Nicole Tasker Woods

Cali has been just wonderful when we leave her alone in the house to roam free, sleep on the couch, cuddle in the bed covers or eat her food, whatever she pleases. We stopped putting her in the crate about a month ago and so far, no horrifying incidents, so we did what we never thought we could ever do: we broke down the crate and are now storing it in the garage. Cali threw a party the day we did this, she was thrilled to see that thing put away.

We did some furniture hunting for a piece that would fit in the spot where the desk was positioned. It was an ancient piece of press-board furniture the sellers left for us and now, it just had to go. Ryan borrowed some hand saws from his dad’s garage and we broke it down one Friday night after work. After multiple late-night trips to Cal Lu’s dumpster, we eradicated all traces of the desk.

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I have very vivid dreams. I have discussed this before. Last night I dreamed about a murderer who was killing random people that his female accomplice was seducing. The murderer would remove the victim’s heads after killing them and bury them with a note the victim was allowed to write.

Then I would see detectives reading these notes, looking at the pile of heads, trying to figure out who the killer is. One victim had his eye balls mushed out of his head so he was left with a fleshy, bloody mess where his eyes used to be and I could feel it! That is how vivid my dreams are.

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I think an apology is in order. Cali, I am sorry, I totally misjudged you.

I like sausages. These days my favorite sausages are made with roasted garlic and Gruyere cheese. Mmmm, I can taste them now…

I like them grilled, but pan-fried with butter are just as good. We bought a stash of them from the Costco a few weeks ago and after eating a couple, we froze the rest. I am really bad about remembering to set them out in the morning so they will slowly thaw in time for dinner that night. This morning was one of those forgetful times.

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Monday nights are just packed for me and my hubby as we tune into or Tivo the following TV shows:

• Gossip Girl
• One Tree Hill
• House
• 24
• Castle
• Bachelor
• The Big Bang Theory
• How I Met Your Mother

And this is on top of what we Tivo’d over the weekend (Big Love, Kings) and shows from weekdays the week before (Trust Me, Lie to Me, Damages) that we have to watch before the next new episodes air in the following few days. It is a pretty hectic schedule and let’s face it, something had to be bumped. That is when we hit “Cancel Recording & Delete” on Dancing With the Stars. I was sad at first, but all these other shows we have been following for months, and some of them for years; they are just so much better than watching some hacks try to dance better than my girl Melissa. I know she’ll go far, I’m not worried, but here it all ends, my following of DWTS. Someone should talk to ABC about putting it on another day of the week because Mondays are way too busy for me.

I am liking this Twitter thing that I recently signed up for. I am a fan of texting and having it appear on my blog (see panel to the far right) and I love checking in on it every few days and seeing new people that have joined. It is like a fun web-surfing thing I do from time to time—I pull up someone’s personal page, see who they are following and then go to that person’s page, and so on and so forth.  I like reading the random “tweets” from the people I follow, some are funny, some are informative and some I have no clue what they are talking about—but I read on none the less. 

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So it is sad and oh so very obvious that no one reads my blog (save my mother) because I have been receiving email forwards like clockwork from anyone that has my email address on file. I can only hope that this is because these people are hitting “Forward” and clicking “All” when selecting the email addresses. I can only hope.

Ten minutes past seven in the morning on Tuesday. Turn right off the ramp, exiting the 101 then turn left onto Gloria Ave. The smell is undeniable: pre-school. Finger paints and construction paper. Becca and I used to go there after school our sophomore year at Coe-Brown. Karen and all the kiddies would be gone by then and we would play, pretend and paint.

This was during my obsession with a third string basketball player on the Varsity team named Michael McCormick, he was a senior (my friends and I used ‘MM’ as code). I was obsessed.

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I know that I am probably going to piss off some of my friends and relatives (mostly my aunts) by saying this, but it must be said…

I hate receiving emails that are forwards.

Especially ones that tell you at the end of the message to send to 10 of your friends–and if you do not do this, something terrible will happen to you or someone you love. Well isn’t that just lovely!? I have never received a forward that I liked reading or after reading it, felt better about myself or my life. Usually these forwards are life lessons telling you how wonderful you are or how wonderful it is to have a wonderful friend (like the one who sent you this wonderful forward) and you are just so darn lucky to be part of this wonderful world…wonderful shmunderful. I just can not read another forward.

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I just heard on the radio this morning that Steve-O has pinched nerves in his lower back and is doing everything he can to stay in the Dancing with the Stars competition. He is getting medical treatment from a physical therapist and a chiropractor, as well as taking it easy on the dance floor. This is not the first injury this season…

Two other dancers had gotten hurt weeks before the first episode (Jewell and Nancy O’Dell) which is why my girl Melissa and Holly (one of the Playboy Bunnies) got to join the competition so late. I will be bummed if Steve-O is unable to compete, I thought it would be fun to watch him. But if he can not continue, I guess I will be fast forwarding through even more of this show to get to Melissa and then delete the episode when she’s done dancing.

I thought my girl, Melissa, did pretty good on Dancing with the Stars. She probably has the most dance experience out of all the other “stars” on the show this season. I have high hopes that she will make it far in this competition.

I do not think I could have watched Dancing with the Stars (or would not be able to ever again) if I was not recording it to watch later. I prefer to fast forward through the boring parts…the intros, the judges comments, the dancing when it is not Melissa (ok, so I ended up watching the 2 hour show in about 20 minutes, is that wrong?).

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I never really got into this show. I started watching it a couple of seasons ago, but it just seemed like there was too much drama and it did not satisfy my craving for reality TV. Maybe too dramatic? Maybe the dancing was just plain boring? But this season, all of that will change.

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