jerk

I wanted a snack, but none of our usual snack food looked interesting, and then I remembered that at lunch yesterday, our friends gave us a few packets of their friend's fancy beef jerky. Score.

almost done

Spent almost an hour signing things yesterday. It should be official on Tuesday or Wednesday.

three day weekend

After going through a whirlwind month of juggling work, house stuff, and Henry, I definitely don't understand how people fit anything significant into their lives other than work. Yay for a long weekend!

first shipment received

First installment of my birthday present to Boyfriend received, and everything about it, down to the packaging, is awesome. Can't wait for the next batch to arrive.

ready for review

1,780 old photos, scanned from negatives, ready for review!

action packed weekend

Three visitors, Korean food, Vietnamese food, wine, gummy candy, gossip, brunch, shopping, pedicures, bubble tea, sushi, and a quick Google tour!

tomorrow

Two amazing college friends get in town tomorrow! Can't wait to hang out and catch up, go out for some meals, recount all the old stories, and pretend that we're just as young and fun as we ever were.

contingency plan

Contingencies lifted. This plan is moving along.

attorney client relationships

Yesterday, I checked my physical mailbox at work, and found two candy bars that one of my former clients (from when I worked on Google News) had sent my way out of the blue. He remembered I have a penchant for them, and sent them just for fun. I later met up for dinner with another former client (from when I worked on Google Collections) and we reminisced over bowls of ramen.

working phone

Exciting feature that we've never seen in a house before: has T-Mobile reception!

beef

Went out for a group birthday dinner on Saturday to eat some very special steak (Snake River Farms rib cap). Yum.

christmas in august

Brought all of my nephew's and nieces' birthday presents to them in one batch on Saturday. Yes, they were all late, but it was kind of like having Christmas in August.

burgers on demand

We have buns, grilled burger patties, sliced cheese, cooked bacon, sliced pickles, sliced tomatoes, and washed lettuce left over from last night. This means that I can have a homemade bacon cheeseburger within the minutes of deciding that I want one, without ever leaving the house.

100

I think we might have around 100 people coming to our house for donut burgers on Friday.

dogress report

Henry is house trained (no accidents in a month, although I still crate him at night or even he's home alone, just in case, mostly because I think he'd chew things). He's OK with cars now, still wary of buses and trucks. Getting better around strange dogs, and getting better at commands. He's such a friendly, curious puppy, it's hard to get him to focus, but when he does, he learns well. I have no complaints.

high definition

New TiVo is hi def, and I never really saw the point of high def till now.

progress report

I've been getting progress reports on Boyfriend's birthday present. I think it's going to be amazing.

dink

Double income, no kids is an amazing life if you're not a kid person. So many possibilities, so few obligations.

mine

I just my final car payment last week. The Prius is finally 100% mine.

omg

They picked us! Drinking port to celebrate.

cray

We might be about to do something really crazy this week.

cake

We may have had some birthday cake at work yesterday.

up and running

New TiVo is up and running. God, it feels good to have dual tuners, no commercials, and the TiVo UI again. It only took two trips to Comcast and lots of patient TiVo customer support to get it working. At least I had taken the day off for my birthday, and had the time to do it. Also squeezed in an allergy shot, filled up on gas, had a successful doggie play date, and had the first BLT of this year's tomato season. Not a typical birthday, but a good one nonetheless.

my little bichon

Henry's DNA test came back, and he's apparently 50% miniature pinscher (totally makes sense), and 25/25 bichon frise and English springer spaniel (what?). Now whenever he's crazy, I blame it on the bichon.

for me

Boyfriend got me a new TiVo and a print of Dr. Seuss's Sneetches for my birthday. Almost five years in, and he knows what I like.

dining out

Started my birthday weekend early last night with a dinner at Baume with Boyfriend.

figgy pizza

Boyfriend made pizza, and I tossed some fig and burrata salad from work on top. I went straight from low blood sugar crisis to total food coma in record time.