New fav...elfed...& music player

I think I have a new favorite movie to add to my list.... and it is up there with Mary Poppins. In case you didn't know Mary Poppins is my number one favorite movie! Shawn and I didn't decorate for Christmas, instead he surprised me and took me out to go see Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. It was awesome!!!! There was no bad language and no adult humor! I absolutely loved it!!! I didn't think it was predictable like most kid movies are. It is definitely one for the family. A few weeks ago we went and saw the Bee Movie. It was funny, but I just get tired of going to "kid" movies and then there is adult humor. They may not think that kids pick up on it, but they do! I don't know why I let it drive me crazy. Some movies would have been just as good with out it. I remember when Shawn and I went and saw Cat in the Hat in the theater. I couldn't believe the whole seen with the garden hoe. I know my jaw dropped and I didn't think it was all that funny. Anyway go see Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium!!!!


Shawn and I got elfed! Check out the link to see us! So what do you look like elfed??? Leave your link in a comment! :)



To answer the question I got on the music player I am using (I replied and emailed these steps to you, but I got it back)....

1. Go to finetune register/sign up
2. Then go to stations (it is located at the top)
3. Scroll down towards the bottom and there are several Christmas Music stations
4. Click on the one you want....
5. It should list the tracks that are on there... on the right side there should be an option embed play list - click on that
6. Copy the first code it gives you
7. Log in to your blogger account (in a new window/tab)
8. Layout... add a page element..... html/java script
9. Paste the code into that

If you want it to automatically start playing on your page do the following

the first time you see pinst= it should have a long list of numbers/letters after it and then ends in "(quotation marks) before the quotation marks paste in the following... &autoplay=true only do it to the first one. The pinst will be on there twice...

It will look something like this:

pinst=A366E84C02284C758842225225EC1FF8&autoplay=true" flashvars="pinst=A366E84C02284C758842225225EC1FF8"

You are just pasting in &autoplay=true so don't delete any of the other code!!! You can change the height and width to fit in to your side bar, or expand your side bar by going and editing your html.

You can also create your own play list you have to have 45 songs before it will let you play them and you can't have more than 3 from an artist on your play list. As far as I know though you can have several different play lists. I think the "stations" do have more than 3 songs from an artist but they are created by the site. Shawn and I downloaded the desktopplayer . He has his play lists and I have mine, when we are cleaning house, we are usually listening to one of our several play lists. I have used projectplaylist in the past, but they had so many broken links and I am not sure how many of the links were legal. Anyway, I hope this helps!!

Broken Camera = no pictures :(

But even with a broken camera, we had a great Thanksgiving!! My pie turned out great even though I had a little mishap with the topping. We were at my parents most of the day. We watched football, ate, played taboo, looked through the ads in the paper, and visted. On the way home we made a spur of the moment decision to stop by his cousin's house. They had their second child back in July and the last time I saw her she was two weeks old. Needless to say she has grown. I think we left there around 11:30.... we were planning on stopping by visiting for an hour or so... but that didn't happen. Either way it was an awesome time. Her parents were in town from Florida and it was nice to visit and catch up with them.


You know how they say you learn something new everyday.... well Wednesday night I learned that after what almost 5 or 6 years (3 of them being married) that my husband does not like pumpkin pie..... I guess I never noticed that he didn't eat it. At first I thought he was joking. He isn't a big dessert eater, but he will eat bread type stuff..he is normally the one to finish off the rolls. So today, I made an apple pie (one of his favorites). He should be surprised when he comes home from work.

I woke up this morning to snow on the ground. I was excited to see it! I can't wait until Shawn gets home from work so we can pull out all of the Christmas stuff and start decorating. When he came home at lunch he said he liked seeing the snow, but he hates working out in. At lunch (1:30) there had already been 4 roll overs. Just because people don't know how to drive or think that it isn't slick out side. As far as work goes he hates this time of year, this is when the suicides and suicide attempts increase. I couldn't believe how many there were last year and it didn't slow down until March/ April. I have been hoping that their won't be so many this year, but I guess the night shift last night had one. Okay I am stopping there, I didn't want this post to become a sad horrible post....

I hope all of you had great Thanksgiving! Happy Decorating for Christmas!! Maybe I can borrow my mom's camera and get some pictures of our decorations.

Hmmm...

I'm not sure if I like the header... I might end up doing something different. I am done for now though. I can't believe Thanksgiving is Thursday! I am going to attempt to make a
Caramel Chocolate Pumpkin Pie. (If the link doesn't work then most likely their site is down) We will see how it turns out!

This weekend we celebrated Shawn's birthday! Saturday, my parents, sister, and brother came up. My mom made enchiladas and we spent the evening playing games. Later on that evening we got a phone call from his sister saying she was on her way to the hospital to have Kailey. Kailey was born on Shawn's birthday (Sunday). Hopefully they will both get to go home before Thanksgiving.

