tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67515077279573654002024-03-19T00:35:59.594-07:00Sweet and Sarcasticskcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.comBlogger456125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-57147930271164548262023-11-03T09:42:00.000-07:002023-11-03T09:42:06.946-07:00Bourbon & Cider <p> <span style="color: #4c1013;">Hi Friend!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: #4c1013;">Started the week off with a
little power outage, and I got to break out my religious, yet un-scented,
candles to add to my already glowing bath and body works display.</span><span style="color: #4c1013;"> </span><span style="color: #4c1013;">Then on Wednesday I got a surprise visit from
Zach and Fran for dinner (in which they brought me dinner – I don’t want anyone
thinking they were silly enough to think I had dinner magically available.) On
Thursday, we had a delightful party at work.</span><span style="color: #4c1013;">
</span><span style="color: #4c1013;">I dressed as Ted Lasso, and then when it was time to paint pumpkins, I made
sure it was in theme.</span><span style="color: #4c1013;"> </span><span style="color: #4c1013;">I thought there
was simply no way I would win the contest because it was my first time painting
a pumpkin, but I was delighted to be wrong!</span><span style="color: #4c1013;">
</span><span style="color: #4c1013;">We also played a game where you had to guess what spooky character you
were, and let me tell you it took me forever.</span><span style="color: #4c1013;">
</span><span style="color: #4c1013;">A real person, related to a book, an American, who had never killed
anyone or was in government.</span><span style="color: #4c1013;"> </span><span style="color: #4c1013;">You might
have already figured it out faster than I did, b/c it was Edgar Allen Poe.</span><span style="color: #4c1013;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">I then skedaddled home to pick
up Percy and get to the airport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Me: I’m doing a last-minute,
quick trip like the old days to see if I can still do it without exhausting myself.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Lucas: The old days?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You did a last-minute weekend trip to Vegas
in March! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Me: Well, that doesn’t count. (and
I was technically younger then.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">I started a new series, the
plated prisoner, on my way to NY and was done with the 4 books, 4 days later,
on Monday night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And also, I was very stressed out to find out
that it ends on a total cliff-hanger and there are two more books that haven’t
come out yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A point I yelled at
Marissa for, early on Tuesday morning, and then paused long enough to say hi
and meet her mother, saying, “I don’t always yell at her in the morning, I
promise.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maureen picked me up bright and early, and
then I tried to get a quick cat nap before getting some work done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She came over shortly after because she had
some trouble with her oven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Namely, she
put some meatballs in the oven, and then the oven, of it’s own accord
locked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then decided starting to “Clean”
and things started smoking, but then it went to “Cool” so she decided to go
next door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But apparently, that’s when
things started getting really smokey and Pat had to try to pull the oven out
from the wall to disconnect to power. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Mo: I went to the other house
because the oven said he was “cool!” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Pat: He wasn’t cool. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Mo: Oh look you can see inside! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">(You know, because it was on
fire, and this was interesting b/c the light hadn’t working in quite some
time.) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Then, Mo went back down to pick
up James, Kevin’s Godfather, from the airport, and then we all had dinner at my
parents’ house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Mo when to pick up
the pizza, Pat yelled to her to close the back (trunk) door, but she didn’t
hear him and suddenly a packed car started spilling out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And now that I’m writing it all out, Mo had
quite a long, crazy day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which might
explain what happened next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After hanging
out for a couple hours outside, my dad not saying anything, he decides to bring
up the earlier incident with the car door… Mo’s response was a flat out F*ck You,
followed by James saying, “A lot has changed up on the hill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t remember the language being so colorful
in Jefferson Valley when I lived here.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Other amusing stories of the
night: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Mo was saying that there is a quarter
inch gap between the two walls in her classroom, and every day this kid would
randomly put his face up to the gap and scream, and Mo would tell him to stop
screaming at the wall, but he’d keep doing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Until one day, she handed the kids bestie a straw and some water and told
him precisely what she could NOT do to a student.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the next time the kid went to scream, he
got a face full of water, and while he was spurting, Mo was saying, “I told you
to stop screaming at the wall.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">And then Stacey said that while
all the kids in her class were taking a test, she happened to see a big ass
bug, so she yelled at a student, mid-exam, “Oh my god, run, Lynette!! Get out
of here!” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">The following day we were up
early, getting ready to watch Kevin play at SUNY Maritime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I walked into the house and jokingly said to James,
“You’re wearing blue? What if that’s the Coast Guard colors!?” Not knowing a
single thing about the coast guard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
immediately became defensive and put on another long sleeved maroon shirt over
the blue shirt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2 minutes later, Pat was
like, “How many layers are you wearing? You’re going to overheat!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, James is definitely glad he came to
visit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we took pictures with all of
us using mugs adorned with our adorable Godson, Kevin (#79). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: #4c1013;">Mo went ALL out on the tailgating
spread, and Kevin had 6 of his Aunts and Uncles there, and the game was a real
thrill ride, where there were canons and push-ups and Maritime won with 3
seconds on the clock when the Coast Guard missed a field goal.</span><span style="color: #4c1013;"> Also, I discovered the delight that is Bourbon and Apple Cider. YUM. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">As we were cleaning up the
table, Mo says, “We can’t throw out the tomatoes because I grew them, so they
were like 95 dollars, or 17 dollars for each cherry tomato.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">James: I just talked to Kevin.
Good Job, Maureen.</span><span style="color: #4c1013;"> </span><span style="color: #4c1013;">He didn’t just come
out like that, that was a lot of work you put in there.</span><span style="color: #4c1013;"> </span><span style="color: #4c1013; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol-ext; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">❤</span><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Just as we were about to get
into the car, Pat was using a bungie cord to tie up the back trailer, and it
snapped back and hit him in the eye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So,
I drove home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was some discussion
on if Pat was going to go to the party later, and shock from the backseat when
he said he wasn’t going, you know because of the bungie cord to the eyeball,
and the full on swelling shut of said eye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We got home, and then ten minutes later, I was driving us to a Halloween
Party and Mel and Bennett’s. That’s when Mo started making fun of me that I was
so concerned about Pat’s eye, and then I had to explain once again that I
shouldn’t be made fun of for CARING.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
honestly, I think this might be a losing battle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Mo said she got us matching costumes in diff colors. I imagined M&M's but this was way cooler. We're spooky neon skeletons! </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">The following morning, I made Mo & Frita playtest a game with me, and then before I knew it, I was getting ready for the
airport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Frita: Are you going to get your
treat before you leave? Unless you don’t think it’ll get through customs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You could get hijacked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess they don’t do that anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They used to hijack planes all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God, your daughter doesn’t have any sense of
history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Me (uncontrollably giggling): I’ll
take a treat on my way out, but I’m taking the dollar, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsF8KSdE9wSS0C3ok4MbkApxd0Jmw8kJvXOzMmGgd2oDxIOoqp5HMbO3ZjslmN90s3FvI4zmEXLIzP9d4FeDnpN9vBrO4MiP1RfDxPWInQCdZAMfu-v39Jm_EnqekLfhoFVg5se8Av7gR094nAVBYbfVi6EOJ6gPVTPK6WZZDzeisAc8LlBNan0Q439S0/s4032/IMG_0258.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsF8KSdE9wSS0C3ok4MbkApxd0Jmw8kJvXOzMmGgd2oDxIOoqp5HMbO3ZjslmN90s3FvI4zmEXLIzP9d4FeDnpN9vBrO4MiP1RfDxPWInQCdZAMfu-v39Jm_EnqekLfhoFVg5se8Av7gR094nAVBYbfVi6EOJ6gPVTPK6WZZDzeisAc8LlBNan0Q439S0/s320/IMG_0258.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">You’ll all be pleased to know
that I’m still capable of last minute, quick trips to NY, but I did wake up at
5:30 this morning full of energy, and THAT certainly didn’t used to happen in
the good old days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Love you, Mean it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>skcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-9991496229086333562023-10-24T12:14:00.000-07:002023-10-24T12:14:48.096-07:00Physical'ed<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Hi Friend! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtZSElbrgRc6i-KzDKhCAOSGyztmWCp3QSXqS80stNmO5r0xZ3SuA4vKKngL6j12T0xE8A_fM3yDykoim2z51lb0Rq1T2KM9X-hxQ68W5_CJTjd9aI38ojFy7BKlYyyrTsIdSwSVVEC-1svuMWuNQ5NHMRVIKhSLxiQ6Oo1T-A4AB62q1mKROMfbPwJJE/s1170/IMG_0172.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="1170" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtZSElbrgRc6i-KzDKhCAOSGyztmWCp3QSXqS80stNmO5r0xZ3SuA4vKKngL6j12T0xE8A_fM3yDykoim2z51lb0Rq1T2KM9X-hxQ68W5_CJTjd9aI38ojFy7BKlYyyrTsIdSwSVVEC-1svuMWuNQ5NHMRVIKhSLxiQ6Oo1T-A4AB62q1mKROMfbPwJJE/s320/IMG_0172.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Walked to my car this morning to
see a neighbor standing and staring at her car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Me: Are you having trouble
convincing yourself to go to work? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Her: No. Someone hit my car yesterday
and I’m just mourning the damage. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Me: Well, that’s much worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">(Even though I was actually torn
between saying, “It wasn’t me!” and “Do you need help getting vengeance?” I
really don’t know her well enough…) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">We had an in-office physical day
last week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never having had a physical
in the office, I was moderately nervous, which didn’t help when Frita was like,
“are you going to have pee in a cup?” because then I just kept imagining
carrying said cup o’ pee through the office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bracing myself, I walked into the office, armed with three, 24 oz
bottles of water, ready to get physical’ed. The new HR Director was in the
kitchen, near the box of delicious blazin’ bagels, so I shared my anxiety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She, wisely, told me it wasn’t that kind of
physical and offered to share a bagel with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I, neurotically, refused saying I didn’t want anything messing with my
numbers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5 minutes later, someone else
in the office pulled up the page with what was actually going to happen in the physical,
and I came back in the kitchen and had a bagel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is what happened AFTER I had a “physical.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Me: I PASSED! Nearly
perfect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I do regret that bagel. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Everyone proceeded to stare at
me, as if it isn’t a competition, and that I’m the crazy one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Several hours after the physical.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Me: I really want a bagel, but
only half of one. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">HR: You had your chance. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Me: I know! I’m sorry! We can
totes be bagel buddies next time!! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">So, making friends in the office
is going well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">I finished the ACOTAR
series.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then I might have read it
again for good measure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I booked a last-minute
flight to NY for the coming weekend because I heard Kevin’s Godfather was going
to his game, and I am not one to be shown up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Also, it sounded like a lot of fun, and since D&J are out of town, I
didn’t have a lot going on for Halloween.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But also, the godparent thing. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">On Wednesday, I went for a walk
with Marissa, but instead of the park, we just decided to do a loop on the main
streets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is actually the same loop
that Percy has been doing with his new dog walker, and he was genuinely stoked
to show me where he goes. It was adorbs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As we were walking our of our space, these two kids told us that someone
had stalled out right by our entrance and was blocking up all the traffic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They told us this news with just buzzing
energy, that we stopped to ask if we could help, or just push him out of the
way of traffic, but I don’t think the guy understood English very well and our
hand gestures only got us so far, so our attempt didn’t go very far.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was
not there when we got back, so hopefully, help came soon after.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess it’s the thought that counts? Anyway,
not sure you can see it in this picture, but I was followed by a guy on a motorcycle
this week with the head of a Predator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just
another day in Kirkland, I guess. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOqWau3FMzHN2wh0AL_e5wfXlmcmIv2I6h6mhVkVFR8pzo0sdeBjSztkJG0RiO5gr3juZjJr5WxA2FILtn7rVKxcgv1RJ7IpbRS6Or9iTc1PnQu5WQoINxbiu3pBIRkdBe_n6CpKf0kCDpMkru1KSgc2Q6ZBYKDUal_p8GS-nXbwT_YgmV_pEP4VCaKow/s4032/IMG_0151.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOqWau3FMzHN2wh0AL_e5wfXlmcmIv2I6h6mhVkVFR8pzo0sdeBjSztkJG0RiO5gr3juZjJr5WxA2FILtn7rVKxcgv1RJ7IpbRS6Or9iTc1PnQu5WQoINxbiu3pBIRkdBe_n6CpKf0kCDpMkru1KSgc2Q6ZBYKDUal_p8GS-nXbwT_YgmV_pEP4VCaKow/s320/IMG_0151.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">I went to Becky’s Spooky Tea
Party on Saturday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I even dressed up as
Ted Lasso! Becky was a super hostess, especially because she encouraged boozin’
up the tea and hot apple cider, and I think there is nothing classier than
whiskey in teacups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got to meet some
of her new neighbor friends, and chat about books and other delights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP61PuJvLVcuHWmKZjNKSG4IdUOVCboFbppcUC7-SzGi2X-bi7C3B5Jx-j6kZKxeTA6lIsq_6yfl_BUUgwdAWZZvH4HEMgn1FkDItqCW96w0H6aryyUbniegoJAgRxdOi6GSa1UAFv7wbM9vBKuvzVAhvnRnqRlons5aW2xvoUO9XWUUyw7VjkblSRVng/s2208/IMG_0166.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2208" data-original-width="1244" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP61PuJvLVcuHWmKZjNKSG4IdUOVCboFbppcUC7-SzGi2X-bi7C3B5Jx-j6kZKxeTA6lIsq_6yfl_BUUgwdAWZZvH4HEMgn1FkDItqCW96w0H6aryyUbniegoJAgRxdOi6GSa1UAFv7wbM9vBKuvzVAhvnRnqRlons5aW2xvoUO9XWUUyw7VjkblSRVng/s320/IMG_0166.JPG" width="180" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlfBS4QtOUK2Bq3dJl71T6trHsOIbLaNBAwH6ensGl-tbyy4jtrHWCxdpnkgKpvl3mpEtnpD6hqiqy-SN_vV2EnBQ-UIUquu36qXkV-cN0gqeULpDHgzt_tHP8zUf3fmkCd5BHw50c8kLOqPKVkS6D6AoO63Y1BnKsiOHiTOERw_wIl29A2U6P5aB5BVA/s2208/IMG_0164.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2208" data-original-width="1244" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlfBS4QtOUK2Bq3dJl71T6trHsOIbLaNBAwH6ensGl-tbyy4jtrHWCxdpnkgKpvl3mpEtnpD6hqiqy-SN_vV2EnBQ-UIUquu36qXkV-cN0gqeULpDHgzt_tHP8zUf3fmkCd5BHw50c8kLOqPKVkS6D6AoO63Y1BnKsiOHiTOERw_wIl29A2U6P5aB5BVA/s320/IMG_0164.JPG" width="180" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Jared: Did you get another Christmas
Tree?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Becky: Good Sir, I would
never.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We already have 5 large Christmas
Trees and 3 miniature ones! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Jared: Amazon says it’s pink. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Becky: However, if I did, I
would definitely put mermaids on it and it would be fabulous. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Becky has been concerned that
she’s been drooling more than usual in her sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she asked Jared about it… <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Jared: Yeah. You have been
breathing wetly lately. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Becky: Why aren’t you concerned
about me!?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">On Sunday, I had every intention
of being lazy and reading, but then Lindsey asked me to come over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took everything I had to put pants on and
leave the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I picked up lunch on my
way, while catching up with Erika.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
then, we played two more games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
games were intended for 6 year olds, but I enjoyed them immensely, and I have a
feeling they might find their way under the Christmas tree this year for
people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zach agreed, but I also think
the fact that I only made him play 2 games instead of 20 might have helped the
equation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before long, I was back on my
couch with Percy, reading and not doing any of my chores.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A perfect Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSTdN1Ol_n6yib0SSvTG4qVqrJylLpU01LN1n7KT3OogxxyimTFjruIgStaswMC1UQNFSQIHcpT8QzFmgdwpyRYGTW26-II67AAQ0PvwKwaKXchpVB5LpSlWs3ph7vdKDdtn952KDIrT2A9418bDtlOzTk1soroYextZr3awRBZdo2Bafy6jT46Vqmgsk/s4032/IMG_0170.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSTdN1Ol_n6yib0SSvTG4qVqrJylLpU01LN1n7KT3OogxxyimTFjruIgStaswMC1UQNFSQIHcpT8QzFmgdwpyRYGTW26-II67AAQ0PvwKwaKXchpVB5LpSlWs3ph7vdKDdtn952KDIrT2A9418bDtlOzTk1soroYextZr3awRBZdo2Bafy6jT46Vqmgsk/s320/IMG_0170.HEIC" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">And with that, I wish you all the
very best week. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Love you, Mean it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>skcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-42044784899248860432023-10-18T12:18:00.000-07:002023-10-18T12:18:45.089-07:00You don't say Yucks to me!<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Hi Friend! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Got home this week and I needed
a day to just snuggle with Percy and catch up with the fam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did my best to work around a mini-migraine
and general dehydration, before heading into work with a suitcase full of
games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">My biggest news of the week is that
I got invited to a party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By a
co-worker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A new friend co-worker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I immediately called my mom, like a 5 year
old, to give her the amazing news.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
also called Becky, and this is where things get cringy, because while I did get
invited, I also brought up the subject, knowing she was having a party, hoping
that I would get invited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I was
smooooothe until I called Becky and it all got ruined. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Me: I got invited to the Iron
Flame Party! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Becky: Great! I got the text,
and immediately told her that I might have already told you about the party so
she should send the invite to you as well. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Me: NOOOOOOOOO! Now she’s going
to know that I knew and then I’m suddenly going to lose all cool factor! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Becky: Yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Book club is tomorrow night, so if you want
us to not talk and make fun of you, then you’ll have to come so we can’t. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Me: I can’t come tomorrow!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Me: Becky is going to make fun
of me tomorrow at your book club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have
accepted this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please do not uninvite me
to your party. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Co-worker: Did you kick a puppy?
Because that or worse would be the only grounds for uninviting you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And even then I don’t like conflict so I
probably still would never uninvite you. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Well isn’t THAT a relief! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Zach calls, and I respond with a
text: Can I call you later? I’m in a meeting. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Zach: No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was the last straw.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Zach: We’re meeting at 5PM [for
dinner] and then some people are going to the morgue. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Me: Oh! I wanted to go to the morgue,
but I thought that was happening on Friday?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Zach: You can take that up with
the higher ups. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Here’s the thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Haunted Houses scare me, but Dawne loves
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, one time a year, I’ll take all
my courage and I brave the scariest and most well-done haunted house, also
known as the Morgue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I need to be in the
middle of the pack, and I need to cling to everyone around me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And my voice is completely hoarse by the end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I speak directly to every single scary person,
including things like YUCKS. YUCKS. YUCKS. To which that demon said, “YOU DON’T
SAY YUCKS TO ME!” so I said, “I’m sorry, but seriously, yucks.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">I made it to the very end, with
a chainsaw toting clown chasing us out, and then we got Krispie Kreme. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Friday afternoon, I worked from
Dawne’s and Zach was putting together balloons for Fran’s party, and I told him
to be very careful because the last time we did the balloons, they kept popping
and it took nearly a week before Percy could come back to the house without shaking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>20 min later, a balloon popped, and then another,
and then I had to put Percy in the car for a bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I then tried to lure him back into the house,
and he ran to hide in Dawne’s room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jordan put Gilmore Girls on for him, “Because that’s a show that comforts
all of us.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The following day, only one
more balloon popped, but it happen to pop right above Percy’s head, so we didn’t
see him for the rest of the evening. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaoZPpx53NX0r2vaVMkXTBzsIab2EVkNsC4mfIr11M-N3om7GkvF_ELclyuN7OjJp8FP8QwG7xkijxIXHKPOgdEbLdaeOfxemmphyphenhyphen1kBev9Mmgk4fXgV_8aDaeR4iWAl3zGULS4VwNWV4ts4nTI1G0xTQo18SfPE1xjh1Hh_5_m4u6_LBsJrwfGpGUB-E/s4032/IMG_0110.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaoZPpx53NX0r2vaVMkXTBzsIab2EVkNsC4mfIr11M-N3om7GkvF_ELclyuN7OjJp8FP8QwG7xkijxIXHKPOgdEbLdaeOfxemmphyphenhyphen1kBev9Mmgk4fXgV_8aDaeR4iWAl3zGULS4VwNWV4ts4nTI1G0xTQo18SfPE1xjh1Hh_5_m4u6_LBsJrwfGpGUB-E/s320/IMG_0110.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #4c1013;"><br /></span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Saturday morning, we went to Bob’s
for the corn maze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a little muddy,
but not as muddy as that time I had to take my pants off in the parking
lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone followed my lead, and I
even gave a family who was lost a map and told them where there were in the map
– my good deed for the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marissa wore
an ACOTAR bat boys shirt, just for me, and then I tried to talk to her about a
series she hadn’t read in two years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone
loves when I do that! At one point, Lucas made a comment, and I had a dozen
different comments I could have said, and I shoved them down. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Lucas: We drove here from
Tacoma! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Me: I didn’t say anything. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Lucas: But you look like… <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Me: Oh I know, but I didn’t actually
SAY anything, and I think I deserve some credit for that. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Because while I’m trying to be a
better person, I still need accolades for when I’m not a terrible person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I told my mom, she said, “I bet you
missed your Uncle Ray at that point – because he would have said whatever it
was, and then you would have gotten satisfaction and still got to be a better
person.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have no idea… <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Fran’s party was amazing. She
totally supplied way too much food, but she also had containers available for
people to bring food home with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
had a live band, and a dance instructor, and I swear, it felt like we were in a
different country all night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Totally
magical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">On Sunday, I avoided a lot of chores,
and then waited far too long to start the last ACOTAR book, but then finished
it Monday evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Me: Just finished a Court of
Silver Flames. Now, I can, you know, go to work and be an adult for a couple of
days. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Becky: Yay for going back to
being a functional adult! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Me: I should have started it
earlier, but I’m very irresponsible. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Becky: It’s your best quality!
