May-OH-naise

Mayonnaise, it may not stir excitement in many minds. It doesn't really do much for me. But when I spied the expiration date on the side of my Kraft Mayo with Olive Oil, my heart leapt. Not because I realized that I had been spreading spoiled sauce on my sandwiches, but because I could keep spreading mayo from this container until 16 March 2010!!!



I am so accustomed to buying my condiments with maybe a week or two to spare, and that's if there was a date! That's just what was available, and I dealt with it. But now that I don't have to, I feel luxurious. I feel privileged. I feel like I'm back in the States. It's the little things, really.

Sunday Quotations

Something to ponder on this fine Fall Sunday . . .

Where are we going?

*CLAP*CLAP*CLAP*

Where are we going?

*CLAP*CLAP*CLAP*

Where are we going?

**And if you don't know the Dora song, lucky you!**

YouTube Tuesday

For lack of creative juices flowing in my grey matter, I have decided to share a favorite YouTube video on Tuesdays. That and it's quite alliterative. YouTube Tuesday, YouTube Tuesday, say that five times fast!

Matrix Ping Pong

*P.S.*
I'm glad that they finally started offering a smaller format so it fits on my blogger page, but it is sooo small! You can click on it to see it bigger.

My camera is awesome!

No, I don't have a fancy-schmancy (meaning expensive) camera. But wow, I am impressed. No, it's not new. I've had it for two years now. Three? My memory is escaping me. Maybe three. Either way, I can definitely recommend it. Look at this picture.


I was outside, rolling the garbage bin to the curb. As I turned around toward the house, I spied a sliver of the moon over yonder apartments. I ran back inside for my camera. It took some creative balancing of the camera, too. See, my camera is great. But at dusk or low light times, it just sucks. There are enough toots & whistles on this thing that I could probably solve that, but I can't figure out how. I have messed with a couple things, but not liked the results and, thankfully, been able to change it back to the original settings. So at times like this, I have to either pull out my tripod or get creative. I propped the camera up on the utilities meter on the side of my house, snagged a couple shards of bark from my neighbor's landscaping and set the timer. Voila! Non-blurry so-clear-you-can-see-craters-of-the-moon picture. I only wish I could have zoomed further. That's the other beauty of my camera; it has 12x optical zoom. What is that, you ask? There is optical zoom and digital zoom. Optical is the one you want and it's the highest zoom factor in a non-DSLR camera. (as far as I know. It was 3 years ago when I bought it.) Enough technical stuff, I really don't know what I'm talking about! Oh, my camera? Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7 Got it on NewEgg.com, great deal. Geez, I sound like a commercial? I need to get paid to do this!

An Apology

This is kind of how I feel right now.

I'm sorry. There, I said it. It's kind of an apology to myself, too. I just haven't had the energy or bandwidth to blog. Too blah to blog, I guess. When is it all going to be over? Never. When will our clothes be in a permenant place? Who knows? By the time I get all of our minutia where it goes, it will be time to ship off again. When? Next summer. Where to? Well, a select few know, but that's what I'm saving for another post. A post to blow you out of the water. Really, I swear. It's not too surprising, but still exciting, nonetheless.

I do have a special visitor coming next week as well! One more reason for me to get off the computer and back on track. Will everything have a place? Probably not. Will there be a working bathroom in the formerly cavernous, unfinished basement? Yes. Yes there will.

I wish

If only, if only, in my wildest dreams, could I draw like this. Just freakin' amazing!!



Now, if he did a Desmond picture . . . oh brotha!