Pseudo Suzi

My plan was to go to bed early. I got a massage after work, grabbed dinner then came home with the intent of relaxing in bed with a book by 9:30 and asleep not long after. However, my dog had other ideas since he has been home alone all day and wanted to play, not sleep. One of the reasons I’m so tired is because for the past three mornings he has been waking me up at 5 a.m.  I let him out thinking he’s about to piss himself (and my floor) only to find that he wants to wander around sniffing everything, play with his toys and chase the cat that like to sleep along the top of my fence. Takes him about 10 minutes to finally pee, all the while I’m becoming more awake. I finally get back to bed looking forward to more sleep and he’s doing it again an hour later! Fucker.

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Well, I know I haven’t written in a few months. Things were nuts for a while but I’ll try to catch you up here.

NOVEMBER

• Got married in the beginning of November as you can read from the previous post.
• Had a death in the family and family from Chicago visiting.
• Went to a wine and tapas dinner with a few friends.
• Lomee made a delicious Thanksgiving dinner for just the 2 of us.
• Worked on another paper for class and submitted Chapter One for my independant research project.

DECEMBER

• Lomee’s holiday party was a blast. Very crowded though (about 1000 people).
• Finished up our church’s introductory class (finally) in order to become members.
• Went to see Little Big Town and Sugarland. Easily the best concert I’ve ever been to.
• Went to Chicago for 5 days over Christmas. Had fun, got to see some friends and family. Shopped at a couple stores I don’t have here.
• Got awesome gifts from family and my Lomee.
• Spent way too much but it was totally worth it to watch the kids (and Lomee!) open their gifts.
• Needed a vacation from Christmas; it was so exhausting. But I’m glad we went and saw everyone.
• Spent New Years Eve at home with Lomee. Lucked out and got a few more days off in a row.

JANUARY

• Beginning of the month was quiet. Still kinda warm here.
• Had my birthday mid-month. Lomee made me an awesome dinner.
• Had a bad sinus infection that I had been battling for a couple weeks. Went to the doctor to take care of that and he put me on Prednisone because I was so achy and inflamed. Allergies are killing me though, which is typical of this area of the US.
• Went to another wine and tapas dinner at the end of the month. Had a great time and delicious food.
• Lomee made a couple yummy dishes I got pictures of. Will post when I get a chance.
• Buddy (black Lab) had an ear infection and had to go to the Vet. He’s better now but I can’t believe how expensive Vets are. I wonder if pet insurance is worth it.
• Sat down with Lomee and worked out a budget and debt reduction plan for the next few months to a year. We are really working on substantially reducing our consumer debt by the end of the year. People that know me know that I hate to carry any consumer debt however, I realize at times it is necessary. So this will be a good thing.
• Lomee is working on a problem at work and his solution is getting the attention of some big-wigs in the organization. I’m proud of and happy for him. I love it when his work inspires and challenges him.
• I have car fever and really want a new one. Mine is about 5 years old and I don’t have any payments, which is nice but I’m really wanting a new one. Not needing, wanting. It’s really not practical right now but I’m hoping by year’s end it will happen. I had been wanting a VW Passat but after reading some not too good reviews, I don’t think I’ll be getting one. At Lomee’s urging I’m considering a BMW 3-series but think it may be too small. I’d really love a 5-series but it’s about $20K more than I want to spend, even for a used one. However, I do like the Infiniti G35 and M. So, we’ll see.

I have more papers and chapters due for school and I’m just trying to wait it out. I graduate in 8 months if I can stay on track. Hopefully there will be a great job in my field waiting for me then (the job market here is great if you’re in an engineering or technical field; not so great if you aren’t).

I’m seriously considering Lasik as my eyes are driving me nuts. Ever since I changed my contacts last summer they have felt dry and itchy. The left one always feels like it doesn’t fit right or there is something in it. The doctor can’t find anything wrong. I’m slowly going insane.

We have to do our taxes or find someone to do them. Lomee has always done his and I’ve had an accountant do mine in the past because of owning my own business. I’ve used Turbo Tax the past 2 years but I’m not sure if I want to go that route this year as there was a lot of changes last year: selling my house, moving, Lomee buying a house, starting school, getting married.

