Ni hao, etc.

My Chinese lessons are progressing...I'm terrible at pronounciation. Xiaolei is very kind to me. She is even going to show me how to make cucumbers and garlic, my very favorite food from China which I have yet to find in any restaurant here.

yay!

Here is my new punch buggy! thanks Kadee for the pic!

showoff

Here is my favorite pic of Chelsea per Alison's request...

more doggy pics

Sorry for all the doggie pics lately but I thought this one was great... from si.com

it's been a long time

Sorry all for my lapse in posting. It's been insanely busy. Justin and I aren't going to get to celebrate Valentine's day officially until Thursday, although he did stop by my office this afternoon to deliver some yummy chocolate and cashew poppycock... YUM!

My new car is awesome. I keep forgetting to take a photo. This is the first time I've had a car that was made in the same decade as I've owned it. And it is also my first car with cupholders. Yes, I know it performs great, drives like a dream, is in wonderful shape, and gets good gas mileage... but it has CUPHOLDERS! and a BUD VASE! :-)

Tonight we're having our annual Valentine's Day fundraiser spaghetti dinner to send the youth to camp. It's always a lot of fun. The older folks like it especially.

My resume and cover letter are due in on Friday. A little more tweaking and I will have them done. Writing cover letters is so excruciating. I am good at them but it takes me hours to get mine finished. One of these days I'm going to submit one that says "I'm Awesome, Hire Me and Not The Other Boring People."

Yea, Alison is coming to visit next weekend! I'm so excited! I'm as bad as my mom... I told Chelsea that her Auntie Alison was coming to visit. She just perked up her ears like Auntie Alison was a new kind of doggie treat or something.

That's the scoop for now. More later. Happy Valentine's Day!

pups

I loved this photo from cnn.com. That is one excited pup.

punch buggy!

I'm so excited, I got a new car! 2003 VW New Beetle! Manual transmission, dark grey, charcoal interior... and of COURSE the standard flower vase! Photos soon...

serious tornado nerdiness

So they are changing the Fujita scale... for all of you multitudes who care about such things you can read about it here... Hey, Justin doesn't call me the National Weather Service for nothing!

oy oy oy OY vey

I am so busy it's insane! To think at one time I had to beg for work. ;-) Anyway I have a new class to teach on Monday and about a million other things to do, not the least of which is finishing my cover letter and getting all that submitted. I'm also thinking about buying a new car... alas, poor Gertrude, she is needing fixing again. So far the leading contenders are the Scion xA and the soon to be released Toyota Yaris. They are small, funky, and cheap, which is what I am looking for, and of course my Mini Cooper is still just a dream. I've also considered a Chevy Aveo... I know, an American car, and it's ugly... I never thought it would happen. But it is so stinking dirt cheap I can't pass it up. A test drive will tell more.

Anyhow back to work work work! Oh, I almost forgot, I created my first blog template! It's a sample one and I'm not going to update the blog but you can see it here. I wanted something to put into my interview presentation that showed my web design and made people laugh.