The other day I got a chance to shoot some photos of my friend’s five-month-old baby. She’s so cute and I love how many of them turned out!
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Saturday was the wedding of one of my really good, really longtime friends, and while they spent a lot of money on things I never would have dreamed of for a wedding and reception, one of the things they did stands out a lot as being really cool.
When I got married, my mom put something like two one-time use cameras on every table at the reception. She’d first seen the idea at my - now get this straight - grandpa’s then-wife’s daughter’s reception. The idea is the guests take pictures of things and leave the cameras for the couple. Well, we did develop a lot of those then I just quit and we now have a box of about 10 or 12 of them that haven’t been developed. They’re probably not even any good after all this time.
So, anyway, my friend. Outside the reception venue (a restaurant), on the sidewalk, they had a photo booth set up. The guests were supposed to hop in, press the green button, and have three pics taken. Then the machine would spit out two copies of the photo strip and they were to put one into a black-paged scrapbook and write a note, and keep the other strip. Well, Elijah hit the button maybe four times, but we only ended up with two strips. Here’s what we got:
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It was approximately a month ago when I Twittered that, out of the blue, Elijah asked me, “Mommy, before I was a baby and I was really little, how did I get in your tummy?”
We figured “God put you there” was a good enough response and he accepted it without question.
Then, the other day:
“Mommy, when I was in your tummy, was I sitting in your stomach acid?”
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So, my friend gave me some photos that she had doubles or multiple copies of and, man, these things are old. :P Check this out, all from 1999 and 2000, I think. Just thought I’d post some because I think all the ones of me and Sarah are incredibly cute. :)
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It never ends, I tell ya.
Yesterday I went to the grocery store for one thing and one thing only: applesauce. So I let Elijah walk instead of riding… Big mistake. Inoryte?
First, he decides he wants some fruit cups. Ok. So he’s carrying those and I’ve got the applesauce. We approach checkout and put our stuff up. The girl scans it and gives me my total: $3.14.
I look in my little wallet thingy which was all I brought, no purse, and, oh crap, I say, I only have $3.05, haha, guess I have to use my debit card. I’m doing the necessary debit things and while this is going on, Elijah heads around the end of the checkout and stands between the checker girl and the counter thing. Next thing I know, he’s flipping the switch for the conveyor belt. On. Off. On. Off. On. Off…
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So this is something I’ve felt like griping before but have never taken the time. What do you see here?
Yes, I’m finally getting around to this :) Today I want to tell you about Lake Taneycomo. The area we stayed at was pretty close to Table Rock Dam, so near Branson, MO.
Lake Taneycomo is a cold water lake, so it averages something like 48 degrees. Even in the summer, it’s pretty chilly. It didn’t always used to be that way, though, before the completion of Table Rock Dam, it was a warm water lake. But when they created that dam, it changed the source of Taneycomo to the colder underwaters. Taneycomo is an artificial lake created from the White River and it’s pretty much like a river at high water. It has a pretty strong current, for one. It was so neat, the day we were out was so clear that I could see current underneath the surface water if that makes any sense. It was nice and clean aside from some debris from a lot of rain the day before (but not trash and junk but sticks and leaves, etc). The current gets stronger yet when the dam gates are open, but they never opened them while we were there (they had to let some of the high water from the rains run off downstream before doing that, I’m sure).
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So I’m sitting here minding my own business when an email rolls through… “Quick question: have you been happy with your experience on OkCupid? I ask because…” Um, OkCupid? I’ve NEVER signed up for an online dating site, never even surfed one except that one time we found out an “IRL” friend had a profile with Yahoo, but that’s another story.
So I click through and it doesn’t even ask me for a password and I get to my inbox and read the message. The full thing reads:
Quick question: have you been happy with your experience on OkCupid? I ask because I just noticed that you haven’t answered any match questions and you’re probably not showing up in people’s searches as much as you could be if you answered even just a few. (which you can do right here.)
Anyway, I’d love to get any feedback you might have on how we can make OkCupid better for you. It would be especially good to know if answering match questions helps you find better matches.
So I assume it’s from an admin/creator of the site and I’m left thinking two things. 1) Good, I’m glad I’m not showing up in searches and 2) Who the crap signed me up for OkCupid???
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