Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Batman: Mistaken Identity... & Boily Hair!
Okay, okay, okay...I KNOW I am repeating photos! I only have a few photos downloaded into my new computer and I was wanting to experiment around and see what I could do with them in my Irfan View program...also I have been experimenting today with blogging from my e-mail site rather than from on the blog itself. I also have been fiddling with new "Print Shop" software that I just installed on the computer today. I bought it instead of a scrap booking software that had been tempting me. I think I can do MY STYLE of 'scrap booking' with the Print Shop program. I am not into too much fussy stuff. To me, it seems like the PHOTOS ought to be the main thing on the page...not the embellishments around the photos! Seems like if you get too many gee-gahs on the page, the photos themselves get kind of lost! Maybe that is a sign that I am lacking in creativity genes, though! I also have learned today how to burn CDs with my new computer--faster than ever!!! I do love computers!
Meanwhile, Doug has been in school and Darcy and Rayna have been playing their own games on the computer, chasing the puppy (who is growing like a weed...can barely fit into my lap these days!), and listening to Radio Disney (which I cannot stand!). Darcy finally found a way to even things up with her mother.... I have subjected her to many an hour of BOTT radio (Christian talk radio) in the car and now she has taken to subjecting me to Radio Disney in the house. I wouldn't mind Radio Disney if it just played all the soundtracks from the Disney movies, but mostly it plays really annoying rock and rap...and, even worse, it plays the same set of songs over and over and over and over. The only thing worse than listening to poorly performed music is listening to it repeated in endless loops!!! Oh well. At least the LYRICS and DJ chatter are clean. That is more than can be said about most secular radio stations.
Along with being addicted to Mexican Train dominoes, Darcy and I are also really crazy about Boggle. Yesterday, we discovered Boggle computer-style....oh, me, is that ever fun! We got a free 60 minute trial of it already pre-installed on our computer with a helpful little link to order the game on line once our 60 minutes are used up. Talk about cruel! I am not even LETTING Darcy try out the other hundred jillion games that we have a teaser portion of on this computer! (Though we did try out one other that we both decided was a 'must have' for Adam! You will have to wait until Christmas time, though, Adam, to find out what it is!)
And I have just frustrated my poor son. He interrupted my typing to have me tie the back of one of his costumes. He excitedly questioned, "I am...?" I dutifully replied, "You are Batman Begins." At those words he registered extreme disappointment in his mother. How could I have made such a mistake! Of course he WASN'T Batman BEGINS...after all he had on the more modern rendition of the Batman attire for seven year old boys...how could I have missed the fact that he was Batman BEYOND!!!! He walked away with such woundedness at my carelessness that I almost stopped my blogging to try and undo the damage!
This afternoon when we went through the drive-through at BackYard Burger, we had an especially exuberant cashier. She bubbled and exuded as though trying out for the cheerleading squad, or maybe giving her interview for Miss America...you know, the kind of person who is so sweet you can't bark at them and yet their very sweetness wears you out and leaves you vaguely annoyed...anyway, RAYNA apparently thought this young girl was the epitomy of all that is good in America and she announced to me in a VERY loud voice, "Mommy! Her has such a sweet attitude!"
Overheard this evening:
Grant, "Been scratchin' at your ear?"
Rayna, "Yeah. Cause it's kinda dusty in there."
(Guess that's why she didn't hear me ask her to clean her room!)
Later this evening:
Rayna, "Mommy, can I wash my head?"
Me, "No."
Rayna, "But it's all boily from laying on the sofa." ¶ 5/02/2006 02:19:00 PM
Meanwhile, Doug has been in school and Darcy and Rayna have been playing their own games on the computer, chasing the puppy (who is growing like a weed...can barely fit into my lap these days!), and listening to Radio Disney (which I cannot stand!). Darcy finally found a way to even things up with her mother.... I have subjected her to many an hour of BOTT radio (Christian talk radio) in the car and now she has taken to subjecting me to Radio Disney in the house. I wouldn't mind Radio Disney if it just played all the soundtracks from the Disney movies, but mostly it plays really annoying rock and rap...and, even worse, it plays the same set of songs over and over and over and over. The only thing worse than listening to poorly performed music is listening to it repeated in endless loops!!! Oh well. At least the LYRICS and DJ chatter are clean. That is more than can be said about most secular radio stations.
Along with being addicted to Mexican Train dominoes, Darcy and I are also really crazy about Boggle. Yesterday, we discovered Boggle computer-style....oh, me, is that ever fun! We got a free 60 minute trial of it already pre-installed on our computer with a helpful little link to order the game on line once our 60 minutes are used up. Talk about cruel! I am not even LETTING Darcy try out the other hundred jillion games that we have a teaser portion of on this computer! (Though we did try out one other that we both decided was a 'must have' for Adam! You will have to wait until Christmas time, though, Adam, to find out what it is!)
And I have just frustrated my poor son. He interrupted my typing to have me tie the back of one of his costumes. He excitedly questioned, "I am...?" I dutifully replied, "You are Batman Begins." At those words he registered extreme disappointment in his mother. How could I have made such a mistake! Of course he WASN'T Batman BEGINS...after all he had on the more modern rendition of the Batman attire for seven year old boys...how could I have missed the fact that he was Batman BEYOND!!!! He walked away with such woundedness at my carelessness that I almost stopped my blogging to try and undo the damage!
This afternoon when we went through the drive-through at BackYard Burger, we had an especially exuberant cashier. She bubbled and exuded as though trying out for the cheerleading squad, or maybe giving her interview for Miss America...you know, the kind of person who is so sweet you can't bark at them and yet their very sweetness wears you out and leaves you vaguely annoyed...anyway, RAYNA apparently thought this young girl was the epitomy of all that is good in America and she announced to me in a VERY loud voice, "Mommy! Her has such a sweet attitude!"
Overheard this evening:
Grant, "Been scratchin' at your ear?"
Rayna, "Yeah. Cause it's kinda dusty in there."
(Guess that's why she didn't hear me ask her to clean her room!)
Later this evening:
Rayna, "Mommy, can I wash my head?"
Me, "No."
Rayna, "But it's all boily from laying on the sofa." ¶ 5/02/2006 02:19:00 PM
