Birthday time!

This old guy turns 14 today:

14 years old for a dog is about the equivalent of 82 humans years.

Hammy, you're old! It's hard to believe that the little pup we brought home when I was a kid is technically now 82!

He's an old dog but he's still out catching birds, geckos, mice, you name it! He's turned into quite the refined looking wiener dog now---doesn't his white beard make him look regal?

Love you Ham!

Caffeine!

I saw this online today and it made me laugh:

It's the molecular structure of caffeine tattooed on someone's arm! ( I love how they colored each element accordingly and showed the different covalent bonds---NERD!)

Americans are so addicted to their coffee and other caffeinated drinks today; it's crazy!

Though I'm one to talk.....a big ice cold Diet Coke is my best friend. It makes my day so much better to have one! The other day my friend and I had this huge conversation about how much we love Diet Coke.

Maybe this should be my tattoo.... (um, not!). By the way I think this guy's (or girl's....) bulging arm is kind of gross.

hahaha!

Today was Seth's day off, so I asked him to come watch me dance at the PCC.

He brought my camera to take some nice pictures.

At the last minute, I decided that I would do the solo on the Tahiti canoe so that he could get a really good HD video...

...but Seth had never used the video setting before. This is what he got:

hehehe. I hope you enjoyed all two seconds of my solo. :)

Maybe we'll try again tomorrow.

Mowing Etiquette

The question of the day is: what is a polite time to mow the lawn?

My neighbors seem to think that 7:30 am is an ok time to be blaring the lawn mower. To me this is wayyyyyy to early. I hate being woken up by a lawn mower right outside my window.

My other neighbors think 8:30-9:00 am is a good time to mow the lawn. I feel like these neighbors alternate between these times to make sure I don't get any sleep.

I always thought after 10am was the "green light" for mowing lawns, blaring music, tv, etc. just to be polite to those who still might be sleeping.

Why are people up so dang early anyway? I mean, I'm usually up by 8:30 anyway, but I don't want to hear that annoying roaring sound that early in the morning! Plus poor Seth sometimes gets home from work really late and needs to sleep-in in the morning---but CAN'T because of the crazy loud lawn mowing!

So am I crazy for getting mad that people are mowing the lawn outside my window from 7:30-9:00 am everyday?

What time do you think is ok?

Oil spill

Today is day 48 of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

It makes me so sick to see the environmental damage that has occurred because of it...and it worries me that it's just the beginning.

It is estimated that $1.6 billion of economic damage has been cause by this oil spill (Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies.) Not to mention all of the damage done to the wildlife:

(From the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

437: dead birds

212: Sea Turtles dead

52: Number of species facing threat

32: National wildlife refuges at risk

24: Dolphins dead

It makes me so sad.

Please help pray for a solution.

"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future."

(Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958)