Figures

I actually have stuff to write about and the entry template on OD won't load for me. Whatever.

I hauled out my scrapbooking/craft stuff and have been making lots of cards. I'm having fun with it. I got a bunch of ideas from the workshop I went to last month and I'm having fun with my new Stampin' Up! stamps.

Ev got his immunizations today and took them like a champ. I got my flu shot and also took it like a champ ;)
My bub weighs 18 lbs 14 oz. No wonder my back hurts at the end of the day! The doctor measured his height by laying him on the examining table and marking his head and feet with her pen on the paper liner thingy. Before she had a chance to get the measuring tape out to measure the distance between the marks Evan had ripped the paper all up and tried to stuff it in his mouth! I guess we'll try again at his next appointment :D

Shopper's was having a big sale when I stopped in tonight to get a thermometer for Ev (I haven't been able to find my other ones since we moved). I got two containers of Gain detergent for $2.50 (regularly $10.00 each). I also go a L'Oreal hair colouring & highlighting kit for $6.75 (regularly $27.00). I got a few other hair care things on clearance for Dan and I, plus some baby food for Evan and managed to spend only $21.47 including tax! If I had paid full price it would have been over $60. Yay!

Alright, off to bed with me. Morning comes early when you have a baby!

Soap on a Rope

I just put Evan into bed. He took a two hour nap today! He hasn't done that in a really long time. I slept too. Felt soooo good.

I turn 30 on Friday. Thirty. I know they say you're only as old as you feel, and I feel like I'm still in my early to mid-twenties, but I'm not looking forward to the whole 30 thing. Seeing that 3 in front of my age is going to throw me off for a long time.
My parents are going to come in and baby-sit Ev while Dan and I go out to dinner (we're going to make a it a joint celebration of our anniversary which is October 5th - also my sister's birthday!) and then come back here for cake and ice cream.

We went over and visited with our neighbor, Jana, this evening. She had invited us over to see her workshop (she runs her own soap business from her house) so Dan, my dad and I went over after dinner and she showed us around. She has so many neat soaps! She is about my age and has been doing it for six years. They smelled soooo good and are so pretty! And she has really neat designs They are the kind of glycerin soaps that are transparent and have colourful designs in the center. She even has ones with little toys in the middle for kids. I bought 6 bars from her of different ones right there, hehehe. When we first moved in she came over and introduced herself and brought us a bar of her citrus zest soap and it was love at first lather for me.

Anyway, time to start up the dishwasher and get in bed. Sleep is a very precious commodity around here :P

9.27.08

Dan gets home from his trip tonight, yay! He has been in San Francisco on business for the last week. Evan and I will be very happy to have him home again.

Speaking of Ev, he is nine months old now and has four teeth, with two more on the way! Six teeth seems like a lot for a nine month-old but not much I can do about it :P

We are supposed to get some bad weather starting tomorrow from Hurricane Kyle. I doubt it will be that bad. Most of it is supposed to go to the west of us, and besides, the last time they said we were going to get hurricane remnants we barely even got some rain. It's cloudy and sprinkling on and off right now and I think that will probably be all we get.

Evan is napping (!!) so I am going to go play with some craft stuff while he is down.

Heather Rocks!

Many thanks to my super talented cousin Heather for this new layout! It makes me want to write in here more :)
Thanks Heather! <3

Just Stuff

I don't think anyone but Heather reads this, but that's okay, I'll still update it (finally!).

We move into our new home on Wednesday. I'm excited to decorate and make it feel homey. It also has a great kitchen that I am excited about using since I love to spend time baking. Though I rarely have time to do it anymore now that Evan keeps me busy full-time.

Talked to Kim last night, she is thinking of going to travel Africa at the end of this year and then hopefully come up here for a visit too! Africa = me having heart attack. Why can't she pick somewhere nice and safe? Ugh.

Anyway, I think this is it for now. OD better get back up soon. It's annoying.

Why Am I Not Surprised.

Yay. Not.

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Ok, I chose new colors and now I think it is all ready to go should I need it. No fancy blinkie or graphics or tickers, just text and maybe the occasional photo. For now I still like OD 'cause all my friends are there, but I know a lot of people who have changed to blogspot (I've had this for years, I just haven't used it in forever!) so it's here if I need it.

It lives!

I am trying to resurrect my blogspot as a backup since OD has been so flaky lately. I used to write in this a lot.

I haven't posted here in a really long time.

Your Birthdate: October 3

Being born on the 3rd day of the month is likely to add a good bit of vitality to your life. The energy of 3 allows you bounce back rapidly from setbacks, physical or mental. There is a restlessness in your nature, but you seem to be able to portray an easygoing, "couldn't care less" attitude. You have a natural ability to express yourself in public, and you always make a very good impression. Good with words, you excel in writing, speaking, and possibly singing. You are energetic and always a good conversationalist. You have a keen imagination, but you tend to scatter your energies and become involved with too may superficial matters. You are affectionate and loving, but sometimes too sensitive. You are subject to rapid ups and downs.

On Thursday I took Gracie out for dinner and to the park (I missed spending time with her so I took her with me when I left school and we spent the afternoon/evening together, it was so fun!!). She was reciting the pledge of allegiance, and she got to the "one nation under God part" and said "One nation, on top of God...." and I told her that she almost had it but not quite. So she said "Oh!" and I saw the light bulb go on in her head and she started it again....
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation, on the right-hand side of God...."

So much for the light bulb ;D I couldn't help it, I busted up laughing. She was so earnest about it, it just cracked me up. She messed up a few other parts, but that was the one that stuck out in my mind. She is such a cute little monkey, I adore her.

Also, the kids in my class think a Toucan is called a 'tuna can' and an Ant Eater is a 'bug sucker'. How could I not love getting paid to hear things like that?? :D

This morning was really windy so we went and bought a kite @ Walgreen's (nobody sells kites anymore!) and took Po to the park to fly it. It worked great! I had forgot how much fun it was to do that. I think it is supposed to be windy againt tomorrow, so maybe we can go do it again!! :-)

I took these of Gracie today. She was wearing her bathrobe (a gift from the Easter Bunny - she kept it on ALL day!) and was having fun outside (it was very windy!). She just did all this on her own, I didn't ask her to pose or anything. I took them around 5:00 p.m., I thought the light was really nice.

Ok, real fast entry. I spent the long weekend painting the living room with Dan (I will post pictures once the trim is done) and it is tiring! I know it sounds easy, but the walls are textured (kind of like stucco) which makes it hard to get the paint evenly distributed. Plus there are all sorts of nooks and crannies (those are funny words) and all the doors and trim need to be taped before the painting even begins. We also painted the ceiling (white) which is sucky. But it was also fun and it is looking great!!

