Relaxing Start To The Weekend

Terri an I decided to stay home over the 4th extended weekend to save some cash. But still tried to enjoy it as much as possible! Our Thursday started off by going to Marietta to play some golf, see Terri's Blog. After golf we hit up the Farmers Market to stock up on some groceries. After that we decided to use the new grill and make some pizza! We were going to make the dough......But didnt have the time or a bread machine. So we bought some premade crusts. We made our own sweet and zesty pizza sauce. Terri put basil and tomato on hers. And I had Hamburger and BACON! Using the grill to cook the pizza was alot of fun and added to the taste. After cooking the pies up we enjoyed our meal with some brews and UNO!

Time To Celebrate

The past two weeks have been full of some good times for Terri and I. Last Friday we celebrated Terri's birthday. We decided to keep it chill and go out to a nice dinner and enjoy each others company. So I took her to Restaurant Eugene. Instead of ordering of the menu we decided on a seven course dinner with wine pairing. IT WAS FANTASTIC!!!! We both agreed that it was one of the top meals that we have had. Then we celebrated one year toghether last night at Zuma Sushi. If you like sush give it a try, we loved it! Very tastful and generous portion sizes. And to top it off we are going to IMAX this weekend to see....you guessed it.....TRANSFORMERS!!!!!

Thanks for a fun two weeks and one fabulous year Cook!!!!

What's New

Well nothing.....But it's been a while since I posted anything so figured I should.

May was a really tiring month for me and am so glad that it is done. As per the usually I worked myself sick with both of the groups I had this month. Which I must say is getting old.

Been working on getting Magnus's new digs all set up as well. Ben adding some plants (fake) and some trees (fake). Also got my heating problem for the tank solved. I ended up bying a heat panel and fastend it to the top of the cage

Neither of teams made it to the Stanley Cup. And I hate the Red Wings and eally dislike the Penguins....So the Stanley Cup does not really matter that much to me this year. Muh like last year since it is a rematch.

Well that's about it..

CROSSFIRE!!!!

Sports Update

Lots of good stuff has been going on in the wide world of sports the past few weeks. Atleast for teams and sports that I follow. Hopefully that will be a trend of things to come.

Lets start with some good ole auto racing. Team Red Bull Has had two good weeks in a row with their Formula One Racing Team. Last week Sebastian Vettel won Team Red Bulls first F1 race at the Grand Prix of China. He followed it up this past weekend with a 2nd place finish at the Grad Prix of Bahrain. Sadly I missed last weeks victory. But saw race ths past weekend, which was pretty exciting. This weekend the Nascar Red Bul team also had a good showing t a crazy race at Talledage Raceway. Both Scott Speed and Brian Vickers finised 5th and 8th respectivly. This was one f the better races I have seen in a while, lots of crashes and excitment. Hopefully both teams can keep it up the rest of the year.

The playoffs started the other week for the NHL. My Canucks got off to a really good start by sweeping the Blues in convincing fashion in the first round. Next up.....The Chicago Blackhawks. The Blackhawks are looking pretty good this year with a powerfull offense. Luckily the Canucks have good defense and one of the top goalies in the NHL. My home team, Washington Capitals, came back from being down 3 games to 1 to beat the Rangers last night in game seven. Next up for them is are the Penguins. This shold be a tough, hard hitting and star studded series with between two teams with a rivialry going back to the old days of the Patrick Division days.

The playoffs also started for the NBA. But I dont really care about that.....


And to top it off the NFL draft was this past weekend. My Redskins didn't trade up to get Mark Sanchez like alot of people thought they might. But they did get the guy they had there eyes on....Brian Orakpo out of Texas. Orakpo was a Defensive End at Texas, but might play as a Linebacker in Washington. ither way hopefully he will be able to contribute to a alredystrong defese that also added one of the top free agents over the offseason, Albert Haynesworth.

New Home For Magnus

So I finally got Magnus's new cage last Friday. It took freakin forever to get it. I placed the order for it back in JUNE! But I finally got it, granted the order was not fully correct, but thats another story. I got him all set up yesterday and he seems to really like it. As you can see he has PLENTY of space to move around. Im probably going to get him some more sticks to climb arond on soon. Once he got settled and went exploring he went back to his favorite spot, his water bowl (Kitty Litter Box).

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