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Vicki woke me up to go pee this morning. I've been sitting here in my pajamas since 7:00am... and it feels good! hehe I haven't done a lick of work... yet. I've just been playing around online.

I finally got my husband, nodeg, to show me podcasts last night and my iTunes keeps crashing. I have no idea why. I downloaded spy bot search and destroy & ad aware again. Then I ran a full search with those programs plus a boot scan with my anti virus program. Other than a couple tracking cookies, there was nothing on my computer. The virus scan came up clean, so that's good. I just updated my iTunes yesterday, and it's been acting weird since. This is the first time I've tried to use iTunes on this computer. Last night when hubby was showing me how to use it on my computer it was crashing on him too. Now it opens for a second, and when I go into Podcasts it closes immediately. Anybody know what's going on?

Vicki is being good so far this morning. She finally stopped chasing the cats and has been laying in the sun on the spare bed. I just fed her lunch, but I don't think she's hungry. My husband is going to take some pics of me and Vicki for my mom because she wants to see how much her grand dog has grown. We tried the other night, but the camera settings were off, hubby didn't use the flash, then the card was full, etc, etc... Maybe we'll try again later today.

It was very sunny so the pictures I just took came out really dark. I use my husband's camera, but I really don't know what I'm doing. lol I just point and click and hope they come out good. :)

( You can still see how beautiful she is though (+4) )

I totally forgot about the Pooch Icon. Way to go Dixie getting your third place! I'm glad she'll be getting some cookies.

jbredrebel entered her sweet dog into December's contest. Please go vote for Pooky. She's dressed in a Christmas bandana is very lovable.

Vote Pooky!!!

Thanks anomie666, for passing on the results. I haven't been notified by email yet, but Vicki is officially the winner.

CHECK IT OUT!

One more day to go for the contest. My husband has already thrown in the towel. It's almost impossible to win honestly when you're up against cheaters. As soon as we start catching up, the mixed mutt team starts power voting. They got 10 votes since I last refreshed (about 2 hours ago). I can almost picture the guy sitting there eating Doritos in his pyjamas while changing his IP every time we start to catch up. I know the win was ours... before they had to cancel it last time... and before they started cheating this time.

If half my friends list could get half of their list to vote, we'd be set. We can win this! I have a hard time believing that. I wish I never entered Vicki this month... too many cheaters... but we're here now so we have to finish it. I actually stopped paying attention to the contest until yesterday... and I've only checked the votes a couple times since.

Moving on to other things...

The pickles are mostly done. I didn't realize that the onions had to soak for 12 - 18 hours in salt water. I started those first thing, so they'll be ready to pickle tomorrow morning. It's funny how long everything takes just for a couple jars.

I found a 10lb bag of McIntosh apples for $6 or $7 so I bought it. I didn't think I'd be able to get them much cheaper. I want to make some apple crisp tomorrow afternoon before the kids start showing up. I am really excited to see the little kids in their costumes. I'll try to post the recipes tomorrow if I get a chance. I'm too tired tonight after all the hours I just spent in the kitchen. lol

Here's a picture of the finished pickles. I really hope they taste good 'cause they're all new recipes! We'll know if the recipes are worth keeping in a couple of months. lol

( pickles pic )

I'm exhausted and will probably lay down and watch TV.

Oh, before I leave, if anyone is interested in Watkins products let me know. My mother in-law sells their stuff, and also has a Watkins journal (watkinsdaze). She hasn't had time to update it since she joined LJ though, so if you're interested leave me a comment (or email if you prefer - just let me know!), and I can pass your request to her. She has her own personal LJ (mjfs2005) as well, but she's a very busy woman. She delivers to something like 12 flyer routes, sells Tupperware, Watkins, and she probably has more jobs than that. I just thought I'd mention it because she's always looking for more costumers and they have great kitchen products (even cookie mixes if you like to cheat lol). They have lots of great gift ideas if you're looking for something for Christmas. She gives us loads of their products and they are always delicious... very good quality! I don't know how it works for the US (I know Watkins sells there, and there's a seperate catalogue) because we're in Canada, but she might be able to work something out.

Have a good night! And if I don't talk to you tomorrow, have a safe and happy Halloween!!!

We are losing the contest big time! I think Team Vicki lost a lot of support over the confusion of the contest being cancelled. :( We are only at 64 votes, barely holding onto second place. If you haven't voted yet, please go vote!

Please help spread the word on Team Vicki! We need more recruiting support to win this!

Thanks for supporting our pooper! hehe I'll do a Vicki photo shoot at the beginning of November, if we win this. :P

I have only been able to vote once because it tells me I voted already on each new day. I guess that's the limit now. Let me know if you've been able to vote more than once...EDIT: You can only vote once (per computer IP) in this contest.

Thanks again!!!

I am going to be MIA right after I type this. I have a lot of cooking to do today!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Yesterday I had to go out to Candian Tire to get some yard waste bags so I got some chalkboard paint while I was there. Then I swung by Walmart *shudder* and Staples to find some coloured chalk. No luck, so I went to A Buck Or Two and they had some. :D Now we have to make a stencil to spray the paint onto the canisters.

