In honor of the five new pounds I posted about below I wrote out a healthy meal plan and went grocery shopping. To prepare I decided to skip my usual recipe haunts and find something new. I started at The Lazy Vegetarian. She has a great list of links for veggie blogs that will take [...]
Yesterday I was back out hiking trails and mapping again. I figured out that in the last 3 days I have hiked for 7 hours. I’m only averaging about 2.5 miles an hour because of the mud and stopping to mark the trail. I also get lost sometimes and don’t count that mileage. But still [...]
Disclaimer: Usually I manage to write this blog without using the type of potty mouth that I show in real life. I have a feeling that if I try to censor myself in this entry it will end up reading like the edited for tv version of Pulp Fiction – “Beep! Beep! Beep, the beepin’ [...]
Yesterday the husband and I went to the Asian Festival. I was sort of diappointed. There was supposed to be a marketplace and lots of food. I was envisioning local Asian artists with booths full of arts and crafts. Instead it was mostly cheap plastic toys and statues. The husband bought a pair of $3 [...]
You know the scene in movies where people are fighting over a valuable object? They all pull it in a different direction until finally it slips out of all their hands and flies in slow motion up into the air. All the people stop and stare as it turns end over end and then crashes [...]
Found this at Republic of T. The story comes from Indystar.com A judge in Indiana ruled that a divorcing Wiccan couple could not raise their son in their religion. He referred to it as “non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals”. The kid attends a catholic school and that is part of the judge’s justification. “There is [...]
Most girls dream of weddings and major careers when the are growing up but I had a different goal. I wanted an indoor riding arena. I was obsessive and I was consistent. Every year I listed it first on my Christmas list. My theory behind this was that listing such an outrageous item would make [...]
I am the world’s worst horse mommy. If Spirit could have gotten to a phone this morning he would have had the humane society out here in a flash. The farrier was scheduled to come out at 9:30 AM for pony pedicures. The herd is accustomed to being outside in the pasture by 9:00 AM. [...]
On the way to work yesterday I was listening to Fresh Air with Terry Gross on NPR. She was interviewing evangelical Christians from Ivy League Universities. I have never heard an interviewer come off as so clueless and desparate before. The interviewees were part of a Christian union on Ivy League campuses. Ms. Gross desparately [...]
I just read a post on another blog that annoys me. It was about house hunting in the county where I grew up. The writer rejected the house because it was out in the middle of nowhere. This was defined as several miles from the interstate exit. According to that logic where I live now [...]
It was so cool! Extremely cool! Even with the husband giggling while walking and yelling, “It’s working! It’s working!” The best way to describe it is that we had our own version of the Marauder’s Map. If you aren’t up on your Harry Potter then you won’t get the visual. Basically, we were looking at [...]
I think the husband may have a life-threatening illness. Lately he volunteered to attend one horse show. Now we are in his office loading up a handheld computer with his newest mapping invention because he has volunteered to use it to map the trails for my competitive trail ride. Not only has he volunteered it [...]
I have a question for those of you who are wise in these things. How do you get an RSS feed for a site? I had one when I was on tblog but now that I have my own site I don’t know how to do it. I tried reading tutorials but it was confusing. [...]
Last night the husband made me go to Ryan’s. I can’t stand Ryan’s. It is a buffet restaurant. I never eat enough at a buffet to feel like I’ve gotten my money’s worth. But the main reason I don’t like to eat there is because it is all white food. I try to eat a [...]
Over at The Republic of T he’s been following a discussion about how people feel about engagement rings and name changes following marriage. I never had a problem with either of those. But the thing I was unprepared for after I got married was the anger I felt the first time someone called me “Mrs.” [...]
Yesterday I got to meet the new veterinarian I will be working with starting in July. I like her. So of course the staff took an immediate dislike to her. This should be interesting. I work with one person who is very racist. The new vet is Indian. The staff person is making a big [...]
Note to self- Do not fall asleep while watching a DVD of Angel or you will have dreams about David Boreanaz and people getting murdered all night long. Strangely, these were not unpleasant dreams.
There were lots of good comments on the last post about motivating the husband to exercise. Here’s the actual conversation I had on the phone with him. Me: Do you know yet when you’ll be coming home tonight? Him: Fairly soon. Me: Good. Do you want to go for a walk with me? Him: Are [...]
The husband is way out of shape. His main form of exercise is working hard to avoid any physical labor. When we were practicing for my dressage test he was complaining because he was going to have to stand to read the whole thing. “The whole thing” is about 5 minutes. He says his back [...]
I used to think that if I was able to treat Spirit whenever he got sick that I’d be able to treat any animal. But now I know that I currently own the two worst patients in all of creation. Snowball and Prize. About 2 weeks ago Snowball got an ear infection. That should be [...]