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Last night I went out with Hilary after Tim and I dined on taco bell. Damn that’s good once in a while.

We went to the Weary Traveller but there was a country band. Might have been cool if there had been anyplace to sit down. We left. Ended up at the Cardinal for techo night. I got a half price cover from Tara (my old roommates ex girlfriend). The special was pitchers of BPR for 3.00 bucks. Yes, three whole bucks. It was VERY cool. We stayed until almost bar time — and got out. I hate getting caught at a bar when the lights go on. It feels like I am caught with my pants down.

This morning I slept in with a the brief interuption of a lonely darling who wanted to chat. *heart*

Woke up at 12:00 when the bird clock twittered. I took shower right away because my hair felt so greezy — like it was slithering. Then I made a rye, cheese and hard salomi sandwhich (I have eaten this all week) and answered the phone. It was Heather (workout buddy) who wanted to drop of some CD’s I lent her and some she burned me (new music!!!). I convinced her she needed some coffee and a break from packing. We had a nice two hour coffee break.

Came back and fed the dogs. Did the dishes. Wrote some important emails and did some website stuff. Now … I need to go back and do some more cleaning.

oh and I fixed the vacuum the other day. It works better than ever now.

Sleeping on the bed was nice…everytime I woke up to shift positions I thought — “How comfortable.”

It took me several times of thinking this….when I realized ‘every time I woke up.’ Huh?

Well, I think I was referring to (in my thoughts) to the time before I went to sleep — cos it takes me a while to drift off, and to when I should have been getting up this morning — takes me a while to do that too. I can’t tell you how much of a dream it is to get in and out of it…it’s so high and grown up. It’s SOOOOO cool. Of course, I realize now that we had a full? Twin? bed before — so now I am left with only two sheets that fit.

Pluto is exhibiting strange behaviour. I came home and he wasn’t there to greet me. I walked to the bedroom, thinking I would surprise him … but he wasn’t there. Only the Rain Dog. I let her out…she started to spaz…nothing–no Pluto. I thought maybe Tim left him outside…I looked in the office…nothing….and Rainy was still going nuts running back and forth as usual….and THEN I heard him. He was in the basement. He came skidding across the floor happy to see me. I went down in the basement to see if he pooped or peed or something. Nothing. He and Rainy came down with me to look around. I checked his teeth for cat litter poop and there wasn’t a grain of litter to ge seen. So I let them outside and then found the cat poop scooper (so I could clean the boxes later) and got their food. Let them back in. They ate, Pluto finished all his food and came over for a pet while I was eating my hard salami/cheese on rye sandwich. When I quite petting him he left the room. I found him in the bedroom on a dog bed avoiding my eyes. I knelt down…talked to him and gave him some more pets….and then a few minutes later looked again, and he had gone to Rainy’s kennel with his back to the world.

I guess he is having a “swim in lake Pluto day.”

Dang it! The bed was just delivered and I forgot to tip them. It took them only like five minutes. Sigh. I am a bad americ….no wait, I am a typical american.

The bed is HUGE!

Also, my vacuum cleaner is completely taken apart and sitting in the living room. Now to try and put it back together and then admit that I am not a vacuum repairwoman.

I just added Tceku to the side link under Purpose — remember to look at it often — also if you are interested in becoming a part of Tceku (I am still taking members for a limited time only!), please email me at hadjare at wazika.net

You should also note Kathleen – an urban planner on the brink of planning her own after school life.

Alright. Many things are buzzing, so my favorite method of posting — -train of thought.

Throwing an emergency bridal shower for Birke — gardening theme. Recruited Sarah and Laima to come up with dazzeling ideas. Only two weeks away so mailed invitations are foregone.

Tceku stuff — need to expand posts to 10 per page instead of five and wondering if I could do two lines of members on the top …. an issue I don’t need to worry about now, but might in the future. Have to recruit Tim to do that.

Need to move wet laundry over to dryer. Puts load of laundry sprawled on the bed away.