My husband is working, so I have the kitchen all to myself today. I will try to get more pictures of "stuff" today. :D I don't know what I mean by "stuff" either. lol Maybe food, maybe recipes, maybe another house tour... I dunno... no promises 'cause I am too busy today!

I got most of the Halloween decorations up yesterday... which isn't much, but enough to make me smile. :) I don't know if I can hang the old skeleton and pumpkin string lights. I don't know where to put them so they are close to an outlet, and I don't think we have a spare extension cord. I might be able to put them around the window, and in that case I can just buy an extension cord. I have some cob web with plastic spiders to put outside somewhere... I'm thinking from the post of the house, right up near the left side of the door. That will discourage any kids from walking through the garden too. Oh yeah! I still have some little ghost and pumpkin (I think) bags to fill and hang from the tree out front. The decorations won't be too sparse afterall.

I forgot to tell you all that my husband, nodeg, updated his journal the other day. He posted a wonderful recipe for Salsa Chicken that is very easy, but oh so delicious. It's a family recipe now because we make it often. lol Go check him out! If you haven't read him before, he posts a lot of cool links. He doesn't update often ('cause blogging is for girls? lol) but when he does it's worth reading. He has another site back up and running, so some of his LJ posts are mirrored over at: http://nodeg.com If you visit his main site (nodeg.com) check out the section called "My del.icio.us links". He's got some neat stuff linked in there.

And just a reminder that the pooch icon contest will be restarting tomorrow... or possibly the day after. Due to cheating, they were forced to scrap the whole thing and start over.

I hope everyone has a good holiday... or a good Monday! ;)

Someone out there is cheating and is speed voting more than once for several dogs. The Happy Doggie Bakery owner has received several terrible emails accusing her of fixing the contest. I assure you that she wouldn't do that.

It's sad because the contest was so fun in the beginning, and now it's been spoiled. I hope that whoever is cheating stops. It doesn't even feel worth the effort for a $25 prize anymore.

I am going to submit my one vote a day and not worry about the scores until October 31st. Thanks to all my friends who have been supporting Vicki and playing the game fair.

Help support this Canadian company that gives back to the community. The treats are awesome! Just ask Vicki! lol They smell good enough to eat. Just ask my husband! lol He actually ate one 'cause they smelled so good. ;) Please spread the good word on the Happy Doggie Bakery.

I only hope that Happy Doggie Bakery gets more customers out of this contest, after all the flack they've been getting.

That's it until 31 Oct 05. Again, thanks for playing fair!

Some people are having trouble with voting for Team Vicki.

You are allowed to vote everday. The trouble is that the service used for the poll records the time that you last voted. If you try to vote before 24 hours is up, you will get the message "You've Already Voted!" For example: If you vote at 11:45pm on 5 Oct, it will not let you vote again at 12:15am on 6 Oct.

If that happens, just delete your internet cookies (Tools -> Internet Options -> Delete Cookies). You should be able to go back and enter your vote again, this time having it accepted. It should give you the message "Thank you!"

Another way to ensure you can vote without having your vote deleted is to vote at roughly the same time each day.

Please note that if you continue to delete your cookies and vote several times a day, your extra votes will be disqualified. Your IP is recorded and any extra votes are removed from the server at the end of every day.

You can still vote on multiple computers (home & work). I appreciate all your efforts to recruit friends and family into this race!

The contest runs through all of October, so please continue to vote daily!

( We are kicking butt right now! )

Keep up the good work, guys!

EDIT 1: Holy crap!@! Spike has gone up nearly a thousand votes in the last half hour! What the???!?! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

EDIT 2: SERIOUSLY! GO HIT REFRESH ON THE POLL. IT'S UNBELIEVABLE!! It goes up about 3 votes by the time I can hit refresh. I hope they are cheating 'cause it seems impossible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Holy crap! Henry is in the lead out of nowhere! Go Team Vicki!

It looks like everyone’s first choice in my last poll was the picture of Vicki sitting on the couch with the cats. That was my favourite too. Thanks to all those who voted to help me decide! I hope you guys will go to the Happy Doggie Bakery site to vote for her in October. :D hehe

The Happy Doggie Bakery brought a bunch of peanut butter bones over last night. Vicki nearly took me down when she leapt to get a bone out of my hand. lol There is no need to say how much she liked them. They kindly threw in a couple extra bones for the spoiled girl. That was really nice.

On to other things...

I was watching TV in bed last night and guess what was on. Naruto was playing on YTV... in English! I couldn’t believe it... well, I probably should since it was bound to happen. It looked like they were playing the first episode. I didn’t much care for the English version. Naruto sounds adorable in the sub titled ones, but in the English dubbed one he sounds like an annoying brat. I think the translation is a little different too. I’ll probably still watch it though. hehe

I started my work shifts yesterday, so I’ll be working night shifts tomorrow and Monday. Then I’ll be off for 5 1/2 days. Sep 24th & 25th is the Artists and Artisans sidewalk sale in Merickville. I mentioned a while back that we were planning on going to this event. I am hoping to get some X-Mas shopping done. :D

We still have to fix that fuc leak in the bathroom, but won’t get around to it until we are on days off. There just aren’t enough hours in the day. *sigh*

I have a Photoshop project in mind. I want to make some more icons of Vicki. I have a few ideas.

Now I must go eat something!