrible turn on my way home. The traffic is going to be horrendous so I think I'll need to adjust the drive home. One of my alternate routes has major road construction on it so that's out and the other one goes straight through campus. I'm not excited about any of these. After years of only taking 10-15 minutes to get home I think I'm about to get a rude awakening.

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I finally caught up on a week's worth of blog posts and figured I'd better add something. So I'm joining Mrs. 4444 for a quick brain dump.

I spent the week in San Diego and am glad to be home. Of course Dan turned around and left six hours after I got back to visit his cousin. So I have the house to myself this weekend. 

My flight was delayed out of San Diego so I got to spend a couple of hours at the PGA grill talking to someone else who was at the same conference as I was. It was a lovely conversation and the bonus was they had my favorite wine by the glass. Made the time fly by.

And with that delay I got to run through the Dallas airport to catch my connection. I made it with 6 minutes to spare...enough time for a bathroom break. I made it home but my luggage did not. It was on the last flight out of Dallas and made it to my home mid-morning the next day. So I stayed home waiting for it.

And then I came back to so much work I can't think straight. I'm definitely glad it is Friday.

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Just a quick dump of a few things for Mrs. 4444 Friday Fragments. Just getting back from 10 days away from work has left me super behind.

My vacation was awesome. I can't wait to blog about it and show lots of pictures.

But when we came back I immediately had to find a new auto/home insurance company. Right before we left town we got a letter that cancelled our current policy the day after we got back. Seems when I switched companies the inspection showed ONE missing shingle. And for that they cancelled. No chance to get it fixed. Just boom go away. So I have spent lots of spare time (which I don't really have) finding a new insurance company. Thanks to some friends, I finally got a good deal. Just in time too.

By the way, red eye flights are horrible. Especially when the plane only has tv sets down the middle row of the plane and has ONE movie...for an eight hour flight. American really should get its act together better.

Saturday is the Red River Rivalry game. After last week's loss, the Sooners need to play better to beat the Texas team (although they aren't very good). School is cancelled today since it seems like half the student body would skip school to drive to Dallas. But that doesn't mean work is cancelled. Nope, I'm here playing catch up.

Our building hosts a Bevo BBQ the Thursday before the game. Its always a good time to eat some beef brisket and watch highlights from old games. But this year's crowd was definitely smaller than normal. It was a good deal for $6 to get two BBQ sandwiches, chips and a cupcake.

I hope that next week I can blog some more.

Friday Fragments

Mrs. 4444 is still recovering from shoulder surgery. It is a long painful process but she still lets us join her weekly to empty all those random thoughts.

Nothing like waiting until the last minute to get stuff turned in for a proposal that has been known about for a month. And I gave everyone a deadline of yesterday to get me stuff since I leave tomorrow. So of course one shows up at 4pm yesterday with a full review at 9am this morning. With lots of typos/formatting errors and the like. I gave it my best shot but if you can't do it right by now, I can't help you.

And yes, I'm getting on a jet plane tomorrow to finally go to HAWAII!!!!!!!!!!! Lots of explanation marks because I'm that excited. And really glad that I'm not flying through Chicago with the fire at the radar center up there. Which was deliberately set by a disgruntled employee. Do you think he might lose his job?

I succumbed to buying pumpkin spice M&M's but have resisted the urge to open the bag. I must wait until October to do that. I did open the autumn colored peanut ones though and they were delicious.

And with that my fragments must end. So much to do and so little time. All checked in with the airline but I have to pack!

Friday Fragments

Boy have I been lazy/busy/just not here. Lots of stuff and yet nothing to write about. So enter Mrs. 4444 and her fragments.

I'm quite happy with the results of So You Think You Can Dance. Not only did the best dancer win, he seems like such a sweet young man. We had him picked as the winner on the first show. It hasn't been renewed for next year which would be a big disappointment. Quality entertainment.

I was excited to see one of my favorite dancers was going to be a pro on Dancing with the Stars. I had planned to watch it until I saw the list of "celebrities" this season. They seem to be skewing very old (two of them are over 70). I'm all for people getting their groove on, but I don't need to watch it.

I've started to watch the previews for fall tv. So far, not really impressed. Guess I'll stick with my old standbys.

We also started a Netflix subscription. Mainly so we could watch House of Cards. Which I LOVE. I'm not a binge watcher but I can see why people would do that.

Three weeks until we leave for Hawaii. We tried to look for some new luggage but we aren't really sure what to get. Normally on business trips I need the medium size but for this trip we would want a large one. Not sure it makes economical sense to buy a new big one for one trip a year. Our old luggage still works.

We decided to rent a car one day when we are in Honolulu. Just seemed to be much easier to do that and be able to get around that island on our own than try and figure out a tour to do and be on someone else's schedule.

Summer waited until August to arrive with a vengeance. It can now go away. I'm tired of heat advisories every day for three weeks.

We are having friends over to watch the OU football game Saturday. I haven't cooked for a crowd in awhile so I would like to do something fun. Guess I'd better pull out some recipes.

