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I set up photo albums very fast tonight at FotoTime.com If you want to – check out the Vacation Photos. Not edited. Not too many comments. At least I know now that they are online and “safe” until I burn them to a CD tomorrow or next week. Kudos to FotoTime – I like that they just store the images instead of making them smaller. I uploaded some to Shutterfly earlier today, but I didn’t like that it made my pictures smaller.

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
(Quote found at the end of an e-mail message tonight. It made me laugh. Had to share.)

Missouri Man Bakes Fireworks, Blows Up Kitchen: About 3 a.m. the homeowner decided to bake some lasagna and turned the oven on. “It blew the kitchen all apart,” said Duddy. ”The walls were all blown out, the oven flew right through one of the walls.”

Lasagna at 3 a.m. – sounds tasty.

Sites I have found to share: SnazzyKat and Little Things. Good reads.

While I was up in North Dakota I discovered that they are talking about renaming the state. Is that not insane? “They” (the elusive they) think that if they take the North out of the name then people would want to go there. Ummm, ok. It’s still 50 below 0 in the winter time, no matter what the state name is. It is an absolutely gorgeous and wonderful state though, with the lowest crime rate in the nation. I would move there. Seriously. Anyways, you can vote in the Name Our State Contest at the Fargo Forum. My personal favorite? “South Florida” – because if you are going to change it you may as well go all the way.

And for Naomi, here is a necklace that I should have bought for you for loaning me your camera. The Manfruit beads. I am laughing so hard over that one… (link thanks to Little Things)

Spent all of yesterday traveling – left Sykeston to go to Bismarck at 8 am; flew out of Bismarck to go to Minneapolis at 11:15 am, arrived at Minneapolis at 12:15 pm to leave again at 1:20 pm; landed in Houston at 4:05 pm. Then you have to get the luggage, go get the car from the long term lot, drive to the Honda dealership to pick up my car (Yeah! My car is all pretty again!) and eat dinner. Whew. I was exhausted by the time I got home last night. I will work on finishing my “vacation journal” over the next week or so – have pictures to crop and edit and so forth. If you want to take a sneak peek of the Vacation Pictures you can – but there are blurry ones in there, the files are huge, and no captions on anything. I uploaded them last night just to back them off of the poor sad laptop which I am afraid is on it’s last leg. When the journal is done the pictures will make sense. I think I will set up an “album” too so people can view just the pictures, but that will be later, after the journal is done.

All in all, I had a *wonderful* time and I am sooooo glad I went. I am very, very grateful to Naomi for letting me use her digital camera – I was able to take a lot of shots that I might not have otherwise taken. It really helped me keep costs down – I didn’t go through a ton of film like I normally do and now I don’t have to spend $100 to get all that film developed. THANK YOU NAOMI!!! And thanks too to Kymberlie for taking care of the cats, fish and plants. It was nice to be able to come home yesterday with the peace of mind that all was well there.