What's another word for "Boring"?

I'm going to commit what Emily would say is a "no-no" & ramble a bit (actually, knowing Emily as well as I do, she probably would not use that phrase).

I have been playing a Harry Potter computer game for the past week. My parents got me a set of HP computer games for Christmas (after I revealed in my Weird post that I am an HP freak fan). The set includes a game for each of the first 3 movies and also a special Quidditch game. I have completed the first game (& so has Dan) & am now close to the end of the second. I'm not usually all that into computer games (that's Dan's territory), but when it gives me something to do while I await the fifth movie and seventh book, I'll take it. Even Jeremy & Nathan have given the games a shot, though they are a bit above their level. In my current game, I'm in the Chamber of Secrets, closing in on the bad guy. The music, the surroundings ... all of it have me so creeped out that I had to stop playing (which is why I'm blogging, of course). I will play some more tomorrow or another time when it's not so dark out.

I am also exploring programs that let me know when a blog I read has a new post and one that lets me know who has been reading my blog. I still have a lot to learn on those, but it is interesting to discover there is more to blogging than just writing posts every once in a while. Who knew? On the tracker program, I discovered that someone came over to my blog from a new friend, Colleen. She lives in my area & I found her blog & let her know, so she's been reading mine apparently. And she linked me today on her Thursday Thirteen post. So, thanks, Colleen! I like Colleen's Thursday lists. I might just give it a shot one of these days. Looks fun.

I really thought my crossword post would be a big hit, but not that many of you seem interested. I guess I'll have to find other subjects to entertain you with. Did you not realize that I was being a bit silly? Maybe it didn't sound the way I thought it would. Sheesh, you're a tough crowd. At least my siblings, my minister & an old Harding buddy were somewhat interested. And Maria too: thanks & blessings to you. I don't know why you said my post spoke to you, but I appreciate it. Maybe for Paula's sake I'll write a Sudoku post next, with step-by-step instructions for completing a puzzle. What do you think, Paula?

I'm having the Mommy Gang over for lunch again tomorrow. Looking forward to that. We all are. It's fun to get together with a small group of friends that can all find some common ground: our kids. Who doesn't like to complain vent ask riveting questions about the things their children do every now & then?

We had snow the other day. Did it make its way up to NJ?? I keep reading comments on other blogs that Brian has left about how disappointed he is that they haven't had snow yet. Apparently, they are pushing back a record each day that they don't have snow. Anyway, back to VA weather ... we had a dusting, not much at all. Nathan got to come home from school an hour early that day. Then, apparently where Dan teaches the roads were worse, covered with ice. The roads seemed fine here, so Dan didn't think anything of it, but when he got to school he was the only one there. He called & had me check to see if they were cancelled, which of course they were. He might usually be one of the first ones there, but the ONLY one there?? When Dan was on his way home I felt like a little kid who was just told his best friend is coming over. I was excited! Until I realized that he'd be spending most of the day working. :( We still got to spend more time together than usual.

So I've been blogging pretty much since June of last year (that feels so weird to say! "last year" when I'm talking about 2006). I did give it a try October 2005, but only posted once, so let's not count that. I have 94 posts ... yeah, you can expect a big celebration for the 100th post. We're having a party over at my place, so come on over (in other words ... stop by my blog & leave me a comment ... even if you never have before!). Yeah, I am so trying to get more of you to leave comments!! Seriously, a bunch of you have told me you read my blog. Why not just leave me a short comment once & say hi? You don't have to have a blog to do so.

If you're still waiting on a Christmas card from us ... well, just wait a little longer. The second batch of cards will be going out soon. What? Did you say it's the middle of January?? Hmmm ... maybe I'll just wait til next Christmas.

Hope you're having a good week & looking forward to the weekend! I'm going to leave you with Jeremy's idea of the purpose of a telephone pole: "A tall thing that holds wires for birdies to sit on."