So it's been a few months...

As I sit here waiting for our Goat Cheese Primo pizza to be delivered, it occurs to me that I have not updated many people on the goings-on of my life, recently. So, here's what's gone down in the last four months:



*Jeff and I moved in the houseboat

*We went to numerous weddings

*I've been volunteering at PAWS once a week

*We saw Jose Gonzalez live

*We spent a glorious weekend away in Portland (took the train down and everything) and spent too much money at Powell's Books

*Jeff went on a tuna fishing expedition out in the ocean on the same weekend that I went on a cruise ship with a bunch of other girls for a friend's bachelorette party

*I got to celebrate the 1-year birthday of my nephew, Holden, and the birth of my other nephew, Ambrose.

*We went to the Puyallup fair with the Stremicks...what a blast!

*I've watched every Seahawks game including the one that I attended on on 10/14 where we got the SHIT kicked out of us by a 0-5 New Orelean's Saints team.


*Me and "my girls" took a trip to Vegas in June for our friend Mary's bachelorette party, it was really fun...from what I remember ;-)


* My sister, Jennifer, got engaged!!!


* I went to Chicago for my annual conference.


* I participated in the MS walk to support my friend Megan, who was diagnosed this year. Thanks to those of you who donated -- that was very generous and our team met our goal of $3000.

* I went to a Yacht Rock party with my friend Jaimie. "Yacht Rock" is the term given to really cheesy and bad 70s and 80s music (Christopher Cross, Air Supply, etc.). The concert was put on by the folks trying to clean up the Puget Sound. Local bands covered the oldies-but-not-so-goodies and everyone dressed up in yacht or sailing attire. It was SOOOO incredibly fun and we hope to do it again next year.


* My friend Megan got engaged!

*My precious Himalayan had to have almost all of his teeth extracted in June (he got to keep two fangs and the itty, bitty baby teeth in fron), which was a sad thing to have to watch him recover from, but he is so much happier now.

*I adopted out both of my horses and my goat. So, I'm just down to my three cats AND my new beta fish that we got today. We named him Pinky (because he's pinkish purple -- back in my day the betas only came in red and blue) and he's really sweet. My SLR is in storage, so all I've got to show you is a crappy digital pic so you
can't see his sweet little face. He seems to be really friendly as he always swims from where he is over to the human. We're going to get him a little tetra buddy and name him "The Brain".


* Jeff and I moved to an apartment in Ballard (Seattle) last week. We love it so far. It's a one bedroom with a nice big living room that's open to the kitchen. We have a nice deck and a gym and a garage for parking the cars and and elevator. It's great and it's a pet-friendly unit so there's always doggies in the halls and stuff.


* Prior to my last posting, I went to Reno to attend my sister's graduation from the Reno Police Academy and Jeff and I took a trip to Hawaii. If you haven't already seen them, you can check out our travelblog at: http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Small-U/


*Thanks to Jeff's dad, I'm now hooked on my favorite website of all, Goodreads.com. You can log and rate all of the books you own, are reading, want to read and check up on the books your friends have read, are reading, and what they think about the books. It's amazing and I love it. I've got my little sisters, Jennifer and Andrea hooked too! You can check it out at: http://www.goodreads.com/friend/i?i=LTM2MDY2NjU3Nzk6MzEy%0A


* Ps. My cats and their own webpages online now at Catster.com which is like a MySpace for cats, you can check them out at: http://www.catster.com/family/522217


Upcoming, we've got our big family extravaganza trip coming up for the week of Thanksgiving. Jeff will be coming out to meet the whole family. Our trip won't even allow us time to breathe, we're going to be so busy. We're excited though!

That's it for now. I'll try to be more involved keeping up with the updates!

Earth Day Experiment

Hi, all. I’m new to this place and haven’t blogged in many a fortnight. You can see my old blogs at: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=kittymommy. I’m pretty much here because I follow the Mayfields to wherever they’re blogging, because, well, let’s face it they’re just damn hilarious! My main purpose for blogging today after one year, two months, and 13 days is to tell everyone how we “celebrated” Earth Day. Last week I came up with this idea that I thought was brill: to be a vegan (usually I’m just a veg), go without driving and without using electricity for an entire day---and to cajole my boyfriend into doing this as well. The morning started out good: a walk to Uptown Espresso, because we couldn’t make our own coffee. I made sure to put soymilk in my Americano instead of the usual. Then we missed the bus to Pike Place and didn’t want to wait a half hour so we walked. We struggled to find a breakfast place that was cheap and not packed and found this little whole in the wall in the market across from The Market. Once we got settled in there we realized that, um, this was a Chinese restaurant. There were no fruit options or anything else vegan, so I settled for hashed browns and glass of cran juice. When she brought out my food I couldn’t believe it…on my plate were two of those frozen patty-style browns that you put in the toaster. This was so far from the breakfast that I had envisioned for myself. Then we walked up to Pacific Place because we were going to catch Meet the Robinson’s in 3-D, we sit through the obnoxious pre-game show (y’know, the kind with the quizzes about famous people set to the tunes of Christina Aguilera and the like---kill me), only to have an employee come in and tell us that the movie wouldn’t be showing due to equipment failure. So, we got refunds AND free passes to see it some other time. So, we spent some serious time in Borders (I bought two “green” books) and Jeff needed to get his shoes shined and a new belt. We had lunch then and walked back to his place where we proceeded to nap and read for hours…and hours…and hours before heading out to get Thai food for dinner. We decided that we didn’t do anything really spectacular (except for going without showers and almost losin our vision to reading by candlelight) and that we’d need to stay home next year, because this year we just used other people’s electricity (stores, movie theater, restaurants, etc.). I decided that I’m going to organize an event next year for all of my friends and family to participate in. Like a neighborhood clean up project or something. We’ll get some sweet matching shirts or visors or something. Any way, stay tuned for that. I’m off to Chicago tomorrow for my annual conference. In my spare time at the hotel I hope to complete my Travel Blog from Hawaii which I’ll link to on this page. Until next time…(which hopefully won’t be one year, 2 months, and 13 days!)