| Spokane is skipping summer this year... |
[Jul. 13th, 2009|02:42 pm] |
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Please note, this is not a complaint! Spring is my fav season and it feels like we've had months of it to make up for last year having barely days of it... It's pouring rain and I'm enjoying listening to it, loving that we haven't hit the days of 110 that kill my garden (and my desire to be out in my garden). Maybe we will just segue from spring into fall this year... It's been a very nice way of making up for the past ugly awful winter. Here's hoping it's not just prepping for another bad one this year... Regardless I will enjoy it while I have it! I didn't want to come in yesterday when it was sprinkling but still warm out. It had to get dark before I was willing to. Hooray for spring - in July! |
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| Grumble.. |
[Jul. 13th, 2009|01:58 pm] |
I am officially tired of people who want things from me and expect me to put days of my life on hold for them. I have things to do!!!! And sleeping really needs to be one of them since I haven't gotten a good nights sleep in about 3 weeks and mostly only 2-3 hrs a night for most of a week.
Kate's breeder called me early today (no sleep for me again!) to say she is in town and wants to see Kate. Ok, when. Today, no wait tomorrow, no maybe today. Can she call me about 1-2 today when she is done visiting someone else? Sure... So now I'm awake early, exhausted, killing time doing nothing waiting for her to call when I had wanted to sleep in then run a few errands. In another hour or so (4ish) I'm giving up and hauling my exhausted self into town to run one errand then go to work. Then tomorrow I'll get to repeat the early wake-up call (did I mention tomorrow is inventory so I might work a 10+ hour shift until 4-5 am and I'm so exhausted I can barely stay awake until 2? I was counting on getting 2 good nights of sleep... Ug) and waiting on her while getting nothing done. I'm so irritated.
On the good side the trip with my parents ended well. I actually didn't want them to leave. A few more trips like this and I might stop dreading them and possibly take the risk of looking forward to them. My dad installed cabinets and countertops into my craft room and they look great. Only problem we realized after is that I'll have to spend the rest of my life standing when I sew (Which I've had to do for years anyway but I'd been looking forward to not having to do in this new room. Sigh...) because the countertops are kitchen height and too tall to sit at. (Yes, I could get a chair that would raise me up but then my feet wouldn't touch the floor to push the pedal. The joys of being short!) I'm looking forward to unpacking some of my stuff into them, shuffling boxes, building the 2 big cabinets that weren't gotten to, and maybe someday being unpacked and having it be a usable room! A while out, but usable eventually...
My mom and I worked on the animal room and it's looking better too. I finally managed to get all the cages well cleaned since the tub that was supposed to be installed before we moved in 2+ years ago is not quite finished but is usable as of the week I left. At last the joys of clean dishes (without having to run them up and down stairs a few at a time) and scrubbed cages! Now I just have to get the dishwasher down there. My mother refused to help me move it because it couldn't go where it is supposed to until the tub is done. Bah. So it will be a few more months until I can get help with that. Irritating. It's on wheels so if it was down there I could have just rolled it into place when I was ready... In any case there was progress there and I hope to build the glider aviary soon which will be the first step in making all the custom cages down there that I want so the animals will have good lives and I'll have things easier to clean. Here's hoping... |
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| If wishes were Ferrets? |
[Jul. 12th, 2009|08:35 pm] |
I was half watching a TV show with Chris and and doing e-mail at the same time, then I hear something about "If you make a wish that's impossible to grant the machine produces a ferret." Huh? I burst out laughing!
What happens to a dream de-furred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun... or does it become a ferret?
I'm glad the machine isn't in my house! |
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| Day 6 and 7... |
[Jul. 4th, 2009|12:26 am] |
Day 6 was Yellowstone - nifty but it was a 13+ hour day that started at 7am. VERY long... Old faithful was faithful, though not punctual. After 1/2 hour we were all starting to picture the headlines "Old faithful doesn't erupt" or I decided I liked the one running through my head "Old Faithful to run for governor of SC" (or put other politically prominent position who has lately been less than faithful here...). I have many, many pics from the past several days (I think close to 400....) so it will take me a while to go through and dump the 300 bad ones to find the 100 good ones and the 10 that are really amazing. I know I have at least 4 I may print out and put on the walls at home... I've got a few ideas how I might mimic a painting I saw at a gallery and really liked. Thank heavens for digital cameras!
