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It's Monday again. How'd that happen??

On Saturday we didn't do much - well, Cory did, but I didn't. He redesigned part of his work website, and I got in a flame war in crochet because I was bored. I also finished crocheting a shrug, and then decided I didn't like it after all. I knew that was going to happen. And we went to McMenamins for lunch and I had a really good reuben sandwich. Yum.

Sunday Cory had to study for his final, so I left him alone. I went to Rickreall to visit my friend Erin, who I hadn't seen for I think two years. She's teaching in Woodburn now, and was visiting her grandparents at their farm near Dallas, so it wasn't such a long drive for me, which was nice. Her grandparents' cat is Trout's mom, so I took some pictures of Trout that morning so they could see how she looks now. Erin and her grandparents and I went out to Mexican food, and had a good chat. When we got back, we looked at the fabric scraps Erin's in the process of piecing together to make a double wedding ring quilt.

Next I drove up to West Salem and had cake and ice cream for my uncle Garth's birthday. He's going to Australia in a couple of days, so we had his party a little early. It was nice to see my family. I went to my aunt Stacy's house with her, and we had huge salads for dinner and watched CSI and drank wine.

And then last night I woke up twice because Cory was lying there awake. Finally at 5 I asked him what was wrong, and he said he was worried about his final. Poor thing. He's got the best grade in the class, but he's still worried about it. He ended up just getting up at 5:30 and going to Starbucks to study a little more. He's not back yet, which worried me until I remembered that it wasn't supposed to start until 10.

So here we are on Monday. Tomorrow I have an interview, which will be good. And today I must look for more jobs just in case.

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Twice a day, we take Remmy out to the park to go potty and play fetch. This park really isn't much of a park, it's more just a little patch of grass that's maybe half a block wide by a block long, with a pile of old railroad stuff (rails, spikes, etc) in one corner. The other half of the block is a gravel area that college kids have been using as a parking lot since it's pretty close to campus. Remmy played at this park for as long as Cory and I have lived here, which is just about a year, and then she played there when Cory lived on 5th street a few blocks away, which is where he was living when I met him. So we've gone to this park almost every single day for three years.

On one end of the gravel parking area, there's a super old two-storey building that's all boarded up and on stilts. It was never in good shape, not since we can remember. I'm thinking it must have been part of the train station, as that's where the old train station was in the 1800s. (In fact, in the 1800s Corvallis was predicted to become the biggest city in Oregon because of the prominence of the train station.)

Last month we noticed there was a flyer in front of the old building on stilts. It had some legal mumbo jumbo about a community meeting to decide what was going to happen to the gravel parking area. On Saturday, caution tape was put up around the entire parking lot (though not around the grass, thank goodness). And when I came home just now I saw workers putting the big building on wheels to take it away.

I'm sad. I like that building. If they get rid of my grass too, I'll be very disappointed.