12 of 12 (3): January 2008

It's time again for 12 of 12, round 3! As always, all credit goes to Chad Darnell for the great idea!


9:30 a.m.: Good morning!


1:15 p.m.: After breakfast and the Saturday paper it's time to hop in the shower. I'm thinking I might use this picture for my "stripey" 366 theme.


2:30 p.m.: It's out of the house . . . finally! I'm on the way to the grocery store. Thankfully, I can listen to my iPod in the truck . . . it's Jon's CD!


3:30 p.m.: I took a detour on the way home from the grocery store. I decided to drive through the Chattahoochee Rec Park that is just down from where I live. I snapped this picture out of the front windshield!


3:45 p.m.: A truck full of yummy food! Now to carry it in and put it away.


4:40 p.m.: I've decided to make pot roast for dinner. Here are my veggies: carrots, mushrooms, and onions.


4:45 p.m.: And, here is the roast. The recipe I'm using is from The Pioneer Woman Cooks.


4:50 p.m.: After searing the roast, I deglaze my dutch oven with a little red wine and beef stock. Then, I add the meat back in, add more beef stock and Herbs of Provence. Yum!


4:55 p.m.: And, here is the yumminess just before it's placed in the oven to cook for two hours!



5:15 p.m.: I've been having issues today with my DSL connection. It seems to come and go as it pleases. See the little red light on the right . . . we want it to be green.

Yay! It's green!


7:15 p.m.: Dinner is served!


7:20 p.m.: With a dented can of ginger ale on the side.

That's my lazy Saturday! Please check out Chad's site for the other 12 of 12s!

(12 of 12) 2.0: September

It's time for 12 of 12 again. Check out Chad's site for the details. This month's bonus pic was based on the word "unexpected." So, since yesterday was Christin's birthday, Helen, Elaine and I took a birthday picture just for her!


7:00 a.m.: First things first . . . today's newspaper.


7:10 a.m.: My favorite story of the morning . . . all about the Red Sox major come back on Tuesday night against the Devil Rays. Go Sox!


8:05 a.m.: I'm leaving for work when I notice this thing on my tire. Thankfully, it wasn't alive and kicking.


8:15 a.m: My new apartment complex does not have any recycle bins. This frustrates me enormously. So, I have to take my recyclables to the bins at the Post Office. This morning, it's all newspapers.


1:10 p.m.: During lunch I make a trip to Target. I need a new grill pan desperately and I also need a little something for Christin.


5:15 p.m.: On the way home from work I stopped at CVS because I realized I forgot one very important thing for Christin's surprise picture . . . candles!


5:40 p.m.: Home at last. Here's my booty from Target, I also grabbed some Einsteins' Bagle Shmear. That stuff is great!


6:00 p.m.: Dinner. "Grilled" pork chops and a baked potato. I'm cooking an extra chop for dinner tomorrow.


6:10 p.m.: While dinner is cooking I gather up my Garmin GPS watch. It took a tumble with me during a run a while back. Thankfully, Garmin will be able to fix it. So, it's going out in the mail tomorrow! I can't wait to have it back.


6:20 p.m.: And dinner is ready.


11:00 p.m.: I love Sudoku. I especially love the Monster Sudoku that's in the Sunday paper. It includes numbers 0-9 and letters A-F. I'm finally sitting down to work on this one for a bit.

Bonus Pic: Yesterday (the actual 12th) was Christin's birthday. So, my bonus pic is a surprise for her.


Happy Birthday, Christin! I hope you had a wonderful day!

(12 of 12) 2.0: August

Okay, so I missed July, but I'm back with my August 12 of 12! Check out Chad's site for everyone else's day, and the rules of the game.


2:29 a.m.: I am getting into bed really late for me.


7:45 a.m.: And, yes, I forced myself to get up early so I would be able to get into bed for work! This is the Chattahoochee River, my new apartment complex fronts the river. I was hoping to get down here early enough for it to still be misty, but it's just too hot and humid for much mist lately.


7:48 a.m.: Here's another shot looking in the other direction, there was a fishing boat just past those branches.