Day 7 has been annoying. I got yelled at for not going horse back riding. The family got yelled at for not making plans to do things. At one point my mother had a fit and went off to cry in her room because we are all such horrible people. I went into the town near by with my brother and his wife an wandered through the shops. There was another biz meeting but this one was held in our rooms so my mother continued the crazy about getting the place ready. Ug. Dinner was a highlight though! I think of these things as a chance to enjoy some really good food. Except for some, reason this one. Everything has been icky, painfully spicy or just disappointing. Tonight, however, was at the 4 Seasons and delicious. I was so happy to finally enjoy a meal! I also got to spend some time chatting with my brother unsupervised which is nice. We never really talk. I saw him last in Oct (first time in several years) and that was the last time we talked. We have exchanged MAYBE 4 e-mails since. We get along well, he's just bad about communication. In fact, we are so comfortable with each other that there is nothing we really hide from each other if the topic comes up and I learned a few rather shocking things about him. It was a good conversation. I really like that we have that much trust in place. And there were good conversations to be had with cousins as well. Including the conversation about a female cousin's college friend on the swing team. "He was the best breatstroke-r on the team." she said. "Not yours, I hope." said her dad, and we all cracked up. There are just some things that don't come out right... Lol!
I've also learned on this trip that I'm in a large amount of company - 2 of my cousins are out as gay now. Both in the same family, sadly with a very "guy's guy" dad... There are no obvious bad things going on but I also hope that the undercurrent that is likely there will go away for them soon. I wanted to chat with them more, maybe let them know I'm bi so they know we are all in it together, but the time never came up. So now I have 1 uncle and 2 cousins on one side, 1 cousin on the other. It really does make me wish I was set up to study the possibility of a "gay gene"... I find the concept fascinating. Is there a gene? Or are we getting so over populated that mother nature has decided we need to reproduce less so more gay people? Or? I love pondering these sorts of questions... I may have to do some more reading on the topic, see if there are any new thoughts.
Tomorrow is white water rafting to make my mother happy, hope it's fun and not too hot. It's also my 12th anniversary to C - spent 2 states apart. Sigh... Only a few more days. Then my parents come to my place and we work on installing cabinets and counter tops in my craft room. I hope that goes well... We will see! |
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| Trip, day 6 (since it's 12:30am). |
[Jul. 1st, 2009|11:56 pm] |
Day 1 was 4+ hours of driving to MT for a college friend's wedding reception (Day 2). It was a lot of fun, actually. Just a picnic in the park, so very low key, and I got to spend a lot of time with 2 college friends I hadn't seen in 5 years and meet the daughter they adopted 2 years ago. They make very odd parents and I already think that the she may raise them more than them raising her but I hope she will be good for them and they seem happy. She is the most outgoing 2 1/2 year old I've ever seen - runs right up to you to say hi and ask your name. Amazing verbal skills - I usually have a very hard time understanding young kids but I understood her more often than not. Cute kid.
Day 3 was driving 7+ hours to WY for the reunion. C and I got a hotel separate from the family (he is not welcome at these thing because we aren't married, despite the fact that we have our 12 year anniversary in just a few days) and had dinner with my brother and his new wife. Day 4 we drove to Yellowstone to see Old Faithful and back (7ish hours), enjoying our first day alone together in 3-ish months. I should add that I'm pretty sure this is the most time we have gotten to spend together in about 2 years and is the first thing anywhere close to a vacation we've gotten to take since 1999. We got back just in time for me to go to the welcome dinner (had to change in the car on the drive - dirt roads and eyeliner are FUN! Ug...Lol!) and him to be booted out. At least he had fun things to look forward to - he planned a vacation to S Dakota while I'm here. Dinner was it's usual awkward meeting of strangers I'm supposed to have something in common with and don't. Yes I'm still with the same guy, 12 years, yes I still do animals, and how are your lives?
