Apr
27
This really happened. In a Scrabble game I was playing on Facebook. I laughed a lot. The other person did not.
Yeah, that’s all I got for right now.
Apr
24
Apr
21
I know Survivor is on. And it’s probably a new Office or something, too, but that’s what DVRs are for, right?
Tomorrow night is the annual fundraiser for Pet Project Rescue. We have over 100 silent auction items (ranging from Twins tickets to tattoo gift certificates to DVDs to restaurant gift cards to gift baskets to awesome local artwork), free beer, free pizza, free desserts, free snacks and free good times all for the price of a $17 (or $20 if you pay at the door) donation. I guess that doesn’t make it free, but that’s totally $17 worth!
If you don’t already have plans tomorrow night, I’d really appreciate your support in coming out! Helping dogs + drinking beer = you have no reason not to do it.
This event is sponsored by Summit Brewing Company at 910 Montreal Circle in St. Paul and it’s what keeps Pet Project Rescue running all year long.
Also free? PARKING!
Apr
20
Probably this week, even!
It’s my first ever blog-related interview, thanks to Dez. I’m not gonna lie. It was super fun and now I want everyone to interview me. Seriously. I don’t even charge for the interview and will even send you an autograph if you want. See? Not all the people you manage to link up with on Twitter are complete douchers!
We’re starting to plan summer trips already. I could go for one right now, but with both of us working, both of our jobs being insanely busy right now, and The Kid still being in school, we’ve decided to hold off on anything that requires more than a two hour drive until school’s out. Looks like camping’ll have to do for a few more weeks!
Apr
19
This year marks the 6th year I’ve participated in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure walk. In those six years, I’ve lived in different cities, had different jobs, and different people on my team. The walk itself has gone through different routes, different goals, and even a different name. The one thing that’s been consistent all this time? We still don’t have a cure for breast cancer.
The good news is that every year the mortality rate for this disease is decreasing. The bad news is that there’s still a mortality rate. An estimated 2.5 million women living in the U.S. have a history of breast cancer. Do you know one of those 2.5 million women? I do. I have friends, friends’ parents, family members, former co-workers; all who have been effected in some way, shape or form.
Any support you can provide as I gear up to participate in my 6th straight 3 Day event is greatly appreciated. Five dollars from each and every one of my friends and family members can add up very quickly. Together, you and I can really make a difference. (Stolen from my donation page, which you can find here.)
I’m crewing once again this year on the Sweep Team, but this year, I’m a Captain. That’s big time, folks. We had our first Captain’s Meeting this Saturday, where we watched some YouTube clips about Sherpas and climbing mountains and talked about way cheesy things. That’s just what you do with The 3 Day. Don’t worry, it took me a while to get used to it, too.
Naturally, being around a group of people that were so jacked up about The 3 Day got me a little jacked up, too. I think I even heard Jenni mention doing another fundraiser.
If you have $5 extra bucks, won’t you consider putting it to good use? It’s better than spending it on coffee or soda from the vending machine!
Apr
18
We rearranged the furniture a few months ago, which involved putting my desk in our bedroom. It was against our front door (making it a complete fire hazard obviously!) which we never used, but in the winter, it was easier to shovel the sidewalk as opposed to shoveling the driveway in the back.
My desk’s new location has given me my first ever home-office window view. And in Northeast Minneapolis? Probably the best thing ever.
Our bedroom windows over look the street we live on, which is normally a pretty quiet street as far as traffic goes. Lots of dog walkers in the winter, but now that nice weather is here, I’m strongly considering digging out the ol’ webcam. In the two to three hours I’ve been working on some freelance work this morning/afternoon, I’ve seen the following:
All out of this little window view:
Apr
16
I'm just mad that they could manage to do something that would somehow manager to turn Joe Mauer ugly. How is that even possible?
Apr
15
Somehow on Tuesday night, I managed to break my shoulder in the middle of the night. I can’t move it at all and it hurts just to hold it still. What the hell?
My unplanned blogging break? Yeah, it happened. I’ve been busy.
Back to this shoulder pain. How the hell do you go to the doctor and say “I hurt myself while sleeping”, because Dear Lord baby Jesus, lyin’ there in your ghost manger, just lookin’ at your Baby Einstein developmental videos, learnin’ ’bout shapes and colors, my shoulder hurts REALLY BAD. I told The Kid I needed help buttoning my pants this morning it hurts so bad.*
*Don’t worry. He did not help me button my pants. That’s wrong. He just laughed at me, which is absolutely the response I was looking for.
