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| Thirteen things to look forward to:
1. Vacation next week!
2. Tom coming home!.
3. Pasta (yes, it’s very low carb)!
4. Getting the car fixed (except for the cost)!
5. My birthday!
6. Two doctors appts. (Okay, not so much)
7. Time to exercise!
8. Getting a new theme! (Sarah from TM2TS is working on it. )
9. The end to the new audiobook I’m listening to!
10. Sleeping on clean sheets!
11. Signing Tom up for my phone plan!
12. My last couple of days as a header entry tech!
13. My new job! (See the post I got it! for more details.) |
The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy, and fun! Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
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| Thirteen things I want to do, but cannot:
1. Make cupcakes. I make them with chocolate chips, chocolate cake, and white frosting. Very yummy.
2. Take a shower. We have no hot water.
3. Do laundry. Someone else is using the machines.
4. Go to the grocery store. I have to wait for my phone to charge. Then I have to wait for my bluetooth to charge.
5. Make chocolate chip cookies.
6. Go visit my father and get veggies and sugar free flavored water.
7. Stop arguing with Tom. He doesn’t agree with my low carb diet.
8. Get a new theme. I can’t think of any good ideas.
9. Get my car fixed. I have the money, but I don’t think I’ll have the time for another week and a half.
10. Feel full for more than two hours.
11. Have Tom come home this weekend.
12. Go fun shopping.
13. Get a car for Tom. |
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- Temperature: 79°F;
- Humidity: 66%;
- Heat Index: 81°F;
- Wind Chill: 79°F;
- Pressure: 30.09 in.;
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
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| Thirteen things that happened this week:
1. I had my second torture…er…physical therapy session.
2. I worked six hours of overtime.
3. I got two hours and ten minutes of VTO, leaving me with less than 4 hours of OT.
4. Tom’s truck wouldn’t start.
5. Mom worked M, T, and R.
6. I went to Johnstown to meat Clayton and see Ian and Megan.
7. I got gas.
8. I didn’t go grocery shopping.
9. I had to restart my computer.
10. Kit got sick.
11. Tom’s truck wouldn’t start. (Yes, it happened twice)
12. I drove to Columbus.
13. TOM CAME HOME!!!
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- Heat Index: 81°F;
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- Pressure: 30.09 in.;
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Posted in Friends, Health, Pets, Thursday Thirteen, Tom | 4 Comments
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| 13 Books I’ve read in the past week
1. The Key of Light
2. The Key of Knowledge
3. The Key of Valor
4. Powers That Be
5. Joust
6. Alta
7. In Fury Born
8. Path of the Fury
9. Sanctuary
10. Aerie
11. The Five Love Languages
12. The Rebel and the Hero
13. A Hero In Her Eyes
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
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| 13 Musicals That I’ve Seen
1.Wicked – loved it!
2.Les Miserables – saw it on Broadway and loved it!
3.The Phantom of the Opera – saw it at Pantages and loved it!
4.Cats – loved it!
5.Jesus Christ Superstar – awesome!
6.Evita – saw in theater and as a movie – great!
7.Peter Pan – saw it with whatsherface – awesome!
8.Godspell – was in it and saw it – loved it!
9.A Musical Christmas Carol – saw it twice – awesome!
10.Man of La Mancha – great!
11.42nd Street – great!
12.1776 – saw twice – awesome!
13.Roger and Hammerstein’s Cinderella
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Thursday, May 21st, 2009
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| Thirteen things about my book (11 characters and 2 facts)
1. My main character is Dr. Shannon Turnet, a Univeristy professor and scientist who lives in Rhodes.
2. Her love interest is Roger, last name unknown at this point, an artist and sharshall who also lives in Rhodes.
3. Her enemy is Terry Boven, a younger researcher who hates the restrictions Dr. Turnet places on his research.
4. Henry Stoven, a high school student taking University classes in Rhodes is another key character. His grandmother is the Pinelene of Yorkshire and he is a shape changer.
5. Elvenia is the Carar of the fey of Rhodes. She is there leader and knows much about the prophecy which Dr. Turnet shall fulfill.
