Happy Hour Chatter

I now have to learn how to give insulin shots...to my cat Boris.  :( Yes, I bit the bullet and took my poor lil kitty kat Boris to the vet.  It's normally a traumatic experience involving Valium (for me!)  The lil dude didn't put up much of a fight when I guided him in the pet carrier.  I believe he was thinking "oh thank gawd she is FINALLY taking me in!" What was the deciding factor?  My Boris would sound like a heard of  thundering elephants as he raced down the hallway to get to his food dish...then sit and way non-too-patiently for me to arrive to fill his dish so he could eat with gusto.  Well, Monday he didn't race down the hall...he meandered...and when he arrived at his food dish, he turned and started drinking a half gallon of water.  Ut-oh!   NOT normal Boris-like behavior. That and the fact that he was extremely sleepy - even for a cat. Off we go to see the vet who had an answer for me within an hour.  "Your Bor...

Everywhere I look, there is water!!!  I can't help but say that I'm a little tired of it.   We've had two downpours in the last four hours, and a third one is happening right now.  I came back from town and had to lock the 4Runner in to 4wheel drive in order to navigate the country roads.  Sick! What's worse is this is NOT helping the flooding situation in the state.  The ground is already so saturated that the water has no where to go....but in to already swollen rivers, creeks, dams.  My heart aches for the communities in the Minot area.  The Souris river has overflowed and caused 12,000 people to flee  their homes.  And with the recent rains, it doesn't look like the water is going to be receding anytime soon.   I told someone the other day that when the water does recede in both Minot and Bismarck, I'm going to go for a weekend and just help wherever and whomever I can.  It's the least that I can do.   Wi...

I'm back from my yoga conference and I'm one whipped puppy! I have no words to accurately describe the weekend other than WOW!! Once more, I stayed with my niece and nephew Joan and Matt Larson.  They've (and Karen too!) been so supportive of me and my endeavors that I cannot thank them enough!!   Now as much as I'm there for the yoga conference and my yoga certification (see my yoga blog for my thoughts on the conference)... my trip to Minneapolis is also about seeing the girls and...the FOOD!  Oh my gosh people...Minneapolis has the BEST food ever!  Let's break this down shall we? Wednesday night when I arrived, I was met by Matt and their condo (Joan was on call at the VA hospital), and we were later joined by Karen.  We ate a place called the Mac & Cheese Grill.  I was like "why do they want to grill macaroni and cheese?"  As  I soon discovered, it was a fabulous Italian restauraunt.  I had something called stuf...