Archive For The “Ramblings” Category

How cheap the city gets?

By | October 20, 2008

That’s how the city patched up the cracks on the street.  I took this picture of townhomes on one of my usual routes with the boys on Sunday.   The white strip of plastic thing will wear off sooner or later.  Underneath the white strip is some sort of black goo to patch up the cracks.  When [...]

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Free coffee from the boss

By | October 1, 2008

What a surprise today.  The boss came in this morning with four grande Starbucks coffee.  All black.  Ms E and I almost had a heart attack!  The boss never ever buys us anything.  What made him buy us all coffee for breakfast is beyond us.  I could have ask my boss since she is the [...]

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Let’s move outta MN

By | September 27, 2008

DB and I talked about moving again this morning.  It all started with how much the state of Minnesota is giving away for welfare ($250K a week), and me looking for a different job out of my department, and the crappy weather that is the chill that goes right into his old bones.  He still wants [...]

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Almost strangled

By | September 22, 2008

I took Cooper and Chase to the trails by the woods.  This set of trails are right by the Civic Center where the skating rink, hockey rink, skate board rink, police department and City Hall are.  I thought I let them run free in the woods.  Off the leash and into the trails we went.  [...]

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Crazy dogs

By | August 11, 2008

A lady who walks her dog every day stopped me one day asking me if I have seen the German Shepard that lives in the corner house on 130th Street.  I know which house she was referring to and she continued to tell me that her dog was attacked by the shepard.  Her dog is [...]

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Is it time to bail yet?

By | July 2, 2008

July 4 holiday is day after tomorrow, Friday.  Majority of the folks in the office are gone – vacationing somewhere up north in their cabins, and one lady I know drove from Wisconsin to Montana/Wyoming to the Yellowstone National Park.  Today is quieter than  yesterday.  There were about 13 of us in the office yesterday, but [...]

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Nice price hike

By | June 9, 2008

I took this picture on Saturday on my walk with Chase.  This afternoon at 2:50 p.m., it’s this ungodly price…. Let’s say goodbye to $3.09/gallon from now on.  I pumped 1/2 a tank of gas yesterday at $3.89 and it cost me $27+ which is usually the total I pay for a full tank.  Time [...]

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Spring Fitness Challenge

By | May 19, 2008

My company has this fitness challenge which started today.  I registered as a team to compete with 184 other teams within the company.  How this works is you score 1 point for every 10 minutes of physical activity you do.  Sex included, I wonder??   Anyways, I am glad I signed up coz I’m slacking in [...]

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The ditz is almost back to her usual self

By | March 26, 2008

Thanks again for all of your comments.  Last night I went to bed with extra pillows to prop myself up instead of lying flat on the bed.  I was propped at 45 degrees, slept quite alright.  I was awake a few times reason being I was so conscious of not laying on my right side [...]

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The cause of my dizziness

By | March 25, 2008

Thanks for all the kinds wishes you guys left for me….they are quite hilarious which did crack a smile on my face.  You guys think I’m pregnant, huh?  Haha, not a chance, coz it won’t happen. I actually just got back from urgent care.  The doc said I have labyrinthitis or what they call Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo.  [...]

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Can I buy more weekend time?

By | March 17, 2008

The weekend always flys by for me.  Maybe it’s just me.  These days I tend to sleep in during the weekend till7 or 7:30 am.  DB will be awake and up and about at 6.  He will take care of the boys and when it’s 7 am, he will come wake my butt up.  With [...]

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The darn wireless connection

By | February 20, 2008

It took me 2 hours and 15 minute to get the CNY post up last night.  KNN!!!  The darn wireless internet on my PC kept disconnecting every 10 minutes, sometimes less and if I’m lucky, I will get continuous internet connection for about 15+  minutes.  Even after I rebooted the PC or shut her down for about [...]

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PC died

By | January 15, 2008

My home PC died on me.  It was working fine when I turned it on yesterday afternoon.  I checked my mail, did some paid surveys, and left the survey thingy on while I got ready dinner.  After dinner and shower, it was 6:45 p.m. looked at my PC, it was freezed up, man!!  Hit and [...]

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Early night for me

By | January 8, 2008

It’s not even 9 p.m. and I’m calling it a night.  Wrote a few paid posts as they were due and I’m already feeling I need toothpicks to keep my eyes open.  I have to blame it on DB!!! Why does he have to arouse me last night while I was in deep slumber for, you [...]

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The weekend

By | January 7, 2008

My weekend started off with warm weather.  The temps shot up to the upper 30s yesterday, actually 41F degrees.  Saturday’s temp was fairly warm in the morning.  I went for a walk with the boys.  It was theirs and my first morning walk since i returned from my vacation.  (Yep, I got lazy since I [...]

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