Pictures from our walk!

Here are a couple pics from the walk we took on Saturday. For some reason they all came out kind of dark... I was just using the "point & click" option on my camera, since it was hard enough to get the puppy to sit still enough to be in focus, so that's probably the reason....


My little Tequila and me...

Chief and Tequila

Our little family...

(this is the first pic of the 4 of us)

Rearrangements

We had a rather uneventful weekend, which was very nice. Saturday we basically did nothing. We took the dogs for a very long walk in the park, went out to dinner, took a nap and watched a movie. Very nice, relaxing day.

Meagan came to visit Sunday morning, which brightened my weekend up. We went for breakfast, coffee and a nice chat. And then she had to leave due to the impending snow storm. One more reason I hate Buffalo! Then we had a birthday dinner for Guy's aunt with his family, which was fun.

...Afterwards we came home and decided, at 6 o'clock at night, that it would be a great idea to rearrange our house! We decided to switch our bedroom and our computer/library/office room. This consisted of moving everything from the computer/library/office room into our livingroom, washing the carpet, letting it dry, and then moving our bedroom furniture into the old office. We got that done by midnight, but the old bedroom is disasterous, and our livingroom is now crowded with all of our bookshelves (I have a few of those), 2 desks, a massage table and numerous other things from here and there.

I love how we have the bedroom set up now. Granted, it could be because it's cleaner, but I'd like to think it's because the room has better light and is set up nicer. Who knows. Hopefully it will be more conducive to sleeping than it was last night.... Due to the fact that our livingroom was packed full of everything, Tequila's crate was covered. So she spent her first night out of the crate. I don't think she liked it. She loves her crate and will go take naps in it throughout the day. So at about 4 am she woke up and was freaking out because she didn't really know where she was and didn't feel comfortable. I picked her up for a bit, just to let her know we were there and then put her back on her blanket on our floor.

That wouldn't have been too bad, because she did go back to sleep relatively easily. However, there were other issues that night... One of the fire alarms in the hallway outside our apartment must have a dying battery, because it will randomly beep. That in itself doesn't bother me. What bothers me is when Chief gets scared from the beeping and decides the way to make it stop, or at least alert me to the danger of the mysterious beeps, is to stand on top of my chest and breathe in my face. So at 1:30 and 2:30, I woke up to a dog standing on me. After I threw him off the bed the second time, he must have decided he wasn't getting anywhere with me... He climbed up on Guy's pillow and started pawing him in the face. Guy just pulled him down and cuddled with him. And that's when Tequila decided to wake me up... After finally getting her to sleep, and having Chief calm(er), I got about 2 hours of sleep (maybe) and had to get up. Not a fun night.

But today we get to finish the house rearrangement! And then, as Guy said, it will be like we have a new place to live!

becca needs.... guy needs...

A random blog because I found this fun.... It's the whole game of googling "your name needs" and seeing what comes up.... So I did me, and then for fun did Guy...

Becca needs a boyfriend (I don't think Guy would agree...)
Becca needs an all around stallion to do her best (oh you could take that so many ways.... )
Becca needs to learn to move on (I always thought I was good at moving on... wonder what I"m holding onto...)
Becca needs your help! (let me get back to you on what you'll be helping me with...)
Becca needs a vacation (i agree!!!!!)
Becca needs a little prayer (nothing specific - but I'll gladly take it!)
Becca needs to find the sum of 34 108 and 46 (i really can't figure out why I can't just add those myself....)
Becca needs a little more patience (hahaha. spot on.)
Becca needs more hugs (yay!)

Guy needs Girl (he's got one!)
Guy needs a reality check (sometimes....)
Guy needs a girlfriend (I fully disagree. That would be detremental to his health)
Guy needs an * on his life (what does the * stand for? Anyone?)
Guy needs at least one flowered shirt too (and now I know what to get him for his birthday...)
Guy needs to turn in his man card (ouch.)
Guy needs more than an oil change, tune up and realignment (it's true, his truck could probably use it...)
Guy needs his Punchbowl (umm.. I'll admit, I didn't know he needed that)
Guy needs money (and I found the one he would agree with!)

I was suprirsed... I thought I'd have to cut out some of the more explicit ones for Guy... Most of them were mean though (and most of them started out with "this" or "that"... as in "that guy needs a life".

Cheers!

winter blues

I hate winter. Have I mentioned that? I love the look of snow falling. I love the snow on the trees. I love the beauty of it. I even love the fun (sledding, snow ball fights, snowmen, etc). But even all of that love isn't enough to make me want put up with this. I can't stand the cold. It makes my fingers ache. I feel like I haven't been warm in 3 months and like I have Raynaud's Syndrome. Although, there are 12 other serious health issues that have cold hands as a common symptom. The interesting ones are Marine turtle poisoning and Naked brimcap poisoning. Since I haven't eaten any turtles or wild mushrooms lately, I've crossed those two off of my "potential disease" list. But I digress... Winter and I don't get along. It makes me hurt, and I make cruel statements about it for 7 months. So here I am in January, getting bitter about the negative temperatures (today's high is 14... the low is 4... and it's been much lower than that recently), and still having 4 more months of this.

Other than the temperature and ice, I'm doing well. The puppy (henceforth "Tequila") is growing fast. And she's quite a fiesty little one. She is in the process of learning (and relearning and relearning...) not to bite or growl or bark at us. She wants to play all the time (and particularily at 5 AM).... we're teaching her to "sleep in" till 7 as well. Chief has finally come around and has begun to play with her, which is adorable. But when he barks (playfully) she gets scared and runs and hides, only to stick her head out from under the chair and growl and bark at him... as long as she can get out of his reach quickly. But she's mine, and an adorable little ball of fluff and energy. I love her to death.

Last weekend we went on a wine tour with Guy's family (mom, sister, cousin and cousin's bf). It was an ice wine tour... I'm not a huge fan of ice wines. It tastes a little bit like drinking honey. But it was fun (and cold!). Guy and I got stopped at the border (we were in Canada) on our way home and they searched our car. Fun times. This next weekend my company is having their winter party. I'm trying to convince Guy to wear his kilt for it, but I'm having a hard time being persuasive enough... Although he has promised to wear it to our friends wedding in March that he's DJing (and I'm photographing).

Other than work and sleep, life is slow here in the Arctic. We're working on our summer travel plans, which I'm pretty excited about (July = wedding in PA, then NC for a week to check it out, and back home - hopefully incorporating visiting some friends in there as well). Until then, I think life will continue to be pretty slow...