★ October 8, 2012 ★

We started Saturday by picking Josh up from work & then it was time for housework. I dusted the bedroom lights & dining room walls, did a load of laundry, dusted the silk flowers in the living room & my office chair. I had a nice warm hot cocoa (needed that Saturday ... Brrr!), checked eBay, picked Kyle up from the dance at the school, cooked an amazing pork roast in the slow cooker, & then went through my collection of Excel spreadsheets & looked at new ones online. I ended up printing out a cool weekly meal planner. Sunday I checked the Sunday paper & then got a bunch of housework done. I dusted the silk flowers in the bedroom, dusted the misc. decor in the dining room, planned a great beef stir-fry for dinner, dusted the living room lights, mopped the entryway,

dusted my office lights, & swept the living room. While I was doing all this, Pete decided to tackle the tree trimming that was on my Honey-do list. WOW ... he did a GREAT job! Not only are the trees trimmed, but he cut off ALL the low branches (huge tree). He used a ladder & trimmed everything up to about 10'+ off the ground. It's bright, sunny, & clear now ... I can see everything! BUT, we still have the shade from the top of the tree. It looks terrific!

He spent HOURS out there working on all this. Thank you Pete! We picked Josh up from work in the middle of all this, came back & continued working. Considering the time of year & the temps outside, it was time to bring in all the houseplants that had been on the front porch all spring & summer. I put 1 in the dining room, 1 in the living room, & 1 in the bedroom. I checked eBay, had a cheese hot dog for lunch, checked YouTube for new videos & found a

great build video for a Sims house & downloaded it, knitted & joined an afghan panel, cooked some amazing beef stir-fry for dinner, & then it was Sims time! I decorated the laundry room in my Heart of Texas house & then decided to start up a game with my downloaded Summer Garden Cottage lot. Whoever built & designed this house is amazing! I placed the house in Appaloosa Plains & created a Sim named Jeanita who's never nude, inappropriate,

unlucky, a natural cook, & evil. She wants to be a Celebrated 5-Star Chef, likes cookies, custom music, the color spice brown, & is an Aquarius. She has an Irish Wolfhound named Sheba. Once the game started, she immediately got on her computer & found a job in the culinary field. Her boss, Zac Whipsnake, is the man she ended up marrying. They had a son (2nd generation) named Robert who is disciplined & brave, a Gemini, lilkes Roots 

music, spaghetti, & the color hot pink. They also adopted a large dog to keep Sheba company. His name is Rags. This lot comes with a decent size garden with a wide variety of plants. It was all poor Jeanita could do to keep up with it. The garden was a full-time job all by itself. She would wake up, shower, eat, go to work, come home, spend time with Sheba, try to spend a little time in the garden, eat, & go to bed exhausted. This went on every day.

She was quickly losing ground keeping up with the garden until she had a couple days off & then she woke up, showered, ate, pet the dog, & spent the ENTIRE day in the garden. By the time she finished tending the garden she was hungry & exhausted. This garden is NOT a 1-Sim garden. Can't be done. If it weren't for the fact Zac invited her to a party after work one evening & that's where & when she married him, most of the garden would have surely died off. It

took her AND Zac full time to keep up with the garden once they were married. Once she retires, now that her gardening skill is almost at level 10, she'll re-stock the garden & spend her days out there. Until then, the garden is going to remain mostly empty due to the amount of time it consumes. In Zac's spare time, I'm going to have him read gardening books so he can tend the garden's special plants also once he retires. Same with all future