That’s about it. I’ll try to do better with blogging. I just hate to write stuff for the sake of writing; I always feel like its un-interesting. It’s really not much different than what is going on in anyone else’s life. I wish I could be one of those bloggers that could tell stories about their life or pontificate on a subject and have it be relevant and interesting. I think about how certain situations would be amusing or fun to blog about but then I don’t follow through. I suppose I could write about things in my life that many people don’t really know about me or haven’t considered. It may be easier to give you some history about myself so you can better understand me and my thoughts. I don’t really know. It would probably be a bunch of boring shit that you don’t care about anyway.

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I know it has been a while since my last post and a lot has happened but I will get to that later. Right now, here are some pictures from the last few weeks.

Here is Dimps. He is getting so big and really starting to look like a bulldog. He was sick a little over a week ago and we had to take him to the vet. He is 8 months old and weighs 70 pounds! He’ll start to fill out and look more bully within the next year or so. I wouldn’t be surprised if he gains another 20 by the time he’s finished growing. I know he looks either like a demon or robot dog with his eyes glowing like that, but he really is a living, warm, sweet puppy!

Here’s a pic of our fridge after a trip to Costco and Kroger. It’s nearly disgusting how full it is.

Lomee made fried chicken. Actually, since I don’t eat meat on a bone he uses chicken breasts cut into chunks. The new Emeril pan is great for it. Absolutely delicious! Marinates them in buttermilk and then rolls them in flour, egg, and panko before frying them in a rosemary & garlic, peanut oil. Creole mustard rubbed on the chicken before rolling them makes the chicken very juicy without leaving a mustard flavor behind. You’ll have to either dry off the buttermilk or use the mustard instead, or I supposed you can mix the mustard in the buttermilk if you’d like. The buttermilk is great for making the chicken tender and juicy. Panko makes it very crunchy.

I’ve been eating so much meat this week my gout is flaring up again. This totally sucks! I love meat; animals taste yummy.

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Here are some cute pics of the boys from the past weekend.  We don’t really have a “backyard” since we are on the side of a mountain.   There are some rocks and landscaping with a few big boulders, plants and mulch.  The only yard we have is on the side of the house and curving into the front a little, with some more rocks, trees, and mulch in the front.

These pics were taken from our back deck on Sunday.  We let them run around and have fun retrieving a ball Lomee was throwing.

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Since I devoted a post to Dimps, I thought it only fair that I give Bud some blog time. Bud is a beautiful black Lab with a sweet disposition. He always looks like he is smiling. He is about 20 months old and definitely plays the “big brother” role well.

He and Dimps are so funny when they are wrestling. They also sleep all night and don’t wake us begging to go outside…which is great because I use to have a dog that wanted to get up every morning at 5:30 a.m.

Lomee was playing catch with him and Dimps and would hold the ball up and put Bud in a sit so I could get a pic.

Here are The Boys taking a snooze.

They are so easy to love and a ton of fun. We have fallen so in love with them…they just sorta make our life and home complete.

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He’s such a sweet puppy. Yes, I said puppy. He’s only 7 months old but probably weighs 60 lbs. We’ve only had him 2 months but he is growing so fast.

Here’s a funny pic of Demps, the headless bully.

He’s also the most dick lickingest dog on earth. And no, not his own…but Buddy doesn’t seem to mind. I guess getting your weenie wet feels good no matter who is doing the licking, huh? Both Demps and Buddy can be such perverts at times I can’t even get into it. Some of the things I’ve witnessed seriously fucks me up.

Here they are begging Lomee for Corn Nuts. They are so funny when they do this…they can’t take their eyes off him.

And Demps favorite sleeping position…balls to the sky. Head is back, arms spread wide. I don’t know how he does it.

Weirdo licking the fireplace rocks. He does this a few times a week and we can’t figure out why.

And looking through the railing down the stairs. He looks funny here because the loose skin around his neck is bunched around his face and his ears are flopping over. He usually looks like a gargoyle with a big grin and his ears back.

Sometimes he has such a strange sitting posture…kinda curled back onto the top of his ass, so he looks like a dirty old man. Legs spread, dick hanging out. I tell him to put it away but, just like a man, he doesn’t listen.

But he loves attention and is a great cuddler. Plus he has a cute tushy.

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I thought Lomee was going to poop a noodle last night when he looked down and saw this sitting on his arm:

He screeched and threw it into the floor while doing the freaked-out, shimmy dance and yelling at the dogs to “Get it! Get it!”. The dogs were looking at him like “No fuckin’ way.”

Guess who came to the rescue?  Me.   And a shoe.

There are some interesting critters that live around here.

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