Here I am!

August has been a busy month! So I've taken a little time off from blogging. I've got lots of things to share and I'll be back this week!

So what's been going on?

Three of my bosses arrived here on August 15th! Graeme, Ian, & Sylvia. That means a busy busy time at work! Graeme left on the 22nd of August! He was here just a week but we had a busy week. He built trikes up and I tore them down and packed them! Busy busy! I think we sent out 25 trikes last week! That's GREAT! Ian & Sylvia will be here until the 3rd of September! They are just here for their holiday (or vacation to us Americans) so they won't be in the office much. They are the "owners" and are pretty much retired from the business but they are the "big bosses" and are the ones who hired me! So I've go to be on my toes while they are here! It's been nice seeing them. They haven't been here since 2003.

I've been sick! Of course Graeme shows up with all this work to do and I get a cold! UGH! I made it though. With the help of pain reliever and Kleenex lotion tissues and lots of hot tea.



We have had Olympic fever here at our house! Did anyone else watch?

Lori and I watched every Michael Phelps race! Isn't he great! I loved Mark Spitz back in 1972 and had this poster on the back of my bed room door.


What can I say? I was 11! I showed the poster to Lori and she just rolled her eyes and said "yuck". I think I still have the poster in my attic. I'll have to get one of Michael Pheleps to go with it.

He's from Baltimore MD! So he's a local boy to us. His parents graduated from a high school in our county!

Watched the gymnastics too!


Anyone think these Chinese girls are 16? It was still fun to watch. I've been watching Olympic gymnastics since Olga in Munich in 1972. Remember this?



We also watched every match of the beach volleyball!

Gold medals for Misty & Carrie!

Lori turns 18 tomorrow, August 25th! She had some friends over on Friday to help celebrate.

She starts collage tomorrow! She's attending our local community collage. Good Luck Lori! What fun to start your very first day of collage on your birthday!

Jackson came by on Friday to wish Aunt Lori a Happy Birthday. I'm glad I was feeling better.


I have plenty of Bloomin' Tuesday and Wordless Wednesday photos to share so please check by this week! I promise I'll be here!

What's happening this week???

Sara, Aaron, and Jackson are moving to a nicer apartment and John will be here for Labor day Weekend. Hurrah!!!! I will have plenty to blog about!

What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would you Be?

Gary Gygax, the creator of Dungeons & Dragons, passed away today.

My hubby, my brother, and me played D&D in the 80's. We started playing with a group of friends and then played on our own. We had a lot of fun. We usually played at our apartment and we'd stay up to all hours of the night just so we could finish a game and our characters could advance a level.



I had three characters. Two were sisters - a thief, Jaxom and a cleric, Kayla. (I borrowed their names from the Anne McCaffrey Pern books.) The other one was a Princess and a magician. Her name was Menolly! (She's also named for a Pern character.) The module pictured above, The Keep on the Borderlands, was one of the most fun we played. I was the DM and Tom and Paul were the players.

I found this quiz to find out what character you would be and it figures it worked out that I am a cleric since that was what I played all those years ago. Also, I'm Lawful and Good. Well, the Camera Totin Idiot was right when he christened me Goody Two Shoes.

Go here to take the quiz! It's fun!



I Am A: Lawful Good Human Cleric (6th Level)


Ability Scores:

Strength-11

Dexterity-11

Constitution-10

Intelligence-13

Wisdom-13

Charisma-12


Alignment:
Lawful Good A lawful good character acts as a good person is expected or required to act. He combines a commitment to oppose evil with the discipline to fight relentlessly. He tells the truth, keeps his word, helps those in need, and speaks out against injustice. A lawful good character hates to see the guilty go unpunished. Lawful good is the best alignment you can be because it combines honor and compassion. However, lawful good can be a dangerous alignment because it restricts freedom and criminalizes self-interest.


Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.


Class:
Clerics act as intermediaries between the earthly and the divine (or infernal) worlds. A good cleric helps those in need, while an evil cleric seeks to spread his patron's vision of evil across the world. All clerics can heal wounds and bring people back from the brink of death, and powerful clerics can even raise the dead. Likewise, all clerics have authority over undead creatures, and they can turn away or even destroy these creatures. Clerics are trained in the use of simple weapons, and can use all forms of armor and shields without penalty, since armor does not interfere with the casting of divine spells. In addition to his normal complement of spells, every cleric chooses to focus on two of his deity's domains. These domains grants the cleric special powers, and give him access to spells that he might otherwise never learn. A cleric's Wisdom score should be high, since this determines the maximum spell level that he can cast.


Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus (e-mail)

Which Sport Car Are You?

I'm a Mazda RX-8!

You're sporty, yet practical, and you have a style of your own. You like to have fun, and you like to bring friends along for the ride, but when it comes time for everyday chores, you're willing to do your part.

Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.

A Little Humor!