Well, I did it, I finally upgraded to my own .com address. So if you are using my old AdriansCrazyLife.blogspot.com, you might want to upgrade to the AdriansCrazyLife.com version. I'm not sure what all the benefit is, but it was only $10 for the year and it looks nicer on my new blog business cards that I just ordered. Which are fabulous by the way! They are turned longways instead of the traditional sideways and they have a zebra print with a turquoise background and white lettering. They are the bomb!

We are just loving our new little kitty Shamus. Look at that darling face!



All of us just adore him, but he can be SUCH a stinker! First he chomped down on my computer's power cord and killed it dead. Those little kitty teeth are sharp! Then he's been running around getting into everything, knocking stuff over and getting into all sorts of mischief. The older cats hate him with the heat of a thousand suns, especially Buster. Does that phase our little Shamus? Not one little bit. In fact, as I write this, he is giving Buster fits by sneaking up and swiping at his face. Nike was trying to take a nap earlier and Shamus woke him up by repeatedly biting down on his tail. It's going to be a while before they forgive me for this one!

But the nice part, when he is sleepy, he comes and snuggles up in your lap and purrs himself to sleep. I went through a whole conference call the other day with a snuggly little kitty cuddled up on my chest. Sweet.

Had a good day at work today. I made a change in my process that will eliminate a literal ton of paper. They wrote up a story about it and put it on the company Intranet website today, so I came in to a flood of voice mails and Emails complimenting me for the story. The nice part was that one of them was from my boss's boss (Blake says it's my grand-boss) and he copied our entire leadership team on it. Wow, it's really nice to get a little recognition for a change!

In other work-related news, I got my review last week and I was very pleased. They grade on a scale of 1 to 4 and my boss is something of a tough grader. No easy "A"'s in her class! So I was quite pleased that all my ratings were either a 4 or a 3.5. I even got a nice raise - well nice for a recessionary year anyway.

It's sad though, I can't tell my husband about it. It just depresses him when I get a raise, because even though he's been doing the work of 3 people, his small company doesn't give raises hardly ever. It's been years since his last one. So, rather than rub it in, I just keep quiet about it. But you guys can keep a secret, can't you? He never reads my blog, so I can talk about it here all I want.

This weekend Matt gets to meet his girlfriend's parents - da da dum! They have invited him down to St. George to spend the weekend at their home. They sound like super nice people and I'm sure he will have a great time with them. But I'm sure he's nervous. Parental disapproval can really put a crimp in a romance.

But I think he'll be fine - he has gotten along very well with his previous girlfriend's parents. So far between his last two girlfriend's parents, he has scored two trips to San Francisco, one trip to Seattle, and at least two weeks on a houseboat at Lake Powell. I don't know how he does it, I never had that kind of luck with any of my boyfriend's parents, but I guess these people just like him - a lot! Hopefully his luck in that area will continue!



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