Rob and I were talking about inviting some friends over who have little children, with the idea of also inviting Bibi over.
Me: It'd probably be good to have as many adults here as possible because we're not exactly the most kid friendly house. (*)
Rob: Sure we are. We have a kennel.
Ummmm . . . yeah . . . and come to think of it, it's large enough to probably fit three or four Bibi-sized children in there. Hmmmmm . . .
* By "kid friendly" I meant "child-proof"
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
Romanov Had a Seizure
Romanov had another seizure today. It was the worst one yet. We'll be taking him to the vet as soon as possible. In the meantime, I haven't had a drink since the new year and boy do I want to have a glass of wine with dinner tonight. Instead, I think I'll lose myself in a book. I believe I have one or over 30 lying around here somewhere.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
I Don't Care What You Say, It Never Happened
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Joe & Co with a typically shoeless Bibi |
It was a big week for me and mine.
I’m possessive like that.
What can I say?
So what would you do if you had just adopted a 4-year-old child?
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Bibi and my mother giggling with Lizzie |
ROAD TRIP! Or, as Rob
apparently (pun!) explained, Family Vacation.
That’s right. Joe & Co drove
from Georgia to Pennsylvania. And this
picture comes from a side-trip they took to visit my mother’s. I’m hugely grateful that this was able to happen
because there are things happening “behind the scenes” that could easily have
precluded the two of them driving out to New Jersey. The photographs Joe took and shared brought
me tremendous joy and make me all the more eager for my own trip north in June.
My week was dominated with my getting back into the swing of
studying. I have four months to complete an online course. Then I get to take another big certification
exam. Oh joy.
In other news, we were blind-sided with financial
surprises. Income tax wasn’t as high as
we had anticipated. Then a bill came in
that was a lot higher (over three times so) than it should have been. But then I received an unexpected payment for
some work I’d done which was immediately followed by some more bad financial
news.
Seriously. Our
financial week was a bit of a roller-coasted and I pretty much just filed
things away and shrugged my shoulders.
There’s only so much a person can do and I had to study.

Rob accuses me of throwing books at the puppies. I have defended myself as merely clumsy but
he still cautions the dogs, “Be careful or she’ll throw a book at you just when
you think you’re safe and comfortable.”
(Let me interject that he is correct in that, for whatever reason, I do
manage not to do these things when the dog has not yet fully lied down but only
seem to manage to drop the book in question when, and only after, they have
curled up into a puppy puddle.)
So the other night, I was in bed reading away as usual and I
dropped (I did not throw!) what I was reading on Snowdoll. Oops.
In the morning, I told Rob the following story:
You know how you say I throw books at Romanov because I occasionally knock them off the bedside table or they fall off the bed? Well, yesterday I dropped over 20 books on Snowdoll and you know what she did? She rolled over so I could rub her belly. So ha! Clearly the puppies don’t care.
She's getting ready to roll over onto her back so I can rub her sexy belly |
The kindle is a lot lighter than most of my books and it
didn’t even hit her. Whew!
I now have over 30 books on my kindle. You’ll see reviews coming up on my book
reviews blog. Oh boy. I can feel your
excitement and enthusiasm from here. I’ve
also decided to tuck graphic novel and comic reviews on weekends. That makes sense to me because I tend to read
them in random moments of my life and there is little consistency on when they
will show up on my blog. If that isn’t
enough for you, I’m conducting a personal experiment and you will see that pop
up right here in my blog on Saturday, after I have already curled up in bed and
have either fallen asleep or dropped a book on Snowdoll (or over 30 books, as
the case may be).
Upcoming this week: A
5k walk on Saturday. Woohoo! And studying.
Lots and lots of studying. And a
doctor’s appointment. Maybe even a trip
to my cellphone carrier to see what changes can be made and should be made to
my plan. It doesn’t sound like much but
it will be a full week.
Oh, and my son Marc started a new job this week. In this photo, he's saying "You are awesome." Given the current job market, forgive me if I think he is awesome. Yay, Marc!
Oh, and my son Marc started a new job this week. In this photo, he's saying "You are awesome." Given the current job market, forgive me if I think he is awesome. Yay, Marc!
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You are awesome! |
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