To-Do List

John’s back in South Carolina, but so you guys don’t think I’m slacking, here is what I’m working on while not blogging, lol.

-General household chores (dishes, laundry, vacuuming, etc.). This is actually really hard with a puppy around!

-Working on my doll for the Momiji Couture Doll contest entry because the deadline was extended due to the UK postal strike. I doubt I’ll win, because I don’t think I’m very “couture” but I took the deadline changing as a sign to get back to working on it! (Sorry for the crappy webcam photo.)

- A present for a friend who reads this blog. I have a good deal of it done, but my end date is coming up way too soon!!! No hints though, sorry!

If I thought doing household chores was hard with a puppy, crafting is worse! She wants to eat EVERYTHING! I keep having to say “No, not a toy. No, no bite. No, No, NOOOO.” when I see that little mouth come close.

- Thrifting! Just clothes for the winter months, but yesterday I got a knitted (not by hand) vest, a couple really nice name brand sweaters, a stripped shirt that makes me feel French, and couple pairs of pants. I want to say I spent around $26 for all of it. Win! I’ll try to do a post about them later. They need to be washed and ironed, and one of the sweaters needs new buttons.

Does anyone know about these? My mom said that if the black is longer or the brown is longer that it’s supposed to say whether or not it’s going to be a long winter, but she couldn’t remember which color was supposed to be longer. Or something like that. Does anyone out there know what she’s talking about?

Living (and Loving) Life

Hello! I’ve been away because John is home! He is on leave for the month, and we’ve been busy busy busy! Once he’s gone, I’m sure blogging will return to it’s semi-regular state.  FYI, this is going to be a long post.

It was really nice being with John for is OCS graduation, but it was even better to have him come back home with me! (The captions are going to be above their corresponding picture this time, not below like normal.)

I don’t have any pictures of it, but we traded in John’s old car and bought a Prius, since he has to drive down to Ft. Jackson in South Carolina at the end of the month. It is so nice, omg. Also that weekend, we bought a puppy! Her name is Kipp, and we didn’t even mean to get her. We were sensing that Twilight was a bit lonely, so we went to scope out a kitty brother or sister for her, but when we went to the shelter to look at the cats, it was like I was dead inside. Too soon. But when we walked past the dogs, I saw Kipp and had to bring her home. Who knew? And Twilight is adjusting well, but she kind of doesn’t know what to make of Kipp. She’d never met a dog before.

And my parents are here visiting! Twilight is very happy to have her buddy back, much to my dad’s amusement. And my mom is a dog person, turns out… as long as that dog is under 10 pounds, lol.

My brother is here too. You can take the boy out of Florida…

Yesterday was super busy. We went out to lunch, then we went to Green Acre Farms in Greece to pick apples, ride a hay-ride, and go through the corn maze. Their website said they had pumpkins, and I was thinking pumpkin PATCH, but it just turned out to be pumpkins on some tables. Bummer. We’ll have to look for a legit pumpkin patch sometime this week.

We also went to an Amerks vs The Crunch game. The Amerks won. Go Rochester!

PS: Kipp thinks falling leaves are pretty awesome.

If you got any comments from me on entries that you posted, like… a month ago, sorry! This morning I had 400 entries to catch up in my “crafty” section of my blog reader! I got through 200 of them, but whew! 30 more have already been added since I started working on this entry!

RIP Dune

Dune lost his battle to cancer (?) on October 1st, 2009, right before I left for the airport to go visit John for his OCS graduation.

He was a good little boy, who lived a good life, and we will miss him dearly.

Towards the end, he was very mopey and didn’t move around much, but not so much that his passing didn’t come as a surprise. He was only 6 years old. We loved him very much, but are grateful that he didn’t pass while we were both away. I was able to stay up with him on his last night.

John and I laid him to rest on Saturday when we both got home. (John has leave until the 28th.)

Goodbye Dune, we will miss you.

Silly Mood

Tee-hee, I match the parking garage stairwell floor today.

