I Get It

Thanks to a couple of lurkers, I now know that I am an "idiot" for posting a googled image. Thank you so kindly for insulting me on my blog. I just want you to know that I get it. Thank you for reiterating what that picture so clearly told me. One comment was a well-earned warning, one was just downright rude.

So let this be a warning to anyone else out there who made the mistake I did in assuming you can use google images on your blog-

1) You can get creepy pictures up replacing a picture owned by someone else,
2) You can get fined thousands of dollars for using an unlicensed picture,
3) You can get called names by people who already knew this.

Further, the fact that I had lurkers commenting also turned me onto the fact that I have more people reading this blog than I realized. Just that knowledge alone will make me "straighten up and fly right". So my apologies for my "idiocy".

EDIT: I want to add that I do feel entirely stupid and creepy and sick inside for posting a personal picture belonging to someone else. It was only supposed to illustrate a funny story. I'm profusely sorry for my mistake. Trust me, it won't happen again.

What would YOU do?

Suppose one morning you get up and go to your yoga class like usual. Class goes normally and although your teacher seems a little bit out of it, overall, nothing is really different. You work through some challenging balance sequences, then through some deep stretches and finish with the favorite pose: savasana, or corpse pose. As you lie there, you suddenly realize the time has stretched a little longer than usual, but then your teacher instructs you to turn onto your side in the fetal position like usual. You lie there, relaxed, enjoying the feel of it, the quietness. Suddenly, it comes to your attention that you've been lying there an abnormally long time. You look up at your teacher- and she's asleep!

What do you do?

Option 1) Wake her up and finish class on time.

Option 2) Wait and hope she wakes up on her own.

Option 3) Finish as you normally would without disturbing her and leave class quietly so she can continue her obviously needed slumber.

My class chose Option 3. My boss came in 15 minutes after class was supposed to end and woke me up- at which point I just started laughing. I still can't believe I fell asleep while teaching!

New Posts

I know it looks like I'm not posting anything new, but just so my new posts don't escape unnoticed, please check November's and December's posts periodically. I just uploaded a new post there that includes my Very First Video Ever and I'm really proud of it. So check it, my friends.

"Blogs I Read" Widget

When I redid my layout, it deleted all my widgets... so since I'm too lazy to re-enter all your blogs, I'm not doing it. So don't get offended and weird at me.

Keep Checking Below

Remember, I've got a lot of back-blogging to do. Right now I'm working on November, so keep an eye out down there!

Finally... the before & afters!

Where Credit is Due...

Looking over my past two blogs, it seems to sound like I'm allowing you people to think I actually did the work of painting my house. Sure, I helped. I did what I could and jumped in where my skill met the high standards of my task master. But mostly I just "supervised". No, really, I did the cooking--- and they were some kick@$$ meals I'll have you know--- but the credit for the painting (designing and everything) really needs to go primarily to our very own Zan Zickgraf. She took it upon herself to fly out when Alexandria was born, help me pick out colors for my house (meaning she picked the colors while I nodded) and then three months later fly out again with her mother and together they proceeded to paint my molding and my walls and caulk a good deal of it as well. That was a lot of hard work!

Now, just so you have a good idea of what is involved here, it took 2 coats of primer and 2 coats of paint to get that molding to look good white. I have a LOT of molding. And now my house looks like a new house. I'm in love. So here's a big thank you to Zan and Muckabee! We love you!

Proof

I'll take better pictures to do it justice and compare more evenly when I'm completely done and my house is clean, but this'll have to work for now...

New Fun Stuff

BEFORE AFTER
(You can't see it very well in this pic, but there are subtle 12in stripes in the white)
Ok, so we've got so much going on right now that I'm on a super high. I FINALLY finished painting Alexandria's room and it is ADORABLE! I absolutely love it. It's very simple and clean, but with the furnishing and decorating plans I have, I'm pretty excited. Especially when I think back on how ugly it was before. I also replaced the ugly yellow curtains in our basement with some pretty red tie-up shades and we put in some shelves, too, so we actually have space on our tables to work. It looks so much nicer and cleaner now. And can I just say how much I love the miracle of the caulking gun? Lexi's room looks so much newer just because of it! Zan's coming at the beginning of March for a week to help us finish painting our house. It'll look so much better! I'll definitely post before and after pics.

Plus, the day I've waited for two years for finally came about three days ago: the release of the World of Warcraft's expansion pack: the Burning Crusade! We'll talk about my addictions to that in another post, though.

AND we finally got our brand new beautiful computer. According to Derek (not sure how accurate this is, but this is what he gave me) we custom built a $3000 computer for $1500. Yes, you read that right. Even if $3000 is an exaggeration the comp we have is still worth more the $1500. It's so nice to have two computers as well. Now I can get done all my business and Derek can still study and do what he needs. And of course we can "quest" together.

So, yeah, things are going pretty well right now. How do we do it? Well, we're up to our eyebrows in debt! Woohoo!