Daily Pug Picture

Tank was featured in the Daily Pug Picture e-mail that is sent out to all those who are signed up for the Owned By Pugs website. 
Go here to see his picture and bio!

Do it

My lovely, talented sister has created a website where you can purchase handmade items that she has made herself.  They are mostly for little girls and boys, but some of the items (headbands, bows) can be worn by adults as well.  And heck, maybe even the bibs can be worn by adults  :)
So check it out here.

Room Block

I have officially reserved the room block for the wedding at the Suncoast Hotel & Casino!!
Check out the wedding website to get the reservation ID to make reservations!
Click here

My one-armed chair

For the past few months I thought that someone had been moving my chair up when I leave. When I would come in to work in the morning I would sit down and I could tell my chair had been moved because the arm would hit a piece of metal under the desk.  Eventually this metal piece started to rip my chair arm apart. 
I thought I could cover it with some tape... Obviously this was a bad idea and the tape came off.  Plus, it looked pretty ghetto.  Well the arm kept getting worse by the day and was looking very trashy.  People would make comments about the chair, such as "are you eating your chair arm?".  Yes people, I'm eating the arm on my chair.  Idiots.  Anyway, I decided that it would be less trashy to remove the arm and just have a sad little one-armed chair.  And that's what I did.  Nobody even noticed that I removed the arm.  But I have noticed several times when I go to lean on the arm that isn't there and almost fall out of my chair.
As it turns out, there was not a person moving my chair everyday like I had thought.  It is broken and moves up on it's own. :)

Road trip to South Bend

James and I took a little road trip to South Bend/Chicago a couple weeks ago to see Utah get spanked by Notre Dame.  It wasn't really the outcome I was looking for, but that's what happened. 

Thursday was Veteran's Day and since James is a veteran we took advantage of a free night's stay at a Bed & Breakfast on Wednesday night in Newfane, about a half hour from our house.  We left from there Thursday morning and headed to Elkhart, IN, about 45 minutes from South Bend.  We spent the night there in a classy Holiday Inn Express.  (I'm being sarcastic here)  Friday morning we headed off to Chicago to visit the Frank Lloyd Wright house and then pick up my parents from the airport.  They also got to witness the horrible Utah loss. 

Friday night we went out on the town to a restaurant called Timothy O'Toole's, who serves delicious food.  After dinner we went to a sports bar called Mother Hubbards on Hubbard Street.  How clever...  This place was amazing.  There were so many Utah fans in there and we were all cheering for the Jazz so they turned down the music and for the last quarter of the game they turned up the sound on the Jazz game.  Luckily the Jazz won.  They also had these sports trivia games we played.  They had a list of all the team names in the league (football, basketball, baseball or hockey), but they were in "code" and you had to decipher which team was which.  We obviously won all four and they gave us Mother Hubbard towels.  But I'm not sure what I will use them for. 

Saturday was the big day.  We had to be to the Marriott by 6:30am to catch the bus with the Crimson Club.  They had 9 buses full of Ute fans all heading to the game, not to mention the fans that were just driving themselves from Chicago.  When we got to South Bend there was a tailgate party waiting for us.  There was awesome food and I also was a bit of a klepto and stole some nice souvenirs.  After this it went downhill.  We were harassed as we walked around with the usual comments about having seven wives and being polygamous, as well as getting our butt's kicked inside the stadium.  All in all it was a fun day because of the fun we had with my parents, but a win would have made it better.   We headed back to Chicago Saturday night with the Crimson Club, only to wake up Sunday morning and make the 10 hour trek back to Buffalo. 

Memorable moments from the trip:

- James saying he didn't like my ipod playlist but singing to every song that came on.

- Getting glares from everyone while wearing my Utah shirt/hoodie.

- The HUGE spider in our hotel room in Elkhart, which then made me start screaming and jumping on the bed.

- Sonic in Parma, OH.

- Mad Anthony's in Elkhart.  Except for the shot of spicy bloody mary vodka that gave me heart burn for 2 days.

- Going to the Frank Lloyd Wright house in Oak Park, IL.  I'm a nerd, I know.

- Seeing other Ute fans in Chicago and just being able to shout out GO UTES!

- Seeing many familiar faces at the game.

- Spending quality time with my dad and Elizabeth :)

- The guy at the gas station in Indiana who on the way home said he wished we would have won.  It made me feel a little better.

The bed & breakfast

SONIC!

The Frank Lloyd Wright house

Chicago

The bus to South Bend



I took way more pictures than this!  To see all of them, watch the slide show :)



One good thing about living in the Northeast...

is the abundance of trees and the colors they turn in the fall.  It makes the cool weather of fall a bit more enjoyable to look at all the pretty colors of the leaves.  I took this picture last week, it doesn't do justice to the colors.  But now that it's gotten colder, many of the colorful leaves have fallen off the trees.  This is the time of year when I start my countdown until summer.

Update

I have updated the Travel Arrangements part of our wedding website. 

Check it out!

A visit from some of my favs

My cousin, Christopher, called me a couple months ago to see if he and my uncle Ken could come to Buffalo and stay with us because they wanted to go to the Gordon Lightfoot concert.  For those who are less musically savvy, Gordon Lightfoot is a 70's folk singer.  But I only know who he is because my uncle Ken would play his music all the time when we were younger.  So Friday they flew in (after a delayed flight, a diversion to Philadelphia, and a long wait on a tarmac) and arrived about 12:30pm.  We headed off to John's for a delicious sub for lunch.  They then went to dinner at one of my favorite restaurants, Encore.  It's the hot spot before all the concerts at Shea's.  We went to a wedding that night and after we met back up at home. 

Saturday was packed full.  First we went to the Darwin Martin House, which is a house designed by the famed Frank Lloyd Wright.  We went on the in-depth tour, but unfortunately we were not able to go in the main house because they are removing the asbestos in the walls.  Then we were off to lunch at the Anchor Bar, the original home of the Buffalo Wings.  This is where the wings were first invented many, many years ago.  They aren't the best wings in town, but it's a place you have to visit when you come to town.  After lunch we headed to Niagara Falls.  We rode the Maid of the Mist, walked around and enjoyed some fantastic people watching. 

The next day we woke up early to tailgate for the Bills game.  Once again, the tailgate was a lot more fun than the actual game, even if it was rainy and cold the entire time.  Monday, I dropped Chris and Ken off at the airport in the early am.  I love when visitors come to my house, it is so much fun.  So anyone out there reading this, come visit me!

To see all the pictures click here.

Pooped Pooch

At Tank's new daycare, Fisher's Friends, they are having a "Pooped Pooch" contest.  You send in a picture of your tired out dog after a day at daycare and they will decide which one is the best and that dog receives a free day of daycare.  Tank needs daycare whenever possible just to tire the little meatball out so he's not such a jerk all the time.  I entered in two pictures so we have twice the odds of winning.

Plant update:

It is still alive!!