<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358</id><updated>2011-04-21T16:25:28.773-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome to... The Monkey's Closet</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>44</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-3628476910431627665</id><published>2007-01-17T21:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-17T21:48:34.992-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Post-Christmas Team Building Party</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;For our "Christmas Party" our fearless leaders at Dynamic took us all (and our guests) to The Cookworks in Toronto. For those of you that have never heard of it- it's a restaurant where you break into teams and make your meal alongside professional chefs. It was so much fun (and super delicious) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;The First course (my group) made Hot Pot Soup, the second course was a yummy salad with the best balsamic dressing ever, the main course was the best beef i've ever tasted, and the dessert group (Kyle's group) made pastry filled with iced cream and covered in chocolate and iced cream. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;The favourite team of the evening turned out to be team drink. It was unlimited drink here, and everyone took advantage of- and then some. I definately work with a unique crowd- either that or I have never gotten drunk with middle age people (everything from dancing around the table to singing in unison to feeling other people up!)  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Here are some of the pictures! (courtesy of a co worker!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5021195037986411266" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_JZ3v0QVkGUc/Ra7eSJsiUwI/AAAAAAAAAAw/pA7mEvXPGbA/s320/dinner+Party.jpg" border="0" /&gt;(Andrea, Me, Kyle, and Neil)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5021195196900201234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_JZ3v0QVkGUc/Ra7ebZsiUxI/AAAAAAAAAA4/R3m-oCWIppo/s320/The+Cookworks.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;(The Chefs)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5021195433123402530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_JZ3v0QVkGUc/Ra7epJsiUyI/AAAAAAAAABA/AdF9t0-FuKg/s320/The+Winning+Tea,.jpg" border="0" /&gt;(The Winning Team)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I forgot to mention- each group had to present our dish in a creative way- and Dr. Kyle Pile's claims that the dessert was everyone's window to weight lose completely took the cake! Here he is with his prize.. a gold scrubber brush- which means he's in charge of scrubbing all the pots for LIFE!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5021196120318169906" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_JZ3v0QVkGUc/Ra7fRJsiUzI/AAAAAAAAABI/p0vsyI0dQhA/s320/Sand+and+Kyle.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;(Sand and Kyle's quest for a half-desent picture continues.. an awesome picture of Kyle, but I look like i'm trying to eat the flower.. but it was the best one that my bosses husband could get!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-3628476910431627665?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/3628476910431627665/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=3628476910431627665' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/3628476910431627665'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/3628476910431627665'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2007/01/post-christmas-team-building-party.html' title='Post-Christmas Team Building Party'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_JZ3v0QVkGUc/Ra7eSJsiUwI/AAAAAAAAAAw/pA7mEvXPGbA/s72-c/dinner+Party.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-3618637769531760378</id><published>2007-01-02T20:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-02T21:07:13.567-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy New Year!</title><content type='html'>Hope you all had a VERY Merry Christmas and enjoyed a happy New Year's Eve...&lt;br /&gt;Kyle and I went to this CRAZY James Bond 007 party up at Blue Mountain. (Although without the scantily clad young women carrying large playing cards and the James Bond Logo on the big screen one may have run the risk of missing the boat on that one- especially at the lack of martinis!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But we had an awesome time.. got to dress up.. DANCE.. and Kyle even ran into a slew of friends from high school.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's the skinny on the evening as a whole:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE BEST PART: (after spending an evening out with Kyle of course!) would have to be the large ice sculpture of the Coors light beer bottle.. i like to say its hick meets chic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_JZ3v0QVkGUc/RZsOJi8GvVI/AAAAAAAAAAM/695qw9gK3mw/s1600-h/DSC02087.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5015618167167696210" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_JZ3v0QVkGUc/RZsOJi8GvVI/AAAAAAAAAAM/695qw9gK3mw/s320/DSC02087.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_JZ3v0QVkGUc/RZsOJi8GvVI/AAAAAAAAAAM/695qw9gK3mw/s1600-h/DSC02087.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE WORST PART: (after fighting an awful cold that would later turn into bronchitis) crazy little town has no cabs guys! we waited for about an hour and 45 minutes (in the designated cab area) and saw not one cab. In the end we took a shuttle bus back into Collingwood and had to walk home in the rain.. in my heels.. with my cold.. and Kyle threatening to move to a town where cabs are plentiful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5015618725513444706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_JZ3v0QVkGUc/RZsOqC8GvWI/AAAAAAAAAAU/b8nGBa58S30/s320/DSC02097.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-3618637769531760378?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/3618637769531760378/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=3618637769531760378' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/3618637769531760378'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/3618637769531760378'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2007/01/happy-new-year.html' title='Happy New Year!'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_JZ3v0QVkGUc/RZsOJi8GvVI/AAAAAAAAAAM/695qw9gK3mw/s72-c/DSC02087.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-116359739529912509</id><published>2006-11-15T08:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-15T08:29:55.410-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Lisbon</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01998.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01998.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A couple pictures from our day trip to Lisbon- my FAVOURITE city in the world!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC02013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC02013.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is Di'a picture... 3 months later and i'm starting to appreciate it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01990.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01990.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC02016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC02016.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diana finally appreciates my favourite strip in downtown Lisbon! (I don't think she's ever purchased anything from a street vendor before!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01988.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01988.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC02021.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC02021.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The entrance to the Vasco de Gama center.. perhaps the greatest shopping mall in the world...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC02031.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC02031.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me and my purchases waiting for the train!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-116359739529912509?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/116359739529912509/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=116359739529912509' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/116359739529912509'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/116359739529912509'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/11/lisbon.html' title='Lisbon'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-116359522851238034</id><published>2006-11-15T07:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-15T08:02:54.600-05:00</updated><title type='text'>more Sintra pics</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01914.2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01914.2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Di, Ines and i- after the 2 hour hike up the old ruin's stairs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01895.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01895.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The georgeous palace that we weren't supposed to get into.. th eline for tickets was something like 2 hours.. but the nice man at the gate let us in without them!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01882.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01882.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01876.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01876.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01859.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01859.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01851.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01851.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01703.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01703.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01701.2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01701.2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01693.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01693.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This little bakery is part of my ongoing portugese pastery tour.. quite tasty but i think Belem still holds the "best portugese pastry" title..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01735.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01735.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are some people i don't know. but the picture sure turned out well!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-116359522851238034?