http://joleine.com/index.php/site/index/ This is Joleine Sigler's home on the interwebetron. I'm not quite sure what to put here but my husband made me put some sort of description. en joleiney@gmail.com Copyright 2008 2008-07-04T01:50:01-08:00 http://joleine.com/index.php/joleine/article/crazy_husband_antics/ http://joleine.com/index.php/joleine/article/crazy_husband_antics/#When:01:50:01Z So I don’t usually share the crazy antics that go on in our house on a daily basis, because well then I’d be posting all the dang time.... But this week has left me with extra funny material to share.. The other night we’re cleaning up the house for company to come over.. I’m in the living room fixing the damn curtain rod for the umpteenth time while Mike is in the kitchen dusting the table.. when all of a sudden he exclaims “oh my gosh, there is a HUGE scratch on the table!!!” and I tell him “Yeah, there’s been a scratch on it for a while.. “ but oh no, he continues to tell me that it’s this HUGE gouge that will never be able to be repaired as if *someone* set something big and metal on the table and it dug into it.. it’s just so huge, he’s so disappointed that our pretty new (We bought it in February) table is RUINED for good now. So after I fix the curtains I head into the kitchen to find this OMGHUGE gouge in the table.. A quick “scratch” with my own thumbnail revealed it was just some dried food of sort.. no scratch, no gouge.. nothing.. Kind of amusing if you ask me But wait.. the days get even better around here.. Last night Mike asked the dog “would you like an ice cube” (dogs love ice cubes, it’s crazy really) and proceeds to get an ice shard from the freezer door and drop it on the floor where it promptly melts before the dog can even lick it.  So I tell him “why don’t you get a full cube?” .. so he presses the “cube” button on the freezer door, puts his hand under the dispenser.. and presses.. wait for it.. the WATER button.. I don’t think I had laughed so hard in a really long time.. It was amusing to see him dispensing the water all onto his hand. Oh fun times at the Sigler household for sure.. Mike, Personal 2008-07-04T01:50:01-08:00 http://joleine.com/index.php/joleine/article/puppy_update/ http://joleine.com/index.php/joleine/article/puppy_update/#When:05:03:00Z First off, not sure if I mentioned it before, his name is Xander.. He’ll be 12 weeks old on Saturday and he’s just oh so freaking cute He’s doing great!  He had a very busy and exhausting weekend with grandpa(my dad) in town and auntie Jen and the puppy-cousins visiting.  The puppy-cousins seemed scared to play with such a little guy and he let them know his displeasure with their lack of enthusiasm over playing with him, by barkbarkbarking for many many hours.. to the point he was hoarse!  He wasn’t liking eating very much to the point I was worried he was losing weight.. So I read some Boxerworld.com forums and decided to see if he’d eat his food if it was watered down.. Low and behold he LOVES it that way and eats the entire bowl without stopping or complaining.  We had a breakthrough with the potty training this morning when he walked down the stairs by himself (I used to have to carry him to make sure he didn’t just stop and pee somewhere) and walked outside, pottied.. came in, ate ALL of his breakfast while I sat on the couch doing my makeup.. When he was done eating I said “go outside and go potty” and he did just that, walked outside on his own and went potty!  He came back in and played with his toys some before we had to go to work, when Mike came down to get his shoes on I said “Xander, outside go potty one more time” and he did just that, walked outside and went pee.  You should’ve seen the look on Mike’s face!  His chin was dropped, mouth wide open shocked!  He said “how did you get him to do that?” I said “he just did it.. he just got it, I don’t know, but I hope it sticks!” He got a treat of course for being good, and another treat for going in his kennel so well.  We’ve now taking him on 2 long walks (1 mile each) and he does well.  He did better the 1st day (Tuesday) than yesterday, but I think that is because yesterday we went about 30 minutes earlier and all the neighborhood dogs were out for their walks too.  We’ll have to see how he does tonight I’ve taken some pictures and put them on Flickr here:  http://flickr.com/photos/joleine/sets/72157605488794450/ I need to take some more as he’s getting big!! Personal, Xander 2008-06-20T05:03:00-08:00 http://joleine.com/index.php/joleine/article/puppy/ http://joleine.com/index.php/joleine/article/puppy/#When:04:05:00Z Tonight Mike and I drove out to BFE (Estacada, Oregon) to look at some puppies.  Mike decided for my birthday, I should get a puppy.. I’ve wanted a boxer for years and years and now we finally get one!  He’s almost 8 weeks old, but we’re not going to pick him up until he’s 10 weeks old.  But I gave the lady a check and we’ll go get him on June 7th!  He’s oh so cute.  The lady has named him “patches” for now.. but I’m sure we’ll pick a new name He’s the puppy on the left in the picture, the one with the patch around his eye I can’t wait to bring him home!  