Effing winter

Most people that know me know that I don't like winter. When we moved from Sacramento to Boise, I thought I would do fine w/ the cold b/c I've never had a problem with it before. It's really not the cold I don't like, but more a combination of cold, snow, and less daylight hours. In January, it won't get light until after 8am and then it will get dark by 5pm.

I don't really like that. I don't mind the cold if it's sunny b/c I don't have to be out in the cold.

This is a picture from the front of my house on Saturday. Yes, that is snow. I really want to move to Hawaii.

My Amazon.com Shopping Cart

I usually like Amazon's recommendations to me based on my purchases. I've found several good books through that feature. I got some very strange recommendations today. I checked my Shopping Cart and lookey what I found:

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So I can't decide if he was just hopeful that I wouldn't notice next time I placed an order or what.

Husband Pet Peeve #1

There are many pet peeves I have about various things in life. Some things I'm able to just shrug off, some things drive me absolutely batty. My husband takes the prize for being able to drive me absolutely crazy.

I'm a huge recycler. I recycle my empty toilet paper rolls. So I always recycle catalogs that come in the mail, junk mail, etc. One thing I hate doing (along with laundry and cleaning bathrooms) is going through the mail. Our kitchen island is like a huge junkyard of unopened mail. I try to go through it as I get it, but that doesn't happen very often. Of course my husband rarely looks through the mail unless he sees a magazine or ad for Cabelas. When I finally go through the mail, I make piles. My recycle pile, my bill pile, and my shred pile. What drives me crazy is that AFTER I finally go through it, he decides that he needs to go through it, too. He goes through all my piles and then tries to talk to me about certain things.

What I want to know is that if he's going to go through it, can't he do it before I do? It would save me some major aggravation. I think it's a man thing.

I wish I had it this easy

While I've been working hard from home today (heh), this is how Molly has spent the last 6 hours.

She hasn't moved except to lick her bum. She won't move until Jack gets home. When he walks in the door, she'll meow him to death.

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Me, My Sister, and Metallica

Jack and I flew to Portland on Saturday morning to go see the Metallica concert. It was, hands down, the best concert I've ever been to. It was amazing.

In all the concerts I've been to, there has been ONE opening band. Metallica had two. In a moment of extreme blondness, I thought the 2nd band was Metallica for about two songs. When Metallica actually came on, I felt even more stupid.

The beer was flowing freely. Jack had so much that he got sick after we got back to my sister's house. He blames his sickness on some phantom that pushed him out of the car when we got there. I felt really bad for him, though. The next day I mentioned to my sister that I didn't think we drank that much. She told me that when the beer is free, you don't really pay attention to how much you're drinking. How right she was. LOL

We had such a great time, even though it was a quick trip. The travel was relatively easy since we were w/o kids. Like I've said before, anytime we go visit over there, I want to move there. This trip was no exception.

This is a picture of me and my sister. You can't tell we're related, can you?