Grr...after a long day at work today all I really wanted to do was sit outside & enjoy the warm weather, perhaps go for a bike ride, whatever...somehow chasing my dog around the neighborhood for an hour & a half after she escaped from the backyard was NOT in my Friday evening master plan...:( You'd think that fat little miniature pinschers can't ( Read more... )

Woohoo! So yes, I realize that I graduated from high school almost seven years ago, but I'm still totally excited that Lynden High School won the state 2A boys' basketball tournament tonight:) That means that my alma mater is now one of the very few schools in the state to win both the state football AND basketball championships in the same year ( Read more... )

Sweet merciful crap and total frustration...I have exactly 23 days to figure out how my friend Whitney & I are going to rebook our entire flight itinerary for our vacation to Arizona & California, now that Western Airlines suddenly shut down because of cash flow issues & screwed up the blissfully cheap, convenient, direct reservations that we had ( Read more... )

GO SEAHAWKS! What a wild & crazy game this evening...

Happy New Year everyone!!


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Yay for snow! So far I've heard up to 17 inches in parts of Lynden (there's drifts of at least three feet in certain parts of my yard)--I didn't have to go to work today because of the icy roads, so instead I'm taking a day to myself & curling up in front of the fire to watch Christmas movies, "Grey's Anatomy" reruns on DVD, & reading "The ( Read more... )

There are many times of the year that I love Seattle & Western Washington...however, coming back to 55 degrees and flooding after three days of 85 degree sun on the La Jolla beach is NOT one of them:(

So how the heck did I end up with so much bubble gum? I don't even like the stuff...

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haullittlemissswiss goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as punk rocker devil.gin2001 tricks you! You get a block of wood.isherj gives you 19 yellow grape-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.jasononi gives you 4 yellow vanilla-flavoured ( Read more... )

Funny...somehow I don't remember traipsing through fields & hacking down corn stalks as part of my original job description ( Read more... )

Cleaning up my room, going through old boxes of stuff...makes me realize that I've gotten a ton of cards & letters from people, & I should really go back to writing some "snail mail" to friends on my own. It feels good to receive it, and it's something that's gotten horribly lost in a sea of hasty e-mails & scrawlings on blog boards ( Read more... )