I wish there was some way in youtube that I could figure out where all the traffic was coming from (was it linked somewhere? put on Digg? reddit? etc…), but I don’t think there is. One time Earl posted a picture of Linus eating peanut butter on digg my traffic to this blog shot through the roof.

Oh well. Thanks to the youtubers for enjoying Linus being cute!

cone dog!

Lucy has a UTI (we think) right now as well, AND our ceiling is leaking into the downstairs bedroom. So yucko stuff happening all around. Still, we had a great day at the farmer’s market, snoozing on the couch and now I am cooking a dinner of beef stir fry with bitter mellon and ricotta stuffed squash blossoms on the grill. I’ve been working Saturdays this month, so Sunday is my only weekend day. Goes by so fast!

She’s a little stand-offish, but sometimes friendly (I believe Earl warmed her up with some Kitty Greenies before). This morning after I saw her and grabbed my phone to catch a shot, Linus loped over to her spot beneath the railing, butt wagging, and attempted to dopily make friends. Flea rebuffed his advances, hissed, and made this speedy exit to a neighbor’s fire escape.

She’s a handsome girl, though… another time I will have to try for a better shot!

It was a great time. I spent a large chunk of the afternoon running a list through my head all of the potential injuries that could happen at a rodeo so that I could mentally prepare: Gored by a steer, bitten by a horse, trampled, rope burns, sun burns, falls… fortunately nothing too extreme happened!

Not only was it a fun day out in the sun, but I enjoyed the exposure to a completely new sport and had fun chatting new friends. Who ever knew there was such a strong Western-style contingent this close to San Francicso?! Here are a few pics I snapped with my cell phone. Doesn’t it look like they’re having a great time?
One of the first events- racing around poles and barrels:

One guy ropes the head, another ropes the feet, a third wrestles the cow to the ground and “brands” him with paint:

This is a little crooked because I actually JUMPED BACK from the fence as they pounded by me!

Sorry for the lack of posting lately. Not only am I crazy busy at work (been picking up a lot of hours on the rig and also my first lecture/presentation at the SFPA was two nights ago!), but E and I just got back from a beach week with my family on the Outer Banks of NC. We had a great time fishing, beaching, grilling, reunionizing, building sand castles, and in my case- becoming rather sunburned.

I finally organized our bookshelves and my desk. Took out all the books, sorted them by subject and put them back. Went through my school stuff and cleaned and updated everything. Hurrah

I also went through all of my file folder files and updated and cleaned them out. Emptied out my desk drawers and went through all my files and organized that. Even sorted my old and current taxes.

Exciting Sunday around these parts But… something that HAD to be done, especially before we head to the beach for vacation. I hate coming home to a messy house.

Now, to brush and bathe ze dog!

Anyways- today Andrea and I biked over the Golden Gate Bridge, to Sausalito and then around Richardson Bay to Tiberon! We took the ferry back. It was super fun! Sausalito seems like a really cute town- it would be fun to go there and poke around for an afternoon. Andrea and I stole into a little cafe along the waterfront for a while mid-ride to warm up with some hot drinks. It was pretty foggy and cold in the morning.

The whole ride was really nice- lots of bike-only paths and really not much heavy traffic. Here we are waiting for the ferry:

Our total distance today was 27 miles. Andrea rides a hybrid/mountain bike type bike, so she gets extra points for bad-assery. I think we’ll try and add 10 miles per week, with about 2 weekly rides. Pretty chill schedule, but we have the time and I think getting back up to speed is a slow process!

Ps- here is Linus being cute with his tennis ball about 5 minutes ago:

This morning I had my first day of teacher training at SFPA. Earl met me downtown afterward to take me out to lunch at the Thirsty Bear to celebrate. Here is our dessert:

Holy cow, this was incredible! It’s a chocolate mousse cheesecake. Mmmm, mmmm.

How adorable is she?

We are slowly getting unpacked… STILL! Is it supposed to take this long?! I guess we are just lazy…. er, erm… busy. To be fair, I’ve started working in full capacity as new promotion at work (in addition to still being a regular, full time EMT-B 36-hours a week!) and getting my feet under me with all those projects has taken up the bulk of my free time. I also have my first day of instructing coming up next weekend at the SFPA which is very, very, VERY exciting! From a career perspective, I feel like things are sort of “blowing up” in a good way. It’s a really nice feeling to have my talents recognized and called out of the blue to work on special projects. Humbling and exciting. Although I kind of worry if everything is heading in the right direction- am I staying on target, going towards the direction where I ultimately want to be? Hopefully!

Projects for this weekend include moving furniture around to see where we like everything. We’ve got a couch, a bunch of rugs (thanks, Mom!) and bookshelves- now where to arrange them all? I’m sure Earl is going to love moving them around to various positions while we decide if that’s where they look best I’m also “DEEP CLEANING” the new place tomorrow since hanging up curtains and shelves created a lot of fine dust. You know who also is getting a DEEP CLEANING? The dog! He’s getting a bath and a brushing tomorrow.

So anyways- not too many dramatic updates here. Life swinging along as normal but busy at work and trying to get settled into the new place. We are going away for a beach week to North Carolina in about three weeks which I am very excited about! Linus will be staying with my Aunt and Uncle. This will be our first “real vacation” in…. two years? At least, the first one that’s more than a weekend. I can’t wait to park my butt in the sand while simultaneously consuming a frozen beverage. Oh, and my entire family (parents, sisters, nieces, nephews, etc) will be there at the same time, so that’s sorta exciting as well. But… you know… way more excited about the beach and the frozen drink

Cheers and have a good weekend!
Ceej

While my man was in Wisconsin visiting his fam, a very productive weekend was had around these parts. I hung up two curtains and their holdbacks, two bike racks, two towel holders, a hanging plant, a bunch of pictures, paintings and decorations, cleaned the literbox, picked up two overtime shifts, brushed the dog, took the dog to the dog park, built a shelf and hung it up in the bathroom, had a friend over for watermelon margaritas and then saw The Kids are Alright with said friend. I also potted EIGHT plants on our patio!!

And then… if you want to hear even MORE gloating, I found out I got a promotion at work! Woof!

Boy, am I tired

I’ll post up some more photos of the pad once we get it a bit more together… a few more touches left to make er complete.

We were sort of winding down from our 4th of July post-party here.