Dogs On Thursday

The insane people that I work for would like to get another dog, that I will love and care for and walk and miss when I am gone.... as if Kati weren't enough. So they are looking at adopting (at least they are doing part of it right) Sally. Sally is about 5 or 6 months old and is a German Shepherd hound mix -you all know my love for hounds :)


Isn't she precious! S went to look at her yesterday, and G is taking Kati and Little Ann to go see her today.. which means we are pretty much getting her. I can hear little Ann whining with soo much animation "but she's so cute! Can't we just bring her home!!!" And G will melt like she always does, and we will have 2 Puppies under the age of 1! (Although Kati's Birthday is coming up in August)...

So anyhow, its not official but I think we're getting another dog, a cute one, that is supposedly already potty trained... I think she's cute :)

:( Munchkin Monday

So guess what little dan decided to do today?!  He went to the bathroom and then came out and I said "did you go potty?"

"yea"

"did you flush?"

"no"

  So I went to go in with him and he said "Krystle, look!  Your phone!" all excitedly and was pointing into the toilet... and sure enough there was my phone in his pee in the toilet!  What was I to do but reach in grab it out and said "no tyler! What did you do"

"I just dropped it in!" (said with his little cute 'I did nothing smirk, that was definitely not cute at that moment)

 So I said "no" again

"oh, thats not good?"

"no thats not good...now my phone is broken"

"oh, I'm sorry krystle"

So now my phone is sitting on the counter and I have taken all the pieces out (battery etc.) and I'm really hoping that it will dry out bc the last thing I need right now is for my phone to be added to the list of dead things that I own!  

Ugh!

(and yes, I washed my hands)

Agh!

I never thought I was one of those people that couldn't do anything without their technology... but now I am realizing that the monster has been created.. and now its unleashed!!
I feel naked!
I arrived back in sunny Connecticut late on Sunday evening, and finally got an opportunity to call Gateway and Best Buy to try to recover my sadly dead computer. Last night I brought it into the Geek Squad and they said that it is either my keyboard that died or my hard drive, but either way its under warranty! (thank god!) So it will be back to my local Best Buy store in two weeks on average.. could be more, could be less... lets all hope for less!
The good news: I was able to purchase an external hard drive and back-up all of my pics, docs, and music!
The bad news: My computer is still broken, and I am finding myself lost without it....

What this means for anyone that might possibly still read my blog after the month+ long hiatus in my updating: I won't be able to get my pictures off of my broken camera, or update often (who am I kidding, I never updated that often to begin with) until I get my baby comes home. I may post some sort of an entry in about a week to give a brief update, which I will elaborate on with pictures and such when I can!

Until then... thanks for checking in!

Guest Blogger

The Princess is still alive and well - she's just vacationing with the Little on Block Island in the New Jersey Sound. Unfortunately, the day after she left her hard drive crashed. She gave me all of her super secret passwords and asked me to let everyone know that she is taking lots of pictures, composing blog posts in her head and as soon as she can either get her (not that old) computer fixed or replaced she will be back to regular posting - with photos even.

Meanwhile - please carry on enjoying the summer without her, but don't forget to check back as she will return.

Thank you - gmarie (otherwise known as "The Queen" or Mom)

Heat Wave!

Have you ever heard of such a thing as letting school out early because its sunny out?! Yesterday, and today Little Ann's school decided to take a half day because the temp was supposed to get up to between 95-104. They did this for schools all across CT.. I just thought it was so strange, although it does make since that the schools don't have adequate air conditioning and they don't want the kids to get fatigued, dehydrated, or have them passing out. So she came home at 1:45 and from then on we played in our little pool and the neighbors little pool all afternoon. This afternoon we are going to a pool party...
So at least if we are stuck in this hot hot heat, we have fun water activities to do to pass the time! :)

Happy Birthday!

Last week Little Dan turned 3!!! I baked him a cake (yellow double-layer cake with chocolate frosting and m&m's that spelled out "Happy birth day" on the top) and he got a handful of really cute gifts! It was a great day!!




P.S. I love being the Little's nanny! they are the awesomest! :)

Take a little Trip

Last weekend(or two weekends ago now) I had a three day weekend along with the majority of America. And along with 12% of America I took a road trip! I went to Delaware to my friend's family's beach house! It was so fun, quiet and relaxing!

Friday I drove down after work.. I got off work with an effort to make it there at a decent hour. Well the navi was set to allow ferry rides, which would have been totally fine, I love ferry rides! However, the ferries had closed by the time I reached them (only by half an hour too!!) And The ferry was going to take me from Cape May NJ across into Delaware, and then I would have only had about half an hour left of driving before I arrived. But since said ferry rides were close I had to drive all the way around the cursed Cape May!!! And yes I cried, and screamed and cursed to the heavens! I was pissed! I finally got back on course, re-fueled the vehicle, and proceeded to arrive at the Beach house at 1am Saturday morning! Once there I took a hot shower in one of the most amazing showers I have ever been in, and then I crashed on the incredibly comfy mattress, and slept until 10:30am!

Saturday was a lot better than Friday (obviously bc I didn't have to drive anywhere that the bitch navi could get me lost). So this gorgeous house! 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms (amazing showers-by the time I left, I had sampled them all!) 3 living room/sitting room areas, dining room and kitchen and it was all so adorably decorated! I started off the day with coffee and knitting while my friend slept until 2! The rest of the day was spent pretty much just hanging out watching movies, doing nothing (very relaxing to do nothing). For dinner I grilled some stuffed flank steaks (yum-o!) and tossed some lettuce into a bowl. It was a delicious meal. By 10:30pm I was exhausted again and went to bed by 11:30.

Sunday I had the same slow start.. Coffee and knitting. Then we took a walk, and then went to the grocery store, and doodled around town... apparently we were in Maryland for a moment so I could check that off my list as well. Then we went back and the friend cooked me shrimp alfredo for dinner again with salad.. then we watched more tv and movies and just relaxed until I was exhausted and went to bed.

Monday I was planning on leaving around 3 so I made brunch, and then packed and hung out for a while before heading out. All in all it was a good weekend.. very relaxing and just the break I needed!

Now let me tell you about the showers! There were two that were just outright amazing! One was about 6'x3' and on each of the 3' walls had a large shower head that was positioned directly above your head with all sorts of different settings that caused me to waste too much water while testing them all! The other one was an odd shaped shower, but still very fantastic! It was a trapezoid with the shower head in the center of the longest wall (which was also probably 6' and then the two short sides were 3' and then you can do the math for the forth wall... but according to the Pythagorean Theorem should also be about 3') and then there were two little sprayer nozzles below the main shower head going down vertically in the wall so you could have a light misty rain like shower, or a downpour! It was also very adjustable, and so fantastic! (The photo here is of one of the several built in water features in the development.)




And here is a lovely picture of the George Washington Bridge all lit up as I was driving across it on my way back home! I found the lighting very pretty :)
Sorry it has taken me soo long to update! But that was my exquisite weekend at the beach house! :)