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Monday, July 16, 2007

Back.... kind of

Jeez, vacation is tiring. :) How's everyone in blogdom doing this week?

Mr. Honey and I left 2 weeks ago for Seattle, and we did just about everything a tourist can do in the city. We did the Space Needle, Pike Place Market, a Duck Tour (quack quack, baby!), and even got to have dinner with Aura and her guy!! :) It was fantastic.

Then, the following Sunday, we boarded a cruise ship to Alaska. Mr. Honey kept a running commentary of everything we did each day on the ship over at his blog. Drop me a comment if you'd like a link to it. :)

I had a really cool dream that involved moose and bears and whales while we were gone, though we only saw one of those in real life. The whales were all over the place, and we saw a good number of them from the cruise ship. Mostly we saw just the tails of humpback whales as they came to the surface to breathe, but we also saw a couple orcas breaching!! That was really cool.

Today's devoted to unpacking and cleaning, so we can re-pack and clean even more when we move in 3 weeks. Time's flying.

More later!

-honey

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

What I did on my first trip to the Pacific Northwest

1. I Wii'd. Yep, I'm not longer a Wii virgin. FYI - it's not a good idea to call your husband after the equivalent of 3 root beers and ask if he's Wii'd yet. Or if he's played with his Wii. Guys get kinda sensitive about that sort of thing.

2. I got licked up my nose. Quick warning - if you go visit the castle of chaos, son't put your guard down if Tucker and Digger are about, unless you want a doggie bath. :)

3. I crashed a funeral procession with Ellen and Kristen. Really. In Idaho. I wasn't kidding when I said, "Hey, I think we just joined a funeral procession." But nobody believed me until we saw the hearse. Would've crashed the funeral, too, but we didn't figure my pink socks, orange shoes, and bright yellow "Life is Good" t-shirt would be appropriate.

4. Went to a wedding and watched Mr. Honey do the Muppet Dance. I love that man. And he's coming home Friday! Woo-hoo! Or, as K's little minion likes to say, Woot!


Happy Wednesday. We now return you to your regularly scheduled blog break... Up next week, I'll be touring more of the Pacific Northwest. In the meantime, I'm trying to stay on Pacific Time.

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Monday, June 18, 2007

So long, Farewell....

But not forever!

My summer vacation is over, at least the laying around the house eating bonbons part. Tomorrow I board a plane to take me to the Pacific Northwest, where I'll visit with Ellen and Kristen and go to a wedding. A week later, I'll be home to do laundry and get ready for Mr. Honey to return from his month-long business trip. The following Monday, we fly to Seattle, where we'll hopefully meet up with Aura and tour the city, then a few days later we'll board a cruise ship to spend a week sailing around Alaska.

So I'd say I'd be back mid-July, when we get back from our trip, except... 3 weeks after that, I'm packing the cats up in the car, and we're driving to our new home in Ohio. And I'll be looking to join the productive people in the workforce once more, though of course I'd much rather sit around in my pajamas, baking brownies, reading good books, and writing.

I'll try to post random updates and pearls of Honey-wisdom here over the next two months, but if I'm scarce, well, see above. I'll hopefully be settled and back for real in September.

Happy Summer, everybody!

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Friday, June 08, 2007

Today's favorite thing about summer vacation

It's all about the uniform.

I'm sitting on my love seat today in a yellow Mutts t-shirt that says "Celebrate Life" and blue Life is Good shorts with Rocket the yellow dog all over them. Add that to my pale green chicken socks, and I'm feeling pretty spiffy.

I'm headed to Atlanta this weekend to visit with Mr. Honey (who's got a weekend off - hooray!) and some friends of ours. We're going to hit the aquarium and the zoo. What are your plans for the weekend?

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Friday, May 25, 2007

Likes and Dislikes

What makes Honey happy: job prospects for when we move in a couple months

What makes Honey unhappy: flying with a head cold to an interview (Pleased to meet you, sir and ma'am. A-choo! Would you like to shake my hand and offer me a job? A-choo!)

Happy: Car upgrades. Mitsubishi Eclipse for a day, anyone? Vroom vroom vroom!

Unhappy: Jack Sparrow Maps. (You know, ones that don't point north, or worse yet, that do point north, but only some of the time.)

Happy: Not getting lost anyway

Unhappy: Being away from Mr. Honey and the kittens

Happy: Coming home to Mr. Honey and the kittens

Unhappy: Airport human traffic (don't congregate in the middle of the aisles, people!) and rush hour car traffic (do you really think the left shoulder of the road was made for you to use in traffic jams while the rest of us sit patiently and wait for you to kick up dirt, rocks, and tire treads onto our non-moving vehicles while you use any horizontal surface available to fly past us and leave us hating you?) making the drive home twice as long as it should be.

Happy: Delta. Love 'em or hate 'em as an airline, I live for the free Biscoff cookies they serve in flight.

Unhappy: Not flying Delta, which is exactly how I flew this week, and thus only being offered pretzels.

Happy: I didn't pay for the ticket

Unhappy: I also didn't ask if they could give me a root beer, which would've been fantastic for the burping on the descent back into the airport, which could very well have cleared my ears when chewing gum and inhaling nasal sprays didn't work

Happy: It's Friday

Happy: It's my last Friday at my current job

Happy: I'm wearing a Life is Good t-shirt under a Hawaiian shirt

Happy: It's a slow day, so I'm also reading a romance novel at work

Happy: It's a 3-day weekend

Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

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Monday, April 09, 2007

Weekend Highlights

Mr. Honey and I spent a long weekend in D.C., visiting friends and hanging out and eating a lot and generally making quote-of-the-week worthy comments. Some highlights:

"I guess fruit isn't a highly-stolen item."
--Mr. Honey, upon emerging from the airplane Wednesday evening to find all the little kiosks and stands closed down, except for 3 baskets of apples, bananas, and oranges, standing there for all the world to indulge in.

"That was quite a monumental morning."
--Me, Thursday morning, after we walked from the metro stop to the Washington Monument, World War II Memorial, signers of the Declaration of Independence Memorial, Vietnam War Memorial, Lincoln Monument, Korean War Memorial, World War I Memorial, Tulip Library, and halfway to the Jefferson Monument.

"Is she drunk?"
"Well, she did just drink a root beer..."
--Mr. Honey and one of our friends discussing my goofy state of mind after a serious sugar buzz. I can't even remember the last time I had three carbonated beverages over a weekend.

"Do you smell brown sugar?"
--Me again, after every mulch bed we passed. I'm not kidding - it smelled like brown sugar!

"I swear, I'm about to just hand you my camera and bend over."
--Yes, me, once again, this time sticking my foot in my mouth in front of one of Mr. Honey's friends as we walked past yet another mulch bed and I once again smelled brown sugar. Since I'd told Mr. Honey a bit earlier that I wanted to lean down and smell the mulch, and he'd responded that I'd better hand over my camera so he could get that on film, I mistakenly assumed he'd understand that I was going to sniff the mulch at ground level to verify that it was the source of the brown sugar smell. Seriously, who's ever heard of mulch smelling like brown sugar? It's just not natural.

"I smell it, too!"
--One of our dear friends, who later in the weekend smelled the brown sugar smell as we walked past more mulch beds.

Hope you all had a fabulous Easter Weekend!

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