My favorite thing about you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s what
makes you so easily influenced towards all the ridiculous things we do.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Me: Irresponsible and ridiculous
is the bestest combination! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">I broke my fav Halo mug this morning,
which I thought might have been an omen, but I found it on Poshmark and just
bought a new one for 12 dollars like the mistake never happened. I didn't
know I had a fav Halo mug, but it fit 12 oz of coffee, plus half and half and a
shot of espresso. So, it was a hard worker, even if it had an old UNSC
logo on it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">That’s a wrap!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Love you, Mean It. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">T O’B <o:p></o:p></span></p>skcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-48388424423012139232023-10-12T16:26:00.000-07:002023-10-12T16:26:54.376-07:00SPIEL! <p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Hi Friend! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">I am not 100% sure what the week
before last.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I definitely hung out with
puppies and watched Gilmore Girls and did laundry and avoided some key things
that I had to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So basically, a
typical October week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also went over
to Becky’s and watched her bake cookies, so I did see two humans, at
least.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">I tried to vent about being of a
certain age with a built-in muscle memory for two spaces after a period, and
how I’ll never change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the only
response I got from Becky was, “This angst is 16 years over-due, and it took an
entire year for me to beat that habit” which just reinforced how I won’t be
torturing myself for a year for something that is truly ridiculous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then I ate a cookie and moved on with my
life. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">I tried looking at the last 3
years of this time in case there was a nugget of interesting stuff to share,
but it sure does look like I hung out with puppies, photographed those puppies
for Fall cards and packed every year, so let’s just move on to the part where I
took my suitcase to a new location. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY_bvVlPVS3coZqx7as1aLVfH2bKAXl1JKNbhPxZRsMXN0TVi2ed3urfJd0NQ22Lo-91CzsaocDC6kRjdL0L41riab1wIfCRoFAIJ_R9caEgMA5dSbDwn3Tm3AuxYZBnpTVJzEATOzqq5sMxzdmam2Hf9Oo1kUGglvs9adij61nLdZNil4h7LQzrbDJYY/s4032/IMG_9993.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY_bvVlPVS3coZqx7as1aLVfH2bKAXl1JKNbhPxZRsMXN0TVi2ed3urfJd0NQ22Lo-91CzsaocDC6kRjdL0L41riab1wIfCRoFAIJ_R9caEgMA5dSbDwn3Tm3AuxYZBnpTVJzEATOzqq5sMxzdmam2Hf9Oo1kUGglvs9adij61nLdZNil4h7LQzrbDJYY/s320/IMG_9993.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: #4c1013;">Last week, I went to Essen/Spiel in Germany for the first time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>New job, new
convention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7 whole days of travel and show
to try to stay super lovely and professional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I started the trip by wrapping up a bunch of presents for my boss to
open on her birthday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the first
flight, we’re waiting in the customs line in Amsterdam (which we would end up
waiting in for over 2 hours). I left my boss to go to the bathroom, and
when I got back she had an appalled look on her face. I immediately
became defensive, b/c dude, I was SO speedy, but then she pointed next to her,
to the man on the ground and said, "He just passed out, but I've seen that
look before and I'm pretty sure he just died." And then it was 5 min
before someone in the crowd started doing CPR and 5 more minutes before emergency
folks ran over, erected a tent, and then... who knows. That put a real
damper on the rest of the day, not going to lie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, we watched hundreds of people panic
because they weren’t allowing people to skip the line until they were ten min
from their departure time, also fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
the while, I was pleasant and professional. <o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">The best part of the show was
walking around, playing games and then having my boss buy me anything I wanted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not sure it gets better than that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also met lots of designers and had crepes
and I got to see Kathi! And I read the first 4 books of the ACOTAR series.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then we had a flight delay and cancellation
which lead to a 12-hour delay in getting home and having to run to our gates, become
super dehydrated and hungry and tired and I still managed to be pleasant and
professional! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">I’m going to leave the story
there for now, and try to jump in with more excitement next time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope you’re all having a super fun
October.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Miss you lots, and love you
more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>skcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-67732594752914531292023-09-26T16:28:00.001-07:002023-09-26T16:28:17.422-07:00Brine Shots <p><span style="color: #4c1013;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">My cousins returned from their jaunt
into central Washington on Thursday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We fired up the Solo Stove for some S’mores, shared some stories and
prepared for a big slumber party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
glad I had someone clean my place before their arrival – not because you could
tell after 5 minutes of their arrival, but because two of them had to sleep on
an air mattress on the floor and I felt really good that it had been mopped
earlier that day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">On Friday, Erin made us all eggs
and bacon, and I pulled out the honey and butter and warmed up some croissants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought that maybe I had added honey to the
croissant without realizing it, but actually, Erin had used the dunkin’ donuts
creamer with sugar in it for the eggs, and honestly, I kinda loved it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>10 out of 10, would eat again. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then they all went exploring Seattle,
including an Argosy cruise, while I worked and then I brought them over to my
favorite HH place: Anderson School.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
we returned, I offered some additional ways to entertain them, but we ended up
just chatting and facetiming my mom and my sister which was plenty of entertainment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also asked Frita about some of the crazy-sounding
dishes that they were talking about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
kind of remembered one of them, so Erin asked what his mom called it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He quickly replied, “Supper.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">After about 5 hours of sleep, it
was time to drive Erin and Jennifer to the airport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple of hours later, Marissa and I met up
with my WA cousins at Stocker Farms for the Sunflower Festival and my first of
many Fall activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many activities
for adults and kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wall puzzles, bouncy
areas, historic communication area, a cavity cannon (AKA candy Cannon), Tricycles,
Rubber duck races, Ziplines, and an area to pick your own flowers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My bouquet was amazing, but was also filled
with bugs, and even though I believe lady bugs are very lucky, I think they are
luckier when they are outside, so that’s where my flowers will remain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">I was a pro at the puzzles, and Dawne
was very amused at how very proud I was of myself when I made a
mr-pumpkin-head. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently, I had the
same look that Dawne had taking pictures of her little Tire-neer on Tire
Mountain. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe the expression is best
described as “Look what I made!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Interactive Historical Landmark
Exhibit! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqykpewZ1krQZ6QoKDeqqGb_JeBzdsb0CndfMpVk8v9aEM31eWLBGM_GBquSzBH2tK1hGkMhaYpzt0M5oPWE8LVduEgATEQAIn2h8O9lzk9XZZT-OPx0sLCeanN517btoZaTf0thICjNu9nW0dTtd6KAmBAF-NNPYb2Ob7Ki7joPdEu8MAgmirME2sh1s/s1200/Resized_photocollage_2023923114657699.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqykpewZ1krQZ6QoKDeqqGb_JeBzdsb0CndfMpVk8v9aEM31eWLBGM_GBquSzBH2tK1hGkMhaYpzt0M5oPWE8LVduEgATEQAIn2h8O9lzk9XZZT-OPx0sLCeanN517btoZaTf0thICjNu9nW0dTtd6KAmBAF-NNPYb2Ob7Ki7joPdEu8MAgmirME2sh1s/s320/Resized_photocollage_2023923114657699.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">After the sunflower festival, we
came back and hung out for a bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
tried my best to stay awake for the Lantern Festival in Greenlake, but totally
failed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I did discover this Tension
Tamer tea that has a secret ingredient… Catnip?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">The weather was bordering on
raining, and was def cold, but the pool was delightful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The following day we all met for breakfast at
Sabine’s before walking the Ballard Farmers Market. I’m sorry that the FL
cousins had already left because they had free shots of Brine! After the
market, we took the opportunity to go swimming one last time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then I introduced Dawne to Snapchat, so
that took up the rest of the night! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Hope your September has been amazing!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Love you, Mean it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Tiffany<o:p></o:p></span></p>skcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-31869982040186652522023-09-21T10:11:00.002-07:002023-09-21T10:11:53.752-07:00ThursYAY!<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Hi Friend! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">I’m going to tell you a
secret.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love waking up to a cloudy
day. Dark and cool, maybe a little sprinkle of rain? Not every day, but after
months of blazing sun, to find out that I can cozy up with a blanket and a book,
without any guilt that I should be outside making the best of the weather?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Glorious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Nate’s pup Archer is a big fan
of catching flies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s pretty good at it,
too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On September 15<sup>th</sup>, he
was going for a fly and swatted one of the Lego Disney castle towers and lo and
behold, we found the last Easter Egg! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5BJT5pGAQgaAl-0nWCFxoJ926qQEfCU8omj5dxUd1SpDLhQNQ9j7Ha28xPWI-mXJcqi-L7-0NK-MCc5X1yZ2-2-74_8_bAbZ3FOWz9GLs9FA29cwNZpApJbmQ0QncQxEdmmVwQtUgxaIxlyaN1cvdHfYbxgvhoXw706XQqi6Lx5TwfS_s6MRMKq3ksqw/s4032/IMG_9782.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5BJT5pGAQgaAl-0nWCFxoJ926qQEfCU8omj5dxUd1SpDLhQNQ9j7Ha28xPWI-mXJcqi-L7-0NK-MCc5X1yZ2-2-74_8_bAbZ3FOWz9GLs9FA29cwNZpApJbmQ0QncQxEdmmVwQtUgxaIxlyaN1cvdHfYbxgvhoXw706XQqi6Lx5TwfS_s6MRMKq3ksqw/s320/IMG_9782.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Last week, Jackie told me about
BOGO September ThursYays at Starbucks, and I mentioned it to a co-worker and
then all of a sudden half the office (okay so 4 of us) were headed out for coffee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And let me tell you, the coffee was
fantastic, but getting to join an impromptu social work outing was one of the
highlights of my week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>#howdoifastforwardtowhenweareallBFFs?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Had a fun weekend with my cousins
(Erin, Jen, Kim & Pat) visiting! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
started the trip by sending a lengthy google doc of possible activities, because
best fun is planned fun! I’m mostly kidding about that, but we did get in a trip
to the Space Needle, said “hi!” to the Fremont troll, hit up Pike’s Place
Market and then I took them to Capital Hill to the Unicorn where we saw a drag
show. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mimosas Caberet: Willy Wonka and
the Horror Show (which required very little in the way of adjusting the script
to turn it into a “Horror Show.”)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Best
quote from the afternoon was definitely from Erin who exclaimed, “That’s a man!?
WOW!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">We were sitting around chatting one
night when the subject of Math came up, and Jen, intending to deliver a complement,
called Maureen an Idiot Savant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Me: Um, She’s a savant maybe,
but I wouldn’t call her an idiot savant. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Jen: No, it’s a good thing! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">That’s when I explained what an
idiot savant was, and that’s also when Jen realized why people gave her weird
looks when she has called them idiot savants her whole life and then tried to
convince them that it was a good thing! Really! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">We called Maureen to tell her
the story and then filled her in on our other adventures, and then Erin tried
to convince us that there was a food called Gooba Gabba and that we were the weird
ones for never hearing of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: #4c1013;">Last night, I headed over to
Zach’s friend Tristan’s house.</span><span style="color: #4c1013;"> </span><span style="color: #4c1013;">Zach told
Dawne to call me because I would be more likely to say yes.</span><span style="color: #4c1013;"> </span><span style="color: #4c1013;">But the truth is, Dawne happened to call me
before I had completely decompressed into couch and pajamas – but just barely –
because even if it’s only a 3 minute drive, peeling yourself out of a cocoon of
blankets and puppy and putting real pants on can be unsurmountable.</span><span style="color: #4c1013;"> </span><span style="color: #4c1013;">Thus, the timing aligned, and I headed over
to play some games. </span><span style="color: #4c1013;"> </span><span style="color: #4c1013;">As soon as I walked
in, Tristan’s 2-year-old looked at me and asked, “Puppy?” The truth is, I’m not
sure she even knows my name, she just knows I’m the girl with the tiny dog and by
how many times she said “Puppy?” to me, I’m fairly certain I’m pretty worthless
without him.</span><span style="color: #4c1013;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAvjnVYwn9qKqR46tteodUwgKYsoWr2pLCm0Cm1NxIy8lgTjjI1w1NDa08YvhScZkRv-GPLUfHKO6pws9W3WHhs7RtH7253Y-UR1Q6zaautLS7nnrzXk9QuSSsTnQ8dIRcpD1J2hCN8iDh3hh3iAYf1x6TvSCF8Hx4gffJaW2NnNcUMpe-kqvzuvALw6k/s4032/IMG_9832.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAvjnVYwn9qKqR46tteodUwgKYsoWr2pLCm0Cm1NxIy8lgTjjI1w1NDa08YvhScZkRv-GPLUfHKO6pws9W3WHhs7RtH7253Y-UR1Q6zaautLS7nnrzXk9QuSSsTnQ8dIRcpD1J2hCN8iDh3hh3iAYf1x6TvSCF8Hx4gffJaW2NnNcUMpe-kqvzuvALw6k/s320/IMG_9832.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Let’s see, two years ago this
week I took my first solo vacay up to Fairbanks, Alaska for the weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This trip had two purposes, the first was to
check off my 49<sup>th</sup> state and the second was to see the northern
lights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also drove around looking for
Moose, and then when I got back to the B&B I was staying at, they were
totally just hanging out in the back yard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Naturally, I knocked on the door of the strangers next door and was like,
“MOOSE!” and they, surprisingly, appreciated my random knock! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tried for two nights in a row to see the lights
and had to leave at 2am to catch my flight out, sad that I hadn’t seen them.
BUT THEN, I got on the plane and the whole sky was lit up with the Northern
Lights and it was absolutely spectacular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now, I just need someone to go to Alabama with me and I’ll have experienced
all 50 states! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> My iphone couldn't fully capture the glory, but you know here's some "proof": </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb7dvVNjG3Hks2LLmw-CGpmjb1Z18lN_GRju9wKkwvdn9WVLvf-bwH-v6uYpyONMU2bzYQtFe3Rw-oJYM7ecwq8F0iJHX3AbbdLveNGfQwqO7ZOQQC2Vulr-SWJyWl2p2CzWgD58aoQ4Agf8riJhpXftl71i3f-8D_A-NU7qlUBew9gbQ4foCTwhXgW28/s1554/IMG_9854.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1554" data-original-width="1170" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb7dvVNjG3Hks2LLmw-CGpmjb1Z18lN_GRju9wKkwvdn9WVLvf-bwH-v6uYpyONMU2bzYQtFe3Rw-oJYM7ecwq8F0iJHX3AbbdLveNGfQwqO7ZOQQC2Vulr-SWJyWl2p2CzWgD58aoQ4Agf8riJhpXftl71i3f-8D_A-NU7qlUBew9gbQ4foCTwhXgW28/s320/IMG_9854.PNG" width="241" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #4c1013;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiov9prL2Du6-E5nPVYp6s2Cx46n7T4LNfnsQW8zzF-G5cwN1su4pKGuPXkmAKb5RLS1CAYK_-N8K48IOufsKp9z-YMuNbR02mM1UhkXW0mOR2kd1OML1eb9vd3uuICQ_O9tELt4o1LAuSd-OvwlhrmW3YYMGRA-BPW1gFGNkBUhd5V23lOV3ZpEibKtY/s2532/IMG_9853.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2532" data-original-width="1170" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiov9prL2Du6-E5nPVYp6s2Cx46n7T4LNfnsQW8zzF-G5cwN1su4pKGuPXkmAKb5RLS1CAYK_-N8K48IOufsKp9z-YMuNbR02mM1UhkXW0mOR2kd1OML1eb9vd3uuICQ_O9tELt4o1LAuSd-OvwlhrmW3YYMGRA-BPW1gFGNkBUhd5V23lOV3ZpEibKtY/s320/IMG_9853.PNG" width="148" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi40lweHSAYiBXEQIbXls_5SacZ7Hyq7sYofZbSVM0Yapn49lD6YlGO-Q97ivV5QF5XNQxYTlSFtDlGzDkxOVD4KbJOrqTEY03qc-cDTsTY_E8l4sMRq2FN_4O740ni9ogA7xG0hevedlTzu8JuGShtpb1THFdsrFLFE2LOxMRTgPgkPblUXOyhgwqWwm4/s1865/IMG_9852.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1865" data-original-width="1170" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi40lweHSAYiBXEQIbXls_5SacZ7Hyq7sYofZbSVM0Yapn49lD6YlGO-Q97ivV5QF5XNQxYTlSFtDlGzDkxOVD4KbJOrqTEY03qc-cDTsTY_E8l4sMRq2FN_4O740ni9ogA7xG0hevedlTzu8JuGShtpb1THFdsrFLFE2LOxMRTgPgkPblUXOyhgwqWwm4/s320/IMG_9852.PNG" width="201" /></a></div><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">I think that’s all that’s fit to
print, as they say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Tiffany</span></p>skcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-2668299451860859452023-09-14T13:08:00.000-07:002023-09-14T13:08:05.314-07:00Do Your Best and Forget The Rest <p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Hi Friend! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWpylxCtY8SkDPrvTpDLLe147dl4VRqSfy7PRCTSqskC1UBH-vcnQy59okbSW3uDjD1_CsRHIzRgkUW7tuJvHq6hJY4qS7SooEO3maG6zjLnRdq-RpvW4sy55HFH9BPIj1GTFC2z0WlHA1cnJV0MgCOqTfruQGGIhJtUvhF-steZh0o1y-XtEs9_comGk/s4032/IMG_9611.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWpylxCtY8SkDPrvTpDLLe147dl4VRqSfy7PRCTSqskC1UBH-vcnQy59okbSW3uDjD1_CsRHIzRgkUW7tuJvHq6hJY4qS7SooEO3maG6zjLnRdq-RpvW4sy55HFH9BPIj1GTFC2z0WlHA1cnJV0MgCOqTfruQGGIhJtUvhF-steZh0o1y-XtEs9_comGk/s320/IMG_9611.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">I jumped in the lake! And
convinced most of the boat to jump with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I also went to great lengths to try to find the right color leather upholstery
patching to fix the boat, and then through some miscommunication and a real “whatevs”
attitude from Dawne, part of the boat looks amazing and the main, most seeable
patch work looks like I used black duct tape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m still learning that its okay that not everything has to be done
exactly how I want it to be done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaUJjFThn-GqAhnp-RAHLLb1CS60n2HNmb3wSupi2iV96NLdT-YB_ZvhDk4ynwuNDUs7oJ1ImjkSWt-F4824yc0ktjlEayY3-ozuEUgvf47xElzC-hk1B9926Q8aw0AIIBFPs-MNNEO3RLdosbP71x_ZpxS3x6x--XNykz_bnXScszEQvgy2N78v948ZU/s4032/IMG_9613.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaUJjFThn-GqAhnp-RAHLLb1CS60n2HNmb3wSupi2iV96NLdT-YB_ZvhDk4ynwuNDUs7oJ1ImjkSWt-F4824yc0ktjlEayY3-ozuEUgvf47xElzC-hk1B9926Q8aw0AIIBFPs-MNNEO3RLdosbP71x_ZpxS3x6x--XNykz_bnXScszEQvgy2N78v948ZU/s320/IMG_9613.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">I also went to see Kane Brown at
the Puyallup Fair Labor Day weekend with Marissa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had high intentions to get a couple dozen
scones and bring them home to share with the fam, but that’s not what
happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was raining when we got
there, so I pulled out the ponchos that I brought with me (people were offering
a $100 for them, but I think I could have gotten them to go higher.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t want to carry around soggy scones,
but I also wanted a scone, so I made Marissa wait in line with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If only I had captured the photo of the chicks
face when I asked for a single scone. Total and complete shock (and dare I say,
pity?).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She wanted to call me an idiot,
but what she did was say, “How long did you wait in line for a single scone?!” Both
the scone and the concert were delicious.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwMJFkpb5Zf4Q7QZ-9fGP3mV1-mpnyyR5Km6VoVmHu9VlO3thcCvvI-4MIstIAUihMfn3SMScieumR8W7uAknbdDAyFJfJO-e0vZFuLGtZ3YHg4fswCxFRh4fgSidInEfBcHv2Galta-kuID2pKNR_9XQYl8Vlfxm6txKCiVIM4SHoyw592YW_12TuY48/s1440/9C83FEAD-C4AF-41CE-9A16-67F3977227B8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwMJFkpb5Zf4Q7QZ-9fGP3mV1-mpnyyR5Km6VoVmHu9VlO3thcCvvI-4MIstIAUihMfn3SMScieumR8W7uAknbdDAyFJfJO-e0vZFuLGtZ3YHg4fswCxFRh4fgSidInEfBcHv2Galta-kuID2pKNR_9XQYl8Vlfxm6txKCiVIM4SHoyw592YW_12TuY48/s320/9C83FEAD-C4AF-41CE-9A16-67F3977227B8.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">hahaha this guy... </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6tFav7Q-uOHWndcF9FdWII6Y0WHAxPiZ5vLK67V4tLAXy1Es3MzIw3_qeuWoZpwFBtaScpmIHBM_yCf-bCPNt3raZTT5H-5kwoLJGeCwKXFwiqiDbrfbCneWgZWHAb5H3Fxhhq7pNRuwIWwnTOvUaMOreGNVtbhRuSc05_ahFN6Wutfb0E_2rF4HUIFI/s4032/IMG_9721.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6tFav7Q-uOHWndcF9FdWII6Y0WHAxPiZ5vLK67V4tLAXy1Es3MzIw3_qeuWoZpwFBtaScpmIHBM_yCf-bCPNt3raZTT5H-5kwoLJGeCwKXFwiqiDbrfbCneWgZWHAb5H3Fxhhq7pNRuwIWwnTOvUaMOreGNVtbhRuSc05_ahFN6Wutfb0E_2rF4HUIFI/s320/IMG_9721.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNRCBx_mVIMGEnBi5l-vLz2VDmB4QPhrbaQLFHrV1vOC2ttW3WE6fCUivlT9NIytAm1ZumaHk6pm6hHv9SObuVYTKsAhc-tyzhvX4FbKxmNuUa2IF16Sej4KCgPCvSPzdzfmMhgpVWqFm61SWSDx9n_tzrfqItmXdXlDanHQU91e3EMn0nQyutshRPU-4/s2208/IMG_9720.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2208" data-original-width="1244" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNRCBx_mVIMGEnBi5l-vLz2VDmB4QPhrbaQLFHrV1vOC2ttW3WE6fCUivlT9NIytAm1ZumaHk6pm6hHv9SObuVYTKsAhc-tyzhvX4FbKxmNuUa2IF16Sej4KCgPCvSPzdzfmMhgpVWqFm61SWSDx9n_tzrfqItmXdXlDanHQU91e3EMn0nQyutshRPU-4/s320/IMG_9720.JPG" width="180" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Over the summer I took a road trip
with my siblings to Montana. For months before we left for this trip, Sean was
training for the hikes we would hike, and heavily encouraging me to get
ready.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After one of these calls, I spoke
to Erika who oh-so-helpfully pointed out that I could be miserable for 6 weeks
(of getting in shape) or be miserable for 3 days. I think we all know what I choose.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sean warned us that we’d need to get up as
early as 6:30, but also warned us that “bear drink in the morning.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">I told Morgan about the above,
and she told me that she went on a hike with Sean and Dave, only she worked out
a head of time thinking that it was be a nice little jaunt up Anthony’s Nose
(funny every time), but when she walked upstairs from her work out, they were dressed
in like all of REI and then had to scale up the side of the mountain (but she
couldn’t complain b/c one guy was carrying a 4 year old.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then she got to the top, and she doesn’t like
heights, so it was decidedly not worth the trip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then when they went back down, they just used
the trail with the STAIRS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">We stopped in Leavenworth, consuming
pretzels, sausages and beer from one size of the town to the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we actually got to Whitefish, we stopped
at a tourist information booth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They looked
at our group and suggested we get there at dawn for the sunset and that we absolutely
must hike the “Highline” trail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Discussions
were had, and suddenly we were all up at 2:45, to get in the car by 3:15, armed
with bear spray (because that’s when the bears drink!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">At 3:19, in the car, in the