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/116359522851238034/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=116359522851238034' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/116359522851238034'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/116359522851238034'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/11/more-sintra-pics.html' title='more Sintra pics'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-116309236098247474</id><published>2006-11-09T11:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-09T22:21:01.586-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Portugal</title><content type='html'>Well- better late then never right? after about two months of careful deliberation i've narrowed my 850 potugal pictures to... well.. somthing less that 850!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01605.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01605.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yummy barbequed sardinhas! And the trick to picking the fresh ones? make sure they're still bleeding. (words of wisdom from a little old potugese lady at the market)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01619.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01619.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is Diana's stomache. sure- it looks calm and serene on the outside.. but after a half a bottle of wine and a whole wheel of cheese it's not so happy on the inside. On top of it is the "natural" laxative she sent us out for!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01590.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01590.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My cousin Ines chillin' on the Beach. In Portugal for a total of 3 weeks, and we got to spend over 2 on the beaches of the Algarve!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01581.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01581.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't i look like i've been super-imposed on top of this picture? was i really even there?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01631.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01631.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Diana and I enjoying our nightly cappucino at bar 42 in the Algarve... so yummy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01650.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01650.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Valter (Ines boyfriend), myself, Diana and Ines enjoying a deliciously girly cocktail with super long straws.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01382.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01382.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Beautiful scenery of the first beach we hit in the algarve (Lagos)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These are some pictures from our day trip to Sintra. It was beautiful- but tons of walking.. we hiked up like 1.5 hours worth of old stairs to get to the top- but the view was worth it! (interesting tid bit- you could also see the house where they filmed the Ninth Gate.. probably the closest i'll ever get to Johnny Depp)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01701.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01701.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01701.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01701.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01701.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01701.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01691.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01691.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-116309236098247474?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/116309236098247474/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=116309236098247474' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/116309236098247474'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/116309236098247474'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/11/portugal.html' title='Portugal'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-115637943142881704</id><published>2006-08-23T20:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-23T20:30:31.470-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ahhh!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC02034.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC02034.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC02033.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC02033.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guess what! Ryan has finally proposed to my sister.. something i have been waiting for for a very long time! you know what this means? I pretty much get a license to look at wedding magazines, go wedding dress shopping- all the fun with no strings attatched!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He proposed after picking Di up from the airport after our trip.. surprising her with a romantic dinner, roses, and champagne truffles.. (di was still completely surprised when he pulled the ring box out of the fridge for "dessert" thinking "what kind of dessert comes in there?")&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(this also means we're that much closer to having a bun in the oven and me being an aunt!!!!!!!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Congrats Di and Ryan!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC02035.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC02035.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-115637943142881704?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/115637943142881704/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=115637943142881704' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/115637943142881704'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/115637943142881704'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/08/ahhh.html' title='Ahhh!'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-115375441595432096</id><published>2006-07-24T11:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-07-24T11:20:16.006-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ciao Ottawa</title><content type='html'>Song of the day- Bright Eyes "First Day of my Life"- download it... it's great- and if you have a second watch the &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGDpE7K_6ao&amp;search=bright%20eyes"&gt;video&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes- While everyone moves on to bigger and better things/places (Kingston/Calgary/South America) i'm regressing and moving back in with my parents.. but there are bonuses right? no rent... free food... a loving home.... no buses... a fuzzy dog???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01210.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01210.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway- yesterday was my last full day enjoying the city/my independence, so Kyle and I took to the market, packed a picnic lunch and hung out on the hill overlooking Ottawa/Hull.  We had an awesome day..   In other news- only 7 more days until i leave for Europe!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01225.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01225.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-115375441595432096?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/115375441595432096/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=115375441595432096' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/115375441595432096'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/115375441595432096'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/07/ciao-ottawa.html' title='Ciao Ottawa'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-115315267344153640</id><published>2006-07-17T12:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-07-17T12:11:13.466-04:00</updated><title type='text'>If you see a heat wave, should you wave back?</title><content type='html'>Good lord people- i've tried and tried.. but i have quickly realized i can not live without an air-conditioner... or at least a cool basement...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been taking about 3 COLD showers a day, sleeping with 3 fans on me.. and i still sweat like a fat kid chasing a cheeseburger...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AND tomorrow i have to start packing- in this heat? i don't think so.&lt;br /&gt;I think it just might be a beach day if this humidity keeps up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any suggestions????&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-115315267344153640?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/115315267344153640/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=115315267344153640' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/115315267344153640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/115315267344153640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/07/if-you-see-heat-wave-should-you-wave.html' title='If you see a heat wave, should you wave back?'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-115290345041486825</id><published>2006-07-14T14:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-07-14T14:57:30.426-04:00</updated><title type='text'>T minus 17 days and counting!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/img7392886.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/img7392886.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;only 17 more days till Diana and I jump on a plane to Portugal.. and i'm starting to get excited!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We'll be staying with our super cool cousin down there.. and traveling around (camping) with her friends! This will mark the first time seeing the country without my parents!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We'll be traveling to the BEAUTIFUL Monte Gordo beach in the southern points, perhaps venturing into Spain (Sevilla) and tak&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/Sevilla.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/Sevilla.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ing time to travel up north (to Porto) as well...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's going to be (for lack of a better term...) F&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/porto-riverboats2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/porto-riverboats2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;reakin' Sweet !&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-115290345041486825?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/115290345041486825/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=115290345041486825' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/115290345041486825'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/115290345041486825'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/07/t-minus-17-days-and-counting.html' title='T minus 17 days and counting!'