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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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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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Who Needs Sleep?

Usually, I'm a champion sleeper. World class. I get into bed, I fall asleep and I sleep straight through the night. Rarely do I dream (or that I remember anyhow). It's nice. Lately, though, sleep has been a bit tricky for me and I'm not really enjoying it. I woke up at 2:30 last night. Tossed. Turned. Listened to a book on tape (Girl of the Limberlost, in case you're curious) for over an hour. Nothing worked. So I found myself playing my new favorite video game, Lost in Blue around 4 AM this morning. I think Loki thought I was insane. He would open one eye, look over at me, kind of exasparated and go back to sleep. Lucky dog. Finally, around 5:30, I drifted off to sleep. Gues what time my alarm was set for? Yep. 6 Continue reading “Who Needs Sleep?”

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Busy Busy Busy

I was just looking at my calendar for the rest of the month. It is jam-packed. And it seems like every time I turn around, there's something to add to it. And of course, once we get into August, we've got my b'day, my dad's b'day, our anniversary, and our anniversary trip. Is it any wonder I need toothpicks to prop open my eyes?

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Doing Our Part


Well we certainly did our part this weekend to revive Hollywood's crummy box office receipts as of late. We saw Devil Wears Prada on Saturday evening and Superman Returns on the 4th. I greatly enjoyed DWP … it was fun and well-done with good characters and a good story. Superman Returns on the other hand … I dunno … I just didn't really dig it. I thought it was cheesy in an unintentional way and that it needed some major editing. Continue reading “Doing Our Part”

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Wedding Pics this Time

Another day, another installment of vacation photos. These are all pre-wedding and wedding photos. They actually start on Thursday at the nail salon and end at the reception … they're incredibly scattered, but I think pretty self-explanatory.

The wedding was a very nice catholic service (merged into a mass) and the reception was in a 20s style ballroom at Embassy suites (built ca. 2002 ). It was a lovely wedding … the bride and groom both seem very happy.

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Out of Towner

This crazy guy came to CO for a conference this week. We were lucky enough to get an evening with him yesterday. We went to the little Italian restaurant by our house and had good food, then we went back to our house with some take-away dessert and sat on the back patio chatting and having drinkies. It was one of those beautiful Colorado summer nights … the perefect temperature and no humidity … lovely. A very nearly perfect night.

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Happy Birthday, Mum!


I have the distinct pleasure of being able to wish my good friend and mom a very very happy birthday today. If I didn't know it before, in the past year my mom has clearly demonstrated her willingness to put others before herself in their time of need. I'm so proud to call her mom and friend and I'm so very lucky to have her in my life… as we all are. Happiest of happy birthdays, Mum!