Billy Currington at The Cabooze. Fantastic night for an outdoor show!

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Everyone is enjoying the beautiful weather today!

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Cubicle Misery

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Here comes the rain

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Not Retired

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Retirement Strategy

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Rare sighting of a golden retriever in his natural habitat.

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Living the Golden life.

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Kenny Chesney in the House!

Last minute tickets - AWESOME show - STOOPID beer prices.

Dorie, our POS GPS, is a hostage taker and travel terrorist!

If there is a long not so scenic route, she will find it.  If there is a particularly bad neighborhood we should avoid, she will make sure we drive through it at 2AM.  When she estimates the time of arrival for a long trip she assumes that there will be no stop lights, no traffic, and we'll drive 15 to 20 miles faster than legally allowed without getting stopped by the law.

Dorie has got to go!

Moose! But in a zoo

I'm pretty sure this doesn't technically count as a moose sighting.

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Why I need vacation to get here sooner.

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Seriously?!? Gotta love it when people get inpatient and just pull out in front of you and block the whole damn intersection.

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My new bestest friend

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I sound like I've rented my sinus cavity to an elephant & they have taken up residency. I'm fairly certain that I have blown at least 10 pounds out of my nose, but the scale does not reflect this.  My garbage cans are all filled with tissues.... might want to buy stock in my preferred brand if you can (it's the common name for tissue by the way). I had to stop using the lotion tissues for fear that all that lotion was building up.

BUT!  I'm not taking any medicine today because it is Friday and I will be damned if stupid allergies are going to ruin my happy hour!

Just don't let me leave without my box of tissues.  And, no, one of those convenient travel packs is not enough.

Take That Minnesota!

Even though it is only 57 degrees outside I am wearing sandals & have bubble gum pink toes to show off.  This is a form of cold weather protest.

Minnesota may have gotten the message because I heard them mention that we could see 90 degrees next week.... might have to go bare foot for that!

Sounds of summer

The familiar song of the neighborhood ice cream truck. My husband yelling "ice cream man" and running out of the house with his wallet. Leaving his faithful companion whining at the door because he didnt get to choose a treat too.

Coincidence?

Someone must have been playing Lambchop today, since he had both of them out laying side by side on his bed in the office.  What is wondrous is that this well loved furry family member didn't know what to do with toys when he first arrived on the scene in our house nearly 2 years old - almost 2 years ago to the date.

He's learned a lot.  Now if I could just teach him to fetch me a beer we'd be good.

Legendary

Friday morning a good friend sent me and email to let me know that a favorite legend of ours had passed away. For a long time I pondered addressing death on a Friday, a day I usually dedicate to Happy Hour (but ironically did not last Friday in lieu of my thoughts on parenting through a national media circus of horror).  

Instead I chose to post about spring, a nod to hope, rebirth, a cleansing....

It's been a tough month, filled with sickness, doctors visits, tests, surgery, bad news, funerals, discord at work, and reminders of betrayal.  Every life has it's challenges and it seems as though this is a time when I am supposed to face some serious challenges.... 

But, I have had good news, I have a fantastic husband, wonderful children, a supportive group of friends I know I can count on in times of need and in the grand scheme of things I am blessed.  I also occasionally go out and find a good time... almost every week.

Which brings me full circle here... George Jones passed away last Friday at the age of 81.  



George lived a life of challenges too.....

There have been many weekends where George Jones was a "featured artist" in our self managed juke boxes; and, although we didn't know him personally and certainly aren't going to stop playing his music, we're going to miss dreaming of seeing him perform.

I love this brief vlog post from Keith Urban to the Legend

What the hell?

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Snow, Thunder and Lightning. Awesome commute! She says sarcastically.

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