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10 on Tuesday

1. Someone has a cold. Can you guess who? When you blow through (literally) 2 boxes of tissues in 4 days, it doesn’t matter if they’ve got lotion on/in them – your nose still turns bright red and everyone that looks at you says “got a cold?” I’m feeling much better today – day 6 of ass kicking cold…the box of tissues I bought this morning may actually last more than two days!

2. Not only is my ass getting kicked by a cold, it is also getting frozen by the cold. Is it spring yet?

3. I’ve been a bad blogger lately, I know. I haven’t picked up my camera much since vacation. In fact, I’ve picked it up twice since then. I’m not really sure why, just not feeling particularly inspired. I’m going to make an effort to change that starting now. I also still haven’t gotten through editing my photos from vacation, so I’m going to set aside some time to do that this weekend. I do have a few more that I’ll post here, and I’ll link to them when I do so you don’t have to keep looking back. Because I like to do what I can to make your life easier, friend.

4. Last weekend was fun – lots of relaxing with Pete and watching Survivor Man and Deadliest Catch. I spent some time at the gym, including catching up on the latest Real Housewives episode and a relaxing (although challenging when you can’t breath through your nose!) yoga class Sunday morning. Lunch Sunday with an old friend at a fantastic new-to-me brunch place, and dinner/Oscars Sunday night with our old roommate.

5. I’m happy to report that I have tested and confirmed that drinking hard cider does not trigger my migraines. Vodka is the other tested and confirmed safe drink. I have some gin that I need to test a few more times before I’m confident it’s safe as well. FYI – it was my boss who encouraged me to just give up the wine and test out other drinks to see if they would be okay. Perhaps he thinks I need to relax?

6. About once a week, the cats decide that getting up when my alarm goes off isn’t early enough for them, and this week it was this morning. Champ was pacing the ledge behind our headboard meowing before my alarm even went off this morning, and after I snoozed a few times (sorry Pete) she jumped right up into his face. I got up, corralled the animals downstairs and fed them both. Usually this settles them down, Champ stays downstairs and plays and Barley goes back to sleep at Pete’s feet. This morning Barley went upstairs…and got frisky. Champ heard him and went upstairs, and a game of chase ensued. Back and forth across the ledge behind the behind the bed, the ledge along the side of the loft, and probably around and under the bed. You know why it ended? Because one of them knocked Pete’s bed side lamp off the ledge. Just another example of why those two are LUCKY THEY’RE CUTE.

7. Remember those two classes I took last semester? I knew in October I had gotten an A- in my first class, and for a few weeks after my second class finished I kept checking for my grade online. It hadn’t posted by the time I left for Christmas vacation, and I promptly forgot to look for it. Until last week, when I went to get my grades to submit for tuition reimbursement and found I’d gotten an A- in that class as well, woohoo!

8. Speaking of school, I had put off officially applying because the program I was interested in was no longer listed on the website. This past week, I got an email from one of my professors saying that the program is still in place even though it wasn’t online and encouraging me to apply. Guess I need to get cracking on a “statement of professional goals”.

9. I bought 5 boxes of Girl Scout cookies on Friday after work (3 Tagalongs and 2 Samoas, if you’re wondering) and managed to only eat 2 of them (um, that’s boxes not cookies) over the weekend, with help from Pete, Jamie, and Ryan for the record. And then…then…I polished off an entire box of Tagalongs yesterday with very little help from Pete. It’s a minor miracle that I haven’t polished off the open box of Samoas today. But the day isn’t over yet…

10. I was at the gym four days last week, and it’s shocking to me how noticeable of a difference it makes. My neck and shoulders are so screwed up despite the monthly body work, but working out this past week has made such an enjoyable difference that I’m not really sure why I ever stopped going to the gym on a regular basis. Now I just need to buy more gym clothes so I can go more often without having to do laundry more often! ;)

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by Sarah G on February 25, 2009 • Permalink

Posted in 10 on Tuesday, self portraits

Posted by Sarah G on February 25, 2009

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10 on Tuesday

1. We’re back from vacation. Working for a living is for the birds!

2. I had planned on keeping this up to date during vacation, but our internet was slow (and sometimes non-existent) and I didn’t have the patience to upload photos.

