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Weekend Countdown

10 times I had to tell Loki to get off the bed
9 bottles of Gatorade
8 calls of birthday wishes
7 episodes of Law and Order SVU watched
6 cough drops per hour
5 doses of Robitussin DM (the same stuff, incidentally, that we give Loki when he gets Kennel Cough)
4 applications of Vapo-Rub until I decided I was allergic to it (still not sure about this)
3 showers per day to clear my head
2 Back to the Future Trilogy movies watched
1 Most Excellent Hubby who took exceedingly good care of me

I am back at work, under protest from Matt. He thinks I should still be at home.

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What I got for My Birthday

Well there was no celebrating going on this weekend. I got a nasty cold for my b'day. Phlegm, coughing, sore throat, you name it. So I spent most of the weekend horizontal, watching bad TV, sleeping, and listening to my mp3 player. We made it to Target and we bought a humidifier… yes, that frog one. It's a lot cuter in person, actually. I'm still not well, so I'm staying home from work today. More bad TV. Yay.

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Happy B'day To Me & BPOH


Well today marks 26 years of me on this planet. For my b'day, my darling hubby got me the lovely green cruiser bike that I'd been pining after. I'm sure some other celebrating will be going on in the near future, but I know what very very little of it is.

And by the way, if you stopped by on the Blogger Parade of Homes, that is a photo of my lovely house. Lucky for us, most of the landscaping was done before we moved in. But we did plant the daisies and the now over grown mint plant (bush??). Our house resides in the Wild West (near Denver, CO).

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Life with Loki


It occurred to me the other day that I hadn't blogged about Loki in a while. He is still enjoying life as a part of our family and living up to his name.

Loki and the A/C
Loki is pretty good about letting us know when he needs to go out. His preferred method is standing by the back door patiently (but if we're not near the back door, he annoys us until we let him out). But recently, he started coming in almost immediately sometimes when we would let him out. He wouldn't even run around to the side yard like he had to do his bizzo. So we were a bit confused. Then I realized. There is an A/C vent opposite the door and he was just sitting there keeping cool. He loves to do the same in the car after a long run. Continue reading “Life with Loki”

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Warning: Blubber Alert

My Mother in Law got me a wonderful book for my birthday last year: Marley and Me by John Grogan. I read it almost immediately and thoroughly enjoyed it. However, as it was getting towards the end of the book, I could see where it was going .. directly to Marley's eventual demise and I couldn't read it. So recently, Matt started reading it to me again and I was enjoying the story all over. So last Friday, after we got home from dinner, Matt went to play video games. I wasn't in the mood for computering, so I laid down to read some magazines, but they didn't hold my interest. So I picked up Marley and Me and read it from where Matt and I had left off … and this time, I finished it. Sure enough … I spent the last 20 or 30 minutes (the last two chapters), crying like a baby. After I finished, still blubbering, I went downstairs to find Loki and give him a big hug.

Happy and sad, Marley and Me is a wonderful book … anyone who has ever loved a dog simply must read it. The tears are worth it. Honest.

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Jess=Turnip

Know what that is? It's a turnip. It is apparently the vegetable that I am most closely related to. See yesterday I went to the doc's … and they had to draw blood. Blood draw is always a horror for me. I've come to be rather reconciled to the needles … if it happens once. But I have a condition known as turnipism where the poor phlebotomists are compelled to “stick” me an average of 3 times. See I have tiny veins. They also like to “roll.” I also have lots of scar tissue from eczema in the crook of my arm where you normally get blood taken that provides a nice little barrier for needles as well. So after allowing the phlebotomists to use me for a pin cushion for around 30 min yesterday, I walked out with 4 cotton balls taped to various parts of my arms and hands. It was cute. No, really.

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Shortest. Weekend. Ever.

Well that was officially the shortest weekend ever. Seriously. I feel like I just left work and I'm already back. Friday, Matt and I had date night. We went to Red Lobster because we were both wanting to have their Cheddar Bay Biscuits (you know what I'm talking 'bout). Yum. I honestly don't recall what we did with the rest of the evening. Tivo? Video games? Probably a combination. Saturday was our usual gender-divided morning where he went mountain biking and I went to Whole Foods with MamaFriend and CutestBaby to indulge in the world's best cake … it's called Berry Chantilly for anyone searching it out, BTW. We also hit Michaels and Old Navy. They are conveniently located very near one another. We took a long nap Sat afternoon cuz we were both zonked from all the heat. Then we watched a lot of Tivo (How good was Stargate?!?!) on Sat night. Sunday, we helped Matt's brother move apartments. And that, folks, was the weekend.

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Happy Friday!

I don't know about the rest of you, but it has been one LOOOOOOONG week for me. Not to say that it's been bad or anything. Just long. And a bit weird. But that's another story entirely. We don't have big plans for this weekend for a change. We're tentatively having a “date night” tonight which will probably consist of dinner and possibly a movie. Possibly that movie will be watched from the security of our couch. And perhaps that movie will not be a movie at all, but will instead be a bit of Tivo. Who knows? I have plans to get cake and coffee with a friend tomrorow while our husbands are being athletic (aprapos, no?). The house is a mess, so something probably needs to happen with that. And Matt's brother needs help moving, so I know what we were doing on Sunday.

Well hope you all have lovely Friday and an equally lovely weekend. Some good soul brought zuchinni bread (AND cream cheese) to our break room, so I'm quite a happy girl.

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Izze Drinks

I had no idea until a few days ago that Izze sparking drinks were homegrown in CO … they originate in Boulder, about 15 miles away from where I live. So now I'm wondering if people in other states have had the excellent Izze drinks. I hope so … I feel like they kinda got the whole thing right. They made them less sweet instead of making them with fake sugar … what a concept. Anyhoo, their site says you can buy them at Starbucks, Wild Oats, Whole Foods and Target, and they are pricier than pop, but they're way better and way better for you. Their site also lists a load of flavors I've never gotten to try before … I'm paticularly interested in the apple… yum.