I'm on spring break this week. I have lots of time to do many of the errands that need to get done when you have time. Since my mother is working on selling her house and buying a new house I decided to spend some time with her. I went to my mother's this morning to begin going through things she wants to get rid of before she moves. She put a contract on a condo this afternoon. I have my fingers crossed that they will accept it. The condo market is very hot right now. She may be out bid. Let's hope not. So she's already begun to get rid of things and think of who to give things to. She won't have the space in her new place for the amount of items she's collected over the 39 years she's lived in her house. We have a big family and my mother has 16 place settings of her good china. She knows she'll never use the full set again so she gave me 8 complete settings. She knows I won't get married and have a china pattern picked out. I happen to really like her pattern so I'm glad she gave me a complete set. Now I have some really nice dishes for the next time I have a dinner party. Of course I don't have real silverware to accompany the dishes. Maybe when she's ready to part with her silverware I'll get 8 settings of that too. She did however, give me 5 silver knifes and forks that belonged to my grandmother's set of silverware. I'm not sure why she didn't have a whole set. The entire set must have been split between my aunts when my grandmother died. Who knows. She also gave me lemonade pitcher that my grandmother used to use when we were kids and visited her in Indiana. I remembered the pitcher instantly when I saw it. It's funny the things you remember. I have plans to be back at my mother's house several times before she moves to help clean things out and pack things up. I'm such a good son.

Donut Jelly provides a fun link to the Create your own South Park Character. I don't watch South Park on a regular basis but I have watched it in the past and find it to be amusing. If I had to pick a character that I was most like I think I'd pick Kyle. I don't know why. I just think I'm like him. So anyway, I went to the site. I thought it might be some kind of site where you put in your personality traits and it would create a character based on you. When I got to the site I realized you simply pick the different elements you want to include in your character. I played around with it and created a few characters. Most of them looked like previously created South Park characters. So then I decided to try to make one that looked like me. What you see is what I created. Kinda fun if you have the time to play around. I'm on spring break so I have the time.

Happy 33rd birthday to Dogpoet. I check out his blog from time to time and enjoy reading it.

My arms and chest are hurting today because I decided to start lifting weights. I'm only doing my arms and chest. I don't want to be a big muscle guy but I would like my arms and chest to be a little bigger. We'll see how long I can keep this up. It hurts.