Friday night after we were thoroughly done painting, Dan and I decided to go out to the Coffee Bean, 1. To get away from the paint fumes, and 2. Just because they have yummy drinks. So we pull up and who is there but James and Tracy [StrawberryHedgehog]! We sat with with them for awhile (and either Dan or I accidentally set off his car alarm, it was very loud and scared Tracy half to death!), and then Ken and April showed up on their way from San Diego to Tucson. Dan and I were super tired so we left the four of them there at The Bean.

Dan then took Po for a walk (thank you!). And then I think we are going to play Chutes & Ladders before I go to bed (I'm bummed I fell asleep before I got to a chance to see James & Tracy again).

The end for now :)

Yes, I'm still up. It's 1 a.m. on a 'school night' and I should have been in bed hours ago, but I'm not. I decided to work on some scrapbooking pages for Nolyn, and just stay up and wear myself out in general. Sounds like a great idea, no? I thought you were supposed to get more responsible as you got older. Whatever.

I went over to Jim & Kass' last night. I took my Pop Culture DVD Trivial Pursuit game and we played that for hours! It didn't end until close to midnight. Oi. Lakyn and I also jumped on the trampoline before the pizza came.
Annnnnd, I discovered a new favorite drink: midori sours. Jim is an excellent bartender, that's all I have to say. I downed a cosmo and 2 sours in about 20 minutes. Mmmmm num num.

I think my precious Bobo is going to come down for a visit (YAY!), and then she and I may fly to Boulder and meet Dad there to visit S&S. That would be fun :) I haven't been there in almost 6 years.

Scott, Craig and I watched 13 going on 30 tonight. It was cute, mindless fluff. Better than Napoleon Dynamite, but then again, most things are :P

I didn't know anyone actually read this anymore (hi Aja!). Hee hee. I have another journal that I have been keeping up with, hence my neglect of this blog. My bad. I'll be able to write more about what has been going on in my life in a few days ("names are being witheld pending notification of kin"), heh.

Amanda had a healthy baby boy this morning (1/28/05)!! Nolyn Pierre M**** was born in Indianapolis, IN @ 6:31 a.m. and weighed 7 lbs., 2 oz., and was 20 1/4" long. He has lots of black hair and already has his own little personality! Normally when my phone rings at 4:45 a.m. I am not pleased, but this was a very special "We have a baby!" phone call that I was more than happy to receive :)

In other news, I got adventurous yesterday and decided to take Lakyn for the afternoon as well as Gracie, and the three of us had a blast. Kass called after I picked up Grace from pre-school to ask if we wanted to have lunch with her and Lakyn (of course!). So we did. It was nice; Kass and I talked while the girls played. Then Kass needed to run around and do some work so I took Lakyn & Gracie to DQ, then to the park, then to Wal*Mart for those cheapy $3.88 picture dealies. It was hilarious, but I don't have the energy to type out all of our travails. Suffice to say I can handle two children with aplomb. It was less work than I thought it would be. It was actually the most fun I have had in a long time. Maybe when I get the pictures back I can scan one and post it here.

I think that's it for now. I will try to keep up with this much better from now on! :)

Um, just so you all know, I'm not really the colour turquoise. I was cutting and pasting HTML trying to make something work for my friend Jess, and I just left that stuff there. In case you're wondering, I was the colour black.

You are the color turquoise. A fairly tempermental
person, you're either upset or tranquil most of
the time. You can be as calm as your color.
You're a mysterious person, yet somehow
outgoing. You're balanced, simply put. You're
somewhat bold. You're generous and
sophisticated--but never ever snobby. You're
lively and rich in personality and attitude.
You're a beautiful person, aside from the fact
that you're a perfectionist and painfully
honest. But life is good to you!


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Ok, my precious Bobo wants me to update, so here I go.
I have nothing much to say, other than I am glad she will be home soon! I know she will be sad to leave Europe & Dave, but it will be nice to be able to chase her around the house and whack her butt and whatnot again. Work was slow today. The DSL is busted (yay rain!) and the phone lines sound like crap so I had to get AT&T to fix it. That requires going through an automated system, then finally getting a human, getting a "trouble ticket number" and then waiting. Apparently by tomorrow around 11 am they should be fixed. Don't trouble yourselves guys.

Thanksgiving is at the in-laws this year. Both sets of grandparents are coming, plus Scott, Eric, and Craig & I (obviously). I am making three pies (apple, pumpkin & pecan, crusts and all thanks), homemade cranberry chutney and parmesan garlic mashed potatoes.

According to my MIL people are "killing each other" to get at the frozen turkeys at Fry's, so I think I will hold off on turkey shopping until later when the crowds have thinned out.
I'm not even going to be eating any turkey, it's not like I care :P

Ok, gotta go.
Bobo, Ferris Bueller was on the other night. It's not the same without you :) *KISSY*

DISCLAIMER: The following will most likely make some very angry. It is not my intention to offend anyone, but this is my blog and I write what I please. If you are easily offended, pro-Bush, ultra-conservative (or any combination thereof) I'm warningn you now, you probably don't want to read this. This entry is basically just for me; when people look at me in disgust wondering how I can support Kerry and they call me "unpatriotic" and a "traitor" (yes, I really have had those things yelled at me) this is what I want to tell them:

Over 1,000 U.S. troops dead.

Over 100,000 Iraqi civilians dead.

Nearly 100 billion dollars, that could have been spent on healthcare for children, the elderly and low-income families, education, medical research or low-income housing instead spent on searching for non-existant Weapons of Mass Destruction. Does it make the lie easier to swallow when they tell you "the weapons were there, but they were moved before we found them."?

No Child Left Behind sounds great in principal. Too bad they didn't fully fund it, leaving schools holding the bag when their students aren't up on the standardized tests. Lots of showy talk, not much action.

The Patriot Act. That is a good name for it, huh? "Do what we tell you or else you are unpatriotic". Scare tactics, anyone? Do you know that the Patriot Act, among other things, means the government knows what books your children check out of the library?

Flip flopping? Did you know that Bush was initially opposed to forming the Department of Homeland Security before he was in favour of it? Did you know that he was opposed to NCLB before he decided to support it? Do you remember when he wouldn't testify before the senate hearings, then he would, then he would only do it if Cheney could be there with him? Sounds an awful lot like the pot calling the kettle black.

Newsflash: Those tax cuts? To enjoy the standards of life that we North Americans have come to expect, taxes are a necessary evil. It would be nice though if they were spent responsibly on medical programs and education for instance instead of waging illegal wars on countries we have decided we don't like (Vietnam, anyone?).

Declaring war on countries we don't like. There are other countries in the world ruled by dictators worse than Saddam Hussein, but they aren't oil-rich nations, so we let them be. It's very convenient that Iraq just happens to have alot of oil under their sand.

