179/365

"MY DAD USED TO OWN THAT..."
...was the number one phrase today.  Shut the f*uck up about owning shit was the second. ;-) It was hot as hell today but somehow this guy managed to not be too much of a pain in the ass for once. Here he is coveting this guys mobile pizza oven. Is it ever about anything other than food?

Or flowers for me? I want to knock on the door of this house and hug the owners... obviously people after my own heart with the milk jug and watering cans (though mine would be metal) and planted boots!!! Begonias in them too! And the flag and the ferns and the hosta! Oh my!

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"I WILL LOVE THE LIGHT FOR IT SHOWS ME THE WAY... YET I WILL ENDURE THE DARKNESS FOR IT SHOWS ME THE STARS."
I didn't take one picture tonight!  What the heck is wrong with me?  Uncle Anthony is in town so we had a little Friday night fun. The power was flickering off and on so I had a perfect excuse to bring out my new lantern.  I bought it after the lights were out for awhile last month or so and to start the disaster kit I've been trying to get together for some time now. ;-) Nice lantern.  Love it.

Disaster kit building tips here. You're welcome.

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GOING TO BED

Too tired to talk - Here's a pic of my pretty dinner tonight.... I swear I'm going to start cooking again.  Really. Good night, all.

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AND THEY CALL IT PUPPY LOVE...

I'm tired so just some puppy dog pictures.  

The breeder was going into surgery and trusted that the bud would be taken care of (that's funny, huh?) since we had one of her dogs before and gave her up early. I wonder if she really thinks I'm her mom? First ride in the car to go home... 

She still gives kisses like a puppy.

And sleeps like a log.

She was so little - under 4 lbs.

She loved her little puppy play mat!

First big girl walk (to Mineos!)

First trip up the steps!

I made it!

Watching Obama become president.

Helping out with some papers... (or getting her paw caught in the cookie jar.)

Call me crazy but (you may have to click on this to enlarge) - does she look like Susan Sarandon or what? ;-)

One of my favorites - being a little bad! She got into this phase where she was always jumping on tables! ;-)

High Five Puppy Dog - Cinque!

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TOT - TEN ON TUESDAY

1. I was surprisingly re-blogged a few days ago... it was on a Dean Martin tribute site.  Ain't that a kick in the head!?  I don't know how many other Dean Martin blogs there are but I can almost guarantee this is the best! Check it out - really good DM stuff.  Click here to visit "I Love Dino Martin."

2. How bad is it that the first thing I saw was a hidden mickey? (Second, was bacon!)

3. I'm going to be 10 lbs heavier by the end of the week... went to Union Grill last night... Pino's this afternoon and Girosole's tonight.

4. I posted this before... I know I am biased but I stumbled upon it and I just have to post it again because, seriously, she is so damn cute.

5. Lily's Doggy BFF, Sabrina, came over to visit the other day. They had fun! ;-)

6. I found so many photos I forgot about. The little itsy bitsy puppy...

... and school...

...and the house and my flowers and pots...

...and so much more!  I know there are over 10,0000 pictures on my laptop - I have no idea how many are on big mac. I forgot to check.

7. I ended up using Lizzie's computer stand she used as a tv stand in her first DC apartment. Is was in the land of furniture that has no place to go in the Murphy garage. We had to get rid of one bookcase here and move another but it fit perfectly into the spot. Not my first choice and there is no room to do anything but put the computer on it but it works for the time being... the goal was to not upset the room or my dad's house much - too late!  I have a working computer, at least.  BUT...

8.  I am completely confused with this damn cloud thing!?!?!! Why is this so difficult?!?


9. While we are on computer talk... 7142 emails... 2233 unread. Still bad.  That was one of my other while I'm recovering from surgery tasks.  Clean out my email.  Never happened.

10. Sometimes, even when right in from of you, things aren't want they seem...

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CAPTURED

I've been a big fan of Dear Photograph since it first came to be... Saw this on Pinterest awhile back and it reminded me of it.  It's a Japanese soap commercial. Click here for video. 

