When Kendall Met Ursa

Aw, don't they look cute??!! Before you all get your panties knotted up, this is not an actual photo of Kendall meeting Ursa, although I see how you could be confused. Lets just say their first meeting involved a lot more unintentional nervous pooping, face biting, whining and a dog sleeping on my head...long story!

No this is my future sister in law PJ's pup HarleeAnne (the Ursa lookalike) meeting her cousin Kerri's baby Boston Terrier Hank. I emailed the picture to Chris at work to show him 1) how cute these puppies are ,2) how much they look like Kendall and Ursa, and 3) to try and get myself a new puppy (I was promised a new dog both for getting a house and moving to Idaho, so far I got nothin'!).

His response, and those of you who know him may be guessing at what I will say, was "Wow, thats a really sexy Geo Tracker in the backgound!"

Sigh...this is what I'm workin' with. For those of you who don't know Chris, he got the Tracker from one of his friends in NY for $1, it came with lots of cute accessories, including a mirrored set of tops, a white set of tops, and a whole lot of pennies and electronic junk in the car, lol! When he got the job in Idaho, he decided not to take the Tracker out here because he thought, rite fully so, that it probably wouldn't make it. The Tracker is now in the capable hands of PJ and Mikey (his brother), but he still misses it. And apparently thinks is is "sexy."

Have a good day everyone, and remember, cute puppies grow into dogs which, may get even cuter!

Look! No face biting or nervous pooping...see how far they have come!!

No Words

This is the place I have been moved to, and that's all I have to say.

Discuss amongst yourselves.

With The Holidays Coming And All

I woke up in bed yesterday and asked Chris if it could be Christmas time yet. He grumpily said "no!" and rolled over and farted on me. We are very classy in this house!

What I took away form this encounter, besides the fact that I am marrying a Scrooge (he admits he isn't a huge fan of the holidays, but the excuse has always been because he doesn't like the shopping or the commercialism associated with the season - I have taken care of those two things for him, not sure what his problem is now), is that since I am up to my elbows in Christmas craft projects for our nearest and dearest, I feel the need for it to be Christmas time NOW! Like break out the tree, the tinsel and the nog, I want to get this party started! Sigh...if we were back in Albany, I already know there is a radio station playing Christmas music 24-7.

Anyway, the reason I am posting about this now is that one of my favorite knit blogs Mason-Dixon knitting created a Hee-larry-i-ous You Tube video that you simply must click on and turn up the volume!!(as a side note many of the presents I am making y'all come from their new book!). So if you see me knitting something this holiday season, don't just assume it is for you ; )

Happy Monday Folks, and Merry Christmas crafting to all, and to all a good day at your crappy job, oh wait, is that just me????

Oh Wait...I Have a Blog??!!

Did you guys miss me, lol?? Sorry for the radio silence, I didn't realize it has been over a month. Chris' parents were here visiting, and then I just got out of the habit of posting. Add to that my work schedule has changed and I need to be there at 6:45 am (yeah, thats not a typo!) and you get a whole lot of me being too sleepy/busy to blog and NOT posting.

Things our here in Idaho are good. I have stopped answering the question "So how do you like it in Idaho?" with a pause and the reply "Um...Its different," and have started saying "Its nice!" I am making the effort ; )

Sunday marked six months since we got here, can you believe its been that long?? Also, speaking of that long, (get ready for some vomit inducing cute-couple-ness) today is our semiversary which is the name we have given to our half year anniversary...eighteen months ago today, I was sitting at Lynne's Uptown tavern in Albany, NY, three apple martinis deep, waiting for someone who was described to me at 6'4" and "huge" to walk in. Chris came in and the first thing I said was "Wow, he's really cute - what's wrong with him, why is he single??" LOL!!! Its been all uphill from there.

There has been lots of crafting going on here, there will be all sorts of crafty pictures and goodness once I know everyone has received their Christmas presents. This whole living in Idaho thing is kind of a pain in the arse since my Christmas present crafting timeline has been pushed from ending December 25th to December 1st to allow for shipping time and what not. Oh well, for the first time that I can remember, I wont spend all December crafting instead of enjoying the season. But, I can tell you, I sure as fudge am looking forward to the four day Thanksgiving weekend - break out the knitting needles and the sewing machine, its going to be a looooong weekend! Oh, and lest you worry there will be post Christmas craft letdown, the list of DIY wedding crafts grows by the week - I'll be busy until at least April, lol! Anyone want to tell my why making 120 handmade paper invitations is good idea - I think I might have forgotten the reason....