I do at least get my own room in the very nice condo I'm sharing with my parents - that makes me happy. So I can have some unsupervised time to just do my own thing.
Day 4 was getting up at 6am to go on a wildlife tour of the Grand Tetons. Saw lots of animals, got some great pics of bison and the mountains, etc. But 6 on a "vacation"?
Day 5 was the business meeting which despite having to be awake by 7 (please note, I'm so exhausted I'm falling asleep early at about 3am) for the 8:00 meeting and having to drink so much coffee I spent the rest of the day VERY awake I actually enjoyed. The coffee of course kicked in as the meeting ended about noon, sigh. Part of why I drank so much was so I could get up regularly to walk to the back of the room to avoid falling asleep! Lol!) I really wish I wanted to give up everything in my life that matters to me and everything I am and move to NY but I really don't. I do sometimes get frustrated that when I comment on wishing this I'm treated as though my lack of willingness to do so is a failing on my part. Sorry, everything in my life that matters in is WA... I want to see any of them leave the people they love, abandon all the things they care about, and move for a job they don't even know if they would like or be good at.
Tomorrow is another 6:00 wake-up call (vacation?!?! I'm usually awake until 6!) to go to Yellowstone with the family. Here's hoping it's interesting enough to keep me awake. At least if I fall asleep on the drive I won't feel too bad because I did it Mon. We'll see! |
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| Glitter... |
[Jun. 26th, 2009|01:26 am] |
I just heard the most wonderful - true - line:
If you get glitter on you, be prepared to have it on you for life because glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.
McFummits! |
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| And a partridge in a pear tree.... |
[Jun. 20th, 2009|11:42 pm] |
Ok, not very seasonally appropriate but I'm starting to feel like it's my current theme song! I'm sitting here working on so many things at once I'm about to loose it - but laughing! Consulting on a pug rescue, working my own GSDx rescue that is transporting to Seattle in early July with a friend (THANK YOU!!!!) who is also willing to take more dogs so I connected her to my main rescue contact who can set something up with a shelter.
Then trying to figure out my own trip - what I still need to get, altering clothes, packing, finding things (5 gold rings!), laundry.
Then there is the wedding my trip starts out with - picking clothes, trying to write the speech (4 calling birds,) I'm supposed to give and am terrified of (I'm a teacher not a toastmaster!), figuring out the sched for that since we just got word of dinner on Fri that we need to get there for. Trying to remember final details for the house sitter (3 french hens,) and make sure everything is organized and written down, making sure what I need to get done is done and working, and of course every day standard animal care, life and work (2 turtle doves,).
Whew! And a wiped out, over stressed, me!
Lol! |
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| No wonder I never get a vacation... |
[Jun. 18th, 2009|05:40 am] |
$172 for one 2 1/2 star hotel room for one night?!?!? That, by the way, is the cheapest place we found... There are so many other things I could have done with that money...
But I get a 1 night vacation with C which will be our first vacation since 2000. (No, I don't count 1 night as a vacation but it's the best we've gotten.) Then we get to spend our 12th anniversary apart (Hooray. Much sarcasm and irritation...) since even if he swings back through that day on his way home I don't know that I'd be allowed to see him, certainly not spend time with him. Anniversaries don't with my mother count unless you're married. Of course relationships don't count to her unless you are married. Ug.
Just under two weeks to hell...
On a happy note I got tickets for Lion King in Dec! Hooray! Something to look forward to! |
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| I hate going to bed... |
[Jun. 16th, 2009|03:12 am] |
It's part of why I'm up so late. It's just so much work that it's not worth it. It's getting close to 3:30am now and I was tired at 3 and wanted to go to bed but I'm too tired to go through the almost 2 hours of prep before I can even get close to it so it isn't worth it yet. When I'm falling over I'll stumble through the routine. Feed assorted upstairs animals (cavy already got her bottle at least!), let dogs in, feed dogs and cats, let/take dogs out, let dogs back in. Half hour min. Deal with whatever will come up in that time. Usually at least 15 min - there is always something. Take out contacts, go to bed. Get out of bed to deal with something, get into bed. Possibly repeat a few times. Get out of bed to load old dog in bed (he only comes to ask after I'm settled in comfortably and think I might be done), try to find a space in the bed after all the dogs have taken all the space. Eventually get tired enough to go to sleep no matter what position I'm in.