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-115280841959627334</id><published>2006-07-13T12:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-07-13T12:45:55.183-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh David Hasselhoff....</title><content type='html'>"Jump in my car"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thesuperficial.com/2006/07/10/david_hasselhoff_jump_in_my_ca.html"&gt;http://www.thesuperficial.com/2006/07/10/david_hasselhoff_jump_in_my_ca.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Secret Agent Man"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6P8JYY5AzI&amp;eurl="&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6P8JYY5AzI&amp;amp;eurl=&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Falling in Love Again"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.videocure.com/music-video-code/d/fc0a9bbf7622d872fe982011aecdbc3b.html"&gt;http://www.videocure.com/music-video-code/d/fc0a9bbf7622d872fe982011aecdbc3b.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And my personal favourite- "Hooked on a Feeling"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.planetvids.com/html/David-Hasselhoff-Music-Video.html"&gt;http://www.planetvids.com/html/David-Hasselhoff-Music-Video.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my ode to the Hoff and his green screen-  his best music videos in one sweet post.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-115280841959627334?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/115280841959627334/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=115280841959627334' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/115280841959627334'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/115280841959627334'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/07/oh-david-hasselhoff.html' title='Oh David Hasselhoff....'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-115272636092513629</id><published>2006-07-12T13:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-07-12T13:49:43.083-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Massari and Belly...</title><content type='html'>vs suburban neighborhood in Greely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I was working with Paula at work yesterday (she's a mom of 2 small boys) and she told me that music stars Massari and Belly moved into a house in their neighborhood! (don't know who they are? check out belly's site- Bellylive.com- which is Painted on a huge white escalade across an even more imposing picture of the artist.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway- apparently the new tenants presented their new neighbor's with a massive gift basket- letting them know they'd be 'recording' there, and there "might" be an increase in traffic around the house. Please remember- this is like a nice house in a nice suburban FAMILY oriented area.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HA! Last week around 8 o'clock PM (read- kids still playing in the streets) the house was rushed by police officers WITH RIFLES DRAWN!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope poor Massari has extra gift baskets in his basements!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FYI- the old tenants of the house used it for porn.. As the poor old man across the street found out when he saw a group of young naked Asian girls run across the big open front windows repeatedly! (Ottawahotties.com if you're interested!) perhaps that's why Massari wanted the house?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note to self- don't buy a house in Greely!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HAPPY BIRTHDAY CORINA!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-115272636092513629?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/115272636092513629/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=115272636092513629' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/115272636092513629'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/115272636092513629'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/07/massari-and-belly.html' title='Massari and Belly...'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-115116402404675480</id><published>2006-06-24T11:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-24T11:47:04.066-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Stephen Colbert discusses the highly controversial topic of Gay Snake Marriage-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is for anyone looking forward to the hot new flick.. you got it... snakes on a plane.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailysixer.com/colbertsnakes.shtml"&gt;http://www.dailysixer.com/colbertsnakes.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-115116402404675480?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/115116402404675480/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=115116402404675480' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/115116402404675480'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/115116402404675480'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/06/stephen-colbert-discusses-highly.html' title=''/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-114965785112242914</id><published>2006-06-07T01:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-07T01:24:11.150-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Keep the hot HOT....</title><content type='html'>Lol! here's for all you Seinfeld fans out there...&lt;br /&gt;Check out Jason Alexander's moves! (and who else votes we bring back the 80's 3 quarter length sleeve jacket for men??)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://dailysixer.com/jamcd.shtml"&gt;http://dailysixer.com/jamcd.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-114965785112242914?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/114965785112242914/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=114965785112242914' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114965785112242914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114965785112242914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/06/keep-hot-hot.html' title='Keep the hot HOT....'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-114873688085426834</id><published>2006-05-27T09:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-27T11:07:40.780-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kamila!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01143.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01143.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Finally some blog-worthy events.... Kamila's working at a fair in gloucestor this weekend (about a 10 minutes drive from us) so Jen, Rob and I swung down to see her...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01149.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01149.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rob gets sucked in by a fast talkin carnie...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01147.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01147.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01147.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01147.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(he weighs the pros and cons...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01147.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01147.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01147.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01147.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01151.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01151.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(He talks it over with the wife...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01152.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01152.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(He wins!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01146.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01146.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01144.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01144.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01142.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01142.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We got to go feed the goats in the petting zoo.. very cute.. but lord it looked like they hadn't eaten for a while... the light brown one in back actually stole my cone!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01137.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01137.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01136.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01136.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(So hungry... need brains....)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01135.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01135.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(What'cho lookin' at?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01126.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01126.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01131.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01131.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think someone needs a pedicure!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01153.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01153.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01154.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01154.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The master restin up before the rush...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01157.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01157.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The master at work.. Kam is generally stuck doing boring pieces for her customers.. the usual playboy bunny on the 12 year old girls, the odd dolphin.. so we let her freestyle it... Kamila styles..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01159.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01159.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01158.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01158.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was embarassed about my arm(s)... then she got workin' on Jen....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01169.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01160.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01160.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(The finished product...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01163.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01163.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(And Rob...suddenly mine looked family friendly!