Bench Monday – 08.17.09

This was taken at the Kickin’ for Kids charity kickball game on Saturday.  This weekend was crazy! And the past few weeks have been too. But, the promotions girl is back from her 3.5 week vacation, so hopefully work-life will return to it’s normal pace.

See you soon!

Dune Update

Dune’s surgery was successful, and I was able to pick him up after work. The vet put him in a carrying box, and when we got to the car, I opened it up so Dune could see out. I thought he would be all groggy from the medicine, but he started to poke his head out, and eventually tried to get out, so I had to close the box back up.

When we got home, he seemed pretty normal. Maybe a little sluggish, but he was roaming around the house the same, and was very eager to eat dinner. Twilight was so freaked out by him that she didn’t even try to eat first. She just wanted to check out his stitches, which kinda pissed Dune off.

Twilight was a very good big sister though, and would follow him around the house; keeping an eye on him. Seriously, wherever he was… she was there. It was hilarious.

“MOMMY! What happened to Dune?”

“Oh, well he lost his will to live, sweetie. He’ll be ok though.”

That cone didn’t last very long. Just as I was about to fall asleep, Dune decided he was done with it and started to thrash around. His movements began to affect his neck stitches, so I took the cone off. I went home over lunch today to check on him, and everything looked fine. Such a good boy!

Dune vs. the Vet

Dune had a vet appointment today and he was not too pleased about it. Frankly, neither was I, but his ear really needed to be looked at. More details (maybe) once I talk to John tonight.

GAH

I miss John like crazy today. Someone put these flowers in my office after the party yesterday. We had these flowers in our wedding. GAH. Tuesday get here already. Then Wednesday. SIGH.

Why, Hello There…

Hi! I’ve been living life! And work has been super busy! I’ve taken photos for blog entries, but then never sat down to actually blog about those activities. I really need to find a way to squeeze blogging in, or else how am I supposed to keep this up when I have kids?? Maybe blogging at work isn’t the best idea…

Well, I still plan on sharing everything I meant to with you, but because I think its kinda dumb to have an entry about Memorial Day with an end-of-June post date, I’m going to fake blog.  That’s right, I’m faking it!  So look for blog entries, coming soon, about the following:

• Memorial Day Weekend – Social
• Memorial Day Weekend – Planting
• Marya’s Aunt’s Yarn Shop in Jamesville
• My Parent’s Visit – General
• My Parent’s Visit – House
• My Weekends (2) in Cicero
• Sarah’s Goodbye Party
• The Taste of Rochester Festival
• Dave Coulier (Uncle Joey!!)
• Whatever else I have on my camera that I’ve forgotten!

See?  I’ve been super busy!  The (kinda) sad thing about all that is that it’s all life stuff, with a little thrifting. My sewing machine was supposed to be fixed on the 19th, but they haven’t called me back yet. I’ll have to give them a ring tomorrow.  But yeah, I haven’t been crafting much.    Once my machine is back at the house though, I hope to be making more stuff.

And, as always I do have my daily “photo” blog/note to John over here if you need a fix in between blog entries. I might not always get the picture up every day (fail) but I try to at least put a note on what picture to use. Which is more than I can say for this blog.

I’m sitting in on The Wease Show tomorrow to observe the show.  I’m hoping it results in some changes to my job description!  Nothing on air, but changes nevertheless!  Talk to you guys soon!

John Left on Tuesday. (Sorta)

He got picked up on Tuesday and spent the night in Buffalo. He flew out from there to GA Wednesday evening. I left work early yesterday so I could go hang out with him in the airport. We had dinner and I met his “battle buddy” for the trip. It was nice.

I took a long lunch on Tuesday so I could see him before he got picked up. I wasn’t planning on going to Buffalo yesterday, so I took lots of pictures, and we said what we thought were our goodbyes.

How foolish of me to think that would be enough when he was more or less an hour away the next day.

I sewed our last name onto the handle of his backpack and covered the messy backside with a yellow ribbon. The other soldiers had their names written on the back in sharpie. Unacceptable.