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Reasons my co-workers have used to miss work:

1. The Department of Homeland Security wants my fingerprints.

2. I am missing two goats.

3. I need to go home and read the latest Harry Potter novel.

4. I am writing a novel no one will ever read.

5. I've checked myself into the hospital for:
a) dehyrdation
b) in labor

6. There is an injured opossum living in my basement.

I can't make this stuff up! Can't stop giggling about the goats either... that was just this morning. :D

I ELF'd myself! =D

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Rodrigo Y Gabriela Live!

My finger picking skills will never be this good!!! Rodrigo y Gabriela you are awesome! For now I will foot tap from afar until I find that your tour comes anywhere near me. :)

I can play it at last!!!

Banjo 1
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I don't know how to pronounce myself!

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Venerable Lady Holly the Ambidexterous of Colquhoun St Cahoon Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

TRIVIA CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD!!!! (or at least Tuesday, September 25th 2007)

We are the champions, we are the champions! No time for loooooosers, cause we are the CHAMPIONS!!!!! Of Red Hook Triviaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

What's more, we had our picture taken and put up on the wall and we get our table reserved for tonights festivities. For today at least, we are trivia royalty. =)

No one can seem to get the photo of the photo off of their phones but I'll put it up when I get my hands on one.

I have joined the masses!




I too have succumbed and am a video game owner. But it is sooooo cool!!!

I have been Simpsonized!

You too can know the joys of being a cartoon character here!

ALL HAIL MINI-GOLF!

I love mini-golf! Recently some friends and I went out to play a round. There ten or so of us so it took forever to get around the place. Everyone kept overtaking us and playing the missed holes later. =) We had managed to get to the 12 hole or so and all of a sudden the lights went off (it was, of course, dark by that time)! Did we give up? Pack it all in? Request the lights be turned on again so we can continue our all important competition?

NO!!!

We continued to play, heedless of the closing of the course. How, you ask? Well, by the light of our cell phones of course!

It was actually really fun. Very difficult, but fun! And once we had finished we trekked back to the beginning to find the office locked up tight, no one home. So we hope they found the balls and clubs right where we left them the following morning. {fingers crossed}

I'm going to Hawaii, I'm going to Hawaii, I'm going to Hawaii!!!!!

September is the time, Kihei is the place. I've never been outside the airport in Hawaii (and that was the big island, not Maui) so it should be absolutely fabulous! Shawn and I are scheduled for the Old Lahaina Luau and surfing lessons! Hello vacation seven years in the making. =)

I like this one better...

Me at work!

(I look awful, I know, but here I am!)

Proof that I really do have a job. =)

Erased the logo if you are curious about the blank patch...

Title is in the mail!!!

(or at least it should be)

I payed off the car! I payed off the car! Hurray for me!! I rock!!!

Doppleganger!

Yeah I have a job!

Started 14th of May and my first paycheck will be at the end of the month. Hurray for income!

Still no job. :(

Holy Canolli!

My apartment is finally clean and I'm outta there. Yes! And I owe it all to the crazy-eyed bald guy on your left. There was some crazy dust that my fridge was putting off that coated just about everything in my house; I think soot from the fireplace helped too. Magic Eraser was the only thing that worked. I had to scrub cabinets, shelves, windows, walls, counters, everything three times.

1. Damp sponge to dust.

2. 409 cleaning to make the Magic Eraser last longer.

3. Magic Eraser.

4. Wipe off nastiness the ME got off with damp sponge.

I am totally exhausted and don't ever want to clean again. Unfortunately my brain is still in cleaning mode. I keep looking around and thinking to myself, "Magic Eraser would totally clean that up... make it look as good as new." I even attacked my sink today with a pumous stone to get rid of hard water stains. Argh.

As far as new news is concerned I have no job and for the first time ever I will file for unemployment. Yup, I'm really moving up in the world. Hopefully I'll find something soon.

Merry Christmas!

Hope everyone had a good one and made out like bandits. One day I hope to celebrate like Clark Griswold! The lights people, not the drama. Seems it always the other way around though, huh... Gotta love the holidays!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

The only thing I have decided to do this year is feast on champagne (selection chosen by the non-drinker bf... should be interesting) and chocolate dipped strawberries sprinkled with crushed pistachios and - get this - injected with Grand Marnier. Had it for dessert on Xmas Eve and just about died. The waiter asked if we had used our tongues to clean the plate. We didn't, but boy was it tempting!

Get your spook on!



Meet the Absinthe Fairy and Dr. McDreamy... otherwise known as me and my new man Shawn. :) The Halloween party was a blast and pumpkin bowling was the highlight of the evening just like last year.








This year Kara chose to use herself as the ball. I suppose a lemon is kind of roundish in shape.









In other news, we all finally got laid off but at least we have severance for a few weeks after the new year so cross your fingers for me that I find a new job so I can save the money and use it for other endeavors!

Kids say the darndest things...

So I'm talking to my niece on the phone and she is trying to convince me to bring Sugar when I visit next. (How cute is that?) I tell her that I can't do that but when she sees me she can see Sugar. She tells me that will be great and how badly she wants a kitty. I tell her she has a long time yet to be able to have a kitty, knowing that while she lives at home that will never happen as her daddy has put his foot down, hard, on this one. She says in response, "I know, I will have a kitty when mommy and daddy die." So matter of factly too. Deadpan. I just about died laughing. I could hear my sister and her hubby in the background doing the same too. Apparently that is what her dad tells her. "You can have a kitty when I die." So that is what she has been telling everyone; that she will get a kitty when daddy is dead (mom sometimes makes it in there too). Be careful what you tell your children. They are listening...

It's de ja vu all over again...

The past week has been so bizarre. The whole six degrees of separateion no longer applies to me. All I need is two, with one of them being match.com or being a Coug.

1. Saturday. I went to the Cougar game at Qwest Field and tailgated beforehand with Tarah. The four cars that happened to be parked next to the one she came in were all my college friends that I hadn't seen since 2002 or so. Total coincidence, Tarah didn't know the other people. It was great catching up with everyone.

2. Saturday. Then, when I went to my seat at the game, it turns out that my date was roommates with my chemistry study buddy Jen. And Jen's friend, Shannon, was the date's best friend who I sat next to at the game and also knew from school. Weird.

3. Sunday. Met up with a guy for brunch and discovered that we grew up in the same town, lived within a half mile of each other (but rival high schools) and went to the same pre-school! Creepy.

4. Tuesday. Went on a date and we're talking about music and it turns out he knows my ex and all his friends (some of them were in the band we were talking about) from their Doxa church. He actually knows them better than I ever did. Really weird.

5. Thursday. Another date and another coincidence. This time the guy used to date my Micro study buddy back in school. I have lost touch with her so I'll be getting her email at long last. This is just crazy though!

I've got another meet & greet on Sat so we'll see what other things pop up unexpectedly. This guy just moved from Canada so I think it is slim to none that I'll have another moment. But you never know with the way this week has been going...