Wednesday, 05 November 2008

• blur of blurbs

  Thanks for everyone's encouragement.  Work has been much better this past week!  I think it's going to pick back up again next week - but I think God heard my cries and provided me a little time to recoup and rest.
  
  Anyway, onto my blur or blurbs....
  
  My weird kitty Tarzan who likes to sleep on his back.  What a nut.
  
  

   
  
  

  
  I love my new coffee mug.  We brew DD coffee every morning and I drink it on my drive to work (one of the favorite parts of my day).  I recently bought a new coffee mug at Target.  Less than a week later, I heard some rattling inside and realized that a piece must have broken inside the shell.  The tag says "lifetime warranty" - so I called the manufactor's customer service line and explained what was wrong.  No questions, no hassle - they just shipped me a new mug!  I didn't even need to return the defective one.  It's not really even defective - still works fine, just has the annoying rattle when it's empty.  So now I have two mugs!  Great customer service and great mug - I highly recommend this if you're in the market for a new mug.
  

  
  
  

  The North Carolina State Fair is held in Raleigh every October.  We went one evening with Bret and Rachel Horton and had a blast pigging out and looking at weird animals and abnormally ginormous produce.  Here's a list of the food we ate:  Corn on the cob, Italian Sausage, French Fries, Funnel Cake, Foot-long Corn Dog, Ice Cream, and Caramel Apple.  Ooooh-weeee!  Only at the State Fair can you indulge in such gluttony and not feel too guilty (cause the masses all around you are doing the same thing!)
  
  

  
  
   
  
  

  
  We had a sleepover with the Ickes a couple weekends ago.  They came out to Durham and stayed over our house :)  In the morning we made a big breakfast to celebrate Jane's birthday (happy birthday again!)  After stuffing ourselves, we took a short hike through a nature trial in our neighborhood.  The fall colors and nice weather (not to mention the awesome company) made for one nice hike.
  
  

  
  
  

  
  Early birds.  There have been a few weekends where Bobby and I have got up early and enjoyed some early morning relaxation with our coffee and our cats.
  

  
   
  
  
  

  Last Saturday we did some yard work.  Well...Bobby did some yard work, and I helped as best as I could.  We got into a little tiff...but that's for another day's entry.  At the end we were all good, and our yard looked great.
  
  

  
  
  
  

  "Did Lois and Bobby get a pickup truck now that they live in the South?" - you may have wondered from the picture above.  The answer is No, although I can see how useful they can be.  Won-Jung and Davin were nice enough to lend us their truck.  We returned the truck later that day and stayed to hang out and have an awesome dinner of burgers and beer.  I feel bad b/c I was so busy taking pictures of the food that I forgot to take pictures of our friends!  Hmm, well, you can kind of see Zoe behind the apple pie.  Oh, and that's Davin's hands in the picture, too.
  
  

  
  
  
  

  Wow, and if you made it this far, thanks for reading my blurbs!  Here's your reward - a picture of the pumpkin Bobby carved this year for Halloween sitting on our front porch.  Am I wrong when I say that you can't help but smile when you look at this picture?!?
  
  

  
  
  
  
  

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