I'm trying to ReFi my house!!! After 1 crazy week of bank visits and calling banks and motgage companies I locked the rate with US Bank today - hope in couple of weeks I'll be done with all this. Then - I can plan my next trip to France!!!
I found new hobby - Sudoku!!! Great puzzles for attention and logic. My friends gave me electronic version of this game as New Year's present and Pasha taught me the rules.
Я проверил свои знания русского языка и получил пятерку. Сходи, проверься? |
One more place to add to My Wish List!!!!
In 1884, a wealthy widow named Sarah L. Winchester began a construction project of such magnitude that it was to occupy the lives of carpenters and craftsmen until her death thirty-eight years later. The Victorian mansion, designed and built by the Winchester Rifle heiress, is filled with so many unexplained oddities, that it has come to be known as the Winchester Mystery House.
Sarah Winchester built a home that is an architectural marvel. Unlike most homes of its era, this 160-room Victorian mansion had modern heating and sewer systems, gas lights that operated by pressing a button, three working elevators, and 47 fireplaces. From rambling roofs and exquisite hand inlaid parquet floors to the gold and silver chandeliers and Tiffany art glass windows, you will be impressed by the staggering amount of creativity, energy, and expense poured into each and every detail.
I'm planning my trip to California in September and I want to stop in Oregon Vortex on my way.
This is the original House of Mystery as you would see it today. It was built in 1904 by the Old Grey Eagle Mining Company as an assay office and tool-shed. This company stopped mining gold in 1911. A few years later this assay office slid off of its foundation on an angle and has been that way ever since. It was not until 1930 that it became known as The House of Mystery at The Oregon Vortex.
It's fun to browse YouTube - sometimes you can find interesting stuff there - it's like Flickr but with moving pictures!!!
Do you want to stay in Ice Castle, Tree House, Tram Hotel, Cave, Wigwam, Lighthouse or Old Jail? YOU CAN DO THIS TOO!!!!
OR
Poseidon UnderSea Resort
Enjoy your TRAVEL!!!!
The Library Hotel in New York City is the first hotel ever to offer its guest over 6,000 volumes organized throughout the hotel by the Dewey Decimal System.* Each of the 10 guestrooms floors honors one of the 10 categories of the DDC and each of the 60 rooms is uniquely adorned with a collection of books and art exploring a distinctive topic within the category or floor it belongs to.
I've lived in Kent, WA, for couple years and I still work @ Kent Regional Library and I decided to find information about other cities of Kent in USA.
So far I've found:
Kent, Ohio ("The Original Tree City")
Kent, Michigan
Kent, Minnesota
Kent, Oregon
Kent, Connecticut
Kent County, Michigan
Kent County, Delaware
Kent County, Texas
District of Kent, Agassiz, British Columbia
Town of Kent (often known as Kent Lakes), New York
and
Kent, England ("...relax... refresh..inspire")
I live in Auburn, WA, and I decided to find information about other cities of Auburn in USA.
So far I've found:
Auburn, Alabama ("The Loveliest Village of the Planet")
Auburn, California ("Endurance capital of the world")
Auburn, Maine ("City of Opportunity")
Auburn, New York ("Birthpalce of Talking Movies")
Auburn, Indiana ("Home of the Classics")
Auburn, Gergia ("Planning for the Future")
Auburn, Illinois ("The Redbud City")
Auburn, West Virginia
Auburn, Oregon
Auburn, Nebraska ("Where The Good Life Begins")
Auburn, Iowa ("A Taste Of Home")
Auburn, New Hampshire
Auburn, Kansas
Auburn, Pennsylvania
Auburn Hills, Michigan
and even
Auburn, Australia ("Many Cultures, One Community")
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Ushuaia is the capital of the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego, and the world's southernmost city. It is located on the southern coast of the island of Tierra del Fuego, in a setting surrounded by mountains and overlooking the Beagle Channel.
