Doopy-Doo

I'll admit it~ I have a bit too much time on my hands today. Sure, there are things I could be doing, but I've obviously chosen "wasting time online" as my primary focus right now. So look at this new pic of Courtney Hole! Wasn't it just a couple weeks ago that I saw a photo of her on the red carpet, spilling out of her foil dress? I've been looking everywhere trying to find that pic, no such luck as of now. Anyway:





She looks pretty beat up. Yuck.

Feeling sore from lifting weights yesterday. It's the lunges that kill me~ I can handle weights and push ups and running. Which reminds me~ I need to go for a run right now.

Oh, first~ why do some big, black ants have wings and others don't?

Casino Royale

It sucked.
That's officially the first James Bond movie that I didn't like. Well, it would be more accurate to say: the first 2 hours of the movie sucked, but the last 20 minutes were cool. Yeah~ 2 hours 20 minutes! The nerve of those filmmakers! I want those 2 hours of my life back.......

Training Update

I can feel a difference while running~ my endurance is increasing and I feel stronger. My body is starting to firm up and I can see a bit of a difference in the mirror. Between last Thursday morning and today I've lost 2.5 pounds! Yee haw! Progress like that makes it easier for me to continue to make good choices and run run run!

Hot digitty dog

A man and a dog are both in the road. Do I swerve to miss the dog or do I swerve to miss the man? Without hesitation: the dog.... For sure I'd swerve to miss the dog. Can't help it, I just tend to like animals more than I like people. I mean, my friends are my family and they mean the world to me, but animals are just something else. Can't live without 'em. Anyhoo, a somewhat hidden link on the MSN homepage caught my eye today~ it was silly pictures of dogs. Here are my favorite 2 with their captions.

They had me at: Looks like an apple. Tastes like a grape.

I'm always surprised when I fall victim to someone's marketing. I mean, I've studied marketing for over 15 years and know what I'm doing, so when I buy something solely based on the marketing, I take note. This is the new item that totally got me yesterday: Grāpple.

The packaging:
Sweet Grāpple Brand
Say "Grape-L"™
"Looks like an apple. Tastes like a grape."™

So I bought a package of 4. They look like red apples, smell like grape juice, have the consistency of apples, taste mostly like apples and have a sweet concord grape after taste. Weird. They're good, but I'm not sure how I feel about this weird hybrid fruit (not that I'll let my package of 4 go to waste!). Let me know if any of you try them and what you think!

Good Thing She's Pretty, Cuz She Sure Ain't Smart!

It's been almost exactly 2 weeks since Mark & I excitedly adopted our sweet Montreal kitty. (*BTW: we had a conversation about it, and just like we never call Cleveland anything other than Cleveland, Montreal, too, will not have a shortened nick name. Nope, she's definitely a Montreal. So far the only other name we call her is Montreal Mon Amie ~ which makes us both laugh.)

Anyway, every evening we all sit on the couch and she curls up between us, purring loudly from a position that has her body equally distributed on both of us. This comes only after she spends a couple hours terrorizing us, Cleveland, all her toys, things that aren't toys (placemats, iPod accessories, pens, etc), and especially, our shoe laces. Last Friday, we were doing our relaxing on the couch, wasting time before going out, when we both had to admit to ourselves and to each other that Montreal is not very smart. Being the proud parents that we are, admitting this did not come easy.

We probably each made this discovery within the first 24 hours of having her, but tried to blame it on "new surroundings" rather than "very limited mental capacity." She does things like: forgets where her food is, forgets where her water is, runs forward while looking to the side ~ therefore tripping on her litter box and falling into it..... Incidentally, it is at that point that she now knows (again) where her (stationary) litter box is. Oh boy. The good thing is that she hasn't had an accident yet and she also hasn't withered away to a malnourished, dehydrated ball of fur. I just have to show her a few times a day where these things are and remind her. I like to think that it's catching on.

What isn't catching on: that she has a name. We could call her anything and it wouldn't make a difference. She has no concept that she is named. We have as much success speaking to her as we do not speaking to her, in terms of getting her to 'come here' or whatever. We're not giving up, though.....

While there is no Sylvan Learning Center for Cats and Kittens, we'll do our best to keep her learnin' real good. Hahaha!

Here are some cute pics during her first week with us.... It might look like she's always with Mark, but that's because I'm camera happy.

















Thanks for stoppin by!

Back in the swing of things

It's March and I'm *mostly* settled in Seattle~ and let me just say that I'm very happy with this move. I've started several times to write about it and how everything came together within 24 hours which lead to my decision to actually relocate to Seattle, but I'm going to save that for another day. (Damn, was that ever a run-on sentence! Sheesh! I better call it quits for now and write more later.......)

In the meantime, here's a cool art show for those of you able to attend:











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