80 bagillion years

I haven't posted in a long time. sorry. I am now a homeowner (moving in this coming Saturday) and almost 6 months pregnant.

The moving part is overwhelming and I can't wait until Sunday when everything will be at 1 house.

I wanted to post link to a blog that I think is hillarious. It is called My Husband's Crap - http://myhusbandscrap.blogspot.com/. A wife decided to take pictures of her husband's messes and post them on the internet in hopes that it will make him a better housekeeper. In the meantime, several other wives joined the party and post their husband's crap, too. It is fun looking at the pictures.

I LOVE The Office (the show). And I recently fell upon two irresistable blogs:

• Creed's Thoughts: http://blog.nbc.com/CreedThoughts/
• Shrute-Space: http://blog.nbc.com/DwightsBlog/

Here is a website page where people have tried to make Creed young again: http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/photos/#cat=484

Need ideas for office pranks? Here ya go: http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/photos/#cat=29

I love pranks.

Burgess Falls

We took Andy to Burgess Falls Park yesterday and he saw his first water falls. He was amazed. We all had fun. I took some pictures, but I have not downloaded them from my camera, yet.

I am going to post a whole lot of websites because I haven't posted anything lately:

Fun websites:

• Getting ready to travel? Here is a good travel talk forum: http://www.travel-talk.info.
• Old Man of the Mountain - This was a stone face that gazed out over Franconia Notch in New Hampshire for tens of thousands of years before collapsing on May 3, 2003. http://www.nhstateparks.org/ParksPages/OldMan/OldManScrapbook1.html
• Foam Bath Fish Time - foam fish that can tell time across the United States! http://www.savetz.com/fishtime/fishtime.cgi
• The Official Nerd Test - http://home.rochester.rr.com/jbennett/nerd - I ranked 32.4 % on the test and it said I was a Nerd-wannabe.
• Big Ben Web Cam! - http://www.camvista.com/england/london/bigben.php3
• Antler Furniture - You don't have to hunt and kill to get furniture made with anturally shed antlers. This company offers chairs with antler legs, antler chandeliers, antler tables, and antler lamps. http://www.antler.com/desktopdefault.aspx?tabname=home
• Pranks are cool! Watch as Yalies get 1,800 visiting Harvard alumni and fans to hold up cards spelling "We Suck" instead of "Go Harvard" at the 2004 Yale-Harvard game. http://www.harvardsucks.org/
• Victorian-era robots - http://www.bigredhair.com/robots/index.html
• Mr. Bill - Every era has its schlemiel, and in the 1980s it was Mr. Bill, the colorful clay Everyman that got clobbered weekly on Saturday Night Live. See his stop-motion animated misadventures in "Mr. Bill's Disasterpiece Theater." http://www.mrbill.com/
• Where is the toilet? http://www.theplumber.com/whereisthetoilet.html

My pritner is getting ready to be thrown out the window

I hate my printer at work. It is printing blank sheets today and I can't reboot my comptuer because I am running statistics and if I reboot, then I have to start the statistics all over again. I did not realize how dependent I am on my printer! I feel like the guys in Office Space when the printer says "PC Load Letter".

Anyway, it helps to think of good things when you are frustrated so here is my "good things" list for today:

1. It is Wednesday instead of Monday.
2. My name is April and that is easy for people to spell and it is not a really weird or ugly or redneck.
3. I get to leave to see Andy and Jason in 10 minutes.
4. I get to have some Diet Mountain Dew when I get home.
5. I have somewhere to live and plenty to eat and drink.
6. I have a family who cares for me and understands me.
7. Typing on my keyboard is pretty easy because I don't have long fingernails.
8. I like the freckles on my arm.
9. I got a lot of work done today before my printer quit on me.
10. My office is really nice.
11. I have a lot of good friends here at work.
12. The shoes I have on look pretty good and they only cost me $3.00 at K-Mart.
13. I have a lot of fun hobbies at home and plan to start painting soon.
14. I am doing a really cool walking/jogging program and it is going pretty good.