3. One of the fun things about spending a week with your oldest friends is that you get a glimpse of their daily life and who they are now. I realize that sounds funny because they’re my oldest friends and I should know who they are, and this will be a horrible attempt at explaining myself. When I watch my friends with their children and see what a great parent they are, or with their SO (that’s “significant other”, for those of you not in the know) and see what a great partner they are, or even just when you watch them interacting with our other friends, sometimes I see things like that and it’s a little…stunning isn’t the word. Overwhelming? I guess that will work…overwhelming to see what a great person they’ve become. This is not to say they weren’t always great, but how you look at your friends when you’re 15 is more than a bit different than how you look at them when you’re 29. This is cheesy, and mushy, and whatever, but it’s true: there were moments when I watched my friends over vacation and was so proud of who they are, who they’ve become.

4. On a similar mushy note: In the car after we had left, Pete mentioned how well behaved he thinks Keagan is. His comment was that he was impressed with the K-man’s behavior throughout the week – not throwing tantrums when he was told he couldn’t do something he wanted to, not yelling to get attention, saying please and thank you, things like that. I think it’s a testament to Alannah and Erik being good parents, and a huge one at that. That makes me proud, and seeing them with Keagan is one of those things that sometimes incurs the moments I’m talking about in #3.

5. Still slightly related, I have recently gotten back in touch with a number of people from high school and college who I had lost touch with and had been trying to track down for some time. I think that one of the coolest things about these reconnections is that I get to see what people have grown up to be, and many cases it has struck me as being totally perfect for them, and it makes me so happy to see them doing what they do because I just KNOW that they must be so good at it. Moms, nurses, teachers – it makes me happy to see them doing something that I know they must be great at.

6. Significantly less mushy, and totally unrelated: I went to the gym yesterday and there was a Real Housewives of NYC marathon on. I spent 30 minutes on the elliptical and 45 minutes on the treadmill. I should go to the gym during Real Housewives marathons more often. Or just go to the gym more often, really.

7. You know what wasn’t great about vacation? Yeah, spending the week with a dog totally added to my already extreme puppy fever. I NEED A DOG, PEOPLE. And STAT. Like, yesterday. Only not really, because we can’t fit a dog in this apartment so we need to move first. T minus 3.5 months.

8. We bought a TV this weekend. It’s 32 inches of LCD yumminess, and we love it. Movie night at our house, come on over! 32 inches feels really big when your last TV was 21 inches of square, CRT, horrible sounding grossness.

9. Perhaps the awesomest thing about the new TV is that it has enough inputs for all our other stuff – 360, XBox, Tivo – so we could get rid of the switcher box we were using, AND we were able to program the Tivo remote to control the TV on/off, audio, and input so we went from three remotes (TV, Tivo, stereo because the old TVs speakers were so horrible) to one, wohooo!

10. That one, up there, that you saw ten hours ago when you started reading this post. That’s our one remote. And that smiley guy in the middle? He’s the little Tivo guy that is currently recording Biggest Loser while we stream Netflix, so that I can start watching around an hour into the show. You know why? Because I realized last week that watching Biggest Loser when you can’t fast forward through all the commercials and the repetitiveness is annoying.

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by Sarah G on February 18, 2009 • Permalink

Posted in 10 on Tuesday

Posted by Sarah G on February 18, 2009

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Sharonites

This is everyone that made it to New Hampshire – some for the whole week, some for a few days. There are a few of these pictures, but I think this is probably one of the best…although certainly not the funniest!

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by Sarah G on February 15, 2009 • Permalink

Posted in friends, New Hampshire

Posted by Sarah G on February 15, 2009

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Brothers

We went for a sleigh ride! New Hampshire is pretty. That’s Samson on the left and Copper on the right – they’re brothers and are 16 and 14 years old. Copper is kind of a slacker.

finger knittin’ good

I found a “how to” for a finger knit scarf (via whip up) a while back and have been wanting to try it since. I’m still trying to get used to the idea that I can actually make shit, so every time there’s something new I want to make, I test it out with this crappy yarn I bought ages ago for $2/skein. In fact, I unraveled a test of a scarf pattern in order to start the finger knitting. That was in part because I knew I’d never finish the test scarf, and part because I wasn’t sure how much yarn I would need…in the end, I didn’t need much.

Anyway, my point is that tonight, while watching more of How I Met Your Mother (Season 2, we started from the beginning a few weeks ago), I finally gave the finger knitting a shot. And this is the result. Is it really a scarf? Or is it a garland? In this picture it’s wrapped around my neck eleven and a half times. Yeah. I kind of love it. It’s also rather warm. And I love me some warm.

Check the photo out large on black!

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by Sarah G on February 5, 2009 • Permalink

Posted in I made it, self portraits

Posted by Sarah G on February 5, 2009

https://mymonotonouslife.com/2009/02/05/finger-knittin-good/