generations. Something unique happened during this game. For the 1st time since the Pets expansion pack came out (I pre-ordered & had it installed the day it was released), I saw a unicorn! I heard they were in the game, but had never seen one. Jeanita spent as long as possible with the unicorn, trying to become friends with it. It wouldn't work. It eventually ran off & all I can do now is hope it returns. It was very late when I stopped the game for the night & Pete stopped what he was doing. We initially were going to go to bed, but then he offered to watch a little TV before bed it I wanted & I jumped at the chance because we had a new episode of 666 Park Ave. waiting for us. We were maybe 5-15 minutes into the show when the tones went off. A med call. By the time I got back it was somewhere around 3:a & Pete was long asleep. Also, that perfect bag of popcorn I had just started was sitting there ... cold. Well damn. Oh well. We'll watch 666 Park Ave. tonight instead. I wake up this morning, make my morning chocolate milk, boot up my PC, check my e-mail, check the Woot deals of the day, & then am going through a few facebook posts when who walks through the front door? Pete! He had a flat tire this morning that wouldn't hold air at all & took his car into town to get a new tire. Apparently it took much longer than usual & here he is ... with FOOD! He stopped in Jack in the Box & brought me breakfast. Now THAT is love! What a great morning! I got to see Pete before he went into work, I got breakfast served to me at my desk, AND Pete took Josh to work so I didn't have to go out at all today, saving me a bunch of time. THANK YOU PETE! :) No school today & Milligan Water meeting tonight @ 7:30.

Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes California governor (2003):

On this day in 2003, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected governor of California, the most populous state in the nation with the world's fifth-largest economy. Despite his inexperience, Schwarzenegger came out on top in the 11-week campaign to replace Gray Davis, who had earlier become the first United States governor to be recalled by the people since 1921. Schwarzenegger was one of 135 candidates on the ballot, which included career politicians, other actors, and one adult-film star.

Born in Thal, Austria, on July 30, 1947, Arnold Schwarzenegger began body-building as a teenager. He won the first of four "Mr. Universe" body-building championships at the age of 20, and moved to the United States in 1968. He also went on to win a then-record seven "Mr. Olympia" championships, securing his reputation as a body-building legend, and soon began appearing in films. Schwarzenegger first attracted mainstream public attention for a Golden Globe®-winning performance in Stay Hungry (1976) and his appearance in the 1977 documentary Pumping Iron. At the same time, he was working on a B.A. at the University of Wisconsin, from which he graduated in 1979.

Schwarzenegger's film career took off after his starring turn in 1982's Conan the Barbarian. In 1983, he became a U.S. citizen; the next year he made his most famous film, The Terminator, directed by James Cameron. Although his acting talent is probably aptly described as limited, Schwarzenegger went on to become one of the most sought-after action-film stars of the 1980s and early 1990s and enjoyed an extremely lucrative career. The actor's romantic life also captured the attention of the American public: he married television journalist and lifelong Democrat Maria Shriver, niece of the late President John F. Kennedy, in 1986.

With his film career beginning to stagnate, Schwarzenegger, a staunch supporter of the Republican party who had long been thought to harbor political aspirations, announced his candidacy for governor of California during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Aside from his well-known stint serving as chairman of the President s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports under President George H.W. Bush, Schwarzenegger had little political experience. His campaign, which featured his use of myriad one-liners well-known from his movie career, was dogged by criticism of his use of anabolic steroids, as well as allegations of sexual misconduct and racism. Still, Schwarzenegger was able to parlay his celebrity into a win, appealing to weary California voters with talk of reform. He beat his closest challenger, the Democratic lieutenant governor Cruz Bustamante, by more than 1 million votes.

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Clean the summer gear. Wash all the bathing suits & beach towels 1 last time & put them away for the season. Throw away any that have holes or were not worn this past summer.

Hang your head forward as if it were a heavy ball, then move it slowly to the side, back, side & front. Repeat. Circle around twice in the opposite direction.

If you can pay your house off, do it. Financially, spiritually, emotionally, & in a lot of other ways, you're going to prosper. If things are bad, it's a good idea to have your mortgage paid off. If things are good, it's a good idea to have your mortgage paid off. You can't lose. And if you get out there a few years & you absolutely hate it, you can always go get a mortgage. :)

If you were a dinosaur, you'd be a __________saurus. Or perhaps a tri-__________. I bet that's why dinosaurs are extinct.

In what year did the stock market crash?

