such a dork

for those of you keeping up, you might realize the url changed for the blog. that's because i let my shoelessruth domain expire last week without realizing. i've been updating the blog and last night it gave me a crazy error. luckily i figured out the problem and i just filled out the thing to renew it. hopefully no one has been waiting around to buy it from me.

if they do, what domain should i buy?

pennsylvania hills + new bike = sucking wind

i persuaded kelvin to buy bikes this past weekend. i've been wanting one since last spring and I finally got my way-- what was i thinking? these pennsylvania hills are killer.

fuzzy cat

hariett hates me. i've been getting these nasty furry knots out of the fur on her hips. at one point saturday i was holding her and using kelvin's micro-touch on her while kelvin was trying to talk her into not biting my face off. it worked. and then i've combed the smaller ones out. she's knot free now; we'll see how long that lasts.

miracles never cease

three days in a row. i'm not even sure anyone comes to read anymore since i'm pathetic and fall off the wagon so often. my goal is to blog all summer-- we'll see if that's too lofty or not.

i'm actually sitting on the back porch drinking one of kelvin's smirnoff things in the "ice" flavor he doesn't care for. i however, find it extremely refreshing. i have the dog on his run and he has it stretched to its fullest so he can snif the air for the faint smell of rabbit (smart dog doesn't see the one about 10 feet from him in the other direction). and hariett is perched at the back door sniffing out through the screen and trying to catch an odd looking bug that's crawling up on the outside. it's a rough tuesday night at the bentley household.

k actually works longer days in summer so he can be off on Fridays. i'm jealous but on the other hand it's nice for him to have fridays off alone. he can cut the grass or sleep in or play video games or work as he most commonly does on nights and weekends. it'll be interesting to see how he uses this, his first friday of the summer off. me, i'll be in an all day "retreat" for work. oh what i wouldn't give to have my summers back.

cranky monday

i remember now that the problem with having a fun weekend is trying to snap back to reality come monday. luckily i had three appointments with people i really like to work with, and i listened to an educause webinar.

something else happened today that makes me realize i need to find some new local friends who are in no way linked to work or people at work for that matter. i just want a friend who doesn't care that i like cheezy, non-intellectual movies and is willing to watch ridiculous reality show and listen to top 20s stations. basically, i wish i could move my friend S. here. i'm sad i missed her birthday this weekend and that i haven't seen her in almost a year. being an adult sometimes really sucks.

Summer beginning

kelvin and i just had our first summer party last night, and for some reason that seems to feel like summer is really beginning. i love that our parties seem to have a special guest stars attend-- it's always wonderful to have our local friends over, but we also feel so blessed to have friends who will travel from New York, Boston, and Alexandria Virginia. This parties special guest starts were Kelvin's friend Paul Snatchko from his NCSC days and his friend Erika and her husband Rob.