I support the troops, I want them home. They have done an honorable thing by enlisting to defend their country. THEIR country. Why are they dying in Iraq when Iraq did nothing to us? Everyone and their dog has concluded there were no connections between Iraq and 9/11, so don't bother trying to feed me that garbage.

I am pro-choice, not pro-abortion. Pro-abortion means that I would be actively advocating abortions left, right and center. I don't. But the right should be there for women to choose. Abortions are going to happen whether they are legal or not (that has already been proven), but I would prefer they are kept safe instead of ending in botched jobs with wire coat-hangars.

Don't tell me I am unpatriotic because I don't support Bush. A democracy without dissent is not truly a democracy (that is a quote but I forget by whom). I don't have to like Bush to love America.

I meant to mention this earlier but things have been busy around here...

HAH! Ann Coulter running from a couple of cream pies? Did you see her scream and run off the stage? I laughed so hard! :D Crybaby.

You know what pisses me off? Americans flocking to Canada to get the flu shot now that they have learned there won't be enough for them in the States. The local health unit is turning them away, as they rightly should, to make sure that Ontarians who have contributed to the provincial healthcare system get them first. After all the rude comments I have received about how Canada has a (GASP!) socialist healthcare system that can't possibly be any good, and prescription drugs from Canada can't POSSIBLY be safe, NOW they decide that they want our help and our medicine? Did you know most of our flu vaccinations came from France? I thought you guys didn't like France 'cause they refused to be part of the 'coalition of the willing'. Still want that vaccine now?

If, after vaccinating every Canadian who wants a flu shot, we have some leftover THEN, I am in favor of offering them to Americans (or any other foreign national willing to make the trip) who desires one.

These are the types of foreign relations the current administration is fostering. Don't like it?

VOTE

CJ, Fenner, and CJ's parents came down to have Thanksgiving (Monday) with us. I can't believe we have been best friends for 11 years! We have celebrated a bunch of holidays together and they just keep getting better. While setting the table I chipped a wine glass (oops!), then just after her dad toasted everyone at dinner saying how lucky we are to have each other, CJ knocked over her wine glass and "decapitated" it (the top smashed off the bottom, HAR HAR!). I laughed until I almost peed my pants.

I got my hair cut & coloured this afternoon. I like it, even though it isn't a huge change from the way it was before....just a touch-up this time. Darker brown, less red, and she re-did my layers. Yay!

Tomorrow is ice-skating! I haven't been skating in years, this will be FUN!
Also I have had Tim Horton's every day since I have been here. I am so proud of myself, hah! :)

I just realized that I need to be all packed in 24 hours. Like that is going to happen. I need to pack for Craig too and all our "cold" weather clothes are stuffy and musty and need to be washed. I know what's going to happen...I'm just going to end up shoving everything in my spiffy duffel-bag-on-wheels and take it home as is. This is ridiculous; 26 years old and I'm still dragging my laundry (3,000 miles) to my parents' house.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOBO!!!!!

We did cake and prezzies at my in-laws tonight since my FIL won't be around tomorrow and also Craig and I have plans (Indian food for lunch and then see Shark Tale!). I wanted to post pics of my 'loot' so far. I am a very "spoiled" girl. Since I moved down here away from my family though, I have learned what is actually important. Them. When I tell them I don't need anything for my birthday except to share it with them, I'm not just trying to be modest, I mean it. Gifts are fun and I very much appreciate it when people spend the time, effort and money to give me something I will enjoy, but nothing makes me happier than being with my family and I am SO glad that I get to see them in a few days as a "late" birthday present. I'm just bummed Bobo won't be there but I am glad she is having fun in Europe :)

Now on to the pictures...
These are the jammies that Kass got me.



This is my spa foot bath! From my MIL & FIL.



And this is my Belgian waffle maker that I got from my BILs, Scott & Eric (they also got my stainless steel KitchenAid meauring cups and spoons!).



I also got a check for $50 from Grandma Jo and Grampa Jerry.

I think I am going to go scrapbook pictures from last Thanksgiving (um, yah, hehehe, oops!) and wait for the SNL premiere!. While I do that I can listen to the lovely Mariachi music that the neighbors across the street are blaring, hah :)

I added some new links under the 'Stuff' section. Go check them out.

The Amy Goodman event went well. She is an excellent public speaker. She made some great points and got me thinking. She said, "Dissent is what makes this country healthy."

I had a Yuma for Kerry Meetup tonight. It was fun. Met a couple new faces and got to be back with some of my old "regulars". Had a good time. We had a guy come all the way from Mexico (he is an American but lives and works in Mexicali). Then Ed realized he had a key to the Democratic Headquarters so we went and raided their Kerry/Edwards gear. They had just got a big new shipment so I'm all stocked up. I even snagged a button for my dad :)

On my drive home the other night I was listening to Filter's Take a Picture and I thought, I need someone to take a picture of my life as it's happening right now 'cause down the road a few years I know everything won't be as fresh and vivid as it is right now. Then I supposed that this blog as well as my scrapbook are my life "picture".

Craig is at the Yuma Slashdot Meetup tonight. He actually ended up being the Meetup co-ordinator! (For anyone who knows Craig, that is really funny - he never wants to organize anything. Apparently he has no idea how he became the host, heh).

Off to watch the premiere of ER! :)

I saw this in a forwarded Bobo e-mail :) I know you won't bother signing it (I did) and everyone is entitled to their own opinion. And just know that if you don't sign it, rest assured I will think less of you ;)

Ahhh yes, my CD case. And my Hip CD! Hehehe, but you are correct in that you are very cute and will most definitely get away with it. And it's very nice that you think I'm the best sister ever, however I think you are the best sissy ever!!! :)

How you could not hear 42 drunken highschool students partying in your house is beyond me. I would have come up with a better excuse.

Did you know that I am the co-ordinator for both the Yuma Kerry in 2004 Meetup as well as the DFA Meetup? Because I am. Awhile back Meetup sent out requests for volunteers to host and co-ordinate the local meetups. There was one other guy besides me that signed up to manage each of them. Supposedly we were to duke it out amongst ourselves who got the coveted spot (ha ha) but I got lazy and didn't contact him and about a week later Meetup notified me that I had won the prize(s). The first one isn't for a few weeks so I still have some time to get organized.

We are getting a really cool lightening/wind/dust storm here tonight. I took Po out for a walk and enjoyed the wind. It actually wasn't unbearably hot. Thought it was 105 degrees and very humid today. UGH!

Oh yeah. I also stole her courderoy overalls from Old Navy and a cardigan. Come to think of it, everything I stole from her is from ON. Probably 'cause that's almost the only place we'll shop! :)

On a much more somber note, I turn 26 (you don't know how hard it was for me to just type those two digits together) in twenty-nine days. I wish I could hit the rewind button on my life. The first few years I don't remember and the last few have been a blur. I sure hope you aren't supposed to accomplish anything notable by the time you hit this age because I sure haven't.

