My website...

I really, really am trying to work on my website. Part of me wants it to be done, but for some reason I just can't get motivated to get it done. I do a few things here and there each day, but usually end up spending too much time reading message boards or just logging back in to World of Warcraft.

From feedback I've received in the past, it makes my thinking towards the site sort of mixed as well. I get the messages that say 'thanks for that putting that info out there, I was looking for it'. I get 'you took a picture of my ancestors grave, now obviously you must know everything about them so TELL ME NOW!'. I get the 'hey this is on your website, we must be related! yay write me, write me, write me!'. Uhm, no. I get the 'you visited this one cemetery in a distant place, why don't you put pictures from this other one on your site?' Uhm, cos I never went to that one and I can't just run over there right now.

I know the ones that are good, even though they are fewer, should outweigh the bad ones, but the bad ones just make me want to quit altogether.

And then there are the people who steal the photos and put them on their own site. Like the ones of mine from Virginia that I recently found on someone else's vacation page on the VirtualTourist website. I don't dig stealing and far too many people have stolen my photos over the years without asking and without giving credit. It makes me want to take my ball and go home. Screw you guys!

And then there is the $100 or so a year for keeping the site online. I know it's no biggie really, but it IS $100.

I know I could just take my photos and upload them all on FindAGrave or Flikr(or whatever its called) or some other 'free' place, but then I don't have control over how the page looks, what info is there, what ads are on the pages, etc. I just don't like that. I want to be different, even if that means not being liked or noticed. Whatever.

So I guess I will keep the site. I will work on it. Someday maybe I will be close to being done with it. At least my photo taking has **really** slowed down in the past 2 years(thanks to Warcraft), so I am not *too* backlogged in stuff to work on. It just needs to be done.

Keep checking back I guess.

State of my life

Ok, so I didn't watch Bush last night. I already trust him and would agree with whatever he says, so I don't think it really mattered. We watched Batman, the original with Michael Keaton. The kid hadn't seen it and since we watched Batman Begins, with Christian Bale, a few days ago, I thought it made sense. I only have the VHS for that and the one with Val Kilmer though, and wouldn't mind having all 4 of the earlier movies. Wal-mart didn't have them though. Oh well. I do look forward to seeing Heath Ledger in the new one coming out this summer. God rest his soul.

Speaking of Heath, I just wanted to mention that it was just a few weeks ago that we were discussing Mel Gibson movies and hubby thought I had 'nearly all' of Mel's movies. I don't though, because I didn't even think about it until what happened to Heath, I don't have The Patriot. How could I not have that?? Will put it on my list for the next time we go to Best Buy.

Raining today and I need to go to the store. Great. And my back hurts, hurt yesterday too. Feel like crud.

Stayed up kinda late watching We Are Marshall. So sad. I'm headed to Wikipedia and IMDB later to see how much was real and what happened to everyone.

Speaking of Marshall, one of their own plays on Sunday. Super Sunday. Randy Moss. I don't really care about Moss, but the Patriots, I love 'em. Those Boston teams, yeah. But I also really like Eli Manning. So I am torn. I want the Pats to win because I like them and (almost) anything from Boston(hello Dane Cook!) and I want them to get that 19-0 record. However I would LOVE it for Eli to be able to win this game, just to SHUTUP all those nay-sayers. That would be sweeeeeeeet.


I love listening to Frank Wycheck every morning on the radio. He cracks me up. And cute to boot. Good combo.


So I went to Find A Grave and made 2 posts in the Lounge(the general message area). I haven't posted there in months. And just to prove my point of being 'invisible', no one responded to either of my posts. I don't think anyone even read them. I killed those threads. Maybe I should go respond to a whole bunch of threads and see how many more I can kill, or see how long it takes before someone says something like "omg you have 4000 posts, who are you?" or "hey where you been?"(yeah, don't think that will happen). Nah, why should I even bother with them?? Just trying to make a little humanly contact somewhere and on one hand I am reinforced with "you are invisible, you obviously suck and have nothing important to say" and on the other I feel like The Invisible Boy in the movie Mystery Men, people may be able to see me, but being invisible really is my superpower. I don't need to be around anyone, I'm just fine alone, but being noticed at least every once in awhile would be freakin nice, ya know.

Anyhoo....

And now a rant or two

First things first...to give an indication of time flying by for me lately, I thought for sure I had visited this place and taken some pictures a few months ago-turns out it was over a year ago, closer to 15 months. Sheesh.

So I am at the library yesterday and see a new book, Images of 19th Century Rutherford County: Its Homes and People by Barry Lamb and I can't help but sit and look through it. It's only a research copy, not able to check out, that's ok though. As I look through it I am amazed at the number of houses he has photos of and I am just in love with them. Then I find one that I was expecting to find. The McCulloch House, site of the headquarters for Confederate General William J Hardee.

(this photo was taken in 2005)
And it says what I had feared(since I haven't actually been down to Murfreesboro in awhile-apparently), it has been razed. I had heard that some people were trying to save it, I guess they could not. It angers me to no end when I hear about these things. Man if only I could win the lottery or something so I could save them myself. Hearing about this just kills me inside. At least I got some photos of it. This and the Jenkins house. And with all the new construction and malls going up on the Stones River Battlefield, it makes me cringe every time I go anywhere near it. Progress sucks.

I think I'll leave it at that for now. I've got some things to do. If I think about something else to rant about, I'll be back.

Past six months...November

Not much happened really. We've been playing waaaaaay too much World of Warcraft. I have 5 level 70s now(as of Jan 25). Too much. I miss traveling.

For Halloween the kiddo was an Elf/Pirate/Rogue. I made this ham and cheese mummy thing for dinner. Heh.

Looks yummy huh?

Christmas was ok, though we didn't go overboard this year like we usually do. No biggie really. My birthday...meh, whatever. And now it's 2008. Holy crap. Really? Wow.

Yep too much time playing Warcraft, time is flying right on by me.

What's happened in the last six months...August 2007

Let's see, I shall start with August of 2007. We made a trip down to Mississippi to visit my sister. And to see how things have changed along the coast in 2 years. Honestly it hasn't changed much. It's so sad to see.

This one sums it up for me. This was Sharkheads souvenir shop. The one with the huge shark head. I loved that place. And 2 years later it still sits like this. So sad. Oh and we made a quick trip over to New Orleans. I didn't see much except what looked like flooded homes and businesses. In Mississippi all you see are empty lots because *everything* was washed away. :/

Gone again

Yeah I know. Six months has been awhile. Nothing to say I guess. Well lots to say, but OK I forgot about this place!! So sue me. I'll vent later.