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I was hoping my co-worker, N will show up in this bad weather but she emailed me saying she is staying home with the kids. Hah, it would be nice too. She is busy working on her home winter project – sprucing up the apartment. We have been scouting round for switch plate covers last week, so I’m guessing she is continuing her search for them. She asked me if she needs some help with her winter project, would I help her, I told her right away, I would be more than happy. I love being in the middle of all these “sprucing up home” projects!

My friend and I went for a Cirque du Soleil show on Saturday, OVO.  It was held at the Mall of America, the outside of the mall, though.  I am always amazed at Cirque du Soleil’s performances.  This was my second show and I loved it.  This is not the best show but the performance was good enough and my friend got some great deals on the tickets!

Spring is definitely here. The geese are back and invading the lakes and ponds around the neighborhood leaving their green droppings on the grass and sidewalks. The droppings make great treats for the boys!! I have not clue why my dogs love them so damn much.

See that two geese by the other side of the pond?? They sure have a lot to leave behind every day.  The above picture taken last Saturday on a windless afternoon, very rare.

We had a day of almost 89 degrees with high humidity. Of course with that kind of we ge bad spring storms = thunderstorms with hail and tornados. We had some little tiny pellets of hail and green looking skies in our area. When the sky turn dark greenish, it’s not good….go to the basement and hide, away from the windows. Luckily no funnel clouds, just horrible looking skies and heavy rain.

The rest of this week is going to be cloudy and cool. I like! The boys cool off quicker. Since I refuse to the turn the air conditioning on, the dogs were panting the entire day. All three at the same sounds like a freight train.

All the rain brings out the “lovely” dandelions – every homeowner’s nightmare!

Spring is officially here weeks ago. Green grass sprouting from the ground. The dogs are happy to eat them. Tress are budding. Tulips are sprouting flowers.

Our yard looks disgusting. I wonder if the brown patches will ever turn green in time to come.

It rained a few times and even though I don’t like the rain, we need the rain badly to thawed out the ground and wash the crap on the roads and grass. Although it snowed two days ago, we need more moisture.  Yeah, the temp is just like in winter….dropped to the 30′s with the wind gusting 100 mph!!!  Exeggerating a little but I have to say the howling wind is not nice at all when one needs to walk the dogs.  The weather man says we will get 9 inches of snow this Wednesday.   This is the first time I have not put away my winter boots and gear away at this time of the year.  This is a love/hate thing I have with winter/spring.

My coworker came back from her winter break couple weeks ago. She came back with this:

It looks like it’s just in Hawaii one can get this “Aloha” macadamia nut Hersheys.  She gave me a handful and they were sitting my gut within minutes.  They were good.  Wish I have the whole bag!

I have eaten my sister’s fruit cake for many years. I never ever try making one myself. Reason being it’s too darn difficult. Well, I finally got the courage to make one last week. The result was good. Here’s the proof! My sister would be damn proud I finally made one and I even used her recipe.  She as so many fruit cake recipes she had tried and put out on her blog.  Instead I tried this one since it was the one I actually remember the taste 3 years ago!

I split the mixture in to two tins and gave one to my friend since she has so many people in her house. I “fed” with brandy a few times before I gave it to her. The one for us, well, it’s almost gone. I might make another one this week since I’m off the entire week.  The recipe calls for pecans for decoration, I didn’t get the pecans since I was not sure how the cake would turn out to be.

Now that I know fruit cake is so darn easy to make, I will make one for Christmas or whenever I feel like eating it.  The only pain in the tush is the chopping of the fruits and provided that there’s any booze left in the house!

It is so dry the past couple of months. The last it rained was a week ago and it was a pitiful amount. The last significant rainfall was on September 23. We had about 7 inches of rain where everything was soaking. Now, it’s drier than a bone or drier than a popcorn! We have brought out the dehumidifier to add some moisture in the house. We left it in the den upstairs since it’s open to downstairs. It helps a lot when we are upstairs but when we are downstairs, we need to bring out the smaller one especially when we are in the living room. The nose is starting to bleed too. That’s a sure sign for me of very dry environment.

