February 14 - Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day! (And Justin's birthday. He's 14!)

Here's the Valentine's Festivus Tree. It really needs more ornaments, but there's always next year. I got behind in ordering them and thought I had enough, but not so. Oh, well. It's almost time to do St. Patrick's Day, anyhow.

The pictures aren't so great because I just haven't figured out how to take pictures of semi-lit stuff.

February 13 - I Stalked a Deer and I Liked It....

Someday, I won't be such a loser and will be able to take pictures of things other than deer. In the meantime, enjoy. :)

This time, I got ballsy enough to go outside with them.

This one looks like it's stalking me.

And if you're bored of seeing deer, here's a picture I took the night before last when we drove over by the lake to have dinner. Our 5-year plan is to get a house on the lake. I don't know what the economy's 5-year plan is, though.

February 12 - Zzzzzzz....

I spent most of the day here, thanks to a headache and the nausea that accompanied it. (I think taking Aleve on an empty stomach was a no-no, though.)

February 11 - Nature's, Like, Cool and Stuff

I swear, I will never get tired of seeing deer in the yard. We had 8 of them today. Even the neighbor slowed down to look at them! Lol!

Two of them wandered off, so there's only 6 here.

Lunch time!

Hey, you two get a room!

February 10 - That's Hot

It's February. It's NE Indiana. It's 63 degrees. What the...??

And yes, that is some ugly wallpaper. Someday it'll come down... (sigh)...

February 9 - Impossumable!

This little fella has been nosing around the yard for quite some time. (The picture's a little blurry. It's the only one I got before he ducked under the shed. He's in front of the trash can.)

I think he's wondering if it's Spring, with all the warm weather we've had the last couple days.

February 8 - Eggciting!

Mayah was assigned a science project to complete over the weekend - designing an egg protector. (You know, the thing
where you try to cushion the egg really well, drop it and hope it doesn't break.)

Here she is dropping it from a step-stool. Didn't break!

February 7 - Gold Medals and Boats

Today, Coobie and Taylor both had band competitions. All the band students from the regional schools gathered at Coobie's school and were judged either in solo and/ or ensemble performances. Since Coobie's only in 6th grade, he could only do a solo. A CD of accompaniment music was supposed to be in the CD player, but it wasn't, so he had to do his all alone. He got a gold, anyway. :) Taylor also got gold medals for her solo and ensemble performances. I didn't get any pictures of anything because it wasn't really a photo op. They were really strict about noise, etc.

After that, we went to the boat show at the Memorial Coliseum down in Ft. Wayne. I'd never been in there. It was pretty neat.

February 6 - Friday Night Dinner

"And for the record, where did you work while attending Medical School?"

"Hooters."

February 5 - The Poor Man's Starbucks

After the unexpected death of our neighborhood Starbucks, we have had to drive 25 miles to get a latte if we wanted one. Well, I've heard so much hype about the McCafe drinks and I was seriously jonesing for an iced coffee a couple days ago, so I decided to try one. I got a Non-Fat Iced Vanilla Latte. It was quite tasty and cheaper than the ones from Starbucks.

And now my new (daily) vice is Iced Lattes from McDonald's.

I'm lovin' it! (Insert cheesy grin and thumbs up here.)

February 4 - Clean Up on Aisle Two!

Okay, there really wasn't any
catastrophic hazardous spill
or anything. I just needed a catchy title to my boring entry.

Today, I made a meal plan,
printed a grocery list and
went shopping. This is how
it looked when I took it all out of the bags. Yikes!

It does make me feel fortunate that we have enough money to
buy food when so many people are suffering through this horrible economy.

If interested, the next few days' meal plans include:

Chicken Parmesan with Baked Ziti and Salad

Tuscan Vegetable Soup with Sourdough Bread and Salad

Three Bean and Beef Chili with Honey Cornbread and Banana Pudding for dessert

Portobello Lasagna Roll-Ups with Zucchini Parmesan Crisps

Jamaican Meat Patties with Salad

I haven't tried any of these particular recipes yet, but they all got great reviews, so they must not suck too badly. :)

February 3 - Home Alone

After much thought and calculation, I came to the realization that the new temp job was too far and too costly to get to. I called the girl at the agency this morning and let her know, so I am once again unemployed.

So, what did I do to keep myself entertained today? I went outside and took pictures. In the snow. Like a huge dork.

This fairy braved the elements to take a walk
through the woods and play with a bunny.
(She didn't even know I was there!)

These young lovers are practically swallowed by snow.
It's sort of like Titanic, but with frozen precip...

'Never let go, Jack.... never let go!'

Some deer's been snooping around in the back yard...

February 2 - New Job

I started another temp job today. It's about an hour away, smack dab in Amish country. This position's going to last until the first part of June. It'll be a long drive, but when you have scenery like this, who's complaining?

Pretty sunrise....
Pretty horsies...
Pretty Amish farm...

February 1 - Super Bowl

That was a close game!

And that Kurt Warner is one foxy man! (He's no Tom Brady, but he's close.)

January 31 - Stupid Cat

I can't even go pee without Chloe following me into the bathroom. When I don't let her in, she scratches at the door and when I finally do let her in, she either bites my butt or stalks me from the bathtub like so...

January 30 - Sawing Logs

Yeah, so this is where I slept due to my incessant snoring.
(The guest room.) I can't help it!

January 29 - What's For Supper?

Frozen fried fish, Velveeta shells & cheese and canned corn. I went to the store to find some nice fresh fish, but no luck. All three stores here only sell either frozen fish or a sliver of fresh fish, pre-seasoned and about $78.00 a pound. No wonder there are so many enormous people here - me included. They don't sell a lot of healthy stuff.

This is one thing - and there are very few - I miss about California... the wide variety of food at the grocery and specialty stores. I miss Trader Joe's. (Sniff, sniff.)

January 28 - Broken Hearted

So, I ordered these glass hearts from eBay for the Valentine's Festivus tree and this is how they got here. Half had their loopy, hangy parts broken off. (That sounded so wrong.) These are glass and although they were wrapped with bubble wrap, they weren't placed in a sturdy box, just a thin plastic mailing envelope. Their original package was flimsy and there wasn't even a receipt included.

I'm a wee bit frustrated right now. I only order things from people with high ratings - the seller did have one - but the lack of decent wrapping will knock this guy's down a peg.

January 27 - Anger Management

Every sence I ait this angree wopper I ain't speld so gud...

It's been this way for DAYS now! Someone fix the d*mn sign! :O

January 26 - Taming the Paper Tiger

I don't know why home organization websites call a ginormous cluttery pile of paper a Paper Tiger, but there's one in my office and one of my resolutions was to get rid of it. I started working on that today.

All this stuff is trash. I don't know why I had this much crap and why I had it for so long.