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happy valentine's day!

i love valentine's day! i love love!

and i love ralph!

have a happy valentine's day however you find yourself spending it!

valentine's day ideas

in case you've run out of ideas of ways to spend time with your valentine next tuesday, just ask me and ralph.  we are full of many great ideas.  while in rite aid getting my prescription, we passed the dental aisle (stocked with toothpaste, toothbrushes, floss, etc.) and decided it would be loads of fun to buy a dental hygeine kit (you know the tartar scraping pick and the stick with the mirror on the end?) and give each other a dental cleaning for valentine's day.  boy, do we know how to say "i love you" or what?

happy new year!

is it 2006 already?!

thus begins my 2 months worth of writing 2005 on almost eveything that needs to be dated!

resolutions? you bet! i love resolutions because they serve as my goals for the year. some people just might call these goals but since mine change from year to year, why not just call them resolutioons and revise them every january?!

here they are, my resolutions for 2006:

go to yoga more often

take vitamins daily (yes, trader joe's children's chewable count!)

work abs for stronger back (the back is my problem area so i should start listening to my p.t.)

save money to travel to italy next summer (2007)

take notary oath and launch singing business on the side

lose 45 pounds by 8/1/06 (this is the biggest loser deadline for my family's competition- my secret weapon is weight watchers winning points system)

brush up on french skills

take knitting classes at commuknitty since amanda is too far to startt my projects- guess it's time to learn how to do this on my own

train milo (to not pee on the comforter, sit, stay, potty- those are the essentials)

become a more organized person

maintain the car interior so 3 people can actualllly sit in the back seat and so groceries can be placed in the trunk without being too embarrassed to open it

take a class about something totally random

pick up on karate classes

spend a week in maui

visit new places

that should do it for this year. everything else will have to wait for 2007.

xmas in the woods

we cut down our tree in the mountains today and i don't think it could have been any colder, and i have a tree farm confession to make...we accidentally cut our first tree too short so we left it there and hid and chopped down another one to make it taller.  we're going straight to hell and definitely getting coal in our stockings.

anyways, tree #2 is just as beautious as tree #1 though at least 2' taller!  since we got it from the woods, we used the dentist office's hose near our place to give it a good rinse.  good thing we live in the same complex as a dentist that has an outdoor hose.  and good thing roo noticed women filling jugs of water from that hose in the middle of the night or else we may have never known about it.  ah, where do we live?

our tree smells nice and my belly is full of burgers and fries.  the best tradition ever is to freeze your ass off outside by cutting down your own xmas tree and then ingesting a 1600 calories meal at happy hound.  nothing comes close to such a merry evening!

and new and exciting desperate housewives and gray's anatomy await!

warm winter bash 2005

our xmas party was quite interesting.  it seemed more crowded than last year but interestingly enough, i only knew 6 of 50 people.  that's the best, huh?!  who are these people and why are they at our party?!  needless to say, since i was in the midst of recovering from a cold, i left kinda early.  ralph had a tad too many brewskies but he was really cute since he's a happy drinker.  good thing i know how to drive a tractor!

pics will be posted soon.

happy thanksgiving!

this year i am thankful for the usual suspects: family, friends, pets, and some new ones... the fact that gram is fully recovered and cancer-free, that i survived a cruise during hurricane wilma and two moves- what a year!

hmm, i miss ralph.  i'm thankful for match.com since that's how we met, and of course, thankful for ralph.  :)

now...gobble, gobble.  eat some meat and be thankful!

happy halloween!

yes, it's finally halloween!  my favorite day of the year!  this is the first year that i have not dressed up during the day.  boo hoo.  i figured a bunch of lawyers wouldn't find the humor in a costume as they give me assignments.  i'm glad i went with my gut because costumes are zilch-o here with the exception of misc. types of headband animal ears (and a group of people who are made cardboard cutouts to be ipods- so cool!).  maybe the costumes come out later?!  we have a halloween party this afternoon so that should make for a nice break!

ralph and i are going to my family's annual halloween party which i'm stoked about because they're making chile verde and beans- another favorite of mine!  we're going to dress as construction workers since we're pretty much in the business now after doing our home rennos!  ;)

hope your night is full of spooks and good costume sitings!

3 more days til halloween

as many of you know, halloween is my favorite day of the year, well, second to my birthday, which is almost exactly 9 months later.  things that make you go hmmm....

this is the first time in history that i haven't had a countdown, had a costume prepared for myself, and a costume prepared for dog.  what's happening to me?  am i getting old?  and tired?  yuck.  i want to always love halloween.  i'm still recovering from the fact that i can't trick-or-treat, and that was like 10 years ago!

i can't use one of the costumes in the costume box because i've defaulted to those for the past 10 years.  i need something new.  give me some ideas please!  something original!

happy 4th of july!

***fireworks***

my favorite parts of 4th of july are the fireworks and food.  who could ask for a better holiday than this- sitting around bbq-ing and eating, then watching explosives around the neighborhood praying that none catch my hair on fire.  what a great one!

after a long weekend in arizona ralph and i are ready for a nap so about all we can do is eat and relax so i hope you can, too!

happy 4th!

memorial day weekend

my memorial day weekend was full of fun adventures.  on friday i dog sat dolce (dog's boyfriend) and ralph and i ate lg brewing company.  the food was delicious! 

on saturday we went to napa (the long way, thanks yahoo maps!  google maps got us there much faster last time!)- we hit the outlets and actually bought stuff this time, we bought picnic munchies at dean & deluca (i bought lots of that dubliner cheese and the berry balsamic vinagrette), then we picniced at niebaum coppola (no tasting because we already know their wine sucks so we brought our own and enjoyed their grounds (consequently, our randonly selected wine sucked, too!  this has got to be a winery faux pas on our part- bringing wine!).  the weather was nice and breezey.  when we left the winery we collected 3 perfectly fine tasting glasses and took them home.  why not?!  they were already paid for!  as if that weren't enough for a day, we went to san francisco and ate at momo's.  it was good and quite empty for a saturday night.  the bus boy was really talkative and told us exactly where he lives- does he want us to visit or what? 

on sunday we drove to yosemite for the day with anthony and christine.  it was perfect and crowded.  anthony and christine did some makeshift esthetician work on a serious cyst on my face.  what else are you supposed to do in traffic?  we also jumped in the ice cold river and our feet went numb- i a big fan of hypothermia.  i had to go in my bra and underware so i'm sure tourists got more then they were bargaining for.  i lost my underware in the river so if you find them on your next hike there please return them to me! ;) 

on monday we went to o'neill's annual sidewalk sale in capitola.  it was picked over but i managed to find a shirt or two that'll be perfect for the summer heat.  then, errands, errands, errands.  oh what a weekend!  lots of miles.

oh...on the way to yosemite we pit stopped at casa de fruita for a bathroom break.  i got out of ralph's truck and a little black bird pecked my head.  how scary!  birds creep me out.  on the return to ralph's truck, it pecked my head again!  what's up with that?  now i'm really creeped out!  good thing it missed my eyes!