The plan for this morning:
Get up at 6:15; shower, dress, and leave house by 7; stop for coffee; take dog to kennel interview at 7:30; leave dog there during meeting that starts at 9.

What actually happened:

- Slept through music alarm at 6. Buzzer alarm set for 6:15 didn't go off.
+ Somehow, dog wakes me up at 6:35. Emerged from bedroom ready to ( Read more... )

Critical Care Transport class.
AKA: how I spend 10 hours every Monday for the next two months.


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B was going to be for baby, which my BFF spawned last week, but you can't just go posting pictures of other people's kids on the Internet without permission (trust me, she's beautiful). Then B was going to be for Benedict, the storm that dumped 27" on us just after that. But really...

B is for Bogart, conspicuous in this photo by his absence.


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A woman whose blog I read is doing a thing where she takes a picture once a day for 26 days that starts with each letter of the alphabet. I'm playing along. Her pictures are much more interesting than mine will be, since she has a WAY cooler job: she's the CO of a navy destroyer deployed in the Arabian Gulf. Here we go anyway.

A is for ambulance, ( Read more... )

Things I left Cooper to chew on while I went off to earn the kibble last night:
+ bone filled with cheese
+ bone filled with liver
+ giant cured bone covered in bits of jerky
+ rubber toy full of treats and covered in peanut butter

Things Cooper actually chewed on while I was off earning the kibble last night:
- two balls of green, alpaca, laceweight ( Read more... )

--hurt back reaching for cup of coffee, spent several days in flexeril and vicodin induced haze ( Read more... )

Hi Coop-dog. No, it's not dinner time yet. Oh, are you coming to "help" me put the clothes away? You're such a good "helper." It's like your mission in life: Get dog hair on ALL the things! Sit. Ooh, nice sit. Good boy. Oops, you're still in my way. How are you sitting and still in my way? Rude nose! GIT outta here. Oh, now you're down. That's a ( Read more... )

Tonight I spent several hours going through my parents' drawer of pictures. They are in NO WAY organized, so it's just this surreal jumble of time periods and ages and hair styles. My high school graduation is next to my parents' honeymoon is next to the day-care kids playing in the yard are next to my cousins' babies are next to my dad graduating ( Read more... )

schwester655...is starving ( Read more... )

What Obama did with his first 100 hours in office.

It's like he sat down with a list of Bush's policies and went, "OK...let's see...um, NO."