Po is napping and making these I'm-about-to-breath-flames noises so I'm going to check on him.

Things my sister stole from me and then took to Europe:
My impossible-to-find-a-new-one foot file
My brand-new pink hoodie (Teresa bought me a new one, hehehe!)
Something else that I can't remember

Things I stole from her and brought back to Yuma:
1 t-shirt and 2 dressy shirts
Something else that I can't remember

I'd say we're pretty much even.

I told Steve I'd help him organize the Amy Goodman thing. I kind of miss his micro-managing ways :) I'm sure I'll be ready to kill him again after a month of working together ;) I have also had a request from some former Yuma Deaniacs for my dad to come down here and do stuff with us closer to election time. (Hehe, how many Canadians does it take to elect an American president?).

Someone out there is really sick.

Craig wanted me to blog about his latest blog...so here I am :)
What can I say, the Liberals have it :) If you read Craig's independent/interdependent entry you will see why he came to the conclusion that I'm a Democrat (or would be if I could register to vote) and he thinks more like a Republican, although he is registered as a Dem and will be supporting Kerry-Edwards. Why? Because no decent person in their right mind who hasn't been living under a rock for the last 4 years could support someone whose only interest is in seeing the rich get richer, sending their soldiers off to die for an oil war (you didn't really think it was about "liberating" Iraq, did you?), fighting a woman's right to choose, polluting the environment and making it difficult for the people who need it most to have universal health care. Those are but a small mix of the ISSUES! Bleh. Anyway (I feel like Veruca Salt right after her tirade about the golden geese) *clears throat* back to Craig's blog. It was very interesting, I had never thought about it that way before.

Annnnnd..I need to go to bed and get my rest because Ryan is coming tomorrow!

That must have been some hangover.

I think I am usually a fairly patient, tolerant person. Tonight however, my line was crossed. Rob, Dan and I went extreme bowling. We were there for about an hour before a large group of people (with several small children) came along and started playing in the lane next to us. They put so many balls into the holder that they encroached into our little group of balls. I had selected my ball (I am picky about my ball) and had been using it faithfully for the past hour. Then one of the girls in the lane next to us decided to try my ball. They have like 8 balls right there but she decided to take mine. I figured, 'Well that's OK. As long as she and I aren't bowling at the same time it won't be a problem'. Then she proceeds to let her two little kids (I'm talking under 5 years old, in a bowling alley at 11 pm) shove the ball down the lane. It rolls into the gutter and gets stuck along with 2 other balls already in there. Fabulous. We had to wait for the worker guy to come get them out of the gutter. She didn't even apologize! So when my ball popped up out of the conveyer belt thing I took it and sat with it on my lap for the rest of the night. Then they resorted to taking Rob's ball! The nerve! And who brings little kids to a smokey, noisy bowling alley at 11 pm? GET A BABYSITTER. If you can afford to go bowling and buy as much beer as those people had then you can afford a babysitter for a few hours. It was good for alot of laughs though :)
Then Dan and I went to the Pop a Top to drown our sorrows and Dan bought me a drink (thanks Dan!). Our bad luck, it was karaoke night. 'Nuff said.

I am officially dubbing this the Bowling Ball Thievery Incident.

Flippin' the bird

So my MIL broke her middle finger walking the dog. Yes, walking the dog. He is an Australian Cattle dog (=ENERGY) and he's still a puppy (=MORE ENERGY) and he took off running and somehow the leash got wrapped around her finger and snapped it in two and twisted it, so when she went to the urgent care they couldn't just set it, and they are sending her to a surgeon. She goes to that tomorrow morning. Until then her finger is stuck in the Middle Finger Salute. Though I feel bad that she hurt her finger and is in pain, the fact that it's stuck in the position it is in is hilarious to me ;) Even more so if you knew my MIL ;) Her attitude is sort of always 'screw off'. So this is twistedly appropriate.
I wish my sister was here, she and I have the same sense of humour ;)

ARRGHHHHH!@# Their first concert in K-town in a decade and I miss it by a month!!! *screaming and tearing hair out*

!@#%*#@!!

#!@*&*@

I guess it serves me right. I miss all the good stuff when I'm down here in this hell hole (though I do have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to see Randy Travis and Julio Iglesias at the Paradise Casino. *throws up*). I am going home.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off is on! Where is my Bobo to watch OUR movie with me? In Europe, that's where :P
I'm not going to stay up 'til the end (it just started) but I'm at least going to finish the part with Edward R. Rooney and Grace ("GRAAACE!!!!"). Hehehe.

"...Something D-O-O economics; voodoo economics."

I'm back. This town smells.

Happy Birthday to Amanda (20) and Gracie (4)!!!

My sister brought me a Shrek doll from work today (the General Mills rep was cleaning out her space and gave it to her along with some other items). He's brand new and about 12" tall. He's so cute, I love him! Now I just need "DONKEY!" :D

I got my hair chopped today. Well, not too chopped, Lisa only took about 2 inches off the bottom but she gave me "choppy, aggressive" layers around my face and I got a brunette rinse with caramel highlights. I LOVE it! Lisa always knows what to do with my hair, she's so great. That was my splurge for the...decade. Hehe, no it wasn't that bad, I won't say how much it cost but it's enough that I only do it 2 or 3 times a year, heh. I can only do it when I'm in K-town anyway! If I were rich (not famous, just rich) then I'd keep Lisa on my staff full-time so I would never have a bad hair day again ;)

I had my lava lamp on today and Mango did not like it; she growled at it for about 45 minutes straight! What a nut.

I can't believe I have to go back to Yuma in 6 days. It feels like I just got here. I am already getting sad about leaving. It will be good to see Craigory and Popo and my friends but I still hate leaving here. I feel like I belong here. I don't feel that way in Yuma. I am distracting myself with volunteering stuff for Kerry and after 11/2 hopefully I can concentrate on getting the house ready to sell. I look forward to the days when I leave Kingston only for a vacation.

The panda eats shoots and leaves!!!

I feel sorry for the alligator.

It's finally raining!
Friday is our trip to Ottawa for dinner and a CFL (Ottawa vs. Winnipeg!) game with some friends.
Now I go workout and then beat my mom at Scrabble. Heh heh.

It's another beautiful day...sunny and breezy, warm but not hot, white puffy clouds floating by. Paradise :) I went downtown with my mum today....we went to the market (outdoor farmer's market) and some shops that I hadn't been to in awhile. They just put in a Starbucks downtown, but I like to encourage the "little guy" i.e. the local family owned businesses so I didn't get anything from Starbucks. My mom however has found her new addiction ;)
Bobo is at work now but will home in a few hours and then I can go back to annoying her as much as possible before I leave, heh ;)
I'm not sure what is for dinner. So many restaurants that I need to go to! (Again, locally-owned places...I can go to a chain restaurant anytime).
I'm going to enjoy the breeze and the 78 degree weather. I love home! I hate Yuma! :)

The FDA is on to me! I have been infiltrated by the government! I knew they were spying on me! I KNEW IT!!!
Where is Agent Mulder when I need him.

