Life on the Farm

Quiet day today. The Memorial Day plans for Alex's parents' house were canceled today because Paige got sick. Josh called late in the afternoon as he was on his way home from work and we chatted for a little bit. He was thinking about hanging out tonight but has to work from open to close tomorrow night and decided that it wasn't really the best night for it. 

The Farm in the blog title is an application in Facebook that Heather introduced me to, and I've been playing it since I started trying it this morning. It's a lot of fun. You start out with a plot of land and some coins and you plow your land and buy some seeds, wait for them to grow, then harvest them, sell them and do it again. The idea is to make your farm a working farm, keep it self sustaining, vary your crops, buy livestock (which make all the farm noises, which makes Ozzy do all the funny head-turning things), arrange them on your plot of land, etc. Eventually you can even buy more real estate, but that is way down the line. 

You can give gifts to your neighbors, and the idea is to be a social game, so you get more coins if you work on someone else's farm and have someone else harvest your crops. Heather and Lissa each gave me an animal and a tree, and you start out with a tree from the mayor. Since I didn't know what I was doing, I gave them each an animal back, thereby using up a bunch of my coins. Oops. But, I finished a harvest and got more coin, planted again and am waiting for that one (grapes) along with rice, potatoes, and strawberries. Oh, and fruit trees.

See how engrossing this game can be? The only thing is that you have to wait for time to actually pass for the crops to grow. Drat! Waiting - not my strong suit. I have the app set up for an email reminder for when my crops are ready but I beat it for my first crop - I was back there before it could tell me. I couldn't wait. I don't know how many times tonight I've been back there looking at it. Heather's farm just looks phenomenal. I don't know how she crams so many crops in one piece of land and makes it look so good. And all the animals you can have, roaming and fenced. And the buildings, crates, hay bales, ponds, silos, windmills, you name it, you can buy it.

So that's pretty much all I've done today. That and the treadmill. I've been pretty consistent that since I started this time. Every other day. I don't want to do every day because I don't want to overdo and sabotage it - I want to keep doing it for the long run at least up through Debbie's marathon in November.

I think I need to go look at phones tomorrow. I was going to do it all last week but I keep getting up too late. I'll keep trying to get up earlier and see what happens. But the Dash, which I'm using for the keyboard, has reminded me of the problems that made me put it away, besides just Josh not being able to understand me very well when I use it for calling him. It doesn't put all the calls through and the battery doesn't hold a charge well. At least with the iPod now I don't need a phone with all the bells and whistles. I have the iPod with me all the time so I don't need a phone that duplicates things that it does.

I hope you had a great Memorial Day, spent with friends and loved ones contemplating all the things the day was created for. I miss you Uncle 

Chuck.

Memorial Day

Memorial Day is just two hours old as I write this, so it will hardly be an account of what I did. This weekend didn't start well as I was up close to twenty four hours before I could get to sleep. I started a migraine but didn't take the relpax. I don't remember what I did but the migraine went away and I ended up having a good day. Sad - I don't even know what I did. Oh yeah, I did my bedding. Yay Sheba. 

Alex texted me this evening and let me know that the rest of their photos are done now, so I went onto the website to check them out, and they are good. I kept "awww"-ing as I went through and sent Alex a text message with the numbers of the ones I liked the best, and I think it was every other one, and that's pretty much because every other one is in black and white so there is a wide variety. The photographer they picked is good at picking candid moments, so there are good shots of the both of them smiling and being very relaxed with each other, like I see when I'm with them. Really, I don't think any of the shots are bad. I'm so happy to get some photos of the two of them. The last one was from Josh's 21st birthday party. That was seven years ago.

They also finally made their honeymoon reservations so that's all final now. They are going to the Mayan Riviera, on the Yucatan Peninsula, in a resort town called Tulum. They will be there for six days. They did a lot of research for this trip and I think that will really pay off. They got a good deal, there will be fun stuff for them to do, and I think they will have a great time. It looks really beautiful, and the Mayan pyramids are there for them to explore. The best part is they leave the day after the wedding, but not at the crack of dawn. I would have loved to have had a honeymoon like this.

I haven't checked the RSVPs lately, but they have been coming in pretty regularly. I'm getting excited and can't believe how fast the time is starting to pass. I'm trying to stay busy enough be used to being busy without wearing myself out before the wedding. I don't want to have the wedding be here and suddenly have to be busy out of the blue. I've been trying to be careful cause I don't want to have any kind of physical backlash or boomerang creep up on me. The stress will start increasing if I'm not careful, and aware of it, just because of the timeline. I keep suggesting that Alex make lists - I think I need to do the same.

I'll try to do better with the blogging. I got out of the habit and it's harder than I thought to get back into it. With the iPod being so easy to pick up, I tend not to pick up the computer as much. I don't know why I don't have the compulsion to write, tho. Maybe Facebook is affecting that. It's not exactly anything of depth but it is reaching out and touching people. I've been having the best time with my friends from high school. That's been the greatest gift this year and has just turned my year around.