And crap, I still have to make C's lunch. Add another 15-20 min since I'll have to cook pasta, I don't think I have anything else. I may just doze off on the sofa for a little while - it's a lot easier.
Going to bed is the part of my day I hate the most - I find this ironic because I get so little sleep that getting up always hurts a lot but I never loathe it the way I do bed time... About 2 or 3am I start to remember that I'll have to go to bed in the next few hours and just dread it. Just when I think I get to be done and sleep something else will add to the list - like lunch tonight.
Guess I better get started on that so I can be in bed by 6... Ug. At least putting it off until I can't stand up makes it so I fall asleep fast - if I weren't so exhausted I don't know that I'd ever get any sleep. |
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| Stop the world - I want to get off! |
[Jun. 13th, 2009|04:46 am] |
I'm writing because I'm too dazed to go to bed just yet. I think that's a bad sign. It's almost 5am and I just got back from Seattle. A fun trip but busy and crazy and getting home made it so much crazier.
Trip started with getting up Weds at 9:30 (3 hrs sleep about), leaving at 10am and driving to the Shelter, meeting a woman there with a beagle from Pullman and getting 4 shelter dogs. Drive to Seattle (with a stop in Thorp to buy yummy wine!), drop 4 dogs at a shelter, met with another woman elsewhere for Pullman dog. Done about 6:30, I think. Drive through rush hour to get to a my friend J's house in Seattle. Drop car at her house and leave to get dinner with friend S while J has a meeting. Back to J's house after meeting and I don't remember if we went shopping for a few hours or just hung out - I'm too far gone! Left there at about midnight and drove to Tacoma where I met up with my cavy breeder at 1:30am and got the new baby (Hooray! So cute!). Got to S's house about 4ish, I think. Sleep a bit. After morning craziness back up to Seattle to pick up J and go shopping (for the assorted clothes S and I needed but were too depressing to go get on our own), get food, have fun. End up at J's house midnight-ish, hang out, bed eventually. Fri up, take J to work, keep time with S while we wait, pick up J, go to massage appointment (blissful sigh... Only calm part of my trip! Did have to explain why my body looks like it's been through a meat grinder - pets - but I guess it's a good conversation starter...), then dinner (which involved 2 calls from a "friend" within a few min of each other and the 5 min of messages she left were basically "Oh my god! The news says it's going to hail and I'm worried about your dogs being outside!!!!" Followed by "Never mind, the news changed their mind." Sigh.), then a last errand with S until we split up at 10:30 and she headed for home and so did I. I'm so tired of that drive.
So then I got home. You might think nice peaceful arrival home at 4:30 am? Nope! C left the collie in the yard (looks like the fence fix worked because he hadn't escaped. Hooray!) so I have to get the cavy out of the car (big crate) and my bags, get through the gate while keeping the dog in, get all of us to the front door and get it open. Keep the cats and the Rabbit Eating and very excited to see me Malamute in. Didn't happen by they way. 2 cats and the Mal slipped out because the collie wouldn't come in and the crate got stuck as I tried to get it in the door. The whole crazy time I feel something grabbing the back of my leg but can't see what it is because my bags are in the way. So get crate in and set down while trying to get the Mal back in before she goes after a rabbit, get collie in before anyone else darts out. Get the cats in, realize that Max cat is going in the door and that Kate is what's climbing me. Um HUH?!?! Kate is supposed to be in her pen, not running loose in the front yard she can get out of easily! Get her in the house, catch the cats that slipped out - JUST GET EVERYONE IN THE HOUSE!!!!
