As I must these days, I'll start with a Zelda update. She gets her final parvo shot this weekend. That means that her exile from the outdoors and other dogs is almost over. YAY!!! This also means that we will be able to start taking her on walks. I've convinced myself that this will cut down on a lot of her biting Matt and I. She does it the most when she gets really excited and playful. If she's exhausted from walking she won't get like that, plus she gets more exercise than we can give her right now. I don't know if I mentioned it before but the medicine the vet gave her did it's job and her poop is now lovely and firm. Just what you wanted to know. She does this silly little dance when its feeding time that Matt just loves. I'm going to have to get a video of it this weekend because it is pretty cute.
Steph is out of town this week for a Ladies Family Weekend. Linda couldn't go because she started her new grad program this week (go Linda!). So we invited her over to watch So You Think You Can Dance. Its our favorite show, this also includes Matt who has learned quite a bit about critiqueing dances now. To go along with the show I made a delicious blueberry bread pudding with brown sugar rum sauce. It was divine. Linda brought some vanilla ice cream to go with it. mmmm, I love dessert. We had a great time and she might be joining us for the results show tonight if she gets all her work done. If you haven't seen the show let me break it down for you. Its kind of like American Idol, except with dancers, and way better. You can only do so much with singing but dancing can be completely different from one dance to the next. They start off with twenty people-- ten guys, ten girls. Each week they're assigned a random dance style and they get five hours with a choreographer that shows them what they'll be doing. Its pretty amazing. My favorite girl got voted off last week which was really sad but her partner, Brandon, is still on and going strong. Let me direct you to some of the dances from this season. Brandon/Janette tango (hot!!) Brandon/Janette jazz (seriously awsome) and let me warn you about this last one, it made everyone on the show cry, I cried, Jacob cried, its very touching and beautiful Ade/Melissa contemporary piece about breast cancer. Don't say I didn't warn you (I'm getting a little misty thinking about it).
I have two weeks of work left which is insane. Looking for a job sucks, especially in this economy. Nobody is hiring. Oh well, maybe I'll just get started on my Esty.com career sooner than I had dreamed of.
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
There is an update around here somewhere
I know I've been bad about the updates recently. I apologize. I'll try and be better, probably. I'll update a little at a time since for somethings I have pictures. So I'll update until that point and then I'll track down Matt and steal his sd card so I can upload the pictures.
Let me think back, way back. Hmmm, interesting things that have happened. Well, recruitment time is almost over with and we've participated in exactly nothing this year. Last year it was a group effort and this year the Biology Department was left out of the whole thing. We weren't allowed to help plan or organize and subsequently most of us didn't participate. I don't want any of you to think that we were all being petty but we actually didn't get invited to help with almost anything and the few times we were they said something to the affect of "if you volunteer to clean or drive we're more likely to choose you to come to the event". I thought that was kind of rude because we probably would have done it either way. Oh well, Matt and I have been pretty busy lately anyway so I guess its ok. Actually we volunteered to present posters on the first weekend and they never had the decency to respond and let us know if we were or weren't presenting. Maybe next year we can do more.
Speaking of being busy, I think I mentioned before that Matt and I have going to the gym. I don't remembered if I said that we were going to step up our routine and start going even more often (read daily). That didn't work out so well. Not because we didn't have the resolve but I was feeling really run down and just sore all the time. At the same time, meat on tv was looking pretty tasty. It took a while but we finally put one and one together and realized that I needed to ramp up my protein intake. I think normally the amount I eat is fine but when I'm working out and trying to build some muscle I need more. Which makes sense. So now that I'm eating lots more protein I feel awesome and we can now go daily without wanting to die. I'm going to have Michelle Obama arms in no time.
The Oscars were a couple of weeks ago. I always love to watch them, although it was a ton easier when they started at five and ended nine. This was the first year that we got to watch it in HD. It doesn't help a lot of people. The dresses looked lovely but the faces, yikes. I made fondue for dinner. We did a Guinness and Irish cheese fondue with this awesome dense twelve grain bread, apples, and peppers. Yummy! I love cheese. Matt really liked it too, which is good. He made us a tasty salad so that we didn't only have cheese for dinner. It was a terrific evening, even though the Oscars website kept going down. Ok, I need to get back to reality.
Tune in next time to hear about snow and perogies.
