I just met a number of truly incredible women, thanks to the Pioneer Woman’s sushi weekend giveaway.  I am in love with everyone I just met and it’s pretty lonesome now that I’ve been home from the Lodge for less than a day.  I’m a wimp!  I’m probably going to post up 36 entries about every little detail that I can remember, but Ree beat us all to the punch! Ree was twittering the whole weekend (click to go check ’em all out)… including of course the time when my mom smelled some bacon… and wondered aloud if perhaps her…

So I just happened to google ‘Bobosaurus’ just now, as someone had come here from said google search.  Well, it turns out that Bobosaurus has become an official kind of dinosaur, just in the past few years!  Isn’t that crazy??  Apparently it is a kind of plesiosaur, which is one of those water-dwelling brontosaurus looking creatures – http://www.plesiosauria.com/bobosaurus.html – how cool is that? Also, I found this t-shirt which I need to get immediately: http://www.cafepress.com/+bobosaurus_rex_kids_light_ts,160636806 Bobo is SO famous.  🙂

For Christmas, Lauren brought my mom over a lovely tea sampler from some posh English brand.  It contained several bags of eight different varieties, and was all nicely packaged into convenient little sleeves and placed gently into compartments.  All this effort on their part was for naught, because now that Bobo can reach up on the counters no tempting box can escape unscathed. Yeah, that was a fun way for me to start the day, trying to match up tea varieties…  And look at his innocent little face, as if he just stumbled upon these neatly arranged tea packets just…

Now I’m all for ice cream, I think it’s a great idea.  But… not so much in winter time, I’m already frigid enough as it is!  Bobo doesn’t feel the same way, apparently. He doesn’t even care that this is fake ice cream.  And let me tell you, it’s nasty.  I’m sorry for everyone who is on Weight Watchers and has to use this as a substitute for the real thing… because it’s gross.  I would so much rather eat nothing than eat pale, chemical-y imitations of yummy treats. After it started gooping all over into this weird clear yellow…

February 11th, 2010, 01:18 am Blessings I was just reading over all my old public entries (making sure all the personal stuff is on private now), which were all mostly before I started my ‘mommy blog’ over on Bobosaurus Wrangler, but slipped into reading some of the private ones. I just have to say, I can’t believe how different my life is now than two years ago. Some things you don’t think you can ever make it back from, but wow, my life is a million times better now than it would have been had I taken the other path.…

Have you ever seen anything so sweet and cute as a curled up little blue possum all snug in his nest?  Aww, wait, that’s just the Bobosaur in his polar bear pj’s… asleep in a little ball in his Christmas chair. Why is it that he can fall asleep in the oddest places in less than 3 seconds, but it takes him forever and a boatload of whining before he will take a nap in bed?   Pure preciousness.

As you may know, I’ve been hoping to find a full-time job since my last semester ended and I’m only taking a half-time course load this semester.  The tricky part is that I’m obviously not finished with my IT degree, but that’s the field I want a job in (British history is just not a bustling industry, sadly), more specifically working with Oracle (which is really hard to get into without experience).  So, yesterday I started casting my net a little wider, and applied to this company that my friend works for… and this morning I got a call back…

So… perhaps some of you Pioneer Woman readers happened upon this recent post in her cooking section?  If not, maybe take a moment to peruse it… she’s offering another one of her amazing Lodge-party contests with a make your own sushi twist… in February. http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2010/01/surf-and-turf-a-weekend-cooking-giveaway/ Yeah… I’M GOING!!!   I never win anything, I can’t believe my luck!!  I’m still waiting to figure out the details, so fingers crossed nothing falls through.  I couldn’t be more excited, though!!!!