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Mrs. 4444 is fighting through her recovery and still hosting our weekly wrapup. Go you!

I realized this week it had been probably 10 years since I lost bought a bathing suit. And I've lost 20 pounds since then. I did find my old suit and while the top is servicable the bottoms feel like they have about a foot of extra fabric. (Not really but they are rather large). So I will be trying to find one this weekend amidst all the clearance sales. I'm hoping I'm not too late.

Monday evening I attended an event at Whitney's sorority. They wanted moms and alums to come and help the girls practice talking to new people before they had recruitment. So I went and spent a lovely evening with her sisters. Whitney was in charge of the event and it was so nice to see her in action. Boy do I love that girl and am so proud of her.

Since it is just now two of us for dinner, I'm back to barely cooking. I had bought a Pad Thai mix a few months ago and finally made it this week. And it was so good. I'm not kidding. It was almost as good as stuff you get at restaurants. Dan even liked it. So I will be buying more of the mix.

The blind we ordered for the bedroom came and it looked horrible. Lucky for us Levolor has a 30 day no questions asked guarantee. So we went and picked out a different blind, paid the difference and hopefully it will be here next week. I'm getting tired of having a sheet covering the windows.

When did people start calling group think meetings "advances" or "futures" instead of "retreats". Semantics aside, it still is the same thing. I get to go to my second one of these next week. And because this one is with the federal government, they aren't providing lunch for a two day meetings. At least the college one did...and a wine/beer reception at the end. 

And day two of that so called "futures" meeting is my birthday. And I have to go because I'm on a panel. I'm leaving at noon and they can't stop me. I've made my stand!

Sorry no stupid criminal this week. I just didn't hear about any.

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Mrs. 4444 is recovering from surgery but she felt well enough to host this week. Get well soon!

Stupid criminal this week was a guy who decided to rob a pharmacy by attaching a rope to the prescription drug safe to his truck. He was able to pull the safe out of the store but then he drove down the road with the safe dragging behind his truck. A police officer just happened to see this and pulled him over. He may have gotten away with it if he had just put the safe in the back of the truck. DUMB!

Last week I talked about car colors. This week I saw a purple car. It was obviously a home done job because no car manufacturer would have marketed this color of purple. Think the color little girls love. Yup that purple.

Saw this sign yesterday at a meeting I went to.

Yes, that elevator has been out for three months. I'm not sure how many people need to get to the second floor with an elevator but I don't think this building is ADA compliant now. 

My Church is Kind of a Big Deal starts this Sunday at church. We have two weekends where we have food trucks, lots of carnival games and this year...FIREWORKS. What a crazy fun church I go to.

As I mentioned earlier this week, Whitney and I got baptized last Sunday before she went back to college. What a special moment to share with my child. 

We had ordered a blind for the bedroom and when it came in the color was so far off what we picked. Did you know that Levelor has a 30 day guarantee? Well we didn't. Thank goodness for that so we can go get the color that we want. We will upgrade our order to real wood so that the color will be exact. The faux wood can vary significantly the Levelor rep told us. 

Truly a Friday Fragments

Mrs. 4444 just had rotator cuff surgery and still she hosted us this week. Here's to a speedy recovery.

Starting off with the stupid criminal, how about two of them. Two women were sitting in a car smoking crack. Unfortunately for them it was parked next to an unmarked police car with two police officers in it. And then they found about 6500 hydrocodone pills, meth and heroin. Let's just say they won't be out anytime soon.

As I've been driving to work lately, I've noticed a bunch of three wheeled motorcycles. I must say these look sturdier than a regular motorcycle but you still won't catch me riding one anytime soon.

And then I've been wondering about car colors. There are plenty of standard ones but there are three colors that I wonder why anyone buys. Orange, yellow and powder blue. The orange ones around here look like either Texas Longhorn or Oklahoma State orange. Neither of which plays well in the home of the Oklahoma Sooners. Yellow just always looks strange on a beautiful Ford Mustang. And the powder blue ones are just weird. Its like they want a wimpy looking car. If you have a car any of those colors, can you tell me why you got it?

My other random thought this week is how does the ionic, tourmaline hair dryer work so well? My old hair dryer bit the dust so I had been borrowing Whitney's travel one for a week. My hair felt so dried out. I bought a new one last week and my hair feels so soft. Does the ion tourmaline work that much better? What about it makes my hair not dry out? Inquiring minds want to know.

We are playing musical cars today. Whitney's is at the lock shop getting her door locks changed out. She had to be at work at 7:45 so she borrowed Dan's car since it is just like hers. Dan had to take me to work at 8 so he would have a car today. So I'm carless until we get hers back later today. And it was a good thing we got her car in today since she moves back to the dorm on Monday. We need all three cars to move her stuff. Crazy isn't it?

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Sorry I haven't blogged this week. Crazy every day it seems. But Mrs. 4444 allows us to be random in a weekly post so I appreciate that.

