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Brooskey is our English Springer Spaniel. He was born on August 12, 2007 and came home with us October 6, 2007. He was named for New England football player Tedy Bruschi, but also for beer, aka brewski. His favorite activities are battling at the dog park, blowing bubbles in his water dish, and chasing the "red bug" (a laser pointer). These are all of the entries which mention Brooskey.
Thu 04/29/2010 3:40 PM
Several years ago when we lived in a rented apartment, we had a mixed bag of neighbors. There were a few problem people, such as the drunk who lived behind us...
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Fri 04/23/2010 3:56 PM
We bought our first brand new living room set back in 2001, a year after we moved into our first apartment. I remember what a frustrating process it was, finding something we both liked which would fit into our existing color scheme, which we were not interested in changing...
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Tue 04/20/2010 11:42 AM
Not only do I wish I had more time off, having the money to afford a real vacation would be nice, too. I wish I could take a whole month off with a magical unlimited vacation budget...
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Thu 04/08/2010 2:57 PM
Who'd have thought that less than two weeks after I mentioned the record-breaking flood stage of the river near my house, it would flood again and break even more records? This time, instead of stopping across the street from the complex, it came all the way to our side of the street and into the property entrance...
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Fri 02/12/2010 11:31 AM
A couple of weeks ago we took a day trip to Groton, Connecticut to my former coworker Norm's house. The primary purpose of the trip was to help Norm set up his new business computer, but we also brought Brooskey and Vixen along to play with his two Australian Shepherds, Summer and Merlin...
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Fri 02/05/2010 4:01 PM
Winter. My most hated time of year. Specifically, that long stretch of winter after the fun of the holidays is gone, until it's possible to comfortably wear short sleeves outside again...
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Mon 12/28/2009 3:38 PM
Today's misery aside, I had a pretty awesome Christmas. I totaled up $330 in cash and gift cards toward my new camera - the one thing I wanted this year...
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Wed 10/14/2009 11:28 AM
Here's a lovely Halloween dance video for you to enjoy!
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Mon 10/05/2009 2:34 PM
Now that it's October I'm thinking about Halloween (and yes, even Christmas). Did you see this month's creepy confoozled.com masthead?
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Mon 09/28/2009 1:37 PM
Last week was rough on Brooskey and Vixen; we weren't home much. By Saturday they, Brooskey especially, were unbearably hyper and anxious...
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Thu 08/06/2009 2:36 PM
I've been doing a monthly masthead (header image) for confoozled.com for two years, and I'm starting to run out of ideas for them. I always choose a background photo that is somehow related to the month in question...
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Tue 07/28/2009 4:19 PM
The biggest weekend of the summer is over, and Joe & Sandra have finally tied the knot! It was an awesome weekend, starting with the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner on Saturday, the big event on Sunday, and even our recovery day off from work yesterday (Monday)...
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Mon 05/18/2009 4:20 PM
I've just finished up my last "free" weekend for the next couple of months. With the schedule we've got this summer, it's going to be really difficult to get anything done, so this weekend we tried to accomplish as much as possible...
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Wed 05/13/2009 4:45 PM
This is Brooskey, completely zonked out after running around my in-laws' yard all day Sunday. I'm posting it as a test to be absolutely sure that posting a photo to the site directly from my iPhone works the way I...
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Mon 04/27/2009 3:51 PM
We had a gorgeous weekend here in New England, though it did start out a little bit chillier than expected. We took advantage of the beautiful, sunny weather, and took Brooskey and Vixen to the dog park Saturday morning. Unlike...
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Tue 03/31/2009 4:34 PM
For this week's "Ten on Tuesday", here are ten things on my to-do list this week. Some of them are already done...
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Wed 03/18/2009 2:40 PM
This past Sunday we had our first dinner guests in over a year. Brooskey's behavior was so atrocious the last time we tried to have company over, that we were too embarrassed to try it again...