Happy Canada Day!!!!!
YAY, I get to go home in 6 days!
Bobo: you better protect your butt, har har ;)

We went to San Diego for the day to see F9/11 and test-drive a Porsche Boxter. Hee hee :)
The movie was SOOO GOOOD! You MUST go see it. Unless you're a head-up-the-ass Republican who thinks Bush and his cronies are wonderful, in that case you're probably too scared to see it 'cause it might actually give you something to think about. Of course you will brand it "biased, anti-American garbage" but that's okay...the rest of us know the truth. You just hide behind whatever makes you feel better. Heh.

We went to San Diego for the day to see F9/11 and test-drivr a Porsche Boxter. Hee hee :)
The movie was SOOO GOOOD! You MUST go see it. Unless you're a head-up-the-ass Republican who thinks Bush and his cronies are wonderful, in that case you're probably too scared to see it 'cause it might actually give you something to think about. Of course you will brand it "biased, anti-American garbage" but that's okay...the rest of us know the truth. You just hide behind whatever makes you feel better. Heh.

I got to meet this guy tonight. I liked him alot more than I thought I would. Go check out his website and then do the right thing and vote for him on November 2. And if you're one of those people who thinks McCain is a moderate and you can live with him for another senate term think again. He's as bad as Kyl. Just look at his voting record. He's no moderate.

Yay! We are going to San Diego tomorrow to:

a) Test drive a Porsche Boxter (mainly for Craig)
and
b) Go see Farneheit 9/11 (mainly for me)
and
c) Escape this hideous, raging inferno (107, YUK!)

Three things that aren't possible in Yuma!

At first I just chalked it up to me having bad luck with coffee, but then when my parents were down here and my mom brought some coffee from home I realized how truely awful American coffee is. It's weak and watery and has no oomph. I guess Canadian coffee is more similar to European coffee. The stuff down here is just plain weak...same problem they have with their beer, heh ;)

In the span of 30 minutes Gracie has managed to:
knock over a lamp with her bouncy ball,

spill her cup of water that she was using with her paints,

try on my high heel shoes and subsequently fall off my high heel shoes,

ride Po around like a horse and then get stuck underneath him when he rolled over onto his back,

and knock all my fridge magnets/pictures on the floor while practicing her jump-and-touch skills on my fridge. My house is a trail of destruction. That was a half hour. I shudder to think what might happen in the next four hours before she goes home.

As I sat organizing my scrapbooking supplies I was listening to iTunes Radio. After some old songs (by 'old' I mean mid 70's) Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit came on. I thought to myself, 'Ahhh, the anthem of my generation'. Then I got a cold feeling in the pit of stomach realizing that that is a 12 year-old song and that if I am old enough to be thinking about the songs of my generation then I am in fact now just plain old. Great. Lovely. People my parents age seem to think it's hysterical that I am lamenting being "old". I can sort of see their point, after all I'm sure I seem young and naive to them, however from my vantage point it's not quite so humourous.

Switching topics, I picked up a prescription at the pharmacy today and it cost me $63.73 after insurance. Before insurance it was $143.73. This is a once-a-month thing. We are just lucky Craig has good insurance. Otherwise that would add up to over $1700 a year. Just for one prescription. I told Gracie we need to move back to Canada. This country is ill-equipped to deal with its inhabitants. Greatest country on Earth my ass. It can't provide something as basic as healthcare for its citizens yet it unilaterally decides to invade and blow up other countries so the president can play at cowboys and indians. The brave men and women who enlisted in the armed services to defend this country are now being re-deployed after short breaks and are coming home daily in body bags.

While I am here I am doing what I can to make people WAKE UP and see what's going on, and then after that I am going home to civilization.

Gracie and I made cookies yesterday. She actually did alot of the work! She cracked the eggs w/o getting any shells in the batter! Then she also ate like 5 huge spoonfuls of the raw batter *shudders*
Of course I used to do that when I was a kid too...back when I thought samonella was some kind of fish dinner.
Here are some pics I took of her baking yesterday. She is playing with the egg before she cracked them.

Heh heh.





You are Jackie! You are the epitome of shallowness. You have no real
plans in life except to get married and pass on your good looks alone. You
expect extreme loyalty from the ones you love, but you are always willing
to give second, and third, chances. Many people find you annoying, but you
DO have good fashion sense!
Which That 70's Show Character are you?

I am not a huge fan of Ronald Reagan, but please People Magazine, if you are going to put him on your front cover and want to pay tribute to him that way, don't put a little side bar with J. Lo's latest marriage above it. Tact is tact no matter the occasion.

Yesterday after I went to the dentist for a check-up my gums were sore, so I stopped at Walgreens on my way to work and got some Anbesol gel. I got to the office and broke out the Anbesol. I think you're supposed to apply it by putting a tiny dot on your finger and then rubbing it on your gums. Well, never having used it before and wanting to get rid of the soreness, I applied it toothpaste-style directly to my gums. Of course I got way too much on (though I was figuring, how powerful can stuff be that doesn't need a prescription?) and in less than 30 seconds my lips, gums and tongue were NUMB. I was drooling everywhere and sounded like an idiot when I spoke. Luckily it subsided within a half hour, though it still kept my gums from hurting. Next time I use Anbesol I will do it sparingly!

Go take The Political Compass Test!
I am ...
Economic Left/Right: -5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.87

Lately alot of people have been asking me if I'm going to apply for U.S. citizenship when my permanent residency paperowrk is done. They seem genuinely shocked when I tell them no. I mean no offence to my American friends and family, most Americans I have met have been very pleasant people, however I feel no need to hold dual citizenship. Not only am I proud to be Canadian but I love being a Canadian. I don't need U.S. citizenship to feel like my life is complete. There is nothing the U.S. can offer me that I can't get the same, or better, in Canada. Not to mention I like people's attitudes and outlooks much better back home.
When I am travelling or in an airport and I see someone with a U.S. passport I can't help but feel very proud and somewhat smug that in my hot little hand I have something even better; a Canadian passport. It's like the feeling you get when you come in first place in a competition; very proud, somewhat smug and a little sorry for the second place finisher.

I am a citizen of the greatest country on Earth; that's all I want and need.

