COLD COLD COLD

so it is cold here. not brr i'm chilly cold but that kind of cold that if you were in a video game would drain your green life bar (yes too much wii). it is so cold that i just had to temporarily move my plant from my window because i touched it and it was colder than a plan should get. so now my 2 and 1/2 year old plant which has vines over 5 ft is sitting on the ledge in front of my wipe board and all the tangle of green is distracting me every time i look up at my screen. I really should repot this thing but can you imagine this taking the 30 min metra ride in and our of the city? and if i do repot it i think the pot will become too big and too heavy for my radiator which is where i have it sitting.

and yes if you caught that i sit my plant on the radiator next to the window... probably a sign that the radiator is just for show when the pant is fraking freezing.

meanwhile it is the last day of the month, and while i have been productive these last few days i am behind in finishing things. oh well for one month i get stuff to do and the next two are super slow... i don't really mind it too much if the busy time trickles into an extra week or so.



aforementioned plant....

weak end blahs

Not spending money and staying inside is harder than it sounds.... esp when there are Costco's to visit and macadamia nut crusted chickens to eat and most importantly other people to shop for. I guess the last thing didn't spend our money and it was fun! but we certainly speant more time out and about in the cold weather than I expected.

Bill is forging ahead with Link, Epona and the crew. maybe I can take a pic tonight.

work is work though I am happy to be mostly on track this quarter with my reporting.

Next weekend is the super bowl. my company doesn't do any fun squares thing or wear your blue and orange to work thing.... though I am finding I have many more uses for that orange side of my two sided vest, scarf and hat (the other side is pink!) I think frank will need to get some blue corn chips and some orange soda like they had set up at the grocery store.

not much else to report here. the house hunt is offically on.... but it has been unoffically on for so long that it no longer seems like news. Yay preapproval! yay new house! yay being broke for the rest of my life -- oh i mean booooo!

and this is for all the people stuck in the chicago freezing weather right now.....

perpetually the underdog...

So the bears won... I didn't think they would... but neither did anyone else. now we enter the super bowl. booyah.

Maybe the Bears players thrive on the lower expectations or the constant undercutting in the press.

here are two really bad pics of at least a few people supporting the bears....



Unfortunately, I couldn't get the bear that was on the other side of the building in the second picture. but that is what you get with a cheap cameral phone.

HAHAHA

24 blogging

so here we are and it is friday and guess what Bill and I are doing...

...the same thing we've done all week. we are currently on episode 9 of season 2...

i must say i really hate all kim related sorty lines.... and sherry palmer pisses me off too.

y.a.w.n

in the last week Bill and I have clocked 4 hours of the current 24 season plus 6 hours of season two (we're trying to catch up). this added with some very odd dreams(does anyone know what finding tar on your glasses means?!?) and an achy back (i think from doing my puzzle) have lead me to be tired not just the tired where you went to bed late.... no i have been going to sleep at ok times... but the tired where every part of your body is revolting and there is nothing you can do but surcome to the sheer exhaustion. also the cold nasty weather might also have something to do with it.

so lets look at two things.....

ahhh prickly pear island.... how i wish the memory of you could keep me warmer in these cold cold months....

and you disney cruise..... how i look forward to visiting europe in my floating hotel.

HELLO WINTER!

so this weekend Bill and I were anticipating getting hit hard with a bad snow storm. Bill had tickets to the Bears game and was gearing up to seriously freeze outside.... but funny thing happened... it was cold, yes, and we got a bit of ice, true, but it wasn't really anything to talk about.

Now the bears game..... there is something to talk about. Bill was lucky enough to see an exciting play off game that we WON.

Other than that we had a great time with Frank and LJ playing a game that really should be updated and then playing some good old smash.

Hope you had a nice weekend, and for those lucky enough to have today off.... enjoy it.

did it work?

trying to put my count down on here and make it stay at the top...

did it work?

game day...

what a great start.....

...um.....
uh oh....

oh thank god.....

where there hell is our defence?

why why would you hold on to the ball....

worst time for a turnover ever....

another touch down?!?

i don't know if i can watch the second half....

more pics...

sunset...

our hotel from sea...

our beer boat :) ...

waiting for the bridge...

bill's favorite road sign...

pics

a taste of our trip

welcome to paradise...

watch out for the waves...

view from the bar...

view of our pool...

marigot

Happy New Year

and now for the next month and a half I will probably date everything as 06.

Our vacation was wonderful... maybe if I remember i'll post some pics from home tonight.

Coming back to work after not being here since the 21 is a drag.... it is even more so a drag because it is friggin cold outside.

I hope you all had a happy and safe new year.... and you are all ready for the cold boring month of January.