driveway.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Sean: The days a wasting! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Maureen: I brought my donor card
so people know what my blood type was. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Stacey: I hope my uber app works.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Pat: You don’t need bear spray
as long as you aren’t the slowest. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Me: That’s why I said I should
carry it!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">So, we get to Glacier National
Park, it’s still pitch black out, Sean is driving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are the only ones there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We park, and its dark and freezing, and we
locate the sign for the Highline trail, and start walking down… and then stop
and go, “we shouldn’t be doing down to behind the mountain to see the sunrise,
we should be going up.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maureen walks a
little further, but then turns around, and we all cross the parking area to
walk up a different trail. Sean was sooo nice about how incredibly out of shape
I was. “Do your best and forget the rest!” is now going to be one of my new
go-to phrases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also, super sweetly,
stood in front of me on my way down so I wouldn’t pitch forward on the stairs
(which is seriously a big fear of mine.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When we got back to the parking lot, and found Pat, <b><i>who had been
sleeping</i></b> <b><i>in the car the whole time</i></b>, he asked us if we saw
any wildlife. We had not, but he sure did! b/c he there were mountain goats… in
damn the parking lot! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPDuCC-6araZsi7-JnsfzejAmX13pycxfWuB31sCKgUOlMboQBtk7_NuCij2q7aH6Pvagh8ME9uGsaO0J6_y6zZGTTFpUV-nn3brhHUxoZa1GSwHojqUnUp7ZqfTqJnVc82n0LDfb4C5Dxyek8cITSgbPYEisLwTpDIXDOgdnndiiNs_p0IgVDw7QITjQ/s4032/IMG_9183.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPDuCC-6araZsi7-JnsfzejAmX13pycxfWuB31sCKgUOlMboQBtk7_NuCij2q7aH6Pvagh8ME9uGsaO0J6_y6zZGTTFpUV-nn3brhHUxoZa1GSwHojqUnUp7ZqfTqJnVc82n0LDfb4C5Dxyek8cITSgbPYEisLwTpDIXDOgdnndiiNs_p0IgVDw7QITjQ/s320/IMG_9183.HEIC" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQSO8eCtnEFMQiYkaN6wAwGynx8W7WOLIVtGkyKZLL7bus73YkzrEkkJg4qVZaZLPXBTDbRzq_Bm715uiU4FwRWAJSyttiZMpgW9uFGPe7ZHojT9UJ3VqHzyp2N_fMnTUv4EhcemPOT7vC6Lwn-GJts29uRhXbfnBBaIzAK6jOCgt1goSP86LFIfMwqIU/s3088/IMG_6794.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQSO8eCtnEFMQiYkaN6wAwGynx8W7WOLIVtGkyKZLL7bus73YkzrEkkJg4qVZaZLPXBTDbRzq_Bm715uiU4FwRWAJSyttiZMpgW9uFGPe7ZHojT9UJ3VqHzyp2N_fMnTUv4EhcemPOT7vC6Lwn-GJts29uRhXbfnBBaIzAK6jOCgt1goSP86LFIfMwqIU/s320/IMG_6794.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Highline Trail</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigQo-hFbammPnNNHnBP-XixwNLLCPQp0j8AV5XqjAjtV55aHHBBOiowPFSTpOki57CLCeVtEhHYFXmt8_GmkO01c2hyGULNolkTqdIBuCf9OW9LT_c3xynHsdrcMROnNDLHx6FVOssZrHsNybO0iI5LTi_OErRmY7iTM3NiN9n-Bt6hMpp3v804S8M8Mk/s4032/IMG_6862.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigQo-hFbammPnNNHnBP-XixwNLLCPQp0j8AV5XqjAjtV55aHHBBOiowPFSTpOki57CLCeVtEhHYFXmt8_GmkO01c2hyGULNolkTqdIBuCf9OW9LT_c3xynHsdrcMROnNDLHx6FVOssZrHsNybO0iI5LTi_OErRmY7iTM3NiN9n-Bt6hMpp3v804S8M8Mk/s320/IMG_6862.heic" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghxBDE57n1AZxKobM_K5l16un6B4PTtReI_80nudcyfskLxQ8m0crGhGKt2881F_bpatHkY7sLiN5ImBzbJN8IEWWy852rPOTyzGvOofyueLRLq9iwIRLSeKuaHVIaKLWPS3R0WFRgYBWMYcD99y1WZ-sRTs97N99Wu81LAMruUB1VJt8qHUNcKr8snRE/s4032/IMG_9293.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghxBDE57n1AZxKobM_K5l16un6B4PTtReI_80nudcyfskLxQ8m0crGhGKt2881F_bpatHkY7sLiN5ImBzbJN8IEWWy852rPOTyzGvOofyueLRLq9iwIRLSeKuaHVIaKLWPS3R0WFRgYBWMYcD99y1WZ-sRTs97N99Wu81LAMruUB1VJt8qHUNcKr8snRE/s320/IMG_9293.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oh, we also rented a boat and did THE most white trash thing ever... in that we took all of the beverages out of the fridge and made a "cooler" with ice and a trash bag. Pic for proof: </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFvs-oCz05lB-KTY1SRise9tf2CuQzJ7WNb__8iSmBGn8dwBPR4aKjZipj9_hBnKw8ZRslS5mEg0CVJlL-y8QjzUP-7pgyD2gWloxC6ZPFt2cAHQDQuyIo72d9Gb4d4utpCBJDut775ULodtvxnwvHIKiJqSJi-CpBN_A6hgI8-LDRzEJVBbl96wmYjp8/s4032/IMG_9395.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFvs-oCz05lB-KTY1SRise9tf2CuQzJ7WNb__8iSmBGn8dwBPR4aKjZipj9_hBnKw8ZRslS5mEg0CVJlL-y8QjzUP-7pgyD2gWloxC6ZPFt2cAHQDQuyIo72d9Gb4d4utpCBJDut775ULodtvxnwvHIKiJqSJi-CpBN_A6hgI8-LDRzEJVBbl96wmYjp8/s320/IMG_9395.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Ip0EfEQ3Ic_vHrlJTX6uGnBV6nokIapgX6aO6daIkCV4AVTvaSrS2mgCHyfeFfvnlv_2DaZfZNl7K4jgKuQmjoN0SzwmJCW20x57_68C_6_t-xdn6sWwLpC30aGpwCOxApUGhwOZ2xh9TCUEvi-2ST6DuDrOkFS48HQNc2mPYj1nz4_o4kfE65R2KBI/s3088/IMG_6915.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Ip0EfEQ3Ic_vHrlJTX6uGnBV6nokIapgX6aO6daIkCV4AVTvaSrS2mgCHyfeFfvnlv_2DaZfZNl7K4jgKuQmjoN0SzwmJCW20x57_68C_6_t-xdn6sWwLpC30aGpwCOxApUGhwOZ2xh9TCUEvi-2ST6DuDrOkFS48HQNc2mPYj1nz4_o4kfE65R2KBI/s320/IMG_6915.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">I drove through the rest of the
park, only now it was light enough to see the road, and Sean was no longer laid
back about the drive, because he could actually see where we were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I swear I was going slow and being careful,
but I think Sean would have preferred to be blindfolded and had his own brake
system in the passenger side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also
drove back and finally got to see what the “Highline” trail that we were
supposed to be on looked like… and it was very narrow pathway on the edge of the
mountain with very steep drop off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
is when we realized had we followed that trail, when the sun had come up, we
all would have been too terrified to turn back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ll never know what about us made those information people think we
were tough enough for their advice, but I bet they had good laugh after we
left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">I obsessively watched
Yellowstone when I returned from our trip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My love of Rip and Beth has no limits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And what I learned from all that is I’m not tough enough for Montana,
and even if I was, they don’t want me living there anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it sure was nice to visit! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Over Labor Day weekend I also read
the Deadly Education series, per Dr. Rach’s suggestion, and then had to call
her at 7am on a Sunday to tell her I was FURIOUS at her for suggesting that I
read it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, actually, it was great. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, feel free to read it and call me after
book 2 with the same reaction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll take
your fury.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Totally worth it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last weekend I finished 1883 (as depressing
as any Oregon Trail themed show can be, but also excellent!), and I read Fourth
Wing. I will be accepting any and all calls from people who want to talk about Fourth
Wing (or Deadly Education, Yellowstone – but I haven’t finished 1923, so you’ll
need to give me some time on that one.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>(IYKYK) </span></o:p></span></p>
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that there’s this thing on TikTok that is happening this week where women are discovering
that men think about the Roman Empire way more than we could ever imagine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weekly, sometimes DAILY.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To test the theory, I called Zach and asked
him the last time he thought about the Roman Empire. His response? “An hour ago
while we were at Portillo’s.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Case closed;
no further research is needed at this time. <o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>skcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-25590698974373041732023-09-07T15:55:00.003-07:002023-09-07T15:55:44.384-07:00The Best Way to Catch up is to Start<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Hi Friend! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">I watched a 2-minute clip of a
TED talk about how to have better conversations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Included in one of the ten things you need to
do is not to pontificate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They went on
to say that if you wanted to go on and on about your own opinions without giving
anyone a way to respond, you should start a blog. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I thought, hey, I have a blog, I should
get back to that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m starting to think
I’ll never be a good conversationalist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">It’s been a year or three since
I’ve tried to write one of these.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
many of you know, I got really into sending real letters in the mail as a way
to keep connected to people, to spread a little joy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll start that back up as soon as I come up
with a new, spooky, idea, but in the mean-time, digital connection is totally a
thing! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">I think trying to recap the last
year might be weird, but I’ll give it my best shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used to work at Microsoft on Halo &
Xbox consumer products, and then suddenly I didn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s cool though, I was told while I was on
vacay in Puerto Rico, in an alley, surrounded by stray cats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took it pretty well, though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the 4 months following that day was probably
the least stressed I have ever been in my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My biggest challenge was how to vacation and be available for interviews
at the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you aren’t using
TikTok for interview advice, you’re missing out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although, recently I saw one that said the main
way that one interviewer evaluated a person was if they returned/washed their
mug or glass after the interview.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have
racked my brain ever since on whether I did that – and I’m 88% sure that I
did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right before I nearly blew the interview.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You see, I was interviewed by 9 of the 20
people at the company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was on my very
best behavior, did not lie once (and as many of you know, this can be a problem
when I’m nervous.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a great big bag
of games, and my hand on the exit door handle – so close! – when the CEO said
good-bye and “Don’t play them all at one time!” and I immediately and instinctively
said, “Don’t tell me what to do! Haha!” and left the building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got a
job offer the next day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should do my
own TED talk on what you shouldn’t do in a conversation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">My summer was off the hook and
also did not look like any summer in Seattle that I’ve had previously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, it’s the end of August, and I haven’t
jumped in the lake once.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think this
had a lot to do with Covid, having visitors 26 of the 30 days in July, and having
a new job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh! And Luke and Emily got
married smack in the middle there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">AND Lindsay and Nate got engaged
in February, and then again in August. Zach and Fran got engaged in April and
then married in May. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Excitement overload!
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Let me go back a bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4 days before St. Patrick’s day, I asked if people
wanted to go to Vegas, and it turns out I got Jackie, Nate, Lindsey, Lucas,
Emily, Dawne and Jordan to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which is
so Vegas, right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently, Stacey prepped Jackie that the fam
really loves Bailey b/c of all the time she’s spend out here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which I thought was odd, until we got into
the car at the airport and Jordan immediately said, “I want to hear all about
Bailey.” And I was like, “Um, we can do that, but this actually Jackie.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Now, I do have some stories from
when I went to Egypt, but in case I run out of energy, I’ll just jump to me
getting back and having Covid and then I wasn’t able to play with Julie for the
two days she was here to visit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which in
itself isn’t a big story, but it might explain why I managed to not get Covid
the following two “opportunities” that arose this summer. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">The first was when I was deeply
obsessed with the Crave series by Tracy Wolff, but also “helping” with wedding dioramas
at Dawne’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zach went to urgent care
with “allergies” and then took benedryl and slept next to me on the couch, and
the following day, when I came over to read next to Dawne who had a “migraine.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was slightly shocking that the following
day, when Lucas had Dawne take a Covid test that both she and Zach had covid,
and I had to run out the door b/c I couldn’t be sick b/c I had to, you know,
start a new job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then, fast forward
to after the wedding, a month later (and 7 days before my “immunity” wore off),
when half the guests got sick, including like 10 of the 20 people staying with
Dawne – all of whom I spent countless hours with – and I managed to skip the
sick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which all means that for 4 weeks
of the summer, I wasn’t exactly hopping in the lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has now risen to the top of my to do list
for this weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYK2Hg59f62Uc0v-h_pMbaok8lbtJDy7k_Wuj1RJU1o5VmibNU7KV-6ePVGo827IBvpD88Jb1WcWUGL-PT1al9R21Zq-g-UwO5xP2k7hXymqEYKgIyPf6DW4eFjmOnRVkTxxkkUeCiAYL0ca3PvuwLiSk2-_PDcyOV12GeEBEG2mkHdx8iwRVIsfqLIPQ/s4032/IMG_8649.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYK2Hg59f62Uc0v-h_pMbaok8lbtJDy7k_Wuj1RJU1o5VmibNU7KV-6ePVGo827IBvpD88Jb1WcWUGL-PT1al9R21Zq-g-UwO5xP2k7hXymqEYKgIyPf6DW4eFjmOnRVkTxxkkUeCiAYL0ca3PvuwLiSk2-_PDcyOV12GeEBEG2mkHdx8iwRVIsfqLIPQ/s320/IMG_8649.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGLAYNhlMobMS16RPKP11lHwKUwNKq4bExuKWP80Q7lNl1QZU0_or61mPL16zomM48ozv6y-aSyVVEgK8dRNI1vMQA6nG0U92dxrCEZvXtpx6RXRPX2DTLJ0ytA0eVeB7fw_XIl8da2JSPlg9oMH-KZTg1_4XwQAOmCRmjLT6yNRbMWx4gLdDNxAu2N9E/s1170/IMG_9509.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="772" data-original-width="1170" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGLAYNhlMobMS16RPKP11lHwKUwNKq4bExuKWP80Q7lNl1QZU0_or61mPL16zomM48ozv6y-aSyVVEgK8dRNI1vMQA6nG0U92dxrCEZvXtpx6RXRPX2DTLJ0ytA0eVeB7fw_XIl8da2JSPlg9oMH-KZTg1_4XwQAOmCRmjLT6yNRbMWx4gLdDNxAu2N9E/s320/IMG_9509.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">So that’s the last 8 months or
so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s my fun anecdotes from Egypt: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhVPcLVFJyTU4MYVhLwgDefvJFscG8hLVnmDpoDZvBEoQEGncXnY_sGT78VbG5DXUaFBpfb8skWl27kxQF1jOyzHUkW69TyG4GITr2w7AJ1visvWJtKmXUGDokXygEPxvyrjcVZzCtrEg6BVJs25a5wVyzR8oVZLgDcY5-VFd3wfv2zDLCNA4LMvsaExQ/s1170/IMG_7665.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1041" data-original-width="1170" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhVPcLVFJyTU4MYVhLwgDefvJFscG8hLVnmDpoDZvBEoQEGncXnY_sGT78VbG5DXUaFBpfb8skWl27kxQF1jOyzHUkW69TyG4GITr2w7AJ1visvWJtKmXUGDokXygEPxvyrjcVZzCtrEg6BVJs25a5wVyzR8oVZLgDcY5-VFd3wfv2zDLCNA4LMvsaExQ/s320/IMG_7665.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Becky will want you to know that
she got to witness me at my quirkiest before we even left Seattle because the TSA
agent pulled everything out of my well organized suitcase, including all of my
individual bags, so that he could put all of my liquids in one ziplock, which caused
total havoc with my brain, but I was trying to still be polite. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next to me, Becky had to bite her tongue not
to say out loud, “I know she’s laughing but she actually wants to punch you the
face.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">I also was the only one to
actual read the itinerary, which meant I was the only one constantly trying to
adjust my expectations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Becky: You’ll
think you’re on vacation but you’re actually seeing all of Egypt!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Conversation on our Egypt trip
through the Sahara:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Becky: Does anyone see a mirage
yet?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Traveler 2: Will everyone see
the same thing? Maybe we'll see something different?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Becky: (Traveler 2)’s mirage
will be a crowd of tragic, emotionally stunted detectives who just need a
woman's love to heal their hearts. My mirage will be an ocean of kittens.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Tiffany: My mirage would be the
perfect itinerary that never changes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Traveler 3: This to the budget
(punch in the eye) hot air balloons! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Becky: I am going to go ahead
and say that “ safety and consent” are not pillars of Egyptian culture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">After our guide told us, and
then again me, specifically, that we couldn’t take pictures:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Becky: You look mad. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Me: I’m not mad I’m seething. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">And then later after Becky brought
the incident back up… <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Me: Is that after I cried and
before he told me to smile? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Guide: Oh by the way this
Muhammad Ali is not the boxer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Me: Definitely think you should
have started with that. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Traveler 1: You’re utilitarian -
aren’t you impressed I used that word? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Traveler 2: No, bc you heard
someone else say it earlier and just repeated it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><Pause><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Traveler 2: Oh wait did you want
me to be honest or kind? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Traveler 2: I like to fool
people and you’re an easy mark. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">You’re unbearable (French
stranger on the plane to the most chill person in our group.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Who wore valley of the kings
better - me or Tut? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Traveler 1: So you’ll call and
text? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">Traveler 2: No. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">And in no particular order b/c
it was a couple of months ago, this is what we did! Quick boat ride across the
Nile to the west side and then visited the Temple of Hatshepsut. She made
herself look like a man and then ticked off her stepson, so he went ahead and
destroyed her likeness (how sweet!). Then off to the Valley of the Kings, home
to the tomb of Tutankhamon! (Yes, I took a disrespectful pic of his mummy.) All
the most powerful and influential kings of Ancient Egypt were buried here, and
we went to see the Seti and Ramsses III and IV tombs. Saw how Alabaster is
made, and then a quick pic of the Colossi of Memnon. Visited the Temple of
Horus at Edfu - one of the best-preserved shrines in Egypt built in the
Ptolemaic Kingdom between 237 and 57 BC. The ceiling is black with smoke from
when people occupied and built fires much much later. Coolest part of the day
with a breezy 94 degrees. And evening stroll at Temple Kom Ombo an
unusual double temple for the Crocodile God and Falcon God. Partially damaged
during an earthquake. Surgical tools, calendars were depicted in hieroglyphs,
and we saw a system they called a Nilometer that wasn’t a well but sure did
look like one. (Maybe I wasn’t paying as much attention …) Then off to the
Crocodile Museum to see mummified crocs. We also had traditional
Arabic food tonight and the Koshari was the best food I’ve had yet, and the
desserts were super yum. We woke up at 1:45 am so we could travel across
the Sahara to Abu Simbel Temple - which was completely moved to higher ground
in 1968 to avoid being submerged from the building of the Aswan dam. Built in
Ramesses II reign for the Gods Amun, Ra-Horakhty and Ptah. And then he built a
smaller temple next to it for his chief consort Nefertari and
the Goddess Hathor. And, we checked out the dam in Aswan then flew
to Cairo. From there we went to the Church of St George, Saints Sergius and
Bacchus Church (where it is said that Jesus, Mary and Joseph stayed during
their journey to Egypt) and The Fortress of Babylon (where maybe Joseph worked
for a bit?) and the Alabaster Mosque and medieval fortification of Saladin
Citadel, on top of a hill in central Cairo dating back to the 12th-century. We
then went to the Khan El-Khalili neighborhood and its historic bazaar where I
got some chicken Shawarma (sooo good!) and traditional pastries. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;">I have many more stories, but I
think it’s good to just get an update done, and then maybe I can actually be
more regular about this, even if I have to jump around for content.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4c1013;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>skcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-91742029156970307502023-09-07T15:45:00.001-07:002023-09-07T15:45:02.770-07:00Fall! (2020)<p>Update 11/2/2020- 11/22/2020</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Hi Friend! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">On November 2<sup>nd</sup>, Chelsea
and I drove across the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t
want to post it on my blog b/c you know, I thought I would at least try to have
a lil mystery for potential burglars at my place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had pretty much prepared to be stuck in a now
ditch, so it was a lovely surprise to drive through 3,000 miles of 75 and sunny
weather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At one point, we had been on
the road for 3 hours, thinking about our full bladders and empty gas tank and
how we had had such a smooth ride we were afraid to say anything to jinx it,
when a bunch of police cars were blocking the road and directing traffic
towards the exit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a tracker-trailer
overturned and blocking the highway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We even
more thinking about our full bladders, and how there might be a big line of cars
and people at the stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Turns out “directing
all the traffic” meant about 4 cars, and there was no wait for either
need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was, however, Snoop Dogg
wine for sale!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the gas pump was one
of those old timey machines where the numbers click to the next number.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As if that wasn’t awesome enough, this was
also the exit we wanted to get off at because it also had the Theodore
Roosevelt National Park!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chelsea paid
the park fee (thanks Chels!) and we explored the not closed bits of the
park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saw wild horses! And footprints
as big as Percy’s head! At one point, Chelsea said, “What are those?” and then
we realized that all the “rocks” we had seen were actually prairie dogs…
hundreds of prairie dogs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were
heading back out, and I was saying it would have made the trip perfect if we
had seen some bison, when I turned a corner and there were bison in the middle
of the road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We waited for them to take
their time and be on their way, and then zoomed out of the park and onto the
other side of the highways beyond the accident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Unfortunately, many of the states,
and especially North Dakota, we found people not into wearing masks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We would get out of the car, start pumping gas,
and then Chelsea would come out of the small store saying, “NO MASKS! NO MASKS!
