The is a photo I took (and cropped) of a painting by Justin Vining. It hangs in the Uptown Café in Valparaiso, IN. It is the first thing that I noticed when I stepped foot in the café for the first time. The colors are simply amazing. I’m participating in Popinjay, a weekly concept photo challenge. This week’s challenge was BOLD. Next week’s challenge is FREE. Join us.
Sidenote: Popinjay is a trending topic on Google. I wonder why?
Bizzie Mommy is having a giveaway for a Sealy Posturepedic® Signature 11-Series innerspring mattress and she’s asked bloggers to blog about why they need a new mattress as a way of entering.
Well, my reason is simple.
We’ve been sleeping on an air mattress since Summer of 2008.
When we moved from Southern Illinois, we left our mattress behind because it didn’t fit in our UHAUL. We had both stayed up the night before moving trying to finish up around the house because once we hit the road, there was no turning back. The mattress should have been one of the first things to be packed. I don’t know what happened, you can’t really expect logic from two sleep deprived parents of a 4 month old.
Once we got settled, we bought an air mattress to sleep on until we could purchase a real mattress. As more and more financial obligations required our attention, purchasing that mattress got put on hold. One air mattress turned into three. Sleeping on an air mattress wasn’t that bad, as long as the bills were paid and Boogie was taken care of.
This isn’t an SOB story. I am not griping because we don’t have real mattress. One day we are going to look back and reminisce. Life is all about making sacrifices. All wishes aren’t granted at once. Good things certainly come to those who wait. We have a warm place to live, foods on the table, and we are all healthy. So what if we are sleeping on an air mattress. There are folks that have to sleep in dirt and on concrete out in extreme weather conditions.
I felt like I’ve told this story one time too many, only because it’s come up somehow. Now that I’ve blogged it, I plan to never mention it again. Ok, maybe I will; when we finally get that mattress and as a reminder to be grateful for the gifts given to us.
I’ve always liked Google Chrome and I would use it occasionally because its performance was substantially faster than Mozilla Firefox. What kept me from using it as a default browser? Its lack of browser extensions. Well, now there are extensions available for Chrome. I was able to find an Chrome extension to replace almost every Firefox extension I had. I love how fast the Google Chrome extensions install. I don’t even have to restart the browser each time I install one.
Here’s a list of Google Chrome extensions I have Running:
Have you made the switch to Google Chrome? How do you like it? What extensions are you running?
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