Let me think back, way back. Hmmm, interesting things that have happened. Well, recruitment time is almost over with and we've participated in exactly nothing this year. Last year it was a group effort and this year the Biology Department was left out of the whole thing. We weren't allowed to help plan or organize and subsequently most of us didn't participate. I don't want any of you to think that we were all being petty but we actually didn't get invited to help with almost anything and the few times we were they said something to the affect of "if you volunteer to clean or drive we're more likely to choose you to come to the event". I thought that was kind of rude because we probably would have done it either way. Oh well, Matt and I have been pretty busy lately anyway so I guess its ok. Actually we volunteered to present posters on the first weekend and they never had the decency to respond and let us know if we were or weren't presenting. Maybe next year we can do more.
Speaking of being busy, I think I mentioned before that Matt and I have going to the gym. I don't remembered if I said that we were going to step up our routine and start going even more often (read daily). That didn't work out so well. Not because we didn't have the resolve but I was feeling really run down and just sore all the time. At the same time, meat on tv was looking pretty tasty. It took a while but we finally put one and one together and realized that I needed to ramp up my protein intake. I think normally the amount I eat is fine but when I'm working out and trying to build some muscle I need more. Which makes sense. So now that I'm eating lots more protein I feel awesome and we can now go daily without wanting to die. I'm going to have Michelle Obama arms in no time.
The Oscars were a couple of weeks ago. I always love to watch them, although it was a ton easier when they started at five and ended nine. This was the first year that we got to watch it in HD. It doesn't help a lot of people. The dresses looked lovely but the faces, yikes. I made fondue for dinner. We did a Guinness and Irish cheese fondue with this awesome dense twelve grain bread, apples, and peppers. Yummy! I love cheese. Matt really liked it too, which is good. He made us a tasty salad so that we didn't only have cheese for dinner. It was a terrific evening, even though the Oscars website kept going down. Ok, I need to get back to reality.
Tune in next time to hear about snow and perogies.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Reviews
One of my loyal readers has pointed out that I have yet to publish reviews on the two live shows that Matt and I have recently seen. So I'll put off the Thanksgiving post and let you all know what I thought.
First, we went to see DINOSAURS!!!, for Matt's birthday. I saw the videos on youtube and I thought that I was prepared for the amazing-ness but I was wrong. The dinos were life sized, which, when it comes to the bigger ones means they were towering over us. They were also ridiculously loud. In a good way. It was way too much fun. The best part was when the boy next to me reassured me not to worry because they were not "real dinosaurs". It was quite adorable, even more so when I thanked him for his knowledge and he wanted to let me know that it was twice as impressive since he was only in the fourth grade so just imagine how much smarter he was going to get. lol!
The next show we went to was The Tran-Siberian Orchestra. I can't even put into words. No wait, I can. It was kind of like going to an 80's hair metal band concert. There were pyrotechnics and lasers and it was really loud. The woman playing the violin was simply amazing. How she didn't get her hair caught in the violin or bow I will never know. She rocked it like she was playing a guitar and she ran all over the place. The show was about twice as long as we thought it was going to be. The first half was this really beautiful story about Christmas that made me cry. I really thought that was the whole show but then they came out and introduced the orchestra and started talking about the "second half". The second half was more of a rock concert, no narration. I completely recommend it if you can get tickets. Matt and I got t-shirts after the show. His has a castle high in the mountains and mine has an awesome wizard in it doing some cool magicky stuff. Both full of awesomeness.
First, we went to see DINOSAURS!!!, for Matt's birthday. I saw the videos on youtube and I thought that I was prepared for the amazing-ness but I was wrong. The dinos were life sized, which, when it comes to the bigger ones means they were towering over us. They were also ridiculously loud. In a good way. It was way too much fun. The best part was when the boy next to me reassured me not to worry because they were not "real dinosaurs". It was quite adorable, even more so when I thanked him for his knowledge and he wanted to let me know that it was twice as impressive since he was only in the fourth grade so just imagine how much smarter he was going to get. lol!
The next show we went to was The Tran-Siberian Orchestra. I can't even put into words. No wait, I can. It was kind of like going to an 80's hair metal band concert. There were pyrotechnics and lasers and it was really loud. The woman playing the violin was simply amazing. How she didn't get her hair caught in the violin or bow I will never know. She rocked it like she was playing a guitar and she ran all over the place. The show was about twice as long as we thought it was going to be. The first half was this really beautiful story about Christmas that made me cry. I really thought that was the whole show but then they came out and introduced the orchestra and started talking about the "second half". The second half was more of a rock concert, no narration. I completely recommend it if you can get tickets. Matt and I got t-shirts after the show. His has a castle high in the mountains and mine has an awesome wizard in it doing some cool magicky stuff. Both full of awesomeness.
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