This has been her new favorite thing since she discovered it about a month ago. She originally started going down there to get a drink when she was warm… until she slipped in one day. Ever since it’s been big, splashy fun. She usually only goes in until her tummy touches the water but she made a new discovery yesterday… she knew how to swim! Yet another thing that makes her a super cool dog is that she likes to stick her nose in water & blow bubbles. Okay. Not so cool when she does it in her water dish at home and gets the kitchen floor soaked but it’s still amusing to watch her. Anyway, she started fetching sticks that we’d toss in for her. One time I accidentally tossed in a waterlogged stick that sunk to the bottom. She dove under the water and got it! I have a dog that dives!! I heart her.

Later in the afternoon BF’s brother had to go out to the woods to fuel up some of the equipment so the 3 of us took a ride into the woods with him. It was a fun ride. It would have been perfect had I not accidentally sat on some fresh cut pine logs & got pitch all over my shorts. Oops. Since I was out & had my camera I decided to take a few pics.

Here are a couple others.

I’m using Alexander Henry’s Bad Luck Club Skull fabric on the outside with red cotton fabric for the lining and black cotton fabric for the binding. I got the idea from Miss Behave. She used the same pattern but in red for oven mitts for her brother.

Crust:  Graham Cracker Crust

Filling:
1 Cup Cool Whip
1 C powdered Sugar
8 oz cream cheese
Fresh Strawberries

Simply beat together cool whip, cream cheese and powdered sugar until smooth and creamy.  Pour filling into a pie shell.  Slice at least enough strawberries to cover the top of the pie, the more the better!!

To make the pie even fancier, top with Strawberry Glaze.

Source: Pellegrini’s Strawberry Farm

• I finally took a ride up to Michigan in February for my friend’s birthday. I’ve been back up twice since then. Once to get fitted for my bridesmaid dress for my friend’s wedding and the other was for a margarita party.
• I didn’t finish the quilt in time for Valentine’s Day. In fact, it’s still right where I left it 2 months ago. I had issues when trying to wind the bobbin and got discouraged. Last night I finally decided to quit being afraid of it and got the bobbin wound. Now I just have to finish cutting the material so I can start sewing. BF’s sister’s birthday is the middle of May so that’s my new goal. I plan on having at least one other project finished before then.
• I haven’t been gaming much… I’ve cut it down to maybe 6 hours a week at the very most. However, it’s not because I don’t want to. I really need to get my eyes checked because I’m getting frequent headaches when I’m at the computer, watching TV, or playing video games. Boo. I can tolerate the tv or computer if I wear my old glasses but I get nauseated if I’m gaming for more than an hour or so at a time.
• Freya turned 1! We had cupcakes & sang Happy Birthday to her. It was too cute. The pics are still on my camera. I’ll get around to uploading those one day.
• I’m not sure if Freya is going through her terrible twos or if she has spring fever. Whatever the case… she’s crazy lately. It’s fun until someone gets hurt (that someone would be me).
• Reggie can’t decide if he wants to love or hate Freya. One minute he’s playing kissy-face and the next he’s snarling at her.
• Denzel is… Denzel. He goes with the flow until Freya gets on his nerves. Maybe that’s why he decided to run away one night.

AVDude: Do you like Battlestar Galactica?
Me: Nope.
AVDude: Ohmigawd. You should watch it. You would totally love it!
Me: Oh? *thinking… nerd*

Five minutes later while we were waiting for a server reboot, NewBossMan enters

AVDude: So yeah. You should totally watch Battlestar Galactica. They have episodes on hulu.com
Me: Hmmm… okay.
NewBossMan: *excited* You’re talking about Battlestar Galactica? I have the first 4 seasons on DVD!
Me: *thinking… nerd*
AVDude: Ooooooooooh!
Me: Hmm. This sounds like something BF might like. I’m sure he’s watched it.
AVDude: Ohmigawd. You should watch it with him. It’s totally good.
Me: Okay! Server is rebooted!

So what does Freya do? Squats her buns down about 2 inches - just enough for the remote’s signal to hit the cable box - and looks over at me with a “how’s that?“ sort of look on her face. I nearly fell off the chair laughing because it was so freakin’ adorable. That was totally not what I had in mind when Boyfriend told me that his dogs can understand everyday conversations.

I couldn’t believe it! There are cars that go 70+ mph and run on NOS! He offered to give me his electric car and I can save up for the car I want when he saw my disappointment when the ones I kept picking out were in the $350 range. I took him up on his incredibly sweet gesture so my focused moved from looking at cars to looking at parts.

That’s when I saw her. The body of a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda and she was painted Panther Pink. I pointed and squealed, “I need that one! She matches Piiiinky!!!“ He laughed a little, gave me a kiss on the cheek and said, “Okay….“

Today, Boyfriend & I took a ride to Green Bay so he could pick up the guitar he ordered himself as a gift for himself for his 40th birthday. While we were there I picked up a new iron & ironing board as well as a new rotary mat, rotary cutter, ruler, needles, etc. I also bought fabric for a quilt that I’m making for Boyfriend’s sister as a Valentine’s Day gift from us.  I’ll post pics of the fabric in the next couple days since I forgot to charge the battery for my camera. Freya absolutely loved the colors… some of them she liked so much that she wanted to eat them! heh.

I’m super nervous since the only other thing I’ve sewn in my life was a quilt for ExH and I had Jeanne’s assistance. This will be the first project on my own (yikes!) and this fancy computerized sewing machine has me slightly intimidated but I’m diving in anyway. I have a few cool projects lined up that I can’t wait to share - like the super cool guy/rocker-ish oven mitts I’m making for Boyfriend and a most fabulous laptop case for the most fabulous pink laptop that I’m getting for work.

Long hours aside, I love my new job. It is so great having my input matter and not constantly be second guessed. It is making me so much more productive. I’ve been told on more than one occasion that it is very fortunate for them that I started when I did otherwise they would have been screwed. The week I started my employer moved into a new facility there were many more IT issues than they ever thought there were going to be.Just to give you an idea of the not-very-well-planned move… even though they weren’t in use, the servers weren’t moved from the old facility so I could put them on the new network until Thursday at 3p and opening was at 3p the next day. I started asking for them when I started that Monday. There were 27 servers that were brought over. None of the vendors were contacted to find out what exactly needed to occur so their software didn’t stop functioning. Yeah… big fun. Thankfully, after a month of insanity, we’re finally slowing down a little so I should be able to start working closer to 40 hours again. Yay!

We had a quiet New Year’s Eve. I ended up going into work for a 1/2 day so afterward we just went to a movie, made dinner at home, watched the countdown on TV, and played Video games till the wee hours. Since we stayed up so late and I was exhausted from the long hours I was putting in, I slept most of New Year’s Day away. It was completely fabulous.

Shortly after Christmas Freya went into heat. That’s been quite interested seeing as I never had Reggie neutered. Freya went from being Reggie’s mortal enemy to his best friend on earth… horny old fart. Things are finally starting to calm down from that and we still have peace in the house instead of the constant growling and fighting. And Freya has a play buddy… somewhat.

Between dealing with his oddness going to a different level since I told him about the other job offer & the normal BS from WenchAcrossTheHall, I went to the “Whatever, I really don’t care” place and I’m finding it difficult to complete last minute things. This sucks because I never had an Eff-It attitude when I left a job before.