Life as I know it.

Today was a long day. I made sure to get the ads yesterday and spent the evening pouring through them to decide what stores I needed to hit and what things to get. I narrowed it down to 3 stores to start at: Circuit City, Best Buy and Office Depot. The main thing I was looking for is a laptop for my nephew for his Christmas, Birthday, Graduation gift. He will be heading off for college and you can't do college these days without some kind of computer. So anyways after everyone went home yesterday Blue and I watched a show than I headed to be around 9 and got up at 12 (yes that is 12 midnight) and headed out the door. I 1st ran over to Office Depot where there were about 6-10 people in line already, so I decided to go check out Best Buy and drove by Circuit City along the way (where there was no body in line). At Best Buy there were already about 100 people in line, they had tents and chairs and had obviously started coming sometime quite early in the day. So I debated between the o...

Tonight I heard an interesting perspective on the old line "There's no place like home" from the Wizard of Oz. It's the one line that everybody remembers from the movie, but it doesn't resonate with the rest of the movie. Think about it, home is this desolate, grey dust bowl of a place where some nasty old lady is trying to kill your dog and OZ is technicolor. Sure it has its problems; poppy fields, talking trees, flying monkeys but along the way you make friends, good friends. With people that you never even knew existed when you were growing up, straw people, tin people and lions. And you help each other realize that all the things you want to be, you already are and it's fun! It makes me think about all the exciting things in life that we miss because we are too afraid of something new. Friend's are important, they can help you broaden your horizons and become the person you were meant to be. But you also have to step off that ledge sometime and try som...

I have been tagged by my friend Brenda So anyhow, here are the rules for this Picture MeMe: * Go to your sixth Picture Folder then pick your sixth picture. * Hope that you remember the details and write a post about your tag/photo. * Tag 6 others…Unfortunately i don't follow enough blogs to tag 6 other so if you see this and want to try it then consider this being tagged. This picture is from this Halloween, it is my Bug dressed as Pikachu w/ 3 of his friends. This is the 1st house that they went to. We go trick or treating in the same neighborhood over in Seattle every year.