Thanks for the Heads Up

Who knows what would have transpired
had that friendly statement been absent.

New York, New York

We got back from New York yesterday morning, in time to root our Bears on to victory. However, there must have been some confusion as to what was supposed to actually happen because the Colts came out and out-performed. Oh well, we can be glad for a fun season anyways.

So New York was fun and while it was cold it was not nearly as frigid as the Midwest currently is. Many thanks to all who allowed me to tag along with them while my honey was still back in Chicago.


A brief summary of accomplished items:

• Watie, as always awed me with his artistic prowess, and his show was quite wonderful
• Many museums were visited [including Dinosaurs, Picasso's and Vermeer's (Watie - I looked Vermeer up on the web and now really see what you mean about the girl in the same pose, by window, with table, etc. Crazy!)
  
• Central Park was rode and walked through
• Shoe sales were found (anyone know why all fancy shoe sales people are men?)
• Clay Aitkin was seen (reminded me of Shaggy in Scooby Doo)
• Stumbled upon the Empire State Building
  
• A good yet very bizarre musical was seen (Grey Gardens) and was quickly followed by a return trip to Broadway to see Mary Poppins (a show you can't help but want to smile, sing and dance to)

It's a great city with an impossible amount of things to see and do. I already have a list of new things to do for the next time I go back.

All Put Together

After much struggle on my part (emotionally and mentally - not physically. No way in hell was I going to be able to help move this 200+ pound beast), the elliptical has found its home.

Now there is no excuse in delaying this New Year's resolutions.


Well, except for my trip to NY tonight.

EEEK!

So I clearly jinxed myself the other day when I was filling out a survey. When asked what I was afraid of I wrote down three things: spiders, rodents and flying.

Now, flying I have come to tolerate. Although I still do occasionally cause all the blood to leave Drew's hand because I squeeze so hard. There has been no need for amputations...yet.

Now spiders suck. I know, I know, they are supposed to be good luck. But I find them gross and think they have at least four too many legs yet their webs are so indestructible I am almost in awe of them. But I haven't had any nasty run-ins with them lately and whenever I do, my personal super hero comes to my rescue.

But today while watching some mindless TV in the family room, I saw something out of the corner of my eye. And there scampering in my kitchen was a mouse. Now I may be biased, but the mouse looked BIG. So there I was paralyzed in my chair yet really needing to call Drew to tell him what I saw. So being the freak that I am, I climbed over furniture (chair to stool to island to another chair) in order to get to the phone without touching the floor. Clearly, I'm psycho because it's not as though this poor mouse is crouching around the corner just waiting for my toes to hit the ground so that it can pounce.

But it might have been. Hence the climbing.

You may be wondering where Caper was during all of this, after all he does have many cat-like tendencies and perhaps they include catching mice and depositing them at my feet (cross your fingers that this never happens because I would seriously lose my $%&! if it did). He was outside though so he missed all the excitement.

Anyways, the thing that bothers me the most about all of this is that there has been many times where I thought I had seen some sort of motion in the kitchen area but never actually saw something to confirm it. So have we had mice friends for months now?

Yikes! I'm freaking out.

Pretty Carpet

So here are some before and after pictures of the carpet.

No longer a good scratching tool, slippers are definitely now optional.