8:00 a.m.: After walking around the river trail and going up to grab my mail from Saturday, I'm back at my apartment ready for some coffee and my Sunday paper. This is the view from my patio, lots of trees!


8:20 a.m.: Scrambled eggs and toast for breakfast . . . with coffee, of course. The top story for the Sunday paper . . . sorority rush at UGA. Seriously. It was a slow news weekend in Atlanta, evidently.


9:30 a.m: After eating breakfast and reading through the paper I hopped onto iTunes and downloaded the new Emerson Hart CD "Cigarettes & Gasoline." I love Emerson and the CD is great!


1:30 p.m: Last weekend I went to a peach themed party and had the best Peach Salsa (and Peach Sangria!!) so I decided to make some. This is everything I need save one item I forgot to lay out. We have peaches, a tomato, jalapeno pepper, cilantro and red onion. Know what's missing?


1:35 p.m.: A lime! Thankfully, I still had a couple in the fridge.


1:45 p.m.: And . . . the finished Peach Salsa, which was very yummy.


4:30 p.m.: Time to unpack the new Tivo box. Before I moved I had a Charter DVR box, so I didn't need Tivo. Now, I will have DirecTV (in 2 days) so I decided to get Tivo while there was a good deal. This one gave me a $150 rebate!


4:35 p.m.: While unpacking, I decide to watch an episode or two of Six Feet Under. I've got the entire series to watch.


8:00 p.m.: This is my Korres Rose Face Mask, which I'm going to use before bed. Don't worry, there will be no picture of my face all white and masky.

Bonus Pic: This month's word was "light". So, I decided on my Haagen Dazs light ice cream. This is Dulce de Leche, but I also tried out Coconut Pineapple this week. It's really good, too!


That's my day in a nutshell! See you next month!

12 of 12

Unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to do 12 of 12 today. I've spent all day long in Court. So, I was unable to take any pictures of the day. I don't think the Judge would've been pleased had I whipped out my camera for some photos.

I'll pick back up next month! However, dear readers, you can still head over to Chad's site to check out everyone else's day.

I have a couple of things I want to blog about, so hopefully I can pop in and do that over the next day or two.

(12 of 12) 2,0: June

It's time once again for Chad's wonderful 12 of 12! I'm proud of myself since I've remembered to do it every month so far. Check out Chad's site to see everyone's day.


7:45 a.m.: Heading to work. I'm still in happy mode over my new truck, Murphy. I have no idea where the name came from.


9:30 a.m.: This is where I spent most of my morning, the Paulding County Courthouse.


9:40 a.m.: I'm not really sure what sort of business this is, however, I thought the gigantic eagle was hysterical. (You'll see another gigantic thing later.)


10:00 a.m.: Atlanta has a ton of open area shopping centers. There are several different ones called "The Avenue." This is "The Avenue at West Cobb." I drove through to see if there were any stores I was interested in. There's a pretty good selection, but nothing I can't get a little closer to home.


10:10 a.m.: Getting back to work I had to drive through Kennesaw Battlefield State Park. This is one of the battlefields. There are pretty good running trails at the park.


10:15 a.m.: This is the "Big Chicken" which is very well known across Georgia. This is still on my way back to the office.


3:20 p.m.: I left work a little early because of a doctor's appointment. On the way home, I stopped at Walgreen's to fill my prescription.


4:30 p.m.: My prescription, which was supposed to take 30 minutes, took over an hour! I felt so bad by this time that I decided to run through Panda Express for some fast Chinese food.


5:00 p.m.: I am unable to wear my contact lenses while taking my medication. So, first thing is to take them out and stick them in my cute little contact case.


5:05 p.m.: Taking my medicine.


6:30 p.m.: The season 4 premier of Rescue Me starts tomorrow night, so I'm sitting down with my season 3 DVD to watch the season finale again.


11:31 p.m.: Time for bed!

Bonus picture: This month's bonus picture is based on the word "secret." I'm not sure if you can tell what my picture is, but I'm not telling. Also, I was/am an Alias fan, and the number "47" has special meaning, and Alias had all sorts of secrets!