OPINIONS
OK - got music going.
Does it make it slow for your computers to load the blog? Too slow?
I like jazz....
Stacia really likes it...::snort:: but I told Bre it certainly makes you feel like you need to get on, read, read, read, FAST, comment fast and get off!!!!!! Speed being the main drive I feel with the music going in the background of the blog. Bre mentioned something about panic attacks.
Does it have this affect on ya'll? I wanted it to be upbeat and reflect joy and my tastes...but this may be a bit too upbeat??? ::snort:: It doesn't seem relaxing...but I wanted instruments and not words (I'm easily distracted) and I didn't want "elevator music".
Bottom line - you CAN turn the volume down (I do that many spots online)...but what about the speed of loading the site? Is it causing your browser to freeze?
Let me know....please...and any suggestions for a new song are welcome. I realized my favorites are all Christian contemporary and they aren't listed at sonific. LOL
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Photos and Songs
Heather - http://sonific.com will allow you to put songs on a blogspot. Unfortunately, I've been trying to get MY blog to load my selection for a couple of weeks. ::snort:: I'm not thrilled with the selection of music at the site...you'll find way more contemporary Christian music available at myspace. I didn't find Phil Wickham at all on sonific...but I did find some nice jazz. LOL
Photos are loading. I have the "add page element" button again this a.m.; so I ditched the plan to clean house and am trying to get photos loaded for you Mike...the pile of laundry on the couch is all YOUR doing, dear! ::snort:: Hmmm....well the song thing is ME - no - Heather ASKED. ::snort::
Video will not load into a post....not sure about side bar....guess I can try....Mike, I can't email you the dancing video either because it says the file exceed the maximum size.
Heather - http://sonific.com will allow you to put songs on a blogspot. Unfortunately, I've been trying to get MY blog to load my selection for a couple of weeks. ::snort:: I'm not thrilled with the selection of music at the site...you'll find way more contemporary Christian music available at myspace. I didn't find Phil Wickham at all on sonific...but I did find some nice jazz. LOL
Photos are loading. I have the "add page element" button again this a.m.; so I ditched the plan to clean house and am trying to get photos loaded for you Mike...the pile of laundry on the couch is all YOUR doing, dear! ::snort:: Hmmm....well the song thing is ME - no - Heather ASKED. ::snort::
Video will not load into a post....not sure about side bar....guess I can try....Mike, I can't email you the dancing video either because it says the file exceed the maximum size.
Scenes from the last couple of days
Arielle finally has her dancing Barbie....she raises her arm (wearing some radio control) and the doll raises her arm....Stacia and Zander had to get into the dancing too....
Arielle finally has her dancing Barbie....she raises her arm (wearing some radio control) and the doll raises her arm....Stacia and Zander had to get into the dancing too....
Notice the sly little spider getting into the fun 
Dino Bingo...this is a game that the younger ones are really enjoying 
Tea Tree Treatment
Friday, December 29, 2006
Friday -
Speech and Produce Co-op this a.m. Krista pulled out the tea and brewed a few pots of tea near the end of pick up. It was fun to sit around and chat and relax for a bit with the ladies that were still here. See...Dorothy...I listened.
Bre has no cavities! That's always good news.
Arielle spent most of the day with a friend - always fun for her.
Jamin, Jared, Krista and I searched out a post office and mailed a package to Mike and 7 missing Algebra tests to NARS. I was sad that the little station we'd discovered in NOV. is closing. I really don't like using the post office.....must look for another little station.
I called Greyhound and was told that the route from TX to Denver is "delayed" and that the Denver station is closed. The girls do NOT want to have to spend a night at the Denver bus station. They witnessed arrests, pick pockets and more at that station. They also do not want to spend a night at the Amarillo station. {g} It appears that it will be fairly simple for us to change their tickets if the storm continues. They are scheduled to leave Sunday but we may have them leave on Monday. I'll have to figure out a good source for tracking this. Master's is fine with them arriving home late...better to spend an extra day HERE than in a bus station. We'll see what develops.
I changed our dinner plan a bit and we had Kelly's Cream of Chicken Rice Soup for dinner. Kelly - it wasn't very WW friendly when I finished with it - I added lots of cheese. LOL I also added broccoli and cauliflower so I think that cancels out the cheese calories. ::snort:: Jodi, I made your garlic pull apart rolls to go with the soup. It's been a RAINY day here - perfect opportunity to use up some veggies.
Games (Imagine Iff, Dominoes) and movies (12 Dog Christmas and Poirot's Christmas) filled our evening. I can't get photos to load again tonight; those posts will have to wait.
Speech and Produce Co-op this a.m. Krista pulled out the tea and brewed a few pots of tea near the end of pick up. It was fun to sit around and chat and relax for a bit with the ladies that were still here. See...Dorothy...I listened.
Bre has no cavities! That's always good news.
Arielle spent most of the day with a friend - always fun for her.
Jamin, Jared, Krista and I searched out a post office and mailed a package to Mike and 7 missing Algebra tests to NARS. I was sad that the little station we'd discovered in NOV. is closing. I really don't like using the post office.....must look for another little station.
