Most days you can find me not here. ha. Obviously.  I’m thinking about moving domains.  maybe back to highlymoody even.  Not sure.  But I’d like to use on of my upcoming Tastee Themes  for my blog, but I need to get that site up and running first. 

You can always find me on twitter and facebook.  And as I mentioned I am over at Tree Hugging Pets (though not as often as I would like this past month but trying to change that) blogging about all the kids.

It makes me sad when I see couples that I have known for a really long time choose to get a divorce.  It is a choice, right?  You could choose to stay together, though I guess if one person doesn’t want to stay together, what choice does the other have?  I don’t know.  It’s not simple.

We (Sean and I) are not getting a divorce, lest you think this little post was about that.  Though we were discussing how much “simpler” (that’s really not the right word) it would be to separate our lives, if we were wealthy. For example, if I wanted, I could stay in this house.  While I might not be able to run it, I could just hire someone to do the yards.  Another to clean the inside.  Perhaps a personal assistant or two who could go to the store for me, walk the dogs, etc.  I couldn’t do all of that by myself and Sean couldn’t either.  That is not however a reason to stay married either.  It’s not really anything, it was just morning banter over coffee.  We talk about some weird shit sometimes. 

I was telling Sean that I really wonder about couples who choose to get divorced after 15 years, 20 years, 30 years of marriage.  What made them stay for so long to begin with? Was it ever good? Did you think it would get better, that you could change her?  Did you plan on making him the man you wanted and not the man he was?  Did you communicate openly and honestly about what you were needing vs. what you were getting?  Did you make time for one another?  Did you hug often and say you were sorry after a fight?  Did they do everything they could to make it work?  Maybe those are just questions I think about because my parents divorced after 17 years. 

I’m thankful every.single.day to be married to Sean.  I know it’s only been 4 years, but we have been together for over 11. He is the first person I want to talk to in the morning and the last one I want to talk to at night.  We have bad days, we fight but those are just moments.  And we have so many more moments that are truly wonderful.  Why did I get “lucky”?  Or is it something else?  Is it part luck and part work?  Do people who get divorced not work as hard?  I don’t know if I buy that.

Anyway, I have no real point or direction here, except to convey what I wrote in the first line: It makes me sad

Do you ever get so far behind on something that the mere thought of trying to catch up is too daunting to even think about.  That’s me and Google Reader.  I’ve had over 1000 (that’s the highest Google Reader will count) new items that I never read.  It’s clearly been a long time since I’ve read many feeds.  These days I get a lot of my info from Twitter. 

Well today I decided to purge and start fresh.  I marked all feeds read and I’ve started to go through and unsubscribe to sites that are no longer active or just no longer keep my interest.  Hopefully this will help me to keep on top of new articles of interest.  I think I’ll mark all as read at the start of each week.  It’s like clearing off your To-Do list or something.  Give it a try!

I signed up for FriendFeed a long time ago.  It was one of those things I heard about and then signed up and then managed to quickly forget about.  However this morning I wake up to a dozen new subscribers.  How did that happen?  It’s weird that all of a sudden people are finding my account when I never link to it or share it with anyone, since ya know, I totally forgot about it.  Has this happened to anyone else?  Is there some place I can see where other people are on FriendFeed? 

Last year I had this plan to start a new website.  Last year.  I finally just decided (thanks to Joelle) to put the damn thing up and work on it over time, instead of doing some jolly big site from the get-go.  So it’s not perfect.  And there isn’t a lot of content…yet.  But it’s a start and I’m going to be okay with the fact that I put something out there that isn’t just right.

Tree Hugging Pets is hopefully, one day very soon, going to be an all-in-one spot for information and news relating to healthy, all natural pet products.  If you are into that sorta thing, check it out and come back again soon, because it will eventually be fabulous!

About a week or two ago, I came across THE BEST WEBSITE EVER.  You all probably already know about it and I’m just behind.  However, in case one of you hasn’t seen it, it is….Food Gawker and it truly inspires me. And makes my mouth water! 

I have visions of creating such beautiful food. 

The video below is just a very short clip of Dewey during one of our *fun* working sessions.  I think the crawling is pretty funny and wanted to share the funny with you

I could make myself crazy trying to figure out what veggies should go where in my garden.  Of course I want the best possible veggies I can get and at the same time, I’m really new to vegetable gardening.  I had no idea that you shouldn’t plant summer squash near potatoes.  Or that you should not follow peppers with tomatoes, eggplant or potatoes. Last year I sort just went out there and planted what I wanted where I wanted, when I wanted.  I had veggies, yet.  But could they have been better?  Could I have gotten a larger crop?  We’ll never know I guess. 

This is the sort of thing that will cause me to lose sleep at night.  Not 8 hours of sleep, but maybe 30 minutes while my brain envisions pole beans overtaking my broccoli. So, in preparing for this season’s garden, I’ve been trying very hard to make sure every little veggie is near a great fellow veggie companion. On top of that, I’ve tried to rotate crops efficiently.  Some folks will tell you it really doesn’t matter.  Maybe that’s true.  Or maybe it’s NOT!  You decide.

I created a quick veggie reference guide to help me out (OH YES I DID!).  Feel free to download it and use it for your own veggie garden.