lesson learned.

i am not allowed to call carl "peach". lesson learned.

i just asked him to do a favor for me at work. he came in to pick up the item from me, and i said "thanks, you're a peach."

he said, "um. no. i'm not doing it if you call me that."

so, i apologized. he just got back to his desk and sent me a message, "its done".

i thought i'd try a different term of endearment: "thanks, man". i fully expected a "that's much better. thank you."

boy, was i wrong. i got a, "excuse me, what?"

well. i got in trouble for PEACH. so i tried MAN. "hmmmm...." he said.

snow storm photos!

The backyard.

The backyard.

The backyard.

The front door.

Driveway/house across the street.

valentine's cake!

to celebrate my favorite holiday!

the blind.

at lunch the other day, someone was talking about office space, and how we'd like to take over the whole building. he mentioned that the space is currently being rented by a nonprofit supporting blind people, and we could possibly overtake the space when their lease is up. but he wondered if its bad to take office space from the blind.

carl's response? "well they wouldn't see it coming."

OMG.

tubbaware.

the other day i was chatting with carl online, and he referred to a plastic bowl as "tubbaware". later i asked for clarification - if he was just joking by adding the Bs. he said, no. he was just joking changing the "er" to "a". i asked if he knew that its really called "tupperware", and he did not :) he thought it was tubberware.

we told this story to kaka, and she agreed it was hilarious.

well, a few months ago, kaka broke a glass pitcher. technically she didn't break it - it just shattered. very scary. she ordered a new plastic one, and it arrived today. turtle said very loudly, "IS THAT TUBBAWARE????!?!?!?!?"

no. its not.

i need to go check the.... trash can?

the toilet in our main bathroom runs sometimes. last night, carl and i were watching tv. he came back from the bathroom and then realized the toilet might still be running.

"crap," he said. "i need to go check the trash can."

i giggled. a lot.