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Thu 03/12/2009 3:52 PM
Chris found this for me this morning: There is a pair of nine-week-old Chihuahua puppies here in Rhode Island who were born without front legs. They were taken in by an organization called Just A Touch Rescue, and they are receiving physical therapy to teach them how to manage life on two legs...
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Mon 03/09/2009 2:56 PM
Speaking of the weekend, we took advantage of the nice weather and got a few things accomplished...
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Mon 02/23/2009 1:55 PM
I was playing around with YouTube on the TiVo the other day, searching for Chihuahua videos. Brooskey didn't let me get too far, because he wouldn't stop barking at the screen...
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Tue 02/17/2009 10:43 AM
Being a mommy to two dogs gets expensive, which is why I'm entering on ConsumerQueen.com to win a $50 PETCO gift card, and doing everything possible to earn extra entries!
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Wed 02/11/2009 11:33 AM
I e-filed my own return the day that the W-2s came in at work - two days before the IRS even started processing them. I had my federal refund in my account on January 30...
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Thu 02/05/2009 11:57 AM
I have a cold. I feel yucky. I'm in a bad mood. So in an attempt to make myself feel better, here are some random things that have been annoying me lately...
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Wed 01/28/2009 2:55 PM
The other night, Brooskey overindulged on a "Healthy Edibles" bone by Nylabone. Edible, yes, but I don't think they intend for the dog to eat the whole thing in five minutes...
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Wed 01/21/2009 10:49 AM
Brooskey is almost eighteen months old. He has made some huge strides in growing up over the past couple of weeks, and we're incredibly proud of him...
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Mon 12/22/2008 4:54 PM
Christmas is almost here, and things are getting busy, so I may not be able to post as regularly over the next week or so (you already saw evidence of this last week). And I'm sorry that all of my entries as of late have just been personal updates and not thought-provoking spoutings of my unpopular opinions...
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Wed 12/10/2008 2:51 PM
Since I can't afford to buy gifts for everyone in my family this Christmas, I've decided I will at least send a Christmas bouquet or centerpiece to my Mom's house. Or maybe a Christmas gift basket from 1-800-Flowers...
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Fri 12/05/2008 1:27 PM
I had quite the crappy night last night. It started out all right... right after work we went over to our favorite hangout and ate dinner...
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Fri 11/21/2008 2:36 PM
Well okay, I'm starting to feel the Christmas spirit just a little bit...
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Thu 11/20/2008 4:03 PM
Since I'm short on post ideas, I thought I'd do a quick run-down of the highlights of the past week (not guaranteed to be interesting, amusing, or otherwise worth reading). I've used my Twitter stream to jog my memory...
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Mon 11/17/2008 12:39 PM
Am I turning into Scrooge in my old age? Or am I having a tougher case of depression than usual this winter? Or is it just too early?
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Wed 10/08/2008 9:50 AM
I finally got Vixen on video growling at the squeaky football. It wasn't as funny as the first time when her growls were turning into whines of frustration, but I think it's still pretty darn cute...
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Wed 10/01/2008 12:04 PM
Today is Vixen's first birthday! It's hard to believe she's a year old already, especially since she's only been with us for eight months...
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Tue 09/23/2008 2:44 PM
I know you all know by now how much I love my iPhone. I've been on a quest since the beginning to find a protective case for it in my favorite color: purple. I had a silicone skin, which was supposedly purple but in reality was more pink...
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Tue 08/12/2008 12:49 PM
Today Brooskey turns one year old. Yesterday he got a birthday card in the mail, actually addressed to him, from the company that supplies our pet insurance...
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Fri 08/01/2008 11:57 AM
As you can see, it's hard to catch Vixen in any one place for too long. In the last scene, it's hard to see, but that's a laser pointer Brooskey is chasing up and down the hallway - otherwise known as the "red bug"...
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Fri 07/11/2008 4:54 PM
Thankfully, another week is over. I'm not completely caught up at work from my vacation last week, but I'm getting there. I'd probably be further along if I hadn't spent half of this week undoing everything the oh-so-helpful temp did in my absence...