173/365

JUST HANGING AROUND
The Bud and I took a nap tonight... she had me pinned down so I couldn't get to a camera to take a picture.  Saw this last night so this will have to do.

Just another old pic from Dixon House.

(Click to enlarge and look at that puppy dog's forehead!!! ♥)

172/365

BIG MAC
Thanks to Carey, I am posting this from the big computer... I'm seeing things I haven't seen in a very long time...

...and thanks to Colleen, the kitchen is the cleanest it's been in a very long time.  Next time we eat in the bathroom. The tub needs cleaned! ;-)

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UMM, WERE YOU EVEN GOING TO WAKE ME UP?

Lily was sound asleep in my bed and woke up and stumbled into the kitchen... she smelled the bacon I was making for a layered salad.

Even though this guy and the pups were super cute I was annoyed today by all the people selling (and impulse buying) dogs at Rogers... It was way too hot and those little things shouldn't even be away from their mamas.  ;-(

(BTW - 18 minutes.  Not my best time.  I had to run downstairs for an onion and got distracted thinking about Davey Eggs.)

170/365

WHY CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?

The other night I said something about wanting to be an astronauts wife... Cara was in the car with me and said she would rather be the astronaut.   I kind of laughed and just said - "to each his (or her) own."  Some people want the big family - some want the career - some want to travel the world and some want to stay close to home... etc... etc. Everyone's different. I came across an old unfinished post in my drafts that I still think about... I'm not going to post it because it was a little mean and I don't feel like going there right now. It was about not being deep enough or compassionate enough or working like a normal person. Not me feeling that way - someone else saying I wasn't enough for them. I'm still struggling with it though and it makes me sad and mad. It shouldn't matter but it does - to me.  And, again, I can't finish this. ;-(

Anyway, the pup is staring me down and wants to go into bed. I haven't been to bed before 3:30 am most nights these last couple weeks so I think I'm going to take her up on her offer. 

169/365

I'M BRINGING SEXY BACK
(computer still crazy... another draft never posted - from 2010...)
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I found this ashtray / lighter set the other day in the china closet...

I always think of Dean Martin and the Matt Helm movies when I see things like this.

The sexy girls...

and the round beds...

If I could be transported to any time it would definitely be then!

I'm not sure if I would smoke but at least I have enough ashtrays in case I decide to! Here's two of the many I found...

168/365

DRAFTED
No TOT today - I'm too tired plus I can't get any pics on here anyway... my laptop is going crazy.  Can't do much at all on it -it's saying I have no space for applications to run so I guess that's why I can't get any new photos to load. I have 237 drafts saved here on blogger - the majority of them not finished. Some things were probably said in a different way and some are probably super irrelevant now... some I was probably too upset to continue.  I really should weed through them and get my drafts down to a reasonable number. I was thinking about bringing this back to a photo a day blog but there's still too much I need to say and my heart's not going to be happy until I do... hence the 237 drafts still lingering around. So I'm just going to randomly pick one...

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I was trying to make some room downstairs and came across some old stuff... I've seen the shows and listened to the talk show therapists who try to re-train the hoarders and convince people that it's not the stuff it's the memories you can carry without being tied down to the physical part of it... I get it but (sorry for the but, Pat) there's something about seeing your mother's or grandmother's hand written recipes or a ticket stub from some show or whatever that is worth keeping even if it's binned up because you are running out of room. If it was up to me I would have parts of my life framed and mounted like some tacky Friday's restaurant - little moments of time - and I would just walk around and look at them. That's one thing I loved about Dixon House... I would walk into a room and look around and be very happy. Everything was thought out and loved - be it the paint colors or the tree Aunt Joyce made that has always been on the pig curio...stuff like that.  I feel thrown here - like I don't belong. Kind of funny since it was my house.  I don't feel right here and wish my husband would just talk to me...(written post never finished.)

Here are some things I found today.

A letter and check stub from when my mother won $2500 in a contest at a gas station - 1968.

My "admission" letter to Mother Goose Nursery School - 1976.
Some letters from Margaret who owned the Caprice in Wildwood (the hotel we always stayed at) - early 1970s

I used to write down the tunnels as we went through them... late 70s - early 80s.