The questions are:
1. What are you thinking about?
2. Do you love me?
3. Do I look fat?
4. Do you think she is prettier than me?
5. What would you do if I died?
What makes these questions so difficult is that every one is guaranteed to explode into a major argument if the man answers incorrectly (i.e tells the truth). Therefore, as a public service, each question is analyzed below, along with possible responses.
Question # 1: What are you thinking about?
The proper answer to this, of course, is: "I'm sorry if I've been pensive, dear. I was just reflecting on what a warm, wonderful, thoughtful, caring, intelligent woman you are, and how lucky I am to have met you." This response obviously bears no resemblance to the true answer, which most likely is one of the following:
Baseball.
Football.
How fat you are.
How much prettier she is than you.
How I would spend the insurance money if you died.
(Perhaps the best response to this question was offered by Al Bundy, who once told Peg, "If I wanted you to know what I was thinking, I would be talking to you!")
Question # 2: Do you love me?
The proper response is: "YES!" or, if you feel a more detailed answer is in order, "Yes, dear." Inappropriate responses include:
I suppose so.
Would it make you feel better if I said yes?
That depends on what you mean by love.
Does it matter?
Who, me?
Question # 3: Do I look fat?
The correct answer is an emphatic: "Of course not!" Among the incorrect answers are:
Compared to what?
I wouldn't call you fat, but you're not exactly thin.
A little extra weight looks good on you.
I've seen fatter.
Could you repeat the question? I was just thinking about how I would spend the insurance money if you died.
Question # 4: Do you think she's prettier than me? Once again, the proper response is an emphatic: "Of course not!" Incorrect responses include:
Yes, but you have a better personality
Not prettier, but definitely thinner
Not as pretty as you, when you were her age
Define 'pretty'
Could you repeat the question? I was just thinking about how I would spend the insurance money if you died.
Question #5: What would you do if I died?
A definite no-win question. (The real answer, or course, is "Buy a Corvette.")
No matter how you answer this, be prepared for at least an hour of follow-up questions, usually along the these lines:
She....Would you get married again?
He.....Definitely not!
She....Why not - don't you like being married?
He.....Of course I do.
She....Then why wouldn't you remarry?
He.....Okay, I'd get married again.
She....You would? (With a hurtful look on her face)
He.....Yes, I would.
She....Would you sleep with her in our bed?
He.....Where else would we sleep?
She....Would you put away my pictures, and replace them with pictures of her?
He.....That would seem like the proper thing to do.
She....And would you let her use my golf clubs?
He.....She can't use them; she's left-handed.
Bad day in Ireland
I could have sworn I hit the brake pedal!
Car upside down in the bay - see guy standing on it?
Call out the wrecker! 
Coming back up...coming...coming
Coming...almost there!
Ooops!
I could have sworn I set the brakes on that truck!
Time to get a Bigger Wrecker!
OK, we got the car...let's get the other wrecker now!
O...o...oohhh No!!
Who's gonna explain this one to the insurance guys?
Houses in weird places
Could you go to sleep at night and not wonder if these houses would be there the next morning ?
LOT #1
DON'T WANT VISITORS? JUST UNHOOK THE CABLE.
JUST MIGHT CATCH ON....
LOT #2
MOST PEOPLE USE TREES FOR A WINDBREAK....
LOT #3
CONSIDER THE PANIC IF YOU HEAR A BRANCH CRACK...
LOT #4
HOW DID THEY GET THAT CAR IN THERE?
LOT #5
LONG CLIMB AFTER A DAY'S WORK!
LOT #6
TREE BELOW...FLOWERS ABOVE.... SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST WEIRD!
LOT #7
NOT DURING HURRICANE SEASON, THANK YOU.....
LOT #8
GOT A LITTLE PROBLEM WITH DAMPNESS AT YOUR HOUSE?
LOT #9
I'VE HEAR OF PEOPLE'S BRIDGEWORK BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS!
LOT #10
BETTER TALK TO AL GORE ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING!
LOT #11
THE TOP ONE IS FOR THE PARENTS. THE LITTLE ONE IS FOR THE KIDS..
THAT MIGHT GET POPULAR!