I thought that I was going to have 6 kids tomorrow and Friday, but it looks like tomorrow I will have 5 starting at 4:30 and then Friday I will either have 4,2, or 1. The two boys that I watch might stay the night with their Grandma Thursday night. Which I am kind of hoping for! If not they will be here around 3am. (Their mom is a department manager for Walmart) I am not sure if M will be back from her dad's house or not. So we will see....
Today it was just me and B. She took an hour nap this morning from around 9:30 to 10:30. When she woke up I picked her up and she had a blow out. It was sooo gross. I was gagging and she was laughing. It was awful. But I survived :) This afternoon we played and played. She wasn't too happy when Shawn came home for lunch. She wanted him to pick her up, but every time he picks her up she starts messing with his radio and other stuff. So today he just didn't pick her up and she was MAD! After he left, she went back to her happy self. Right now she is sleeping. Today her and I figured out that she doesn't like Gerber Vegetable Beef. After, the second time of her spewing it back out on me, I said forget it, and we went with option number two which was chicken and rice. She ate that stuff right up.

Shawn and I plan to decorate for Christmas, Friday evening when he gets off work. I can't wait!! We haven't done any Christmas shopping yet, but we have an idea of what we are getting everyone.

Hope you all are having a great week! We are suppose to get a cold front tomorrow.... I am excited! I wasn't thrilled with the idea of Thanksgiving in the 80's.

I came across this a couple weeks ago. M who is 3 (turns 4 Dec 4th) loves to listen to it while she plays. They also have a blog.

I'm back..... not sure how many of you are planning on shopping on Friday, but I heard about this website on PWO. Good luck to everyone shopping on Friday!

Happy Monday!

Hope everyone has a great week! I am still working on the header and the buttons...

Changes

It might be a little crazy today and possibly over the weekend! I am changing the template around..for the holidays :)

What's for dinner?

Tuesday evening we went to the grocery store and they were having a sale on chicken. So we stocked up. Anyway Shawn loves this stuff and I have had a few people ask me what is in it so here is the recipe that I use... (there are several different ones out there)

Slow-Cooker Salsa Chicken

Ingredients
4 Boneless, skinless Chicken Breasts
1 cup salsa
1 package taco seasoning
1 can cream of mushroom soup (condensed)
1/2 cup of sour cream

Directions
Add chicken to slow cooker.
Sprinkle taco seasoning over chicken.
Pour salsa and soup over chicken.
Cook on low for 6 to 8 hours.
Remove from heat and stir in sour cream.


I use the reduced sodium taco seasoning, the reduced fat cream of mushroom soup, and reduced fat sour cream. We have eaten it served with rice, egg noodles, and rolled up in tortillas with shredded cheese. Shawn also likes the extra sauce with tortilla chips. Tonight we are having it with tortillas.

Questions/Answers

I just realized tonight, that this was still in draft mode! I originally typed this up November 2nd. Sorry!!! But the good thing is Shawn is able to answer his question. I did go back through and the stuff that is bolded and italicized was just added :), I can't believe Thanksgiving is a week away!!


Are you tired from staying up?

Nope, I wasn't tired, but I did go to bed early the next night.



Have you lived in the TX panhandle all your life?

Yes, I have. I have not always lived in this town though. We have only lived here for a year and a 1/2 (maybe more/less). It will be two years, May 1st. Shawn on the other hand was born in Texas, ended up in Florida and the we met yadayada.... and he moved back to Texas to marry me! :) (That was the shortest version I could think of)



If there was one thing you could wish for and know without a doubt it would come true what would it be? (I would also like to hear Shawn's answer)

My wish would be that we have healthy children and that Shawn and I are great parents. We may be waiting to extend our family, but I can't wait until the day we announce to the world that we are expecting and that I will be a mom! But my wish would be to know that the children we have are healthy. Sometimes the stuff I learn in class scares the crap out of me, especially the statistics, and no one wants to ever hear the words that something might be "wrong" with their child.



Shawn's answer----he will answer it later.... lol (sorry)
His answer: I would wish for a new car and to own a really nice house for our family.



What is the one thing that you would wish your Mother in Law would have taught your husband prior to giving him to you?

To dust and then vacuum! He knows this now, but it use to drive me nuts! This now makes me laugh! Today I had a conversation with his mom and found out that because of their vacuum at the time that she vacuumed and then dusted! lol

I thought the new blogger was suppose to be better than the old one? I had a post all typed up over my fun filled Saturday, but then I got an error when I tried to post, and now my post is no where to be found! And since I didn't get much studying done yesterday.... I have to get it done today!