A. 1929

B. 1930

C. 1931

D. 1932

Make sure guests are warmly greeted - & that the feeling of being welcome is sustained throughout the party. Keep a lookout for each guest's well-being as much as you possibly can. If you notice that a guest has an empty glass or if there's 1 person standing alone, remedy the situation as quickly & cheerfully as possible.

Mercurial:

1: Characterized by rapid & unpredictable changeableness of mood. 2: Of, relating to, containing, or caused by mercury.

Mindful of his professor's mercurial temperament, Jonah waited until she was in good spirits before asking her to extend the deadline for his term paper.

The Roman god Mercury (Mercurius in latin) was the messenger & herald of the gods & also the god of merchants & thieves. He was noted for his eloquence, swiftness, & cunning, & the Romans named what appeared to them to be the fastest-moving planet in his honor. The Latin adjective derived from his name, mercurialis, meaning "of or relating to Mercury," was borrowed into English in the 14th century as "mercurial." Although the adjective initially meant "born under the planet Mercury," it also came to mean "having qualities of eloquence, ingenuity, or thievishness attributed to the god Mercury or the influence of the planet Mercury," & later "unpredictable changeable."

Self-help guru's sweat lodge ceremony turns deadly (2009):

On this day in 2009, two people die and more than a dozen others are hospitalized following a botched sweat lodge ceremony at a retreat run by motivational speaker and author James Arthur Ray near Sedona, Arizona. A third participant in the ceremony died nine days later.
The sweat lodge exercise was part of a five-day “Spiritual Warrior” event held at a rented retreat center located six miles from Sedona. Participants paid more than $9,000 each to attend the retreat. At the time, Ray, who was born in 1957 and raised in Oklahoma, was known for such books as his 2008 best-seller “Harmonic Wealth: The Secret to Attracting the Life You Want,” and had appeared as a guest on a number of TV programs, including “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”
Ray’s sweat lodge ceremony, modeled after a Native American custom intended to purify the body and spirit, was held in a wood-frame structure covered with tarpaulins and blankets. Inside the enclosed space, water was poured over heated rocks to create steam and the temperature became dangerously high, causing many of the more than 50 participants (who had been encouraged to fast for 36 hours prior to the event) to develop breathing trouble and become disoriented. Witnesses later reported Ray had urged people to remain inside and endure the intense heat as a form of personal challenge.
Two people, Kirby Brown, 38, and James Shore, 40, fainted but were left inside the sweat lodge and perished from heat stroke. More than a dozen other people were hospitalized for dehydration and other medical issues. On October 17, a third ceremony participant, Liz Neuman, 49, died.
In February 2010, Ray was indicted on manslaughter charges. When his case went to trial the following year, the prosecution argued that the self-help guru had acted carelessly and shown no regard for the people who got sick during the ceremony. The defense claimed the participants were free to leave the sweat lodge at any time, and said the deaths were an accident and might have been caused by unknown toxins in the ground. During the four-month trial, witnesses claimed that people had become ill or injured at previous retreats run by Ray, and Native American groups expressed outrage over his misuse of their sacred sweat lodge tradition.

On June 22, 2011, a jury in Camp Verde, Arizona, found Ray guilty of three counts of negligent homicide. On November 18 of that same year, he was sentenced to three two-year prison terms, to run concurrently, and ordered to pay some $57,000 in restitution to the victims’ families.

What is the hummingbird’s favorite color?

Red, which is why most hummingbird feeders are either red or have some red on them.

What satiric 19th-century literary classic was subtitled A Novel without a Hero?

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Where in the U.S. is there a full-size replica of Christopher Columbus’s flagship, the Santa Maria?

Which of these is not a greenhouse gas?

A. Oxygen

B. Carbon dioxide

C. Methane

D. Ozone

Answer: A. Oxygen

Which weight class in boxing is the lightest, 2nd lightest, & 3rd lightest?

A. Flyweight

B. Bantamweight

C. Lightweight