We’re very excited.  I even went and bought “Boxers for Dummies” today and will read it front and back a few times before getting him! Personal, Pictures 2008-05-21T04:05:00-08:00 http://joleine.com/index.php/joleine/article/yard_garden_and_patio_show/ http://joleine.com/index.php/joleine/article/yard_garden_and_patio_show/#When:18:10:00Z Okay so we didn’t go to a show.. But we did do some work on our yard, garden and patio this weekend! Started on Saturday morning with a trip to Lowes: Left there and it was raining a lot.. Mike got home from helping Jim out at his house and we needed to go BACK to Lowes.. So off we went. Came home and started tearing up a corner of the yard to put the garden.  That was a feat in and of itself, since all of our soil for the first foot down is chock full of pebbles and below that is very full of clay.. Lovely ‘eh?  So the odds of our garden flourishing are NOT in our favor.  Oh well! After a couple of hours of digging in the dirt and moving it around, laying some top soil, mulch, etc.. We have a garden! Sunday we got up and Mike mowed the lawn.. Then it was BACK to Lowes to buy a grill! As you can see, we needed one badly, as this is our old grill.. ugh That was our weekend.. Now we’re exhausted and just want to sleep, and eat food off of our grill Personal, Pictures 2008-05-05T18:10:00-08:00 http://joleine.com/index.php/joleine/article/real_life/ http://joleine.com/index.php/joleine/article/real_life/#When:13:41:01Z I’m pretty sure this is a conversation that has been had at my house 2008-04-30T13:41:01-08:00 http://joleine.com/index.php/joleine/article/halfway_there/ http://joleine.com/index.php/joleine/article/halfway_there/#When:04:30:00Z This last weekend was absolutely fantastic.. Friday after work Mike and I went to Beer and Blog at The Green Dragon for a little bit.  I had to leave at 5:20 to go to Dosha to get my hair done. How does it look? Saturday we got up and had to go back out to The Green Dragon so he could get his debit card he left the night before and grab some lunch.  I had already eaten a decent sized breakfast so I just had some crepes w/ rasberry jam and nutella (OHMYGOD so yum) and Mike had a cajun meatloaf sandwich (YUCK).  After lunch we headed back towards our house stopping at Target to get presents for Jim’s oldest daughter Hannah’s birthday.  We got her some cute pink and brown plaid shorts with a pink tshirt and a brown tshirt.  Also got her 2 books.  Headed to Jim and Rebeccas house for Hannahs birthday party.  She’s 9, wow, that makes ME feel old.  We hung out at their house all night, having dinner, playing games and watching The Mist and oh my gosh, it was great.  If you like “scary” (not gory horror, but suspenseful, wtf type movies) movies you need to see this movie asap. After watching The Mist we headed home having borrowed Once curled up on the couch and watched that.  If you haven’t seen it, SEE IT NOW.  Go, leave your house right now go to Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, The Red Box, whatever.. and rent Once.. See it. It’s good.. The soundtrack is awesome too. Sunday we got up and cleaned house. ughhh.. Hate cleaning :D We were having some friends over to have dinner and play games, so we had to get the house presentable Martin & Lia and Alex & Kim came over and we all had a great time.  Played a few games, ate dinner and hung out. Monday I went to the podiatrist to get my toe looked at.  I’ve been nursing an Ingrown Toenail for a couple of months so it was getting to the point that it hurt more often than not, so off to the doctor I went.  The doctor and I discussed my options and we decided since this was the 2nd time I’ve had one in this toe in the last few years, it was time to fix it permanently.  I made an appointment to go back today to have that done and headed to work. Today I got up and back to the podiatrist to get the toe fixed.  The doctor is a really nice guy and he explained in great (I mean GREAT) detail exactly what he was going to do, then did it.  OKay so it wasn’t that simple.  It took him about 45 minutes to get the damn thing numb enough to do the rest of the procedure and that part hurt a LOT.  :( Once it was all done and overwith everything was pretty numb so I was on my way back to work.  However, some asshat in the parking lot parked *SO* close to me, I had to climb in my passenger door.  I was not pleased about that at all.  Especially since this moron that parked so close had a handicapped permit hanging from their window!  This hospital will do free valet parking for handicapped people! And I was parked about as far away from the entrance as I could, because the parking spots are SO tight at this hospital, I was trying to avoid what had happened.  Grr, I was not happy.  This weekend the weather is supposed to be nice, lets hope it is as I’m heading to the beach for the day on Saturday Personal, Pictures 2008-04-24T04:30:00-08:00 http://joleine.com/index.php/joleine/article/my_own_personal_graphic_designer/ http://joleine.com/index.php/joleine/article/my_own_personal_graphic_designer/#When:18:24:00Z As most people that know me obviously realize, I did not create this website all on my own.  