GET BACK IN THE CAR!” Which is really unfortunate because stops and, more
importantly drive thru food, was few and far far far between.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We would think about lunch around noon and
then finally eat at 3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We stopped at a “town”
where there was a hospital and then an hour and half later we saw an ambulance
driving the other way with the hospital name on it driving the other way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess you gotta really hope you have some
basic first aid skills in Big Sky country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I also suppose, if you move to a state like that, finding out you need
to wear masks to protect yourself (or others) is completely ridiculous… I mean
you live there so you don’t have to see people for days or months or maybe
years?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either way, I hope they mask up
or stay home, but either way, get things healthy soon because driving to the ER
is not going to be easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Chelsea and I had hoped that we
might be able to see the beautiful leaves of autumn on our trip, but a large chunk
of our trip had snow weeks before and the trees were already bare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we got to Minnesota, Chelsea yelled, “FALL!”
and I was startled and confused until I realized she was pointing at leaves on
the trees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I would later drive through Indiana,
Ohio and PA mentally yelling, “FALL!”)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
also tried not looking at the election on our drive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean we checked the sitch once on election
night, once the morning after and then one more time right before we got to WI –
so we prayed, COME ON WISCONSIN! YOU CAN DO THIS! And then when we hit IL – WI was
called for Biden!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Chicago, I parted
ways with Chelsea as we both reflected it had been the quickest cross country
trip ever! I then got to stay with my cousin Colleen (who had been up all night
watching the election) and see my Aunt Audrye! It was sooo sooo lovely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Colleen even woke up early to have coffee with
me before I left. We were talking about what we have learned on tiktok, and
Colleen said she still can’t fold a fitted sheet – so I showed her on a twin
sheet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also said, it’s a lot easier
with a bigger sheet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She said she might
need to get a bigger bed then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I then
asked her, “Have you and Charlie been sleeping on twin beds this whole time?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Man is he going to be excited that you
finally caved on getting a bigger bed just so you can fold the sheets more
easily!” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I did the same prayer as I was
driving through Pennsylvania and then called Julie and Nick to find out what the
hell the were doing over there. Before I knew it, I was home in just 4 days! First day home and there were 9 wild turkeys outside! I haven't seen that happen since high school! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkL9cd5-sHeQqvyTg1wNH8hiONFuw_yMgXSAds4-eGPqos7KpcIgBheZ_blH9lzzlG9Y_FcSN4rsz2IHGVRlmcxa5G7FrFRWrC1gU0yZ_kdSmsFGC7RCTcypbw7Jy5pZ-QFzrAX1pN6EE/s1440/EDFF2E70-C165-4A56-AB93-F45D9AAB864E.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkL9cd5-sHeQqvyTg1wNH8hiONFuw_yMgXSAds4-eGPqos7KpcIgBheZ_blH9lzzlG9Y_FcSN4rsz2IHGVRlmcxa5G7FrFRWrC1gU0yZ_kdSmsFGC7RCTcypbw7Jy5pZ-QFzrAX1pN6EE/s320/EDFF2E70-C165-4A56-AB93-F45D9AAB864E.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">The next two weeks were lots of
QT with my parents and sister and I even got to go for a walk with Briana and
Sienna and to hang around Jeanine and Kevin’s fancy new fire pit. So much outdoor,
social distanced fun! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Stacey: Jackie has been working
on her ass. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Jeanine: Oh?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lil J Lo action?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Jackie: I prefer JO. The is for
large and I haven’t gotten there yet. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Mo: Pat got his 70’s Truck. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: Where did he get it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Mo: He walked down to the bottom
of the hill because he knew I wouldn’t drive him. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: What color is the truck?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Mo: Rust colored. I’m not even
joking. Two toned. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Mo was sent home (I mean the
whole school was sent home) because some kids had a huge party on Halloween. Mo
had to quarantine and get tested b/c there was a kid with covid that went to
the party in her class. Luckily, it she was negative because living next door
to my sister and trying to quarantine looked like me talking to her while she
was standing 60 feet from me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I took a walk with Stacey and
Bailey when I first got back at Teatown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was lovely, and kinda cool that not only was everyone masked but they
have people walking in one direction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
thought I was in such good shape from walking so much at home, but apparently I
was walking slow and on flat ground because both Percy and I were huffing a bit
on the trail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ll get there!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Mo and I have been trying to
find moments to walk between meetings or before and after work starts – even if
it’s just walking on Mountain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also
went to FDR park, although one we went at around 4, forgetting how quickly it
gets dark and wearing the oh-so-helpful color scheme of all black.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">We have also been playing lots
of canasta. I even played my mom and she didn’t yell at my “follow your heart”
strategy – but only because we won. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Frita and I have been working on
holiday cards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I printed out labels for
both of us to help reduce the handwriting (for my dad who usually does it all
old-school.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were discussing who else
he sends them out to, and he responded, “I send them to people and I don’t even
know if they’re alive.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">My cousin posted this story
about her 2 year old Cora: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Cora was mad about being in her
car seat today taking Finn to school... yelling at me that it’s “too tight”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I told her she needs it to be
like that to keep her safe, if we got in an accident she would fall out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Her response... “I’ll take that
chance!!!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Oh, and I also have been craving
a big cookie from Great American Cookie company, so I go ahead and ordered one
for myself… No Regrets! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">And here’s some other random fun
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Hi Friend! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">This week I put up a Harry
Potter themed secret cabinet that I bought months ago and finally made it
official but mounting it to the wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
was talking to Janette, telling her how I made chicken for Percy but then made
myself a bowl of Cereal b/c I don’t cook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And then she asked me if was stranded on a desert island, what protein
what I want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first I said peanut
butter (but only because I wouldn’t want to kill anything.) But if there was a
magical replenishing fridge of meat, I would go for pig all the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ham and Bacon for days!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weirdly, I was NOT suspicious of this
question and just thought we were having one of our normal chats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is until bacon, ham and biscuits arrived
to my door Tuesday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not going to
lie, I cooked everything this morning and am half way through my second meal of
bacon and biscuits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pure joy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And because I woke up at 7am, I got sooo much
done before noon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks daylight
savings! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Did anyone else hear about that
theory that because the whole pandemic started when it was a Daylight
savings,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>full moon, Friday the 13<sup>th</sup>
and then John Mulaney hosting SNL, that last night with Halloween, Full Moon,
Daylight Savings and another John hosting of SNL, the spell was supposed to be
broken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could someone go look outside to
see if it’s true?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>LMK! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Reasons why online dating is so hard... </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihib3j9tcM8GvNGv9DzMoY4gh7ZVTHL1eGu9wKohPOMJZcZRsozEBkb95floySCqhLyB6ynnOkBPJv7ePMMWKddoECxi6sE65jm9eYGQdx_lHYRHATQorfqIvCqu0LhefBEqU2vMYRHQA/s1334/IMG_7035.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1334" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihib3j9tcM8GvNGv9DzMoY4gh7ZVTHL1eGu9wKohPOMJZcZRsozEBkb95floySCqhLyB6ynnOkBPJv7ePMMWKddoECxi6sE65jm9eYGQdx_lHYRHATQorfqIvCqu0LhefBEqU2vMYRHQA/s320/IMG_7035.PNG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibopg7y4wAOiGuUYkGYNScwMwh9XB3UVnK7xpnAGfg8tF54ZKB2_9899FtlkqDGiO-L2IbqTvSAIlsd7hcU2UNPFBoYdvIWj_7VNfuyVobufwhkhC3DrIU4-bcowGeQGRxlzEtsbU0M9o/s1334/IMG_7036.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1334" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibopg7y4wAOiGuUYkGYNScwMwh9XB3UVnK7xpnAGfg8tF54ZKB2_9899FtlkqDGiO-L2IbqTvSAIlsd7hcU2UNPFBoYdvIWj_7VNfuyVobufwhkhC3DrIU4-bcowGeQGRxlzEtsbU0M9o/s320/IMG_7036.PNG" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p>Sean: Bloomberg is talking about Chris leaving. And your stock is up! </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4n4up-4_8XZuNh_g4_BRFmngy0BgQy34jxuPvNjfPTTl7t39XH9Lo4MqPirdKd1zwi6KepZqLRoSQdfqCPK5LEb-4mBQSjiEfka4VAiPFVeA05uWkr0auVW3mtVaqxxl3bG9LpYDU-KQ/s4032/IMG_7031.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4n4up-4_8XZuNh_g4_BRFmngy0BgQy34jxuPvNjfPTTl7t39XH9Lo4MqPirdKd1zwi6KepZqLRoSQdfqCPK5LEb-4mBQSjiEfka4VAiPFVeA05uWkr0auVW3mtVaqxxl3bG9LpYDU-KQ/s320/IMG_7031.JPG" /></a></div><br /><o:p><br /></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">And then I got all the mixings
for traditional soft pretzels for Givetober / Oktoberfest… so Lucas and I are
going to do that tonight because I had to work through the work cooking show
version of making pretzels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwIqxvxv64pCkQfPCT_hOE-hWKbwz4yCUmLsRsiPAMG7PKd7B0TmvgjFUu7eVKq6y3R-28ZTRrIFHSeRSpuUemTv7mEgKx_Z9UvYiOQ0BTGrKkZeXRjAcdaNFpwp0N9M9xkOXgEunDg-Y/s4032/IMG_7040.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwIqxvxv64pCkQfPCT_hOE-hWKbwz4yCUmLsRsiPAMG7PKd7B0TmvgjFUu7eVKq6y3R-28ZTRrIFHSeRSpuUemTv7mEgKx_Z9UvYiOQ0BTGrKkZeXRjAcdaNFpwp0N9M9xkOXgEunDg-Y/s320/IMG_7040.HEIC" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Oh! I think I told you about my
mirror falling down last week, so Dawne and Jordan came over and after about
two hours, we got it back on the wall. SOOOO heavy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So heavy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dick had originally put it up, and he was upset when he heard it fell
down – until I told him the wire broke rather than using the anchors into the
wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told him if it made him feel
better it survived a minor earthquake last year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told me he almost asked if there had been
an earthquake b/c his ego couldn’t handle it just randomly breaking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We tripled the wires this time, so hopefully
that does the trick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> Here's a quick pic of my Crows gathering for snack time. </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdnbdfUkXxFTgO5nsGCyWz6XeFaWPslqHftD4oym3TKgwN3o2YbTQqeY8GAs2WbSx_qR-pSgcAKwLMVDPkAfzwyVKyk4w0ggEJKamLlEyb_usWD175_4sQDNjPveMBoP7B_sFSb28xpM0/s4032/IMG_7043.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdnbdfUkXxFTgO5nsGCyWz6XeFaWPslqHftD4oym3TKgwN3o2YbTQqeY8GAs2WbSx_qR-pSgcAKwLMVDPkAfzwyVKyk4w0ggEJKamLlEyb_usWD175_4sQDNjPveMBoP7B_sFSb28xpM0/s320/IMG_7043.HEIC" /></a></div><br /><o:p><br /></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">On Friday, I dropped off a
present at Dr. Rach’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We just waved
through the glass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anderson told me
about his t-rex costume and then I heard Emmett barreling to the front door
buck naked, very upset he couldn’t give me a hug.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not gonna lie, I was really upset I couldn’t
give him a hug too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Saturday I went over to D&J’s
to help check an HP scavenger hunt that they ran for their team (which was super
fun to see how creative everyone was!) I also dressed up as the Beloved George
lady for Dawne and Jordan’s Disney Haunted Mansion dinner party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because it was just out lil family bubble,
Dawne could use her Haunted Mansion china (SO FANCY) and they dressed up as the
Ghost Hosts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We went on a “virtual”
version of the Disney ride followed but a super lovely dinner and played Nater’s
game Haunted Mansion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It really couldn’t
have been a more perfect evening.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: On my way back from a
Halloween Dinner Party!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Rach: When do you think this is?
2019? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I went on some baby walks with
Joey’s new puppy Pooh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then I
dressed up as Aurora, but my co-workers said I wear that dress on Tuesday’s so
it doesn’t count.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then we went to a
little Halloween walk celebration in Fremont.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/kkUUSG4Ww2a2rh64A">https://photos.app.goo.gl/kkUUSG4Ww2a2rh64A</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">In 2018, we went to the corn
maze with the whole gang! And then Dawne had a Disney themed Halloween dinner
party where she cooked lots of lasagna! And then we put lighter fluid on some
pumpkins and lit them on fire! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/YqL7dEXHWDJUaKBT6">https://photos.app.goo.gl/YqL7dEXHWDJUaKBT6</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">In 2017 I went to lots and lots
of fun exciting places.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, I flew to
Nashville with Becky to watch Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, which ended up
being a dedication celebration with soooo much amazing talent!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure we were there for less than two days,
but we managed to get Hatties Chicken, bar hopped and went to the Grand Ole
Oprey!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am so thrilled that Becky is
always up for doing crazy things with me! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">And then I went from there to
the Big Buck Hunter World Championship in Vegas as VIP’s… for work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah buddy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>FOR WORK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t even know if I
can adequately describe how amazing this quick trip to Vegas was (but we also
went to the mafia museum!) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">And then I went to Disneyland!!
Yeah that’s right, DISNEYLAND. And then had a dinner party for Halloween.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boy, October is such a great month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Much Love, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">T O’B <o:p></o:p></span></p>skcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-83477952881002196142020-10-29T16:03:00.003-07:002020-10-29T16:03:43.299-07:00Practically Magic<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <span style="color: #6b1b23;">Update 19 – 25</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Hi Friend! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">My week started out with getting
a notification from my bank that my debit card was being used without my
knowledge at a Hampton Inn in Yonkers.
Good news is I have an alert on my phone so I caught it right away, but
it is super annoying that something like this happens and the person who did it
is never punished, but you have to go back and update all of your automatic
payments. And then on Friday, I was
sitting on the couch, like I have been doing for the past five years, lalalala,
when suddenly the mirror behind me dropped off the wall. Luckily, it did not fall on me, nor did it
break, and the wire snapped rather than the anchors on the wall breaking, but I
am not going to lie, I am soooo tired of being positive when random crappy
things happen. I said this to my mom and
she said, “It could have been worse.” And then, “This too shall pass.” To which
I replied, “WHAT DID I JUST SAY!?” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidudTv7FwfGROkKSoiuwzzo1NuTaHuusvSSDT537EOVE4WYPFDKZ6ODS4nM1yjx4TEorVdNgmCRTqob7LOWR8De9zOpNWlhz6onKovIxVzdYdDg0cLuqRbRWLQ3TCR0NisdY2a0vPCtY8/s2048/IMG_7001.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1729" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidudTv7FwfGROkKSoiuwzzo1NuTaHuusvSSDT537EOVE4WYPFDKZ6ODS4nM1yjx4TEorVdNgmCRTqob7LOWR8De9zOpNWlhz6onKovIxVzdYdDg0cLuqRbRWLQ3TCR0NisdY2a0vPCtY8/s320/IMG_7001.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3vxFtZeMnCiLlr2M09e_TzUCR4RpVV-ETj9IOhQ7p-IoIvJjFVlgV2l6mGSc66bp-eL2P7ouq5jd0INHI6cm28oDmn2RJmUE9WN99MwFSAIWa0wZnA-P8C6U19q8SVEXRHU3IObk7mCE/s1334/IMG_6995.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1334" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3vxFtZeMnCiLlr2M09e_TzUCR4RpVV-ETj9IOhQ7p-IoIvJjFVlgV2l6mGSc66bp-eL2P7ouq5jd0INHI6cm28oDmn2RJmUE9WN99MwFSAIWa0wZnA-P8C6U19q8SVEXRHU3IObk7mCE/s320/IMG_6995.JPG" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I did some cleaning and organizing
and prepping on Saturday. I’m sure the
hyper-organizing is just a function of controlling what I can control, but the
results are AMAZING. I also voted. </span><span style="color: #6b1b23; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol-ext; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">😊</span><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> And, I finally framed some cool princess stuff and hung
it on my wall (including something that is technically Zach’s but he’s left it
at my house for three years, so now it’s on my wall!) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5m21KXqZahyt-0K3hHXScIrG4RkuU4QcmVKe-75G6-FtcNK1e8jIEarspXGhkeix5eTviPCZ84XS2a5IMWbuqI7MRdHLTYgnE_KsVT76QpaEP2hzCAs3vBLGVzhH8Jvy3bHX8EQZTujc/s4032/IMG_6992.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5m21KXqZahyt-0K3hHXScIrG4RkuU4QcmVKe-75G6-FtcNK1e8jIEarspXGhkeix5eTviPCZ84XS2a5IMWbuqI7MRdHLTYgnE_KsVT76QpaEP2hzCAs3vBLGVzhH8Jvy3bHX8EQZTujc/s320/IMG_6992.HEIC" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">To continue my excitement over
everything Snoop Dogg, here is Snoop getting and wearing some of the King Ice
Xbox jewelry that I worked on. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1319804004512141312?s=20">https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1319804004512141312?s=20</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Going through the sunglass
basket, Dawne pulls one out and says, “Look at these ones, these are really
weird!” To which I replied, “Those are my cat sunglasses!!” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinadIFalxdEYDcuxksTS1Tk0fHi8XsMW1DPon9dqvN0lvkxKsJfqGwKWLk6qYSwza2_I6yacsrSCXq6wHZFY65bv_oeVwbzcsZM3L2mgxIaNBH6XzJWa0hXeqIdJIo6JI2EoZ1PZmZsxQ/s4032/IMG_7004.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinadIFalxdEYDcuxksTS1Tk0fHi8XsMW1DPon9dqvN0lvkxKsJfqGwKWLk6qYSwza2_I6yacsrSCXq6wHZFY65bv_oeVwbzcsZM3L2mgxIaNBH6XzJWa0hXeqIdJIo6JI2EoZ1PZmZsxQ/s320/IMG_7004.HEIC" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And
then we carved pumpkins while watching Hotel Transylvania and followed that up
with a delightful showing of Practical Magic.
I think if I had realized how light on content this week was, maybe I
would have gotten it done earlier! <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In
the meantime, these are things I thought were funny this week: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And this
is my flashback: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Looking
back at October in past years is so fun because it’s clearly where I pack in all
my good times. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Like
last year, Ryan and I went to Hawaii! First
Class! Woot!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ryan:
I’ve never been so excited about a 6 hour flight! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And
then for at least the 12 hours I kept repeating, “I can’t believe my phone
works here just like it’s America!” <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And
then while we were at the beach, Ryan says, “That guy is really digging (his
ass crack) over there. At least go into
the water more. Have a little shame! A
little shame never hurt anyone! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Our
co-worker friend sent us this amazing 20 page document of everything we needed
to know about Hawaii. We went to a cool
beach, and learned about reef safe sunblock.
We went on a Catamaran tour, saw dolphins jumping along side us, and swam
with sea turtles. We went on an epic
road trip with our friend Kayla who showed us cool spots at Pearl Harbor that aren’t
open to the public, and private military beaches and basically gave us the most
amazing tour. And then we spent two days
at the Disney resort eating all things shaped Mickey and floating in the lazy
river all day. I also LITERALLY got
scared by Stich when I turned a corner and he popped out of a door. We also went to a luau where the table
mysteriously leaked on my for the entire hour.
It was weird. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/BgWdx5Tz785RiHTo8">https://photos.app.goo.gl/BgWdx5Tz785RiHTo8</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">2018 I was making everyone dress
up alike at Disney<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/JFPrqtjpzgEYj7b19">https://photos.app.goo.gl/JFPrqtjpzgEYj7b19</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">in 2017 I was also making
everyone dress up alike at Disney: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/b9Mg5P852y6azoTr8">https://photos.app.goo.gl/b9Mg5P852y6azoTr8</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I hope you found some amusing tidbits,
and hopefully I can get this weeks written on Sunday! </span><span style="color: #6b1b23; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol-ext; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">😊</span><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Much Love, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">T O’B <o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p>skcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-40927457359419329242020-10-21T15:34:00.000-07:002020-10-21T15:34:10.742-07:00Pants-less in Public<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Update 10/12 – 10/18<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Hi Friend! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I got this amazing postcard from
Kathi in the mail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure it looks like
pictures of a hospital, but it’s actually a note from Kathi’s “COVID Vacay”
which was apparently splendid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
proceeded to describe that she was living her “best holiday life.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2020 has really made it possible for someone
to describe a c-section in a jealous inducing way!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a real trip! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXPpidWiWjkhqbZbnRzV-UKLKP-pXH9YJcUFZQ0cX4j_biV34yPUHuhyphenhyphen-Ox8S8SIRANdZEbyXA1Fe_jJnaH_f3unGzF740pG3owo7c1S6ua3PQ4OSySfCNdEOo4SENJ1V41Bn8K0NpAh0/s4032/IMG_6970.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXPpidWiWjkhqbZbnRzV-UKLKP-pXH9YJcUFZQ0cX4j_biV34yPUHuhyphenhyphen-Ox8S8SIRANdZEbyXA1Fe_jJnaH_f3unGzF740pG3owo7c1S6ua3PQ4OSySfCNdEOo4SENJ1V41Bn8K0NpAh0/s320/IMG_6970.HEIC" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcE25v_9bPanoNmNEB3M61NhQUwNlWW3RXLet-EucpmJzjCJwRAeU95qBRUQWqcptO4Q92r9vKoWfB1hEkoTrcJmSDgT3XsNb-Vz74ph5JmBB3lPD14qW4bdpx_nbDG-4zQSg9Bwm2Cc8/s3627/IMG_6930.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3627" data-original-width="2722" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcE25v_9bPanoNmNEB3M61NhQUwNlWW3RXLet-EucpmJzjCJwRAeU95qBRUQWqcptO4Q92r9vKoWfB1hEkoTrcJmSDgT3XsNb-Vz74ph5JmBB3lPD14qW4bdpx_nbDG-4zQSg9Bwm2Cc8/s320/IMG_6930.JPG" /></a></div><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I wrote to AAA and asked for
guidance on my trip and not only did they send me pamphlets and guides, they
sent me a spiral bound book with my name on it and a zoomed in part of the map which
is highlighted with my route! Magical. When I sent the picture to my mom, she
said, “I know! That’s what I told you would happen.” It must be really annoying
to have a daughter that is surprised when your right every time, huh?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I wasn’t really surprised, I just didn’t
know about the spiral bound book made just for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That part was super duper cool.) #nerdalert<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPyHIzv6jGNUCGtYhKszSCj7QobasxcaLIA3xx-fFfZ4QQCuOk95OGeHaUrdHYkM6GY23TxoPxMaXSFX8VCIBxVDlLUNLHg-W3JKE1bNjzxcK5grlVgHJEwx3nJoJQuv4vN2ESkXM6NNg/s4032/IMG_6894.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPyHIzv6jGNUCGtYhKszSCj7QobasxcaLIA3xx-fFfZ4QQCuOk95OGeHaUrdHYkM6GY23TxoPxMaXSFX8VCIBxVDlLUNLHg-W3JKE1bNjzxcK5grlVgHJEwx3nJoJQuv4vN2ESkXM6NNg/s320/IMG_6894.HEIC" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">On Wednesday, I headed over to
Dawne’s for Fran’s birthday dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zach
decorated the whole kitchen a la a 5 year old’s princess party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was spectacular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then Fran and I dressed up as princesses
(though Fran look like a spectacular Beauty, and I wore Ariel’s day clothes
with my “everyday tiara.”) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Lucas: Remember the Saffron
debacle of 2019?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Jordan: Remember when that
qualified as a debacle?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: Oh man, I went to eat a
piece of 2019 Halloween candy and it was stale. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Rach: I didn’t know that was
possible. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: That candy went stale or
that I could still have 2019 Halloween candy?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Rach: Both! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: I still have Christmas and
Easter candy too – but I have some time for those.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I actually went into the office
for a lil bit on Friday so I can help organize and clean the product room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I let Percy hang with me, and he just
followed me back and forth wondering why we did this instead of going to the
park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I got home there was a
ginormous box labeled “Perishable.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
first thought was, “Did I by myself something and forget, again!?” But no!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a surprise delivery from my niece Morgan
– 5 half gallons of Penn State Creamery Ice Cream!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Later, my Seattle family would ask why it’s
the best ice cream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would tell them
that it’s the best because there is only like 4 days between when the milk
comes from the cow to when the ice cream is made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could also just let them try it? But that’s
ridiculous.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also spent three days eating
only Ice Cream – and lost a pound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah,
buddy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">On Saturday, we went to another corn
maze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This one was muddy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like a couple 2 or 3 inches of mud (and
apparently the second half of the maze the mud was up to your ankles!) My pants
were long, so they touched the ground a bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unless you start walking through mud, and then they drag down under your
shoe a couple of inches and you have to hold the map in one hand and your pants
up in the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">And then, when we got back to
the car, I legit took my pants and shoes off in the parking lot and then drove
home pants-less.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjExPb9Lzu6bEPDsFSA12SXTZIhhwjz2Fokf9sDQS5NlRrVyDv_CdQZIvy-8VpbrMKkewh_73NZKdxqd7hP9d0Y5t-_vXmUTCFHuHomlMqS7-wSiGt0lIJKLQYrME5VscdDtGFYEYKGnLk/s4032/IMG_6940.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjExPb9Lzu6bEPDsFSA12SXTZIhhwjz2Fokf9sDQS5NlRrVyDv_CdQZIvy-8VpbrMKkewh_73NZKdxqd7hP9d0Y5t-_vXmUTCFHuHomlMqS7-wSiGt0lIJKLQYrME5VscdDtGFYEYKGnLk/s320/IMG_6940.HEIC" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Saturday evening I went to Becky’s
for a social distance hang (sure, it’s getting colder, but that’s what Minnie Mouse
blanket ponchos were made for!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh and
Maureen found the original “Mo-Bile” license place frame and Doreen found “Mo’s
Driving Mix” so guess who’s recreating this mix into a road-trip mix!?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I don’t really remember what else
happened…so here’s some funny stuff I found this week. </span><span style="color: #6b1b23; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol-ext; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">😊</span><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Much Love, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">T O’B <o:p></o:p></span></p>skcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-59950976913634299282020-10-15T13:08:00.003-07:002020-10-19T13:55:08.899-07:00Kharma Kharma Kharma<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Update 10/5 – 10/11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Hi Friend! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I’m definitely late getting this
out, but I feel like 2 weeks of work has been shoved into a two day period so who
knows when I’ll finish writing this! I like that sometimes my sister will be like,
“you forgot about….” Only, I didn’t, I just took so long getting an update done
that time has lost all meaning! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirfHP2d_69_xyeN9u88q6zc-arWygz7hEBy8PMqxS37QMYPCf7Uy4GzMS_zAf-B7AeUJn1BM9pdIUzEJO4WQRUjtyxqgE5RZIfTM3Yxlc3GS1IkMGg8HbnZFa8LijUmjev6NAW1bhvygQ/s750/IMG_6916.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="185" data-original-width="750" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirfHP2d_69_xyeN9u88q6zc-arWygz7hEBy8PMqxS37QMYPCf7Uy4GzMS_zAf-B7AeUJn1BM9pdIUzEJO4WQRUjtyxqgE5RZIfTM3Yxlc3GS1IkMGg8HbnZFa8LijUmjev6NAW1bhvygQ/s320/IMG_6916.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I was driving over to Ryan’s
during my lunch hour to drop off a birthday present when I got pulled over for
speeding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am pretty sure that is NOT
how Karma is supposed to work. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was so
weird b/c I definitely was not going as fast as they said, and they didn’t
actually give me a ticket, they just said it would be mailed to me, and now I’m
waiting for a ticket so I can protest it – because get this, the officer was
like “Yeah, I would definitely protest this.” Then why are you giving it to
me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And also, where is your mask, sir!?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">(TBH though, I just said, “Thanks,
have a great day!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Typical. ) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Watched American Murder despite
it being against all self-care rules that I have created for myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I then had to watch 5 episodes of New Girl,
and I still had nightmares.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a
totally messed up, awful monster of a human.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Friday was a BIG day! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Kathi had a perfectly healthy
and adorable baby girl Aurelia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel
like I just got another niece even though we’re totally not related. </span><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif" style="color: #6b1b23; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol-ext; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">😊</span><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicyNTtB1TmknAB8buRRLZ3gnZUA_a42I1jvdHmic_qZycTGKXqbs4mOdulDiY1wD_0hbX8pzXJ7tdlzvZaEJ9XDnsThxWuxulwZVpNSWnPSDgWYGnq3wMrK6jkI0hZ9UTRAZCt7csnCBI/s4032/IMG_6793.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicyNTtB1TmknAB8buRRLZ3gnZUA_a42I1jvdHmic_qZycTGKXqbs4mOdulDiY1wD_0hbX8pzXJ7tdlzvZaEJ9XDnsThxWuxulwZVpNSWnPSDgWYGnq3wMrK6jkI0hZ9UTRAZCt7csnCBI/s320/IMG_6793.JPG" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: She has the same birthday as