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01165.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01165.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quite happy with their body art.. the couple just couldn't wait to get home... (i kid.. it was Kam's idea to do a white trash shot.. but the grabbing was all Rob's idea!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01167.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01167.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(See?! they aren't really white trash.. look how cute they are!)_&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01169.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01169.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-114873688085426834?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/114873688085426834/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=114873688085426834' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114873688085426834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114873688085426834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/05/kamila.html' title='Kamila!'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-114866055830658302</id><published>2006-05-26T12:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-26T12:22:38.320-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Grey-haired engine that could...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/Taylor.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/Taylor.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mad props for Taylor Hicks everybody!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;who'd've thunk..Taylor Hicks wins American Idol.. even his single (cheesy as it may be) sounds original and AWESOME!!!! I don't know if i'll by the album, but i sure as ehll plan on downloading it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SOUL PATROL!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(now what will i do tuesday nights?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gofish.com/userVideoPlayer.gfp?gfid=30-1035430"&gt;http://www.gofish.com/userVideoPlayer.gfp?gfid=30-1035430&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-114866055830658302?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/114866055830658302/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=114866055830658302' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114866055830658302'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114866055830658302'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/05/grey-haired-engine-that-could.html' title='The Grey-haired engine that could...'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-114826240493463344</id><published>2006-05-21T21:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-21T22:03:46.160-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Do you want a banana?!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://albinoblacksheep.com/video/bananaman"&gt;http://albinoblacksheep.com/video/bananaman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps the greatest song ever??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They keep playing it at work.. over and over.. !&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-114826240493463344?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/114826240493463344/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=114826240493463344' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114826240493463344'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114826240493463344'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/05/do-you-want-banana.html' title='Do you want a banana?!'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-114800870037288658</id><published>2006-05-18T23:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-19T12:53:13.406-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Boredom..</title><content type='html'>Well, having only 14 hours to pass my time a week the boredom is setting in.. there's only so much cooking and cleaning i can do. Core- i finished all the books you left.. they were good, but didn't last too long&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I really enjoyed Larry's Party.. i'm a fan of the feel good ending &amp; this all happened was quite entertaining as well...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So i think i need some ideas on how to pass my time.... any ideas? even the internet media clips are getting sad and pathetic.. this was the best i could find. (although if you watch the Conan clip enough times it's actually hilarious!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://dailysixer.com/famguytc.shtml"&gt;http://dailysixer.com/famguytc.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://dailysixer.com/jarbarf.shtml"&gt;http://dailysixer.com/jarbarf.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other news i had a wonderful day yesterday- Kyle and I walked along the canal from parliament to Dows lake to check out the tulip festival.. it was great.. and we had fudge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After, we watched the greatest movie of all time.. "girls just want to have fun." Sarah Jessica Parker pre-footloose and sex and the city!&lt;br /&gt;Of course the 80's cheesy dance scenes (and sugary fudge) encouraged Kyle and I to have a dance off of our own- Pictures to follow!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-114800870037288658?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/114800870037288658/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=114800870037288658' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114800870037288658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114800870037288658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/05/boredom.html' title='Boredom..'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-114757295063436229</id><published>2006-05-13T22:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-13T22:15:50.643-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Let's go Buffalo!</title><content type='html'>Oh Ottawa- it's just sad.. eliminated on a short handed goal..  I don't think Ottawa could get past the second round if they were playing in a Tim Bits hockey league!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But at least that's the end of all those annoying "rev up the red" commericials!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Claire this one's pour vous!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vidilife.com/index.cfm?f=media.play&amp;vchrMediaProgramIDCryp=2CD3EB19-43BC-4EF9-83F2-5&amp;amp;campaign=155"&gt;http://www.vidilife.com/index.cfm?f=media.play&amp;vchrMediaProgramIDCryp=2CD3EB19-43BC-4EF9-83F2-5&amp;amp;campaign=155&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-114757295063436229?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/114757295063436229/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=114757295063436229' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114757295063436229'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114757295063436229'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/05/lets-go-buffalo.html' title='Let&apos;s go Buffalo!'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-114719446948003855</id><published>2006-05-09T13:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-09T13:07:49.520-04:00</updated><title type='text'>What a week!</title><content type='html'>Nothing like a nice relaxing summer working at Pier One right? Only I just found out my manager was being "optimistic" when she promised me 30 hours a week... turns out they had to hire another manager who eats up 30 hours.. and i'm stuck with 15!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The desperate job search commences....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other news- we're getting a barbeque tomorrow! it's mini... its charcoal... it sits on a table! and a router.. which means internet for me finally!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I (actually Core) had a thought- Christmas in July anyone? if people are free for canada day again everyone's welcome to stay here! (details to follow if people are interested)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-114719446948003855?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/114719446948003855/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=114719446948003855' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114719446948003855'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114719446948003855'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/05/what-week.html' title='What a week!'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-114693172681558802</id><published>2006-05-06T11:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-06T12:12:18.283-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Goodbye, so long, ciao, adios, cheerio.....</title><content type='html'>So after about a week of moving (sans car- pictures to follow on Core's blog) the apartment is next to empty... and Core and her mom took off this morning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thought i was doing pretty well- sure i've lived with core for 4 years.. 3 different locations.. but she'll be back right? right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until i was left alone in the empty apartment.. belongings stacked in a shopping cart waiting to be pushed across the street in the rain. Who's going to reassure me my outfit doesn't look funny, and my insecurities are all in my head? Who's going to talk me out of the ugly running shoes with fur in them? There will be no one to take random pictures with Styrofoam swords... good lord- Kyle doesn't even LIKE the dollar store...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Day 1 (well about 2 hours) sans Core-&lt;br /&gt;forecast Ollie?: You a sap!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/last%20week%20in%20Ottawa%20008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/last%20week%20in%20Ottawa%20008.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-114693172681558802?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/114693172681558802/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=114693172681558802' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114693172681558802'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114693172681558802'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/05/goodbye-so-long-ciao-adios-cheerio.html' title='Goodbye, so long, ciao, adios, cheerio.....'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-114633395965986743</id><published>2006-04-29T14:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-29T14:06:04.193-04:00</updated><title type='text'>DONE!</title><content type='html'>So i am officially done with Carleton University (well i suppose i still have to go back for grad photo's and graduation) but i will never have to submit another piece of work again!