Valentine Suckers

Look what I made today.

Aren't these so fun.

I plan to give these to the girls I visit teach, the primary kids, neighbors, and my nieces and nephews.

I made these by melting candy canes together.  See this site for more info.  I like this craft because it is easy and cheap.  I got my candy canes for 12 cents at after Christmas sales.

How can you tell if a computer is male or female?

How can you tell if a computer is Male or Female (without holding it up)?

Five reasons to believe computers are female:

1. No one but the Creator understands their internal logic.


2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.


3. The message “Bad command or file name” is about as informative as, “If you don’t know why I’m mad at you, then I’m certainly not going to tell you.”


4. Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later retrieval.


5. No matter what your initial investment, you find yourself spending half of every paycheck on accessories for it.

However, another group of computer scientists (all female) think that computers should be referred to as if they were male.Their reasons follow:

1. They have a lot of data, but are still clueless.


2. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem.


3. As soon as you commit to one you realize that, if you had waited a little longer, you could have obtained a better model.


4. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on.


5. Big power surges knock them out for the rest of the night.

Jake found this at macbigot.com.  It is a pretty funny site w/ a lot of bashing of dumb politics.

Pretender

Halloween 2009

This year Jen hosted another one of her famous Halloween parties.  I love that she does this because it gives us an excuse to dress up and a place to go.  (I'm a Halloween Grinch--I do not like constantly opening my door to trick 'or treaters)  This year we played pin the tail on the cat, a Halloween trivia game, and toss the candy.  We also had loads of finger food.  I took my latest craze of mango peach salsa and Food Should Taste Good multi grain chips.  Both from Costco.  Yummy!

Jake and I dressed up as characters from the old TV series, Pretenders.  Jake's parents have all of the  seasons on DVD and they have been passed from family to family.  So although we figured that nobody else would recognize who we were we hoped that Jake's family would.  I dressed up as Miss Parker and Jake was Jared.

Chloie was so cute as a giraffe.  She decided early on that she wanted to be a giraffe for Halloween.  Luckily Jen was able to find a giraffe costume.  However before she found it, Jen kept asking her if she wanted to be a witch or a ghost (something a little easier to come up with) and Chloie kept saying yes, a giraffe witch or a giraffe ghost.  Too funny!

Here kitty, kitty!

You Know You're in Arbon When...

• Going to get the mail is Friday nights entertainment.


• When your car looks like this:


• When visiting teaching two sisters takes 3 hours.

Arbon Fun

Dixie

This is Dixie our new dog!  I picked her up on the reservation.  She was just running on the road with her tongue lolling out and she had such a sweet gallop.  She just looked like she was having the time of her life.  I wanted to have this happy little soul with me.  I turned my car around and drove up a field and finally coaxed her into my car.  Then I took her home, told Jake I had a surprise for him and he should close his eyes.  Then I let Dixie in and she happily jumped up on him and licked his face.  Boy was Jake surprised!