Tis the season?

Safeway is fully stocked with Egg Nog and its not even Halloween yet.

The Bagel Test

You Are a Plain Bagel

You are hardworking, honest, and down to earth. You don't like surprises, and you need security to feel happy. Of all the types, you're the most likely to eat for comfort. You tend to have the same thing for breakfast every day. Why change what works?

What Kind of Bagel Are You?

Time of Day Test

Weekend Wrap-Up

I usually start my weekend posts with news from Thursday night. I'm going to do that this time although I had to work on Friday this past week and therefore my weekend was shorter than usual but still good, here are the highlights:

• Enjoyed some yummy food and beer at Ray's Brewmaster's Dinner with Kat and Don on Thursday evening.
• Was at work at 7:30 on Friday morning, it was painful.
• Assisted as best I could and actually enjoyed my interview with the ISO auditor, a bi-annual requirement for the company I work for.
• Celebrated the successful conclusion of the audit with my colleagues and Tequila!
• Saturday morning was all about the Laundry, I think it was 13 loads in all.
• Visited the Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection at the Weyerhaeuser headquarters in Federal Way with Kat.
• Met friends (and UW alums) at Rock Bottom in Seattle to watch the game. The Husky's successful maintained their win less season. Go BEAVS!
• Dropped some food off at a party that Kipp was having.
• Had dinner with Kat at Outback Steakhouse.
• With the exception of walking the dog, I stayed home all day Sunday.
• Cleaned the kitchen, bathroom and my office.
• Got everything ready for the week and decided as I was falling into bed on Sunday night that 2-day weekends suck, I prefer the 3-day ones!

How was your weekend?

An end to the email forwards??

While eating lunch at my desk today, I received an email message from my Mom. This isn't unusual, I receive at least 5 emails from her each and every day and not one of them is written by her, every one is something she has forwarded.

I handle all of these emails in the same manner. I scroll through the multiple headers (deleting this crap is apparently a foreign concept to the serial forwarder) from the previous senders until I get to the beginning of the message and begin reading. If it doesn't captivate my attention immediately, it gets deleted. If it is pertaining to golf, menopause, growing up in the 50's, or any other like minded subjects, it gets deleted and I momentarily ponder, "Why would she send me that?" If it is clearly an urban legend or something offering false information then I reply with a link that points out the problems/inaccuracies in the message. If the email requires you to forward to 10 people or more if you REALLY want your wish to come true then I delete it IMMEDIATELY! I had trouble with this last one for a while thinking that I have had my share of bad luck and am generally the kind of person that likes it when good things happen but I decided that I would likely bring myself better karma simply by not filling others email boxes with a bunch of crap.

So you can imagine how excited I was to see the following email today:

To: Darling Daughter, many others
From: Mom
Subject: FW: I'M STILL WAITING...

I'M STILL WAITING....

I did what you told me, I sent the email to 10 people like you said and I'm still waiting for that miracle to happen.



To all my friends who in the last year sent me best 'wishes', chain letters, 'angel' letters or other promises of good luck if I forwarded something, NONE OF THAT SHIT WORKED!

For 2009, could you please just send money, VODKA chocolate, movie tickets or petrol vouchers instead?

Thank you!

Immediately after reading it I dialed my mother's office phone and with great excitement asked if she was serious about not sending any more forwards. She laughed in a very maniacal way and said, "No!"

Damn! I was so hopeful!

The Autumn Test

Your Autumn Test Results

You are a energetic, warm, optimistic person. You approach everything with a lot of enthusiasm. When you are happiest, you are calm. You appreciate tradition and family. You enjoy feeling cozy. You prefer change to come slowly. You need a long transition period when your life changes. You find hard work to be the most comforting thing in the world. You like the feeling of accomplishing something. Your ideal day is chill and uneventful. You prefer to kick back and take it easy. You tend to live in the moment. You enjoy whatever is going on, and you don't obsess over the past or future.

The Autumn Test

Register!

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

--George Jean Nathan (1882-1958)

Today is the last day to register to vote in King County (Seattle), Washington and a few other places around the country. If you aren't registered PLEASE take the time to do it today. If you live in King County you can find information here, if you don't live in King County you can find information here.

iPod random ten

Idea stolen from Don. As usual my iPod is playing away on my desk and making the fact that I'm working today nearly bearable. I shuffled the songs and the first 10 to play (listed by song, artist and album):

1. Jezebel -- 10.000 Maniacs, Our Time in Eden
2. I Need You -- America, History: Greatest Hits
3. All I Need Is Everything -- Over the Rhine, Hear Music Volume 2, Songs for Long Narrow Stretches
4. Do You Wanna Dance? -- The Beach Boys, 20 Good Vibrations, The Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
5. Glasgow (KSER) -- Travis Harnett, KSER solo acoustic guitar
6. Shepherd Moons -- Enya, Pain The Sky with Stars, The Best of Enya
7. Together Forever -- Rick Astley, Whenever You Need Somebody
8. Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing -- Diana Ross & The Supremes, Joined Together: The Complete Studio Duets
9. One More Night -- Phil Collins, No Jacket Required
10. So Why? -- Carbon Leaf, 5 Alive! (Disc 1)

Believe it or not I'm more embarrassed by the Phil Collins than I am the Rick Astley. :-)

How did you get here?

I always wonder how random visitors find my site and am always amazed when I look at some of the Google searches that have landed people here. This week seems to have brought more than the usual number of random hits so I decided to post some of the searches here:

• what is my princess name
• quiz on five senses
• personalities with lots of hand gestures
• julieanne seattle blog
• personality based on fridge
• personal camp barges
• my halloween name
• five senses personality test
• beer truck pictures on flickr
• diet spice cake
• how to test the five senses
• coke spice cake
• best paella
• eat drink and be merry for tomorrow you may be in utah
• sushi thumb drive
• gesture quizzes
• ikea bulla bag
• julia ann in the bathroom
• maltby latte cup drive thru

And my favorite... bathroom liquor cabinet.

Weekend Wrap-Up

Escaped from Seattle to Lake Wenatchee for a long weekend with Barney and Don. Here are the highlights:

• Enjoyed the fall colors and a beautiful drive over Steven's Pass.
• Unpacked and settled in to Kamp K, my friend Kipp's cabin.
• Took a walk along the waterfront and back through the woods.
• Worked REALLY hard to get a fire started.
• Relaxed on the deck and enjoyed the lake while snacking and sippin a glass of wine.
• Made and enjoyed a yummy dinner of steaks, baked potatoes and green beans.
• Got beat over and over again in repetitive games of Shanghai Rummy.
• Drank too much wine.
• Sipped coffee and stared out at the morning fog on the lake.
• Made oatmeal for breakfast and can't believe I've lived 35 years and never put cinnamon on my oatmeal!
• Snapped some great pics on the way to Leavenworth, I love fall!
• Saw the Oktoberfest parade and the traditional taping of the first keg.
• Tried a few "new to me" beers.
• Enjoyed walking through Leavenworth on a sunny beautiful afternoon.
• Got back to the cabin in time to enjoy the sunset and some snacking in front of the fire.
• Lost some more card games, it was not my weekend for winning.
• Enjoyed coffee in front of the fire again trying to get the fire going again.
• Made my famous (at least in my little world they are famous) Eggs Benedict.
• Cleaned up and packed up.
• Stopped at Smallwood's Harvest in Peshastin, WA to buy fresh apples.
• Got home in time to unpack and prepare for the week ahead.

Hopefully I'll get the pictures downloaded from my camera soon so that I can share some with all of you. How was your weekend?