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Saturday, December 08, 2007

Another on-line quiz...

97%ALCOHOLIC

But I only drink margaritas, beer, wine, and mojitos. How do I know so much about booze?

Friday, December 07, 2007

The Boneyard...

AMARG is the place in Tucson where the Air Force parks and stores airplanes, and where they cannibalize inoperative planes for parts. Mom and Dad and I took the bus tour of it today.

Lots and lots of planes. Lots of planes. 5000, or something like that. Very interesting, and amazing to think of how much money is parked in the desert.

One side is planes that are still good, usable, could potentially be put back into service. On the other side are planes at various levels of decontruction. They pull parts out for current planes, and they sell parts to other countries that fly our planes. AMARG actually makes $12 for every $1 they spend. Pretty impressive.

It was rather unreal to see row after row of planes and parts and engines and stuff. The guide, from Pima Air and Space Museum, was terrific. He has incredible amounts of plane trivia and facts in his head.

Oh, yeah, The Boneyard is the local name for the place.

Thursday, December 06, 2007

Fudge Tracks!

It's an ice cream and a swear word!

The sunset tonight.

Okay -- updating my profile because I never removed the guinea pigs from it, even though they have been elsewhere for months.

Um...new obsession (HA) the elliptical trainer in the garage. I hate the thing, but today I burned 395 calories. I know. I so wanted to burn 5 more to make it an even 400, but then I would be at 50 minutes and 19 seconds, so I would have to make that round out to an even 51 minutes, and then the mileage could be rounded up to a more even number, and then the calories would be just a few away from 450, but then I could do just a few more seconds, then another few hundredths of a mile, and so on until finally I would fall off, hit my head, end up in the hospital with another nasty concussion, and gain weight because I am bedridden. It was so much easier to just burn the 395 calories.

We moved from the Sonoran desert of southern Arizona to the almost Arctic of Anchorage. I like the winters of Anchorage better than the summers of Tucson, so far.

Still have three kids, the oldest one is a freshman at the U of Arizona (dang it, now I will have to edit this again in a few months), the other two live on Fort Richardson with me and the dogs and the husband.

Other obsessions...my camera, my IPod Touch, my sewing machine. Fabric. Definitely fabric. Dishes. It's a thing females in my family have, an obsession with dishes. Pottery, and earthenware. Silver, definitely. Not crystal and china though. I am not a big fan of the fussy and overly ornate, and both crystal and china tend to fall into those categories, to me. Plus if I have delicate dishware, then I can't have the kids wash the dishes or put it in the dishwasher.

Other than that, I weigh too much, sleep too little, am very liberal, rabidly pro-choice, find it insane this country does not have universal health care, and think the world may be a better place with Obama at the helm. Oh, yeah, and chocolate. Much much chocolate.