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Monday, December 31, 2007

I got Blog Bling!!! Yay!

Veronica (mother of adorable Amy) gave me flowers! What a great start to the last day of the year.

My husband is fixing the floor, and set off all the smoke detectors. Slightly iffier -- fixed up floor! YAY! Endless beeping and attendant howling by dogs, not so YAY. But...fixed up floor, all windows wide open, fresh air pouring in on all sides...hmmm...just a more convoluted but ultimately good start to the last day of the year.

Thanks, Veronica!!!

2 comments:

Tasina12:32 PM
I'm trying to imagine how this happened. Was he...like...burning off a layer of tile...or...something?
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Julie1:39 PM
He was actually cutting laminate flooring with a saw. Laminate flooring that was on the floor, already installed, which is why he had to cut it in the house and fill it slightly with smoke. (Apparently the laminate flooring always smokes when he cuts it. Perhaps that is what you get when you buy off-brand laminate from Home Depot...).

He was putting a strip of molding down where the ceramic tiles -- the kitchen floor -- meet the laminate flooring - the family room floor. It looks much better than the gape that was there before...
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Okay -- updating my profile because I never removed the guinea pigs from it, even though they have been elsewhere for months.

Um...new obsession (HA) the elliptical trainer in the garage. I hate the thing, but today I burned 395 calories. I know. I so wanted to burn 5 more to make it an even 400, but then I would be at 50 minutes and 19 seconds, so I would have to make that round out to an even 51 minutes, and then the mileage could be rounded up to a more even number, and then the calories would be just a few away from 450, but then I could do just a few more seconds, then another few hundredths of a mile, and so on until finally I would fall off, hit my head, end up in the hospital with another nasty concussion, and gain weight because I am bedridden. It was so much easier to just burn the 395 calories.

We moved from the Sonoran desert of southern Arizona to the almost Arctic of Anchorage. I like the winters of Anchorage better than the summers of Tucson, so far.

Still have three kids, the oldest one is a freshman at the U of Arizona (dang it, now I will have to edit this again in a few months), the other two live on Fort Richardson with me and the dogs and the husband.

Other obsessions...my camera, my IPod Touch, my sewing machine. Fabric. Definitely fabric. Dishes. It's a thing females in my family have, an obsession with dishes. Pottery, and earthenware. Silver, definitely. Not crystal and china though. I am not a big fan of the fussy and overly ornate, and both crystal and china tend to fall into those categories, to me. Plus if I have delicate dishware, then I can't have the kids wash the dishes or put it in the dishwasher.

Other than that, I weigh too much, sleep too little, am very liberal, rabidly pro-choice, find it insane this country does not have universal health care, and think the world may be a better place with Obama at the helm. Oh, yeah, and chocolate. Much much chocolate.