Experiments in Life

Yesterday, Ashley and I went out and purchased paint for our room. I then spent the rest of the day prepping — moving everything to the center of the room, thoroughly cleaning and dusting, and finally removing a bad section of baseboard that has needed replacing for a while. Today, I started painting. By the end of the afternoon — and slightly over a gallon of paint — I had completed all of the roller work. Now, I am ready to do brush work in the morning. I still need to go to Lowe’s tomorrow to pick up some crown moulding and possibly another section of baseboard (I need to remeasure what I have to make sure that it will fit). I also have to pick up the trim paint as well. However, for the rest of the night, I think I will crash.

I am gradually working on a new theme for the site. However, it is going slow and I keep adding things that are missing from the current theme. For instance, since I switched to this new theme, the author names have been missing. That should be fixed now.

Today was a planning day. Since the walls are plain white, I have been itching to redo our Master Bedroom for quite some time now. So, Ashley and I spent all afternoon planning the renovations. We have picked a color, decided on putting up crown moulding, bought a new bedspread, and are now recouperating so that we can begin prep work tomorrow. We also plan on laying down laminate wood flooring in the bedroom — just not yet. I do not know that I would have it in me to get it all finished by the time I have to go back to work on Tuesday and I have a few other projects I would like to get a start on as well (cleaning up and organizing the garage — a big enough project that it will probably take a few weekends itself, but I want to get a start on it).

I plan on taking pictures as things progress and will hopefully get them posted.

Who knew

Gorillas go through menopause, too

I think the article title says it all

If you have not seen this, you really ought to.

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

This link came to my attention due to today’s news concerning the evolution trial going on in PA.

Judge rules against ‘intelligent design’

Seven Things to Do Before I Die (Lord Willing):
1. Have kids
2. Finally learn sign language (and become fluent in it)
3. Visit as many of the 50 states as I can
4. Travel abroad (England, Scotland, Italy, Greece, France, Germany, etc.)
5. Go back to Camp Tik-A-Witha
6. Teach
7. Learn to play the piano

Seven Things I Cannot Do:
1. Reach things on the top shelf.
2. Play basketball.
3. Look out a peephole.
4. Math.
5. Dance.
6. Draw a straight line.
7. The splits.

Seven Things That Attract Me to My Spouse [romantic interest, best friend, whomever]:
These are in no particular order.
1. His eyes.
2. His nerdiness and intelligence
3. His mustache and goatee, I just love a man with facial hair!
4. The way he takes care of me when I am sick or hurt
5. His passion for knowledge and learning
6. His dashing good looks
7. His uniqueness, he is definitely one of a kind

Seven Things I Say Most Often:
1. I’m hungy!
2. I’ve slept since then.
3. I just work here.
4. Dammit Dante!
5. Stop Rosie!
6. I’m sleepy.
7. Oops!

Seven Books (or Series) I Love:
Too many to choose from…but I did my best. Here are my top picks
1. Lord of the Rings series by J. R. R. Tolkien
2. Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
3. Black Jewel Trilogy by Anne Bishop
4. Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
5. A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin
6. Meridith Gentry novels by Laurell K. Hamilton
7. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Seven Movies I Would Watch Over and Over Again:
I’m not much for re-watching movies, but here goes…
1. Star Wars (any of them, but especially the original trilogy)
2. Harry Potter (any of them)
3. Pirates of the Caribbean
4. Phantom of the Opera
5. The Saint
6. Lord of the Rings
7. Mulan

Who knew that colors could tell so much about a person

Do you think the results describe me accurately? Let me know what you think, but be nice

Ashley took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test! “Desires a tranquil, peaceful state of harmony offe…” Click here to read the rest of the results.

Woot! This is way cool!

Scientists discover new hydrothermal vents

For those of you who are wondering why I think this is so cool, I did my masters thesis research on bacteria living in hydrothermal vents. I’ve touched the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean…indirectly of course, the dirt came to me

Battle over child’s right to die

How horribly, horribly tragic. It saddens me that there are people in this world who would beat their children in the first place, but to beat them into a comatose, vegetative state and then ask for the state to not take the child off of life support….how dare he! Of course, he’s not motivated by the fact that if she dies, he faces a muder charge….yeah right! Yes he’s motivated by that! How truly disgusting.

I don’t even have a category that this will fit into. And I don’t particularly want to create one either.

What kind of a world do we live in?

While killing time on the site, I decided to create a parent category for the two dog categories, Snobbers and The Gutless Wonder. My choice was Canine Commandos. While checking the spelling, I realized just how appropriate my choice of commandos was: A small fighting force specially trained for making quick destructive raids against enemy-held areas. Some days that description seems to fit our dogs exactly.