Princess Lillian was born on February 26th, 1996. She was an early birthday present. I had been begging my parents for a dog for years, and one of my mom’s coworkers knew a breeder who had Labs. My dad made the mistake of telling me. I had a dream weeks before about a little black dog, no bigger than the palm of my hand. I knew we were destined to be together. She was the last of her brothers and sisters to be adopted. The first time I saw her she ran up to me and started licking my face. We took her home in a little cardboard box, in the backseat, between me and Grammy.

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Yes? Please? I do enjoy a little snow, but this is excessive. Most people like working from home, I don’t. Once in a while it’s fine, but being stuck inside for two days X( If Bryan wasn’t there and I didn’t have exercise equipment, I think I would go insane.

I did get work done. I haven’t been able to get my program to work for like the past three weeks and had no idea why. Suddenly, Friday, it started working. I don’t know what I did, but I’m relieved I don’t have to worry about it anymore. Ruben insisted we load the classes dynamically. I told him it would be a pain in the butt, but I got it done in time and now everyone’s happy so I guess it worked out. I designed and coded the whole thing almost all by myself. Aren’t you proud?

Went shopping with Rachie on Saturday. Just bought some face soap. Time to save! Looking forward to buying furniture over the next few months :D I like decorating. I love these living room sets: this set, or this set, with the swizel chair. And dining room. Looking forward to taking a few trips to Ikea <3 Hope to hear back about our offer today.

Tomorrow’s going to be crazy. I have meetings/interviews all day from 9:30-5 with an hour for lunch. Then I rush home, exercise, shower and run off to choir rehearsal.

I cut my hair. I couldn’t take it anymore. It looked terrible. Shorter hair is so much easier.

Friday we had Maryam’s baby shower. We ruined the surprise at the meeting the day before. We forgot she was on the call and started talking about it. Guanjone muted the phone, but it was a little too late. ‘Course Danny and Kevin spilled the beans a bit the day of, so it wouldn’t have been much of a surprise anyway. Though if she didn’t know, we may not have been able to get her to come. We went to the Mexican place, good food, gave her presies, she liked. Now I’ll be all alone for two months :(

Yesterday we went to Medieval Times for Helen’s birthday. I thought the food was actually pretty good. After we went to Helen’s and she made her yummy spinach and artichoke dip :D And Emily made very yummy cake too :D We watched Blind Fists of Bruce which was actually pretty funny.

We looked at houses again today. We think we know which one we’re going to put an offer on.

I have never had a good valentines day and the trend continues. I went to pick up the pictures at the photographer’s apartment yesterday. When I left, he warned me to be careful of the ice. I saw the ice and quckly thought to myself, ok, I must carefully walk over this. I was being careful, I think I thought I was through the worst part, I took another step, slipped, lost my balance and down I went.

It fucking hurt! My poor, poor ass! I was sitting there screaming for a few minutes, but quickly concluded no one could hear me. I got myself up and went back to the photog’s apartment. They were very nice, gave me some Tylenol. Asked if I broke anything. That’s when I realized my wrist hurt. Yeah, pretty sure I sprained it. Didn’t notice with the overwhelming pain in my backside. Marco walked me back to my car. I cried the whole drive back home. I felt better after about 20 minutes or so.

Thinking back, I shouldn’t have warn my sneakers. They’re old, they have no traction anymore. I would have been better off in my boots with the heal.

Ah well, I have pictures! Not all, but many are up on facebook and here.

We went to look at houses, everyone carefully walking me over icy patches. Found our dream house, but it’s a little out of our price range. Hopefully we can get them to go lower. The other house we liked, the people aren’t selling anymore because their house isn’t worth what they think it should be worth. They’re going to wait until the market recovers. They might be waiting a long time. –edit– It’s back on the market for less! Woo hoo! –/edit– Hopefully these other people are more flexible though I’m doubtful since it’s been on the market a while.

Thank God I can type with one hand! Yeah for not typing like a normal person! Little harder than with two hands, but it’s not so bad. My right arm’s getting a little tired though, so, um, the end :)

Our photographer said our pictures will be ready today. Squee! Just need to pick them up.

So, it snowed here. A couple times. Quite a bit. We were stuck inside Saturday and Wednesday. Spent a good part yesterday morning digging our cars out. One of our nice neighbors lent us his shovel :) We should buy one of those.

I went to work in the afternoon even though I didn’t have to. I hate being stuck at home. There were actually some people in the office, not many, but some.

I’m sore today from shoveling. Not my back, nope, my forearms and my hands. From my fingers to my elbow. I guess I don’t use those muscles often. My abs hurt a little too, though that may be from yoga on Wednesday.

Mostly due to the weather, we haven’t sent out the Thank You cards yet. Definitely tomorrow!

We’re going back to look at more places in Sayreville tomorrow. Woodbridge didn’t really work out. Most of the houses are old and need a lot of work. I was freaking out about Sayreville because google maps was telling me that to get from my work to there via the parkway, I had to go past Sayreville by like 5 exits and come back down route 9, which would be way out of my way. It turns out google maps has a little bug because if you drag the starting point down about a quarter of a mile south, suddenly an exit appears for Sayreville on the parkway. I was happy again.