Percy so I won’t forget! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Kathi: I was just going to look
up if she shares a birthday with someone famous! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">For Percy’s birthday I made sure
Dawne and Nala could go for a walk with us at the park because that’s all he
really wants in life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s such a cool
little dude. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also had kind of a maniac
day all together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It started out at Les Schwab
getting a pre-trip check and figuring out my tire situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to see if a needed winter tires (we
deciding on siping my tires for extra gripping) and if I needed a spare tire (the
guy was like “Boy! They really don’t give you any room in here for a tire!” and
also, “You have special wheels so that’s going to be an extra $600) and I decided
that the fix a flat device and AAA is going to be my life line instead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the prayers and good thoughts that this
works out for me!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then the walk, and
then running over to Rick’s to drop off his 10 year workaversary present made
my day totally cray cray.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">On Saturday, we headed down to
the Carpinito Bros Farm for some corn maze fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was super weird not doing the corn maze with Dr. Rach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, and Dawne looked at the map… for the
first time ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah, the first time
ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m still reeling from this
information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We used to do corn maze
races in the dark, and then we started doing races in the daylight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the last couple of years we’ve slowed down
and walked through them as a group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do I
sometimes yell when no one is paying attention to the map but me and then they
start going down the wrong paths?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this year I only
yelled once, and I feel like that shows personal growth. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Then we went to the other side
for some more Fall Fun, including roping the wooden cows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Jordan: It’s more humane if you
rope ‘em by the ass. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Zach: Here, let me try. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Jordan: Get your own! (things
that Jordan always wanted to be able to say to his kids, and now that he’s got
a 31 year old, all bets are off!) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">When we got back to the house we
made a spreadsheet of Halloween movies to watch, then ignored all of them and
watched true blood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Well, that’s not true,
we watched Addams Family and Van Helsing first.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we played a scooby doo game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jordan “froze” Scooby Doo (my character) as
his first action as the ghost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Naturally, when he lost I told him it was because he thought it was a
good idea to knock down a dog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See! That’s
how Karma is supposed to work!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Jordan: We should go an pull the
buoys out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have never done that before. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Jordan: Because we had to put
new ones in this year and they were $600. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: I don’t think you’re going
to be able to pull them out. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Jordan: I think we can, let’s go
now before it rains. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: Okay, I’ll go just to take pictures
of your struggle. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">On Sunday we finished the last
puzzle – and probably other stuff, but really the puzzle is the big news.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Here are some amusing bits from last
week: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Much love! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">T O’B <o:p></o:p></span></p>skcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-53093475978813817242020-10-08T13:13:00.000-07:002020-10-08T13:13:21.472-07:00Ghoul Friend<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Update 9/28 – 10/4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Hi there! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">My big accomplishment for last
week was that I installed a home security / fancy lock system where all the
cameras and locks are connected to each other and my phone, and I managed to do
it all by myself!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yay! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I also decided to watch New
Girl, which I had really enjoyed the first couple of seasons of and then I gave
up for no particular reason, and so I picked it back up randomly at season 4
and it’s delightful! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This balances out
the fact that I completely shattered my self-care plan of only watching and
reading things that will make me happy when I watched the debate and my heart
and soul were filled with anxiety for a full 90 minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4SAJ5n7faEaf0KthTMmnzCdGZZhBzpqp1o0izbz0t9bk_ZUUwqqQWMdcofnc0xvTkLPmLmru1ImXpP9ASGQFLBceeoW_mqIxBNvyXZosHl5MBvLZLHp4zbA8AWC0VHUWo6NpvtbdiZFY/s746/IMG_6747.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4SAJ5n7faEaf0KthTMmnzCdGZZhBzpqp1o0izbz0t9bk_ZUUwqqQWMdcofnc0xvTkLPmLmru1ImXpP9ASGQFLBceeoW_mqIxBNvyXZosHl5MBvLZLHp4zbA8AWC0VHUWo6NpvtbdiZFY/s320/IMG_6747.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">My Knock! Knock! Plants got
delivered!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Um, so incredibly cool and
easy and now I look like an adult! (And yes, I equate having potted plants outside
your entry way to having the façade of being adult!) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1f86QmJ9zxRuqJPn6EqDmX57l7rcjCoylaDu_rkaRH5gXHjJspL180RHBqvDe7kA_UbR5q7o-9bviOZU5EOpB60uwoNGo8__HiLgcumBjpsdOo6yYVkaS99TW8odoAX7weyjtluaGRQ8/s3160/IMG_6732.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3160" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1f86QmJ9zxRuqJPn6EqDmX57l7rcjCoylaDu_rkaRH5gXHjJspL180RHBqvDe7kA_UbR5q7o-9bviOZU5EOpB60uwoNGo8__HiLgcumBjpsdOo6yYVkaS99TW8odoAX7weyjtluaGRQ8/s320/IMG_6732.HEIC" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis8E-JvBHcokc85mp0T-tG1k6AzXIKLyEhnFCsedo3AFurvaEy1p0Xmv4dv0J_kHfxVa_SXl-mwAe1RbM4R5A7EpVdwfrTQUlPnx_CahZh6KpkAIbyoAkzQ2alzwWv9Mmmwl4kpJJlL4k/s4032/IMG_6734.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis8E-JvBHcokc85mp0T-tG1k6AzXIKLyEhnFCsedo3AFurvaEy1p0Xmv4dv0J_kHfxVa_SXl-mwAe1RbM4R5A7EpVdwfrTQUlPnx_CahZh6KpkAIbyoAkzQ2alzwWv9Mmmwl4kpJJlL4k/s320/IMG_6734.HEIC" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Oh man, I was on FaceTime with Sean
& Stacey Friday night and, for no reason at all, I dropped my entire glass
of red wine on the couch! (Stacey didn’t see what I did, but did see my face,
so was not surprised when I hung up.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
rapidly took the cover of the cushion, threw it in the wash and it came out completely
- no problems. But the sheer shock of those 15 seconds!! What a doozy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Sean also told me that he wrote
a parent recommendation for Morgan for school, and had written something to the
effect of “If you order a hamburger, Morgan is the bacon and Cheese, and if you
order a Sunday she’s all the really great toppings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Basically, she makes everything better.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so now, Morgan’s best friend and her fam have
nicknamed her “Topping.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, he’s
not wrong. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I've let Percy take the donut off during the day because he's been really good, but at night, I have to put it back on. I don't know how parents say no to kids, man. This little dude was so sad and pathetic every time I put it on. I powered through, but it was soooo hard! How can you tell this little, softly whimpering face no?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi2zHVZbHryFn94MLyWwKLGtCTOMDITS7gM790upg7OkZLfCKBWRXQWUF5YifuVACfxTvXs2rUCOReQyF9q52i-ck2Cj-IRZJ1LsGDRo8AL749anB5QVUia3cQapYs1M_DBnK3wmXk1ck/s4032/IMG_6741.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi2zHVZbHryFn94MLyWwKLGtCTOMDITS7gM790upg7OkZLfCKBWRXQWUF5YifuVACfxTvXs2rUCOReQyF9q52i-ck2Cj-IRZJ1LsGDRo8AL749anB5QVUia3cQapYs1M_DBnK3wmXk1ck/s320/IMG_6741.HEIC" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8quwYvUfGul1cWc-oUWbwBJ0uVtIH6bWwB134KNm0grxllXAekXUQioKEnyM1K7D4j7DVbQa1mS1AJEm7UojCr6yMYIHc60bGMPRK0LBZrfsySa9BaALozrJ6f5SS2knukmKxqyJ8QOA/s4032/IMG_6739.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8quwYvUfGul1cWc-oUWbwBJ0uVtIH6bWwB134KNm0grxllXAekXUQioKEnyM1K7D4j7DVbQa1mS1AJEm7UojCr6yMYIHc60bGMPRK0LBZrfsySa9BaALozrJ6f5SS2knukmKxqyJ8QOA/s320/IMG_6739.HEIC" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">At Dawne’s, they were getting
their outdoor, covid safe area ready for the winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: I was thinking about doing
the same thing, but I figured I’d wait until after Christmas – maybe by then this
whole pandemic will be over. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Zach: More likely a year from then,
though. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><SAD FACE><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">We did another puzzle, and
D&J got frames for them (aka we did not throw these ones right into the
trash.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh and Zach and Dawne got the Disney
Castles all lit up and the Hogwarts train working.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So fun! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I was chatting with Rach at one
point, and developed a fit of giggles trying to tell her that I placed my
candle next to my fire alarm, and now realize it must not be working because it
would likely be triggered if a small fire was an inch away from it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I inaccurately said it was my vampire candle,
so Rach asked me what Vampires smell like, and I replied, without skipping a
beat, “Strawberries!” But actually, it was me “Ghoul Friend” candle, which also
smells like berries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fit of giggles was mostly at my expense, of
why I had a fire alarm on the dresser, why I would put a candle next to it, and
also some revealing facts about some dangerous live wires, and how I had
already called someone about them, and still didn’t fix the problem. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Livin’ on the edge. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I’m fairly sure that this was a
quote from Dr. Rach, but also could have been me, or most people I know: Neither
of us has worn pants in at least 7 months. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">October 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">So usually this week I’m in NY
for NYCC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And last year, I got to meet
Belle, Ariel and Tiana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, I had
someone draw me a picture of Beauty and the Beast to have Belle sign, AND Ariel
took my phone and recorded my voicemail message, and it was one of the most
exciting days ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked them to sign
everything to “Princess Tiffany” and then each one was like, Oh! How old is
Princess Tiffany, and then I was like, oh, I’m Princess Tiffany! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/52HiRUbcmZTLrcjQ9">https://photos.app.goo.gl/52HiRUbcmZTLrcjQ9</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">In October 2018, I drove to Chicago
with my parents and we got there and then didn’t have a key to house – which is
only funny b/c my mom started looking for the key like 30 min before we got
there, and I started laughing and saying hahaha wouldn’t it be hilarious if we
drove 14 hours and then couldn’t get into the house! My mother did not find
this situation funny AT ALL.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And to be
honest, neither did I when we got to the house and I realized I really needed
to pee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We ended up getting a hold of my
Uncle Bill, and went over to his house to hang out before we got the key.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(This is one of those scenarios where, it’s seems
fun to see people when you arrive some place, but also is miserable because you’ve
been driving since 5 am and do not feel like being a joy and delight.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much more to this story… but I think I’ll
wait for next week because I might never send this out otherwise. </span><span style="color: #6b1b23; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol-ext; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">😊</span><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Much love! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">T O’B <o:p></o:p></span></p>skcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-81890927988367631272020-09-29T12:03:00.002-07:002020-09-29T12:03:53.871-07:00Flip Flop Feet <p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Update 8/21 – 8/27<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Hi Friend! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLns56AHcVvKan68_whwZGYNBUU7hj8OOJR_Qkr0PJBEEBBofhau3karvkgGPQl_ZQzeV7y3eftscXWmw_iFZGiuE5sOb4kHqzO7qeUk6Oxj573hsTR7pN6mU-k93z5usOcWuQm4v9TrQ/s720/IMG_6726.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLns56AHcVvKan68_whwZGYNBUU7hj8OOJR_Qkr0PJBEEBBofhau3karvkgGPQl_ZQzeV7y3eftscXWmw_iFZGiuE5sOb4kHqzO7qeUk6Oxj573hsTR7pN6mU-k93z5usOcWuQm4v9TrQ/s320/IMG_6726.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">On Wednesday, I took Percy over
to the Vet for a shot, and also to check out some bumps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The vet ended up draining a cyst (and I think
he was pretty grossed out about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Baby.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then told me that Percy
is in perfect health, like really perfect coat, in shape, everything. And, “He’s
adorable!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I already knew this, but it’s
nice having a professional confirm it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He went home with a “Cone of Shame.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I took some pics of him, and then swapped it out for the cozy donut
(which he has been whining about ever since. Just a soft, poor me whine that is
extremely pathetic.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5 days down, 9 to
go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMBiVV8dKIolCgLs1i2oPd1tbYz7FsQt94gZwHedfXwIhUFixCMpGghzxHh79GlxrJfEi9G0NhLTbgAQt7JOLMrQT9RqB_whNzyD6kuvYeQNqIM0EugySjOtGlKL0v3nKL2VlZFuFzvBk/s4032/IMG_6705.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMBiVV8dKIolCgLs1i2oPd1tbYz7FsQt94gZwHedfXwIhUFixCMpGghzxHh79GlxrJfEi9G0NhLTbgAQt7JOLMrQT9RqB_whNzyD6kuvYeQNqIM0EugySjOtGlKL0v3nKL2VlZFuFzvBk/s320/IMG_6705.HEIC" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">On a conference call today: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #6b1b23; margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">I
got a little aquarium for my desk and got this little Pea puffer which has
been beating up all the other creatures in the tank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(continues to describe all of the interactions
between the pea puffer and the snails and shrimp.) <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #6b1b23; margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Me:
The Drama of the tank! <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #6b1b23; margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Mine
was grabbing the other fish, dragging it to the other side of the tank,
spitting it out so it thinks it’s safe, and then traumatizing it all over
again when it feels safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s like
game of thrones! <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #6b1b23; margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">Me:
My sister had a beta fish that was eating all the other fish, so she
started feeding it fish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His name
was Puff Daddy, btw, may he rest in peace. <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #6b1b23; margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">On
that same theme, my pea puffer’s name is Tupac!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was pac man, but had to rename him
because he was too gangster. <o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I, for one, am thankful for a
call that doesn’t start with talking about smoke or the pandemic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would have been happy to chat about fish tanks
for the whole 30 min, tbh. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">We had some rainy days, and it
got a lil chillier so I decided I needed to find an alternative to flip flops
(you know, for emergencies.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I got me
a pair of cute uggs with lil bows on the back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Will I be mocked in Washington?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Probably.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will I be showing my
New Yorker? Yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do I care?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not in the least.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
guess I should flash back to last year when I told Dr. Rach that my feet were
in excruciating pain after wearing normal supportive shoes for a couple of
days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told her I didn’t want to bother
her, because I assumed that she has been overwhelmed these days with people coming
in with what I can only imagine the medical term to be: Flip Flop Feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know, where you’ve been wearing flip
flips for many many months and then they protest when they have to be in real
supportive shoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, I figured, I would
just keep wearing the shoes until my feet got used to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure I was in pain, but no pain, no gain, you
know?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Rach was, what’s the
word?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Appalled by my reasoning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently, “Flip Flop Feet” is not a thing,
and most people feel better when they put real shoes on, and get this: My mom
wasn’t right, and wearing supportive shoes in this instance would just cause
more and more pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t remember how
I solved it last year, although, wearing flip flops well into the December
might have been a possibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> Oooh! Sean and Stacey sent me flowers just because they missed me! How amazing are they!?</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX0URzGnVZfXzn9XrnisQeJUmL8wLoNsMKNZdoBiiHEa0l5jZW_1IPGunYETzvwKkvz0hZaGv9fNV8XIq_hO2iYViO8KeDhxCg1g_fhTHQ9Plm6PG-fmcJimUpY7QiVUJso62yxZYario/s4032/IMG_6711.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX0URzGnVZfXzn9XrnisQeJUmL8wLoNsMKNZdoBiiHEa0l5jZW_1IPGunYETzvwKkvz0hZaGv9fNV8XIq_hO2iYViO8KeDhxCg1g_fhTHQ9Plm6PG-fmcJimUpY7QiVUJso62yxZYario/s320/IMG_6711.HEIC" /></a></div><br /><o:p><br /></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Hung out in Becky’s garage on
Friday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We listened to Maureen on her
high school’s radio station as she talked everyone through a selection of songs
that told the story of her life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
so lovely to hear her share so much with us – plus the tuneage was
amazing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Becky and I were rocking the Snoop
Dogg wine (Criminal 19) because apparently we are unpaid promoters now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Becky told me she installed an amazon echo inside
her front door so that she could have Alexa announce her arrival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Additionally, she was able to open the door
and say, “Alex announce that I want Brownies” and moments later, Jared had
brought her brownies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Okay she might have
said please, but that’s not how I heard it.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2SxDKkLK2cQyi6JMlm2dG50cmuBTG6PRbaZNX7aDcdwj8pr_b2LO7PllUqq52IH_jiT0LHiIv9p6j9LLHCszXwszx_5td7KTuWXyHJplMMcI9Iwsq1021LxI3MXm4y7V_b-NKBgOul14/s750/IMG_6712.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="326" data-original-width="750" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2SxDKkLK2cQyi6JMlm2dG50cmuBTG6PRbaZNX7aDcdwj8pr_b2LO7PllUqq52IH_jiT0LHiIv9p6j9LLHCszXwszx_5td7KTuWXyHJplMMcI9Iwsq1021LxI3MXm4y7V_b-NKBgOul14/s320/IMG_6712.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I got to chat with Kathi for a
bit last week, and I’m getting very excited for a new baby in the fam!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Time really does fly when you’re not the one
pregnant! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">On Saturday, I met up with
Dawne, Jordan and Lucas at UVillage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
love doing anything that even remotely resembles normal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure, I still avoided actual stores, and sure
everyone was masked and 6 ft a part in lines outside waiting to be allowed into
stores, but we were outside, and I walking around a “mall” window shopping, and
that was lovely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At one point, a couple
of ladies stopped to talk to Percy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
saw his donut and wanted to offer their sympathies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before I got to pre-emptively apologize for
his avalier attitude, I heard one of the ladies say, “Who’s a good boy!?” and
what do you know, Percy perked right up, ran over and said, “I’m a good boy!! How
did you know?!” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFoVlBgNTQrl-Abeew7J0JQIYAw6zYM-2R-sUd6BsUhmQCkhZk62Hqptohaca_EqjmKgLlaWC0Nhj_V5aFYpx7UjjX_nhLg5JlVw-1Lj54yqEs93CHo9JLkl6wSH48LiFcZfpPNTtvla0/s4032/IMG_6715.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFoVlBgNTQrl-Abeew7J0JQIYAw6zYM-2R-sUd6BsUhmQCkhZk62Hqptohaca_EqjmKgLlaWC0Nhj_V5aFYpx7UjjX_nhLg5JlVw-1Lj54yqEs93CHo9JLkl6wSH48LiFcZfpPNTtvla0/s320/IMG_6715.HEIC" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Then, I went back to my place
for a bit, b/c it was pool time and Percy can’t go right now. We still had time
for some play time at the house, followed by a lil puzzle, dinner and watched
Enola Holmes (so good!) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I’m not a huge fan of baths. I
want to love baths. I hear about other people taking baths and it sounds
heavenly. But every time I try it’s a bit of a disaster. Last night I decided
to take a bath. I was like, this is it. It’s going to be glorious. I got the
fancy milk bath stuff out, and the makes your skin feel like a baby stuff, and
the bath and body works vampire candle out (not strictly a bath scent, but it’s
nearly October!) I picked out a fun book and put my Nora Jones / Etta James
station on. It was going to be epic. (Perhaps my expectations are the biggest
failure in my bath equations?) I’d say it was fairly pleasant, for the 5 to 6
minutes I lasted in the bath. Feeling fairly accomplished, I got out and just
as I was reaching back in to drain the tub, I slipped on my freshly coconut
oiled feet, bringing down the shower curtain. Which I then had to put back up
(why is putting up a shower curtain to annoy?) By the time I wrapped that all
up, and snuggled into bed with my book and my dog and my bruised knee, I
regretted the whole endeavor. Can’t wait to forget about this and try again in
a year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">And here are somethings I found
funny this week: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Much love! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">T O’B <o:p></o:p></span></p>skcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-11423933460280414262020-09-23T12:50:00.000-07:002020-09-23T12:50:18.547-07:00All the Holidays <p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Update 9/21 – 9/27<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Hi Friend! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">The smoke stayed all the way until
Friday night, so last week was a whole lot of hunkering down and never opening
the doors or windows, and never leaving the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did a lot of pacing around my tiny place
while in the phone to get my hour walks in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At one point, my dinky air purifiers proved that they had been working,
b/c they started to not work and I started coughing and getting a major headache.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily there was only a 24 hour period until
the real air purifier showed up and had to work extra hard to make up for the
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I woke up to clean bill of
air health, I was so excited to get outside, walk and just breathe in the fresh
air! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I met up with Dawne, Jordan &
Lucas at the park, and wore shoes for the first time since February. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Terrible idea. My feet hated it, and I
promptly took them off as soon as I got back to the car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Helped (by watching) Dawne put
up Halloween decorations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought it
was brilliant that the Christmas lights had made it until September because
then you wouldn’t have to put them back up for the holidays, and Dawne had the
opposite feeling because she told Zach he had to take them down so that they
wouldn’t take away from Halloween.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since
they were still up, I have a feeling that Zach agreed with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Sunday, we went to the park again
(this time in my trusty flip flops) with D&J, Nater and Lindsay and
Lucas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Afterward, we came back to the
house, watched some Gilmore Girls, ordered pizza and played a new game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have been rewatching GG for the umpteenth time,
but this time, I keep wanting to have full on discussions with my cousins who
have also watched it a million times – but I’m bringing up the conversations as
if something just happened with dear dear friends – and I guess that’s kind of
true at this point. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While we were
playing the game, Lucas brought up an issue. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Lucas: I have had a headache for
the last couple of days so I’m wondering if I should get tested for covid. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: Nope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have all had the same headache. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Lucas: No, but I’ve had it for a
while and its really bad. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: I know, we’ve all had the
same headache.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s the combo of smoke
and weather and allergies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Lucas: But I have a headache
right now. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: I know, we all do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re all just trying to be as kind as
possible even though we are all miserable. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Lindsay: Are we really trying that
hard tho?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Maybe not, but I’m hoping this
week is better! Other than that, the highlight of my week was getting a Christmas
present from my mom and dad!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: I got my first Christmas
present this week! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Dawne: Me too! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did my mom send you a present too?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Dawne: Oh no, I BOUGHT my first
present. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: Oh, okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was gonna say, if getting a present in September
isn’t unprecedented… I don’t even know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">In 2019, Ryan and I went to see Elton
John.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the first time I think I’ve
seen a concert at the Tacoma dome, and man, was that place poorly planned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the audience was well into their 70’s
or older, and we had to wait in this big long line to get in / go through the
metal detector – all outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the
rain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was mutual mocking between
Ryan and I because he was totally unprepared to pay cash for parking, but I had
emergency money squirreled away (which he thought was hilarious, and I thought
was brilliant.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then I also had two
rain coats, which again, he thought was a lil much, and I thought was super
convenient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either way, my preparedness
equaled short dry walks and waiting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had
I also had the power of follow through, I would have written to the folks at
the Tacoma Dome and told them to get some covering seeing as it rains here 9
months out of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Concert was awesome,
and then someone backed into my car on the way out – partially because he totally
didn’t look, and partially b/c I never honk my horn so it took me a while to
remember that was an option.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He got out
of his car and said, “we good?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did
not think we were good, but he definitely did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We exchanged numbers quickly and he sped off b/c the reason we were in
the parking long to begin with was to try to get ahead of the crowd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such fun! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">In 2018 I was in Chicago for
work on the Arcade game, got to make a quick trip to see Aunt Mo, Uncle Bill
& Aunt Audrye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Casper made a new
friend at the park, got to go to the fair with Emmett, and got some cool pictures
of my other godson, Kevin. Pretty exciting, all in all! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/qntpcKSyjLHmwHba6">https://photos.app.goo.gl/qntpcKSyjLHmwHba6</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Bailey was in town for her
evacuation vacation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saw some salmon “running”,
checked out the ice caves, made Bailey cook rosh hashana dinner complete with
brisket and potato latkes, and went up to Leavenworth! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Zach: What are you studying?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Bails: Bio Chem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Zach: That’s smarter than what I
thought you were going to say. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">The following day, Lucas, Bails
and Dawne did the ducks while I went to work and when they got back, Bails told
me that Lucas spend the day listing off Chemistry facts that he knew. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">We went to brunch one day at
Portage Bay, and after a lil bit of a wait, Lucas told me, “When I hear someone
say, “I like Brunch” what I hear is, “I like headaches.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Arda came over one night and we
watched Ghost, and made homemade ice cream – each person made their own with
their own flavors and milk choices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Arda, however, did not seal the ice / salt bag well enough, and
accidentally got a very very salty flavored ice cream. Sad face. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were on a mission to educate Bailey with as
many movies and tv shows as possible, so another night Lucas stayed over after
watching Notting Hill – another classic! Dawne took Bailey for massages. We also
tried to make as many literary puns as possible and then watched Forgetting
Sarah Marshall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">As I said, Bailey and Dawne made
dinner for the high holiday’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We said
maybe we could do a cooking show called “Two Catholics in the Kitchen.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">We tried to make potato pancakes
from scratch once and we lit the kitchen on fire. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I did that in my apartment. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Did it stay lit for 8 days?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Bails: Apples and Honey?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Lucas: Your Catholic is showing.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Random quotes: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I’m surprised most people have
kidneys. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">What’s in the middle?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Corn Starch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/jmnR9V9CHLnh13rcA">https://photos.app.goo.gl/jmnR9V9CHLnh13rcA</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Hope your week is going swimmingly!
