You will have to pry the machine gun from my cold dead hand.
Archive for July, 2010
I might need to move out of the state
Thursday, July 29th, 2010Animal House
Saturday, July 24th, 2010Turns out Barton IS a hunter, even if he did not go outside for the first 7 years of his life. He brought a MOUSE into the house a couple weekends ago. Paul hid behind the recliner and Jake while I took care of slap shooting it out of the house where Barton handled his biz-nass.
I know it is blurry, but a great action shot.
Mission Accomplished. I will save you the rest of the story.
We also took Jake, Maggie and Katie swimming. They are so cute in the car. Jake sat in the seat like a person. Then to stick his nose out the window seems to be the be the best thing that ever happened to him. We should really all take a lesson from dogs. Fresh air = paradise.
Chillin like a villain
WHOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Barton also knew that Jake wasn’t feeling well so he let Jake cuddle with him on the bed. Paul took this pic one morning when I was already at work. So cute.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
PPPthththththhhhhhhh, cont’d
Friday, July 23rd, 2010Even my reading is unfocused lately. I think I have 4 books going at once and I am not really that into any of them. Which makes me want to pick up a variety of magazines that I got w frequent flyer miles that Delta decide they did not want me to have past the next 30 days. I am a literary schizophrenic. Literally. Let’s see what we have here….
Leading from the Front by Courtney Lynch and someone else I cannot remember
2 chick former marines talk about leadership issues that are specific to women. I think I am looking for a magic bullet answer to all interpersonal skills. The health care environment is very stressful with all of the upcoming changes to Medicare. Lots of tension. Still looking for the magic.
What are you doing with the rest of your life? (I forget the author)
Pretty self explanatory. If you feel like you are going uphill all the time, something must not be right. Right?
Superfreakonomics
Have you read Freakonomics? If not, you need to. They talk about things like why sumo wrestlers are crooked,why is chemo so widely used when it so rarely works, forceps hoarding, and assassinating mosquitoes. What could go wrong?
How much you can you stand? Martha Beck
Great book that has like 7 things you need to do to bring joy into your life. You must master each step before moving on. Problem is that I cannot master Step 1. No, not admitting you are powerless over joy. Step 1 is, “Do nothing for 15 minutes each day.” Seriously. I cannot do it for more than 2 days in a row. I have been trying for about 3 months. I wonder if she has a remedial book. Maybe something about bringing adequate feelings into your life. That feels much easier than shooting straight for joy.
I also have 3 parenting books that are more like reference books that I dip into here and there:
- Positive Discipline
- 4 Love Languages of Children
- Balance is a Crock, Sleep is for the Weak
Magazines
- Entertainment Weekly
- Time
- Endurance Magazine
- Money
- Real Simple
- Lucky
- Oprah
- Bicycling
- Inc.
- Men’s Fitness
- Fast Company
- Family Circle
What are you reading these days?
PTTHHhhhthhththththth (sound of making rasberries)
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010Elli asked me today what was up w the blog so I am sure the rest of you are waiting on the edge of your seats too.
Welp, not much. But lots of stuff that make it chaotic, herding cats is what I told Elli.
I sissied out of the Blue Ridge Parkway ride so we don’t really have a vacation planned for this year. We penciled in a few backpacking trips, both with and without the kids. Then Jake got sick, or at least we realized he was sick. Jake has lymphoma. He has responded well to the prednisone (no chemo). Paul is supposed to check back in w the vet on Monday to maybe cut back on the dosage. The lumps in his neck (I assume enlarged lymph nodes) reduced in size, but now they are growing again in size. We are doing everything we can to give him quality of life for as long as we can so he has been sleeping in our bed. A 90 pound dog takes up a lot more space than a 9 pound cat. Whoa. Between Jake and Paul, the temperature goes up about 100 degrees. He also gets soft food (can’t really eat much hard food) and we did take him swimming recently. Here is a pic:
There is more pathetic and apathetic stuff to write about but I am SO crabby I need to go to bed now.