Hope that clears up some of the confusion :)

24 reasons to be proud you are Canadian

1. Smarties

2. Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp

3. The size of our footballs fields and one less down

4. Baseball is Canadian

5. Lacrosse is Canadian

6. Hockey is Canadian

7. Basketball is Canadian

8. Apple pie is Canadian

9. Mr. Dress-up kicks Mr. Rogers ass

10. Tim Hortons kicks Dunkin' Donuts ass

11. In the war of 1812, started by America, Canadians pushed the Americans back...past their 'White House'. Then we burned it...and most of Washington, under the command of William Lyon McKenzie who was insane and hammered all the time. We got bored because they ran away, so we came home and partied...Go figure..

12. Canada has the largest French population that never surrendered to Germany

13. We have the largest English population that never ever surrendered or withdrew during any war to anyone, anywhere

14. Our civil war was a bar fight that lasted a little over an hour

15. The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an American mercenary, who slept in and missed the whole thing... but showed up just in time to get caught

16. We knew plaid was cool far before Seattle caught on

17. The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and is still around as the worlds oldest company

18. The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes

19. We still know what to do with all the parts of a buffalo

20. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, velcro, zippers, insulin, penicillin, zambonis, the telephone and short wave radios that save countless lives each year

21. We ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it

22. A Canadian invented Superman

BUT MOST IMPORTANT!
23. The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands with mitts on. OOOoohhhhh Canada!!

Oh yeah... and our elections only take one day.

I AM CANADIAN!!!

My poor Kimmykat! Julie is evil and will be paid a visit from dogdoo.com
I hope you get further with Paul, but I'm not sure he'll be much help either. Just tell him you prayed to the Lord for a sign, and God told you to go talk to Paul and he'd make it all better. He might go for that ;)

I want to come up for a visit around the end of this month. The prices to fly right into Kingston are around $500 US though so if they don't improve soon you might have to come pick me up in Toronto! No worries, we can go to New Tribe!

I went to Sam's Club tonight and felt like company so I called Teresa and she went with me. I got a huge bag a Ghirardelli chocolate chips, among other fascinating things. It was no match for shopping with my Bobo though :) I love her the mostest.

I'm going to get in bed now. It is hot here. I hate Yuma and want to kill it violently.

Long weekend! That was nice. Craig and I went to see Shrek 2 this morning, it was very good. I don't have much patience for movies, and sequels are usually pretty bad, but I really liked this. If Gracie hasn't seen it yet I think I'll take her tomorrow afternoon.

This afternoon I got to talk to my parents, my Nana and Bobo. Then we went over to Dan & Starla's. We BBQ'd and Po played with Taz and Spuds and surprisingly nothing got broken. Po knocked over Dan's beer but it didn't even get onto the floor.

Hurray, Bobo blogged again! Now you just need to keep it up regularly, KittyKat! And post piccies! When I am up in the summer (wait, it is summer) I will see if I can get you set up with photobucket or something so you can do it quickly.

I want to go on a cruuuuise.

This is my super duper cute sissy Bobo!! I wanted to post a picture of her (in the Fresno shirt) just because she is so cute and funny.
Even if she does steal bargains I find at Old Navy, heh ;)
That's her friend Pam in the white.
We do not gnaw on our kitty.

My MK director sent our unit an e-mail cancelling our usual conference call, and in it she meant to write 'sorry for the inconvenience' but instead she wrote 'sorry for the incontinence'. HAHAHA!! It was sooo funny. I had to read it about 4 times to make sure I had it right...or that she had it wrong. Whichever. I guess she had something else on her mind ;)

Ada is pregnant! Woohoo! :)

Bush...he puts the 'Duh' in Dubya.

Hi Kitty Kat!

Don't worry, I still have a burning desire to rid the world of all Republicans...or at least the stupid ones, heh (what's the difference?) ;).
But I am in Buttcatt withdrawl and will be coming home soon. I guess first I should figure out where you are going to settle so I can be close to you. Scotland is out, you hear?? Too far away.

Enjoy the dobbies! That is cheap!

Oh and btw, The Drill was required, you were just sleeping too deeply to notice.
Hehehe, kidding!!! ;)

Someone at the animal cracker factory has issues. Really funny ones, but nonetheless...

I don't like Yuma. I don't like coming back here. I don't want to live here anymore. Whenever I go to Kingston I always think, 'Ahhh, home...where I belong'. Which is sort of funny because I haven't lived there in almost 4 years. Yuma is where my home, dog, friends, job(s), husband, etc. are and yet it doesn't feel like home. It won't be easy to leave, I have been trying to build a life here for 4 years, but I need to go back home. That's the only place that feels like home. I feel like I belong there. Like I can be myself. I have never felt like that in Yuma. It still feels so foreign to me. I feel so constricted and unhappy here. I think we have decided that when Gracie starts school full-time, most likely September 2005, we'll move to K-town. I'll miss my friends and my job(s) here...but I miss my family more. This town is way too conservative and uptight...people down here take themselves too seriously. I'm not in a huge rush, but I am looking forward to leaving. I'm happy there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

Wow. Go away for 10 days and Blogger changes everything. I like this much better though. I am home and missing my Pooky Woo!! Sharing a bunk with her for a week was much too much fun ;)
Bobo, if you read this call me! I am in Buttcat withdrawl!! If you lost my # just e-mail me or post a reply in your blog and I'll call you.
KISSES!

Alright Ratbutt, you get your wish; we're not going to buy a new house down here, we decided we'd rather move back to Kingston in the next couple years. So if you end up moving to Fresno or Scotland or what-have-you there will be serious consequences.

Switching topics completely, Craig has long since stolen my highschool cheerleading squad ball cap (which I prize almost more than life itself), and I never had one to wear anymore (though he gets great looks when he wears it, ha ha) so I found a nice maroon and gold ASU one for $1.00. Yes, you read right, $1.00. I'm not telling you my secret, other than it's brand new. Now I can wear my ASU hat and my University of Toronto t-shirt. I also have U of T pants but that might be overkill.

"Oh, very nice though a little small for you darlin', don't you think?"

I just realized my archives are missing. I have no clue where they went. The code looks fine. Argh.

My computer has been flipping out and not letting me get anywhere. Ugh.

My dad and I stopped by the Dem HQ today and got some buttons. Fritzi was there. So was Frank :P
"We have nothing to fear but Frank himself". It's a good thing Frank thinks people are listening to him, cause if he knew the truth he might get even louder ;) Figuratively speaking.

The Friends finale is tonight. I don't mind the show. I was never a regular watcher though. This whole End of Friends drama is getting really stale though. Move on, people.

I am waiting for my lemon meringue pie, minus the meringue, to chill. Frothy egg = yuk.

Ok, time to buzz.

Craig says I know alot of jingles. I didn't even think about it until he mentioned it and I realized that I do indeed have an affinity for jingles. I don't try to remember them on purpose. That's just the whole point of a jingle; to get stuck in your brain whether you like it or not. So, in keeping with my jingle-singing self, I decided to blog this entry jingle style.
You have to play along though and imagine that I am singing this in a peppy, happy voice.

