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i like number 5.

1. A day without sunshine is like night.
2. On the other hand, you have different fingers.
3. 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
4. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
5. Remember, half the people you know are below average.
6. He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
7. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
8. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap.
9. Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.
10. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
11. Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
12. If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.
13. How many of you believe in psycho-kinesis? Raise my hand.
14. OK, so what's the speed of dark?
15. When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
16. Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
17. How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?
18. Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
19. What happens if you get scared half to death, twice?
20. Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
21. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering, "What the hell happened?"
22. Just remember -- if the world didn't suck, we would all fall off.
23. Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
24. Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos.

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we're sitting in the computer room with the door shut because the guy installing the dish is afraid of dogs.

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so we came home to another catastrophe. apparently nora decided to tear apart the remaining dvds on the table (therein which lies a lesson for both kurt and nora).

what's interesting is that she left the plastic chopsticks completely alone. like they weren't worth damaging.

jones was, again, sorry and submissive.

i think i ought to get a webcam to ease our discontent. or to provide humor.

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i came home to a small mess this evening... it would appear that someone got into a (yet unpacked) plastic bag with sunscreen and ferret shampoo and they managed to keep all of the shampoo inside of the bag, thankfully. judging from the possible suspects' reactions, it would appear the guilty one was jones. this is unfortunate, because i know that it was nora. jones is just the one who knows that whatever happened was wrong and gave me the sorry face for it.

nora is definitely benefiting from being a "second-child". i did not scold her nearly as much as jones has had it in the past. mostly because she would have peed, but secondly because she probably didn't remember having been the culprit in the crime.

in an unrelated note, my back has a huge knot that i can't seem to get at.

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the kitchen opens at mickey's in less than a week...

kurt asked if i wanted to be a runner (someone who delivers food to tables).

i'm thinking about it.

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so i broke my 20 day not-ordering-out streak with a veggie gyro from dimitri's.

boy was it worth it.

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we had an impromptu vacation with some friends on saturday night. the house is inhabited til december while some work gets done, and while the occupants work on retiring.

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it was really nice.. the dogs had an awesome time running around and we sat by the fire after playing a friendly game of euchre. i stayed up too late, which made me kinda groggy at 7:30 when nora decided it was time to get up.

the willy st fair was kinda frustrating as we decided to bring both dogs, and, as it turns out, nora seems to hate crowds. so, getting through all those people to find the falafel stand was a challenge.

we had dinner at the magnus to celebrate our 5th annual wedding anniversary. it was absolutely delectable, as always.

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not ordering dinner! as long as we don't count the egg drop soup that i threw on kurt's chinese order last sunday. i'm still paying for lunch, and breakfast on sundays, but other than that i'm doing pretty good with this self-imposed rule.

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i was going to try to avoid the "six years ago today, i was doing..." post, but kurt's mom is flying back to madison from nyc today... and i can't help but think about it until i know she's safely back in the central time zone.

but, six years ago today, i was sitting in my cube listening to people quietly crying and sniffling. we were unofficially let out early. we had model club in joe's basement and no one could really concentrate. it's hard enough painting with #000 brushes...

the next few days were substantially quiet. everywhere. people even drove better... nicer. without such a rush. woodman's was tolerable. "you go ahead of me" was uttered more often.

we were humbled.

it's amazing how fast humans shake that.

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about having two dogs is that jones hasn't touched the garbage in two weeks. at the apartment, we had to put it out in the back hallway when we left the house, and now, it seems like he just doesn't care. who knows, though, it could be because we have a house now and he doesn't want to mess it up? we just kept putting it out into the back porch, for some reason, until Nora came along.

they're still "gettin-ta-know-ya", but Jones seems to be content with her presence and i think he secretly likes it. :)

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this is so silly... i got so furious at work today that i started crying in a meeting.

yah.

totally not like me, totally out of the blue, and totally weird. i just had so much rage and anger and frustration that i had to hold my eyes with my sleeves to keep from bawling.

you see, i heard something that wasn't said. i can't actually even tell you what was said immediately before i freaked out, but what i heard was, "someone thinks whoever did this can't do their job."

and i flipped. internally, i was raging. i had the strongest desire to punch, kick, cry, slam, and yell.

but what's weird is that it's not what was said, and quite possibly not even what was implied, but it's what i heard.

the most ridiculous part is that i don't know why it upset me. like, physically upset me in such a way that i couldn't make myself behave with a normal reaction. which, most likely would have been, "they don't know wtf they're talking about. eff them."

needless to say, i'm very glad that tomorrow is friday... i just wish i could shake the feeling of "if i quit, they'd be fucked."

and i don't swear on my blog unless it's necessary.

i forgot to mention that i even left work and drove to cross plains, smoking my first weekday cigarette before 5pm in almost two years. it was lovely, well-deserved, and necessary.

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the new ipod looks really cool.

anyway, i think i'm trying to make it a personal goal to not order out. i know, it's pretty silly and dumb to be like, "hey! i haven't ordered delivery in five days! look at me!" but it's an accomplishment, ferreal.

i was going to use the rice cooker for the first time tonight, but white rice takes 45-55 minutes, and i was hungry "now", so i made a tofurky-cheese-tomato-avocado toasted sandwich.

not before taking the dogs on a mosquito-infested walk. omg you guys. there were, quite literally, 30 of them hovering around jones the whole time. it was terrible! and then i caught a slug and it got between my foot and shoe and was squishing around. poor guy...

the pups are doing well.. by monday, i was kinda tired of hanging out with them, but the last two days have been okay. i think jones has figured out that nora is staying with us, and not just getting dog-sat for a little while.

i keep trying to give him the attention he had before, but it really wasn't that much; he's not a very cuddly guy, but nora is totally a cuddler and it seems to make jones think like he should be getting the same attention.

we just went for a quick run in the park (two-dog bonus), and they tired each other out within 10 minutes and are now quite content to lay on the diningroom rug. together.

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so, one of the goals set after buying this place was to try to eat in more often. and the reason it's a goal is because we eat out a lot. at least once a day each. that's a sh*tload of money if you sit down and think about it.

i've been trying to find new and exciting ways to make food... so, last night, we made tacos (with morningstar farms crumbles) and i saved the rest of the "meat" and made "taco egg rolls" tonight. omg, so easy! i ought to kick myself for not making these easy mealbits before.

previously, i used to spend saturday afternoons making some sort of new food concoction which either turned out poorly, or was too quantitative that i couldn't eat it all before getting sick of it. so, i'm trying... and momentarily succeeding.

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the bugs!

wtf are we supposed to do? kurt says his delivery guy was afraid to come up the steps!

the mosquitoes are nuts and crazy. i can't even handle it.

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what's nice about taking friday off is that today feels like sunday, except tomorrow is sunday and i have monday off and it makes me ecstatic.

we've got our weekend routine down, i think... i get up around 8:30, let the dogs out, make coffee, and then we're off to the dog park!

a friend of mine and i went to yue wah on park st. it's a mostly asian market, but they have indian, mexican and chinese food, too. i got some umeboshi, japanese rice, horchata mix, green tea ice cream(!!), sesame seeds, and furikake! no more having to order silly hello kitty furikake for my bento box lunches; of which i have only made one. now to get my rice cooker. ^_^

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