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Much love, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">T O’B <o:p></o:p></span></p>skcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-75762555054220469292020-09-15T15:57:00.002-07:002020-09-15T16:01:23.681-07:00Smoke a lil Smoke<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Update 9/7 – 9/13<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Hi Friend!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">My co-working mentioned to me
that she thought we were still in Aug until this week, and I promptly mentioned
that it was actually mid-September already and we both had a mini-brain
melt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know what it is about
2020, but I am constantly being reminded to be grateful for conditions just
weeks or months prior. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moments, when, at
the time, I was feeling very “ugh” to be honest, are now things I miss. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A perfect example of this, is I legit was
remembering fondly of the time in the pandemic when, sure we were quarantined,
but we were still allowed to open the windows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We could even walk outside without inhaling a couple of packs worth of
cigarettes. And, what’s even more wild, is every time I think I might want to
whine about something, I have to stop and realize that I am so fortunate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like, sure, I am stuck inside, but at least I
have a house (that’s not on fire!!) that I can stay inside. At least I’m not
being hit by a hurricane! At least I don’t have to work outside right now. Super
grateful to have a mask handy, now just to go in my backyard to let Percy out. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gratitude just has a whole new meaning these
days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am also praying for rain, even
though, I know that getting that rain means the beginning of 9 months of rain,
so THAT’s fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2VVubX4pqTNtuVe25dc9-jwSAV-9O8s5GU7H8q3RQVEscjycIK9fbN5MSIQoYjp95ZxeLwSNAwBya4u0TGScqNsXarqt0oSFfRKsyl1opBchLRfQwUC2zBAiepwArMuKdAujztQLJJfo/s4032/IMG_6633.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2VVubX4pqTNtuVe25dc9-jwSAV-9O8s5GU7H8q3RQVEscjycIK9fbN5MSIQoYjp95ZxeLwSNAwBya4u0TGScqNsXarqt0oSFfRKsyl1opBchLRfQwUC2zBAiepwArMuKdAujztQLJJfo/s320/IMG_6633.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr57o2aH5zxi9-yk84UE5AzXBAUspD6Kg_t2aRf1VESvuiV8iyds0BdlPZbSVmF4krFuOkuMHRN9MznE1yIo8BzqKITUF2Kwc-C8aWXgfZ5nMhMUbom6ncTDTSD0n0IQ_9ebMuB6laPFU/s960/IMG_6645.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="846" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr57o2aH5zxi9-yk84UE5AzXBAUspD6Kg_t2aRf1VESvuiV8iyds0BdlPZbSVmF4krFuOkuMHRN9MznE1yIo8BzqKITUF2Kwc-C8aWXgfZ5nMhMUbom6ncTDTSD0n0IQ_9ebMuB6laPFU/s320/IMG_6645.JPG" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I was watching a tik tok that was
a play on current 2020 self, telling an earlier 2020 self what’s new! I
probably should have saved it to share – but part of the news was about <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/science/venus-life-clouds.html">life
on Venus</a> (seriously who had aliens on their 2020 bingo card?) and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/health/coronavirus-brain.html">Covid
replicating brain cells and then killing healthy cells</a> (I had to look both
of these ones up, but then I had to stop reading the New York Times article before
the end b/c it was really flipping me out.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This year is really a trip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Long story short, this week was filled
with me pacing inside my house in order to get my steps in. And then, I have been
stopping and re-organizing weird spaces like book shelves, and drawers and
tackling areas that I have been trying to ignore for months (maybe even years)
even though they annoy me daily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
been pretty great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I always imagine my
cleaning people seeing these improvements and getting a gold star from them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure this is all in my head, but it’s really
all I have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Additionally, my Pottery
Barn Teen Harry Potter order arrived and I spent some time trying to figure out
where I would put these cool secret cabinets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And I did that thing where I shared options with friends and fam and still
have no idea what I’m going to do. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbOhpBu8O7mD9z0c8uAL_xwrlW_IxN2oTQHReh-sxCFRlhciPsq_5eUpVBhzqCKDRg1U3us9MT1rbqH6bzob4QvTH01-4kgQEyHxCobeOtikmoVTJ-stzOzf2O5FkOH0vXFTSBP0qOyTY/s4032/IMG_6644.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbOhpBu8O7mD9z0c8uAL_xwrlW_IxN2oTQHReh-sxCFRlhciPsq_5eUpVBhzqCKDRg1U3us9MT1rbqH6bzob4QvTH01-4kgQEyHxCobeOtikmoVTJ-stzOzf2O5FkOH0vXFTSBP0qOyTY/s320/IMG_6644.HEIC" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">On Sunday, Dawne called because
Jordan was wondering when I was planning on arriving to entertain her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They pulled out this Cinderella puzzle that
we have attempted several times but have gotten frustrated by the fact that it’s
almost entirely the same shade of blue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The good news is that we finally finished it… only to find out we were
missing a piece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we took a picture
and promptly threw it in the trash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
had donated to the Wisconsin Democratic party so that we could enjoy the live
reading of the Princess Bride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
amazing!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They said ALL surviving cast
members so at one point I was like, is Fred Savage dead? or a Republican?
and then looked up on Twitter to see that’s what everyone else was asking...
turns out: Republican. #deadtousapparently <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Becky and I saw Lionel Richie
and Mariah Carey and I was definitely disappointed that she didn’t sing All I
want for Christmas is you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then
Bailey came to visit to get away from Hurricane Irma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She said,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“I’m here indefinitely!” and for some reason I thought that was hilarious
and would continue to use that concept for the duration of her stay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First stop?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We took her to the fair of course and then encouraged her to try many
fried things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Bailey: I was making Morgan feel
bad about not entering her guinea pig into a competition and she said, “Wait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do they take her?!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/Y6UrCSEnbefmEPF68">https://photos.app.goo.gl/Y6UrCSEnbefmEPF68</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I had some notes from this week –
but I don’t know if I can really accurately discern them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I offended Arda because I said the
disco ball was more impressive than the eclipse. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I think fires were happening all
at this time, though not as extreme as 2020, because someone mentioned fire and
Lucas said, “That’s super insensitive.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I hope I don’t get a nose bleed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(This feels like it’s in reference to our
seats at the concert, but I don’t remember us being up that high?) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Lucas decided he was going to a
Synthesizer Convention, to which I asked him if he was going to be entertained for
an entire weekend, and he asked “Why wouldn’t I be?” but only I thought his
answer was funny. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Maybe next week, when I’m
allowed to walk outside (hopefully!) I’ll have more news to report, but in the
mean time – hope you all are staying safe! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Much love, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">T O’B <o:p></o:p></span></p>skcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-23685471953689793392020-09-09T19:31:00.002-07:002020-09-10T11:32:46.420-07:00Happy Cousin's Day! <p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Update 8/31 – 9/6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Hi Friend! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">There is a furry friend that
lives next door.</span><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span><span style="color: #6b1b23;">He pops his head up in
this spot, which is inches from the window in my place, and it puts Percy into
a tailspin (pun totally intended).</span><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span><span style="color: #6b1b23;">He doesn’t particularly love
it when he sees him on our way into the house either.</span><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span><span style="color: #6b1b23;">No matter Percy’s reaction, this friendly fellow
just looks on curiously.</span><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">To follow up on the saga of the
robbery / Percy bag: My co-workers, T-Pat and Ryan offered to run over to pick
up the bag while I was in a meeting.</span><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span><span style="color: #6b1b23;">(I
had asked T-Pat to go with me and just have 911 on speed dial but they had time when I was in a meeting and they are super awesome people.)</span><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I had Ryan share his location so I could watch
them progress towards the target while on a conference call.</span><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span><span style="color: #6b1b23;">When they arrived to the house was when I was
at peak terror, and then I got a text saying that it was lovely elderly couple
and they had the bag.</span><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span><span style="color: #6b1b23;">They had also
picked up some of the items that had been emptied out including some paperwork,
THE KEY TO THE HOUSE, many Percy bow ties, and his favorite toy.</span><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I guess my method of taping a key to a piece
of paper in hiding it in with other papers worked! The moral of the story is
that there are many many awesome people in the world! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">My parents have one less
resident in their home, so I suppose this means they are ready for me to visit
for a couple of months (right Momela?!) I made some changes at my house too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I say *<b>I</b>*, I obviously mean that
I paid 4 people to work 9 hours to “trim” this English Laurel that is supposed
to be the size of a bush but actually turned into a massive tree in my back
yard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The results are miraculous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cannot believe I had been living so long
without the glorious rays of sunshine brightening up my home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even as I type, I have yet to have to put the
lights on – and usually I have to put them all on first thing!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very very exciting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, I just have to wait until the rainy
season arrives and I’ll get my grass seed down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Tk0rZKcbz0uGHvAQkNKTMHIW7nNPn6RDYRA9JTtAGK8ms4kGOh62sEyRvyszpuCfiiwHq_0dUdaY26vJOkLkVuHa91Ti0kSIXknydYPhJH9SQwi5PLnshHhk4BmqoubNwcLX8VcTMVA/s750/IMG_6582.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="750" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Tk0rZKcbz0uGHvAQkNKTMHIW7nNPn6RDYRA9JTtAGK8ms4kGOh62sEyRvyszpuCfiiwHq_0dUdaY26vJOkLkVuHa91Ti0kSIXknydYPhJH9SQwi5PLnshHhk4BmqoubNwcLX8VcTMVA/s320/IMG_6582.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgox4oVUDmqaVdZUtLvAw3yw5ZPQIo9nCl479KYT-v6Dok_RqwnnlV71mOddsS3q-YUt_JP-PPePDOhX1VlZ5AOFy2gc2N2SNpZ2DNHdHbbVZTe4McDiQTEMK4MLDYqJerPeHyGGR3bQjY/s5117/IMG_6580.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3126" data-original-width="5117" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgox4oVUDmqaVdZUtLvAw3yw5ZPQIo9nCl479KYT-v6Dok_RqwnnlV71mOddsS3q-YUt_JP-PPePDOhX1VlZ5AOFy2gc2N2SNpZ2DNHdHbbVZTe4McDiQTEMK4MLDYqJerPeHyGGR3bQjY/s320/IMG_6580.HEIC" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I got to see a lot of my cousins
this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thursday, I went over to Ray
and Michele’s for a socially distanced dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I haven’t seen them since February, so it was great getting some 1 on 4
time. </span><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif" style="color: #6b1b23; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol-ext; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">😊</span><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then on
Saturday, they packed up and moved into the lil blue house at Dawne’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We established the social distance rules
right away (basically keep a mask on, stay outside as much as possible, and stay
6 ft a part while eating.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, it
worked out really well!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saturday was a
lil over cast and cooler, and the pool heater broke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, when I agreed to go in with Ashley, it
was an act of pure love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also got to
see D&J’s new office space, and generally had a chill time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saturday and Sunday, I decided not to go on
the boat, but I had Dawne take Percy with him b/c he loves the boat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What he loves more, though, is to stay by my
side so he ran back up to hang.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead,
on Sunday, we went in the pool again (once again, showing my love by getting
into a chilly pool).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Buddy, Raymond and
Michele’s dog, followed Percy where ever he went.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At one point, Percy runs down by the water,
and Buddy runs over to me to tell on him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I tried to apologize/explain that Percy gets to do whatever he wants,
but Buddy still seemed to need an explanation for the pipsqueaks behavior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was very pleased that Buddy and Percy were
getting along because this meant that Percy finally forgave Buddy for
systematically destroying every squeaker in ever toy in the house the one time
we left the pups together when we went for dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Percy was so appalled that day that he took
me to each toy in the house and had to show me<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>the destruction.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily, Percy
is over it, and also took Buddy down to the water with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Buddy kept following him up and down the stairs
until one point when Percy popped up and Buddy did not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s when we found Buddy, soaking wet, on a
pier two doors down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Adventure time for
everyone, I guess! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqEyr_qnUXXCYljBPPC5_hSl17v2iyo96_FL8hHGXCJUJpnT8TTPuZXHdCLYTD2OipzxNfjZM8tjddUZbplobSVTsYYhNBZPRn_QoGrYMBpUmP5t8iEGaRpXWsyeP0PFb88ED1rGRhSSw/s3024/2962E8C2-E8B3-4329-84B1-A15BE68D50FD.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqEyr_qnUXXCYljBPPC5_hSl17v2iyo96_FL8hHGXCJUJpnT8TTPuZXHdCLYTD2OipzxNfjZM8tjddUZbplobSVTsYYhNBZPRn_QoGrYMBpUmP5t8iEGaRpXWsyeP0PFb88ED1rGRhSSw/s320/2962E8C2-E8B3-4329-84B1-A15BE68D50FD.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sunday, I saw on Facebook that one of my
cousins on the other side of the fam was wish us a Happy Cousin’s Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What an awesome coincidence, since I was with
a bunch of cousin’s! Happy Cousin’s Day to all! That is until Raymond questions
the validity of the date, and I actually looked it up, and it was a different
date.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We decided that it was much more
fun to celebrate right then and there, and started texting cousins!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Raymond tried to ruin the day by wishing Sean
a non-cousin’s day – but I feel like by the end of the best cousin’s weekend
ever, he was on our side about embracing the joy!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Let’s see what else?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At one point, Zach and I were unwittingly a
part of a Trump parade as many boats passed by the house, and I got a bit of
Journey stuck in my head while I made some friendship bracelets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also had a nice bon fire on Saturday night
(before the crazy wind shift for the fires.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We got down to the fire pit, arranged chairs so we could safely consume
s’mores and then Dawne was like “We forgot the music?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We asked if she wanted us to play something
on our phones and she said, “No! Call Lucas and tell him to bring his guitar!”
And he did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He and his friend Izzy were
our own personal juke box (even though he specifically told us, “I’m not a Karaoke
machine!!” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He managed to learn each song
we wanted within minutes of our requests (although, in that minute or two, as
we started humming along he would promptly yell, “DON’T GET ATTACH TO THAT KEY!”)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was pretty magical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At one point Nikki and Ashley were looking
around for something. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">N&A: We can’t find the moon!
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Dawne: Hmm that is weird. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">N&A: Do you not get the moon
over here?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Dawne: What if we can’t find
it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who should we call? The Police?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Zach: Naw… definitely the fire department
– they have the ladders! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Jordan: Oh no! The Jewish
holiday’s are going to be really messed up if we don’t find the moon. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Lucas: How will we know it’s
Cousin Day?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s clearly a lunar
holiday! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwT5HxAIPUr5mQ0LJKjM-TXOlwj6cPmbTdoTEDDc0FfGGJt_F9S2asHH4n43Vg6yZufJSOAxYVnsMHPL3EFTQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi_nC82QUwLy9JFBe_L5iVSRGV5aTDvGWE6SxYm3EQvbdTS7jVbBsP-t7BaTnUKyq8kWkPlg1n-RH87O6-BFdIUB9y7BwPmekcnOEfyS3Dt7AM9BZ7yyhn80DYzFVqblTeIP4UYnMNC5c/s4032/IMG_6603.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi_nC82QUwLy9JFBe_L5iVSRGV5aTDvGWE6SxYm3EQvbdTS7jVbBsP-t7BaTnUKyq8kWkPlg1n-RH87O6-BFdIUB9y7BwPmekcnOEfyS3Dt7AM9BZ7yyhn80DYzFVqblTeIP4UYnMNC5c/s320/IMG_6603.HEIC" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Monday was more gorgeous weather.
