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Thursday, 21 May 2009

Hello Again!

It has been months since I've been on Xanga. There are two main reasons I've been gone, the first being my job and the second is Facebook. I finally buckled to the persistent pleas of my brother and the kids at church. But shortly after I joined, my brother left! Ha! It has been fun reconnecting with old friends again, but I think I would like to do a bit more blogging to cronicle what life throws at me. I have been writing in a journal for Joshua, but sometimes there I things I need to vent that are appropriate for me to put in his journal

So hopefully I will get back into the swing of things, not just writting, but reading those I had been subscribed to in the past. It will be fun to catch up!

Friday, 17 October 2008

And he's off!

I've been catching up on blogs lately and when I read that Lucas and Isaac are now walking it made me realize that I totally forgot to blog that Joshua is now crawling! He started on October 10th. Thankfully it is still slow going, but we will now have to go find a gate for our stairs.
Joshua had been able to get up on his hands and knees for a while where he would just rock back and forth. Then he added the push off, but because he only pushed with his arms he propelled him backwards.
Being sick of being stuck in reverse his preferred mode of transportation sans was rolling and pivoting. It was quite impressive how far he could move with this technique.
It is really quite humorous, at the expense of your child of course, watching them learn new things. One day he figured that his knees needed to move forward. Well, his hands stayed put and he slooowly tilted forward landing on his forehead. Makes one want to break out into "I'm a Little Tea Cup."
Now that he is crawling ~~Katie's~~ Lady Macbeth's toys have to be placed out of reach. He almost started chewing on one of her toys when I wasn't looking! Good thing she is okay with "sharing" with him, she is awful with other dogs. I think we have successfully established the order of rank in her mind. She may not agree with it in theory, but she does in practice.
Oh! His top two front teeth finally broke through a few days before he started crawling. So now his drooling has lessened considerably. No more four-bib-days, for now!
Out, out damn spot! Out I say!

Our dog, Katie, was kind enough to throw up in our living room. It left a lovely large stain in a shade of orange on our cream carpet. Perhaps she was just trying to add fall colors to our interior decor? That, I don't know.
But what I do know is that our pet stain remover product could not get out. (I don't even want to know what she got into that made her puke orange, I have enough going on!)
So I am calling out for help! Do any of you have a favorite pet stain remover? Or even just a regular stain remover? I can't recall the brand we used. I had poured the contents of a refill bottle into a generic spray bottle and ~~tossed~~ recycled the original container. I used the last of it in attempts to rid myself of removing Katie's attempts of interior decorating.
I would greatly appreciate any advice here. Thank goodness the friend that is visiting us tomorrow is also a dog owner and can understand our predicament.
Until further notice, Katie will be now be known as Lady Macbeth.

Thursday, 09 October 2008

I Was Tagged...

Kara B. tagged me, so here goes:
4 things I was doing 10 years ago:
~ Just started dating Marc (my hubby)
~ Attending St. Olaf, sophomore year
~ Went on my first road trip with a friend (Minnesota to New Mexico)
~ Going for Sunday drives with Marc and getting lost intentionally lost in the country side.

4 things on my to do list for today:
Since I will be going to bed after this, I will do this for tomorrow
~  Call people about a church meeting
~ Edit and print out a product list for work
~ Shop for some new pants for work
~ Go to PetCo for dog food and pet stain remover

4 jobs I have had:
~ Cashier and sales floor at REI
~  Lifeguard and swim instructor
~ Barista
~ Receptionist at a veterinary hospital
4 movies I have watched more than once:
~ The Princess Bride
~ most Disney movies (animation)
~ Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail
~ Braveheart

4 places I have lived:
~ Bloomington, MN
~ Northfield, MN
~ Minneapolis, MN
~ Sauk Rapids, MN

4 places I have been (this year):
~ Stillwater, MN
~ Bloomington, MN
~ Plymouth, MN
~ we haven't really traveled this year

4 places I want to visit:
~ Australia / New Zealand
~ Greece
~ Canadian Rockies
~ South Africa

4 TV shows I watch:
~ House
~ NCIS
~ Greek
~ Heros

4 things you may not know about me:
~ I did an internship at the MN Zoo with the dolphins
~ I am 11 years younger than my husband
~ I suffer from depression
~ I was voted "biggest flirt" twice. (8th and 12th grade)

4 things I love about my husband:
~ How he is such an amazing father to Joshua
~ How humble he is
~ Watching him grow in his faith
~ That he loves me despite all my faults

4 people I tag:
I know you hate this part but, humor me …
Liz, Annette, Jenn, and April
On the Way Home

First of all this a bit random, but as my site was loading I had forgotten that I changed my theme and I was all "What the heck? Who's site is... oh yeah. "
Anyway.
This is actually short enough to be a pulse, but I was so excited I thought it deserved its own post:
On the way home I saw that gas was below the $3.00 mark! Yup! It was $2.92. It's about time!