I am really surprise the usual office gang didn’t decor up their cubes for Halloween. Almost every holiday or celebration, they would do up their work stations. The boss has some office décor in his office but one of the girls did up his office with orange pumpkin banners. I guess the mood in their area is not too happy since couple of their coworkers will be leaving soon as their jobs are sent to South East Asia.  Aside from that, I think the company does not allow employees to dress up for Halloween from this year onwards.  I didn’t see anyone dress up at all.  The past years, there were so many employees dressed up in their costumes or whatever Halloween dressing they want to the company.  Seriously, there are so much changes these past 10+ years.

Can’t believe it’s that time of the year….fall back, move the clock back one hour which means an hour of extra sleep.  But usually it does mess up my sleep.  I will try to stay up to my “spring forward” time and do feel out of whack the next day.  Weird. 

This Turkey Day (Nov 25th) the BIL wants us to go to their house for dinner.  DB said he wants to go but what to do with the boys.  If the dinner starts early afternoon (2pm) i guess we can go and come home in the evening for the dogs.  Not my job to contact BIL, will see what the man comes back with in terms of dinner times with them, or maybe he does not want to go at all….excuses!

Also this year will be the last year the my company is giving out free turkeys.  Kinda sad.  New management eliminated all free stuff that was brought on by the old, old, old management….the more family oriented company.  I decided to keep this turkey and cook and freeze the left overs.  Might try to brine the bird before roasting it.  Never done it before.

Another thing, thank goodness Halloween is over with.  The reason is I saw a lot of candy wrappers, dropped candies, and cupcakes on the street/sidewalks.  Super irritating coz the boys will jump right to it chomping away.  Hoping they will have no problems ingesting chocolate in their garbage stomachs.

I went over to Nadine’s and Mark’s after church. These two will be leaving for their long vacation in Russia soon. Mark has been busy getting golf trophies for his 2 brother-in-laws. Nadine said those trophies are a waste of space in the luggage. I told Mark he could ship them to his BIL and they don’t have to lug them in their luggage. Of course, knowing Mark, he is Mr. Careful, he wants them with him so he knows they are not missing or broken. The joy of traveling.

Glad to see there are no RV’s on the freeway since school started in September. There are one or two I do see on the freeway. My friend Ruth and her hubs had to call a rv towing company to tow their RV from Ohio to Texas. They left Minnesota at the start of fall to their summer home in Texas on their RV. After they past Austin, MN, they felt something was wrong but continued to drive on till smoke was bellowing from the RV.

It’s Sunday afternoon, sitting here feeling quite relieve, relieve of stress, I guess.  Saw the doc last week and I’m back on the happy pill.  Thank goodness for happy pills.  Side effects of it are gone taking the 1/2 pill.  This evening I will start the whole pill and I’m hoping the side effects will not be that bad that I be a walking zombie the next day.

The boys are bored to tears….whining and dying to get out for their walks.  I walked them before church which was a very short one.  I guess I would be bored too if I were to lay on the floor staring into space for hours and hours.  Think I will take them out after these posts.  Have to churn some out and this as usual is a filler!

Besides all the latest happenings, nothings new or I should said SSDD – same shit different day.

I have blackheads but with a new mask i’m using, those blackheads are under control. My next problem is those pesky whiteheads. How in the world do they pop up? Probably I did not get a good cleaning. Some times I will try to squeeze those whiteheads out but those pesky things are tough. Working on zits popping are easier althought at times I do leave some nasty marks behind. At least now I can say with the new skincare product I’m using, my complexion is better, not as blotchy as before, however those brown spots are still there and I’m afraid they will be there for as long as I’m alive!

I am no doubt stressing a lot lately but now, I’m just going with the flow. Needless to say, stress does not help with my zits. To add salt to the wound, Chase the booger loves to lick and of course my face is his favorite target when I’m sitting at the dining table reading or when I’m putting my shoes on, he will lick. I have to start looking at those treatment for acne soon. I had stopped going for facial. I’m doing my own facial. So maybe I need to incorporate other skincare with my acne problems.