I just thought I'd share how annoying I find playlist.com or any other site's streaming music feeds on people's blogs. Don't worry, all of my followers who are at fault, I still come to read . . . but it's so obnoxious! Especially if the player is near the bottom of the page (conveniently located near the top in the right column is acceptable). I have to scroll past, typically 7, posts that may be who knows how long - just to shut the thing up. It's not so much that we have different tastes in music (though, Nicole, I love the music on your blog, and I generally don't pause it), it's mostly that there are other things going on in my house when I read others' blogs - and the sudden burst of music is a pain. If I'm home alone, sure, I'll probably let the thing play, but I hate having to either turn off the speakers, adjust the volume of my speakers, or go find the player to shut it up.
Even more annoying? MORE THAN ONE PLAYER! People, do you realize these things just start playing when I get to your blog? If you have TWO players, I get TWO different kinds of music (which, of course, are TWO different genres that don't even go together!) That makes it IMPOSSIBLE to read your blog without either turning off the speakers or scrolling to the bottom and shutting them both down.
PLEASE visit your own blogs to assess your current layouts and music. I love you all - and, like I said, I'll still read your blog - but consider your readers, please :)
Friday, my boss's boss's boss came back from lunch . . or a walk . . I don't know . . with a kitten. Apparently the poor little thing was partially buried under stuff (leaves and what else, I don't know) and just meowing his little heart out. So Tim brings the cutie in, we all gawk and get him some milk. I knew I was taking the kitty home. Marie mentioned if no one else would, she would take it, but she didn't really need another kitty. So I totally jumped on this. (For the record, we are only allowed birds and/or fish in our apartment.) I figured I would figure something out, or maybe convince Grandpa to let me keep him. HA! Boy howdy - I don't know what I was on. I heart my kitty. Matt won't let me name him yet until something is figured out. Things may end up that he goes to live with someone else. So if anyone knows of a cheap ($600 or less monthly), pet-friendly apartment in Utah County - please leave a comment! However, the Boulders has already been scratched. But anything that might be not listed on the net anywhere (I check KSL and Craigslist and any complexes I can find websites for), please let me know! I don't want to give up my cute little furrball.
With the mini - he's so small!
New season = new blog decor :) The background is my creation. The leaf bouquet is pulled from some free download - as is everything in our header (less our picture, of course :) )
Thanks to Halloween being on a Saturday, I was able to take down Halloween and put up Thanksgiving on November 1st - I'm quite proud of this fact :)
As for Halloween itself - it was rather uneventful. Training was fun because everyone was dressed up. I wore my corset and fangs etcetera because I figured that would elicit a better reaction. Then I came home and changed into my poodle skirt and spend the day cleaning. We went to Matt's parents' for some dinner, then came back home to hand out candy to our 2 trick-or-treaters. Aw well. Matt's family came over to visit, and our Xbox got some good use (not like it doesn't usually....). We also managed to finish rearranging our living room. Nothing too drastic, but it sure was a hard thing to figure. I like it - now if I could just finish getting it clean!
And now for the fun part - pictures!
They decided the car really is under warranty, and there is an engine on they way. When Matt bought the car at Legacy Mazda 2.5 years ago, they didn't do whatever was necessary to transfer the warranty to his name. We stopped by the dealership the other night,but the guy to do that wasn't there. Yesterday, Matt got to the dealership and got it put in his name so they can do the work. Hopefully that engine gets here soon!
The last post was #100 - and I totally didn't acknowledge that milestone! So here's to 101 posts! Woot! lol
Car dead.
Later in the afternoon, Matt called, and they were just getting around to looking at it. Matt thinks it's probably because he called, which is probably true. So now we wait to hear what's going on. Crappy thing is they stopped offering the rental cars for warranty work. So we are a one car family for who knows how long. :p If this were summer, it wouldn't be a big deal, but Matt can't really ride his motorcycle in the snow :( Anyway, I'll keep y'all posted.
Due to the weather (stupid rain and cold), we didn't do the couple activities I had for outside. And the one thing I had for indoors didn't get finished because I had to go into work on Saturday. Thanks to that fact and that I still had to stop at some stores to pick things up, I was running late! I got to Caleen's about 4:30 probably. Fortunately, our family has a tendency to run late too :)
So once I got to Caleen's and hauled all of my stuff in, I got started on the soup. Now I'd just like to note that I do NOT cook. Matt is the cook in our house. I bake if anything - and I've done limited easy things from scratch, and I can do things in boxes. I have generally felt I could probably follow a recipe, but never took the time and effort to prepare and follow through. Being a picky eater my whole life didn't really help the cause, either. However! I was in search of festive foods for a main dish and a punch - thank you Taste of Home.
I made this delicious pumpkin soup. A lot of people were like, "I've never had pumpkin soup before," and I'd reply, "Neither have I!" However, it turned out really well. Lots of compliments. Even my littler cousins enjoyed it. Since I was busy making soup, Grandma made the punch for me. It's supposed to be slushy, but we didn't have time to freeze it. It was yummy all the same.
So we had dinner - my cousins made adorable festive desserts. The BYU game was on in the other room. Gestures was played in the kitchen. And I was not the only one to dress up :) I was beginning to wonder at first, but the beardalls were nicely decked out :) In all the hustle and bustle, I didn't grab my camera. Then when I tried to take pictures with my cell phone, I didn't have enough memory. Weird, cuz I swear I recently cleared it... Oh well. We had fun - and names got drawn for Christmas :) Next time I plan a party, I'm doing it with more than a week in advance.
