causes rats in laboratory cancer: Daily Alaska -- the yucky slushy mushy dirty edition

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Daily Alaska -- the yucky slushy mushy dirty edition

It's snowing today, so we are not having the slushy mucky day that was yesterday. Everything on the ground is white, everything else is gray. Not a faboo sunshiny day here in lovely Anchorage, AK.

Last week Thor and I spent hours (well, okay, an hour at least) on the driveway, dealing with all the ice leftover from the ice coating we got in January. It was not fun fluffy easy-to-shovel snow, it was the grimy mucky nasty dirty stuff.

I am so proud...this is Thor wearing his pajama pants while shoveling. He takes after me, for sure.

6 comments:

Patsy6:52 PM
You are an inspiration. Cleaning muck and grim off the drive, knowing full well that it is going to happen again. Then you are tracking what you eat, exercising. All such wonderful things.
Me, I'm just running from work to meetings, to a dinner somewhere. I don't know how this happened. The month of February has been crazy.
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Jientje11:47 AM
You're so brave, tracking everything you eat, keeping to that diet, exercising .... wow!!!
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Anonymous2:40 PM
That part of winter is just yucky. Y'all are brave.
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Unknown12:10 PM
That's a cool looking pair of boots the boy is wearing - but the, it's ALASKA!! Natives are BORN with boots.
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Anonymous7:30 PM
I like you, I really like you! And, I really miss you. You are definitely my favorite freaky parent. How are you? Mike and I saw Zach yesterday at Vail Pride. Tell me something really cool.

Jack
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zipbagofbones8:52 AM
This nasty stuff is heading our way in March. This is one of the only reasons I'm glad for apartment living - no snow removal duties!
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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.