Appetizer
When you drink soda/pop/coke, do you prefer to drink it from the bottle, a can, or after pouring it into a cup?
Actually, I don’t drink soda. But when I did always in a cup…I couldn’t stomach drinking from a can or bottle blech.

Soup
What television show are you willing to stay up late to watch?
That’s what my DVR is for…so I don’t have to stay up to watch anything. LOL But, during Big Brother season I usually stay up to start it 45 minutes into the show so I don’t have to wait until the next day.

Salad
Name one person, place, or thing you think of as brilliant.
Me. LOL I think Disneyland is brilliant. How spectacular is the idea of one place that truly is the Happiest Place on Earth. No matter what’s going on I always smile when I walk under the railroad tracks and get my first glimpse of Main Street.

Main Course
Would you be willing to work 4 10-hour days instead of 5 8-hour days in order to save gas?
Hmmmm…I’ve been known to work 6 10-hour days and my gas bill doesn’t change no matter how many days I work. The joys of being your own boss and working from home. WooHoo. LOL If anything working more days makes me drive less.

Dessert
If you were a superhero, what would you call yourself?
What do you mean IF I were a superhero? I am a superhero, I’m WONDER WOMAN.

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If you know me or have read my blog for any length of time you know that I am pretty passionate about organ donation. This evening I sat down in front of the television and Oprah was on with a story on organ donation. I caught the tail-end of it but with the marvels of DVR was able to record it and watch the full episode. The link to Oprah’s site does a pretty good job summarizing the show.

I hope it was inspirational to the parents of the first boy who died to see the impact their son had. Oprah had three people who received some of his organs on the show, but it sounds like more were actual recipients. She also had a family that heard this boys story and two week’s later a family member died and because of that story they donated his organs making an even bigger impact. It’s a big domino effect that’s very positive.

It’s been 7 1/2 months since my dad’s last transplant. 228 days of him being healthy! 228 days since my sister gave him the biggest gift a person can give someone. Both of them are doing great! I know I haven’t talked much about them since the surgery. In fact, my dad is coming up here in about two weeks to spend ten days with me.

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Every once in a while I come across a really cool website or service. Like a lot of people I want to tell people about it, but like most American’s it sure would be nice to have that company or website compensate me for the free marketing I’m doing for them. Well, I found this cool website, payperpost, that allows me to share cool sites and services that I find AND get paid for it.

Don’t worry, I’m not going to start posting a bunch of links to useless websites that I don’t think are useful. Trust me, I don’t have the time or patience to go sifting through a long list of advertisers that aren’t useful or interesting to me and I know you aren’t either. But, sometimes something comes along that I just think WOW, I have to share that. So, those recommendations I will be sharing.

You can be assured, that even though payperpost and their advertisers compensate me for making these recommendations I won’t be swayed by the great money (HA) that I’ll be making by sharing them with you. Seriously, my reputation is worth a whole lot more than the couple bucks they may send my way as a “thank you” for telling you about them.

So, anyway, this isn’t going to turn in to a big commercial blog or anything but, hey, they are paying me $20 to place this post here so I thought what the heck, let’s see if I can make some lunch money sharing some other stuff too.

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We’ve been under flood alerts for as long as I can remember….OK a couple weeks. Flood Alert It’s pretty crazy to see. These pictures are actually from a few weeks ago when the lake was at its fullest (and these pictures are just amazing!!). When I was there this past weekend it had gone down significantly. If you haven’t been here I don’t know if you’ll understand the full impact of how high the water was. It was CRAZY. The beach was completely gone. The lifeguard towers, completely submerged. They have temporary ramps to the floating dock because the regular ramps are completely underwater. Usually the floating dock is one large loop…not right now, the stair tower is under water so you have to walk back the way you walk in. The boat launch is closed because the ramps to the docks are under water. And now we have another Flood Statement.

Luckily, I’m on higher land. Close to the Hayden Lake but still pretty dry. Or so I thought. I went out yesterday morning to water my plants and one of them was flooded. I seriously almost cried. From what I can tell the rain gutter is clogged (stupid management company) and it overflowed and completely flooded my one planter. I will have to transplant it to see if it’ll come back. It was so beautiful so I really hope I can salvage it.

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