I do accounting for a living, and can barely operate MS Paint.  However my darling husband, does graphic design for a living and took the time out of his schedule last year to great my website.  I told him “I want it, pink” so he went with that and made me what we all came to know and love as the OMGBIGGIANTPINKEXPLOSIONOFGOODNESS site that I had up until last week.  Then a couple of weeks ago I said “I think I want it, less pink… can we add some brown in there?” so then he redesigned it real quick with some new colors.  Yay!  Well that was all fine and dandy until Firefox 3 came out and everyone started upgrading to that (myself included) and everything broke :( Well when he was changing it to the brown theme, he fixed that too.  Yay Again! So I just wanted to thank Mike for all of his hard work on my site in addition to all of the other sites he does.  He does good web. Mike 2008-04-18T18:24:00-08:00 http://joleine.com/index.php/joleine/article/threadless/ http://joleine.com/index.php/joleine/article/threadless/#When:18:12:00Z A month ago Mike ordered us some shirts off of Threadless.  He got me 2 cute ones, Refrigerator Running and Collateral Damage.  I wore the cutsie yellow and bunny-fied shirt right away, loved it!  Then when I went to wear my cute blue tshirt with the adorable refrigerator on it, I noticed there was this weird square outline from where they screenprinted the shirt.  Dangit!  I couldn’t wear it.  So after a couple of weeks of my attempting to remind Mike to return the shirt, I finally sent it back on Monday.  He got notice yesterday that they sent out a replacement, free of (shipping) charge obviously.  They also sent him a code for $7 off of his next purchase.  So kudos goes out to Threadless by standing by their product, making the return/exchange process smooth and easy, and most definately enticing us to buy more shirts!  In case anyone hasn’t noticed, Mike has about 30 threadless shirts.  Moral of the story, buy from Threadless! Personal 2008-04-18T18:12:00-08:00 http://joleine.com/index.php/joleine/article/r_palate/ http://joleine.com/index.php/joleine/article/r_palate/#When:18:11:00Z Wednesday night I went with Mike to Baileys Taproom so he could meet up with some geekytype people and we could have beer.  So we had beer, he met the geeky type people and then we decided to play some Scrabble.  Scrabble with Mike is NOT fun, he cheats and “bends” the rules so that they work out to his advantage and I don’t enjoy it :( But we still had a fun time even though he cheated!  After that we decided we’d just stop somewhere for dinner since it was already 8 and by the time I got home to cook, we’d be eating after 9pm.  So we stopped by this little hole in the wall joint on 6th and Oak called R Palate.  It looked skeevy to me at first and the stuff on the menu didn’t look all that great at first.  I decided to get the duck, which was pan seared with a date butter sauce and served with goat cheese risotto (think, yummy cheesy rice).  It was to die for.. Oh sooooo good. Mike had a flank steak that was super tender and he said it was the best steak he’s had.  I tasted it and while yes, it was tender, I wasn’t a fan of the flavor.  The place was great and we’re looking forward to going back there.  Personal, Restaurants 2008-04-18T18:11:00-08:00 http://joleine.com/index.php/joleine/article/margaret_cho_comes_to_portland/ http://joleine.com/index.php/joleine/article/margaret_cho_comes_to_portland/#When:18:11:00Z Last night we went to see Margaret Cho live.  Mike was kind enough to buy me tickets many months ago when they went on presale, and I’ve been patiently waiting the entire time to go.  It was a great show, absolutely hilarious.  Ian Harvie was her opening act and he/she was a riot too.  We had a great time and now I want to go home and watch all of her DVD’s all over again.  I really enjoy what Margaret always has to talk about, and I am really glad that this time she pretty much kept the political/war talk to a minimum.  Sometimes she gets so into what she’s discussing that she goes off on a tangent.. Which is all fine and dandy but her political/war tangents tend to get a little angry and I don’t miss them at all.  Before the show we stopped at Oliver Twist restaurant in the Hilton for dinner.  Food was good, although our weird portobello mushroom appetizer was disgusting.  I was mildly amused that while we were waiting for our food some interesting people were seated next to us.  They had some troubles getting into the seat because of where it was located and the pepper fell off of their table.  When Mike picked the pepper up to put it back on the table, one of the diners called him “sweets” .. I was amused to say the least.  I still don’t know if that particular diner was a MTF or FTM .. Having a hard time distinguishing, what with the feminine voice and the beard.. I am however, very surprised I do not have Margaret’s “Eat my pussy” song, stuck in my head..... Personal 2008-04-18T18:11:00-08:00