Nifty meme.

This one's from lesliepear, and it's a pretty nifty meme... because it requires virtually no effort for me to see your "answers." :-D


Track Your Visitors on a Map!

Edited to add: This meme keeps changing what is says for the link now. How... strange.

And I don't believe in Time.

At this time today, I was doing the following:

7:42am: turning off our alarm clock (for Philip to take A.J. to school)

8:42am: turning off our alarm clock (for me to take Jack to school)

8:50am: waiting for Philip to "style" Jack's hair (using lots of styling goo) for 'Crazy Hair Day' at his preschool

9:00am: dropping off Jack at preschool

9:10am: eating breakfast

9:20am: waking Philip up once again (he'd gone back to sleep while I was gone)

9:45am: making a pan of Scalloped Potatoes, and I peeled and cut up the leftover potatoes for Philip to make homemade french fries for lunch (and he was mowing the lawn at the time)

10:30am: popping the Scalloped Potatoes into the oven

10:35am: beginning to rake and seed the yard with grass with Philip

11:00am: walking into Target with Philip to buy a full-size rake (we'd been using just a hand-size rake, and it wasn't good enough)

11:15am: walking into Menard's for the rake (Target didn't have it)

11:33am: picking up Jack from preschool (rather, Philip went in and signed him out while I ended up chatting in the parking lot)

11:40am: pulling the freshly roasted Scalloped Potatoes out of the oven and beginning the preparations for Philip to grill burgers

11:50am: accepting cards from Marissa to mail for her later on with my own packages

12:05pm: begging Philip to start the grill because I was STARVING

12:20pm: seeding some more patches on the front lawn

12:35pm: sitting down to a lunch of grilled burgers and Scalloped Potatoes

1:00pm: cleaning up the lunch dishes and starting the dishwasher

1:18pm: telling an entranced Philip and Jack (they were playing a NASCAR game on the X-Box 360 together) that I was leaving for the post office and would be back soon

1:25pm: mailing my package and cards and buying stamps for both Marissa and myself

1:40pm: returning home to find Philip and Jack virtually unmoved

1:55pm: trying to find the last spot I'd read on my LiveJournal friends' list (back 250+ entries - yikes!)

2:10pm: working on the yard some more, filling in patches with seed while Philip raked them up for me

2:40pm: washing up and preparing to pick A.J. up from school

2:45pm: leaving

3:05pm: waiting on A.J. to walk to the van

3:15pm: reading through my cookbooks to find a good recipe for the Parents at Home potluck tomorrow morning (our last meeting of the year - *sniff*)

3:30pm: suddenly tearing up due to a horrible stinging/burning pain in the roof of my mouth/throat

3:45pm: coughing, gasping for breath and practically crying from the searing pain in my throat (and not understanding how it happened so suddenly)

3:50pm: taking some Motrin, spraying some numbing Chloraseptic on my throat and sucking on an expired cough drop, hoping desperately for the pain to subside

4:05pm: calling Marissa to cancel dinner plans (nearly crying while trying to talk)

4:25pm: feeling a bit better as the second cough drop finally managed to numb things up a tiny bit, though still wondering what the HECK happened so quickly

4:30pm: watering the new seed in the lawn before Philip left for work (our spigot is broken, and I needed him to turn on/off the water for me)

5:00pm taking another stab at reading a chunk of my friends' list

5:35pm: fixing some snacks for the boys

6:40pm: heading outside to do some more raking/seeding, boys "helping" this time around

7:35pm: coming inside because we had several raindrops fall on us

7:40pm: heating up dinner (leftovers and Scalloped Potatoes from earlier)

8:30pm: doing dinner dishes

9:05pm: tucking boys in bed

9:15pm: devoting some SERIOUS time to my friends' list, finally catching up and not skipping one SINGLE post (and commenting a heckuva lot, too!)

11:00pm: not answering the phone when Philip called (I did listen to him leave a message) because my throat hurts, and I didn't want to talk

11:01pm: calling him back to tell him that I did have the paper he needed

11:02pm: taking some more Motrin and popping another cough drop

11:05pm: beginning a post for today

And there you have it. I don't know how I've managed to get a sore throat so suddenly, but I'm almost thinking it has something to do with the grass seeding/raking today. It was really windy every time I was outside, and I'm afraid some of the stuff may have irritated my throat/sinuses.

I just love you guys!

I spent a good two hours today catching up on my friends' list from the past 36 hours or so - I hope that my pals have felt the love. :-)

As for myself, today marks a milestone. Any guesses?