Life with the Two Crazy Dogs

DB received 2 red envelopes from Marlboro, just like what I had received in the weekend.  Those two envelopes are the exact ones, immediately I told DB we now have three chances to win a trip to the ranch, the Crazy Mountain Ranch in Montana.  Here are some pictures from our previous trip in the fall of 2006.  Excuse me for the crappy pictures.  The free camera provided by the sponsors were not that good. And yes, there were a lot of free gifts from them: digital cameras, hats, two luggages, backpacks, jackets,windbreakers, pens, picture frames, ashtrays, cigarettes, shirts, bandanas, I think that were all.

This was taken on the second day after our trip to the Yellowstone National Park.  It rained, sleet and snowed the whole day but we still enjoyed it.

Out by our room getting all ready for the group picture.  The hat and red windbreaker were a gift from Marlboro upon our arrival.

This was inside the saloon where we have our breakfasts, lunches and happy hours. 

The General Store where you can buy films, toilettries, stamps, change of activity itineraries, etc.  Here are two more pictures of the inside of the General Store.

DB waiting for his turn to change his next day’s activity itinenary.

The displays in the store.

Clay shooting with John the guide on day 3.

Horseback riding on our third day.

Wagon ride to the Pavillion on the third day.

The Crazy Mountains in the background on the way back from the Pavillion.

Isn’t it gorgeous?  I can definitely go back to this ranch again.  Picture taken by Steve and Kim, who we befriended on this trip.

Today is the end of January.  The month of February and March are both busy months but, my department’s out-of-office calendar says otherwise.  My boss has already plan her vacation to Lost Wages at the end of February to the end of the first week in March.  Yep, she and her buddy and their hubbies will take two trips to Vegas annually.  My boss has all her plans for their hotels Las Vegas where I know they will be staying in the Flamingo for their spring trip and the Venetian for their fall trip.  The first part of their fall trip is always a business convention held by her hubby’s company and then they both will take another week to spend it with their buddies.  It would be nice if I can enjoy life just like her.  I will just wait for my turn.

Nice day today, blue skies in the morning and partly cloudy in the afternoon, but don’t be deceived by the beautiful sight out there.  It was -14F when I left the office building this afternoon at 2:30 p.m.

With the weather so damn cold today, guess what happened???

Yeppers, my car wouldn’t start no matter how much I tried for 15 minutes in the car without heat.  And I knew I shouldn’t have done it, I did it.  I stepped on the gas while turning the ignition on.  Did it so many times, I almost killed the battery and then I flooded the whatever pump with gas.  All this happened while at company’s property.  I had to walk to the lobby of the main building and told the security guys I needed help to jump start my car.  I waited for about 15 minutes, Mark’s Towing appeared, I got in their truck and went right to where my car was.  That guy jump started it within minutes, came back to the truck and told me all is well but he did ask me what it was doing before I called SOS.  I just told him when I tried to fire her up, it only turned and it wouldn’t fire up even when I stepped on the gas.  He said I shouldn’t step on the gas with this type of car with injection-fuel cars.  So, my car really smelt of gas big time when I got in.  I had to sit in the car for another 10 minutes to burn the gas off before I finally left the parking lot.

When I got home, this is what I saw in our kitchen.

Our kitchen window frosted from being so cold.  Yeah, we have very old windows that need to be replaced but that will have to wait.  The above picture reminds me of some suspense movie. 

I didn’t walk the boys either; sent them out on the backyard and they both had some sort of play time with the neighbor’s visiting dogs. 

I know you will be wondering what those brown/black thingys out on the snow.  They are the poop we have not gotten to them.  Yes, the backyard is becoming a cow pad.  These two boys formed two paths that they will always use to do their business or just to walk from the patio to the very end of the yard.  It’s nice to have winter loving dogs.  They can be out there for quite some time unless the wind is howling like yesterday, than I would force them to come in.  And during winter, they are a little fatter!!!  DB always feeds them a little more since they need the  fat to stay warm which is making the boys so darn happy and I have to walk them more when it gets warmer!