I called Greyhound and was told that the route from TX to Denver is "delayed" and that the Denver station is closed. The girls do NOT want to have to spend a night at the Denver bus station. They witnessed arrests, pick pockets and more at that station. They also do not want to spend a night at the Amarillo station. {g} It appears that it will be fairly simple for us to change their tickets if the storm continues. They are scheduled to leave Sunday but we may have them leave on Monday. I'll have to figure out a good source for tracking this. Master's is fine with them arriving home late...better to spend an extra day HERE than in a bus station. We'll see what develops.
I changed our dinner plan a bit and we had Kelly's Cream of Chicken Rice Soup for dinner. Kelly - it wasn't very WW friendly when I finished with it - I added lots of cheese. LOL I also added broccoli and cauliflower so I think that cancels out the cheese calories. ::snort:: Jodi, I made your garlic pull apart rolls to go with the soup. It's been a RAINY day here - perfect opportunity to use up some veggies.
Games (Imagine Iff, Dominoes) and movies (12 Dog Christmas and Poirot's Christmas) filled our evening. I can't get photos to load again tonight; those posts will have to wait.
*Out of the Frying Pan and into the Choir* by Sharon Kahn is the latest in "Ruby, the Rabbi's Wife mystery" series. Other titles in this series are: Fax Me a Bagel, Don't Cry for Me Hot Pastrami, Never Nosh a Matzo Ball, Hold the Cream Cheese, Kill the Lox, and Which Big Giver Stole the Chopped Liver?.
I began reading this series shortly after the first book was released in 1998. I was drawn to the series for the behind the scenes look into a Temple community, the use of email messages to develop the plot line was fairly new at the time, and Ruby was likable to me.
In *Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Choir*, trouble is brewing in Temple Rita. Temple Rita's star soprano, Serena Salit, collapses during a choir preformance. Ruby discovers surprising secrets about Serena and Temple Rita. Essie Sue insists the choir continue their planned trip to Lake Louise, Canada regardless of the murder. Everyone in the choir is considered a suspect. Mayhem and danger follow before the choir arrives back home in Eternal, TX.
I began reading this series shortly after the first book was released in 1998. I was drawn to the series for the behind the scenes look into a Temple community, the use of email messages to develop the plot line was fairly new at the time, and Ruby was likable to me.
In *Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Choir*, trouble is brewing in Temple Rita. Temple Rita's star soprano, Serena Salit, collapses during a choir preformance. Ruby discovers surprising secrets about Serena and Temple Rita. Essie Sue insists the choir continue their planned trip to Lake Louise, Canada regardless of the murder. Everyone in the choir is considered a suspect. Mayhem and danger follow before the choir arrives back home in Eternal, TX.
"David Danced Right Out of His Clothes" - and so did Zander.
During the clean-up, Cy always puts "his" music on. Tonight it was Toby Mac. I bathed Stacia. She broke free and ran into the living room. I caught her as she was dancing. I got her diapered. The rest of the littles were not to be outdone. They began dancing. I love this time of the day. They love to dance to Mike playing the piano too - but this is wilder. Stacia is a hoot - she gets feet, head, waist - everything into dancing. Cy bought her one of those play microphones you can get at the dollar store. She played with it and threw it....then Zander got it.
Imagine our shock when Zander threw the microphone down and began to rip his shirt off. We were laughing so hard we couldn't stand up...but then he pulled his shorts off too. The boys were dying and I said, "Hey, David danced in his underwear before God".....There really is a song that we learned during our time in the gospel service that talks about dancing like David did and says he "danced right outta his clothes". After watching Zander tonight - I have a very vivid picture of how David *may* have played wholeheartedly before the Lord and danced right out of those clothes and kept right on enjoying his dance.
Nothing big and theological here - though I COULD go there....I have been fascinated with that passage of Scripture since teaching in 2 or 3 years ago. LOL I do believe that God wants us to PLAY and ENJOY our times with Him more than we do. . . but I said I wasn't going to go there - and I won't. Anyway, I was having too much fun with the children to grab the camera. Krista got it on video on her camera. I'll have to figure out how to save that for Mike to see. ::snort::
During the clean-up, Cy always puts "his" music on. Tonight it was Toby Mac. I bathed Stacia. She broke free and ran into the living room. I caught her as she was dancing. I got her diapered. The rest of the littles were not to be outdone. They began dancing. I love this time of the day. They love to dance to Mike playing the piano too - but this is wilder. Stacia is a hoot - she gets feet, head, waist - everything into dancing. Cy bought her one of those play microphones you can get at the dollar store. She played with it and threw it....then Zander got it.
Imagine our shock when Zander threw the microphone down and began to rip his shirt off. We were laughing so hard we couldn't stand up...but then he pulled his shorts off too. The boys were dying and I said, "Hey, David danced in his underwear before God".....There really is a song that we learned during our time in the gospel service that talks about dancing like David did and says he "danced right outta his clothes". After watching Zander tonight - I have a very vivid picture of how David *may* have played wholeheartedly before the Lord and danced right out of those clothes and kept right on enjoying his dance.
Nothing big and theological here - though I COULD go there....I have been fascinated with that passage of Scripture since teaching in 2 or 3 years ago. LOL I do believe that God wants us to PLAY and ENJOY our times with Him more than we do. . . but I said I wasn't going to go there - and I won't. Anyway, I was having too much fun with the children to grab the camera. Krista got it on video on her camera. I'll have to figure out how to save that for Mike to see. ::snort::
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