Tuesday, September 20, 2011

6th times a charm

I should write a "how-to book" on quitting your job.  Wish me luck.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Terrifying

An owl swooped low as if to grab Bug on our walk last night.  I used to make jokes about eating him all the time. Those jokes are not that funny anymore.

Friday, September 9, 2011

Destination Failure

Yesterday I got my first 20,000 steps.  (For those of you that don't know what this means - most of my family is walking around with pedometers these days.  If we get a certain amount of steps we get points.  After so many points we get cash from our insurance company.  It's neat. Getting 20,000 steps equals about 8 miles.)  I thought this epic moment would at least put a dent in the family challenge but I'm still in the bottom.  Which causes me to wonder... how many steps a day do the rest of you average?   I'm at about 9,000... which I thought was decent... but I've also gained a substantial amount of weight since my salmonella days.
On that note - Anybody want to challenge me to a weight loss competition?  See who can loose the highest percentage of their weight by Thanksgiving?  eh?  Lemme know if you're interested.

Last weekend Potato and I went to Chicago to relive the days spent with J. Temperature.  It was a grand ol' time.  I have trouble planning my weekends in Chicago because I difficulty sharing my time with friends and family.  For the first time in a while I felt like I did a good job dividing up my days and evenings.  I'm still dying to back to The Rail for their bloody mary special.  I suppose there's always next time.
There have been a few people mentioning upcoming visits.  I think the fall is a great time to come.  The drive is exceptionally pretty and there's a lot to do here.  If you are looking to party and meet some of our friends I recommend the weekend of the 23rd.  Otherwise just about any other weekend would do besides the 1st of October.

My work schedule is currently pretty horrible.  I've been applying to jobs on occasion but I think I'm going to start doing it a lot more often.  Baby has been pretty cute lately.  She's very close to walking and is constantly blabbering.  Her first birthday is coming up next week.  One of her professional athlete uncles bought her a baby grand piano (for babies).  She loves banging the hell out of that thing.  It's pretty funny watching her try and beat up what I'm sure was a pretty expensive gift.

All right.  I'm off to do some laundry.  It's funny - the weekends I have no plans going into always end up being the busiest.

Oh, and here's a picture of Buggy.