Michelle and Ashley went on a bike ride, Nikki and Dawne (and Percy!) went on a
paddle board ride. Lucas and I jumped in the lake before he left to hang with
Arda, and I pulled out the big blue mat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It seemed like the perfect day to try to play with all the toys, so next
we had a lovely boat ride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Percy was
super happy! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUSh8rPr5-OID0WAnFvrOMzwiRQ87COdWZPNotAk53TmRuJNWl2T0h3MtM4Ckw3aVzchSsoXGb3D3mHjALB7XLakqBVR8YG8dSBx2nE9v6w-2CWwmxfHMG0vfS6DG3I6-WHdGWI4fDaBc/s4032/IMG_6613.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUSh8rPr5-OID0WAnFvrOMzwiRQ87COdWZPNotAk53TmRuJNWl2T0h3MtM4Ckw3aVzchSsoXGb3D3mHjALB7XLakqBVR8YG8dSBx2nE9v6w-2CWwmxfHMG0vfS6DG3I6-WHdGWI4fDaBc/s320/IMG_6613.HEIC" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/i8Uyr9S2iSp3QdWg9">https://photos.app.goo.gl/i8Uyr9S2iSp3QdWg9</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Last week a year ago two very
exciting things happened – I became a Harlem Globetrotter (please see official jersey
as proof.) And, I managed to take Ryan and Joe through California Adventures
and Disneyland, including reservations at the fancy new Star Wars bar, all
before 5PM.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which also meant that I was
showered and taking a nap by 5:30! I don’t know if I have ever felt such sheer joy
in an accomplishment before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/fWeBCmUpvwtLJ5EYA">https://photos.app.goo.gl/fWeBCmUpvwtLJ5EYA</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">In 2018, I went to see Zac Brown
Band with Dr. Rach – another native from Georgia! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">And in 2017, I went to a music
festival with Nick and Shana and we got to see the Roots and Lorde.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not. Too. Shabby. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> And here are things I found funny this week: </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><br /></span><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyVUcpVwIUVNN47_X1ppDjDmOaoMk0ejP6dS8Xrm2nREsN0OumX7yd9CaUNi0dcR_QNVkvFBoJVbEdbTltezw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidzLgl939CXpJltBg1LVvdDSi3eUYfDnI8wmTg34L48nvZPZZK1xs1hwMEHKJaFhKeKHV1juk6Pj1x_L5XN5Xa-W-k1nvXUfAfJ1FuckGBiVJsfAeI_AGn73888PnqXNcRCtCJzPwl51Q/s1125/IMG_6556.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1016" data-original-width="1125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidzLgl939CXpJltBg1LVvdDSi3eUYfDnI8wmTg34L48nvZPZZK1xs1hwMEHKJaFhKeKHV1juk6Pj1x_L5XN5Xa-W-k1nvXUfAfJ1FuckGBiVJsfAeI_AGn73888PnqXNcRCtCJzPwl51Q/s320/IMG_6556.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Alright – that’s about it! Hope
you are all falling into Fall nicely! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Love you!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>T O’B <o:p></o:p></span></p>skcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-91475720442747754522020-09-01T13:37:00.000-07:002020-09-01T13:37:02.501-07:00Snoop Dog Wine <p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Update 8/24 – 8/30<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Hi Friend! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Last week was fraught with “adulting”
which in my world, is rarely a good thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I am trying to be very Pollyanna about things, so let me put my rose
colored glasses on and see how it goes! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, my toilet broke early last week, but
the really great news is I was able to identify the problem, order the right
part, and fix it myself all without having to pay for a professional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then, my car was burglarized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Emergency cash, a ziplock bag of hand sanitizer
and Percy travel back pack were taken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truthfully,
I had been using the emergency cash for people in need when I’m driving around,
and I have plenty of hand sanitizer so I can chuck it up to “They probably
needed it more than I do.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Percy bag
was a bigger blow because it had an emergency key to my house, and they don’t
make that bag anymore, and it’s a bag I use all the time because it’s what
Percy feels comfortable traveling in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But I had found an extra one on ebay recently, so this just means I go
back to the old version, and will have to keep an eye out for another that isn’t
falling apart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I watched a movie this past
weekend that has the young lady from Moana and Carol Burnett.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stepped out of my “only watch or read
things that you know make you happy” comfort zone for this one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then I ended up crying for a good 45
min.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a little Pollyanna in the
story telling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At one point, this girl with
no home, sleeping on a park bench with her tiny dog, has her bag stolen with
all of her money it (it is also where she kept her pup.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was devastating for her, and just reminded
me how fortunate I am to have the same things (basically) stolen, and it’s not
at all devastating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My car was out in
front of my house, and since there was a spare key in the bag, my other
adulting was replacing my door locks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Again, I did this all by myself, despite the fact that the previous
owner managed to strip screws on every thing I try to replace or fix in my place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Quick update: I got an email yesterday
saying that someone had found the bag (Percy’s travel papers were inside, hence
my contact info).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m going to find a friend
to go with me to try to get it back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really
hoping that there are awesome people in the world and less murder-y ones!) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I’m not sure how excited Percy
actually is about my walking kick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sometimes I do two walks if I can get the people to go with me (or in
many cases, I find someone to walk and talk over the phone for some seriously
distanced social distancing.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
walking with Erika at one point and she delighted me with this story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently, Daphne was trying to have an
online class, which she must have touched something that made the video screen
disappear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Erika went up to Daphne’s room,
irritated and very razzlefrazzle and some minor swearing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her eldest, Toby, came in, and fixed the
issue and then turned to Erika and said, “I need some help in my room after
this.” Erika follows Toby into his room, and Toby suggests that Erika take a
seat and then explains, “Okay, Mom. I want you to know, that when we were in
front of Daphne’s screen the video and sound were still on and probably heard
everything you said, and saw your face.” Oh man, I love this kid! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Friday evening I took a bottle
or two of Snoop Dogg wine over to my next door neighbors to enjoy her
fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m getting kind of excited about having
a friendly neighbor!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And bummed that I had
my first outdoor hang just as the summer is coming to a close.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After I changed the locks, in Saturday I met
up with Becky and Jared at the park (it had been far too long!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sunday, I went to hang out with D&J.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a lovely boat ride and also watched
Midnight in Paris in the pool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every
weekend feels like it could be the last great summer weekend – but I keep
hoping the weather holds up and we have a very mild winter so my outdoor
excursions can continue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">That’s about the summary – hope you
all are enjoying life! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I spent the week in Anaheim at Halo
Outpost, soaking up the universe I spend so much time in, and meeting a lot of
really awesome fans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I also went to see Zack Brown
Band with Dr. Rach! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Below you’ll find pictures
of Percy picking a fight with an obnoxious “No Barking” sign, a coned Casper
sleeping with his lil tongue out, and an HP funny.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was also when Casper had emergency surgery,
and the doctors were able to work a miracle and save him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also found out he had cancer, and they gave
him about a month to live so we loved up on this dog harder than any dog has
been loved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We got many more months more
than one, but this was the week that we went from enjoying our good boy, to
cherishing every moment we had with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/RZ7XTfJgXYUBk2NQ6">https://photos.app.goo.gl/RZ7XTfJgXYUBk2NQ6</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">We all hung outside checking out
the solar eclipse while listening to things like “Black Hole Sun.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/86VWEGZPY7n4u9os5">https://photos.app.goo.gl/86VWEGZPY7n4u9os5</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Momela: Your father was
responding to a text from June 10 2013 and wants you to know that he does
respond to messages. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Frita:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought about taking your mom’s wallet but
didn’t think she’d appreciate that. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Much Love, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><br />
T O’B <o:p></o:p></span></p>skcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-41303732744452614302020-08-27T11:09:00.001-07:002020-08-27T11:09:27.816-07:00Scavenger Hunt HP Style<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Update 8/17 – 8/23<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Hi Friend! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">My big excitement for the week was
concentrated on a 24 hour Magical Marauders Scavenger Hunt run by a Harry
Potter Trivia Duo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They did an amazing
job! The rule book was over 20 pages, and the challenges came in a 19 page
booklet. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I convinced my team to participate
under the guise that we could do it for a couple of hours, have some fun, and
then go about our day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know you’ll be
shocked that I did not follow this plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>First, I started digging into the puzzles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rach and I were on the phone working though a
bunch of logic, picture and crossword puzzles for about 2 hours when I paused
and asked, “Are you having fun?” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rach replied,
“Yes!!” And my heart filled with glee that my BFF was just a big of an HP nerd
as I was, and we kept going until after 11.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then, I continued to get through a bunch of the other “easier” challenges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D&J knocked out all of our team specific challenges,
and Lindsay was amazing with all of the creative cosplay and acting items.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ultimately, we earned over 2500 points, got
first place in the trivia bee and finished 7<sup>th</sup> out of 40 participants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am extremely proud of all of the work, and
it really was one of the most creative weekends I’ve had since this pandemic
started! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I may have mentioned prior, but my
pup sometimes has a hard time breathing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Given that he was born not breathing, I’ve always chucked up his
momentary hacking as “a thing he does.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over
the past year, though, I’ve noticed it’s gotten worse, and I started suspecting
that it might be allergies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The vet told
me that I was not actually insane for thinking this, and provided some meds
that I suspect is just a very low dose of benedryl which I then cut in half.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only give it to him when he needs it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I know when he needs it because he’ll
wake up, struggle to breathe, and then wake me up, walk me over to where the
medicine is kept, wait until I get it and wrap it in a bit of American cheese,
and then move to where I can easily pick him up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m establishing here that he absolutely
knows and wants this medicine, and then he makes me forcibly open his jaw and
shove the medicine down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had to do this
just now, during the day, and then like 20 min later I forgot that we did it
and made him go for a walk – which only lasted 15 min because he tugged me back
home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whoops, sorry buddy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I forgot!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And Happy Dog Day! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">On Saturday evening, I stopped
by Jamie’s for a lil birthday Celebration for Jen!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I arrived late to (purposely) miss the unmasked
food portion of the evening (this time is so incredibly weird) but it was so
nice to see some friends I haven’t seen in over 6 months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly, I actually tried to write down some of
the funny things people were saying, and even though I was stone cold sober, I
can’t decipher what I wrote.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All I know is
that before I arrived, Shana face planted while playing with her pups, and her
pups just walked right on top of her sad, scraped, lying body while her friends
and parents all laughed at her misfortune.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe I’m not telling the story right… but while they were laughing so
hard they were crying, this is what I was picturing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pobrecita. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh! And maybe Jen’s daughter June has been
building little communities, and then she collects spiders and brings them to
their new homes, which is seriously adorable (for those of us not desperately
afraid of spiders that is.) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Sunday was another glorious day
out, so I made Percy go on three long walks – gotta get those lovely walks in
before it starts raining, because I’m still going to make him walk when rainy
season arrives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I think that’s about it for this
week, hope you’re doing well! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I went to a Sounders game with
Dr. Rach which is always a blast and checked out a sidewalk art festival in
Redmond. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/xHUf13V6qPUbe8yb6">https://photos.app.goo.gl/xHUf13V6qPUbe8yb6</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Back in 2017, I had a sleepover
at Dawne’s. Not an impromptu one, but the kind where Jordan goes away for the
weekend and then I come in to entertain (which I am always happy to do!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also made two spur of the moment decisions
to book two trips, one to Nashville (to see Kenny Roger’s last concert with
Dolly Parton – boy was that a great decision!) and another to Germany.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: What do you want for dinner?<br />
Zach: Not to pay for it. <br />
<br />
This quote was also in my notes, “Who are you eating dinner with? I have Zach
with me.” Which even out of context makes me giggle because it feels like a
sick burn, but maybe someone was just genuinely curious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>skcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-91364526038344061172020-08-19T14:41:00.000-07:002020-08-19T14:41:11.783-07:00Sunrise is Very Off Brand for Me. <p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Update 8/10 – 8/16<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Hi Friend! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Boy do I drag my feet writing
you when I have really dull weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
almost 6 months, Percy and I are finally getting into a groove working from
home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have abandoned my “desk” set up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was going alright when it was just a
folding table and chair, but then I brought my gaming chair from work, raised
the height of the folding table and now, I feel like a lil kid whose feet don’t
touch the ground and I’m reaching up high to try to type.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ultimately, that room “AKA: Zach’s room AKA:
the room Zach moved his stuff into, slept for two nights and has never returned
to” gets a lot of sun, so if I close the door on hot days, I can maintain a reasonable
temp in the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, now, I have
picked a spot on the couch that works perfectly. It’s close to a side table,
has good lighting, and the wall behind me is neutral but fun. (I have a ginormous
mirror I stole from Dawne, so it’s a bit of an Alice through the looking glass
situation but without the jabberwockys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This means that in certain spots, you have a full view of all of my
books and games, which would be fine if they were more organized… but I have
stared and thought about reorganizing for so long now, that I know it will
never happen.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I work from my kitchen
table when I need to be professional, and I stand up at a bookshelf when
sitting is unbearable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Percy moves around
a bit, but mostly snores softly on his Mister Chief pillow, and I take daily
pictures of how adorable he is, and then abandon the pictures because my phone
cannot capture the full power of cuteness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And we make sure we get a couple good walks in to stay healthy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">My work week was
crazy-town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though, it did prove once
again that when everyone is freaking out, I get super calm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Conversely, if no one is freaking out, I do,
because someone HAS to.) Maybe I should have been a 911 dispatcher?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or maybe that would be awful for the calm callers…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either way, I had a lot of work calls to
make, and on the top of my notes page, I wrote “NO ONE IS READY FOR JOKES, TIFFANY.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought this note worked, until my co-worker
thanked me for cracking jokes in all the calls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just imagine if I wasn’t trying to be serious! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I learned on Friday that the “gaiter”
masks I was wearing while walking outside are worse than not wearing a mask.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well isn’t that just
kick-ya-in-the-head-spit-on-your-neck Fantastic! Not a real big deal, but as Maureen
pointed out, the idea that someone might wear a mask into a store and be told
it’s not good enough is definitely going to cause more tension.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In happier news, Ryan made the trek over towards
me on Friday, and we got a good long walk around the park and tuckered out the
pups, and then I headed over to Rach & Anders’ place for socially distanced
catch up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saturday & Sunday I spent at Dawne’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was wicked hot, which is probably why I
woke up with a migraine, but after two cups of soup and a Gatorade, I was able
to leave the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We lounged in the
lake, then Nater and Lindsay came over, and we had a lil picnic on the boat,
followed by a lovely evening of chilling on the deck before watching French Kiss
in the pool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sunday was much of the same
sans headache.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Lucas is settling in well in his
new pad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I mentioned before, all 6 of
them are musicians so it’s the perfect scenario for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have basically been having dance parties
every night, and because Lucas is the only one with a 9-5 job, he’s justifiably
exhausted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It reminds me of that summer
that there were a bunch of college kids at the compound, and Matty and I tried
to stay up every night drinking with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was a super good time, but I remember the weekend they all left to go
back to college I had the best sleep ever, and my liver sighed with relief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve never felt so old, and that was a good
ten years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We asked Lucas what he’s
been eating and how they are handling food in a house with that many
people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said they just eat whatever
is in the house and then venmo the owner for what they ate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such a simple and elegant solution, and one
that I totally didn’t have access to back in my day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then, I had a roommate who’s mother sent
her back to school at least once a month with a freezer worth of meat, and all
I had to do was pick up the smiley fries / sides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lucas also explained that a couple of the
roommates work at Pagliacci so they get lots of free pizza – which I think
might be almost as good as the freezer of meat. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I chatted with Mo on Sunday
because they were in Ocean City, MD and it was raining on Sunday which meant
that they were doing a puzzle in the hotel room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently the rest of the trip was amazing,
though. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Pat: I think this is the best trip
I’ve ever had down to Ocean City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Mo: Really? Even better than the
time you proposed to me?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Pat: Oh yeah that was a pretty
good time. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: Patrick is with you?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Mo: You’re just like Kevin. As
if we would ever drop off Patrick at school and then have a family vacation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: I don’t know. You all
dropped me off at college and then went on a cruise to Alaska. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Mo: Oh, did we do that? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I got a text from Erin saying
she found a picture of us together in Verona in ’99, (and Tuscany and Venice
and probably Rome).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My brain hurt a
little trying to remember everyone in the photo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Erin: I am literally wearing a
different sweatshirt or coat in every photo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I can’t imagine how heavy my suitcase was. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: I am fairly certain that I
wore that same Ireland jacket and that exact pair of jeans on every vacation I
went on for 3 years. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: Do you remember when [our Jewish
friend] Lee yelled, “JESUS IS COMING!” during the parade in Florence?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Erin: Well, now I do. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: and how I threw a fit about
not going to church on Palm Sunday until finally I was allowed to take a cab with
Janette to a Church at like 5 am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told
the cab to come back in an hour and half b/c Palm Sunday is the long one, only
in Italy it lasted 30 min and we got to walk around the city at dawn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>#suchateenager
#myrebellionincludeddemandingigotochurch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Erin: That’s sweet. I obvi didn’t
care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do have a pic of us in the dark
on the roof of our hotel waiting for the sunrise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So you were a real early riser that trip. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look hella pissed about it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: Who organized this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s like we decided maybe we could achieve a
robbery if Heather Ann hadn’t decided to wear WHITE.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Erin: Victor told us the sunrise
was amazing and a small group of us got up early and went. Sunrise is very off brand
for me.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitsesLY91PleMluPAwkIPPfQF-9oQgkX3yjkJaZip7JGhcIEKOgjwrXu0_2jbOHfr6KDknjAjD4wG2xV359ejG3wtbKCnls6fA7qWSLy1BTv23k-trQaFcACxNufFMpYU-w6x5oBZerDQ/s3969/IMG_6404.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2977" data-original-width="3969" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitsesLY91PleMluPAwkIPPfQF-9oQgkX3yjkJaZip7JGhcIEKOgjwrXu0_2jbOHfr6KDknjAjD4wG2xV359ejG3wtbKCnls6fA7qWSLy1BTv23k-trQaFcACxNufFMpYU-w6x5oBZerDQ/s640/IMG_6404.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidUE47hcmRvR-woSOeGbW3gxPAw5-OEWWIw1MRY-W4RqtzFc9qPuR_2Lq8z2UiDVPNmjshIurXsRx8c-PSMVlP1HlGua44oGt5DBJ1cTJQHDgFJ0UPfFJ_A4tK8cMgnvmEP08qeWY31fc/s3744/IMG_6423.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2808" data-original-width="3744" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidUE47hcmRvR-woSOeGbW3gxPAw5-OEWWIw1MRY-W4RqtzFc9qPuR_2Lq8z2UiDVPNmjshIurXsRx8c-PSMVlP1HlGua44oGt5DBJ1cTJQHDgFJ0UPfFJ_A4tK8cMgnvmEP08qeWY31fc/s640/IMG_6423.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikJ-i-hhn43esvehnRtxQrjTTG7LwQRz6XJniWlG9UYNLTfLFtb3nxBB_YQC5ZzWssGDAYfKIl9-QCs8mTQJuKNmyDkwo8y0JRpWtumB0wMrfuVFlS896Ik3nzS5CRKVlzGu7Ae0Xb5t0/s3437/IMG_6402.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2578" data-original-width="3437" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikJ-i-hhn43esvehnRtxQrjTTG7LwQRz6XJniWlG9UYNLTfLFtb3nxBB_YQC5ZzWssGDAYfKIl9-QCs8mTQJuKNmyDkwo8y0JRpWtumB0wMrfuVFlS896Ik3nzS5CRKVlzGu7Ae0Xb5t0/s640/IMG_6402.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqRgTv8BYcC4B7nWvpgBbsOVaVneORxHbAmNMeHlgZ8nVBN3w8j_M-M4bTgePKBWvXvt4RkvbnRKOo08Gvpx0vmAgjUcyhi7d8rIkqw23iGc4PLs6Y8qGRqKaZB_gUEA9SWuwX_czcLXo/s3752/IMG_6403.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2813" data-original-width="3752" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqRgTv8BYcC4B7nWvpgBbsOVaVneORxHbAmNMeHlgZ8nVBN3w8j_M-M4bTgePKBWvXvt4RkvbnRKOo08Gvpx0vmAgjUcyhi7d8rIkqw23iGc4PLs6Y8qGRqKaZB_gUEA9SWuwX_czcLXo/s640/IMG_6403.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Erin: I had almost booked a
flight to VA beach….and like that day they asked that people save the lines for
people that needed to make Covid arrangements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I had to call because I was using miles. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Me: I like that you had to explain
why you were calling to make sure I didn’t think you were a weirdo. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Erin: Totally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was like Tiff will think I’m lying about an
alleged trip. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Okay I think that’s about it for
this week! Love you! Mean it! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">T O’B <o:p></o:p></span></p>skcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-18979130815150435752020-08-12T17:57:00.002-07:002020-08-12T17:57:58.119-07:00Snapchat, you win this round. <p> <span style="color: #6b1b23;">Update 8/3 – 8/9</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Hi Friend!</span><span style="color: #6b1b23;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Percy got a new
haircut and then I accidentally used a snap chat filter on him that made me giggle
for hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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I was already being pretty nutty, sending a lot of “pandemic” themed notes out. In June, I had a moment where I thought maybe it would all end quickly, so I started accelerating and then realized “whoa buddy, you have plenty of time” and bought over $300 dollars’ worth of notes from etsy – and of course all the stamps in the land. And the USPS is making a killing on each postcard in which I affix a forever stamp! Granted all of these are more in line with my humor… so I had to choose carefully on recipients – so my parent’s 90+ year old neighbors will not be getting all of these – however my dad’s Christian Brother friends will find a few in their mailbox, and Aunt Audrye is getting 100% them. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir7HFzxGR4vX09-kIB1E1_pLmqnYNq5ro2sohuFWd8xBCP-u3elyv3QgRZlH7D7Z_pbNduBE8fdLHbT2JyAZWLXwuDrcG9ID8XiK76Na27NZtErzx7Wa-urVegMpPtuTno32cGfoYKanA/s750/IMG_6385.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="750" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir7HFzxGR4vX09-kIB1E1_pLmqnYNq5ro2sohuFWd8xBCP-u3elyv3QgRZlH7D7Z_pbNduBE8fdLHbT2JyAZWLXwuDrcG9ID8XiK76Na27NZtErzx7Wa-urVegMpPtuTno32cGfoYKanA/s640/IMG_6385.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhek7q_FoWb7nT6NSy7VIiCP77cm58gOue_JF6eawp8IDuDZPV_mgrOBfl-KDqsSaRQ4f2V1pezHuzgK8wQ7723PTcFgktGbxtVYBS0kr5loS9WO3ugu5AOZswqTLWB02-98UNP19KEh64/s759/IMG_6388.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="759" data-original-width="750" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhek7q_FoWb7nT6NSy7VIiCP77cm58gOue_JF6eawp8IDuDZPV_mgrOBfl-KDqsSaRQ4f2V1pezHuzgK8wQ7723PTcFgktGbxtVYBS0kr5loS9WO3ugu5AOZswqTLWB02-98UNP19KEh64/s640/IMG_6388.PNG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehtmtrTLWufDVIRNiPFltmK03N6RPKs95Pbz3kFE3xhngg6qOEtF4FgCgq_ZUWxpj54nySw2OWFQJZAbXlX-HbztKekwgMB3d5ciJE4LpovOC55q_9HB71cjarQtGOIKT7VwWsIU9W7A/s4032/IMG_6372.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehtmtrTLWufDVIRNiPFltmK03N6RPKs95Pbz3kFE3xhngg6qOEtF4FgCgq_ZUWxpj54nySw2OWFQJZAbXlX-HbztKekwgMB3d5ciJE4LpovOC55q_9HB71cjarQtGOIKT7VwWsIU9W7A/s640/IMG_6372.HEIC" /></a></div><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">I spent the rest of the week working,
taking walks (Including forcing Ryan and Joe to come to the park near me!) and
hanging out at the lighthouse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tried teaching
Dawne how to make a friendship bracelet (that didn’t going super well), played
a new game based on Hocus Pocus with Nater and Lindsay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh! Lucas moved out and into a house with 5
other people – all musicians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jordan was
worried the floors might crumble under the weight of their combined records,
and I heard at one point on moving in, Dawne saw 6 keyboards and a baby
piano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sounds like he found the right
crowd – lets see what his neighbors think! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Anniversary of Nala in our
lives! Here is her first pic: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/k2XFxasYiZdB12T87">https://photos.app.goo.gl/k2XFxasYiZdB12T87</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Because I don’t have a ton to share
I’m going to dive into 2017 when I was on vacay and of course share some of the
amusements I found this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">2017: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Sean’s fam, Maureen’s fam and
myself all went to Disney world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Great minds
and all that, Sean bought us all matching mickey shirts, and then I made everyone
shirts based on their favorite Disney character.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of these matching shirts were red, and
honestly it made the day a lot easier when you’re in a group of 11. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Upon entering one ride, a
character said to us: There's more red than khaki in here. That never happens. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">At one point, we are at Epcot,
waiting for the doors to open, and when they do, we all start running.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we lose Kevin in the sprint, and he’s the
one person who doesn’t have a phone, so Mo stops and goes back to look.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I keep heading to the destination – Norway
for the Frozen ride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And there he is,
standing nervously near the head of the line waiting for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to be mad, but he knew the plan and he
did it better than all of us!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have to
understand that it was brutally hat the week we were there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like crayons melting on the pavement by 9 am
hot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Kevin had been growing his hair
out to donate – and he has really gorgeous thick hair and at this point it’s
down past his shoulders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He refuses to pull
it back in a hair tie all day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, the
next morning, he asks Mo to cut his hair, but is super upset about it (though I
think a lot of this has to do with just not wanting the attention).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He doesn’t want to come downstairs, and so
Maureen tells everyone not to comment at all about his hair. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all get the message, he comes down stairs,
Sean walks in from another room and goes “WHOA KEV! You cut your hair!” <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Driving: <br />
I wonder if they work for the state or Disney<br />
Morgan roll down your window and ask<br />
Rolls window down, Morgan: what am I asking? <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">While we were at Epcot, really enjoying
the round the world drinking aspect, my brother-in-law admits, “Bailey scares
the shit of me.” I don’t think I’ll ever forget this statement, ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
While enjoying an Italian Ice: <br />
Morgan: really enjoying that, huh? <br />
20 min later. <br />
Morgan: where did you get that? who gave her another?<br />
<br />
While at Universal, running back to get a phone that was left on a counter, the
person there said, “Oh don’t worry about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>People leave their wands and phones all the time!” <br />
<br />
What would you do if everyone who speaks Spanish got up and left right now? <br />
<br />
Me: I can't believe I broke my feet today. <br />
Jackie: Remember that time dad broke his foot and I made him carry me off the
soccer field bc I fell? <br />
Me: This is what I'm saying!!<br />
<br />
Please continue to hold your applause. <br />
<br />
Morgan: Look it's a dad sweatshirt. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Sean what does that mean?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">Kyle: It’s a sweatshirt that pop-pop
would wear. <br />
<br />
Sean to Stace while splitting a meal with Stace: what did you get? <br />
<br />
It would be great if we can get our check<br />
Maybe we would if Morgan would stop nibbling on croutons. <br />
<br />
Me: N for new and Nala<br />
Kevin: And knowledge! <br />
<br />
Bailey: let's start walking to the exit so there's no opportunity for them to
do something else. <br />
<br />
Morgan(to me): act surprised <br />
Jackie: here - ( handing me new Minnie ears) one of them flew off on space
mountain. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;">(This was after Jackie borrowed
my mini-clip on ears.) <br />
<br />
Sean: it's far<br />
Morgan: I'll run there with you<br />
Jackie: In spirit <br />
<br />
Stacey: The French are nice if you try<br />
Me: Everyone is nice of you try<br />
Sean: Jackie's not. <br />
<br />
Stace: Can't you just take a nice normal picture with the princess. She's a
princess!<br />
Morgan: So am I! <br />
<br />
The girls are allowed to get one item, basically anything they want, on the trip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After 5 days and great deliberation, Bailey gets
a pencil case. <br />
<br />
Little girl who didn't pull out the chair: it's too tight, I don't think I fit.
