Baby came with me this evening when I went out to take pictures for this week's Photo Quest. This picture didn't make the cut for the contest, but I had to share it anyway.
Didn't do any quilting today. Had a very nice visit with two of our sons and their families. We had sandwiches for lunch and ham for dinner, so I didn't wear myself out cooking all day.
I started cleaning up some of the pictures I have saved on my computer. I am running out of room! I had to delete a bunch of files just so I could get my pictures off the camera. Need to do more deleting. Or get more storage.
Time for bed, but I want to try to send some pictures to Snapfish. Wish it didn't take so long to send them.
The weather had been so cool and rainy that it was late this afternoon before I went outside. This was taken about 7:30 pm, about 30 minutes before the sun set. It is a little sycamore tree that is just now leafing out. It was taken with a Canon Powershot A540 on automatic. I may have had the maco setting on. The flash was off.
I took this picture of a rose after I came back inside. The sun had set, but it wasn't dark yet. I had the light in the room turned off, and the flash on the camera was off. I had the vase setting in front of a south facing window and used the macro setting on the Canon PowerShot A540.
I took this picture of a frog or toad last Wednesday, May 7th. I forgot about him until after the sun had set, so it was darker than I wanted it to be. I wanted to take his picture without flash, but it was too dark, so I had to try to keep from getting glare from the flash or the overhead lights. He is sitting in the window well of my sewing room. I cropped the shot, and I may have had the macro setting on, but I can't remember. Taken with same Canon PowerShot A540.
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Hmm I'm behind it seems, I had no idea that Edward Norton was playing The Incredible Hulk. Interesting. Not interested in the Hulk, but I like Edward Norton. Interesting choice...
Preview for The Happening = *yawn* oh some kind of attack that kills people and loud noises are scary. BORING.
The Love Guru preview = looked like Austin Powers and Mini me teamed up and created alter egos, kinda cute looking but not what I'd pay $12.50+ to see, and yeah OMFG movies at The Bridge now cost that much on a Saturday night (no idea what matinées cost).
So basically the only movie coming up anytime soon I'm sure we'll see in theaters = The Dark Knight. It was the first time Brian saw the preview. He decided if he saw bad guys dressed up like Joker's posse of guys, he'd wet himself :P
Now onto Iron Man. I liked it enough, Robert Downey, Jr. has always rocked. They clearly set it up for a sequel, no doubt about it -- one line just before the big fight scene screamed there will be another. Brian pointed out the one huge huge problem with the plot but since this is the first time in ages I'm seeing a movie while it's still in a theater I won't point it out here, I'm sure if you saw the movie you know what it is and I just figure superhero kind of movies are allowed such unrealistic holes in plots or they just spent so much time on everything else that expanding upon this sort of important aspect wasn't possible thanks to time constraints.
Me = tired and sore. Need about 20 hours of sleep but we did everything today so all I have to do Sunday = work on Misi art. Next weekend is Disneyland unless Brian has to work I think. zzzzzzzzzzzzz
mmm yum
Once again we had to go to the Fry's store out by LAX. Ok, so Fry's stores in general tend to be busy, etc. But this one seriously makes me want to have major panic attacks. I get so claustrophobic there. Fellow customers also apparently stressed by the so very un-customer friendly store, or perhaps just rude begin to ignore other customers like me. They walk in straight lines. If you're in their way they shove you, even if all of the area around you was open to walk around you. It makes me want to go Michael Douglas circa Falling Down on them or alternatively just crawl into a cave and never see another person again as long as I live. At least 4 people shoved me with no reason to. Plenty of room to walk around me, me standing out of the way, not in the center of aisles, etc. I HATE PEOPLE BEING RUDE. I mean if I see you wanting to look at stuff I'm also looking at, I move out of the way. If I see you walking by, I make sure I'm not in your way. If you smack into me say sorry or at least look at me with an oops look on your face. Assholes.
And Fry's. Oh Fry's. Your set up is so unfriendly. If we want something from the shelf, no prob. If we want something that is well controlled like RAM, big mess. Last time Brian got charged for a more expensive MB that he wanted but was given a cheaper and slower one that happened to come in a very similar box etc. Didn't realize til he got it home. By then you were closed and it was a holiday weekend so you wouldn't be open again until he was back at work. Meant he'd have to take time off of work to return it during the week and couldn't as he had no working desktop machine and a freelance project he had to start. So you screwed him and he took it and lost about $20 as that was the difference in what he paid for and got.
This time he said he needed two sticks of this RAM. You said ok. You sent him to the front with paperwork for 1. They can't edit it at the register. Back to the back for edited paperwork. They don't have to EDIT THE PAPERWORK. They just have to ask them to send another stick up front. WTF? And if you buy something like RAM that requires paperwork you can't go buy anything else in the store because once you have a piece of paper thats an order for the check out people to use and they can't add to it, even if it's the stuff from by the register. But if you buy just normal stuff from the shelves that doesn't require that inventory control type of paperwork, no worries you can keep shopping but no one tells you this (we happen to know it from previous experience).
I've ranted about this before. Just argh. Why must you be so convenient in SOME ways and yet such a pathetic panic inducing store in others?
I have a conflicted relationship with mother's day. My girls, especially Ava who is 8 loves the ritual and tradition that surround any holiday, so for her, it's a special day, and like any other birthday or holiday is really looking forward to it. My husband has come around and is beginning to celebrate traditional holidays through my girls, which I think is great. For some reason, he hated holidays of ANY kind, before we had kids. I think he was afraid of letting someone, anyone down. All this is good, right? My own mother, died when I was 24. It seems like forever and yet it seems like yesterday. It seems like I grieved enough for 100 people and if feels like I haven't even experienced a tip of the iceberg yet. Mostly for me, mother's day has become a day to look at other people and their mothers and think, "oooh, they are so lucky."
I didn't know where this post was going, but as I'm sitting here, I'm thinking of the three years we spent in Hawaii for Mother's Day. I think each year, my husband and daughter took me to the same "all day breakfast" place. When I think about it now, what stands out was 1) how crowded it was and 2) that all the mom's had lei's on. What a wonderful tradition. I guess here we could all give our mom's corsages, but the lei's just made those women stand out and who doesn't look radiant with a wreath of beautiful flowers around her neck? My mom definitely would have looked beautiful with a lei. And the women all looked so PROUD, like....yes! I am a mother, and I deserve these pancakes!
I don't know what the girls have up their sleeves for tomorrow. I do know I'll get breakfast in bed (then I'll get to get up and wash all the kitchen dishes). But, at the same time I'm laughing I know that I'll be thinking of my own mom and crying a little on the inside because she isn't here. I also know I'll call my dad and thank him for being a "mom and a dad" all in one. Which he is. He deserves his own post. (maybe for Father's day....)
So, if you're a mom, or you have a mom, make sure you have a great day. Tell your mom you love her and give her a big hug. Just because you CAN!