6. The leader of the daemon of Strideshot is the Cindaeatha, name as yet unknown. He is a creature of evil bent on destroying the fey of Rhodes.
7. A group of young hoodlums who terrorize Terry when he shows for his appointments with the Cindaetha are werewolves.
8. Hannah Turnet is Shannon’s mother and a magical faerie survivor from Turnet.
9. Rian, a young night faerie, has a rather big crush on the young owl Henry.
10. Nessa is a pixie who brings news of Shannon’s sudden decision to visit the fey and learn what they want.
11. Caroline Strideshot, possibly Terry’s love interest, is a police officer in Strideshot who finds him after a bad night with the Cindaetha. Her family founded Strideshot.
12. I don’t know what country Strideshot and Rhodes are set in. It may not even be on earth.
13. I have 22,425 words written and I’ve just discovered the history of Dr. Shannon Turnet.
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Posted in Thursday Thirteen, Writing | 28 Comments
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| Thirteen Things Widgets I use.
1. Number of subscribers by Feedburner – shows how many people subscribe to my blog
2. Subscribe – allows people to choose their feed reader from a list
3. Follow Me – displays different places where people can follow me
4. Stat Press (WP only!) – shows visitor information
5. Live Traffic – shows where people came from, where they went to, and where they are from
6. Traffic Map – shows Live Traffic info on a world map
7. BlogCatalog – shows visitors who use BlogCatalog
8. MyBlogLog – shows visitors who use MyBlogLog
9. Plurk – shows info from Plurk.com
10. Shelfari – displays books listed in your bookshelf at shelfari
11. Tickers – shows countdowns to different events
12. Flickr Badge – shows Flickr photos and links to site
13. Most Popular Posts (WP only!) – shows the most popular posts
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Posted in Blogging, Thursday Thirteen | 16 Comments
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| Thirteen Things WordPress Plugins I use.
1. Akismet – spam killer
2. commentluv – shows last post of person who is commenting
3. Flickr Photo Album – allows you to chose photos from Flickr to put in posts
4. Post Avatar – allows you to use icons with your post
5. Sociable – allows people to link your post to various social networking sites
6. Subscribe to Comments – allows people to subscribe to comments so that they can get any replies you post
7. StatPress – shows realtime stats for your blog
8. Weather Postin – shows snippets of weather info from when you posted
9. WordPress popular posts – shows the most popular posts you have
10. Follow Me – allows people to link to your profiles on several social media sites
11. Google XML sitemaps – automatically does site maps to be linked to Google and other search engines
12. myMoosMus – shows mood, music, and tv at time of posting
13. Official StatCounter plugin – adds StatCounter tracking code to your blog
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- Humidity: 66%;
- Heat Index: 81°F;
- Wind Chill: 79°F;
- Pressure: 30.09 in.;
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Posted in Blogging, Computer, Thursday Thirteen | 42 Comments
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| Thirteen Things I dislike about my job
1. The damn stairs
2. Having to take a shuttle to the parking lot
3. Being put on singles after being on multiples or duals
4. Waking up at 4 (or 3 if I work on Saturday) am to get to work on time
5. Quality meetings
6. I get lonely on breaks when I can’t call Tom
7. Union dues
8. Inkers
9. The fluctuating temperature
10. Having to work 50 hours in 7 seven days
11. The ice machine is always out of ice when I go to get some after lunch
12. Not really fitting in
13. Getting nasty notes about a one day drop in production |
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- Heat Index: 81°F;
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- Pressure: 30.09 in.;
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Posted in Thursday Thirteen, Work | 6 Comments
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| Thirteen Things I like about my job
1. Data entry
2. I get to do multiples
3. I have a break almost every two hours
4. I eat lunch at 1:30 pm
5. I like my supervisor
6. I can ask the leads questions
7. I’m going to get a raise
8. I’m now a permanent employee
9. I have a mailbox
10. Having 4 days off in a week every other week
11. I have weekdays off
13. I get paid
13. I’m very good at what I do!
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- Heat Index: 81°F;
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Posted in Thursday Thirteen, Work | 67 Comments