Begin blog:

Ya know what I'm gonna do?

Move out to Barkley Raaaanch!

Burt Bacharach saw Mamma Mia! the other night and liked Chilina so much he gave her his phone number, and long story short, she is going to record a song on his next album!! That is in the next 2 months. Then she has a voice-over for Delta airlines! And she met all these celebrities at their opening night party last week. I guess that's L.A. for ya :)
I'm so proud she's my best friend! (With the exception of Bobo of course, but that's different; we're sisters...better than best friends!) :)

I agree with Bobo. It's messed up. And how rude to include a card telling us where they are registered and not even being able to go in the the temple for the actual ceremony.
But I'm not too upset, I love my cousin.
But it's still messed up ;)

My mommy and daddy got here today! They would have been here last night except they blew a tire in Phoenix and by the time it was fixed it was midnight, so they just stayed there. They brought me stuff from home including chocolate, lemon pie filling, cheese and maple syrup!! All stuff I can't get down here...well, I can get them all down here, but they are different brands and nowhere near as good as from home. Especially the cheese and maple syrup. Vermont puts forth a vailant effort, but their syrup just isn't the same...you can't get it the same when you are cranking out thousands of bottles a day. It has to be done the old fashioned way. But I have a large supply now so I am good :)

They also brought me a bunch of my Christmas prezzies that were too big to fly with and would cost too much to ship. And my Dad brought me a ReDefeat Bush in 2004! bumper sticker! I now have 3 anti-Bush stickers! Now I just need to get some pro-choice ones and then I can really piss off the conservatives in this hicktown.

Tonight...maple syrup
Tomorrow...the Gracerator

I am all in favor of the No CARB diet. You know:

No...

Cheney
Ashcroft
Rumsfeld
Bush

Heh heh.

However, this is taking it too far. This is embarassing. Twelve servings of roast beef? You might as well be eating carbs! Jeez, you're supposed to eat HEALTHY. Healthy does not = 12 servings of meat all in one sitting. These people who run around eating a hamburger without the bun and only eat macrobiotic, not-cooked-over-110-degrees or whatever the hell it is crack me up. You must not have much else to do if that is what your life has been reduced to. Moderation, people! And then that couple got all bent out of shape because the restaurant didn't want them inhaling the entire buffet?!
The nerve!
*snicker* I'm going to go laugh for awhile now.

But before I do, Robin got back today and brought me the cutest t-shirt! It is black and in white lettering is reads, Everyone Loves a Canadian Girl. The 'Canadian' is red and glittery and there are little red hearts on it. Too cute! Too true! :)

Martha Stewart may be one cracked-out control-freak, that I don't care enough about to speculate on, however the lady does know her cookies.

My Mommy and Daddy are in Tulsa tonight! They will either be here late Sunday or Monday. YAY!!!!!

I talked to my cousin Heather last night. She is so cute and all excited about her wedding (23 days!). She was at the reception hall picking out linens for the tables. She requested pink tableclothes with pink napkins. Her theme is pink, in case you hadn't guessed (anyone remember Julia Roberts' character's wedding in Steel Magnolias?)
I guess the reception hall manager was trying to steer her towards burgundy tableclothes with cream napkins (YUK!). Heather was like, 'Why would I want those colors when my color is PINK?'. Hehehe. I think they learned pretty quickly that once Heather has made up her mind you might as well just not bother arguing with her ;)

They also bought a house!! When I was 19 I was nowhere near capable of that much responsibilty :) I know she is though :)

Today I went through the Arby's drive through with Po in the car and when I got up to the window to pay the girls inside saw Po and thought he was so cute ('cause he is, ya know). They called all the other employees over to see him and they even gave me a free order of chicken strips for him! He loved that. Lucky for him I don't eat chicken cause they sure smelled good! :)

I got to hang out with the Kennedys today! We sat and talked and had tea, then went out and had lunch and then came back here and talked some more.
Oh and Mr. K painted me a watercolour picture of one of the Martello towers back home! I had been wanting a picture of home. I miss my home. It's a great painting :)

My mom and dad are in D.C. and should be here in about a week. I'm so excited!

The house is super clean. Well, most of it anyway. Our bedroom still looks like a college kid's bedroom and prolly always will :)

I want mac 'n' cheese.

I took Po out for a walk tonight and towards the end of it he found a pile of dirt and started digging. And kept digging. He kept it up for over half an hour! He was having so much fun I didn't want to make him leave. It finally got really windy and dark and so we left. By then he was ready to go too. His tongue was hanging WAY out of his mouth the whole drive home, heheh :)

Tonight I put my foot down with myself. I told myself, Like it or not tomorrow afternoon you HAVE to clean the house. My parents won't be here for another week or two so I wasn't feeling bad procrastinating, but this afternoon Mr. Kennedy called and they are going to be in town on Sunday and are going to stop by and stay for the afternoon. So now I really need to just do it. Although, I'm enjoying having my weekday afternoons off from Gracie so I'm considering cleaning Saturday afternoon instead. No reason to spoil a perfectly good Friday afternoon off with house cleaning, hehehe.

It is very dry in here. After a few minutes my mouth/throat get so dry it's hard to swallow. So I drink lots of water. Which is keeping me up and I can't sleep :P

However, my toes look lovely :)

Some drunk girl plowed into Jen's car last night. It was parked on the street at Kristi's and the doorbell rang at 2 a.m. and it was the police. Drunk Girl had smashed into Jen's car, got out of her car and left it there in the street where it had hit Jen's and was walking down the street. Fortunately the noise woke up some of the neighbors who called the cops. Jen's car was damaged, mainly internally, but not enough to be written off. Oi.

I am craving odd things. Well, no, not odd, just foods I wouldn't normally want. Like I have been wanting bacon, eggs and toast for breakfast for the last week. Anyone who knows me knows that I am a cereal/muffin girl. And tonight when I was walking Po I smelled someone BBQ-ing steak. It made me want steak and baked potatoes and *gasp* veggies. The fresh kind of veggies, not the canned ick. I guess that's my body telling me it needs more protein. I don't really like beef and usually avoid meat unless it is something my Mom or Nana made (num nums!). But Craig does make very yummy bacon :)

I should go to bed, it's another early day tomorrow.

My sister's most recent blog entry is hilarious. It made me burst out loud laughing twice. She has the best sense of humour and the way she put it into words was the funniest part.
Warning: You probably shouldn't read it if you are devoutly religious and have no sense of humour.
P.S. I vote for Bob Barker!

Oh there is my other post. How lovely of it to come along just after I finished the second one. I'll leave them both there out of spite.

Blogger wasn't cooperating before so here is my blog in a nutshell...

