Day 365: The End of 2009 & A New Year

In reflecting on 2009, I realize how much I accomplished and how much changed.  I started 2009 losing about 30lbs and getting into shape again. I started running and biking regularly.  I ran in Beat the Bridge (~6miles), Race for the Cure (3.1miles), and Run Like Hell (13.2miles).  I ran in a monthly first Thursday…

Day 364 – Kitty in a Box

Who needs to buy a cat bed?  Like small kids, our cat finds an empty box to work be more exciting than anything that could come in it.  She has been camped out in this one for a couple days now. 

Day 363 – SNOW!!

All afternoon, I’ve had the opening four part harmony of the song they sing in the movie White Christmas while they are on the train to Vermont going thru my head:“Snow. Snow. Snow. SNOW!” We had a totally unexpected snowstorm this afternoon.  Once again proving that to be a weather forecaster in Portland, you just…

Day 362 – Nut Cracker

Tonight, for dinner, Garbanzo decided we needed shelled hazelnuts.  So, he set the girls off cracking nuts.  Indigo proved to be most adept at it.  But, her technique did result in some nuts flying around the kitchen. To add to it, DJ’s comments about this were – well, hilarious to the dirty minded. “I hate…

Day 361 – The Rec Room

When we walked through this house after it came onto the market, we fell in love with it. We could tell almost immediately that this was a house owned by two gay men who tried to “straighten it up” for prospective owners.  The purple tellitubbi on the fridge, the gay pride flags, the Human Rights…

Day 360 – Comics from Hell

We decided recently it was time to get DJ into her own room.  I like having a guest room, so we decided that the best thing to do was to move Garbanzo out of the room he’s been using for his comic books and move her into it.  It’s a good size, it is technically…

Day 359 – Christmas!

This was the “Coal” I got in my stocking for being naughty this year. Guess I did something right! The girls both got a set of Captain Rex Helmets from Clone Wars & Nerf guns. Not very politically correct, but fun.  They have been running around all day in these things. Lego lined up and…

Day 357 – Church Edition

Nothing rounds out about 22 hrs of naked fun like church.The good news is that I wasn’t struck by lightening upon entering the church.The other good news is that all seems to be well within the sibling of my family.  Nothing helps more than beer and mead, or so it seems.My apologies for my readers…

Day 356 – No Internet Edition

I drove to Central Oregon yesterday, by myself.  The pass was worse than it should have been.  This is before I got really far into the drive.  It was funny seeing where the snow level was.  From a distance, you could see green then a line where it was white above that point.  Usually you…