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course I am now unemployed which means i'll have plenty of time on my hands...&lt;br /&gt;hopefully not this much though- here's a clip of Grand Theft Auto re-enacted using lego... that's talent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://dailysixer.com/gtalego.shtml"&gt;http://dailysixer.com/gtalego.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-114633395965986743?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/114633395965986743/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=114633395965986743' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114633395965986743'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114633395965986743'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/04/done.html' title='DONE!'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-114614789173285729</id><published>2006-04-27T10:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-27T10:24:51.743-04:00</updated><title type='text'>if only i went to school for drama...</title><content type='html'>guys how awesome is this?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://gorillamask.net/mariolive.shtml"&gt;http://gorillamask.net/mariolive.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-114614789173285729?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/114614789173285729/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=114614789173285729' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114614789173285729'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114614789173285729'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/04/if-only-i-went-to-school-for-drama.html' title='if only i went to school for drama...'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-114614684654107513</id><published>2006-04-27T09:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-27T10:07:26.583-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Who needs a pick me up??</title><content type='html'>I DO!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailysixer.com/famguykool.shtml"&gt;http://www.dailysixer.com/famguykool.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I've had an awful week so far- I found a big bug crawling through my cupboards (and I can only assume it was a baby cockroach, as the building has been infested with them before..) and freaked out, and threw EVERYTHING in the cupboard in the garbage. (read- no real food till payday)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also had to write a Canadian Public Policy exam yesterday, which I REALLY think I bombed.. and I got the paper back for that class right after and the mark just didn't put me in a better mood. So last night I made a frozen pizza, and sat in front of the TV for 4 hours straight (a new record for me) and enjoyed American Idol, Lost (the recap episode), and Amazing race (was anyone else sad to see the old couple go?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And to top it off that awful feeling you get after vegging out for 4 hours and consuming half a pizza, my sister and my mom are going to the spa the weekend together- a nice big package too- cardio in the morning, smoothies, then head to the spa for seaweed wraps and massages... and manicures... you know you're officially out of the family when eh? I decided I'm going to book myself a pedicure next month only it's just no fun to go alone- anyone want to come? if not- I may have to drag Kyle...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-114614684654107513?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/114614684654107513/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=114614684654107513' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114614684654107513'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114614684654107513'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/04/who-needs-pick-me-up.html' title='Who needs a pick me up??'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-114588397906436893</id><published>2006-04-24T09:01:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-24T09:06:19.086-04:00</updated><title type='text'>War of the Sexes</title><content type='html'>Did anyone catch the miniseries 'war of the sexes' on CBC last month? It looks kind of interesting- and its repeating in May....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/warofthesexes.html"&gt;http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/warofthesexes.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-114588397906436893?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/114588397906436893/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=114588397906436893' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114588397906436893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114588397906436893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/04/war-of-sexes_114588397906436893.html' title='War of the Sexes'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-114580584593887445</id><published>2006-04-23T11:18:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-23T12:36:23.236-04:00</updated><title type='text'>FCC!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/familyguyfcc.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/familyguyfcc.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.devilducky.com/media/37922/"&gt;http://www.devilducky.com/media/37922/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Fellas At The Freakin' FCC Song&lt;br /&gt;Peter: They will clean up all your talking in a matter such as this&lt;br /&gt;Brian: They will make you take a tinkle when you want to take a p*ss&lt;br /&gt;Stewie: And they’ll make you call fellatio a trouser-friendly kiss&lt;br /&gt;Peter, Brian, &amp; Stewie: It’s the plain situation! There's no negiotiation!&lt;br /&gt;Peter: With the fellows at the freakin FCC!&lt;br /&gt;Brian: They’re as stuffy as the stuffiest of the special interest groups…&lt;br /&gt;Peter: Make a joke about your bowels and they order in the troops&lt;br /&gt;Stewie: Any baby with a brain could tell them everybody poops!&lt;br /&gt;Peter, Brian, &amp;amp; Stewie: Take a tip, take a lesson! You’ll never win by messin’&lt;br /&gt;Peter: With the fellas at the freakin’ FCC And if you find yourself with some you sexy thing You’re gonna have to do her with your ding-a-ling Cause you can’t say penis! So they sent this little warning they’re prepared to do the worst&lt;br /&gt;Brian: And they stuck it in your mailbox hoping you could be co-erced&lt;br /&gt;Stewie: I can think of quite another place they should have stuck it first!&lt;br /&gt;Peter, Brian, &amp;amp; Stewie: They may just be neurotic Or possible psychotic They’re the fellas at the freakin FCC!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-114580584593887445?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/114580584593887445/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=114580584593887445' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114580584593887445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114580584593887445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/04/fcc_23.html' title='FCC!'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-114566605831094565</id><published>2006-04-21T20:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-21T20:40:43.266-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Rehersal Dinner and Wedding Part 2</title><content type='html'>Just for shits and giggles- i'm going to post some pics from the rehersal dinner and wedding part 2- cause i know you all are dying to see family pictures! We all got really camera happy- amazing what yummy food, good conversation and a whole lotta wine will do eh?&lt;br /&gt;My uncle had ordered so much wine- Di and I were determined not to let any of it go to waste... after she took me for a walk to 'sober me up' but I had the last laugh- who spent all night talking on the big white phone? not me! (for once.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00925.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00925.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00933.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00933.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00934.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00934.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00940.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00940.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00939.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00939.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the wedding, we all (bride and groom included) travelled to Toronto for wedding part 2! my grandfather can't travel, so we brought the party to them-My grandparents had what seemed like the entire Italian and Ukranian population of the GTA over in their basement and had more yummy food.. and of course- more wine!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/P4100152.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/P4100152.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/P4100141.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/P4100141.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-114566605831094565?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/114566605831094565/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=114566605831094565' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114566605831094565'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114566605831094565'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/04/rehersal-dinner-and-wedding-part-2.html' title='Rehersal Dinner and Wedding Part 2'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-114566497626167263</id><published>2006-04-21T18:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-21T20:17:33.906-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Wedding Pictures!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/P4080109.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/P4080109.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally i've sorted through all the gorgeous wedding pictures- The ceremony was just gorgeous. It was held at Fanham's hall in Ware, and i have never such a gorgeous grounds (remember Mr. Darcy's grounds of Pemberly- think that.. with more greenery!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway- the ceremony was VERY emotional- when it came time for her to say 'I Do,' Lisa's (the bride) 8 year old daughter Johanna (the maid of honour) had a huge smile on her face, nodded her head and told her mom to say yes! Oh i'm such a sap...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The groom and best man (my uncle Peter and uncle Tony, respectably) were decked out in tails and top hats! Don't they look dashing? (See if you can spot the top hat in the following pictures...