part 2

ok ok little kitty, i get it.

YOU LOVE ME

but i really don't love cleaning up your gifts!
i just found birdie #2 in my art room
$20 to the first person that can tell me how a totally de-clawed cat is able to get 2 birds in one night, let alone at all!

he loves me, he loves me not....

as many of you know, i live with 3 males:
dallas, a human
ezra, a pit bull
william, a fat kitty

which one of the above loves me most?

if you guessed william, you guessed right!
how am i judging?
of all of them, he is the closest to bringing me breakfast in bed.
this morning i found that he had brought breakfast to my bathroom in form of a late night bird catch he found. thanks little guy, although i think i'll have some rice chex instead

speaking of william and bathrooms, william always keeps us company in the bathroom and when we're done he gets a little treat. i think that the chicken and cheese combo is catching up with him as he is clearly running out of room on top of the toilet

tulip troopers

i, like my mother, love tulips.
and every year, my mom tries to compete with holland to see who can grow the most. even though she has the best intentions she always loses. she is "slowly" adding to her tulip collection by planting 400 more every year.

i must say it is looking spectacular.
i'm SO sad i missed them!
go mom!

today my new obsession is xtranormal.com. where you type words in and make a movie.
here is an example for all of you. this is an example of what our saturday was like here. the people talk fast and don't really use periods when speaking, so just listen closely!

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6465591/

UGH

i just got home from flunking my ochem test.

you probably think that i'm just saying i flunked it, but i really did.

question examples:

show what happens to ethene when it reacts with a chlorinated radical. include all 3 steps, show all electron transfer and clearly label all products

show the steps to change propyne to propane

my brain hurts just thinking about it.

weird ones

in the last 2 days i have seen 3 strange things.
in order of worst to best:

1. old man (who should have not) been doing yardwork topless. it was gross. i won't show a picture resembling this....but it did make me smile that he had the guts to do this

2. guy down at park with metal detector in sand at children's playground. i think the kids playing on the slide were his. how much treasure is there at the playground?
3. while on my long run, i'm looking ahead and there are these taiwan-ese or some oriental kind of people trying to ride this bike. so the dude is pedaling it and the lady is sitting on the back where a basket would normally go...... but they start going up this hill and it's too much for the guy so the lady has to get off and run next to him for a bit and then jump back on. (this is the 2nd and most likely last bike i'll ever pass) because i catch up to them and realize that their son is in FRONT!! so there's 3 people riding this bike, one pedaling. it was awesome.
as i pass i smile and say: hey! room for one more?
lady: smiles, laughs (looks at me like, whoa! large white girl wanting ride) and says they're out of room. bummer
so it was like this, except no kiddo seats, oriental, and the ages were 6, 38 and 36 (or something like that. just go with it!)

How to procrastinate studying:

Here are several techniques that you can use if you are also trying to procrastinate studying for your organic chemistry test:

1. run 16 miles (if yo'ure like me this is an all morning event)
2. be taxi to the airport
3. watch golf on tv. today's special: watching someone try to hit this shot from the beach amongst a bunch of reeds
4. mow your lawn
5. talk to your sister on the phone about other procrastination ideas
6. go to church
7. stare at the wall for awhile
8. get ice cream at sonic

BE ON LOOKOUT

MTN BIKERS,
PLEASE, if you see a
scott spark 30 carbon frame
black and red with
white rock shox fork
let us know

it has been stolen from our garage

i love getting fun mail

getting things like this from my 6 year old niece makes my day!
thanks julia!
goldi-william going extreme

as of lately there seems there is a new goldilocks figure in our house

his name is william
and his new bed is rather large

runner's world

one of the things that has changed since we've got married is my indulgence in pedicures. i figure it's worth the $25 to get some nice lookin toes, especially when i live in flipflops outside of work. today i got a real light color so when it started rubbing off (from running all the time) it wouldn't look so trashy.

here's my conversation with the lady at the nail place:

lady: you put massage char on!
andi: no thanks, i'm trying to study
lady: really? no one do that here

lady (about to put plastic on feet)
andi: no, please don't take my calices off
(however you spell that)
lady: what?
andi: no, i need them... i run
(i had to use run. i don't think she knew what jogging was)
lady: ooooh! most people want feet smooth

lady: where is your toenail?
(i lost one over easter.... it is a jogging thing)
andi: ooh, it fell off
lady: what? you don't have toenail here?
andi: no, sorry. gross, i know.

but she was nice enough to paint my skin anyway.
2 other things you should not do while running:
1)forget glide..... detrimental mistake
(anti-chafe stuff for those of us who are unfortunate enough to have thighs big enough to rub on each other). of course i remembered this 3 mi into the run... but once you've motivated yourself to set foot on a 15 mi run you don't turn back in fear the couch's magnetic powers will suck you in

2) talk to dallas after getting back from 15 mi run. apparently he thinks you feel really good after this and feel like walking all over kingdom come to find boots for his work.

payback? OH YES

since he's gone all corporate on us and is on the road a little bit, he eats real well (actually he's stocking up for when he comes home cause he knows we scavenge for food around here). last night we figured up that at his evening meal he consumed about 2x the amount of calories that i had ate in my entire day. when we got married we promised that if the other person started to blow up it was your responsibility to tell them to take care of it.

just in case those cals are starting to stack up, i'm being precautionary and am i'm making him burn it all off on this weekend's 16 mi run....

while studying for our latest test over the respiratory system, i ran across a note i had wrote down from my "favorite" classmate, who one day asked the teacher,

"what does inspire mean?"

in case any of you were planning on buying the willimator clothing for Christmas, he wears size 11x17.

laundry room update

these last few weeks have taken forever on the laundry room. the hand sanders are much cheaper than electrical.... the only downfall is that i have weenie arms. nevertheless....somehow the walls are DONE!
here's a rough time line:

dallas puts up last piece of sheetrock (ya know, the one in the middle of the wall that everyone will see when they first walk in) and there is a whole the size of 4 quarters, which he said "you can mud that!!!" and i rolled my eyes.
he jigged up a little system to make the mudding process a little easier for me:
then we... (I...andi!!!) jc'd everything, corners, sanded..
and sanded
and sanded some more
(these are some smooth walls)
(look for the giant gaping 4 quarter sized hole in the wall... not there anymore!)
primedand painted
OH YEAH

the good, the bad & the evil

the good:
this book.
like i really have time to read a 300+ page book right now, but i started it (purely out of procrastination technique) and couldn't put it down. aunt cindy got this for me for christmas and it's an AWESOME read. find the time to read it!!

the bad:
our lilac bushes. my neighbor told me that the previous owners of our house never trimmed the lilac bushes.....( or any shrubbery around our heavily shrubbed yard for that matter) so i took it upon myself to get started on the task. i'm pretty sure i was destined to be a beaver(still more to cut down! we have to rent a dumpster for all this!)

the ugly:
first, i'm going to be very angry at the person who ordered the snow. but since big-downtown-building-worker dallas has to leave for work around 6:15 or 6:20 our house now gets up by 5:30 or 5:45 at the latest. UGH! my productivity level has really gone thru the roof but it's exhausting getting used to this schedule.
ez doenst mind. he sleeps in regardless

happy Easter everyone!
what would make a trip home more complete than the awful high school prom group picture?
we got to do fun things like work cows, run on country roads.... ahhhh

seems like i have beat dallas in the game "outwit your fat kitty named william".
dallas' plan: place ez' voodoo kitty in his favorite spot (which doesn't work)
my solution? put a box where he likes to sit. it's been a stellar foolproof plan all day long.
pathetic, but foolproof