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surviving winter

Texas Makes Me Sick!

by Monique on March 12, 2008


Literally.

I have never been under the weather as much as I have been since moving here. It comes as no surprise though since you never know from one day to the next if it’s going to be cold or hot. One day we had snow, the next day we were wearing shorts. One day we have on the heat, the next day the air conditioner.

So, I get to spend yet another day off curled up in bed looking miserable. I don’t feel bad per say, but I sound like a frog died in my throat. Very sexy indeed.

Lucky for me though, I have my trusty laptop which I can use from the comfort of my bed.

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Who Let The Dogs Out… The Window?

by Monique on March 11, 2008


Recently, due to the extremely off weather here in Texas, part of our backyard has become somewhat of a mud pit. Sadly, the worst part is right outside our patio door. That’s also the door that our dogs go out when we have them to go “poo poo pee pee outside”.

At first we were letting them out and dealing with their muddy paws but then I got my carpet cleaned. Naturally, that put that idea to rest because 1) The idea of even a little mud hitting the carpet made me cringe and 2) I’m lazy and don’t always want to check them as they come in. Clearly we needed a back up plan.

And here it is:

Yes, we are using a window as a door. The girls are little confused and keep running to the patio door, so we have started saying “Poo poo pee pee out-the-window!” and they immediately turn around and run for the window. It’s pretty sad. But it works!

Hopefully things will dry out soon and the window can return to being something we just use for a view.

 

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Link Love Lriday

by Monique on March 7, 2008


I think it’s week five. Like it matters. But before then here are a few pictures from last night. I took about 150 of them which I will eventually upload over on my photo site but not today. I am sick… literally… and miserable. Don’t forget to submit your ad for the Free Ad Space contest.

This is our neighbor’s dog. I felt SO bad for him out in the snow. But they seem to leave him out there whether it’s raining or snowing or 101 degrees. It really makes me mad. I’m so tempted to take him with me when I move… and I don’t even like big dogs.

This is Oktobah’s first time in snow. She had NO idea what the hell was going on or where to go. She was stepping on it so gently and falling through so much that she eventually just stopped moving. She was in this position for a good 2 minutes just staring at the wall.

I have a movie of the dogs running around in it. They absolutely loved it and it was hard getting them inside. I’m thinking about uploading the video to youtube, but as I said before, I’m lazy. Just thinking about it makes me exhausted.

Anyway, I am not going to do Link Love Lriday right now. Entrecard has been acting really weird this week so I want to give it time to update.

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