Take stock. Kate has now disappeared from site, Max is tripping me, cats are everywhere, dogs are bouncing, new cavy is freaked, out older cavy (Piper) is calling for food. Get new baby into guest room where it's quiet. Say hi to crazed dogs and cats, set bags down. Make food for Kate and Piper, cage Kate, try to bottle new baby who is way too freaked out for it. Go into bedroom to put bags there - C's alarm clock goes off. More chaos! Chat for few min (including why his alarm is going off at almost 5am on a Sat when he doesn't work Sats. I guess he works this one) he leaves. And I'm so dazed that I can't go to bed right away despite being exhausted and working tomorrow (today) so you get stuck with this post. Some day I'm taking a relaxing vacation! And maybe not coming back home... Lol! My world is nuts!
So now I have to figure out how Kate and Max got out of their pen and try to fix that - they have been in it 24hrs a day for 3+ish weeks. She is going to have to be in her little ferret cage while I'm out of town instead of outside probably since I don't trust her pen anymore (I hate that - I was looking forward to her being out all the time and having space) and it's not as though I wasn't dealing with enough escape artistry from Piper who I CANNOT keep in the cavy pen I'd never had an escape from in 2+ years. BAH!!!! Where is all this coming from! So much to do before I leave town in only 2 weeks...
My life is nuts. I hope some of you are laughing as hard as I am, though.... |
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| Rescue... |
[Jun. 9th, 2009|03:38 am] |
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So I've been largely taking a break from rescue for a while now (meaning no one new has come in and I haven't done a transport in a while) and have been enjoying it. Sigh. It's back to get me again. I have a dog returning when I get back from the reunion - at least they are willing to wait until then (anyone looking for a very nice but high energy German Shepherd mix? Good with kids, cats, dogs. Been through training.) - and I'm doing a transport on Weds. I'm not looking forward to either. Transporting means I have to wake up at about 9:30 am (3 hrs sleep or less) and leave the house my 10 to get to Seattle by 5. Then I drop dogs and that will take an hour or so. I used to love transporting but I've been spoiled by my past 2 leisurely trips where I got to sleep a few hours, take my time getting out of the house and getting across the state. Oh, and I liked not driving an hour in the opposite direction to the shelter before I finally get to head towards Seattle. Sigh. Oh well, I'll get to save 4-5 dogs. That's good, right? |
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| Best compliment... |
[Jun. 8th, 2009|01:49 am] |
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I think the best compliment I get from my students is when they sign up for the next class. Or better yet, when they have been out of classes for a while and then a year or more later they come in and sign up for classes with me again. I got 2 of these today. One lady who is wonderful. Just got a new sheltie puppy and this will be the 4th dog she brings through my classes. 2 of them went through 3 classes each with me and the third she brought in for a private session. She has already said the new baby will be going all the way to it's CGC award like the other 2. So she is now signed up for her 8th class with me. My second person of today I'm a bit sad to see signed up because I suspect it means the last dog she brought through has probably died and it was one of my favorites (I was actually using it as an example in a class today). The poor thing had so many health problems it wouldn't surprise me, but I hope not. I also have another family who took one of their dogs through 4 classes with me, after the poor thing got hit by a car they got 2 new puppies and took both of them through 3 classes each. Then when the son got a new puppy it came through a class. I wish my managers could take note of THESE things. Good grief, I have people on their 8th and 11th classes with me!!! Why doesn't that count for something!?! I have several families that have brought through their second and third dogs, sometimes even years after the first but you know the only way I get credit for that is if they sign up for the next class in order, then it counts towards my roll-over. And of course no one notices that either. Some days I just give up on my job - good thing I love what I do and always love to see students back. Frankly, they are what count. |
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| Potential adopters, please note... |
[Jun. 8th, 2009|01:08 am] |