Bought a new bed on Sunday at Steinhaffel’s — been alternatively plagued with guilt over the cost and the rash decision to buy it that night instead of going to tons of other places — we went to American first and was unimpressed but did get to try out several beds. At S, we were able to try out even more beds and had an excellent sale’s man who threw in the frame for free, they also had free delivery and take away (american charged for both), and a full 30-day money back gaurantee…of course the bed has a 10 year warrenty …. so of course the only reason I am paranoid is that I read ONE stupid eopinion that said indiviudual wrapped coils tend to sag, or something to that effect. The PRO was that the bed was extremely comfortable…which it was/is. It’s completely stupid for me to worry about this…we liked the bed — it was like when I found my stupid wedding dress and this house, I just knew it was it. I never felt wracked with worry about marrying Tim or moving into this house though. Janet, my coworker, said that I would feel better about the decision as soon as the bed was in the house and we slept on it for one night. I hope she is right. Don’t get me wrong, I am excited for this bed…my first, brand new bed ever — and we could have committed a worse sin and gotten a pillow top! *gasp* Oh, the bed is a Simmon’s Beauty Rest….how about that?

I got my welded d-rings and webbing in the mail today…I am disappointed with the webbing. They sold it by the foot and not by the yard like I had hoped. It didn’t say anywhere on the website what the format was, and I should have emailed but I am a complete idiot, in any case it was a TON cheaper than Dorn’s and it’s good quality, and the D-Rings were totally worth it.

I need to clean the house and especially the bedroom to make it look like we are casually pristine all the time.

I sort of helped Matt and Sigrid move this weekend, mostly I just ate pizza and reorganized stuff. I also entered a shadow box decoration competition with Birke and Sarah (I have a box for Hilary to do something with too).

I stopped at the grocery store on the way home (via bus) and bought too much food. It was SO heavy coming home that I almost solicitated a young boy and his bike to carry two bags for me in exchance for two bucks. Luckily, he stopped at house and went in before I had a chance to embarass myself. My shoulders are still a little stiff.

I just messaged a friend to ask if I could see him take his black belt test. Is that creepy? — oh wait he just said they don’t let people watch. Dang.

I am waiting with bated breath to see what my Mom thinks of my penpal hijinks. I hope she isn’t mad and that she actually follows through if someone writes her.

I am waiting to get my bike back out of the shop.

I am going to schedule to take my blue belt test in May. I need some focus and something to work on aside from all the working out I have been doing. Have I mentioned that I have dropped two inches in my torso and an half inch on my arms? All of that and dropping 8 pounds on the scale tells you that it is muscle…PURE muscle.

I need to order and I Pass for our visit to Chicago next month.

Have to pay the rest of April bills tomorrow.

I haven’t made a post yet –well other than getting the whole thing started. I know that one other person said she was interested — but she hasn’t emailed me back any information yet — as soon as she does then I will add her. Yes, that you Michelle.

Also, I have busy being …. sneaky. My Mom’s letter writing has exploded! Her letters have become so beautiful that I am going to keep them to pass on my grandchildren…that good. Letter Heirlooms.

I decided my Mom could use another penpal. So I made an ad for her yesterday on my favorite penpal site and as of today she got five responses! Two of them were from Ghana (deleted) so that left three. I had asked for US pals specifically, but one answered from the UK that seems so interesting that I decided I would sponsor my Mom … and send her the international stamps. I responded to all of the ladies who responded, and asked if they would write the first letter (because my Mom was “Rusty”) Really, I don’t want my Mom to invest money in something that might not work out…. but she will reply to a letter if someone sends it to her…but she isn’t that big of a risktaker.

I sent Mom the ad and responses, two international stamps, tons of stickers and flower seeds today. She should get them tomorrow. I don’t think she will be upset with me. She can decide not to write them if she wants. That’s pretty much par for the course in penpalville.

So Heather is coming over for the second workout this week (to make up for last week’s missed session). I am not feeling the vibe today (Lady troubles if you know what I mean) …maybe we could go for a long walk. I could do that…. and that would be good exercise.

IT’s nippy today. Okay, on to creating a post for the new site…I have a few things I have been documenting…

I took in my bike for it’s … well tune up. Actually I said it need an “overhaul” to the bike man at William’s Street — and I was right. He said that the cartridges and chain needed to replaced, in addition to the tires and brakes. Maintenance sticker price? $150.00

Gah…but it’s my baby. My first big expenditure in life, and my main mode of transport in the summer. Plus it’s a great bike — light weight, fast, perfect for me. Since I was unable to say yes right away (my frugality suppressed me). Tim answered for me, and then I was told it would be about 10 days before it was done. Whoa, ten days? Dangit…I guess I should have brought it in sooner — I never thought it would take that long. SO, my bike is in the shop.

