Sunday, July 16, 2006

Feelin' hot, hot, hot!

Today John and I went out with Chris and Kim to go to the movies, we saw Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest. It was wicked good! I love Orlando Bloom. Johnny Depp is a good actor too, but I LOVE Orlando Bloom. Overall, I thought the movie was pretty good, but at the same time, I still liked the first one better.

John and I have been camping out in our basement the last two nights, and probably will be for the next few nights too. We have a futon down there, so we pulled it out, threw a couple of sheets on it it and boom, new bedroom. It won't be a permanent change for us, but it's definitely been nice being cool when we go to bed.

Anyway, that's all the news here...

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

A day in the life of the mundane

Not much really exciting going on - I'm just trying to get better at posting on a more regular basis! Work is still work, I am still enjoying it for the most part... I guess it's not a good thing when the highlight of your week is that you get a new desk though... Kane is doing well, and the cats are doing pretty well. Stuff at the house is alright. I still really love having the house and having this huge space that is ours. It's a really nice feeling to know that I am HOME. We can paint stuff, change stuff, do pretty much whatever we want to the house, and it's cool. Of course, that also means we have to fix stuff, like John is trying to do right now... He's not entirely sure what it is, but he managed to blow half of the upstairs power. But the circuit breaker didn't get tripped. So now he's taking apart some of the light fixtures upstairs to find out what's going on, and he keeps going up and down and up and down... I told him to call his dad 45 minutes ago, but he was finally able to get it.

I'm debating making my LJ a friends only place to read... I feel like I don't get the freedom to write everything I want in here. So, post your thoughts and comments about this being switched to a friends only space. If you don't have an LJ account, but still want to read this - you can always get one and never have to post anything.

Thoughts?

Tuesday, July 4, 2006

Happy 4th of July, everyone! Hope everyone has something fun planned - I know I do. It's called "a day off from work!" So this morning I slept in a tiny bit (not too late though) and then got up and started just doin some stuff around the house. The main reason I didn't sleep too late is because of Kane - the handsome dog you see pictured. He is the newest addition to the Cardin household, we got him last Tuesday! I hadn't posted anything about him yet, because we wanted to surprise people with him at our cookout (and boy was my mother-in-law surprised!) so I had to wait to post anything. Now I have the time to do it!

So yes, we now have Kane, along with our two cats, Molly and Maggie, and we have quite a busy little household, considering we don't have any kids! That's okay, we're not complaining about the not having kids part - pets are expensive enough for us right now! Kane came to us from the Freecycle listserv I'm on, his old family wasn't able to take care of him anymore, so we happily agreed to take him. He'll be a year old in about a week, and we're pretty sure he has separation anxiety - we can't go anywhere without him following! Don't even think about trying to put him in the back yard while we're in the house - all he'll do is jump on the slider and try to come back in. We're going to build a gate on our deck to make sure he actually stays in the YARD so he'll go to the bathroom on his own. We've had a few accidents with him, but mostly we attribute that to two things: 1) we don't know what all his indications are that he needs to pee, and 2) That he doesn't realize he's not done when he DOES pee outside and forgets that he has to poop too. That's been fun.

So anyway, over all, he's a good boy, and we've really enjoyed having him. Good thing too, were going to have him for the next 14 + years, I would guess.

So thanks to everyone who was able to make it to our cookout on Sunday, it was nice to have so many people there! I wish more of our college friends had been able to make it, but we figured that was the luck of the draw with the weekend we chose. Maybe we'll do another one around Labor Day or something, to officially end the summer. And in case anyone is wondering, Kim is feeling much better now.

That's really about all the news from here though. Not a very exciting post, I know. But if you're interested in coming over and meeting Kane, please e-mail me or something!