Life with the Three Crazy Dogs

I always look forward to weekend but the past weekend I dreaded it. It was just one of those weekend I don’t want to be home at all, I mean I don’t even want to step foot in the house.  But I know I can’t.  I have the boys to take care of.  I did go out to Macy’s at the Mall of America to get what I wanted, went to Joann’s craft store to look around since there was sales on notions. I didn’t get any notions but was quite tempted to check out the Beading Tools that were on sale. I told myself I will not start something new now.   I guess I’m just in a slump myself.  It sucks when one is in a slump, you will drag the another down too.  I sure is thankful I have a job to go to.  I know I complain about my job but I still get up every morning and drive myself to work.  It gets me off whatever I don’t want to think about.   So now instead of huddling over the  PC on FB, I should get my sewing stuff together and start making myself a shoulder bag I wanted to make for a very long time.  Hmmm, maybe that’s what I should do this afternoon.

It has been ages since I really posted  something non paid!  Sad isn’t it? 

The only thing that is really worth posting is what I baked during the weekends.  Pretty much every weekend the oven is on.  Last weekend I must have been super hardworking, full of energy I guess.  I baked a banana bread and blueberry crumb cake.  On top of that I prepped for the week’s dinner.  I was tired the morning up till I started working on the nana bread.  Whatever happened, I have no clue.  I was cooking away in the kitchen.

My disgusting looking blueberry crumble. Tasted darn good though.  We have been eating it with vanilla ice-cream.

Here’s the banana bread. Why do American’s call it banana bread and not cake? This nana bread is a favorite of the man, so he does put in quite a few requests a month!

I told DB no baking this weekend.  I need to let my over flowing muffin top a rest.  It’s more like giving my pants a breather.  No joke, my pants are screaming at me for suffocating them.

Since it has been hot and hot and humid and more humid (seems forever), I have shorten my walks with the dogs.  I still walk them in the afternoon after I get home from work.  The temperature is like 89F or higher plus no shady spots.  The boys, no matter how damn hot and humid it is, they still want to go for their CSI walks.  I call it CSI because they have to snoop every 10 yards or less!!  We walk them again in the evening since they cannot roam around the yard on their own, we walk them and get their business done for the evening/night.

Here’s a pic of Cooper after his walk. Catching some coolness in the kitchen tiled floor.  This fella is getting whiter day by day, but still loves his long walks.

Ranger at the entryway. Everyday when we come back from a walk, he will lay just like that to cool off.  He is the real crime scene investigator.  Anything that is 5 yards or less he will stop to check it out. 

Chase after his evening frisbee session in 90F temperature. He’s a slob. There’s water on his snout and he is my shadow.  Follows me every where in the house.

So there, my updates for now till Lord knows when.  :)  TTFN

DB is a hardcore TV addict.  No joke, he has to watch TV when he is prepping dinner, or when he gets home, the first thing he will do is turn the TV on.  We have a TV in the dining room now and we installed a dish TV a month after we moved in.  I was kinda against it but then I thought since he is paying for the bill, I’d let it go.

Having satellite dish instead of cable has its advantages and disadvantages.  I much prefer cable because when it rains or any bad weather, the cable will not lose signal.  Satellite dishes do, however cable has fewer channels than satellite dish.  The cable company we had frequented usually comes with a package with internet and or phone.  However this time around we just wanted TV channels, no internet and what not.  So DB stuck on with his favorite dish TV provider, Direct TV.   I left it to him to settle this “TV” thing since he is the who will be watching the most.

Direct TV do offer a few direct satellite tv offers.   There are quite a number of packages to pick from.  I had already told him to pick the minimal but that fella still insist on some channels like Fox Sports North (FSN), ESPN, Western and FX and some other channels I can’t even remember.  I cannot remember which package he picked, I think it’s the Choice package, since it was priced very reasonably and the channels he wanted are there.

Since DB is paying for all bills, I don’t really care what he wants to  order for channels but I still want a moderate looking statement every month.  Anyway, he told me since we are only getting two receivers, the bill will drop tremendously compare to four receivers.  I have to agree that the statement is better looking and I do like how Direct TV have their tv pricing fair with other companies with the channels we have and the price we pay plus it includes all the local channels, too.  I’m up for that.

Friday I was out again with Nadine. This time around her sister came along as we were going to the mall by her house. Her sister and brother in-law came for a visit from Moscow, their 2nd time in Minnesota. Her sister is about 4+ months preggie but she don’t even look like she is with child. Ok this is what i want to talk about. Her sister is super anal. She wants to get the best prenatal vitamin but could not decide which to get. Nadine told her most brands sold in here are good brands. Even store brands are good. Her sister said she will never touch anything store brand. Wow, that was obnoxious of her. I told her I have known friends who took store brands prenatal vities and everything was fine with them. I guess she rather spend the extra bucks to get the best out there. Nadine and I just rolled my eyes, fed up with her sister.

I think I mentioned this before, the company brings in vendors to sell their products at the convenience store right in the campus. It is very nice to have these little shopping while at work. I have bought a few books, men’s shirts and plates from these vendors. This morning I saw the flier on a wholesale clothes vendor coming in tomorrow for half a day. I am curious what types of brands and line of clothes they are selling. I really like the Minnesota Twins collection they had two months ago. They were reasonably priced and by 2:30 p.m. a lot of their merchandise were sold.   I hope tomorrow’s merchandise is a good lot. :)