Natalie’s Blog

Haley Building A Bubble Nest

Today when I got home I noticed that Haley had calmed down and was gliding peacefully through the water. I shut her light off for a couple of hours to give her some rest and cool the temperature of the tank.  It only took about 2 hours for the temperature to drop 2 degrees to 74F and I decided to turn the lamp back on.  After I did this I noticed a line of bubbles at the edge of the water all the way around aquarium.  I had read about males blowing bubbles just before spawning but never a female.

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@HamsterHammy inspired me to get a new pet. But a hamster, gerbil, mouse or rat wasn’t going to work because of my cats. I even didn’t quite like the idea of fish, but they had lived around my cats before, so I figured I’d give it another shot.

My New Female Betta

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Horse in the Snow

Wasn’t much of a blizzard at all. Yesterday it started out with a number of thunderstorms, tornadoes, lightning lasting pretty much all day long. The rain died down around dark, but that’s when the winds picked up.

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I swore to myself I was going to sit around the house and do *nothing*! Yeah, I failed.

I got two great things done today which made me feel like I hadn’t wasted the entire day away.

My first task was a carryover from yesterday. I helped @wqmodeler (George) get his blog up and running. He’d been running a blog designed on his Mac (puke) and had mentioned seeing my blog a long time ago and how he wanted one just like it. He offered to pay me for helping him on it because at the time I was pretty low on cash, but it was something I was pretty sure I didn’t need to get paid for. So, yesterday I shot him an e-mail with instructions on how to install WordPress on his GoDaddy account (*phew* I have GoDaddy hosting, too, makes things super simple). I tried to be as detailed as possible. Every click I made I wrote it down. After I got this done, I e-mailed the set of instructions off to him. About 6 hours later I got an e-mail from George excited that he had his blog up. Next I needed to help him get his theme setup and his page redirect (his index.html was pointing to his old Mac blog).

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72nd and County Road 40 in Washington County, Nebraska

Tonight I was relaxing on the couch watching The Simpsons when mom called. I had forgotten to go out to her house to work on her computer and find out why it wouldn’t startup. It seemed to get to the boot screen and then pause with a flashing cursor in the upper left hand corner of the screen. I figured she must’ve had a virus, so I grabbed my DVDs to reinstall her system and began to head out. At the last minute, I remembered her saying that she had plugged her iPod in to charge and then iTunes had mentioned something about restarting her computer, ever since it wouldn’t boot.

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Cory gets his Eye-Fi Card

Cory is crossing America in a Ford Van. So far he has visited Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisana, Texas, Kansas and is now in Nebraska. I started following him on Twitter when he was still in Kansas after Christian began tweeting about him. It was only yesterday (although I could’ve sworn it was a lot earlier than that) that I began talking to him via Twitter since he had just crossed over into Nebraska from Kansas.

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Today we had a great preview to storm season. The day was pretty overcast for the majority, gloomy and we anticipated. The temperatures reached up to 68°F, but it was very windy. I had checked out the Storm Prediction Center’s Convective Outlook a few days before and had seen that we were going to be in an area with severe storms, but I don’t think anybody expected them to be as severe as they were.

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