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Mon 07/07/2008 8:25 PM
You can rest assured that I will never be one of those women who lies about her age. I will always be exactly the age I say I am, unless of course I get senile and lose count...
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Tue 06/17/2008 5:46 PM
One nice thing about one's birthday being a federal holiday is that it only costs four vacation days to take the week off (unless it falls on a Saturday, of course... then I get screwed). I don't know what I'm going to do that week, yet...
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Tue 05/27/2008 8:45 PM
The whole weekend was a nice little mini-vacation, and the first time in a long time that I've felt like I've had a real break. I think I can handle a month of work...
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Thu 05/22/2008 1:23 PM
I love Gmail, but a lot of the complaints I hear about it are from people unhappy with the color scheme and the inability to change it without adding third-party extensions to one's web browser. That may be about to change...
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Mon 04/28/2008 6:31 PM
Before long, Vixen had taken over the small dog side of the park, and was having a blast with all of the other dogs. She even found a Yorkie puppy about her size to chase around...
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Sun 04/20/2008 6:47 PM
It was an exhausting day for both of them, and they both passed out on the way home... Vixen fighting it the whole way by holding her head up as she slept...
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Fri 04/04/2008 3:37 PM
I decided to spare you all the attempt at an April Fools post, mainly because I couldn't think of anything good. I did get my mom and sisters, though, with a subtle e-mail asking what they liked for girl and boy names...
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Fri 03/14/2008 6:04 PM
The two of them are getting along really well, though there are still a few arguments a day, but being that they are both very strong-willed, that may always be the case. Brooskey really loves to play with Vixen, but still hasn't quite figured out how much is too much for her...
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Wed 02/13/2008 7:16 PM
With his gift I achieved my goal: to surprise him with something he'd never expect from me. I owe some credit to his best friend Joe for the idea...
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Tue 02/05/2008 7:27 PM
She's a little kissing machine and washes all three of our faces thoroughly every day. Her absolute favorite place to be is in my lap, and I'm more than happy to accommodate...
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Mon 01/28/2008 6:55 PM
Brooskey is maturing more every day and we look forward to all the fun we're going to have with him when he's full grown. And I'm already madly in love with this little girl, even before ever seeing her in person...
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Tue 01/15/2008 5:31 PM
A little while later we caught him in this pose, sitting there on the couch like a little old man with his arm on the armrest, dividing his attention between the TV and people-watching out the window...
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Thu 01/10/2008 6:12 PM
This past year was quite the year for me. It brought some of the highest and some of the lowest points of my life so far...
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Thu 12/13/2007 11:32 AM
Oh yeah, and it's still not decorated. Turns out it's even more difficult to find time to decorate a tree with a puppy, than it is to wrap gifts...
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Tue 11/27/2007 11:19 AM
He might take a couple of nibbles, but when it doesn't work fast enough, he erupts in this burst of pent up frustration, sprinting circles around the house, growling and barking uncontrollably. I recognize this as a display of absolute desperation, because it's about the same thing I would do...
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Tue 11/06/2007 12:53 PM
I'm amazed at how fast he's learning. He figured out "sit" in no more than twenty minutes in class on Saturday...
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Fri 10/26/2007 4:31 PM
He'll be going for his second vet visit and second set of puppy shots next Friday. It will be interesting to see just how much weight he's gained...
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Mon 10/22/2007 11:58 AM
We've been online friends for many years, but despite living relatively close to each other (she's a New Yorker), as compared to my distance from other people in my life, until now we'd never had occasion to see each other. But this weekend she took a mini-vacation to Providence to celebrate her birthday...
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Mon 10/08/2007 3:57 PM
The trip home with him went really well, all things considered. He tolerated the first two hours or so in the carrier, with a few complaints but sleeping most of the time, which is pretty impressive for a puppy this age...
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Fri 10/05/2007 12:31 PM
For the past few weeks we have been preparing for a new addition to our family. We've bought furniture and bedding, toys and supplies...
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