Accomplishment!!

Well, I bought our last Christmas present on Tuesday! How many people can say that they are completely done Christmas shopping with around 10 days left to shop. There are some people who are getting wedding pictures as Christmas gifts. So we are waiting for those to come in. Otherwise I have EVERYTHING wrapped too!! That is until Jackson unwraps everything. He had one day where he unwrapped 3 gifts. Now he is locked into the laundry room while we are away. I felt so guilty doing it but he has been good in there. AND he has yet to have an accident. He didn't have many when he was loose in the house but he did have a few. That I consider a good thing!! The only problem is that his food and water are in there so we cannot shut the door all the way. So we have to listen to the furnace or the laundry going. We learned too that our dishwasher has a tendency to leak. We thought that the water in the kitchen was due to the sloppy dog drinking water. Well it wasn't it was because the dishwasher leaks at the end of the cycle.

Anyway!!! The house/duplex hunting is going. I liked the place I looked at on Saturday. Hopefully the rent issues can be sorted out. I also looked at a place on Tuesday. I really liked that place. There were 3 drawbacks. 1)the duplex is upstairs/downstairs. 2)We would have to share a garage and 3)the guy upstairs has access to the basement. That may be something that we would/could prohibit. I feel mean about it, but can you really blame me. Oh yeah a fourth. The garage isn't' attached. YUCK!!!

That is all for now!!!!!!!

The Chinese Carrot

Now I don't know what nationality carrots really are but mine is Chinese. My Supervisor,let's call her B, had a do-it-yourself bonsai plant kit. It was something that she had gotten as a gift or a prize at one time. It sat atop her filing cabinet for many months. Then one day her deskmate A mentioned it. Well B told A that she didn't have a green thumb so if she wanted to see if it worked she would have to go through the riggers of getting it to grow. So A perform the cold stratification and the process of germination. The kit contained 5 seeds. So they were split into 5 different peat pots. We followed the instructions as best we could. A kept 3 of the bonsai pots, I took one and another co-work, NV, took one. We watered, watched and waited for the plants to grow. I even named my plant, upon suggestion from J, I named him Huo Shing Ren Wang, which was translated from english. The meaning is The Great and Almighty Martian King. Again J's idea, I told him I wanted something a little more ethnic, so I just translated it.

Much to our dismay neither mine nor A's Bonsai broke ground. In fact we believed that it may have been washed down the sink during one of our waterings. We had to water the plant with warm water so it sometimes. I would let the water run all over the peat packet to ensure that the warmth was getting into the seed. Maybe this would help the plant to grow. I know it sounds silly but get over it!! ;). Well NV's plant did start to grow. It is still growing. Rather slowly but it IS growing.

So A and I were getting pretty bummed. When I took off time for the wedding/honeymoon I gave A what was probably an empty pot to take care of and maintain until I got back. You see I wasn't going to give up on it yet. I don't ever give up on things that is just how I am. When I returned from my vacation I took the pot back from A. In my absence something happened, there was a sprout coming up from the dirt. No it didn't look like a bonsai tree, but like grass. So B tells me while we were gone she, M and J played a little trick on us. She planted carrot seeds in our peat pots. So now instead of having a beautiful bonsai tree that I can prune and shape I have a carrot which someday not too far from now i will eat. Hopefully it grows to be big and yummy. Well as big as a tall glass will allow..... ;)