Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts

Thursday, June 3, 2010

New Home

Meiby adjusts to her new surroundings:
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We moved into our new house this past weekend. Meiby was a little nervous for the first couple days. Probably mostly because we had to keep her locked up in strange rooms while we were moving. She was not thrilled about that but she's taking to it pretty well now. She's still afraid to go down the stairs though. Check out some photos of the new place over at Strand Over Fist.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Possible Strawberries!

I planted these last spring, had nothing all summer. I somehow managed to keep it alive all winter indoors and today, the first bloom! I may get some strawberries after all :)

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I haven't planted much yet this year because we are moving soon. We bought a house and are moving in this weekend! I have a cherry tomato plant in a pot that is doing quite well and some sugar snap peas that are growing like crazy. Once we get settled in to the new place I will plant some more things, maybe even in the ground. I have jalapeno seedlings that need a home soon. I also have baby carrot seedlings growing for the pug :)

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Memorial Day Weekend

I spent the holiday weekend mostly at home: gardening and relaxing in the backyard. I got off work early on Friday and the weather was beautiful and sunny so I hung out in the backyard with a book and a beer and a pug :)


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Saturday I bought some potted plants for my planter: Lavender, Bleeding hearts and something that resembles purple daisys.

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On Monday I worked on the herb garden I've been wanting to start all spring. I potted sweet basil, cinnamon basil and lemon balm plants. I also planted seeds for cherry tomatoes, brussels sprouts, patty-pan squash, cilantro, and chives.

new herb garden
new herb garden

All this to go along with my already sprouting strawberry plants.

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We'll see how it goes!

Monday, May 11, 2009

Mother's Day outing

First of all, Happy Mother's Day to all the moms and fur-baby moms! I spent the day with my mom at her house in the country: cooking out, hiking in the woods, having a few drinks...

I took my pug-daughter out there with me and she had a great time running around in the woods, barking at the horses (those are some BIG dogs!), and stirring up trouble with my parent's dog and cat.

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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Merged

Much like my home, I've got stuff spread out all over the place. I have 4 separate blogs for some reason so I've decided to consolidate. Brew, Bake, Crochet has been moved here and I'll be posting about those things, along with Meiby posts, here from now on. Please excuse the mess while I reorganize links, etc.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

25 Things

Reposted from Facebook: 25 things about me you probably don't care about :)

1. I hate most condiments: ketchup, mustard, mayo, onions, sweet relish, etc. But I love A1 and BBQ sauce!

2. I'm painfully shy and am super grateful to have a great group of friends and a husband so I don't have to go out and try to meet people anymore (though, really, I still should). However, I like to meet new people, I'm just really bad at starting conversations and I think I often come off rude or snobby.

3. I hate talking on the phone. I think everyone should just use email and texts always.

4. I hate shopping. I'm so not girlie that way.

5. I love beer and I'm totally a snob about it. Luckily, most of my friends and acquaintances are on board with me here.

6. I taught myself to crochet while unemployed after college. My grandma and several aunts do it and I always wanted to learn but it took 3 months of utter boredom to get me started and now I can't stop. I still can't knit though.

7. All of my friends are either the youngest or only children in their families. I'm the oldest.

8. Most of my friends and myself are fire signs. I'm not sure why I know this or care because I think astrology is crap.

9. I just bought a brand new Honda Fit... It's my 5th car and I decided I needed a car I didn't have to pour money into so I took the plunge and bought it new. I love it!

10. My first car was a 1991 Dodge Caravan.

11. I used to be a very "musical" person. I played piano, guitar, and violin, was in orchestra and jazz band in high school and took music theory classes and lessons. Once I got to college I never played again. I wish I had kept up with it a bit.

12. I was a competitive swimmer from age 10 through my junior year of high school. I quit my senior year for these reasons: My coach quit, my friends all quit, I decided to join the art club, my school switched formats that year and the only way I could still be in jazz band was before school which coincided with swim practice.

13. I took 12 math credits in high school when I only needed 6 for an honors diploma. I became obsessed with calculus.

14. I'm not a vegetarian but I love vegetables and very often cook vegetarian meals.

15. I used to hate 80's music until I started dating my husband. Now it's some of my favorite music, especially new wave and synthpop.

16. I still have much much love for 70's music, especially classic rock and disco. Led Zeppelin is one of my all time favorite bands.

17. I first met my husband when I was 15. We had a mutual friend who set us up and we were each other's first kiss. Then we lost contact until we ran into each other at a college party 5 years later. We've been together ever since and got married another 5 years after that.

18. I really want to have kids but I'm also terrified of having kids (and I'm not referring to birthing kids, just raising them.)

19. I can't justify spending a lot of money on clothes or jewelry. My wedding ring is by far the most expensive thing I have ever worn. I've never spent more than $50 on a purse and that was a stretch for me.

20. I have very little jewelry because once I find something I like, I just wear that every day.

21. I have a goal to someday travel to Spain and Portugal. I'd also like to check out England, Belgium, Germany, France, The Netherlands... pretty much all of Europe.

22. I love my pug. Seriously, I'm in love with this little monster. She's my baby.

23. I have a tattoo inspired by one of my favorite architects, Charles Rennie Mackintosh. I want to get more tattoos but I need to think deeply on it before making it permanent, but I have some ideas.

24. I would love to live somewhere besides Indiana but it's hard to leave all my friends and family.

25. It drives me crazy when people have the aspect ratio on their TV set wrong so everything looks stretched. No one else ever seems to notice but I see it at almost every bar and hotel with a wide screen TV. Most people I know with wide screen TV's always have them set wrong. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Happy

I've been in touch with a breeder not far from here who has a little black female pug named Happy. (It doesn't seem that her namesake is reflected in this photo... sad little pug face...)
She could be ours! (but we might have to rename her ;) ) She is almost 7 months old and will be spayed this weekend. We are going to try to visit her next weekend. I could be a mom by next weekend!