Ok - that is a pretty good list and I feel better.

Cool Technology Blog Websites:

• PopGadget - Personal Tech + Innovative Lifestyle for Women - http://www.popgadget.net/
• Technology - A technology blog from NewScientist Blogs - http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/
• Cool Gadget & Invention Blog - http://www.2bloggadgets.com/
• Funniest Gadgets - http://www.funniestgadgets.com

Introducing the book

I hope the world really does not come to this!

Corrections and yogurt

On my last post, I said that Mom turned 57. Well, that was wrong. She turned 58.

Also, she wanted me to make sure that everyone knows that the house in the picture below with the icicle lights is not her house. =)

Well, I have been trying to somehow get more dairy products in my diet because I usually have none and so I bought these Dannon Light & Fit Crave Control Strawberry & Cereal yogurts. (I know, long name) Anyway, it is pretty good and only one point - which is awesome because that way I can have this yogurt and then my 100 calorie snack bar too and have a 3 point breakfast that tastes pretty good. Last night I did drink some chocolate milk (fat free milk, sugar free chocolate syrup) and that was about 3 points I think. Two dairy servings a day is what I am supposed to get so it looks like I might be drinking chocolate milk every night. You can only have so much yogurt. Cheese would also be a good choice except it is a lot higher in points for a serving and I HATE cottage cheese (GROSS!)

Anyone have any other dairy ideas? Does pudding count for a serving of dairy? How much?

Explosion outside of mom & dad's house!

My parents need to be extra careful this coming saturday because this past Saturday I was visiting and suddenly there was these huge "BOOM"s coming from outside of their house. They live near the YMCA and the building beside the YMCA was in flames. There was black smoke filling the air. My mom later sent me an article to explain the noise (http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?stroyid=42657) The Saturday before this past Saturday, a neighbors house went up in flames and burnt down. So I am afraid what will happen next Saturday! Here are some pictures I took of the fire (be aware that the date on these pictures are wrong - they were taken February 24, 2007):















And here is a picture of Mom's birthday cake (her 57th birthday was Friday, February 23rd):





Fun Websites:

• The Virtual Toilet Paper Museum - Inspired by Jerry Seinfeld's statement that there oughta be a toilet paper museum, the folks at this site created one. Contemplate how rough life was before 1935, when Northern Tissue produced the first "splinter-free" brand. Plus a whole page devoted to the over or under debate. http://nobodys-perfect.com/vtpm (this one is for the Duggers)
• Where's George? - Enter the denomination, series, and aserial number of any U.S. dollar bill in your wallet, along with your zip code, to register your bill. Then spend your money and check back to see if your dollar turns up again - with the distance and travel time it took to get to its new owner. http://www.wheresgeorge.com/
• Free Online Games - http://www.freeonlinegames.com/
• Rube Goldberg - a comicly involved, complicated invention, laboriously contrived to perform a simple operation - http://www.rube-goldberg.com/ (make sure you click on Artwork Gallery)
• Dead People Server - The Dead People Server is a virtual graveyard of dead famous people - the long dead, and the newly dead. Check the "not-dead-yet" category, those celebrities mistakenly reported to be dead, like Abe Vigoda, who has maintained his career despite People Magazine's report of his demise in 1982. http://216.92.255.170/dps
• Official Outhouses of America Tour - Did you know there is such a thing as outhouse archaeology? That's where people dig under outhouses of yore to retrieve useful artifacts from the past. http://www.jldr.com/ohindex.shtml

Logan's Roadhouse response

Dear Ms. Crockett,

Thank you for taking the time to contact us about the nutritional information of the menu items served at Logan’s Roadhouse. While we are working on being able to provide our guests with nutritional information, we do not have this information available at this time. I understand that this is a need that many of our guests have and we hope to be able to provide this in the near future. We strive to maintain a broad menu of choices so that our guests can find the foods that they want and need. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Again, thank you for taking the time to write to us.

Elizabeth Evans
Guest Relations Specialist
Logan's Roadhouse