An old GF ticket stub - 1996.

Song lyrics - hmmm 90s I guess

167/365

MISSION SLIMPOSSIBLE
I wish I could take credit for that post title but I can't - saw it on Pinterest as the name of someone's fitness board... I was going to call it Beyond C25K but I liked this better. Besides, C25K is so two years ago.

I really thought I would lose weight through all of this surgery stuff... I didn't. I didn't really gain any but I really should lose some.  So should The Bud.

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MY OWN PERSONAL CAKE WRECK

How many times have I ordered a cake from Moio's?  A lot.  Notice anything wrong here?

The bad thing is they had me check it at the store and I did and said it was perfect.  I didn't even notice it!!! Luckily, Carey is a trained professional in cake decorating and did a quick fix... now trying to rectify The Dad tilting it while he was carrying it was another story.

Happy Father's Dad to all the Dads out there.

For more cakes gone wrong... click here.

165/365

PUG IN THE CITY
Lily Bud going for a walk...

164/365

"YOU KNOW, THE GIRL THAT WAS IN THE MOVIE WITH THE GUY IN THE BIG BLACK COAT WHO MIGHT BE THE GUY IN THIS OR MAYBE IT'S THE OTHER GUY..."
That's what it's like with me - it's like playing Password - the Jeannine Edition. 

Chrissy convinced Cara to do something this morning and we ended up being out for the entire day... had lunch and then went to a movie. My poor puppy and house and father!  I haven't been home with her all week, haven't cleaned, have about a hundred loads of laundry to do,  there's 3 weeks of mail stacked on the dining room table, doctor reports all over my room... I'm kind of looking forward to next week when I have no major appointments and when katherine gets her butt home from her adventure. I need to lock myself in the house for awhile. ;-)

Anyway, Chrissy wanted to see the Snow White movie and Cara picked Rock of Ages and I chose The Avengers in 3D, which is what we ended up going with. I think we made the right choice, though I'm partial to any movie with high speed car chases in tunnels... anything landing on aircraft carriers or the like... things blowing up with mass hysteria in the streets, giant rooms of people clicking things on transparent computer screens... and characters all lined up in a row walking with a sense of purpose.  Oh, and I guess guys in long black coats. Plus - I've made my fondness for RDJ quite known, but, seriously, how cute is that big green guy?

Since I can't post any photos of the morning... here's a picture of the wings from lunch.

163/365

YOU SAY IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY...

You know - I don't think I ever downloaded the rest of the pictures from The Dad's 70th Birthday LAST YEAR...   Partly from being at Magee for four hours today (waiting an hour and a half for the appointment with the oncologist) The Dad had a pretty uneventful birthday! He made a wish by blowing out a candle in a pasticciotti!

Luckily, I had accumulated a bunch of gifts over the last few months... He loved his new "curses and insults in Italian" book and all the others - please note... wrapped in SNOWMAN paper.

Since it looked a little like Christmas I decided to get his mushroom kit that was never taken out of the packing box since he unwrapped it last Christmas. We opened it up and took one look and threw it away... what a waste of some good fungi. ;-)

We all know the "fun guy" joke so I'll switch it up...
Q: Why did the Fungi leave the party?
A: There wasn't mushroom.

165/365

JUST LIKE SHE'S WALKING ON A WIRE IN THE CIRCUS...
I went to my last appointment with the surgeon today. All went well, though I fear for what's to come with the meetings with the medical and radiation oncologists... With all the other stuff in my life - I honestly can say I never thought I would be typing those words. Still kind of weird.

Believe it or not I don't have a picture for today... I think I went through every emotion.... being proud of myself for getting through these two surgeries way better than I thought I would... scared of what's to come in the coming weeks... missing those clouds on the ceilings of Dixon House... sadness walking through IKEA without my husband... I don't know - you get the point.

It was the first time I drove in almost a month.  The cast recording of Rent was always my go to record of choice but I've said before I've only listened to one thing for like the past year so I guess I'll post a picture of that.