Video Blog: Our Picnic

Here are the two video's I promised from our picnic trip yesterday.

The first video is of these fish eating a pretzel that we threw into the water. We couldn't believe how they just attacked it until it was all gone. Who knew fish liked pretzels!?

The second one is, brace yourself, mushy, but I love it. He's so sweet to me, I just had to share!

Enjoy!

Picnic

Hey there blog friends!

So yesterday, while Phil was out at his physical therapy appointment, I decided I was going to do a video blog, and then the camera decided to die on me right in the middle of it. Oh well...I didn't have anything important to video blog about, just nonsense.

When Phil got home though, we went on our first picnic. There is a huge park about a block away from us called Desert Breeze. There is a big fishing lake and and a train that runs around the whole park on the weekends. When my cousin JJ was just a little guy we would take him over there and I would ride on the train with him.

So with our cooler packed with sandwiches and goodies, we headed over to the park and found a nice place to sit. The weather was a little hot yesterday, but not too bad, better then it has been this summer. There was also a ton of fish in the lake and I got on video these fishes tearing up a pretzel we threw in the water. It is crazy!! There is also another, very mushy video, that Phil took, which I think is adorable and whether you like mush or not, I am going to post it along with my pretzel-eating fish video shortly, or as soon as I am able to get around to loading the videos.

My parents came by this morning for a little bit, and it was nice to see them, I miss them a lot. Once they left Phil and I had lunch and then were going to head back to the park to go fishing. After we ate, though, I needed to come online to take care a few things, and he was watching some TV. He came here, into the bedroom, when I was almost done, and laid down on the bed talking to me. Next thing I know, he is snoring! Now, I am not sure if I should wake him so we can go fishing, or if I should just let him sleep. Hm...maybe I will just see if he wakes up on his own...

Well, that's about it from my end right now. I need to upload the videos I made yesterday to YouTube so I can post them on here, and I also have some pictures I will share with you. I decided that video blogs don't always have to be me ranting in front of the camera, they can be of anything that I take video off in my daily adventures.

Video Blog: My New Haircut

*Seriously, I think Youtube hates me, which is why they make me look like a boob in the first frame before you click play*

And then there were two...

Last night we lost another one of our lovebirds, Tweety. During dinner she started showing signs that she was going to pass, sitting at the bottom of her cage, all puffed and sleeping, stumbling about when she walked, and her breathing was labored. I had seen the signs before with other birds, so I knew that during the night she would pass. When we went to bed she was still sitting at the bottom of the cage, and this morning when we woke up at 5:30am, she was gone.

So now I am down to just two lovebirds, the original two I had before I started getting others (I've had 7 in all). I've been checking on them today and they seem to be OK, they know their friend is gone, but seeing as they are flock birds, they tend to get over it quickly. I am doing OK with it too, because I had all night to prepare myself that this morning she would be gone. I said my goodbyes before I went to bed.

I've decided as much as I love my lovies, I just don't think I am going to get any new ones. All the lovebirds I've gotten from Petsmart have died, and unless you get them from a breeder, who raised it from birth, you never know what diseases they have, and they show no sign of illness until the last moment. Plus, I get so attached to my pets, that I don't need to get attached to anymore. The two I have left, Baby and Pooh, I have had for 3 years, and Pooh I've had since he was a baby. I just hope that I have a lot of time left with the both of them.

The video blogs stay!

I've gotten some good responses from the video blog I did on Friday. Those who have written me about it seem to say they liked it and wish for me to continue. I even had a few people, that I have known online for awhile, say it was nice to actually hear my voice and put it to the words that I write. So for now, the video blogs will stay. I'll do a combination of both, regular blogs, and video blogs.

I hope your all having a great weekend. I was finally able to get out of the house yesterday. Phil's back door of his Jeep has not been able to go up, meaning that we haven't been able to load my chair back there. Yesterday morning he went back there with all his manly tools and somehow got it working again. So we met up with my parents to get the ramps needed to load my chair into the van, and off we went.

Today we are spending the afternoon at my mom and dad's. I haven't spent a good amount of time with them since we moved, seeing as mom had a terrible infection in one of her teeth, but is not feeling better after having the tooth extracted. It will be fun to hang out with them, and cook with mom again.

Speaking of my mom, her birthday is coming up in Thursday. Originally, I was going to spend the day over at their house, but now I invited mom and dad to come over here for lunch. It will be my first time really entertaining in my new place, and I am looking forward to it. I am going to make a lunch and also a birthday cake (lemon with vanilla frosting, at the birthday girl's request). The only thing I wish I had was a couch, so I could finally get my living room together, so people have a nice place to sit.

Well, I'm off to get started on my day. Phil is sleeping in, so I am going to take this opportunity to look up some recipes for the week, and write down things we need when we store by the store later on the way home from mom and dad's. I am really getting into the cooking, I've always loved to it, and now I can try all sorts of new recipes. Have a great weekend!!

My first video blog....Human Nature

So the newest thing in the blogging world is to create what is called a "Vlog" or video blog. Instead of typing out your thoughts, you sit yourself in from of you video camera and talk to you audience.

Surprisingly, as much as I love technology, and the chance to use the video camera on my digital camera, I have never tried this before. But since I had no work left to do today, and Phil won't be home from work for awhile, and I had an idea for a blog, I decided to try it. This is what happens when your bored and home alone.

So enjoy!!



(Why does Youtube find the most unflattering pose of you and stick that as the first image??)

Back to Work

I've started working for my friend Cindy again. I used to do her bookkeeping for her and her husband (he is an independent contractor), and she needs help getting her invoices organized again. So I spent yesterday getting the system I used set up again, and she faxed me over some work. It was so nice to be working again, it makes me feel productive, instead of just sitting here during the day after my morning chores, bored.

Phil would love to get started being an independent contractor, he is so talented with carpentry, and can do so many things. And we could really make a lot of money doing it. So I have started researching everything he needs to do to get licensed and bonded and get a contracting business up and running. I would love it because while I am here during the day I can run the office part of the business; scheduling appointments, taking calls, keeping track of invoices, and the like. It is fairly simple to do, and I absolutely love office work. I'm not sure why, but when it comes to running an office, I can do it with my eyes closed. I suppose its just a natural talent.