Anyway, have a great day everyone, and I promise it wont be another month until I post!

Idaho is Cold

Last week, it was in the 90's.

Today, it will snow.

Idaho, where is your Fall season??

On a brighter note, the reason for my long blog absence is because I have been working on our wedding website - it sounds so incredibly dorky to me that I have a wedding website, but with most of our guests coming in from out of town, and the two of us living very out of town, it made sense to do it.

I will get a mass email out this weekend about the new site (I don't just want to put a link to it here because you never know who is reading this site and I am a security conscious person as I tend to attract strange old men and stalkers, of which Chris is neither).

If you don't get an email, that means I don't have your address, so feel free if you want to know all about our wedding (!!) to send me an email at albanyofthewest (at) gmail (dot) com. Just be sure to replace the (at) and (dot) with the appropriate symbols.

I am off to another lovely day at the office (argh!), but at least I might get done early today. Enjoy your weekends and I hope it is warmer wherever you are than it is here.

Conversation. Perspective. Discuss....

Whilst working today, I was privy to the following conversation:

Office worker 1: Have you seen Rent? Its a movie about people with AIDS in the 60's?
Office worker 2: No, but I hear it's really good.

There are no words that I could even use to respond.

Also whilst working, I came across this story on MSNBC, it kind of put things in perspective for me in a nice way, and made me smile, thought you might enjoy it too.

Things in Boise are well. We had a good weekend and I got to see some sheep and some hippies. The sheep smelled better, the hippies over-did it with the patchouli, but I got to meet some of the local midwives and gave them some information on my massage business. I haven't done any massage since we got out here, and I think it is contributing to my general crankiness as of late. Chris has been having motorcycle battery problems, so we have been sharing the car the past few days, its kinda nice being chauffeured to work, lol. We have started going to the gym together at night, and (drum roll please...) I rode 12.6 miles on the bike yesterday!! The holiday crafting has begun in earnest, and I am having a blast (talk to me again in the first week of December and ask me how I am doing then). The house is reasonably clean, and the garden is doing well (we now have a pepper AND a squash), all in all, things are good in the City of Trees. Hope things with you are as good wherever you all are (I saw that someone from Australia and Canada were reading the blog, apparently I am international now!), until next time....

We're Baaaaacccckk!!

Hi Internet Friends! I am back. Actually we are back as we spent all of last week back in New York seeing all of you, lol.

Most of you know, sadly, that I didn't get a chance to finish my Olympic Knitting. Since it was something that Chris couldn't see and I had to work on it in my office with the door closed - it didn't work out so well. The project will be finished and photographed extensively (heeeheee...foreshadowing), and will be absolutely lover-ly.

We had a fantastic time back home. I got to meet a lot of people in Chris' family that I had never met before at Scottie and Danielle's wedding, and it was just a great time (even if it did rain all day, and the only picture I have that is blog-worthy is coming up - no pictures of the bride and groom unfortunately).

We went to see my parents and brother, and got to catch the end of James' football practice. He did so good, hitting the other kids and grabbing their jersisies to pull them down while he was trying to tackle them...good times!



We also spent a lovely afternoon visiting my BFF and matron of honor Erika (sorry that makes you sound old Rik) and her two little cuties, Benjamin and Loren. Coincidentally, as far as our wedding is concerned, I went for the "package deal."


You are not only looking at the Matron of Honor, but also the Flower Girl and Ring Bearer. Yes, I realize he can't even walk yet, but take a closer look at those cheeks and tell me that he isn't the cutest thing ever!

Anyway, enough about cute babies. Lets talk about cute adults, or rather drunk boys at the track in Saratoga.

And a happy drunk couple at a wedding - don't ask me why I am making that face - every picture I have of us from some wedding that we have been to I am making that face - I assured you I was smiling the while day. My future sister in law has some good pictures of us that she has yet to share, and I think there are good pictures of us in there. Also, there is video of Chris doing the moonwalk...can you say YouTube????


So thats where I have been. I need to get my stinky self in the shower. I promise it wont be a month until I post next time, lol!!