The house that is. Slowly but surely. I got home from work today to find Bill had put the finishing touches on hanging things up, as well as the surround sound. It’s looking really good, and like we actually live here finally.

Life has been uneventful for the most part, so I shall cover the past week in bullets!

• I can has a tower? Bill bought me a graphics card last week. Him and Robert threw together a tower for me. So now I don’t have to unpack my laptop when I get home from work.
• Saturday was nice. Bill and I went over to Rachel and Johns and hung out and ate at there place. Was nice to get away.

Thats it. Thrilling eh?

On a lasting note, it’s amazing how much the simple things can make you feel good. I haven’t been the most chipper lately, and dancing in the dining room with the dogs to The Eels – I Like Birds can’t do anything but make you smile.

I can’t believe it’s June already. Things have been crazy around here. In good news, I made it past my Dads birthday without issue. Which was a big deal to me. I thought about him a lot, but I didn’t have a breakdown, which was good. It helped that we also had a BBQ at our house the Sunday before, so I got to be distracted by that.

Memorial Day went well too. We had some friends over for a BBQ and had a small “bonfire”. I use the quotes because all we did was light an old mattress and box spring on fire and watch it blaze. It was fun nonetheless though.

As most can see, there is a new layout here. This is what I’ve mostly been working on lately. Outside of the random nuttiness we usually have going on around here. Many thanks to Melissa for the help too! I had a severe case of “stared at my own code too long” syndrome and could not for the life of me get the backgrounds to line up properly. Melissa promptly figured out where I was failing though and fixed it for me! If anyone has comments or suggestions about the layout, feel free to shoot them my way!

On the stray front, we still have her. She’s put on around 10-15 pounds and we’ve been calling her Jane Dog. Still don’t know what we are going to do with her long term, but for now she is quite happy! She’s also slowly getting accustomed to Samantha and Maxine:

Things have become quite ordinary around here. Hence the lack of updates. Well, kind of. Lots of things happen, but by the end of the day I’m so tired from working, running around, playing with now 3 dogs, 8 cats, a rabbit, and 3 ferrets that I just crash into bed.

Big news for me though is that I passed a big test at work on Friday. I am now a Certified Google Adwords Professional. I barely passed, but considering all of my study time ended up being taken up by Dustin being hospitalized with an asthma attack for a day, I’m pretty damn proud. Next up is the Analytics test in a couple weeks time.

On the home front Robert and his girlfriend Leslee moved in last weekend. Hence the rise in the pet count. They have 5 cats and 3 ferrets. All of which are adorable. The cats are all getting along surprisingly well, which makes me pretty happy.

The dog count is another story altogether though. I came home from work Tuesday of last week to find a severely malnourished pitbull mix dog tied to the tree in our backyard. Turns out Bill saw her wandering in our backyard, so him and Leslee went out and got her. We have her tied to the tree in the backyard outside the fence with the doghouse. Not sure what we’re going to do with her in the end, but for now we are fattening her up and playing with her. She’s a really good dog, very affectionate, playful, and non-aggressive. However, we’re sure she needs fixed and of course all of her shots. Not to mention we already have 2 medium sized dogs, and once she puts the right weight on we are guessing she will be upwards of around 70 lbs.

We’ll see what happens. For now though she is quite content in our backyard with 5 people to lavish attention on her.

Next weekend we’re throwing a big Memorial Day party on Sunday. We’re inviting damn near everybody we know over for a BBQ and bonfire. Should be fun! Haven’t done a family style cookout in years, so I’m really looking forward to taking advantage of all this space to do so throughout the summer.