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Originally uploaded by dino0477.
I was eating my dinner out on the Patio. Everyone loved the vodka I had brought in and I only got one glass. I texted my friend in Switzerland that is coming this weekend to see if she can pick up a couple more bottles. It is sooooooooo good, to bad I can't find it in the US.
Okay so I am so relieved now. I feel like this huge weight was lifted. I watched the Argentina vs Germany game which lasted over 2 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. I had asked my office manager if I could take my work with me outside into the waiting room (no patients today) so I could watch the game. For those of you that have not seen it. They were tied 1:1 after the 90 minutes and no goals were shot during the 30 min overtime so they had to do penalty shots. Thats where all the Germans that got to shoot scored and the German goal keeper held 2 of the Argentinian shots so WE WON.
The cooks at the restaurant said yesterday that if Germany won they would buy me drinks and if Argentinia won I would have to pay for their drinks. Well I guess I get to drink tonight. But I may be nice and take the bottle of Puskin Red (a red vodka) I had saved for a special occasion. Here is one of our chefs while eating dinner last night. His brother made me the yummy dish below. 
I had just said no Marinara sauce everything else did not matter. So I got Angelhair pasta with carrots, onion, broccoli, and mushrooms in a parmesan cream sauce.
So now I need to relax so I can watch Italy beat the Ukraine.
smart
Originally uploaded by dino0477.
So my mom just called me at work to tell me that FINALLY the smart car will become available in the US. Ever since Grumpy and I saw them in Europe last year (above is Grumpy with one of the cars we saw then) we knew we wanted one. So now I will have to start saving up for it, I have until 2008. Grumpy and I want one that is the two door version and one with four doors. I just think it is the cutest thing ever. If you want to learn more go to www.smart.com.
Au pairs
Originally uploaded by dino0477.
As the title say these are the au pairs I work with. They are from Germany, Czech, Columbia, Russia, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Mexico. They come here for a year (they have the option to extend for a second year) and live with a family. They take care of the children, take some clasees in school and improve their english while living in a new culture. I was an au pair about 10 years ago. Fun times. I have two meetings a month one is generally fun (water park, museums, limo rides) and the other one we meet at a Barnes and Noble with a Starbucks. we hang out eat cheese cake and drink coffee. Thats what we did today. I also ended up giving them a lecture about DO's and DON'Ts of car use.
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Originally uploaded by dino0477.
So it is still raining and has been all day. I am so SICK of it. The pups are pretty depressed since they do not like to go out in the rain. I was called into work at the restaurant tonight but it was so dead. The rain was not helping. But hey at least I got some yummy food. One of todays specials was Grilled Salmon with broccoli, onion, mushrooms, sundried tomatoes in olive oil and garlic with Angelhair. As I do not eat seafood I left out the Salmon. Mhhhh it was soo good. My boss saw me eat it and decided that was going to be his dinner as well.
This is what it looked like outside of my office this afternoon. It rained hard and long and as you can see part of the lot was flooded but at least we lucked out, DC got the worst of it.