I felt like it should have had a name other than “my bike.”

Getting in the car to leave I saw Sarah and Luke walking on the street with Amos (small white dog). They were heading to Quizno’s. They happened to have a new drill in the car for us, and we were able to invite them for breakfast at the Original Pancake House for next weekend. We are both terrible at using the phone to arrange things. Oh and the drill was a xmas present from bil Ben that we forgot at the parent’s house at Easter.

We also went to the MATC powwow — and ate … and then talked with Ron, and his wife Linda and saw their kids, and looked at vender’s and looked around in general and right before grand entry was to start I decided I wanted to leave. Standing for all that is so boring — and it’s not like it’s something I haven’t seen before. SO we went home and played Zelda: Legend of Four Swords — our latest coop play video game, drank a huge … HUGE 42 0z, fountain drink (diet coke) … oh gotta go.

I wish I knew shit about php. I hate having to wait for someone to MAYBE help me with something. I have decided if he doesn’t help me, then I am just going through with it…and will work around it by putting bio pages as an individual like (kind of like lj)…instead of something cool like a photo. This shouldn’t be hard. And it probably isn’t to someone who has clue as to what to do with php.

Yeah.

The conference was good…but like all conferences — I ate too much. I am such a chubby dag.

Laima came by with EGGS last night. Happy eggs….range free….organic kind of eggs. IT was good because we had them for dinner. I want to get my bike tuned up — this weekend.

I just had chili for lunch I had made months ago and had frozen. It was even better than I expected. I made some decaf coffee too — it’s all I have.

Tim never did do the dishes. I have to do them.

I have to watch a movie too before Tim has a hernia that it is taking up a whole netflix spot.

I want to work on Rainy’s new collar — but it’s hard to measure her because she goes all spastic when I touch it…she thinks we are going to for a walk. Sucker.

I feel like taking the whole day off after working for two days …yeah, when I came home yesterday I immediately went out side and transplated some plant….with bulbs…to a different location. It felt good to dig around and get dirty with my gloves. Man there are alot of worms out there. I wish we knew something about gardening.

My Mom is overwhelming me with letters…I can barely keep up — and in the mean time I am letting others slide a little bit. I should get to work on that.

I wish we had nice patio furniture.

The dogs have to wear muzzles when they go out in the yard now because Rainy has influenced Pluto …. and they are both rough and bitey. Pluto got a big gash in his hind flank because of that — they are too fast for being bitey. Fuckers.

Rainy’s chest is all shaved, she had an ultrasound yesterday to try and figure out what is wrong with her. Nothing came up on the ultrasound….what is the fate of the Rain Dog? One shouldn’t keep a dog on antibiotics for life…right? Eventually they will become resistent.

I can’t wait for the new bed — hurry up tax money and get here.

Oh I went to Racy Delene’s in Eau Claire while I was there…and it’s still there. Yeah! I couldn’t believe it…and of course Trucker’s Union was still there too. Cool. Of course I didn’t see anyone I know. I am too old for that now — I have been away too long.

I expected a whole bunch of cool email when I returned…but only got four messages. Dangit. I used to be quite the email corresponder.

Today I am going on my first big business trip to just be extra admin help. It’s a leadership conference in Eau Claire. I have been to several leadership conferences before — but this is the first where I am on the other end. Of course I spent the morning getting ready by watching an old movie on TV, taking a long hot shower, putzing around on the internet…but I also did pack, and I think I have everything to go.

I burned my cheese sandwich for lunch today. That’s what I get for forgetting I was cooking something — good thing it was on low.

I won’t be back until Thursday night…so… yeah.

I am gonna miss my darling. It’s not often that I am the one away — and he has to stick around the house dealing with surly animals. In fact, this is the first time since my grandmother passed away — and when I came back from that I saw that all my plants had gone on to the other side too. Tim was just shuffling around the house looking lost.

Oh, I gotta pay some bills before I go though…

I hate it. I am battling acne again. I thought I was supposed to outgrow this bullshit.