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Puppy by Demand

11 Mar

A colleague of S’s enjoyed the last video I posted of the gal pal and requested that I share more videos of her. Who am I not to comply?

This was taken in February 0f ‘08, the day after we had a huge snowstorm. You can see the pup loved bouncing around in it until she realized she was cold.

http://thestreetcarchronicles.com/media/pupinthesnow.flv

Dinners and Dogs

9 Mar

I’ve written about work more than I’ve meant to lately. How’s about some tales of fun nights spent with friends?

After two cancellations on our part, S and I were finally able to get together for dinner with our friends Christine and T. Both S and I had felt pretty bad that our stomach issues had resulted in our plans being postponed, especially since we wanted to celebrate Christine’s 29th birthday. This past Friday, we went out to a happening Sushi restaurant in our ‘hood.

S and I arrived at 7:30 and only two tables in the restaurant were occupied. Given a choice of seating, S and I elected to sit in the booth in the window. “Does this place ever get busy?” S asked me as we settled in to our seats. Not long after, we were joined by Christine and T.

Christine was as bubbly as ever as we chatted about what we’ve been up to the last few weeks. Christine is a regular reader of the blog so she came to dinner with a few questions for me regarding the breakfast with executives I had participated in earlier in the week. She and S exchanged stories of frustrating HR personnel at their respective companies and then I answered her questions about the breakfast initiative at the office.

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Let’s Play a Game

27 Feb

The nature of the game is essentially to fill in the next value in the series:

Monday: Liz’s mom gets sick with a stomach bug
Tuesday: Liz’s nephew gets sick with a stomach bug
Wednesday: Liz’s dad gets sick with a stomach bug. Also on Wednesday, Liz visits her parents’.
Thursday: Liz’s brother gets sick with a stomach bug.
Friday: Guess who got sick with a stomach bug?

sick lol cat

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Bootie-licious

18 Feb

A few weeks ago, S picked up some booties for the gal pal to wear on her walks. She wasn’t happy wearing them in the store and she really wasn’t happy wearing them in the days that followed. It really is something to be seen though, so I took some pictures of her in her booties and a video too. You can tell she is pissed at me; she wouldn’t even turn to look at me. Here she is plotting my demise:

cutest puppy ever wearing booties

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Chicken Soup, Minus the Chicken

17 Feb

S has had a rough couple of days. She felt pretty crappy for most of the weekend but Sunday through to yesterday was pretty bad. S rarely takes time off of work, but she was in no shape to go in yesterday so she stayed home. She didn’t know what the cause was, if it was a stomach bug or if she’d eaten something off. Regardless of the cause, she was not faring too well.

Hoping to help her feel better, I made chicken soup for dinner on Monday night. (It was a long weekend here due to the Family Day holiday.) S didn’t have very much of her soup since her stomach was too unsettled.

While I was at work yesterday, I wrote her on her Blackberry to ask her what she felt like having for dinner. I was up for making soup again; if not chicken, I could look up a different recipe to try. S said that soup was fine and she was okay with having chicken again.

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