Randomness

1.  I wish people would stop covering Octo Mom we are just rewarding her pscyhosis.

2.  My coworker introduced me to a new website called TripIt.  It tracks your trips and you can look at your friend's and family's upcoming trips.  You can e-mail flight, hotel or rental confirmation e-mails to it, or add items manually.  Not only will the website organize it into a nice list by date and time, but it adds weather, maps of the surrounding areas and you can check flight statuses.  If you join,  then you should add me as a friend!

3.  I am teaching the cats new tricks.  Mars is learning "paw" a version of high-five.  I started a few days ago and she is already doing it on command (if I have a treat of course).  Clover is learning "sit" although she is not as far along as Mars she still is sitting faster and faster each time.  I want to teach Haley a new trick also, but can't think of anything to teach her.  Does anyone have any ideas?

4.  I have to copy Jenn in this one.  I don't know who is reading my blog.  Other than the few people who are "followers."  So if you are reading this just let me know...sometimes I am just typing to myself.

5.  I am still looking for a job in the Seattle area.  I have applied to 27 jobs as of today.  If you know of any opportunities in that area, or have any connections, let me know!  Time to get ready to work out.  Ohh, that makes me think of one more.

6.  I feel like fitness centers have a responsibility to their clients.  On Saturday I saw a girl there that was definitely too thin to be exercising or lifting weights.  They seem to have this image of skinny perfection and you almost feel like you have to fit into it to workout there (at least at my gym), but I would much rather see someone larger working hard to get healthy then someone so thin working hard to get sicker.

Cupcakes and wine

I had a great Valentine's Day celebrating my friends and food.  Most of the day I cleaned and continued organizing my place.  During that time I had a conversation with Big B and he made my day even better...as always!

Flowers from Big B, minus the bear (Knock Out Nate).

That evening some friends came by and we enjoyed some homemade brownies, wine (Canyon Oaks Cabernet Sauvignon, Bitch and Bricco Riella's Moscato D'Asti), pizza from Papa Johns and cupcakes from the Buttercream Cupcakery.

From top left to bottom right:  chocolate on vanilla, vanilla bean, red velvet, vanilla on chocolate, another chocolate on vanilla, a second red velvet, chocolate, another chocolate, rose and champagne.

The Moscato was really challenging to open and I had to have some assistance.

Overall it was a great day!

It's American?

I am watching the tv show about the Duggar family.  During the show they were also being taped by a French television crew and they said that to have 17 (almost 18) children is American!  It concerns me that this is the image we portray.

What a mess!

I have been trying to organize my kitchen and will move onto other parts of the place eventually.  It is such a mess right now!  Partly because I still have all the stuff I am giving/donating in my house until I can figure out who can use it.

If anyone needs anything let me know.  Right now I have kitchen stuff including plastic storage, some table mats, pots and pans.  I also have dog stuff like bones, and gently used balls and stuffed animals.  Oh and books!

Colorado Eagles Game

My sister and I went to watch the Eagles play the Rocky Mountain Rage tonight.

We had dinner at Rock Bottom before the game, while there we saw 4 different groups of people that we knew in the area...always nice to see people you know out and about.

The game was great.  

There were a few fights

but not enough to detract from the game playing.  The 3rd period ended with a tie, which lead to overtime.  After overtime there was still a tie, so then there was a shoot out...which drew out to the very last shot.  In the end the Eagles won and now we get free Subway tomorrow.

Wife Swap

Wow!  The Wife Swap tonight was crazy.  It was a pageant crazy lady from Colorado and a doctor who plays roller derby from Washington.  During the show the baby only got second in the pageant and the dad was almost crying and the 6 year old son was....I hope people don't think that everyone from Colorado is like that.

Cool photo review of 2008

I thought this article was very interesting with some very cool photos, even if they are a little sad.  http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/the_year_2008_in_photographs_p.html