Over the past year we have replaced both of our toilets in our house with new more efficient toilets. When you replace them though you still have the old toilets which leads me to my question, what do you do with the old toilet after you have replaced it with a new one? I don’t think you can just toss it in the trash so what do you do?
I’m not pregnant yet but we have discussed the possibilities and one of the questions that always come up is how do people do it? How do you balance having a fufilling career and still spend quality time with your family? Also I can’t forget how are you able to achieve all of the things you wanted to in life…. say travel? It seems unreal to me how people do this as all I can think is how expensive babies are. Don’t get me wrong I love kids dearly but I’m just asking of the world out there are there women who can do this all? I know there are and so what I’m asking is how do you balance it all and not lose yourself in the mix? Just curious. Any advice would be much appreciated.
Every day we have to give my cat chunk an epilepsy pill at 7am and 7 pm. Also at that time we feed each of our cats a half a can of wet food. During the week I get up at 5:30-6am every day and leave for work. We don’t feed the cats at this time or pill them as my husband doesn’t leave until 8. On the weekends then my cat chunk has decided that when 5:30 rolls around he needs to make sure I get out of bed. It doesn’t matter that the night before we stay up until 12 versus 9-10. All he knows is that you must get up and start the day. He goes to different spots on the bed and starts digging or licking my face. He pushes his cold wet nose against any body part showing. We have learned once he starts he won’t stop until you get up and feed him. Therefore usually we end up getting up and locking him downstairs. Anyone else experience this with their cat and is there a cure? I’m at the point where I know during the week I wouldn’t have to set my alarm as he would get me up. Course an hour after he gets me up he goes back to sleep… its just not right:).
As most of you may already know I’m addicted to the Twilight series. In fact I just finished the fourth book in the series Breaking Dawn which surprised me but I actually thoroughly enjoyed it. The next thing to look forward to in this series is the movie which comes out on 11/21/2008. I’m very intrigued with it to see how much like the book it is. I have seen several previews and it looks really good! My husband being the tech-savvy guy that he is was nice enough to create me a widget to countdown to the movie. Nothing fancy but for all of us out there looking forward to the movie I thought I would share this! Enjoy!!
So my husband has been looking for Wall-E merchandise since it came out. I have come to a conclusion though why its not everywhere like some movie merchandise. The whole movie is about how people have so much waste that I think it actually makes allot of sense that there isn’t merchandise everywhere. I have read allot of posts about Wall-E stating that its ironic that Disney is making a movie about how much waste there is everywhere and that this movie would just create alot of waste. Seriously though if you look at say Wal-Mart or Target its hard to find anything Wall-E related. I’m not sure if that’s the reason behind it or not but I thought it was interesting.
I have written before that I was totally addicted to the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer. Well in August the fourth book in the series comes out called Breaking Dawn. I think this is the last book in the series and I have already pre-ordered mine as I can’t wait to read it. My husband was kind enough to created me a cool countdown widget to anticipate this book. I encourage any and all who are addicted to this series to pre-order the book and get the widget!!!
When looking for a place to vacation there is a allot to consider (enough to do, too much to do, how long you are going for, etc). So when we decided to plan a week long vacation we narrowed it down to four spots (limited because I haven’t gotten my passport yet:) Much to my husbands dismay). We had it narrowed down to San Diego (I have been there before and loved it), San Antonio (neither of us have been there but we have heard rave reviews), Colorado (I have been to parts and loved it and my brother was out there and so could recommend great places to go), and Walt Disney World (I had never been). We kept tossing and turning around ideas but finally after reassurance from my husband that we would still have fun even though it usually more of a family place we decided to go to Walk Disney World.
