I’m sorry I haven’t blogged in a bit. I’m just ALL over the place these days. I’m busy at work and busy at home and, on top of that, just haven’t had much to talk about.

I’m purposely NOT talking about the speeding tickets (yes, ticketS) that i got. Please don’t ask me, I don’t feel like talking about it!

The weekend before last we ventured up to the tulip festival. About an hour away. Mike posted all the pictures from it. It was so much fun! Not something you need to spend a lot of time doing, but amazing to see so many tulips in one place!! I’ve never seen a ‘crop’ of tulips before. Amazing. Check out Mike’s blog to see more.

Matilda has an ear infection, but she’s fine. Just had to work in another trip to the vet this week. Of course she couldn’t have had one a week ago when she went in for her check-up ;).

We just got back from Mike’s Chili… We’re full!!

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I have liked Earth Day since way before it was cool. Except that I always think it’s the 21st (it’s the 22, I know.)

I was thinking about some of my favorite “green” things, and thought I’d share.

Ecover Laundry Stain Remover: This stuff is AMAZING. I switched to it as I have switched all my cleaning products, but this is my favorite! (Second favorite is the Method toilet bowl cleaner, smells great.) It works better than shout, and has taken out all my stains. I even use it on the carpet. Yesterday I got salsa on a new white sweater, and applied it, scrubbed it with a toothbrush and hot water and then rinsed it — gone! Didn’t even have to wash it.

My fabric shower liner: I chose a fabric liner instead of a plastic one just ‘cause they say to avoid plastic when you can…. (And I love the plastic ones because I think they smell like pool floaties.) But I can wash the fabric one when it gets yucky, it doesn’t get water stains and I feel like I’m in a hotel when I shower. And it is even the color green.

Tom’s of Maine: This toothpaste tastes weird at first, but now I love it and think the other stuff tastes like sugar. (It does have saccharine in it.) I switched to this stuff b/c I was getting canker sores all the time, and I get less now, thank goodness. And, bonus, it is also earth frendlier.

Composting: Composting is awesome!! Mostly because I don’t have to do it, City of Seattle does it. But we can now compost or recycle almost everything and it’s fantastic. Makes garbage day a little more complicated, but it’s so nice to create less trash. Trash stresses me out.

Rags: Speaking of trash, I have switched almost entirely to rags. We always have old Tshirts and boxers we’re filtering out, and I have a couple of specialty rags that I bought. I can clean all the glass doors and mirrors with one glass cloth and wash it, instead of tons of paper towels. I spend so much less on paper towels now, and I mean WAY less. I hardly ever have to buy them. We also use cloth napkins — I have a bowl of multi-colored napkins from Crate and Barrel, and I do one load about every 3 weeks of napkins w/ kitchen towels. No biggie! I don’t have to figure out where to store all those napkins, and I don’t have to trash/compost them.

My soda maker: I still love Coke, but the soda maker is great! Mostly I can’t say how great it is to no longer have cans and cans to recycle. (Hubby goes through lots of cans :)

Yoga: So it’s not really a green thing, but it makes you feel more connected to the earth and other people, and all that warm fuzzy stuff. And I do love it. And I look really cute in my yoga clothes.

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Last Thursday (or maybe it was Friday) was so beautiful , I went around the neighborhood to take some pictures of all the pretty flowers. Some pretty puppies ended up in there too. You can check out my album. I haven’t added photos forever! I will update it soon.

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This is our new theatre! We started our subscription to ACT (Technically, A Contemporary Theatre, but I only call it that in Playhouse bios.) It’s a great venue — an old Eagles Hall with a modern theatre built into the space. It’s a round stage with seats all around it. Think, lower level of the Marx theatre only wrapped in a circle. And our seats are great.

We saw Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which just so happens to be the same play they are showing now at the Playhouse. Good show!

Happy Easter everyone. We celebrated at brunch this morning at Ponti, a restaurant in Fremont. We’re off to meet a friend for pizza in a bit.

Work is going fine. Moving right along, 6 weeks to go on the job. Aside from the 6:30 alarm, it’s good.

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Holy begeesus, today was AMAZING. Gorgeous. Sunny, warm. I have no idea where it came from. We earned it after a couple straight weeks of rain.

The puppies…. Mike’s caption for this was “my little sister is sooo lazy.”

We had a great weekend. I suppose they can feel a little more rewarding when you are going to a job every day. Yesterday we got up early and went to yoga, came home and both got a little home office work done, then headed out to haircut appointments. We went to La Isla for dinner. If you have never had Puerto Rican food and ever get the chance to try it, do!! So good: comforting, flavorful, great ingredients… and they have a guy at this restaurant who just makes mojitos all night.

Today I slept in (after taking care of their highnesses at 6am) and then we walked to Honore to have pastry and coffee. This afternoon we did a lot of cleaning inside and out. Mike also went out for a scooter ride to take advantage of the sun. He says it actually is even more fun in nice weather. And I finally got up some of the weeds that 4 months of rain have nurtured.

Someone very special had a birthday and a party this weekend. Happy Birthday, Jocelyn!!! We hope you had a very, very special day.

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