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Thanksgiving

I really really really cannot believe that the 4-day weekend is over with.

Thursday was basically an all-day Turkey fest. That photo is from Thanksgiving. Loki came with us to my grandma's house and spent most of his day in the side-yard which connects to the porch by a staircase and separates with a gate. Loki was so desparate to get thru he very nearly got his little doggie self stuck. He got lots of treats though.

The rest of the weekend flew by in a haze of projects errands and down time. We got little done, but we're pretty relaxed if not well rested.

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Update

Hi all! Well, we went to the doctor and had another ultrasound and found that things look fine. AFI looks fine, baby girl looks fine. They didn't measure the AFI but indicated that it is still possibly on the low-side of normal. Apparently it's not a real scientific thing anyhow so “a qualitative analysis is as good as a quantitative analysis.” And she seems to be growing just fine. And that is something we're very thankful for.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

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Happy Thanksgiving Eve

Ahhh… the day before Thanksgiving. It's just after 7:30, but not so much life is stirring around my office. Mostly no one is going to be here today. I have a half-day myself, but not really because of tomorrow's holiday. We have an appointment with the perinatologist today so he can check and make sure little one is still on track. And we need to get our flu shots while we're at the clinic as well.

After that, who knows? I need to make some mashed potatoes at some point and there had been talk of some shopping or dinner or a movie. I don't know about you, but I'm really really really looking forward to having some time off.

If I don't get around to posting again, have a happy Thanksgiving!

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What to Do With All Those Photos

I'm sure you all have seen the cool things that you can do with Snapfish and Kodak Gallery, but you may not yet have seen Qoop. Qoop integrates with your Flickr account and features some photo swag that you may not have seen before. I especially like their mini photo books, keychains, and luggage tags. They also have a very cool “life poster” style print that you can get for just $10. I have only used the service to get the mini photo books, but they turned out so very cool I have pretty good confidence in the other things they're offering.

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Happy Monday

The weekend was nice. Dinner with my parents on Friday. They cooked AND cleaned at our house. So very nice. Video games, shopping with friends, family party, dinner out, errand running, laundry-doing, TV-watching, more video-game playing, dinner making. That was the rest of the weekend.

Weather was gorgeous. Clear skies, temps in the 50s, no wind. Lovely. We took Loki to the dog park and very nearly wore him out.

Can't believe it's Monday again. At least it's a short weeek!

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Exhausted

I took a look over our calendar for the next 6 weeks or so and I'm exhausted just from looking at it. We are jam packed with events so much that we don't have a free weekend until mid December and as you can imagine, “free” will be a relative term as we wrap up Christmas shopping, finish wrapping, and trim the tree.

Of course even with all the business, I really look forward to our Christmas traditions. A couple of my faves:
* buying goofy stocking stuffers for everyone (one year we bought my dad travel-sized Charmin for camping)
* having tamales and guacamole and margaritas on Christmas Eve – we pick them up earlier in the day from an awesome place around here since no one wants to cook and nothing is open on Christmas Eve
* this year we're starting what we hope will become a new tradition – we're going up into the mountains with some of our nearest and dearest and spending the weekend baking cookies and watching DVDs and such

What are your holiday traditions?

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The Dolla Store

I must admit, I happen to really like the dollar department stores (Dollar Tree, Dollar General, whateva). I won't buy certain things there (wrapping paper), but there are other things for which shopping there makes excellent sense.

Organizing tools are my numero uno favorite thing to buy at the dollar store. They always have a bountiful selection of clear plastic shoe boxes ($2 at Container Store) and other various plastic containers for cheap cheap cheap. Pair those with the erasable labels from Container Store (tons for $7) and you can organize most things on the cheeeeep. Continue reading “The Dolla Store”

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Car Love


As previously mentioned, my car went to the shop yesterday. Along with an oil change, Matt had them check out a couple of minor things, including some harder shifting from the transmission. They couldn't find a cause for this and speculate that it may be the beginning of the end for my transmission. It still probably has a couple of good years left in it, but it's making me face the fac that someday I'll have to get another car. *Sob*

I love my car and this is all that much more crushing because since the folks at Honda couldn't leave well enough alone and have had two new body styles since mine, so the new CR-Vs don't look a thing like mine! And I like mine so much … it's all sporty. And the new ones look like mini BMW SUVs which is OK, but not me.

Matt, of course, wants me to get some leather-covered mom mobile (I probably should start embracing momish things, though, now that I think about it) with GPS and heated seats. Silly boy. I don't like leather, and I think Loki would be paticular murder on a nice car.

Maybe when the time comes I'll have to get Continue reading “Car Love”

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The Blahs

I'm having some blahs right now. No biggie. I'm pretty sure most of them stem from not sleeping so well lately (sleep being one of the largest pillars of my happiness), but there you have it. I had to get up early this morning to take my car in for service and since it won't be done until late, I'll be putting extra time in at the office waiting for it to get finished instead of doing what I really want to do which is go home and watch Tivo. But I'll spare you more whining. Things in general are fine.

Here are some good links that I've been enjoying …
* 101 ways to save $$
* ever heard of non-newtonian liquid? basically, if you mix the proper amounts of cornstarch and water, you get a liquid that gets hard when you apply pressure to it and soft when you don't … these guys filled a pool with it. check this out
* input a random word and this spells it out with Flickr photos
* interesting gift guides
* luvin these teeeny houses
* always makes me feel better

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What a Crock

Well I finally added a couple of crock pot recipes to the cookbook. In fact, I gave them their own recipe. I have at least one more to add … the one for red beans and rice … as soon as I can find the dern thing. Matt is starting another one this morning so dinner will be all ready when I get home. Yay.

We had a pretty nice weekend. I spent Fri afternoon with Kelly doing random things including taking Loki to the dog park so he could have a swim (in 40 degree weather, no less) and manically chase balls until he was dry … and then playing Rockstar Games' (the fine folks who gave us Grand Theft Auto) new game, Bully. Matt took off a bit early and joined us. We met up with my parents and my dad's brother for pizza at a great place in Lousville which I shall add to the travelog soon. Continue reading “What a Crock”