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bride and groom aside, the man of the hour would have to be the toastmaster! do we have these here? Kam- SERIOUSLY look into getting one! he wears a red jacket and slaps a wooded noise maker thing whenever he wants everyone's attention. (he was even sweet enough to let Di and I pose with him!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 248px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" height="320" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01003.jpg" width="232" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01022.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01003.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01003.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01003.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01022.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01022.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01022.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01003.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01003.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01003.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/P4080114.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/P4080114.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01003.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01003.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01035.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="240" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01006.jpg" width="311" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01006.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Warning- never leave my Dad, a top hat&lt;br /&gt;and a purse unattended... please?!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01035.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01035.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01044.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01044.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01065.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01065.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(My Cousin Steph- the cutest flower girl ever!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Pete in a suit- never thought i'd see the day...&lt;br /&gt;doesn't that boy clean up good?!!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01025.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01025.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/P1010376.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 235px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 314px" height="314" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/P1010376.jpg" width="240" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Leave it to Di to find a way into the pictures-&lt;br /&gt;just stand next to a bridesmaid!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC01040.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC01040.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/P4080139.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/P4080139.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;Don't let this guy's professional air fool you- this bad boy can move on the dance floor. He 'walks the dog,' 'goes fishing,' 'pulls the roast out of the oven'- and pretty much anything else Di suggests!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/P4080132.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/P4080132.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/P1010396.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/P1010396.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/P4080132.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;(Sigh.. don't you remember when we were that young?!)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/P4080132.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/P1010396.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-114566497626167263?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/114566497626167263/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=114566497626167263' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114566497626167263'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114566497626167263'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/04/wedding-pictures.html' title='Wedding Pictures!'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-114525310842294809</id><published>2006-04-17T01:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-17T01:51:48.433-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Cambridge</title><content type='html'>The second day we were there, Diana, Pete and I decided to take a trip into Cambridge. Unfortunately i didn't find a nice cute Cambridge university grad to marry, so i eventually had to leave! Seriously- the campus is unlike anything i've seen before- and those bridges! After our bus tour of the city, we took a punting tour of the rivers (read: a long flat boat with a cute british guy pushing it along with a long stick) Did i mention i love England?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00778.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00778.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00790.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00790.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00801.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00801.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00811.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00811.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00827.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00827.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00829.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00829.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00852.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00852.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00857.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00857.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00862.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00862.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00877.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00877.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00868.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00868.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-114525310842294809?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/114525310842294809/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=114525310842294809' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114525310842294809'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114525310842294809'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/04/cambridge.html' title='Cambridge'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-114524940083870403</id><published>2006-04-17T00:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-17T01:16:42.356-04:00</updated><title type='text'>England!</title><content type='html'>Sorry for the lack of posts guys (ie-Claire, Core) i've been too busy relishing in the delicious British accents in Cambridge! My uncle (finally) got married this past week in jolly ol' Ware (just outside of Cambrige) which provided an excuse for my whole family to go out there. Di, Pete and I were ditched by our parents, who choose to stop over in Amsterdam on the way over (WEIRD NO???)&lt;br /&gt;Anyway.. we were sternly told to be at the airport on time, and not to forget our invididual envelopes containing our passports, tickets, and sustainance pounds. (Luckily they didn't make us wear them around our necks!)&lt;br /&gt;Here's Di and Pete- VERY early for our flight to London!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00725.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00725.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00725.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They indulged my camera happiness for a while, but after a good 2 hours on the plane my travel companions start to ignore me...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00734.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 195px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 246px" height="290" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00734.jpg" width="240" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00744.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 289px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" height="240" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00744.jpg" width="290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We stayed at The Old Bull Inn in Royston- Very cute with lots of character. It took Diana and I two cold nights to figure out we could turn the heat on in our room. Of course it didn't bother her- she never leaves home without her long underwear!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00746.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00746.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00769.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00769.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Random Royston Pictures- Such a gorgeous town- It looks like its right out of a Jane Austen novel!) And that rock- yea its the Roystone- stone.. the tourist attraction!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00765.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" height="320" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00765.jpg" width="219" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00755.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" height="320" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00755.jpg" width="219" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00770.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 204px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" height="320" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00770.jpg" width="225" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00768.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" height="240" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00768.jpg" width="299" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00757.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00757.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00762.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00762.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-114524940083870403?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/114524940083870403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=114524940083870403' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114524940083870403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114524940083870403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/04/england.html' title='England!'