June 2009 Mosaic

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Half a year, can you believe it? I have to admit, I honestly didn't think I would actually make it this far and still be doing so well at this photo a day thing. I will admit, it is getting harder sometimes. How, after six months, can I be forgetting to take my camera with me *more* often? I'm trying to re-integrate that habit. Maybe I can be better about it for the second half of the year. Hope your year is going well so far!



This picture is from the day we had all the drilling done for the termite treatment. These two cats do NOT like each other, at all. They pretty much cannot get closer to each other than about 3 feet without Cleo (the orange one) freaking out (Bengal doesn't care much for her, either). But when the drilling started? All of the kitties were unhappy, and these two happily cohabitated on this 2x2 foot square of carpet under the end table for over an hour.



These little red flowers are each about the diameter of a nickel. I spotted them growing on the top of the concrete island near Artuzzi's, and they just looked so bright and cheery in the sunlight.



The morning of Luke's second swim lesson, we heard a deafening noise as we approached campus. As we crested the hill, we saw this *huge* freight helicopter delivering something to the roof of the Coca-Cola building. This photo does absolutely nothing to emphasize the scale of this thing, but trust me, it was gigantic. Luke was terribly impressed! LOL We didn't actually see what was being delivered, but the noise was just incredible. Everyone who was on foot had stopped and was looking up at it. You just couldn't help yourself.



I laugh every time I see this picture. I don't know what he was up to, but he absolutely had to have every one of these stuck in the waistband of his pajamas. He was limited only by the number of red sticks in his Tinkertoy kit. You should have seen him trying to walk around like that. It was too funny!



Ta-da! Found the earring back that I reported missing on 6/18. This is the photo I thought I was going to post on Thursday, 6/25. Then Michael Jackson died. Earring back suddenly seemed less relevant. Such is life. But I am very happy to be wearing my earrings again.

2009-06-30

And this is all that is left of yesterday's cake. Don't worry, we didn't eat it all ourselves! We each had one piece yesterday, and we saved 2 for today. The rest I sent to work with DH. He put it in the break room when he arrived at 7 AM, and when he checked on it at 9 AM, it was completely gone. And I know you can't really see it in the picture, but that cake server is engraved with our names and our wedding date. I bought a stainless steel cake knife and server for the wedding cake (instead of silver, like most people), and I love using them. They make me smile every time. It will be 11 years on Saturday! So hard to believe.

2009-06-29

The fruits of yesterday's yummy beaters. I didn't get the icing made and the whole thing put together until today. I do believe this is my first ever multi-layer cake. Upon cutting and tasting, we discovered that the recipe isn't really worth the time and effort, but it looked pretty.

2009-06-28

Ah, the simple things, like licking the beaters after mixing up a cake. Neither of the boys like it much, so I get both all to myself!

2009-06-27

Here is Luke, swimming all by himself without any help from the instructor. Yay!

2009-06-26

These iridescent spheres are just sitting in a bowl in an alcove at Maddio's Pizza Joint. I liked how they looked, reflecting and refracting in the sunlight. They're a little dusty, though! LOL

2009-06-25

A very sad day. Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson died within hours of each other.

2009-06-24

Not sure if you can really see this in the photo. I was trying to capture the tabs that I routinely have open on my browser. They are: Yahoo Mail, Gmail, Bloglines, Twitter, Facebook, the general chat forum of my favorite BB, and Google. It keeps me off the streets, LOL!

2009-06-23

DH is finally officially official. He needed to sign off on someone else's Professional Engineering application, and he had to stamp his signature as being a PE himself. Obviously, that would require a stamp, something I have been pestering him to get for 5 years now. It came today.

2009-06-22

Ah, see, I knew my previous "I forgot to take a picture" day didn't count, since I did actually remember to do it, I just chose not to since I was already in bed. Today? Never even crossed my mind to take one! Didn't even realize it until the next day. So, this is one from a few days ago that I had intended to use as a fill photo at the end of the month. Guess it can fill in now! After realizing that I had only the one good bottle of nail color left a few days ago, I went out and bought a few new ones. These are: Cover Girl 3-in-1 Mauve to the Beat, Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Lavender Marquis, Milani Hot Orchid, and Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Forever Lilac. I've tried 3 of the 4 already. *Love* the Mauve, hate the Marquis, and Orchid is okay.

2009-06-21

My hubby's idea of the perfect Father's Day dinner: Krystal!

2009-06-20

Happy Early Father's Day to my husband. He and Luke played in the leisure pool today after swim lessons. It was the first time Luke has ever played in a pool, and they both had a blast.

2009-06-19

Not the best picture, I know, but the other one turned out terribly, and by the third one, the item in question was gone! What was he eating? Cake, a slice of Entenmann's Golden Pound Cake, to be specific. Why is that worthy of documentation? Because the child does not eat cake! He's never eaten a single piece of birthday cake that we've made him in 4 years, nor has he eaten any other cake or cupcake that I've ever made. He ate the chocolate cupcakes briefly at Golden Corral, but he doesn't eat them anymore, and hasn't for quite some time. Maybe I should try serving this at his next birthday?

2009-06-18

This is a make-up picture. I did remember that I hadn't taken one during the day of the 18th, but it was 11:30 PM, I was already in bed, and I had been feeling terrible all day. It just wasn't worth it. This does, however, represent something that I discovered that evening. Notice anything? Yeah, one of the backs is missing. The interesting thing about these is that the posts are threaded and the backs physically screw on. How do you lose one of those?! These are my good ruby earrings that I got nearly 3 years ago. I never take them off (mainly because I'm lazy about wearing/changing jewelry these days). I'm still baffled how it happened, and I can't find it anywhere. I hope the store sells replacements, though it might turn out to be cheaper to buy new ones.