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I’ve been using those crest white strips for the past few days. But I had to take a break after yesterday, because they make my teeth kinda hurt. They seem to be working though…that’s nice. I drink too much coffee and soda.

I finally upgraded to the latest and greatest version of Wordpress. I’m not really used to the admin changes yet. And is it just me or does the widget drag-n-drop controls seem buggy. It was awkward trying to reorder stuff in my sidebar. And I can’t seem to find any themes that I like. And the ones that I think are ok don’t support widgets. I know like 95% of my readers have no idea what I’m talking about…ah well.

So Sammy is getting huge! He’s also getting much better at holding his wee. He almost always makes it through the night without wetting in his crate. And he’d kinda funny. I take him out and he seems to go potty on command. While he’s squatting to pee he turns his head back to me…like, “you gettin my treat ready???” I love that puppy. Him and KC are always fighting though. It’s really annoying. KC gets so upset when he has any toy, and she makes a bunch of funny snarly noises. I’m hoping that as we can trust Sammy more and more in the house…that the extra time together will help them calm down. That’s what I’m hoping anyhow.

I haven’t really been blogging as much as I used to. Not sure why. I’ve been really busy at work…and with the new puppy at home…I’m just exhausted.

I haven’t had time to think about those little things that I used to notice all the time throughout the average day…kinda sad. Maybe I still notice them….but my memory is completely shot.

My attention span has seemed a little off lately too. Mike will always be talking to me, but I don’t seem to comprehend the words that he is saying, and then I say “What?”, and he repeats himself…but I’m still not listening. It really pisses him off…but I don’t do it on purpose. I guess I’m just distracted a little too easily.

We reserved our plane tickets and hotel for our San Francisco vacation. I think it is going to be really fun. Now we just have to find people willing to take care of our many pets. My dad offered to take the dogs. Mike’s parents wouldn’t mind taking the pigs or the dogs either. The cats might be able to stay here if someone will come over every couple of days and check up.

It’s raining outside. Kinda depressing. And I guess it is supposed to snow tonight. I can’t wait until Spring. Although, I have no clue how to make our landscaping look all pretty. I could probably like clean up all the leaves and trim stuff…but that doesn’t sound like something I would ever want to actually do…So I think I’m going to have to break down and hire someone. Maybe they will be cute. I can dream.

Don’t you just love the winter and snow and ice? The shoveling, salting, scraping of car windows, hats that give you that funny flat hair, and that feeling of just guessing where you should park because you can’t see the lines in the parking lot.

Mike and I haven’t put up any christmas stuff yet. No lights outside, no tree, or wreaths or anything. I’m completely unmotivated for any of that junk. We haven’t put up a tree in a couple of years, and even then we only did it once…so besides that I haven’t put up a tree since I lived at home with my parents.

Speaking of my parents and Xmas, they go all out for christmas. My mom literally puts up 2 full size trees, 3 medium size ones, and a various mini-trees around the house. Plus my mom’s normal display of Santa clauses balloons to massive proportions. And they put up this extensive christmas village scene with all these ceramic houses and fake snow and little figurines and snowmans and just bunches of crazy christmas shit.

I just don’t get christmas. I know it’s nice to get gifts and get off of work or school or whatever. But it seems like a whole lotta pain. Maybe it’s just not fun anymore because I’m over the age of 12, and now I’m actually responsible for buying people gifts. Speaking of which, I have no idea what to get anyone. Mike and I already exchanged gifts, and I’m really bad at guessing what people might like. I’m suddenly reminded of all the awful way oversized sweaters and brightly colored fleece shirts that I would get for christmas from family. I know it somewhat takes the surprise or fun out of it…but I’m thinking of just getting gift cards. That’s what I’d really like I suppose.

Wow this post is depressing. The only thing that could make it worse, is talking more about my cat who has ringworm. That’s a fun topic. Ah well…if you don’t like it, then you can just bite me. Merry Christmas everyone!

Happy, happy holidays to everyone. I’m not doing a whole lot. To be honest, I skipped out of the visit to Indiana with the rest of my family. Not very festive of me I know.

You may have noticed the blog changes. (and if you visited in the past couple of days you probably saw a whole bunch of mess including sql errors everywhere or 404 pages popping up unexpectedly). That should be fixed for the most part. I’m not really sure what happened. But thank chebus I made a backup of the database or I would have been screwed. But anyhow I’m running the newest wordpress now and I have a new theme that I’m liking. I wanted something simple with subtle colors. The one I had before was a little too much.

I finally trashed that flickr plugin that I had been using and have migrated to Slickr. Hopefully this is going to work out better for me. For now you can click on the view gallery link here or over in the sidebar. Yeah I can’t figure out how to add it to the main menu (at least not with it working right). Yeah I’m a developer (somewhat) so I should be able to figure it out eventually, so don’t give me shit for the time being.

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Check out this list of 100 of the best blogs around. It seems like most of my daily reading stops make the list. And also a few new ones I will definitely be checking out.

I’ve gotten into this really bad habit of coming home from work and taking about a 2 hour nap. This wouldn’t be a problem if I could get to bed at a normal time. Last night I was probably up til about 1…I used to go to bed around 10. I really need to break myself of this. But it’s totally a slippery slope. I’m so tired from not getting enough sleep the night before I have to take that nap after work.

Oh I fixed my flickr gallery finally. I even got the sidebar working again. It’s been months since that worked.

Mike and I haven’t settled on a name for our new puppy. We have a few ideas, but usually when we’ve named our pets there is a name that just feels right. Haven’t found it yet. Probably after we get to know her a little better.

I just got a text message that puppy is out of surgery. She is so damn cute, isn’t she? She’s gonna be real spoiled…like all our other pets.