Random people love to talk to me. I say I have a freak magnet and while not all the people who talk to me are freaks and unless they totally creep me out, I'll generally engage them in conversation for at least a few minutes.


Since Saturday, I've had 2 people just approach me to ask me about things and last night at Home Depot we got the life story of the sales clerk who helped us.

Admittedly we went and sought out the sales clerk and she was very nice but she practically gave us her life story as we were looking for something to cover our plants from the potential frost. We ended up with some burlap for the plants.

Just today while in CVS a young girl approached me and asked me about what I thought about a certain hair color product she had and was going to purchase. This is a busy CVS with loads of other shoppers in it.

We discussed said product and how I thought the color might be a bit light since she was dying only part of her very dark hair and that her skin coloring and that shade might not mix so well but if she wanted a dramatic effect, she would probably achieve it by choosing that shade.

On Saturday as my husband and I along with our dogs made our way over to the Farmers Market on Elmwood and Bidwell, a random guy approached us and asked all these kinda odd questions about the market.

He is from Buffalo but moved to Santa Monica and was visiting. We chatted a bit with him as he just seemed kinda stoned and not at all creepy. The dogs thought he smelled interesting too and they're usually a pretty good judge of character. :-)

We attended the Pet Blessing on Sunday afternoon. Thank you (e:drew) for blessing our greyhounds and one of our cats who happened to be with us. I think I should have asked you to please bless Hayley so that she will stop trying to eat bees. She has been stung a few times already this year but continues to try to eat them.

It's not that we just randomly travel with one of our two cats, Blackjack was on mouse hunting duty at my parents house and we were bringing her home. She was successful in her mission and my poor Mom can rest a little easier.

For those of you who live in the Elmwood area, please keep a lookout for a missing Italian Greyhound. The owner was at the Pet Blessing and she was just so terribly upset.

It's getting cold and Italian Greyhounds are thin skinned dogs who are very sensitive to the temps. He slipped his harness while out for a walk. Here is his information and contact information for the owner.


Missing since 10/03. Last seen at Cleveland & Elmwood.

Name: Colby but will also respond to his brothers name Tucker.

15 pounds, black/brown w/white face and white paws.

reward offered.

pls call 541-5311 or 840-2348 or 703-855-2981 with any info.

i am rarely downtown esp. during the workweek and there is a lot of construction activity. i'm sitting at spot coffee and watching the work being done on the old federal bldg. and some guy trying to park.

my trip was due to my damaged engagement ring. one of the prongs was totally bent out of place. our jeweler is located near delaware and chip.

i so love the people downtown. i swear i just saw a guy walking with a banana in his pocket.

Below are the heirloom tomato and pepper plants we planted this year. We had no idea what we were getting since they were not labeled.

They grew well and are very tasty



These are more regular variety tomatoes. These also grew nicely.



They're still growing and we're going make some greenhouses to go over the plants. They won't be pretty but it'll work.


Rosemary, basil and a jalapeno plant all growing side by side.


The beginning of the shade garden. I image it will be very nice in a couple years.

I hope I've done this right, it is my first post with pictures.

My small garden in the spring of 2007


My small garden as of today.


It was over run with Bishops Weed and I had to lay down landscape fabric and a thick layer of recycled rubber mulch. That stuff grew through everything else I tried. My tulips won't be able to come up but I'll plant some new bulbs in another area of my gardens.

We woke up this morning to the worst smell in our house and if I can smell it, it was bad. I have a terrible sense of smell. My poor husband has a very acute sense of smell, he was probably very happy to leave for school/work study this morning.

He promptly declared a skunk had sprayed in our yard and since our bedroom is in the back of the house that was the smell we woke up to.

He took our dogs out and carefully surveyed the backyard to see if the skunk was still around. Seriously, I do not need our dogs getting sprayed by a skunk. No skunk but lots of stink.

