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I’ve had my office chair for a while. It’s one of those standard executive-style chairs (whatever that really means). It’s a pretty comfy chair, but it’s cloth and Weaver loves to sleep in my chair when I’m not sitting in it. The result of an uber-fuzzy cat sleeping in my office chair means that I get fuzz butt really easily. I can’t check my e-mail in the morning if I’m wearing dress slacks.

My chair has started to show it’s age a little bit and I’m tired of having to constantly use a cat brush on my chair (a lint brush doesn’t even start picking up Weaver’s fur). We’ve been looking at various different new chairs for me, but haven’t wanted to spend the money on it. This weekend we found my office chair. So far it’s actually proven pretty comfy and I’d like to just see Weaver attempt to sit on this chair.

I just want to wish my wonderful husband a happy 31st birthday! With his new schedule, he even gets his birthday off.

Here’s a great picture of Sean for everyone else’s amusement on his birthday.

While watching the Super Bowl commercials (we don’t really watch the game, we fast forward through the game and just watch the commercials), I got through the backlog of photos that have been sitting on my computer since Labor Day weekend. Yes, I’m a slacker. Yes, I’ve been busy and just haven’t had the motivation until recently to start going through my photos again. So, without further ado, here are some links to the photos that I’ve finally posted.

Atlanta Aquarium - While we were in Atlanta before driving to Amy & Jack’s wedding, we decided to visit the new Atlanta Aquarium. We were really glad we did because it was beautiful.

Amy & Jack’s Wedding - Since I was a bridesmaid in the wedding and Sean was a groomsman, we didn’t get any shots of the actual wedding, but I did get a few of Amy and Stephanie getting their hair done up.

Tortilla Flats - Miata vs Corvette Drive-Out - Every once in a while Sean and I convince our friend Nathaniel to bring his Corvette Z06 out. On this particular day, there were no clouds in the sky (a pre-requisite for the car being taken out of the garage) and the weather cooperated with us for a beautiful drive out to Tortilla Flats.

Chiricahua Mountains - Sean and I needed a weekend to unplug so we drove out to the middle of nowhere (I’m not kidding, look on a map) and went camping for a weekend. All electronics were off. Just a fire, a tent and ourselves to keep each other company. It was wonderful.

Boyce Thompson Arboretum - While my parents were out here at Thanksgiving, we took a day trip out to the Boyce Thompson Arboretum. There was supposed to be fall color out there. We didn’t see very much fall color, but the grounds were still very beautiful and we all had a pleasant hike around the property.

Grand Canyon - New Year’s 2008 - Lisa asked if we could all go to the Grand Canyon this past Christmas when they came out. We wound up driving to Flagstaff and taking a day trip to the Grand Canyon. The drive was gorgeous and there was just enough snow around to make all of us happy.

Flagstaff - New Year’s 2008 - On our way back from the Grand Canyon with Sean’s parents, we drove down through Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon. Several pretty winter pictures resulted.

Huntsville Visit With Friends - Sean and I flew back to Huntsville recently to visit friends and family for a weekend. Misty & Stephen held a gathering for us while we were back so we could see everyone and the latest generation of geeks that have been born lately.

Liza’s Quilt - If you’ve asked me what project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half or so, my answer would have been this quilt. I could only work on it every once and a while and hand quilting is not fast, but it was worth every second of work once I finished it.

It took me a couple days to get around to typing this post. I blame it on that horrible brat named Potter. It’s all his fault that I was too lazy to do anything but read his last book. Don’t worry, no spoilers here.

Sean and I made it back home from the great Northwest on Saturday evening. We’re tired, but happy travellers. Oregon and Washington treated us very well and we already miss the cooler weather.

The rain, though, seems to have followed us home. Monsoon season officially started the Thursday before we flew home and Saturday night, we got to land right before a storm blew threw. The past three nights (tonight included), we’ve gotten at least a little bit of rain. Tonight, we’re actually getting a very decent amount of rain. We’re hoping that this keeps up, as we could always use a little help out here.

That’s it for now. Since I was reading Harry Potter instead of sorting out photos after getting home, you’ll have to wait another couple of days for pictures, but I’ll post them as soon as I get to them.

That’s it. The world’s ending. Prepare the bunkers. Hell has officially frozen over. We got snow in Phoenix today. Not up on the mountains. Down in Maricopa, at our house. I kid you not. I even took pictures because I knew no one would ever believe us.