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Long week…

It’s been a long week. I worked from home most of the time to watch Siobhan and make sure she didn’t have an adverse reaction to the medication. So far so good and she’s only had one dizzy spell since she’s been home from the hospital.

She hasn’t been eating much, so we’re modifying the medication a bit so that she’ll hopefully start eating a bit heavier. We might be switching her to moist food as well, since some of this medication is just too large to put in her mouth. At this point she doesn’t

700

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This is the 700th post on this blog, and I would like to commemorate it with a poem.

Joe

I have a friend, whose name is Joe,

he likes peeing in the snow.

He also likes it when it’s hot,

and on weekends, he smokes pot.

Joe is white, with short brown hair,

to smooth his chest he uses Nair.

His eyes are bad so he wears glasses,

and likes to pinch the cute girls’ asses.

Joe is not the smartest guy,
he thinks that water is really dry.
He thinks the sky is upside down,
and that we’ll fall right off the groun

A Very Stressful Weekend

[image error]Our weekend started off relatively well. On Saturday we got up early and started a day of house and yard work. We raked leaves, trimmed plants and trees, hauled a huge pile of yard waste to the street for pickup, and even took time to set up our little 10-foot pool in preparation for the hot weather to come.

Yes, we really are that silly - we have a 10-foot round pool (complete with industrial strength pool pump / filter / etc.).

After a long day of being productive (all of this done in anticipati

I found this blog by searching for something else

I get spam. Lots of it. It’s a waste of time and it amazes me that there are still people out there who even bother with doing it. One of the more personally entertaining ones I get, is the comment that says:

I found this blog by searching for something else.

[image error]This one intrigues me. If it’s to be believed, then keywords that have nothing to do with my blog are sending people to my blog. So I turned to my trust friend Google Analytics to see what sort of keyword searches were sending people here.

Mos

Walking on Broken Glass

I got up at about 3:20am this morning…is it redundant to say “this morning” after just having said “3:20am”? I supposed it could have been 3:20am yesterday morning, or 3:20am the other day, but I do want you to know that it was THIS morning that I was up at 3:20am. Anyway.

I was up. It was 3:20am. It was dark outside yet starting to get lighter since this is California and we’re doing that whole rotating toward the sun type of thing. The cats were hungry, oh so hungry. Always. Always hungry.

I wen

My June Crush

[image error]I realize I’m a day early, but who cares.

Today I announce my June crush.

Isabella Rossellini, the most beautiful woman in the world. And here’s why…

Click here to view the embedded video.

Doesn’t get much better than that does it? You can watch the entire series on Sundance.

On Friday I am Finally Feeling Fine

[image error]For the first time since my knee surgery I am finally feeling fine. Well not completely fine, but I didn’t want to spoil the alliteration there with all the F’s.

But seriously, I’m feeling well. I was able to walk around at work today in an almost normal non-limping fashion, and this afternoon when I left I actually walked down the stairs without having to brace myself against the hand-rail. I’d say that’s pretty good progress ;-).

I knew something was up when I woke up this morning not in knee pa

An Elegant Salmon Dinner in 15 Minutes

Today’s recipe for a delicious and elegant salmon dinner in only 15 minutes.

First - never be afraid when you hear that an elegant dinner can be fixed in 15 minutes. Just because it’s fast doesn’t mean it’s “fast food”.

Ingredients

3-4oz salmon per person (completely thawed)
pepper to taste
1T cumin powder
1 package of fresh spinach
2T minced garlic
2T olive oil
1/2C milk
2T sour cream
2T butter
1 1/3C potato flakes
1 bottle of white wine

Step 1 - The Salmon

Preheat your BBQ grill on high. Prepare

Love and Marriage

Today, 26 May 2009, the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8 by a vote of 6-1. It reminded me of something I wrote a few years ago about marriage…

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[image error] I want to get married.

I want a big church wedding, with flowers, and candles, and brides maids and grooms men, and as much pomp and as much circumstance as the building can hold.

Actually that’s all a lie. I haven’t set foot in a church in ages, flowers make me sneeze and make my eyes water, candles from anywhere other than Illuminations are

Memories of Memorial Day

[image error] Memorial Day (an encore presentation)

For me, Memorial Day is the ultimate in life celebrations. I can picture it now. What it might look like, who might attend, what I would be wearing, how fabulous my hair would look, people being overheard saying “Love your hair, hope you win!”.

For me, it’s never too soon to plan my Memorial Day festivities.

It all starts with the food. Hot cider or wine sangria, fresh seafood salads, maybe some rock shrimp or rock lobster WOO!, finger sandwiches, hand sandwi