First of all, I enjoy these motivational posters I made.  Picture #1 was taken at the pet store today as I picked up cat food, and #2 is the Shark Dog.  Arrrrrrrrrrrrr!

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It's that time of year where everything is starting to grow... I forgot to take a picture of how the hibiscus is coming back after the winter, but here are a few of my other plants.  I'd love to have a real garden again sometime soon -- all of these little pots are nice, but not the same!

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First of all, I saw this icon somewhere here on LJ and it cracked me up:

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I'm going to post this at adayinmylife  also, but I'm test posting here :)  This is my Sunday, full of keeping busy around the house, eating carbs & chocolate, and Lina being nosy.

Magically, my Rich Text editor has shown up today, right on time for making this post less headachy!


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I filled up my gas tank before work... $4.18 in the AM, and it was already up a nickel/gallon to $4.23 when I came home.  This is at one of the cheaper gas stations in town, mind you -- off the freeways, it's closer to $4.50/gallon for 87.  It hurts, people, it hurts.  Our patients have been cancelling their appointments if they don't have gas ( Read more... )

Today, it rained.  And not just the sprinkle that SoCal usually sees for rain... it POURED.  There were tornadoes in Moreno Valley, which is like 5 minutes from our apartment (please note how the article says to take shelter in a basement, which no one has out here!).  There was hail and flooded roads and I was SOAKED walking from my car to the ( Read more... )

Today on occasion, I could smell spring in the air -- a whiff of some flower here, a hint of citrus there, etc.  I drove with my windows down and will leave the house windows open tonight.  This is one thing that I do like about SoCal... though I will miss the spring hints that I'm used to from Wisconsin (watching for the first robin, the first ( Read more... )

OK, I admit it.  I started out in a crabby let's-hole-up mood today, partially because I'm still not feeling 100% with my goofy sinuses, and now my ear which started aching mid-day (yes, Mom, I'll go to Urgent Care for drugs if it's still sore in the AM...)  I did a few things around the house, read and took care of some plant thingies, failed at ( Read more... )