Last Two Weeks: The Highlights

Dinner with Co-Workers


Here is the Sweetest Co-Worker Ever eating her third salad. That girl luuuuurves lettuce!


This is Bestest Friend/Co-Worker attempting to stick a crab claw up her nose.

Redskins vs. LT


Me and Timmy at another Redskins game. I won two tickets and a parking pass by guessing how many paper clips were in the plastic snowman's belly. My guess: 623. Correct answer: 621. I annoyed everyone else in the suite (all Redskins fans) by cheering every time LT got a touchdown. "He's on my fantasy team! Woohooo!"


In an odd twist of fate, Sweetest Co-Worker Ever also won tickets in another office raffle. (For someone that little - that girl sure can eat!)

Cruelty to Animals


I thought it might be funny to put pictures of the pets in our Christmas cards this year. Lexi and Krusty don't look very happy about it though.

Stupid Questions with Jen

What time did you get up this morning? 8:30 ish
What was the last film you saw in the cinema? Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
What are your favorite TV Shows? Grey's Anatomy, Scrubs, Prison Break, Spongebob
What do you usually have for breakfast? Coffee
What is your middle name? Nunya
What foods do you dislike? Green beans and anything involving mayonnaise
What is your favorite chip flavor? Sour cream and onion
What is your favorite CD at the moment? The Strokes - Is This It
What kind of car do you drive? Honda
Favorite sandwich? Grilled cheese
What is your favorite clothing? I like my Grumpy sweatshirt, I bought it on sale at the Disney store
Are you a morning person or a night person? Definitely not a morning person and not really a night person either. How about late afternoon to early evening person?
What is your shoe size? 5 1/2
What did you want to be when you were little? An artist or an astronaut or a librarian
What is your favorite candy? Kit Kat

Movie Review: Goblet of Fire

Very very good, and I'm not just saying that because I'm a huge Harry Potter fan.

The Good:
There was a lot more Fred and George in this one. Good stuff!
I thought they did a great job condensing the huge amount of material from the book into the film version.
They kept the scene where Malfoy is turned into a ferret. Hooray!
Lucius Malfoy is back. Double hooray! He's awesome as a meanie.
Very nice work with the Triwizard tasks. The dragon chase was especially exciting.
The kids start dating! The various scenes involving all the crushes and hurt feelings and such were nicely done. Subtle, amusing, and not shoved down the audience's throats.

The Bad:
No Dursleys. Oh well.
What is up with Ron's language? He has such a potty mouth. I don't remember him swearing this much in the books. Every other line of dialogue from him is "Bloody hell!" this and "Piss off!" that. Shameful.
The beginning of the movie felt a little choppy. There was too much to do in order to get the story moving, and the scenes just didn't feel like they flowed. But once they got to Hogwarts it got better.
I felt like they glossed over the explanation of what happened when Harry's and Voldemort's wands connected. I think they could have managed to fit one more minute of exposition into the film.
Only one scene with Sirius Black. Poop.

The Ugly:
Lord Voldemort appears!!!! Ahhhhh! And he's Ralph Fiennes! With no nose! Ahhhhh!

November Pug Meetup

Yesterday we all went to Martinsburg for a pug party. The puppies had a great time! There were 5 1/2 pugs and 6 humans in attendance.

This picture shows Sairhe chasing Beaker, who is chasing Pickles, who is chasing Nougat. For some reason, Pickles was very popular. Both Beaker and Nougat tried to hump her all day.


This is Pugsley. I think he is a very good-looking pug.


Timmy thinking to himself, "What the hell am I doing here?"


Pickles!

I tried taking pictures of Lexi, but she moves so fast they all came out blurry. She absolutely LOVED chasing Nougat. In fact, she harassed him all afternoon and would bark at him if he stopped running.


Two very tired puppies.