Rant Session

• I can't stand irresponsible people.
• I dislike Professors that miss more than an average student does! Hello I am paying for an education here! My Professor that is battling cancer has only missed 1 day this semester compared to your 6!
• You could send an email out like you make students do, notifying us that you are not going to be there!!! So I don't waste a half a tank of gas driving here for nothing! Not everyone lives with in 15 miles of the school!
• My car is messed up again! It died on me, while I was on my second attempt to meet Shawn for lunch in the middle of the street. It was embarrassing, but it worked out because the towing company towed it back to the house for free. Who knows what it is this time, for all I care it can sit in the drive way.
• Gas is going up once again.... which will be over 140.00 a week in gas costs to go to school and back.... have to cut back on trips to atown!
• I can't stand it when people loudly talk in another language right beside you in the HELC/Library. Hello there is a sign there that says quiet please! Wouldn't mind if they would just whisper.
• I HATE it when I have a test in all my classes on Monday.
• I hate group projects where you can't pick your group and you get stuck with irresponsible and lazy people.
• I hate doing article reviews!
• I can't stand the mumbo jumbo from others on where we are going to spend the holidays. I love the holidays but that makes me dread them. Besides that WE have already decided.
• I hate nosey computer monitors. Do you really like reading what I am typing.... thank you for moving on....

Okay that isn't all but that is the most of it right now! On a positive note, I have the sweetest and most wonderful husband ever! I love it when we are able to ride together for school/work. That was the highlight of my day. Now I am trying to figure out if I should do this group article review on my own, since it is due at 4 and not one of the 5 other group members has emailed me their portion or just say screw it like they apparently did. I know most likely I will go ahead and do it because Hello it is my grade! But I am going to type my name in the header and not theirs. I can't wait until 5:15 because then for the most part my day will be over.

I hope someone out there is having a fantastic day and not a horrible day like I am!

Life

Just got off the phone confirming that we are both on our way to Subway to meet for lunch. So I head that way and on the way I see him speed by with lights on... so I guess our lunch date is off? Not the first and most likely not the last!

Yeah right!

I opened up this email because I saw James and I thought it was from a person that Shawn and I know. I should have known from the subject "URGENT! ATTENTION!" that it wasn't him and a spam email. When I opened it I immediately realized it wasn't but I read it anyways trying to figure out why a chief would be emailing us. After I read it, I called Shawn laughing and read him this guy's "sob story." I told Shawn that all I could think of afterwards was Identity Theft! The sad part about of all of this, is someone will actually fall for this scam artists trick.

So here is what I call the sob story!

2ND/NOV/2007

ATTN:
It is with a profoundly positive mind that i wrote and sent this email to you and i'm really hoping that you would read it with an open mind and understanding and i pray that you will see this as a golden opportunity to earn some good money without much stress and no risk at all.I am Chief James Kuku and was a top official with the recently scrapped Nigerian national petroleum corporation,[N.N.PC],prior to the disbandment of this parastatal a huge excess crude oil was discovered and the amount involved is over $4 billion usd, all directors and top officials like myself are being probed and investigated in connection with the embezelled funds by the appropriate authorities and we are all under close scrutiny our international passports have been confiscated and all our local accounts frozen.Now the reason why i am revealing all this to you is because i really need you to help me retrieve the sum of $74.3 million usd that is being held by a security firm for safe keeping in the U.K,this funds can be claimed by any one that presents the supporting documents issued by the security firm on reciept of the funds which is concealed in artworks in a metal case, these authorizing documents comprise of,
[1]waybill.
[2]reciept
[3]deposit certificate
which are all in my possesion,i cannot travel and all my family members, relatives and close associates are being watched, so i have approached you with this proposal hoping that you will be interested in assisting me claim and bank this funds in various offshore accounts that will be opened subsequently and also help me invest some of it in real estate and other sound investments that you recommend in your region, offcourse you will be handsomely renumerated with a 20% cut for all your troubles, i know you might be wondering why i choose you and why i am entrusting you with so much ,well i have no choice but to trust you believing that the funds is more than enough for all parties involved and there will be no need for greed, once you have indicated your interest by replying this mail at once i will send the documents to you with detailed instructions on what to do and how to go about everything, for now let me have your direct phone and fax numbers for easy communication, as well as a scanned copy of the last two pages of your international passport or drivers license, and your social security number. I really look forward to hearing from you and doing business with you.REPLY A.S.A.P TO : ubn_jameskuku123@yahoo.com

Your's sincerely,
Chief James kuku

Registered!

So I am registered for the Spring Semester! I stayed up to register at midnight last night, but the system messed up and was messed up through out the day. I got worried and sent an email to my advisor because it was showing two of my classes completely full, but she told me not to worry because the system was still messing up. Just now, I thought I would try it again and what do ya know, it let me register and my classes weren't full! So after this semester and one summer class it is on to methods next fall and Spring of 09 student teaching and graduation!! So basically 3 semesters to go...

Next semester I will be taking 4 classes ~ 12 hrs
TTH 10:00-11:50
TTH 1:00-2:50
W 1:00-3:40
W 4:00-6:40

I am glad to be back on Tuesday/Thursday. I am not a big fan of class on Mondays! Now I need to go wake up Snoaring Shawn and tell him to move from the couch to bed, actually we need to switch vehicle around before that happens because I don't want to do it at 5:30 in the morning. lol I wish we had a wider drive way. Length wise we can fit all 3 vehicles in the drive way. It was just easier when we could park his patrol car in the street!

Have a great Friday!!