We had our bedroom painted yesterday. I know we could have done it ourselves but with the old wallpaper that needed to be textured and a ceiling that had an inset in it, we decided to hire our old painter. He gave us a great deal and we also had him redo the wood on two box windows. They look brand new. I'm not sure if we picked the right color. We need to get a new blind for the window and that should help out.

Stupid criminal of the week was a woman who rang up a huge bill at a bar and then left without paying. Unfortunately she left her purse behind. Pretty easy for the cops to find her after that. 

Summer has arrived steaming through the state. The rains last week brought high humidity added with 100 degrees. Reminds me why I hate summer.

Tried a new recipe this week and another failure. I'm not sure why I keep doing this to us. We never seem to like anything new.

Last night Project Runway started again. I want Tim Gunn to come and spend time with me. He's so great at being a mentor.

So You Think You Can Dance isn't doing too well in the ratings. If they would stop having the same sad sappy contemporary dances and get back to actual dancing (no stories please) it might get better. One of my favorites was out this week so I'm putting all my votes behind Ricky. I think he's going to win the whole thing.

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Mrs. 4444 got back from her vacation, had a house full of people and still had time to host this. More power to you!

Mom's surgery went well. She's still in the hospital but the doctor was pleased with the surgery. It took a lot shorter time than we thought it would. Now for the long road of recovery.

Lovin' the temps this week and the rain. Record low highs here! I've never had the windows open in July in Oklahoma before. Slept so good last night.

I'm going with a stupid person this week instead of criminal. A guy in Washington set his house on fire trying to kill a spider using spray paint and a lighter. No indication if alcohol was involved but the fire department confirms the spider is dead.

I'm still looking at places to stay in Maui. The one I found that we really liked was booked and we are running into places that require 5 nights minimum and we will only be 4. We have a second choice but the cancellation policy was ridiculous so I haven't booked it yet. But if I don't find anything else, we'll be going with that one.

Just a few short weeks and Whitney will be heading back to school for her last year of college. She will be starting a new job as the person in charge of advertising for all student publications. This will give her some great new experience in advertising. She'll miss her current job though as will her boss. She continues to get compliments all summer for the job she is doing there now.

Friday Fragments

Second week of July is ending and it is time to frag my brain. Mrs. 4444 is hosting after her vacation (welcome home!) And I'm excited to have the new link for the fragments this week.

Stupid criminal this week was the guy who continually called 911 to report that his wife would not let him drink his beer. He was charged with unlawful use of 911 and he no longer has access to his beer.

We got my mom an ipad last weekend and I downloaded a couple of apps. Within three days she had me look at it because the power was draining too quickly. She had downloaded about 30 games and they were all open and running. I did show her how to close the apps but it was probably too much information overload when I went over it. I got it back to working with just three apps and we'll see where we go from there.

Whitney is dog sitting this weekend. One of the dogs was a rescue dog that is very skittish. She had lots of accidents to clean up last night. Hopefully today will go better for all involved.

I had three wine tastings to go to in two days and they were all good. I love when that happens. I didn't buy any of them (a little outside my price range) but it was nice to get to taste some nice wine without paying for any of it. Plus lots of good conversations with friends.

I still need to buy a case for my iphone. I got the screen protector on it but no case yet. I just can't decide what I want.

Dealing with the federal government is definitely a lesson in hurry up and wait. This whole week has been hurry up because the deadline for funding is today. So I've invoiced about $5.5MILLION in one week. Rest of the year not so much. Hurry hurry hurry...lots of waiting.

My summer tv pleasure is So You Think You Can Dance. This season I'm really enjoying a couple of the guys. I can't tell any of the girls apart. So the guys are getting my votes. They even stopped the phone voting this year. You can only vote on the app or online. Ah...technology.

Friday Fragments - Look Two Posts From Me This Week

Slowly I'm getting back to normal which means I can blog. Thankfully Friday means Mrs. 4444 hosts fragments and I can just freestyle. She had a nifty summer button on her website this week but I couldn't figure out the html for it so I stuck with the winter one.

I went to a bridal shower last month for our volunteer coordinator at church. I didn't expect to get a wedding invitation which came this week. Do I have to buy another gift? I don't get invited to many weddings so not sure of the protocol.

Whitney is gearing up for her trip to New York City next week. Her roommate already got tickets for them to see Newsies but she's got her list of all the other shows she wants to try and see. There is something called student rush where students can go early in the morning and try and get discounted tickets. So she has planned to try and do that.

We tried two new recipes this week and both were failures. We made whole wheat blueberry pancakes and they just were too wheat tasting. And the other failure was a flatbread pizza that just didn't work. Makes me worried to try the other new recipe that we picked out.

We had some of the most beautiful flower arrangements for my boss's memorial service. So our office has smelled like a florist shop for a week. Sadly the flowers are gone. But the huge peace lily that was given to us sits in the front office and looks great.

Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there. Hope your day is great.