May 2012
20 posts
Velkommen hjem!
Sometimes it’s difficult to tell hund who is happier to see who hund whom.
April 2012
15 posts
M'Birfdo!
One week ago today, I turned one year older.
Yes.
Thank you.
I decided a while ago that I refuse to peak. I don’t want my best days to have been m’high school glory days or m’college glory days or m’ early twenties - definitely not my late twenties (especially twenty-seven, that was one of the worst years of m’life, suck m’kiss, 27!), I just want to keep...
Birthday Pup + Presents
Jam packed! This week month is so jam packed! Lots to catch you up on but I’ll start with the most immediate, and let’s face it, probably the most important event of the month: Trond’s Second Birthday. Our hund is now two years old.
I cannot tell you the immense joy I felt when I was talking with my Dad a little over two years ago and he told me he knew there was to be a...
Gratulerer med dagen, Hund!
Our sweet dingus hund is two years old today! Happy Birthday, Captain Trond Kildahl Ryder! We love you sooooo much!
Air + Water
Man, I love flying. I love traveling. I love it. So much. I really do. I feel quite fortunate that for the past (almost) seven years, I have had a job that has taken me to nearly every state in these great United States of America, three continents, different bodies of water and just this week, Mexico - which was a first for me. I have gotten to a point in life where if I don’t fly on...
Emotions...
A lot of emotions today, friends. While Tim, Trond and I walked to the post office, we saw this very cathartic sidewalk-chalk statement made by ‘Lauren’ …
For some reason, I cannot get it to turn the right way but yes - Lauren hates the park, you guys. She hates it. She lavender-write-it-on-the-sidewalk-in-chalk hates it! Hope you can some day come to terms with this,...
Best Neighborhund Ever!
I love living in this neighborhood of Chicago! I have lived in various neighborhoods throughout my years in this city and this one takes the cake for a lot of reasons. The most current reason, this new neighbor:
He just moved into the porthole of the door of my favorite residence in this neighborhood - a former milk factory that has been converted into two residential homes - he greeted me...
Blow Dryers & Pick-Ups
I do not blow dry my hair all that often, friends. Even though I have fine, thin hair, it takes for freaking ever for it to fully dry and this girl (most days) don’t need it to be fully dry before I leave the house. I’ve got a low-maintenance ‘do these days. After living through the huge hair and bangs of the late ’80s - early ’90s, I feel I have put in enough time...
Puppy Romp!
We consider ourselves quite fortunate to be renters in Chicago with a fenced-in yard. I don’t know how people with hunds in the city manage having a dog without easy access to a yard, especially a fenced-in yard. We feel even MORE fortunate to share this yard with such lovely ladies. On Friday, my sweet neighbor Barbara was walking home as I was getting out of my car. We thought it...
Happy Easter! (God påske)
He is Risen! He is Risen Indeed! Happy Easter, Everyone!
Yesterday, Trond was quite taken with the window decorations of a neighborhood pre-school.
I mean, can you blame him?
I was quite taken with this. I mean, can you blame me?
Today, Tim and I sang in the Easter choir. It is a lot of fun for us to sing a cappella with such amazing voices. Not to brag, but our church has some...
Recharge
It is a really full week for us. It is a good week (Holy Week is probably my favorite of the year) but a lot of stuff is happening this week. Tonight, after work, I just needed to recharge a bit before heading out again to do a show. I stretched out on our bed - yes, it is unmade, I was up early and gone all day, Tim was busy all day and Trond - well, he’s a dingus who doesn’t know...
Doggies and Kitties in the Windows
With the weather being so much nicer lately, there are a lot of windows open in our neighborhood. The hund and I pass by quite a few of them. It is kind of funny to be minding our own business, simply enjoying a stroll together, then being startled by barking from a window. It doesn’t seem to phase the hund too much. He takes it in stride. He really is not much of a barker. But these...
Lost & Hund
I walked into the apartment after running some errands yesterday afternoon. One of the first things you see after climbing up the stairs to our apartment is our dining room table. It currently looks like this:
I then looked for the hund. I looked at his cushion, next to the dining room table. No hund.
I looked at the little couch. No hund.
I looked at the big couch. No hund.
I went...
SNOW?!!!???
The hund and I were walking this afternoon and can you believe that he found SNOW on the ground today? I mean look! :
Wait a second…
Is that really snow, Trond? You’re Norwegian, Trond. You should be able to tell if this is snow or not. Doooo yoooou reeeealllyyyy see...