Pickles is a Fatty

Pickles had her annual vet visit yesterday and she now weighs nearly 20 pounds! While "technically" that is not obese for a pug, she has reached the limit of her ideal weight range and she's not even two years old yet. And everyone knows, once pugs reach 2 years old, their activity level goes WAAAAAAY down. So, we're monitoring her diet. She's gotten in the habit of finishing whatever Lexi doesn't eat. So we're putting a stop to that. If both of them haven't finished their food in 30 minutes we're taking it away. And NO MORE TREATS FOR ANYONE! Except in special circumstances, like the other night when I cleaned Pickles' ears I had to give her peanut butter and a pig strip because it was such a harrowing experience.

We're also going to try teaching the damn dogs some manners. While they are pretty well-behaved at home, they are just awful whenever we leave the house. Pulling on the leash, jumping on people, not listening, general bad behavior. It's embarrassing to take them out in public. I'm not sure how I'm going to get them used to not jumping on people when we don't have any friends who could come over to practice. I guess Timmy and I could pretend to be new people. Not sure how this is going to work. SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE.

Pug party today. We'll see how they do.

"Designer" Mutts?

Did everyone see the segment on the Today Show last week about Puggles? Apparently they are the latest in doggie fashion and everyone wants one. People are paying $600 and more for them. We got Lexi for $50! HA!!!

No Topic

A few weeks ago I had to listen to the two temps who work next to me (both named Katie) discuss how many ways there are to spell Katie. This conversation went on for over 40 minutes. Who knew there were sooooo many ways to spell Katie? Everyone I know spells it the same way.

I spend all these hours at work and there is no one there I can have a meaningful conversation with. I'm either yelling at someone to get on the phone and find out where my damn trucks are, or I'm making chit chat about the new coffee flavor in the breakroom (Gingerbread - yecccht!) Work is so lame.

I'm just rambling.

My Internet Connection Is...

Crap.

It's making me cranky.

Dear Readers,

I’ve neglected you. I realize that, and I’m sorry. Let me bring you up to speed (as they say).

1. Halloween was both a huge success and a disastrous failure. The puppies looked great in their costumes. They had big fun rolling around and chasing each other. On the other hand, we had a total of 5 trick-or-treaters. Three of them were from next door. Timmy bought 4 pounds of candy. Guess who ended up having to eat it all? And he didn’t get Kit Kats! (He said they were out.)

2. Timmy fixed my muffler. Yay!!!!! Now it doesn’t rattle any more. He also fixed my watch! Double Yay!!!! Ever since daylight savings time I’ve been an hour off. Watches are tricky.

3. My fantasy football team is kicking ass! I was discussing it with a co-worker, and he made the comment, “And that’s why girls shouldn’t be allowed to have fantasy football teams.” Only because I told him I picked Roethlisberger because he has a funny name, and that I had Brett Favre because I once dreamt that he was my boyfriend. So? I also cheer for Peyton Manning because he has the best commercials. Have you seen the one where’s he’s in the grocery store and he asks the stockboy to sign a loaf of bread for his little brother? For the record, I am not a Redskins fan. I could take them or leave them. But Timmy, having lived in Virginia his whole life, is a HUGE Redskins fan.

4. Someone with a Buffy bumper sticker works in my building. I can’t figure out who it is. I’m almost to the point where I’m going to go from desk to desk and quote obscure Buffy episode dialogue to see if anyone recognizes it.

5. Went to Canada last week with the Boss Who is Kind of a Goober. We had a meeting with the Canadian HQ of an unnamed largest company in the world. We are NOT going to discuss the fact that at 2:20 I realized that our 2:30 appointment was actually at 2:00. It was all good. I totally lied and said we were stuck in traffic. Their office was a dump just like their US headquarters office looked on that CNBC special. Canada was weird. But not weird in any specific way. Just a general feeling of oddness. They use the METRIC system. And all the signs were in English AND French. Weirdos.

6. I made the mistake of playing Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom for “just a few minutes” on Friday. And I didn’t do anything else the entire weekend. But I did find 31 golden spatulas, 15 of Patrick’s lost socks, and over 12,000 shiny objects. So the weekend was not a total waste.