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And Five Minutes Later …

I used to use my yahoo! email account all the time. But finally, it was getting so much spam that I ditched it as my primary email. But I still use it occasionally when I don't want whatever to have my primary email address. So I do have to check it every now and then to make sure it doesn't go over quota. This morning, I checked it and it had 72 messages in the bulk folder. So I dumped all of 'em. Five minutes later, LITERALLY, I had 13 more messages. Geeez. The power of Spam.

We had a very nice weekend. We had friends over on Friday and we just sort of hung out the rest of the weekend. I worked on a bunch of different things too. Mostly little Christmas gifts for various people.

And of course … work. We're always working.

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Rain Rain Go Away

It's been raining for like four days straight. Not that I mind, per se. But four days is a bit much. Why even bother with the hair, eh? I'm so vain.

I was in a terribly bad mood last night. Nothing seemed to go my way … but a good long nap in my ultra-comfy bed with my ultra-comfy husband was just what I needed.

We had really good dinner last night though. Matt made the recipe listed below the day before and I cooked it for dinner last night with a bitta rice. It was really good. I made some beer-cheese bread too but it came out very dense and didn't rise properly. But I think I used the wrong sort of yeast (who knew there were so many types?). That was rather bothersome. It took so long to make it … all that rising and all.

Time to work work work. Blah.

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No Way!

I can't believe it's already November. Madison has yet to see snow, although it was threatening yesterday. Today it just looks vaguely icky out (cold, overcast) but not like it might start raining down flakes at any moment.

Today is the last day of the farmers' market, so we should really go, but Matt hasn't even made it out of bed yet and it's cold!

We're going to go get SUSHI tonight. Yum! Hopefully this place will be good. We had skads of good sushi restaurants back in Nashville, and we've found a couple here, but they've been either overpriced or icky. And as I think this is the last one in the city to try … I'm really hoping it's good.

We also get to do the ultra-fun task of cleaning! Yes, folks, it's time to drag out the vacuum and act like we're not slobs. At least I get to use my lovely new wireless headphones to listen to music or TV while I work though.

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Hmmmm…

I just ran across a site called Group Hug . I'm not sure why it's called that, but the jist of the site is that you go there and anonymously confess things you're not proud of. I don't really know what the point is besides getting it off your chest … I don't think they're assigning hail-marys or our fathers to wipe you clear of your wrong-doings, but anyhow, there's a whole mess of confessions on there from the gross and disturbing to the pointless to the humorous … like this one about a cat.

I don't think I'll be visiting very much. It might make me lose my faith in humanity …

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Is that Really Necessary?

Every three months, our apartment building tests the fire alarms. That's good. What isn't good is that doing that makes several long, shrill noises that drive May absolutely wild. She's incredibly scared of strange noises and all her doggy sense leaves her head and she makes all kind of trouble. If you're not in the room with her, she'll do her best to get to you (usually via scratching the heck out of the door). She goes everywhere she knows she's not allowed, including on our upholstered furniture. And she starts to burrow. Today when they tested, she tried to burrow under Matt's desk. She damn near knocked the flatscreen monitor off the desk. It tipped back and the window caught it and there it (thankfully) stayed. She also managed to pull out one of the power supplies and interrupt our cable modem service.

I really feel bad for the puppy though. I hate seeing her scared. And now that she doesn't hear or see so well, she gets even more scared. I finally have to tie her up so she'll stay still for two seconds and settle down. I really wish they'd test the alarms without sound.

What else? Oh yea, we've been sick the last few days. Just a nasty cold. Matt had to stay home though. You can't program when you're head is stuffed up to the max. We watched a lot of TV and drank a lot of tea. Mmmmm … tea.

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Wowie!

I just spent the past hour working out and watching Alias. I wish I could watch Alias everytime I worked out. The hour felt like about 5 minutes, just like it does when you're sitting on the couch watching it. It's perfect for working out too. It has fast action, good humor, an amazing soundtrack and first-class eye-candy. Thank you JJ.

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Not an Exciting Day but a Good Day

I worked for a long time today. I was sorting out the sort of things that I've been avidly avoiding. As a bonus for my hard work, I managed to avoid cleaning! So I guess something good came from it all .. hehe.

Meanwhile, I've been getting lots of good crafting ideas searching the web. Time to use that Michael's coupon!

It's finally gotten fairly cold and pretty rainy. I'm very surprised we haven't had snow yet. I love snow!!

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Mmmm Cookie

These chewy chocolate cookie are hard to define, but definitely good. Normally a cookie is a cookie and cake is a cake, but this one is hard to classify. Its like a cake but with a hard outside. Probably because its made out of cake batter but still … We tried making a few different types of cookies before, like chocolate chip but with peanut butter chips instead of chocolate. They were ok but not great. But this cookie is definitely great, especially with milk.

Now, if you someone can figure out how to get a layer of marshmallow in the middle, let me know. That would be exceptional.

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I'm NOT Getting Sick

I've been coughing all day long. My throat is scratchy and dry. But I am not getting sick. I will not allow myself to get sick.

So I will be drinking plenty of water, getting plenty of sleep, and sucking down Halls Defense Drops. I don't have time to get sick.