Items of interest?

Over the last week, on work breaks, I have been adding items I have at my desk to a notepad list. Today, I took a picture of my desk. Below is the picture and the list.

One legal lined pad
one yellow sprial steno
mutiple drug rep labelled sticky pads
one green post-it pad
a white plastic slinky
multiple blank CD-Rs in colored jewel cases
PaperMate Dryline refillable white out tape
Assortment of binder clips, paper clips, and rubber band
rubber band ball
crafts that Lexie made in school
Sharp EL-1630A Electronic Printing Calculator
One bottle almost empty hand lotion
One bottle almost empty fragrance spray
Three Maruchan Instant Lunch (cup of noodles)
Craft container made by Lexie and Grammy containing Equal packets
Empty souveneir bottled water from Alaska shaped like a train
Toy Cell phoneStaple remover
Packet of two liquid gell Advil
Crestor Handbook of drug interactions, 2007 edition
Little squishy Cerner doll
Purple bunny rabbit
Three novelty key chains
Fancy mirror tray
Radio Shack digital clock with picture and voice recording alarm
Hp Deskjet 840
C200 Plus S315 Date stamp
brown plastic pen holder
band-aid dispenser
Four or five rolls of Andover "Easy Tear" latex free Coflex
Broadway Medical Clinic t-shirt
Old monitor-side-mounting holder prior to flat screen, holding another paperclip hoder full of pens
Roll of Sweet Tarts
Green plastic container (from drug reps) with alcohol towletts
Ceramic blue, silver, and white winged angel
pink and yellow thumbtacks
Bamboo back scratcher
Clip fan
Cerner retractable name badge clip
Hyzar USB2 hub with digital clock and temperature display
AT&T 8410D telephone
Stuffed bear with reindeer antlers
Box of business cards
Sponge Bob wrapping paper
Empty bottle of Ibuprofen
Old thermostat wall unit with trailing sensor
Half bag of White Basamiti Rice from India (via Barb, via Trader Joe's)
Classic portable CD player with radio
Multiple binders with work type stuff
Two Junior High yearbooks from Raymond A Brown Junior High, date 1983 and 1985
Book entitled "The Subtle Knife", by Philip Pulman
Blue Ruler with words "Rachel's Ruler" bold in black
Gobs of pictures of Lexie on the walls
Two desk lamps
Feather
"For Deposit Only" stamp
Portable battery operated pencil sharpener
File organizers
Multiple plant tendrils from a plant one cue over
Buckle removed from wallet
Bubble wrap

Crazy Val

Lexie's new design

Lexie came up with a new tactic for eeking toys from Momma. We're in the car yesterday on the way home from Dr. Miller's office, and she's talking about her dragon, who she just finished discussing with Dr. Miller. They discussed the dragon's "serious cold" and that she should bring him in next time. So, we're in the car, and she says to me that we are going to have a birthday party for Dragon. She talks about it a bit, then we discuss something else. About ten minutes later, she tells me that she thinks dragon would really like a pet. Then she asks if we can get dragon a petshop pet for his birthday party. Hmmm.....

Lexie and her no-name dragon, and a great dog rests in the vinca.

love.

*sigh*

I love my dog!!!

He is the best!

Today is Sunday!

The 23rd, I think? Lex and I have a weekend morning routine of tickles and laughs when we wake up, then some play with the Griff. Right now, it's almost one in the afternoon, we've had lunch and we'll be taking a nap soon (Oh Sunday naps!). Then we've changed up on our plans and will go take a peek at the new pool at the Shute Park Aquatic Center. Hope we like it!

(Pipe in music from the Jaws scene where the three are in the boat on the way to jaws, getting tipsy)..."I'm tired and I wanna go to bed, I had a litt

Sam, Griff, Lexie, and Alex sit in the vinca.

Princess with shoes, goes to the rocks.

A dress full of rocks, equals a happy princess.

Huh? The aftermath of Lex, Alex, and Sam playing in the court. Strange!

Timberline Lodge! I love Lexie weekends!

What a week, or two! Server crashes, PDC has no BDC! Thank God for backups. Ryan, the new Network tech and I spent the last two and a half weeks recovering from a catastrophic hard drive failure. Phew! Re-establishing a new network from a new domain. Salvaging user profiles from a non-existing domain via cached domain memories. Glad to be finally done with all this, for the most part, Lexie and I have a great Saturday. On the way to school Thursday we admired the sunrise over Mt. Hood, and decided we would go there this weekend. We tried to go to Ski Bowl East and do the Alpine slide et. al., but it was already closed. So we headed up to Timberline. Picutres below. Tomorrow we will go out to the water park at Conestoga.

I think I see cloud number nine off in the distance. Lexie and I arrive at Timberline Lodge.

The lower floor of the lodge, the older fireplace that skiiers used to dry off and warm up by.

BIZARRE!!!!!!!

Time for a hike.

Lexie on Hood!

She thought that it was beautiful, so do I. Hardly any snow though, and the ski lifts were down due to wind.

Nice...

Snow??

To the top?

Lexie got it in her head that she wanted to climb to the peak!

I pointed out the clouds BELOW us and said it would take hours, if not days.

She thought about it and argued.

Then, reluctantly, she gave in and agreed that lunch at the lodge would be ok. Lexie has found her treasures. The tip of a bullet even? And is now hungry as I am. Back to put Griff in the Pathfinder and grab some grub.

Hiking back down.

Down one of the trails back to the lodge.

It is a nice place.

Griffen says howdy to another mountain dog.

Scenic shots.

Flower much prettier in real life. Not sure what it is.

Ski lift, clouds, and Mt. Jackson.

Mt. Jackson in the distance

Timberline!

Off to the game room. Lexie and I played one game of ping pong lenghtwise on the table, but had much more fun playing ping pong junior across the table. Fun.

Lexie got tired of Mommy trying to get a timer shot of the two of us, and initiated a photo strike.

We did have fun at ping pong though!

We also did table shuffle board. I scored a one, Lexie a four. With one puck, she got right to the edge without going over!

Time for lunch!

Lexie bounds up the awesome and heavily laqured (sp?) stairs to the hot chocolate and lunch. Beautiful carvings abound. This lodge is terrific!

Lexie and I wait for lunch, with "Sugar Pop" her dragon.

Lexie "Three Straws" is very very satisfied with Timberline's hot chocolate.

Almost done.

Super great place to eat. Lexie had the infamous Timberline Hot Chocolate (at $4.50 it ought to be!) which she loved and burned her tongue (she says it's the first time ever) with.

redruM? One of the many hotel corridors. As we sneaked peeks in the rooms that were being serviced, I told Lex that a movie, The Shining, had been filmed in the hotel. I seriously kept having thought of Jack Nichols bopping about as we toured. Oh well, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy?

The view from the first floor. I'm sitting on a comfy couch by one of the gigantious fireplaces.

Lexie and her leftovers, are ready to go home.