Sometimes American Idol comes on our TV. I don’t know how, it must be a glitch in the remote. So, sometimes – we watch this show.
I get a kick out of Simon Cowell. Watch his facial expressions while someone else is commenting. He stares at the ceiling, makes distressed and bored faces, looking generally like “is it my turn to destroy this person yet?” It’s entertaining. Also, his hair is just hilarious. Does he do this on purpose??
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Bryan picked up a new book/magazine for me, the Maritime Gardening in the Northwest. It’s a great guide to gardening and has a good deal of focus on gardening in a yard – using cloches, sowing indoors or under covers and transferring seedlings to the outdoors, keeping your soil healthy. The book covers all these things (and more) in a way that I can find ways to apply what I want to do but in our small condo. A large focus is breaking up the book into chapters by months. Each month tells you what seeds to plant outside or inside, and other activities you could be doing to keep busy with your garden.
I have only read to March, because I want to not get distracted with reading too far ahead. I am trying to plan all that I can plant and nurture on our small patio landing.
draft of our patio garden
At first, my goal with this book is to plan our garden and have more to eat from it than last summer, when we had lettuce, strawberries, rosemary and basil. However, as I read more of this book, I am finding that I am starting to think if I could actually kind of have crops on our patio and exercise crop rotation. That might be taking it too far, might be too much to manage on a little patio.
After I figure out what we can start with in our small space, I’ll move on to figuring out if I can garden through the year with more than one set of veggies and fruit.
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Tagged: apartment, condo, patio, small spaces, urban gardening, vegetable garden
The Olympics are here! Or, up North of “here”, at least. It’s entertaining for me to see the ads for British Columbia: beautiful! scenic! ethnic! natives, food, snow, activies!!!! I KNOW that a big reason cities rally to get the Olympics to come to their location is to help their economy (bring in jobs and tourists) and it’s going to be very beneficial for BC to get all those people up there. I still can’t really take their TV ads seriously.
On the other hand, I LOVE that the games have started! I enjoyed the opening cermony even though I think it was all a little strange. The tapdancers I enjoyed – not sure if it was the massive choreography and rhythmic sound or the fact that it was a little out of the ordinary? Native clans coming out in their dancing gear – that was pretty cool. I was hoping we’d get more up-close views of their outfits because they looked like some neat embellishments. I can’t believe they were dancing the entier time the countries/athletes were being announced! Dancing for that long has to be exhausting.
It was the guy running and flying part that I didn’t understand. It was kind of creative, not really entertaining, and I didn’t think it was really Olympics-worthy. Call me a scrooge but I didn’t care for it. The skiers and snowboarders flying down the mountain with the skaters below was weird to me too. The audience seemed to enjoy it, so maybe it didn’t get conveyed properly for me across the TV?
Now the ceremony is aside and we can look forward to catching all of our favorite sports on TV and rooting those athletes on. When’s the figure skating start? I think that’s what I am most looking forward to.
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Tagged: ceremonies, native dancers, olympics, opening ceremony
Begonia lept into my life October of 1997. She weighed maybe 2 pounds, didn’t know cats were supposed to “hunt”, and had no sense of balance – always falling off the back of the couch.
She was a wonderful kitty. She always has energy, loves to play – when she was younger I’d catch her climbing the curtains when she forgot I was home. A favorite playtime thing when she found you in the kitchen – getting rolled up in the floormat like a fruit roll-up. Well mannered, didn’t really beg, she was the pretty girl who would cozy up on the couch to watch you go about your day.
Eleven years later, my future husband moved in. He was allergic to my furry friend who snuggled me all night through. We tried keeping the house clean and windows open to help keep her dander down, but he was REALLY allergic. After over a year of us trying all these things, he went to the doctor to get tested. Turns out, Bryan is super allergic to cats and living in such close proximity with one was only making it worse.
A few times, Bryan would wake up with his throat swollen. The doctor assured him it wasn’t threatening, but still, would you want to live like that?
Last fall, Begonia moved to my dad’s. I am still sad about my kitty moving out. Sometimes I wake up in a dream-state and can feel her snuggled into the crook of my knees. I miss her finding us on the couch and coming in between us for some attention, or how she’d wander around talking to me.
I love you, Boo.
Furry-belly Boo on our bed
Boo checking herself out
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Tagged: begonia, boo, cat, furry friend, kitty, long haired, pet animal
Melissa recently finished creating a brand new website for Bryan’s old company Built-e here in Seattle. It’s nothing much to toot her horn about but definitely an upgrade from the old site, which you can visit here.
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Tagged: built-e, freelance, html, seattle green building products, sustainability website, website
I have noticed that as I get older, time goes by faster and I have a harder time keeping up with all I want to be involved with. Time with family and friends becomes more precious and my time is consumed by keeping up with day-to-day activities and planning the fun times. No time anymore to let things just happen, it sometimes seems!
Has another year almost passed? Did we get to accomplish all we were hoping? I know I did. Let’s list a few.
In 2009 …
… all of these things, as well as fitting in quality time with family and each other.
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Tagged: 2009, memories, new year, reminiscing
I don’t get into tv shows much. In fact, I can’t think of the last show I was so addicted to that as soon as one episode finished, I was already thirsty for the next. That’s how Mad Men is. I think it says something about me even blogging about it. That’s how big this show is to me!
I can’t put my finger on what it IS about the show that I love so much. Those characters aren’t very happy – their lives are practically falling apart with each show. The main character is dark and full of enigma. His wife is very 60′s-poster-gal. Maybe it’s all the fashion and gadgets from the era that I love – I can’t imagine wearing the bras from back then!
Well, like I said. I don’t know what makes it so enthralling for me but I’m stuck. Season 4, disc 1 arrived in today’s mail and we won’t be home for two days. I’ll be looking forward to it the whole time.
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Tagged: netflix, tv shows
Someday I won’t work at K2. Maybe, just maybe, someday I won’t even have to GO to a workplace, too. Dream on.
Seeing these cute books so badly makes me want to open up an Etsy shop. I have thousands of ideas but not enough time to make them a reality.
How much fun would it be to step into my online shop and find:
-monster pillows
-knitted goods (scarves, mittens, hats, blankets)
-handmade notebooks
-magnets
-makeup bags
-grocery bags made out of oilcloth
I am in love!
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I’ve gotten the itch to clean up my office. It’s not even in disarray. But I came across these zip disks and hard drives (didn’t they used to be called “floppy”??). I was curious about what might be on them, but looks like my PC doesn’t even HAVE a floppy drive anymore. Hmm. They’re in the trash now.
I’m heading home shortly after 5pm so that Bryan and I can have dinner together. Surely it will be less-than-fab, as we’re down to canned beans and the last slices of bread in the cupboard. Then he’s off to have Happy Hour with some boys, and I’m meeting some girlfriends for KIB – our knitting group.
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