a lot of repatriate activities. someone is throwing a halloween party, another is planning a repatriate lunch. this is great. for halloween, i will be arthur and arthur will be... me. genius. it is going to be a riot. especially because arthur does a great impression of me.

for a while now i have been thinking about building or moving into a home... my own house. I have an apartment, athur has an apartment but a house really is something different. with prices rising and rising i am thinking of moving fast. at first i was thinking of waiting until we see how many additions there will be to the family... blah blah blah... but the prices and the real estate boom is forcing me to think fast... and just guestimate... i will keep you updated.

for those of you who are interested in ozy and that storyline (since so many people complain that i talk about her way too much) i have news. at first arthur was completely against a dog. he had never ever pet one before... he hated dogs. it was our biggest marital problem... to have a dog or not to have a dog... i was tormented... always being a dog person and craving one more than ever, i cried and cried... so he finally gave in. it has been four months since ozy, our golden retriever wonder, came into our home... arthur has..... fallen in LOVE. they lay on the couch together... i get the chair next to the couch. he spends his evenings walking with her... instead of lying around and reading with me... before everyone who saw ozy on the street would say... "beautiful dog"... to which arthur would reply... "do you want her?"... NOW... he replies with "And she is very smart too". He then goes on to show them many of her tricks. for example, he puts a treat on her nose... she sits there with the treat on her nose... until he says HOPA then she throws it in the air and catches it in her mouth. talent runs in our family.