that's about right!

judging from what i saw in the yard last night and then again this morning. i'd say we're crested at the house. Henry crested yesterday. of course i don't have any pics cuz i'm lazy. sorry. can't seem to do much about that lately.

the truth is i'm too busy playing The Blob - that game is gonna give me an aneurysm and quite possibly a divorce!

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who doesn't love a big gun in the pants?

i've been giggling at this most of the day. and usually i don't keep spam emails. just dump them directly from my spam folder. but i saw this one and decided i had to keep it. i've also decided in the last month or so, that that's the job i want. the person who makes up the subject lines for spam email! what a job! right up there with the guy who calibrates the waterfall of icing at Krispy Kreme.

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helping you work smarter, not harder

for those who don't want to, or can't, visit the River Guages site (cuz of your oppressive IT people!), here's a screen shot of the prediction since yesterday. nothing's changed.

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it's only fitting

so yes, we are going to leave 2008 much the same way we spent most of it....flooded. for those that like to track it, here's the link for Henry and here's the link for Peoria guages. i like to go by Henry cuz by the time it's at Peoria, well, it's passed us by. but Nacho's catch phrase this week is "24 in the door" and i believe he's using Peoria gauges for that. so we should be okay. it's quite possible we'll have water around the house (and if we're "lucky" it will freeze and become the new hockey rink), but we don't think we'll have it in the garage. i hope he's right since we'll be gone New Year's. we'll leave you a bucket Jordan!

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baby it's cold outside

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horror scope

and this is different from any other day when BP won't leave me alone! Angie reign that man in will ya?
Someone will be giving you an awful lot of attention today, but you might not be comfortable with it. If so, your best tactic is to try to ignore them. You can't try to fake it, but there is also no need to hurt their feelings or embarrass them with overcomplicated apologies. Instead, just carry on with normal relations and sooner or later they will get the picture that you aren't interested. Then they will likely give up and move on to someone else.

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tradition

another year and another puzzle. figuratively and literally. this past weekend was our Christmas Tradition weekend. cue the music, open the wine, and break out the puzzle. this is actually the first year we finished the whole thing. as in, the first year the Monsters didn't eat a pice or 2. they did however destroy the box, and possibly, the original puzzle i bought for this year while we were in Beaver Creek. since we managed to finish the replacement puzzle super early, we're taking the remaining pieces of the 1st puzzle and working on it the next 3 nights. we'll see how much of that is left!

oh, and in answer to some questions i've gotten about this:
- we typically do this during the "12 days of Christmas"
- when we're done, we take the puzzle to Goodwill or offer to a kid's school if we know someone that wants it
- no tv, phone, etc. just Christmas music the entire time. suffice it to say, we have a healthy disdain of Wham UK's Last Christmas. and we have an awesome nacho-ized version of it!
- average wine consumption = 4 bottles (not all in one night people)

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Happy Winter Solstice!

i've never understood the disappointment that surrounds the shortest day of the year or the excitement for the longest. but nacho is all about both of those. as the summer solstice approaches i get to hear all about how crappy it is that "the days are getting shorter from here on out." and then today, hooray! "the days are getting longer now!" like somehow you've been cheated and then you won it all back! i just don't get it. well, in summer we have a tradition for the solstice. we take the day (or at least half of it) and just me and nacho hit the river to ski as late as we can. my favorite was last year when we skied until about 930p. we got robbed this year due to bad weather. but what do ya do for the winter solstice? never thought about that before. we don't have an activity. i guess sleep in. but then again i celebrate that every Fri, Sat and Sun. guess i'll need a different tradition for the winter solstice. well, happy longer days people!

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i don't know what to say about this!

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indeed it was Epic!

Cold nachos!

Larkspur lift.

and only in CO can TJ wear his house robbing gear and not get stopped! the least you could do is shave fro boy!

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