Anyway, that’s my day of fun for today.  And I still has this song spinning in my head since this morning. 

Don’t you hate it when you have a song that keeps playing and playing like an old broken record in your head since you open your eyes to face another gorgeous day with minus eighteen temperature with windchill of minus 45F? 

What is that song?

It’s this song from Feist, 1-2-3-4.   For some reason I cannot embed the YouTube codes to my blog.  *Darn*  Added the plugin, the image still did not appear. 

I like this song very much since it was released and then I heard it on the Apple iPod commercial.  And the best thing is, DB likes it, too. 

Oh yeah, I was going to say, it’s actually not bad waking up to this song in my head, a very upbeat song, to the crappy windy morning.  It definitely took my breath away when I got out from the car on my company’s huge parking lot and walking towards the building.   See a lot of fast walkers this morning, no putzing around like usual. 

This is what it is now as I’m writing this post. 

Absolutely REFRESHING! 

Like all Minnesotans will say, “If you don’t like the weather in Minnesota, wait 5 minutes.” 

Sure thing, the weekend and yesterday’s temps were just nice which was in the 40s, perfect for outdoor activities (for me at least).  Snow were melting away - slush and water along the sidewalks and streets, tho there were still some ice beneath water.

The arctic air kicked in middle of the night last night.  When I woke up this morning it was 11F degrees and the temp is dropping throughtout the day and still is.   I took a snapshot of the weather it was 0, and that was less than 5 minutes ago, it’s now -1F.   And plus the windchill it sure feels like 21F below.   The wind is gusting up to 27mph, per The Weather Channel.  Just lovely!

DB keeps complaining about the cold.  He said his “old ex-alcoholic bones cannot take the cold anymore and wants to fly to some where warm for good.”  He is definitely seriously thinking of moving south or to wherever that is not as cold as the midwest.  *Sigh* Good for him, too bad for me. 

The dog that grazes grass like a cow,

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the world stinkiest dog farts ever. 

Couldn’t believe The Boys made it to the LIFE cover magazine.   Common folks, check out the write up on these two notorious dogs in the neigbhorhood of Burneyville! 

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I saw the above MagMyPic.com on Cat’s blog and it was surely cute.  Play it around with your pictures and see what it comes out to be.  I sure enjoyed it.  Thanks Cat!

I received this from yesterday’s mail. 

Yes, another Marlboro ranch sweepstake.  If you remember, DB and i were there in September of 2006.  This trips terms and condition states that if ”Any person who has won or received a Marlboro Ranch trip in a sweepstakes,…within the five-year peiod prior to 4/21/08, will not be eligible to win.”  DB told me to go ahead and call in to the number provided to enter. No harm if we didn’t get it.   But……………………………………

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I ain’t no smoker anymore, why am I still receiving these entries and promotions from Marlboro?  Makes you wonder, huh?  I guess I stayed on their mailing list for the heck of to received these sort of promotions.  Who knows if we ever gonna get it; my gut instinct says no.  Results will be out on or about 4/18/2008.  Will know if we didn’t hear anything from Marlboro’s independent judging organization after that said date.

January is almost over with five more days to go.  DB said that the new year he will have to lose some weight, hence the new weight for the new year.  I asked him will he join me with the walks with the boys.  His answer, “Sure”, and that will definitely be a Powerball strike when he comes along for walks with me.  When we were at the rented house he did join us for walks, not many but at least he did a few times.  And to be honest where we used to live, there were hardly much shade unless it’s way past 7 pm.  Obviously, I don’t go for my walks when the sun is still out and DB surely will say NO if I invite him for a walk.  I finally checked out some ellipticals that I think both of us can use, and I actually did buy one from Nordiac Track and is now sitting very comfortably in the basement.  We used it  a lot and he loves it too.  Since he came back from vacation, he said he has gained quite a bit of weight, and not doing anything about it.  I told him the machines in the basement are waiting for him and especially so if he is going to move his office downstairs.