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-114390164871036206</id><published>2006-04-01T09:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-04-01T09:29:20.936-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Yipee!</title><content type='html'>Officially done ALL my papers for the year. Should be cause for celebration yes?&lt;br /&gt;Only finishing school means i'm unemployed.. and apparently with no marketable skills...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey you know what cheers me up? knowing there are always people worse off then you.. Peter Griffin- you give me reason to hope...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/Peter-%20fan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 254px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 196px" height="120" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/Peter-%20fan.jpg" width="130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/Peter-%20fan.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailysixer.com/fgmilk.shtml"&gt;http://www.dailysixer.com/fgmilk.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-114390164871036206?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/114390164871036206/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=114390164871036206' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114390164871036206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114390164871036206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/04/yipee.html' title='Yipee!'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-114344181478612201</id><published>2006-03-27T01:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-27T01:43:34.810-05:00</updated><title type='text'>America.. inventor?</title><content type='html'>Has anyone watched this series at all? i haven't.. but i caught this clip, and i think i have to start.. never EVER have i laughed so hard in my life. (although Kyle didn't seem to find it quite so funny.. and Core just felt sorry for him...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check it out if you have a second...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://gorillamask.net/bladderbuddy.shtml"&gt;http://gorillamask.net/bladderbuddy.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well you're at it check out this one too... Short, but sweet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ejbdotcom.net/content/11421/Big_elastic_office_prank.html"&gt;http://www.ejbdotcom.net/content/11421/Big_elastic_office_prank.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-114344181478612201?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/114344181478612201/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=114344181478612201' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114344181478612201'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114344181478612201'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/03/america-inventor.html' title='America.. inventor?'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-114307571817970119</id><published>2006-03-22T19:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-22T20:01:58.200-05:00</updated><title type='text'>We (and by we i mean me..) can all sleep easy now..</title><content type='html'>I love the media... way to hype up a possible pandemic, scare the population into believing birds will be the eventual end of us all..&lt;br /&gt;Only to do some more research and find out.. wait a tic.. it's not that likely.  Sure there will be an eventual pandemic, but it's probably not going to be this strain of the avian flu.  Sorry for the mix-up!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/22/health/22cnd-flu.html"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/22/health/22cnd-flu.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-114307571817970119?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/114307571817970119/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=114307571817970119' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114307571817970119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114307571817970119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/03/we-and-by-we-i-mean-me-can-all-sleep.html' title='We (and by we i mean me..) can all sleep easy now..'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-114300830344587711</id><published>2006-03-22T01:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-22T01:25:23.716-05:00</updated><title type='text'>This just in...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00661.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00661.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00673.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00673.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00673.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00673.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You really learn alot about someone when you're around them all the time.. and you really have to take the good stuff in with the.. well.. weird stuff. Agreed?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now what if your boyfriend has recently developed an intense fear of drowning and insists on wearing a floatation devise.... all the time. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can one look past this? Do you ignore the condescending glances of people passing by? How long can you sidestep the embarassed look on your parents faces as he stares at his soup in fear? The disgusted look of your friends as you struggle to snuggle through the preserver?... Can love really overcome all obstacles?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-114300830344587711?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/114300830344587711/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=114300830344587711' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114300830344587711'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114300830344587711'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/03/this-just-in.html' title='This just in...'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-114300695992420800</id><published>2006-03-22T00:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-22T01:32:16.446-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Back by popular demand....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/Picture%20005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/Picture%20005.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Guess that Butt!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(and no.. it's not my own...)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;First correct responce wins my uncomprimising respect.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-114300695992420800?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/114300695992420800/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=114300695992420800' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114300695992420800'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114300695992420800'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/03/back-by-popular-demand.html' title='Back by popular demand....'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-114142146068981531</id><published>2006-03-03T16:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-03T16:31:00.700-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Vote Taylor Hicks</title><content type='html'>So I've been hasseled over my obsession for all things American Idol.. but this year is different.. i swear!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;exhibit A- Taylor Hicks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/taylor.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/taylor.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googlx.com/idolforever/media/mp3/taylor-060222.mp3"&gt;http://www.googlx.com/idolforever/media/mp3/taylor-060222.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.taylorhicks2006.com/music.html"&gt;http://www.taylorhicks2006.com/music.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(of course he most likely won't win the competition.. but here's hopin' America will vote for something other than a pretty face!)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-114142146068981531?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/114142146068981531/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=114142146068981531' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114142146068981531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/114142146068981531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/03/vote-taylor-hicks.html' title='Vote Taylor Hicks'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-113977397549494909</id><published>2006-02-12T14:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-12T15:04:34.230-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Help....</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00220.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00220.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pathologicaldoodler.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://www.pathologicaldoodler.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-113977397549494909?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/113977397549494909/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=113977397549494909' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/113977397549494909'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/113977397549494909'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/02/help.html' title='Help....'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-113972871800946802</id><published>2006-02-12T01:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-12T08:49:58.976-05:00</updated><title type='text'>At long last- Portugal pictures!</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/00870001.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;6 months later... the pictures get developed! This is one of the pretty houses down the street &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/00870002.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/00870002.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;from ours!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Core checking out the local weeds... notice the flipped up collar... she's just too cool for this small town!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/00870003-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/00870003-1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Yup- that's me walkin' away from the camera.. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/00870005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/00870005.