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• I didn’t kill Bambi

  21Apr
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  Friday- after eight long hours at the bank, I went home, changed and started to make my 35 minute commute to The Red Barn. The busy night went surprisingly smooth with only one cook in the kitchen. For dinner I ate Bert’s famous, homemade Matz Ball soup with “no balls” aka chicken noodle soup. I left the restaurant around 11:45. I only got two miles down the road, and a large brown creature dashed in front of me. One slipped by, then number two- BOOM!

  the driver side head light- did not survive
  the left turning signal- no good
  the beautiful gray metallic bonnet with flashy black stripes- dented and scratched
  the front bumper and grill- cracked

  My parents arrived around 12 am, and the police arrived at 12:15. I didn’t get home until 1 am. All I can say is thank God for car insurance, and a $500 deductible. The next morning I looked worse than the deer- my eyes were all puffy and my head pounded. I spent my gorgeous Saturday afternoon sleeping off my MINI- deer hangover, but it was back to The Red Barn for another fun night of work.

  On the up-side… Sunday I went to “Heaven on earth” or Kimberly’s, a day at the Spa where I spent three hours being rubbed down with fancy oils and lotions. Heaven on Earth was the name of my spa package-

  “A truly heavenly experience that treats body and mind. We begin with a Kimberley’s Signature Facial. This is followed by a relaxing and therapeutic One Hour Swedish Massage, and the package is finished with a Kimberley Manicure. Sit back and enjoy.” Kimberly’s

  Yes- it felt amazing…. to live the life of the rich and famous, if only for a few hours, and it made me forget about my MINI until I had to drive it home….

• Squirrels squirrels squirrels

  14Apr
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  Less than a year ago we discovered cute fuzzy visitors on the back deck, but after a while they weren’t so cute anymore. They dug up our plants and ate the grill hose [twice]. Over the winter they proceeded to be even more of a nuisance, eating our wooden chairs, lattice, t-light candles…wax, metal and all, Christmas tree lights, and more…

  This spring we decided to be prepared. Our landlord, Dave, bought a squirrel trap, and within 24 hours we caught three! This morning I saw about four or five scurrying around, and it made me infuriated… I was ready to switch to poison. Sam assured me we could remove them unharmed, and so we have. At first I felt like we were just passing out free peanut butter because some how the squirrels were eating the old oily peanut butter and escaping; however, it appears the humans have out smarted the little beasts.

  Hopefully, this year we can be rodent free.

  P.S. When Dave dropped the trap off he said he was hoping to replace our inefficient turn of the century wooden windows with new ones! Good-bye squirrels…Good-bye high electric bill.

• sweet spring

  07Apr
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  It’s a perfect spring afternoon, and I’m wishing we could petition the professor to hold class outside. The pages would rattle as the breeze blew and tiny bugs would emerge from hibernation and crawl onto the pages. Students half listening to the lecture, counting the minutes before the bell would ring.

  But wait….those days are over, and I’m stuck in a stuffy office, starring at a computer screen, gazing outside at the blue sky and bare trees…counting the minutes before all three of my clocks happily strike 5 p.m.

  Oh to be a kid again….the days of skipping classes are over.

• Clutter bug free

  04Apr
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  It has been almost eight months since Sam and I started living together. [I just counted on my fingers, and now I'm thinking WOW--time flies.] Anyway, Sam and I are very much “clutter free” people. Sam with his attachment to sleek modern lines, and well I’m just a neat freak who sometimes feels claustrophobic. However, if you have ever been to our tiny downtown apartment, you would think otherwise.

  Recently, Sam and I did some early spring cleaning. In the process, we sold two bags full of Sam’s ancient college text books to Mary Jane’s Book Store, which we received more $140 bucks- oh wait- it was my new text books that we got money for…hehe. We also removed two book shelves that I had purchased during “Filenes- going out of business sale” at the mall. Last, but not least Sam finally convinced me to get rid of our oversized blue chair and ottoman, otherwise known as the “hair chair,” where Jasper sheds all his fur and Molly would sit to peer out the window- a couch that no human would sit on for fear of becoming a fur ball. So, where has all this furniture gone? The wonderfully spacious deck.

  In replace of our clutter- we made a faux dinning room- also Sam’s idea. I guess he was tired of our gourmet TV dinners.

  
  Before- we ate here

  
  After

  Now all we need is a house to spread out a little bit- someday.