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If your first and only question about an animal is "How much is it?" there is a good chance I'm not likely to adopt to you. Not because I don't think you have enough money, but because you aren't thinking about the animal being a good match for you. Also, if the dog's adoption page says "Needs new home due to being too high energy for its family" there is a very good chance it will be a BAD match for your grandfather. Sigh. Anyone need a high energy shepherd mix? She really is a sweet dog... |
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| "Your mother and I agree.... |
[Jun. 8th, 2009|12:38 am] |
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that this trip may be too much for your health so we think you should skip it" starts the last e-mail I got from my dad after commenting on the fact that the trip was going to push me really hard (almost no sleep probably). Gee thanks Dad! First off I love that you guys have discussed and decided on what I should do, I really appreciate being treated like an adult and asked questions and being given a say in my life. Second, if you were going to decide this could you have done it BEFORE I was $500 into clothes I won't ever wear again? Before I took the time off work, figured the trip out, made reservations, and found people to care for my animals? Before C also took the time off and planned his own trip and made his reservations? Because now - not an option!!! I'm committed!!! And this is just another little reminder of why I'm dreading this trip... Plus I'm going to come to hate my brother and his wife through no fault of their own because I'm going to get VERY tired or being treated like a child because I'm not married while they will be treated like adults because they are. Did I mention I'm almost 3 years older than my brother and haven't lived with my parents for more than a few summers since 1994 - and those were when I came home from college? This whole thing almost makes me want to get married... Just because it's the only way I may ever be treated like a real adult. Ug. And that's a lousy reason. Bah. |
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| Anyone want to offer opinions? |
[Jun. 6th, 2009|02:28 am] |
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So most if not all of you know I have a "pet" coatimundi. She is almost a year old and every time my parents have been her I've hidden her in a bathroom so they don't see her and have a fit. She is now adult cat size and when I've hidden her she has been stuck in a ferret cage - a big one though - hidden away. Now she is out in her 200sq ft pen (complete with fish pond, hammock, tire swing, and jungle gym made out of logs!) for the summer I'm trying to decide if I stash her inside for the week my parents are here or if I just accept the fight. I'm just going to be so worn down by the time the get here I don't know if it's worth it... She will have to be back inside for the winter in a 4x4x6ft tall cage (she wouldn't survive our temps) but it's not up yet or hide-able so it's not like she doesn't need to get used to coming and going and she has traveled a few days at at time in a dog crate with me so I'm not very worried about containment, I'm just getting tired of hiding and feel guilty about isolating her for a week. So, thoughts welcome... |
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| Progress! |
[Jun. 6th, 2009|01:44 am] |
The only good thing about having dozens of projects I need to get done is that it sure feels good when they eventually GET done. Carpets cleaned - Check! Garden in progress, but raised bed finished, filled with dirt and partially planted - Check! And frankly I enjoy the process of the garden possibly even more than the finishing. It's so pretty and I'm so happy with it! Just a few things to finish including scrubbing down the pond and starting it over (ick - something went wrong and killed the fish...) and finishing the drip irrigation (on a timer and everything! Hooray! It's great - the whole garden is on one system so attach the hose and off it goes!). I do have to get the rabbit watering system up and going before I have to leave in a few weeks which will be a bit of a pain - I have to dig a lot of it up then re-bury it - but once it is done it will go on another timer so it will automatically fill all the outside bowls. Plus, hopefully this year my new plans will keep the rabbits from chewing through it and it will be set up for years to come - it will make my life so much easier. If only I could set that up for the basement animals! My basement scrub tub is going in - going to cost close to $1000 (ug - it's Ramen for me!) when it's over but it will finally be done and I'll be able to scrub down cages and have a dishwasher just for the animals (that we've owned for 9 years and has just been sitting and waiting for the past 2 years...) so bowls and water bottles will always be clean. I'm so excited!