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Perhaps the yummiest part of Portugal.. Dad's    chicken.. from &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/00870007-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/00870007-1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  the pictures you'll understand it's quite an art!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;his trick? hand rotisseried and smoked to perfection.. just don't forget the hot sauce!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/00870006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/00870006.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/00870010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/00870010.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/00870008-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/00870008-1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Awww.....&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/00870011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/00870011.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-113972871800946802?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/113972871800946802/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=113972871800946802' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/113972871800946802'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/113972871800946802'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-long-last-portugal-pictures.html' title='At long last- Portugal pictures!'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-113909000571244752</id><published>2006-02-04T16:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-04T16:56:25.716-05:00</updated><title type='text'>And they say Ottawa is the city fun forgot!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00409.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00409.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Setting out to pick up yummy nacho dip ingredients for the scattegories party later-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Corina hasn't left the house in a while- natural light gets her a little crazy.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00409.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00410.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/200/DSC00410.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;GASP- look core- a tree! you like those don't you? why don't you go shimmy right up!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What luck! a crazy festival on the way to the grocery store- complete with timbits and coffee courtesy of Rogers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/200/DSC00415.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00418.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/200/DSC00418.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Making a quick stop at Dollarama, we grab the greatest impulse buy- pool noodle swords.. at a dollar each how could we not! Check out the great photo opportunities they provide!&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/200/DSC00421.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00424.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/200/DSC00424.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00426.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/200/DSC00426.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/200/DSC00428.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00430.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/200/DSC00430.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00428.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00423.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/200/DSC00423.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/DSC00419.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/200/DSC00419.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/200/DSC00425.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-113909000571244752?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/113909000571244752/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=113909000571244752' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/113909000571244752'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/113909000571244752'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/02/and-they-say-ottawa-is-city-fun-forgot.html' title='And they say Ottawa is the city fun forgot!'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-113899486082014886</id><published>2006-02-03T14:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-03T22:02:52.326-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I love winter!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/Winter%21%20007.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?&lt;br /&gt;We now go to Kyle Draper on the field:&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/Winter%21%20007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/Winter%21%20007.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/Winter%21%20008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/Winter%21%20008.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Here i am, practicing for my tree hugging days!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/Winter%21%20002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/Winter%21%20002.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;At a gorgeous -3 outside, Kyle doesn't take any chances!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/Winter%21%20003.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/Winter%21%20003.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Weeee!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-113899486082014886?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/113899486082014886/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=113899486082014886' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/113899486082014886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/113899486082014886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/02/i-love-winter.html' title='I love winter!'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-113898885084552565</id><published>2006-02-03T12:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-03T12:47:30.853-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Don't Hass the Hoff</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/MALE_BACK.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/400/MALE_BACK.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Pick up yours at : &lt;a href="http://www.thehoff.us"&gt;www.thehoff.us&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/hassflapper.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/400/hassflapper.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; This Link is just too good to lose: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=15042"&gt;http://i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=15042&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thehoff.us/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-113898885084552565?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/113898885084552565/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=113898885084552565' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/113898885084552565'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/113898885084552565'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/02/dont-hass-hoff.html' title='Don&apos;t Hass the Hoff'/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-113886099367093950</id><published>2006-02-02T01:15:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-02T01:16:33.670-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/640/DSC00408.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00408.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  The finished product!&lt;br /&gt;(my egg is the best.. it speaks to my pillow tidying abilities!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-113886099367093950?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/113886099367093950/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=113886099367093950' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/113886099367093950'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/113886099367093950'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/02/finished-product-my-egg-is-best.html' title=''/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-113886094530319170</id><published>2006-02-02T01:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-02T01:15:45.303-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/640/DSC00402.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00402.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  Armed with snacks.. she sets out to work&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-113886094530319170?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/113886094530319170/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=113886094530319170' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/113886094530319170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/113886094530319170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/02/armed-with-snacks.html' title=''/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-113886091524471984</id><published>2006-02-02T01:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-02T01:15:15.246-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/640/DSC00401.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/320/DSC00401.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  Pier One loves corina so much.. they give her homework!&lt;br /&gt;Here she is using her artistic abilities to make stars.. they didn't quite&lt;br /&gt;work so she went with the ever popular easter egg.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21839358-113886091524471984?l=themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/feeds/113886091524471984/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21839358&amp;postID=113886091524471984' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/113886091524471984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21839358/posts/default/113886091524471984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://themonkeyscloset.blogspot.com/2006/02/pier-one-loves-corina-so-much.html' title=''/><author><name>Sand</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17126893872732368926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://www.kurtblack.com/139monk.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21839358.post-113884209884132538</id><published>2006-02-01T20:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-01T20:01:38.850-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The site you've all been waiting for (or so i tell myself!)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7031/2212/1600/eveil%20monkey.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; 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