We were both very excited since its not too often you get a week off from work but yet I was still a little nervous that it would be a little young for us (OK maybe not us since my husband is a total kid at heart but at least me). I have to say though after going it is allot of fun! I would actually recommend going to people who don’t have kids just because once you get kids its allot of work and allot of money. (I can’t even imagine). We went for a week and there was still allot that we didn’t get to. Here’s my breakdown of the parks:
Magic Kingdom: Definitely for the young at heart or just the young, they try to get a few rides for the older crowd too (Haunted Mansion, Pirates, Big Thunder Mountain Roller Coaster, and Space Mountain) but still probably the mildest of the parks.
Epcot: This would probably be my second favorite park, its got a few rides for the older crowd (Mission Space, Test Track) plus its got the World which is kind of cool, food and drinks from all over the world…. this is definitely themed for the older crowd with alcohol flowing freely and food to your hearts content.
Hollywood Studios: This was probably my favorite park even though its the smallest. It has the most mature rides or shows of any of the Disney Parks. Some of my favorites were Tower of Terror, Rocking Roller Coaster, Stunt Show.
Animal Kingdom: I think I got a bad impression of this park and so I’m not the best to review but here’s what I know and why I’m biased: It was PACKED the day we went there hard to even move amongst so many people plus half way through the day it started to downpour and did so for at least an hour. I did love the safari though that was a blast and its a huge park that I think we could have spent more time there.
Non-Disney Park:
Universal Studios: I liked this park although wish I would have gone to Island of Adventure instead (its sister park). This park had allot of fun shows (Fear Factor, Shrek 4-D, Twister, Disaster) but its hours were shorter and the two parks are right next to each other but you have to pay 70 dollars per adult per park to get in which is awfully pricey for the size of the park. Island of Adventure was more of the roller coaster park and so I think we would have really enjoyed it. The one ride that was really cool even though it had an extremely long wait for was the Simpson’s Ride which opened up shortly before we got there.
Places we didn’t make it but I would have liked to:
Sea World, Islands of Adventure, Kennedy Space Center, The Beach, Typhoon Lagoon, Blizzard Beach.
We stayed at Port Orleans Riverside which I also highly recommend for adults without kids along (Old southern styled mansions, 7 pools, etc). If you stay at the Disney Resorts make sure to partake in there mean plan as you get way more food then you can possibly eat and definitely worth the money!!
So that’s the synopsis….. allot of fun but now I’m back at work….. sad!!
Well I just thought I would let everyone know that almost exactly two years ago I had a trimaellor ankle break which I never thought I would walk again from. Slowly over the past two years I have re-learned to walk and run on it. It has gotten better with time. Two weeks ago I decided to see how healed it was. We went to Disney World. Which if you don’t know you walk ALOT….. As I told my husband this was a great test to see how it would hold up to all this walking. It did amazingly well. There was only one time that it twinged enough with pain that I took an hour break to put it up. Otherwise I just kept going and it was fine we went to all the park (even some twice all day long for one week and it held up really well. It still gets swollen here and there and it still lets me know its not perfect but I figure since I still have metal down there and since it was hanging off my ankle at one point I can’t complain.
I don’t know about all of you but I wasn’t very happy when Crispy M&M’s disappeared off of the shelves. They were so good. So yesterday when we were at the grocery store I was looking at the M&M’s as my husband is a fanatic about M&M’s and I saw a new kind for the Indiana Jones movie. They were called Mint Crisp. I thought hmmm you think they are anything like crispy M&M’s? So we bought a package. They are Crispy M&M’s only in mint and they are so good! For all those of you out there who miss crispy M&M’s and like mint I would definitely recommend these!
Last night between 8-9 people all over the world participated in Earth Hour. This is where for the one hour people and business turned off all of their lights and some people and places even turned off everything electrical. We participated in this turning off everything including turning off the heat and turning off our computers. We then lighted candles and played games. It was actually kind of relaxing not having all of the electrical appliances running. We decided that people should try this at least once a week. I mean its not hard to shut everything down for one hour once a week. Think of the positives to this. My only question is, is it better for the environment to turn on a light or to light several candles(scented or not)? Just a thought.