Turns out the neighbors dog got sprayed by the skunk! Our entire neighborhood reeked like skunk this morning. I'm also guessing if he didn't kill the skunk it may have run through our yards and continued to spray everywhere.

The neighbor who owns the dog is fairly crazy, nice but crazy. She was ranting up a storm to anyone who would listen and my poor husband was the chosen one this morning.

He came home and looked up online how to get the skunk smell out of dogs. He walked the information over to her as I was leaving.

Tomato juice does not work. A solution of dishwashing soap, peroxide and baking soda is the recommended solution for pets.

We might need to spray our yard with vinegar and dishwashing soap if the smell persists.

oh well just another day in N. Buffalo. LOL

This is a movie I probably would not have watched had it not been for our friends and neighbors calling us to invite us over to have a couple drinks and watch a movie.

What a fun night. I truly love the fact that our neighbors became our close friends and that we hang out with them a lot.

The movie of the night was The Love Guru and I almost peed my pants from laughing so much. What a totally silly funny non-thinking movie.

If you've ever watched Hockey Night in Canada, it will be even funnier.

Mariska Hargitay

It was a rare event for our household, we went to a professional sporting event. It's an expensive way to spend a day. It cost us roughly $150 to see the game, park and buy a couple non-alcoholic drinks and some popcorn.

My husband is an Oakland Raiders fan, he is an import from the west coast. The Raiders last played here in 2001 and that was the last time he was able to see his favorite team play in person. It was a worthwhile indulgence to go to the game.

I should have posted live form the game but I didn't think of it. I did some updates on Twitter and I'll see if I can get the photos from my smartphone to post here.

As usual, I'm a freak magnet and the strangest of the strange people around us wanted to talk to me.

Buffalo weather forecasters suck. There wasn't a word about rain in the forecast. I checked from the game while getting rained on and it still said sunny. I determined the weather by looking out the window and it was raining in N. Buffalo and figured it might also rain in OP so we grabbed rain gear before leaving the house.

I had to set foot in Wal-Mart too and realized I still hate that place and it killed me to spend any money in there but I need a seat cushion.

Ironically, wal-mart sells seat cushions that are not allowed in the stadium so good work there. They said they would be getting other seat cushions that were allowed but they are not in yet. Waiting for next football season?

A throw pillow worked just as well for the day.

The Bills really need a more efficient entry process. It took us over 30 minutes to get in the gates. Every man had to be frisked before entering, I was not frisked just asked to open my purse. It was very crazy and the dude was all over my husband and probably patted him down 3 or 4 times. His response was "I'm a Hispanic young male Raiders fan, I'm used to it" Just cause you're used to it, doesn't make it right.

WTF is with parking costs. $15 to $20 to park. We parked in some guys backyard that was next to the ECC lot that was charging $15 bucks, it was 1/2 that in the guys yard. It was the same distance to the game and we didn't have broken bottles or trash all around our car when we left. A better deal all the way around.

The game was good but I'll admit I spent a lot of time looking around with the binoculars at the crowd and not paying much attention to the game. I'm very casual about sports so I don't find it necessary to jump up and down or scream and yell. Plus, I have a very important meeting this afternoon and I need to have a voice.

The end was exciting and did get me out of my seat and hugged by the drunk lady a couple seats away.

I'm happy the Bills won but I was bummed for my hubby but he was just happy to have been able to go to the game. It was a great day and it was a great weekend in general.

I bought a used Moto Q and I'm not sure if I like it. The phone itself is in fine working condition and I had no problems activating it. I only plan on using it for a couple months to see if I like the whole smart phone thing.

I'm on Sprint and it's been a good long term relationship with only a few bumps in the road. I thought about getting an iPhone as I have an iPod Touch but I have a bit trouble with the keyboard interface. That involves the drama of switching everyone over to AT&T since we have a family plan on Sprint.

(e:springfaerie) you're right.

It felt good to post all the crap about my job. I just scheduled a meeting with a someone here who might be able to help me fix my current dissatisfaction.