Ruth, I don't know if sitting outside would be considered "thrilling," but I certainly think picking out floors and fixtures is!
Have a great time! Hope you can treat yourself to a movie, too. If you haven't seen UP, you should check it out. The doggie antics will have you piddling in your pants!
(for those who have seen it, "SQUIRREL!!!")
Cottage, I hope you really mean it when you say looking at the books will be fun. Not my cup of tea, but I'm glad there are people out there for whom it is!
Hope your shopping isn't rushed!
Have a great lunch,
Cyndi!
Chelby, I remember having those dreams when I was a kid! I woke up one morning last winter sitting in wet and was terrified that I'd had an accident; turns out it wasn't me--it was the dog.
Not sure which of those scenarios is better. I'm so jealous that Schmoodle is coming to your class! Wish I could come! I've never watched True Blood, but I heard an interview with Anna Paquin (of Piano fame) who plays Sookie. She was talking about the scene in which she had to drink Bill's blood to restore herself. Get this: because of some diet she was on, they offered her "
Low Carb" blood for that scene and she took it. Only in Hollywood!
Debbie, that's a heck of a morning wake-up!
I had some trouble with viruses/trojan horses/malware last year on our laptop. I went to
www.majorgeeks.com forums (they work just like this one does--same software) and got a lot of help.
Here's the page with info on how to clean your computer (and get the logs you need to share with their techs for free help on what's wrong). They also have
a page on how to protect yourself. I now use two programs (I run them about once a week) to get rid of the stuff my antivirus program doesn't catch. It has kept my computer sparkly clean and virus-free for almost 7 months now.
Here they are (both free!):
Spybot - Search & Destroy
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
Hope that helps!
to all the chicks who posted while I was writing this epistle...
I didn't ride my bike to work today--I had a really heavy box I needed to bring in to work. But it's a beautiful day after yesterday's downpours.
DH taught me how to run on the treadmill Monday night and we're planning on doing it again tonight. There's a 5K at the end of August that I'd love to do together, so am considering this "training," even though at this rate, I'm still going to be walking a lot of it.
Still, it's fun and it gets DH in the gym!
Have a great day, chicas!
Thrilling Thursday Thoughts
I took some more dog food to the kennel yesterday and they both recognized the car sound and set up a howl although I did not say a word, just handed over the food. I hope to get them back on Sunday if the dog fence is back in place. They are behaving but obviously miss me.
and they were really cruising the yard. Rudi even went out to the edge of the wall on the street side which he knows he isn't supposed to do. After they had run to the back we were very suprised to have a visit from a black bear hopping up for a yard cruise. 
He hopped right back down when he saw us. I suppose he wanted to remind Kirk he doesn't need to go to Alaska to see a bear! Last year a mountain lion cruised through while we were outside.
