Weirdest Call Ever

My cell phone rang tonight and I ran down to answer it of course. I picked up the phone and the conversation went something like this.

Me: Hello?
Woman:
Me: Hello?
Woman: Wendy?
Me: No, you have the wrong number.
Woman : No? Oh? Well, do you get a lot of calls for Wendy?
Me: Ummm...no?
Woman: Well, ok. Sorry.

Elephants on Parade

I've recently been obsessed with elephants and so I've assembled a whole folder full of elephant related products that have stuck my fancy in the last few months. Here's a few of my favorites.

Classic white teapot

Beautiful handmade journal

Art painted by Phetmanee the elephant

Humorous elephant t-shirt

Ridiculously cute coaster set

The most fun place mat I have ever laid eyes on

Mouse pad to make a heart light

Indian elephant bed spread

Elephants on a mobile...two obsessions in one

Graceful Thai elephant oil burner

Unique photo album I am in love with even though I don't use them

My personal favorite...paper made from elephant dung!

The item that started it all, the little stuffed sky blue elephant.

A Day of Pictures

Since I uploaded pictures last night, I figured I'd share some of them with you today. I'm really enjoying Picasa2 and the ease of uploading to and using their web albums feature. I also just discovered you can embed slide shows. I feel all high tech.

These are some pictures of a walk in the woods at home that I took back in September. It's also how I got the 70 some bug bites I previously mentioned- probably chiggers. Yuck. But it was worth it!

Here a few more random pictures from October on.

Thanksgiving Update

Things have been moving along nicely here at the apartment. We have a few final things to do in terms of the setting up/unpacking/moving in and we're about to move in to the decorating phase this weekend. Life is starting to feel a bit more settled which is good since Kim started her job this Monday and I start this coming Monday. It's been a bit of a trial with getting paperwork sent where it needed to, but everything seems to have come through and I should have my practice permit on Saturday, just in the nick of time. We'll probably also be decorating for Christmas, which is always a highlight. I can't believe how quickly Christmas is coming up! It seems like only yesterday it was Thanksgiving.

This Thanksgiving, we had dinner at my parent's house. When I was younger, we had Thanksgiving at our house almost every year with both sets of grandparents. Then my mom's parents moved to Florida so it was just my dad's parents. Then my dad's parents got a new, bigger house and so my grandmother starting cooking dinner for the whole family again. Which was nice and all, but everyone besides us would already have eaten at their other in-laws house so then my grandmother would just complain about how no one ate her food. So since my grandfather has been sick this year, she threw in the towel and my mom and I got to make Thanksgiving. It was fun and with only minor arguments, my mom and I pulled off a fantastic dinner. My dad even pitched in by deep frying the turkey. And I am telling you it was to die for! Most of the family did get together the following Saturday for homemade pizza which was equally yummy in its own way. I'll leave you with a few selected shots of Thanksgiving at the Calimer's.

Thanksgiving