If my parents don't disown me by the end of the reunion (a possibility) they are coming here to help me get the cabinets and counters set up in the basement so that will be another project done. Plus C and I had a long planning talk the other night (I love it when we actually talk but it's so rare...) and we have a game plan for projects until about Feb. Means we will be busy but he says he will help so hopefully we will actually get things done. Fingers crossed! |
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| I hate my dial up!!!! |
[Jun. 1st, 2009|05:45 am] |
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I wanted to go to bed at about 4. I'm still up at 6am only because I'm forcing myself to be. Why? Because it has taken me almost 3 hours to buy a pair of shoes online - 2 hours of that has been checking out. Or trying to but the load times have been crazy. Did I mention I think it's still going to take another half hour to check out if I don't just give up, screaming, which I'm about to? I just want to go to sleep! I wanted to get more than 3-4 hours of sleep a night this week in the hopes of building my body up for the damned reunion but it won't happen. Every little thing takes a hour or more where it should take a few min. Like last night - the power went out so I was cleaning by candle light until I just gave up. Didn't get much done since I couldn't see. We got the bedroom done tonight, C helped some, but I'm mostly on my own from here and the worst and bulk of the house still needs done. And I have to finish a friend's B-day prez before I can clean the living room because that's where the project is set up (would have been finished last night but no power means no water here). I'm just doomed. |
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| Family Reunions |
[May. 30th, 2009|02:47 am] |
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Oh how I hate them. I have to take a week off to do the upcoming one and I've spent almost a month's worth of pay on the clothes I'll need and I'm not done yet. I've got the dinner outfits done but still need most of my day clothes and shoes. Did I mention I hate shopping and will probably not wear any of these things more than once? This isn't worth the costs - financial or personal. I'm the black sheep of the very formal family (can you tell from the phrase "dinner clothes"? Clothes will be changed 2-4 times a day depending on activities...) who can't even begin to understand me. And add to that the fact I'm the fat ugly cousin and more joy. I also get to look forward to the probably daily (or more) fights with my mother, no sleep (literally) due to being on an opposite to normal people schedule (this will be the topic of at least 2 fights with my mother who will get mad at me for not going to sleep earlier and her constant comments about how "we" need to fix that and make me more normal) and too much caffeine to compensate, my mother picking on my dad and I but now avoiding my brother because he is married now (since last Aug) and a real person, and I'll get to hear the questions of why am I not married and why don't I ever bring my BF to the reunions (because he is banned! In fact he is coming with me for a few days but I won't be allowed to introduce him to anyone, in fact my dad has told me to spend the time I want with the BF then join the family when I'm done, sigh). I hate these things. I'll be sick for a week after and stressed for much longer than that. I'm starting to just want it over so I can stop shopping, wasting my money, and dreading it. I want it to be mid July or better yet just stay May for a lot longer... Sigh. |
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| Please don't help this person... |
[May. 16th, 2009|01:48 am] |
Craigslist:
"I am looking for a sharpei preferrably a Chinese. If anyone can help me with this I would greatly appreciate it."
Instead of what, an Italian one? For those of you not familiar with dog breeds they are called Chinese Sharpeis - there is only one kind. And I'm a big believer in if you don't know these things (or can't spell your dog's breed - this person at least got that right) you shouldn't have it. Plus Sharpeis can have some attitude issues and do best in homes with people who have a clue. Sigh. |
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| Damn the coffee! |
[May. 12th, 2009|03:36 am] |
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Tonight I was innocently handed a glass of iced coffee that was really yummy - it was made with cold water not hot (soaked for a day or 2) so it had almost no bitterness, very mellow, creme brulee cream flavoring in it and a hint of soda water for bubbles. So yummy. Unfortunately the person forgot that the amount in my glass was going to be about equal to almost 6 shots of espresso until after I was hooked and not willing to give the rest back. I haven't had a cup of coffee in MONTHS and not much caffeine either. Fortunately it's the mellowest caffeine buzz I've ever had, would actually be really nice if I hadn't been handed it after 10pm and I still have the buzz going strong now at almost 4am. I'm used to being up at this hour but I may not sleep for a few days! Lol! Oh well, it was worth it - I'm going to try making a batch of it at home, but I think I'll try it with decaf... blasphemous but the only way I'll be able to drink it - I figure a glass of decaf will only be about 1-2 shots... Most of the time the last thing I need is help staying up! Wow..... |
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