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April 22nd, 2009
08:51 pm - Unwigged and Unplugged
You are about to be very jealous...
Mike and I went to Unwigged and Unplugged last night - an acoustical show by our favorite rockers, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer, otherwise known as Spinal Tap and The Folksmen. Two hours of some of my favorite songs!
They threw in a few video clips, including Spinal Tap's debut on The TV Show and fan-made videos of some of their songs. They read aloud a memo from the censors in preparation for airing This is Spinal Tap on TV. That took a while. My favorites, not surprisingly, were Stonehenge (complete with a background video of troll dolls dancing around a Stonehenge miniature) and Big Bottom, played with only one bass and lots of fingers snapping. I'll never cease to impressed by the talent in these three men. I think it's be fun to see them plugged in and wigged, too, though.
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December 25th, 2008
09:51 am - It's snowing again
We already have a few more inches on top of the 9 or 10 inches we already had! Really, I don't mind being stuck at home - we have cable, food, lots of stuff to do. This is really getting out of hand, though! It is supposed to warm up by Saturday, and turn to rain, but I have a feeling the snow will be with us awhile...
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December 22nd, 2008
09:11 am - Snow, snow, and more snow
In the last week, we've had three separate snowstorms. Last Saturday, we got 4 or 5 inches, a good amount for Seattle. Our private road was impassable for me driving (even with traction tires, my little rear-wheel-drive truck won't do icy hills), but I have two good legs, so I walked to the bus stop to get to work. No big deal, it took a little longer to get to work.
By Wednesday morning, it looked much better, a lot of the snow had melted, and most of the packed ice on the roads was gone. But another storm was on the way, and it hit Thursday morning during commute time. Yes, this time the bus ride took 2 hours and 45 minutes, most of that from Burien to downtown Seattle. When I had left the house, it was a bare dusting of snow. When Mike got up around 11, this is what they found:
So I stayed home Friday, and as a third storm was moving in, received word of parties being canceled for the weekend. Yesterday afternoon this new storm moved in, and brought what looks like 3 or 4 more inches of snow on top of what we have from last week. So here we are, two kitties with cabin-fever (because they usually spend most of their days outside), and high-energy dog, and two bored people, snowed in. Well, we can probably drive somewhere in Mike's truck, but it's still quite a trip on our snow-packed roads.
I think this is the perfect time for DVDs of TV series I haven't seen, like Lost. Maybe Mike can drive me to a video store...
As a side note, Mike and I each have new blogs:
http://www.mikesinkula.com
http://www.bettycrotchitt.com
I'll still be using livejournal, though.
Hope you all have a great holiday!
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December 7th, 2008
07:03 pm - Our new afghan
We are getting cozy with the new afghan mom made us:
Earlier in the day, Chico and I were hanging out on it together, too. We love it! Thank you!
In other news, I just passed he one year mark for quitting smoking. Yay, me!
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December 3rd, 2008
05:59 pm - Thanksgiving 2008
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with Yvonne and Fabien visiting. They got in Wednesday night, and headed back to Chicago on Sunday morning, but we managed to fit in the Glass Museum, the Seattle Library, the Space Needle and the Pacific Science Center Lucy exhibit.
We had some of our friends over for Thanksgiving dinner at our house. Follow the link to Mike's blog for pictures:
http://www.mikesinkula.com/?p=28
Next year, we'll all crash Tucson, and hang with Bridget for Thanksgiving!
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November 4th, 2008
07:29 pm - Halloween Pictures
This Halloween, we went to an awesome party. Mike and I dressed up as modern Neanderthals, and we succeeded at fooling most of our friends. Though admittedly it's kind of sad when you're friends walk right by you at a party... :(
Enjoy the pics!
Me and Mike:
Peanut Butter and Jelly:
Daddy and Ashley:
Paul and Jamie (aka The Marquis de Sade and Chedda)
Harry Meat (Steve):
Mike and Carly:
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July 8th, 2008
07:37 pm - Garden and Floor
Lookie!
Not much longer! I have to pull one up occasionally, just to see how it's going. It's getting really hard waiting for harvest...
We finally got our floors done! Pets and people had essentially ruined our light-colored carpet, and I was set on getting laminate floors in this summer for Martha and Joe's visit. We had it done by Lowes, and they did have to fill some uneven spots on the floor before installing the laminate. We're very happy with the result, though Summer is finding that she has no traction anymore, and we have to be careful that she doesn't develop any "floor issues". We only did the living room and hall. It was too expensive to do the bedrooms, so I'll just have to get the carpets professionally cleaned soon.
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May 31st, 2008
09:03 pm - Furry 5k
Well, I did it.
Summer and I are going to walk for the Seattle Animal Shelter's Furry 5K next weekend. If you care to pledge or donate some funds, here's a link:
http://www.active.com/donate/HTAF/KSinkul
Hopefully, I will get some pictures to post.
In other news, the container garden is doing well - I thinned my carrots today, which was a little sad. All those green sprouts made me feel accomplished... A couple of my peas have finally spouted, and I have more cilantro than I know what to do with - why did I plant cilantro?
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May 19th, 2008
08:40 pm - Counterfeit crochet
Mom,
I'd be surprised if you hadn't heard of this, but it's pretty neat:
http://www.counterfeitcrochet.org/
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07:36 am - The Garden
I started a container garden this year, and I set it all up last weekend. Here are some pics. I am going to take pics every so often to see how much they'e growing. This year is an experiment of sorts, to see if I have what it takes to do this every year:
Tomato and some flowers:
Chives and some carrots seeds in front (you can't see them - they're really small):
My Walla Wall a onions and lettuce (which I've havested a bunch since the pic was taken):
The earth box has basil, cilantro, rosemary, catnip and two cucumber plants:
The catnip used to be bigger, but one of my cats (I'm assuming) ate most of the plant the night I planted it. They left one tailing branch. It's starting to grow back, though:
I started some peas in the earthbox, but they got dug up by some creature. I'm going to get some more soil today, and restart some seeds in small containers. If all this works out, I may try some new stuff next year. So far so good!
Dad, what are you growing? Yvonne told me you have a conatine garden.
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