Cheryl on the Web

I heard from a couple of you out there that my blog had a few technical “blips” over the last couple days; I think they should be fixed now, sorry about that. This blog is my playground away from work; I try to experiment with as many new things here as I can that I don’t get to play with in my day job. It was one of these small experiments that caused the blips, a caching module… I have logged the experiment as failed test 1!

Tim is home alone. Recommended light reading! :)

There’s been a gaming breakthrough in our household this week: I found a GameCube game that I like and that I voluntarily play when I have a chance! Pretty pathetic breakthrough perhaps, considering my husband’s profession, but I am the ultra-picky gamer. (more…)

That was Tim’s answer to me the other morning when I asked him how he was doing. I had to laugh; I mean, how many of us really would answer that having just climbed out of bed? Granted, it was a Saturday.

Tonight I cooked so Tim had to do the cleanup (or start on it, I did the dishes). I laughed myself to tears when he wrapped the leftover, unused tortilla wraps in a small garbage sack instead of putting them in the original sack they came in or in a Ziplock before putting them in the refrigerator. Being married sure brings different perspectives to the house sometimes!

This weekend I decided to expand my proverbial Internet horizons by exploring two hip and huge sites on the Internet: wikipedia.org and digg.com.

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. I couldn’t help but feel a twinge of jealously while browsing the site at how easy kids have it nowadays, with so much information right at their fingers. I spent most of last night reading about World War I and World War II, and the bits in between.

Digg.com represents the latest of online sites whose content is driven by its audience. People browsing the Internet submit popular news stories to digg.com, and the stories submitted are displayed on the digg.com site as a list of links, with the most popular ones at the top.

After exercising three days in a row at the beginning of this week, I found myself dazed and confused on Thursday night. Every time I got up the room would spin and I was completely disoriented in my own livingroom. It suddenly occurred to me that I might be dehydrated after all that exercise, I have a tendency to dry out easily. Looked online, and sure enough, both those symptoms can be associated with dehydration. Talk about scary! Also had pretty much every other symptom on the list, including pronounced circles under my eyes (never knew that was a symptom). Sent Tim to the gas station across the street to stock up on Gatorade and proceeded to lie on the couch and drink Gatorade for the next 24 hours. Thankfully the dizziness and confusion subsided on Friday.

Will have to title my next post “Life on the couch”…

Heat - water - sun - fun - beach balls - suntan lotion - picknicking - sunglasses - skin.

Bikini season.

Exercised today and yesterday. Still curious how long I keep this up.