Yay! Another Houstonian! We spent the weekend showing my in-laws our part of Houston, and they were pretty impressed with the green space (we live in Montrose, but wandered over to Hermann Park, Rice, the Med Center, downtown, Buffalo Bayou Park, and parts of River Oaks). They LOVED the food, and having left a frigid…

Twice a year I go to Ojo Caliente in New Mexico, which has iron, arsenic, soda and lithia waters to soak in. I have no idea if they improve my health, but they certainly improve my stress level. http://www.ojospa.com/spa.php?action…

Thanks. I’m not THAT worried. The “getting pregnant” part has been the real challenge. I’ll worry about a hermetically sealed room once we’ve accomplished step one. (Three years and counting! Woo....?)

There are 8 cases in my county in Texas. Which has a lot of mosquitoes. And I’m trying to get pregnant.

Huh. I saw it in 1988 with the original cast. I was 14 years old, I think, and it was quite a big event at the time. Loved it.

My husband calls this “musical terrorism”. He does this when he’s feeling particularly nasty.

It’s a hard cycle (so to speak) to break. If there were more cyclists on the road, more people probably would feel comfortable riding their bikes. I’m not anti-cyclist in the slightest, but when an acquaintance was killed on Memorial a few years ago, half of the comment thread in the article about the accident was…

There’s a ghost bike at the end of my block to remind me why biking in Houston is insane.

Also, no hills, so anyone training for events with hills either have to go to spin class or find a parking garage to go up and down. My spin instructor lives in Houston and has a lot of his training for Leadville was through spin…

My husband has talked about changing his last name to mine, mainly because he gets called Mr. mylastname more than I get called Mrs. hislastname. But since it’s a nice way of weeding out telemarketers, we’re happy with the status quo.

That color work from afar looks really nice. I really like the glimpse of it in this picture. I’m not quite sure what my big back piece will be, but kudos to him for having found a good artist.

Cluck Norris, the chicken, might have been my favorite part of the act, but the band was a close second.

Tuna, more cowbell.

Yes, at the show I saw, two kittens were the warm up act. They apparently had been found somewhere nearby, and the trainers taught them a few basic tricks to con audience members into adopting them.

I’ve seen their show live, and the cats are awesome! And more cooperative when in a small theater on the east side of Houston than under the bright lights of a television studio in New York.

They are like felt, though different pulis will have different textures (I’ve had four, and my parents have had five since I was a baby). Their cords are very soft, and that usually surprises people. At some of the big dog shows there are “meet the breed” events where puli owners will let members of the general public…

Celosa was our ring bearer. She carried the rings up to the officiant, came when her part was called, and stood by as we took them from her. She was no worse than a four year old in a wedding with similar duties. Except none of the four year olds we knew at the time lived with us from six weeks until the day of the…

He was my soulmate dog. I got him when I was 19 as a puppy and he died when I was 35. I didn't know how to adult without him but he made sure I found my husband before he left me. And yes, he zig-zagged when he ran.

My Celosa puli had ribbons in her cords for our wedding.

There were four dogs (two published, a corgi and a dachshund) in my wedding. I’m pretty sure they were there because they were members of the family.

I had a weird affinity for this marriage because Winston, Gavin’s puli, was in their wedding party. I have pulis as well-my Relampago was roughly the same age as Winston—and everyone who saw the picture of Winston in the wedding pictures sent me links and copies of the photos.

I had more invested in this particular…

A friend of mine’s kid at two years old ended up on a TSA watch-list because his (and his uncle’s) full name matched that of a Mexican terrorist. Apparently that particular ring was familial, so a lot of Hisnames end up on the list. She was pregnant at the time this happened, so her next kid (and the one that…