Monthly Archive: August 2006

04
Aug
2006

TAKE A BOW WOW!

Meet our houseguest! This is Chimay (pronounced “shim-ay”) who was named after a Belgian beer. He’s the sweetest, calmest, prettiest cocker spaniel I have ever met, and he’s all ours until next Wednesday! Mikael and Lene dropped him off this evening after giving us a crash course in Having a Dog 101 (including the fine art of picking up dog poo in a little black bag without having to come in actual contact with it). He was a bit confused when his humans and his brother Eddie shut the door in his face and left him here, but he seems...

03
Aug
2006

POETRY THURSDAY

I love sleeping in. In fact, ‘love’ is really not a strong enough word for the pleasure I derive from simply not having to get out of bed on any given morning. You can judge my enthusiasm for my job by the fact that I prefer to get up early each weekday morning to go do it rather than turning over, slapping the off button on the alarm with a flailing hand and burrowing back into my pillow. I’m not a morning person by any stretch of the imagination, but I do believe in starting off each day on the...

02
Aug
2006

JUST A LITTLE LIST

lots done and lots to do, with some glowing praise sprinkled over it, at work being forced to go shoe shopping because my little black suede slippers finally came apart at the seams and realizing that all the shoe stores in town are having half-off sales! DOUBLE SCORE! Excellent sushi for dinner (despite the overly long wait) with a gaggle of girlfriends getting to read a very well-written paper about Pettson & Findus book translations by one of the Mosaic Minds staff members drooling over this lovely gallery of travel posters, which makes me want to plan another trip still...