<br />
<br />
Sean holding a hair-tie: is this yours?<br />
Jackie: I'll take it - is it cold? <br />
<br />
Me: Is it wrong that I want to go to sleep and it's only 4:45<br />
Sean: Take a 30 minute nap, and then go wait in line somewhere<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6b1b23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>skcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-24833526443679221662020-08-04T16:55:00.002-07:002020-08-04T16:55:59.344-07:00We WERE number one. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;">Update 7/27 – 8/2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;">Hi Friend! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#711d23">Monday morning I was supposed to
have a tree guy come and trim back my massive laurel in the back yard.</font><span style="color: #711d23;"> </span><font color="#711d23">He had asked for me to try to get very specific
spots for his truck… three in fact.</font><span style="color: #711d23;"> </span><font color="#711d23">I
had to talk to neighbors I didn’t know and ask them for favors (which I’m not a
fan of) and then tried to watch the middle visitor spot all weekend for an
opening that never came.</font><span style="color: #711d23;"> </span><font color="#711d23">When the tree
guy arrived, 45 min late, he was furious.</font><span style="color: #711d23;">
</span><font color="#711d23">I offered two spots that were about 15 feet away but that was too far to
carry the branches I guess, because he just got angry with me, which totally
made me want to cry, but I couldn’t b/c I was late for an interview call.</font><span style="color: #711d23;"> </span><font color="#711d23">All of this, b/c I was trying to do an adult
chore of doling out a heap of cash for my tree that had gotten out of control.</font><span style="color: #711d23;"> </span><font color="#711d23">And I guess the guy was supposed to go to D&J’s
afterwards and just never showed.</font><span style="color: #711d23;"> </span><font color="#711d23">So
that was my mini-drama to start the week.</font><span style="color: #711d23;">
</span><font color="#711d23">The good part of the day is that I finally got my passport!!</font><span style="color: #711d23;"> </span><font color="#711d23">I have no idea when it will become useful,
but it sure does feel nice to have one again. <o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;">On Tuesday was a Harry Potter
virtual trivia night and Bailey and friends were joining me from a couch in
Martha’s Vineyard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We did pretty well
the first two rounds, but then the third had a logic table we had to solve, and
we definitely needed more time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
prepared to be in 12<sup>th</sup> place, but as they were going through the ranks,
our name wasn’t called.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Totally
befuddled, I thought I just missed our team name, until they named us the
winner! They put us back into our break up rooms and I find the girls in a fit
of giggles, because NO WAY did we get all the answers correct.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, I did Hermione proud and told them there
was a huge mistake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But for a fleeting
moment we were #1! And maybe that’s all I should have told you from that story.
(I played again on my own on Thursday night and got 8<sup>th</sup> place which
wasn’t too shabby.) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;">For Dawne’s birthday, I got her
this foam mat for the lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s pretty
squishy, so Lucas decided to grab a sleeping bag and sleep on top of it at the
end of the pier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All was going well, until
he heard something rustle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He opened his
eyes to see 6 inches from his face to a river otter who also thought the mat
was pretty squishy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lucas squealed which
made the river otter squeal and then hop back into the lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Lucas pondered how he got up on the
pier, Dawne told him that she has seen the otter climb up the ladders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Knowledge that would have been helpful BEFORE
the camp out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;">My friend Mukul’s photo of a
river otter, and a pic of the scene of the night time meeting. You should
totally follow Mukul – he is an AMAZING photographer!! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5YVoQU6Oqw8q66WVdPQVe2V87JydASDBYNWWjU1dea9YeCDIONiFQjoKn59G8nWRBPAec8p6-JEmyeWKnq-Oc4HOfu2kUch53JFcIQLsSM3dEZ-yoMxRPCa7Z3P9iVucCa_kmYeRFJJQ/s4032/IMG_6322.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5YVoQU6Oqw8q66WVdPQVe2V87JydASDBYNWWjU1dea9YeCDIONiFQjoKn59G8nWRBPAec8p6-JEmyeWKnq-Oc4HOfu2kUch53JFcIQLsSM3dEZ-yoMxRPCa7Z3P9iVucCa_kmYeRFJJQ/s640/IMG_6322.HEIC" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSOi5wjUXENQBAb3BrlmvE6lyF2_pWK_-nKBXUPL-e3ywLOS_6nQA_vY-7KbwiDAm4hoGG0kbH6FL254YfOmOnjcJXIg-_Y93n6V1rr5QUng12LwzKpENhI2QkKchsb-uEeB-87Oabp8A/s1059/IMG_6344.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1059" data-original-width="750" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSOi5wjUXENQBAb3BrlmvE6lyF2_pWK_-nKBXUPL-e3ywLOS_6nQA_vY-7KbwiDAm4hoGG0kbH6FL254YfOmOnjcJXIg-_Y93n6V1rr5QUng12LwzKpENhI2QkKchsb-uEeB-87Oabp8A/s640/IMG_6344.PNG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;">It was harder to walk during the
day so I had to get out early in the morning or find shaded paths, which I got
Joey to meet me at a place near me on a particularly hot day and Percy thought
that was a much better idea (if his lack of panting was any indication.) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDlqWNfLfhRKl5dBH3sAl3to47EXkUyTvd2qZ766Ouo37Vm-z61Rh2gy9jgYN0RTe_f1i2P1nH26oZek7Y_j9ayeSbB_1-g2dezqIiew45NYykVDXbjpQpzr9LSMSqmYeAKprCHM2z3PQ/s4928/DSC_1498.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="4928" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDlqWNfLfhRKl5dBH3sAl3to47EXkUyTvd2qZ766Ouo37Vm-z61Rh2gy9jgYN0RTe_f1i2P1nH26oZek7Y_j9ayeSbB_1-g2dezqIiew45NYykVDXbjpQpzr9LSMSqmYeAKprCHM2z3PQ/s640/DSC_1498.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizVAEmHxB_QegbiZCuWkwhAY2FP51Un8Rc42MA9_X6TU7C52BIw0TfR2DynyK6JQ51RmRE1DjtZm41sEhxJZh-W4hOCGta0Hv7qPvbP9EHCM0XLHjGOd4d-gTQ8_aIBUgwilRP0vX6qNE/s4928/DSC_1492.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="4928" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizVAEmHxB_QegbiZCuWkwhAY2FP51Un8Rc42MA9_X6TU7C52BIw0TfR2DynyK6JQ51RmRE1DjtZm41sEhxJZh-W4hOCGta0Hv7qPvbP9EHCM0XLHjGOd4d-gTQ8_aIBUgwilRP0vX6qNE/s640/DSC_1492.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlUhyphenhyphenQI470IOqyZqqvsXoVmaNSuCGKv-0RjKazGRuoMxJE4FkGFi8JARo4-TTRvq4kiYAeJd2riPW6-qmp7UT7r3E1GpQhhZ8niBezMPfffbRZQsSeFBhTCkAS330-tvuk8adsVi-q990/s4928/DSC_1486+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="4928" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlUhyphenhyphenQI470IOqyZqqvsXoVmaNSuCGKv-0RjKazGRuoMxJE4FkGFi8JARo4-TTRvq4kiYAeJd2riPW6-qmp7UT7r3E1GpQhhZ8niBezMPfffbRZQsSeFBhTCkAS330-tvuk8adsVi-q990/s640/DSC_1486+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzUtbIighr-Of2BUCh6lloMbHo4hUwdSFmxx-d7u56GPptHT3JX8F40fZLxaNQOdGzmC5XHi28UxZlwRnoc7CReNa4OVeUkCDLk5iwOpwnXrIydbA9rhauBHaHcPtepmk9ba7ES9jl2ME/s4928/DSC_1485+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="4928" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzUtbIighr-Of2BUCh6lloMbHo4hUwdSFmxx-d7u56GPptHT3JX8F40fZLxaNQOdGzmC5XHi28UxZlwRnoc7CReNa4OVeUkCDLk5iwOpwnXrIydbA9rhauBHaHcPtepmk9ba7ES9jl2ME/s640/DSC_1485+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;">Friday, by the end of the day I
wanted to crawl up in bed and cry, so I went to go do that, but just as my head
was hitting the pillow, someone called me and I had to put on a happy voice, so
I got out of bed and forced myself to be cheerful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since I was up, I took a walk around the hood
and got the mail to find a package from Erika with a totally inspiring
message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has just learned how to
make friendship bracelets, and made me one!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was perfect timing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then she called, and was surprised that I
sounded like I was upright haha.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
chatted for a bit on my way to meet up with Ryan (who I haven’t seen in person
since February!) and we walked around a park in Mercer Island for two
hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much healthier way to cheer up
than drinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I recently decided to
only drink to get happier not to get happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I learned this brilliant idea from a Reese Witherspoon movie, so it must
be sound advice!) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;">Spent the rest of the weekend
hanging out with Dawne and Jordan, alternating between pool and lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I noticed that Sean and fam were at Jeanine
and Kevin’s watching a movie in a pool the same night we decided to watch a
movie in the pool!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The difference? They
were watching JAWS <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>while we watched a
slightly less intense movie, Bend it like Beckham. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fran didn’t like the movie though, said it was
“too predictable” and Zach’s response was, “But you love RomCom’s the most
predictable of all the genres!” Or maybe it was just Kiera Knightly’s 90’s
haircut that was too predictable… <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;"><o:p> Dawne and I played Timeline and the first card was "Jesus is crucified. Year: 30" But he was 33, it's like one of the few dates everyone knows. And from then on, the game was suspect. </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigZ8E4ngwwge1blfLqv1xbghYYeg5C_hHTgE_rsz1OrM0gdURzBbazW5ARvq6W9cfC0v6aMb47FLcaMsvNt1FV4yi0PkqpeIQTDw88cDnnIGFZ_GkgK6a59y4uvQXSc9U9pVpVN8puU08/s4032/IMG_6316.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigZ8E4ngwwge1blfLqv1xbghYYeg5C_hHTgE_rsz1OrM0gdURzBbazW5ARvq6W9cfC0v6aMb47FLcaMsvNt1FV4yi0PkqpeIQTDw88cDnnIGFZ_GkgK6a59y4uvQXSc9U9pVpVN8puU08/s640/IMG_6316.HEIC" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><o:p><br /></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;">And some random things I found funny
this week! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;">2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;">My mom sent me a feast for 30
from Katz Deli!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/o4nfQP4yj996kMGb7">https://photos.app.goo.gl/o4nfQP4yj996kMGb7</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;">And I was at Halo Outpost
Discovery in Chicago!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got to hang out
with some awesome authors, and amazing fans!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And, one morning, I realized I had an extra couple of hours before the show
opened, so I called Aunt Audrye and asked if we could hang out… like now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So grateful for random opportunities like
that! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;">2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;">This week, Dawne’s Aunts and Uncles
and Our shared Aunt and Uncle were all in town the same weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We made introduction (some of the cousins
didn’t know each other), but in other instances, I feel like the two sides of
the family meeting up together hadn’t happened for decades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;">We asked Elizabeth to sew up
Percy’s favorite toy bear. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;">Me: It’s a little dirty. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;">Elizabeth: I’m going to need
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;">I was grabbing some extra treats
for Percy before dropping him off with Dawne for the week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They didn’t have what I needed, so I got back
in the car, and before I was able to back out, I looked back and watched an SUV
slowly back into the side of my car… and continue to back up and lift my tiny
Fiat from the ground all before I was able to think to honk my horn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually, she realized something was off,
and we got out, looked and she give me her name and number (although, honestly
when that happens, you kinda know nothing will come of it) and I drove to Dawne’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a lil time before I need to go to the
airport, so we went to grab dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
got back, and I’m just sitting in the kitchen chatting for a while until it was
time to leave – at which point I realize I don’t have my wallet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t have time to head back to the
restaurant, so I just have to head to the airport (because I had my passport
and a credit card on me and luckily didn’t rent a car.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made it to the airport on time, got
upgraded to first class, and got to FL in time to meet the fam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had gotten a room at this place Dawne
always stays at for the night thinking Mo and her family could use it for the
night and I could take a nap because I had taken the red eye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Turns out, Mo got to the hotel, told them her
name for the reservation and couldn’t find it anywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily, Mo knows I have a serious problem
with “new” names (At this point, they would have been married for 18 years),
and asked if there was a room under her maiden name – and there was! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;">Also, I decided that my fiat was
perfectly large enough to pick up a bunch of packages at work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I got to the mail building, and told
them my name and work alias, they were like, “WHOA!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve always wanted to meet you!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You get SO many packages!” Weird thing to
flex, but flexing anyhow! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;">Love you, Mean It! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #711d23;">T O’B <o:p></o:p></span></p><br />skcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-90098824219663710782020-07-28T16:15:00.003-07:002020-07-28T16:17:24.808-07:00Pawed Hard<br />
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Walking and working – that continues
to be the summary of my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Percy is
sleeping and walking but looking super cute while he does it, so that’s worth
sharing! I wasn’t cooking before it started getting hot out, but now I don’t
even want to warm things up – so I’m all about salads, yogurt and cottage
cheese.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Funny thing about cottage cheese:
Percy loves it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He hates nearly all other
foods, but if he smells me open up cottage cheese he’s salivating (figuratively
of course – less you think him a slobbery mess). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also started using Noom, but found I was developing
a bit of an eating disorder, so I’m still using bits of it, but trying to focus
on exercise in an attempt to get healthy and apologize for the alcohol abuse I
put it through for the first couple of months of quarantine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means I call Maureen a lot to make her
entertain me – lucky her!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought
about getting myself a Fit Bit to remind me to walk around every hour, but then
realized I finally got Percy to STOP annoying me to move around every hour, so
I decided to just do a mental estimate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(That’s the same thing, right?) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Did I tell you I saved a dogs
life at the park the other day and they rewarded me by scratching the side of
my door?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They got loose in the parking
lot so I stopped all the traffic and got it to go toward the park and its owner
– and then saw the damage when I got home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I left the paw prints for over a week so that “people” would realize
that the scratches were not my fault. I don’t know who these people are, but
clearly they are nosy and judgmental.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
had to let it go though, because I was headed to a baby parade (a parade to see
a baby, not a bunch of babies rolling around), and wanted to have my car shiny before
I headed over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The parade was not as I
was expecting, but then again, I was expecting Diana to hold up Valeria above
her head a la Simba in the Lion King as we rolled by.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you ask me, that would have been epic –
especially if it had a sweet sound track to accompany it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(BDug, I know you don’t get this reference…
sorry, not sorry.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">I spent the weekend hanging out
with D&J, in and out of the lake and pool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We got to meet Lynn & Marc’s new pup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lynn and Marc kept their distance, luckily,
Bella did not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jordan joined Dawne and I
on the big blue floating mat, but only just a lil longer than his first foray –
I have a feeling he doesn’t get the same joy as we do from the wet instability.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Percy continues to show sheer and utter joy
every time we arrive at Dawne’s house, it is clearly our happy place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(He also shows confusion and distaste when we
make other stops on the weekend that are not Dawne’s, especially as most other stops
do not involve either of us leaving the vehicle. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">My neighbor is having surgery on
her shoulder in a week or two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I offered
to help, and she said she might need her hair washed and wine bottles
opened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel like that’s the least I
could do – and also, we have come a LONG way since our first meeting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">We had our last (for now) “Me
and My White Supremacy” meeting on Sunday – or as I have been calling it “My Supremacy
meeting.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look forward to reading
something a lil more cheery (Cristi recommended “An Elderly Lady is Up to No
Good – so that’s on the top of the list!) before diving back into my next learning
experience – but I am grateful for open-minded and supportive friends who encouraged
me to dig deep, learn, and do better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even if I was the crier of the group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Shocking!) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Speaking of Cristi, Viv was
explaining to how she manipulates her Plague Rat hand puppet and said, “…then my
thumb and single-lady finger work the arms…” haha<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">And on that note, here are some
fun things I saw this week on the internets and a quick trip down memory lane…
2017 style. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">In 2017, Becky broke her
shoulder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I asked if I could help,
Becky asked if I would swing by at lunch and cut up a watermelon for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I was cutting up said watermelon, I saw
the irony that she would ask the one friend she had that is terrible at cutting
things to cut up an entire watermelon – but at least I did better job than she
could do. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>#thatisnotsayingmuch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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And then that same week, Becky got me a food handling license
so that I could make snow cones and popcorn at a kids carnival (much much
easier than the cutting task.) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Clearly, a Becky filled week, because we wrapped up the
week going to see Smash Mouth and the Spin Doctors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I get that it might not be terribly chic, but
it was an amazing concert – even if the lead of Smash Mouth was totes hammered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">T O’B <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />skcorynaffithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056298347641697682noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751507727957365400.post-43260249888630242932020-07-21T18:05:00.001-07:002020-07-21T18:05:20.145-07:00Ugly Fruit<br />
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Hi All! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">My world has been consumed by
work, which makes Tiffany a very dull girl, and also made it hard to find time
for an update.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, Tiffany in the
Time of Covid is trying to be more forgiving, and less judgmental, especially
to myself, so we’re going to just lump these guys together and move on! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">First, Diana had a baby! Valerie
Adele and she’s another perfect daughter addition! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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On Monday the 6<sup>th</sup>, I was making a cauliflower
pizza and in the process of taking my pizza out of the oven I accidentally
dropped it on the floor but then I was thinking “the cleaning people just
cleaned this floor, so it’s probably clean enough to eat” so I picked it up. As
I went to put it on the counter, I accidentally knocked over a flower vase (I
have no idea why the flower vase was there) but it broke - like it chipped a little
bit - so I picked up the glass and wiped the counter down, put the pizza on the
cardboard on the counter and then I went to cut it and eat it and after I ate
two slices of pizza, I saw a little chunk of glass on the cardboard which made
me think I should probably stop eating this pizza and maybe ask Rachel if I am
going to die from this.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Me: I think I just consumed some glass. What is my
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Rach: Low<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Spoiler alert, I beat the odds! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">The rest of the week was basically
all work with the dog park being my only shining moment of the day, then I did
a social distance hang with Dr. Rach and Anders and got the COOLEST GIFT EVER
of the Illustrated Harry Potter book – so now I have to read them all over
again. (I have got these for a couple of kiddos in my life, but they were always
too extravagant for me to buy them for myself.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Dr. Rach had chocolate filled marshmallows,
which were kinda amazing when roasted. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #711d23; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol-ext; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">😊</span><span style="color: #711d23;"> Hung out with fam on Saturday (most of which was in the pool,
not going to lie.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">I got a book from Erika a couple
of years back, called “The Royal We” and loved it so much that I think I’ve
bought it a dozen times for other people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s funny, and light and makes me happy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also pre-ordered the sequel, so when it
arrived I wanted to really enjoy it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
two Sundays ago I read the first book AND the second book, and it was pretty
much the perfect day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Then I had a week of work and
dog park, followed by me falling asleep on Friday at like 9 and then being wide
awake at 4 am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s so amazing what you
can do if you’re a morning person!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like I
worked out, and walked, and cleaned the kitchen, and got groceries delivered, all
before I headed over to D&J’s for summer fun time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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produce?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have the same ring to it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Zach: Do you know why Root beer
used to be illegal?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Lucas: Sarsaparilla was used in
both root beer and in alcohol?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Zach: Well another reason is if
aged it would turn into alcohol.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Dawne: Why does Lucas’ fact
sound more true?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Several minutes later: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Jordan: we once saw two eagles
fly right at each other, connect and then spin on their way down. I’m not sure
if it was a mating ritual or a fight. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Zach: Eagles can only penetrate
when they are free falling. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Lucas: Just like Tom petty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Nater: that also sounds made up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Zach: imma look it up - it’s the
first result! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Dawne: what did you search for
“falling eagle sex?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Zach: Yes! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">On Sunday, I drove over to D&J’s,
but got there while they were out, so Percy spent an hour being mad at me for
bringing him to a house without his people in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did not complain about chilling on the deck
on comfy furniture while I chatted with Momela tho.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we took the boat out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was really hot out, so we planned on
having our first jump into the lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
jumped in first and it was HELLA cold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Percy leapt in after me, same to me and quickly back to the boat with a
look of, “Um, Nutter?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you forget we
have a warm pool back at the house?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Dawne (jumps in and emerges): Oh
Shit! It’s cold. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Me: I told you! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Jordan (jumps in and emerges):
Oh Shit! It’s cold. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Percy (Seriously, guys, that’s
not bright.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">We then grabbed a snack and
chatted with Mo who told me that she was showing Frita the Fit Bit I got her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She told him, if he likes it and wants it, he
should totally ask Tiffany for one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Later, Dawne and I took this big inflatable mat out for the first
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got it for her for her birthday,
and we were waiting for the lake to warm up (it was warmer on the edges.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jordan observed (mostly to make sure we were
being safe) and then went up to the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Much later, Dawne said to Aunt Pat and Lindsay, “Yeah, if you ever want something but you can’t afford it, ask Tiffany!” I sense a theme going on… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">And then we warmed up with some pool time, followed by me making everyone toaster quesadillas for the win! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Sharing Shana’s update: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Ladies and Gentlemen, my
mother...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Mom: can you help me throw this
rug on the railing to dry?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Me: Sure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Mom: Okay, it's REALLY slippery.
So be sure to let me know if you're going to fall because I don't want to miss
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Oh, this was just something I
thought was helpful for your conspiracy theory friends: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;"><a href="http://thetruetruetruth.com/">http://thetruetruetruth.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">2019<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #711d23; margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3;">Experienced
my first earthquake (that I swear I talked into happening because I was
like what do we do if there is an Earthquake for three days straight and
then woke up to one and had to ask Facebook if anyone else felt the same
thing.) <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #711d23; margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3;">Went
to a sounders game. <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #711d23; margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3;">Didn’t
experience a heat wave. <o:p></o:p></li>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">2018<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #711d23; margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2;">I
took one of my favorite pictures of Casper and Percy ever while on the
boat. <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #711d23; margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2;">Erika,
Kenny and their 4 adorable children came to visit – and honestly, it was
over far too quickly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #711d23; margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2;">Aunt
Pat had an accident, breaking both of her legs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m glad I can tell this story now,
because while it was terrifying, the good news is that she made a full
recovery and is doing great now! <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #711d23; margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2;">I
was at SDCC. <o:p></o:p></li>
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<span style="color: #711d23;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/yPaNnPVrAczdcvep7">https://photos.app.goo.gl/yPaNnPVrAczdcvep7</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">2017<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #711d23; margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1;">I
met RL Stine (he looked thrilled) <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #711d23; margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1;">I
convinced Rach to let Kelly take a pick of Emmett in Hogwarts gear. <o:p></o:p></li>
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<span style="color: #711d23;"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZMHB5SF3o3W6puME6">https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZMHB5SF3o3W6puME6</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Can anyone decipher these ancient
notes?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because it must have been hilarious…
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<span style="color: #711d23; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Notes
from <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7/17-7/23 2017</span><span style="color: #711d23;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">What? I didn't order this! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(after Joey couldn't carry it all ) <br />
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Get your tall ass into the front seat. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Notes from <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7/10-7/16 2017<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Mad money<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="color: #711d23;">Much Love, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #711d23;">T O’B <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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