I am thinking of going out for some shopping tomorrow morning.  It has been a while since I went to the mall for any shopping or even window shopping.  The last I was at any mall was the day before I left for my vacation to Malaysia.  Actually I did a lot of shopping 5 months before.  I even did some online shopping which was the best invention ever.  Nadine is one heck of a designer shopping freak.  I suppose I would do the same if I had that kind of money like she has.  She loves to shop online with  Bluefly coupon, so I guess there is no point in asking her if she wants to go shopping with me tomorrow morning.  

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I was on the phone with a friend this evening and we had a conversation in regards to same sex marriage how she supports it by legalizing it, but I am the opposite.  I don’t care if you gay/lesbian but I do not believe in same sex marriage.  Yes, some companies do not include their significant other/partner in the insurance coverages.  She told me about her instructor who is gay and her partner was involved in an accident and almost in a vegetable state.  She was sent to a nursing home by the girl’s parents after she came out from her coma, where I suppose in a nursing home they do not have to purchase incontinence supplies.  Because there was no insurance coverage provided for the instructor’s girlfriend, this poor girl had to stay in the cheapest nursing home and now that she is living with the instructor who is caring for her occupational and physical therapies, she is able to walk and move her arms. 

I still think that companies nationally should include the employees’ partners to the benefits package, but do not pass the damn law to legalize the marriage - so that they can “have” kids which I have read in the news that many gay couples are doing now.  But isn’t it weird, as a child to be brought up with a pair of parents of the same sex?  My coworker and I had this conversation before since our company has this employee resource group for the gay/lesbian and trans-gender, we two totally disagree with congress passing the law on same sex marriage.  I know some states has this law passed, California as one of them, and I think Maryland, too.  And if the Democrats wins the Prez election, we will definitely won’t be seeing this same sex marriage thingy.  Anyways, my thoughts do not worth a cent…..

This week’s theme is Old-fashioned.  It was not too easy for me to look for some thing that is oldfashion in manner.  Nothing in our house look oldfashioned enough and I didn’t want to go out in the snow scouting around either.  I looked through my Photobucket and found a few pictures that I consider “oldfashion”.   These pictures were taken in my parents’ home during my last visit.

Picture of my grandfather hanging in the dining room.  He was dressed in the typical Chinese men’s attire back in the early 1900s, I think.  I don’t think men in China now dress like this anymore.

This is my mom’s sewing machine.  I don’t see this oldfashion sewing machine around much as it is being replaced by the modern electric ones.

I’m tagged again, the Linky Love tag.  This tag is from Trinity of Rooms of my Heart.

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I will tag Stef, Samm, Yvy, SY, and Z&Z Mama.  I hope that you will similarly publish this post in your blog. You will have to tag 5 other bloggers and just keep adding on to the list. (Do not replace, just keep on adding! Yes we hope it will be a long list!)

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This is what Nadine bought, this set of home theater lighting for their brand new home theater.  They recently renovated their home and the home theater is one of them with really plush carpets.

She bought two sets of the the above wall lightings, all of them sitting nicely up on the walls.  The color of the new wall lights definitely enhanced the lighting and the decor in the room.  There is also a full wet bar, yes, a bar fully loaded with beer, booze, and pop of your choice.   On top of that, both Nadine and hubby have a dog, they bought a special dog bed for the retriever.   The puppy must be in heaven on earth!

Yep, it is here, my page rank of my blog has dropped from 3 to 0.  I actually anticipated it to drop sooner but it hung on for a few months.  I suppose it was enough for me to grab some good paying posts at that moment.  I’m not going to piss and moan about the zero rank.  Definitely I wouldn’t be getting those high paying posts to buy myself a Technomarine watch, but I’m fine with it at the moment.  Other opportunities will pop up.  I might become a placement media specialist if I really want to spend the money to learn this skill.  I will talk about it later when I am ready for it.  For now, I will go with what I have available for me to write for extra cash, and since I am back in school, I won’t have much time to write anyways.   Google can take the rank as much as it wants, I am content with the few months of PR3 I had.  I never expect a lot of readers to my blog anyway, so I am not sad or feel like fixing the problem.