I don't like this crappy Yuma produce. I want real, Ontario, fresh, juicy, tasty raspberries, strawberries, tomatoes and corn. And more. Really, this country has nothing on Canada ;)

I watched a dog show today. I got to see a Bouvier des Flandres. I just love saying that...'Bouvier des Flandres' hehehe :)
Nowhere near as cute as my Po dog though.

I also kicked butt at Trivial Pursuit tonight!

2 weeks til my mommy and daddy are here!! :D

I am watching a dog show. They have a Bouvier des Flanders! I just love saying that. Nowhere near as cute as my Sammy, Po though :)

It's windy out. I like that too.

I miss Ontario produce. I just got back from the grocery store where I dug through the produce bins trying to find ripe fruit and veggies. I love the market at home in the summer. All the fresh raspberries, strawberries, peaches, corn. Yuma hasn't got anything on K-town ;)

Gracie had her Easter egg hunt when she woke up from her nap today. She really liked it.

I managed to weasel my way out of having to chair the meeting tonight. Ed is going to do it for me. I have Kristi's debut and a bunch of other things I need to do for tomorrow, not to mention that Po didn't get a walk this morning so I should really take him for one tonight.

And now, a brief intermission...

A poem (by Micket)

"Ode to my Sister"

Dearest buttcat, dearest buttcat
How I love you.
Let me count the ways:
One
Two
Three
Four
FIVE

Five?
Soundoff.

One
Two
Three
FOUR.

Four?

SQUISH

The end.

I have Pop Culture Trivial Pursuit DVD! We must play it! I can bring it to SLC and we can play the DVD on Craig's laptop in the RV!

I miss my quoting Buddy too :( It's not fun when no one else knows what I mean.

It was the park I go to all the time! There were a bunch of other ppl there walking their dogs and stuff, so no worries. And he was very nice. Besides, you're one to talk; I seem to remember stories about sledding down the stairs at Angoo's...dressing up in his mom's clothes and going to Morrisons. Speaking of which, I miss that place. We must go when I am up this summer! Grilled cheese and vanilla shakes! Fries, BLT, jello, cappuccino, pie! Am I leaving anything out? ;)

The other day Craig forwarded me what I thought was the tackiest, most tasteless invitation I had ever seen. So it goes:
One of his co-workers is pregnant and some of her friends at the office are having a baby shower/breakfast for her at the office today. (So far so good). They e-mailed everyone invites which contained the following (and I quote): "Please bring a gift (she is having a girl) or 10.00 to be placed in a card." (End of quote).

?!??!

Please bring a gift or $10.00? How tacky. I guess when Craig and I sent out our wedding invites we should have written on them, "Remember to give us a gift or minimum $100 cash". JEEZ! You just don't do that. It is a surprise for the girl who is having the baby so I feel kind of bad for her. I would be mortified if people had a shower for me and put that on the invites. When I got married, my sister, who was 16, organized my bridal shower with ten times more class and tact than that. And people give teenagers a hard time and say they are rude. Ugh.

End of Rant.

Ed brought it to my attention yesterday that I am the vice-chair of the Progressive Caucus. I had no idea. Hehehe, oops! And since the chair, Fritzi, is out of town for our next meeting I will be in charge and my first order of business will be to change our titles to something much more fun than 'chair' and 'vice-chair'.

Also, on a fun(ny) note, while I was out walking Po early yesterday morning, a guy in the park started chatting with me about Po. After a minute he opens up his closed fist to reveal a joint and says, "I don't suppose you partake in this type of thing, do you?". I told him my mommy told me never to take drugs from strangers.
Heh.

Ok, it wasn't that bad. Close. I didn't stay until the end. I don't even know when it ended. But I was starving and it wasn't getting anymore interesting so I left. The best thing I took away from it was, "Dear God, please show me your hand through this whole disgusting thing."
Ha ha ha ha. Sorry, you had to be there ;)

Tonight is Star Night. I don't want to go, but I am anyways. Mostly I was going to go to set a good example for Jessica and Kristi, but Kristi can't make it. Oh well, I'll go for Dana, I know she likes it when she has lots of people there. And since Kass and I are usually the only ones from our unit who show up at anything, it means 50% of this rests on me! Or 33.33333% I should say since I think Jessica is going.
If my hands aren't too sore from all the applauding, or too raw *sniffle* from wiping away the *sniff* tears caused by the heartfelt stories *SOB* I'll update later.

That was gross. I just ate what was possibly the nastiest cheeseburger ever. It came from BK. I am starving and after much delay in getting home with groceries Craig stopped on the way at BK to get me a quick cheeseburger. When he gets home and gives it to me I think that it smells sort of weird but figure it's just my imagination. Then I notice two huge green slimy jalapeño peppers sticking out. Ugh. I pulled those out and took a bite and realized it was a double cheeseburger. Double Ugh. So I pull out one of the patties and give it to Po and tried to eat it but the bun was all dry and hard and it had no condiments on it. I ate about half before I couldn't go any further. Now I am burping nasty-chile stuff. GROSS!! I HATE BURGER KING!!! *vomits*

We are back from Phoenix. It rained. I liked it. Car rides make me sooooo sleepy; I am not a good co-driver. If I am napping while Craig is driving and we stop at a red light I actually sort of wake up and think, 'Bugger, why aren't we moving?', and then when we start moving again I think, 'Ahh, that's much better', and fall back asleep. I'm odd.

We got to see Ryan, Brooke and Scott. We all went Go-Karting, well except for Brooke she didn't race with us but I wish she had! I got Olive Garden too. Their breadsticks have changed...They aren't as good as I remember them :P

We also found out that Po likes nuts. He knocked over a basket of shelled nuts at Dan and Starla's and went to town. He cracks the shells with his teeth, spits it all back out on the floor and eats the nut, leaving a mess of shells all over the house. Apparently he started doing this one night after everyone had gone to bed and Starla had a nice mess to clean up in the morning. Heh. Po is also very discriminating; he prefers almonds. There were Brazil nuts, macadamias, walnuts and almonds, and he sticks to the almonds. What a silly doggy :)

We just got back from the fair. It was fun :) I got a little yucky after the tilt-a-whirl but I'm better now :) I like the fair except for those morons at the Yuma Right to Life booth and the Bush-Cheney 2004 booth. Sometimes I wonder if they even pay attention to what is going on. Really. I mean they must live under a rock for the other 51 weeks of the year and then crawl out to man the booth at the fair. What else could explain their stupidity?

Tomorrow is Phoenix. It's going to be a long day. Craig has a meeting all afternoon and Ryan has some happy hour thing with his co-workers so we won't get to see him til late. I'll prolly spend the afternoon at the mall near Craig's meeting.
Po is at Craig's parents'. We were going to have to drop him off really early tomorrow anyway so we just took him over tonight.

I am also working on two tie-dye t-shirts for Craig. He liked the ones that I made for my dad so much that he wanted me to make some for him. So I am :)