NeoVizion Silver Award
March 7, 2009 by Nicki
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This arrived last night:
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Thank you! 
Humpday Hilarities (belated edition)
March 5, 2009 by Nicki
My apologies for being a day late with these, my head is finally starting to clear and it just hit me that today’s Thursday. 
These are from SmileZilla:
After having dug to a depth of 10 meters last year, Scottish scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.
Not to be outdone by the Scots, in the weeks that followed, English scientists dug to a depth of 20 meters, and shortly after, headlines in the English newspapers read: “English archaeologists have found traces of 200 year old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the Scots.”
One week later, “The Kerryman,” a southwest Irish newsletter, reported the following: “After digging as deep as 30 meters in peat bog near Tralee, self-taught archaeologist Paddy O’Droll reported that he found absolutely nothing. Paddy has therefore concluded that 300 years ago Ireland had already gone wireless.”
You gotta love them Irish! 
A guy raises his glass and toasts his blonde girlfriend. “May you be in Heaven a half-hour before the devil knows you’re dead!”
“What’s that mean?”
“That is an authentic Irish toast.”
“Oh. In that case, here’s to bread, eggs and cinnamon.”
“Bread, eggs and cinnamon? What’s that?”
“That’s French toast.”
My own blizzard
March 2, 2009 by Nicki
Boy, such a flurry of events have been whirling around me and my kin lately!
An American Visit
Friday I chaperoned Jessie’s class field trip to American Village in Montevallo. Even with the bad weather coming through (tornadoes and rain galore, yuck!), we still had a very good time. And I tell ya, I really wish I had visited American Village when I was Jessie’s age … I think I would have looked at history a whole LOT differently!
I’ve suggested to Jim that we head down there one weekend for one of their events or sometime in the summer when the weather is a little more accommodating!
Despite the bad weather and dampened spirits (my Lord, I’ve never seen so many pouty faces in one place! LOL!), I did manage to snap off a few shots:
The Home Front
We had our first interested party view the house last week. Friday night, to be exact. Our realtor called this weekend to let us know that they liked the layout and wanted to come back and see it again. So this weekend we busted some tail and cleaned and painted the entire bottom level. Jessie hasn’t packed a whole lot because she’s with her mother more these days, so we’ll get around to finishing her room last.
I’m trying not to get TOO excited, but I can’t help but want to get my hopes up!
We still haven’t gotten an answer yet on whether or not we got the loan on the new house. More paperwork was needed and faxed off last week. I’m hoping we hear something this week.
OMG … snow? In the South?!
Yes, it snowed here. We received between 3 and 4 inches here. Some parts of Birmingham received up to 7 inches!!! 
Jessie was at her mother’s, so I’m sure she had a good ole time in it. I did manage to get a few shots of the pretty white stuff before the other neighborhood kids ran amok and transformed it all to dirty snowballs and lumpy stick-wielding snowmen. :lol:
Pass the Halls!
Either it’s the irritants in the cleaners, the paint fumes, or being out in the rain all day Friday (or a combination of all three), but I have been sick all weekend and feel generally like death warmed over today. I traipsed in to work to discover that my machine was hosed, so I couldn’t have done much of anything productive even if I wanted to.
Everyone kept telling me I should’ve stayed home because I sounded terrible — I think I’ll take their advice and stay in tomorrow. *ugh*
And last but not least …
One of my themes has recently been featured in a WordPress tutorial over on YouTube:
A big thanks to Kristie for letting me know about it, and to ktinboulder for selecting my theme!
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