Calming down a bit from the cupcake high.
It is hard to find the ultimate dog collar. You would not think this would be a hard thing and certainly, for most normal people, it’s an easy task of measuring your dog’s next, finding a semi-agreeable color and that’s that. Not for me. I have to find the ultimate cool collars for my dogs. Something that matches, good pattern, not too expensive, not too chintzy. Their new collars make them look like extras on Magnum P.I. and this afternoon I caught Ghengis yelling at Maddie, calling her ‘Higgins’ and wondering where his Ferrari was. To her credit, Maddie sat there, dignified and unresponsive, if a little miffed.
I kind of think now that I should apologize to them for these collars, but my options were fairly limited. The bulk of my options were all ‘north-woodsy’ and if you’re not from minnesota I can’t really describe it except that you have to picture log cabins and hearths and homey little places and neutrally earth tones and pine boughs. I’m pretty sure that dressing my dog up like Craig T Nelson in ‘Coach’ is a far worse sin than turning them into some guy that wears white pants with hawaiian shirts.
The Betsy half of ‘Jetsy’ and I went to Pepitos for dinner tonight. Had the chicken mol�. Not so good, not much flavor, meat was overcooked. Sad mol�, but good company and good beer so i’m far from complaining.
I get the proofs for my invites in the morning. Who’s excited? Heather is excited. I need to finish up the page that goes with the invitation then we’re good to go! Dena is my printing queen! She’s absolutely magic. I don’t need to deal with the Kinko-tards at all! (sadly, i’m also not allowed to deal with the kinky-tards, but that’s not Dena’s fault, that’s the whole “court ordered injunction” thing).
Yeah, so i had a very rough night last night. Lots of emotions and stress and rollercoastering. What I got in return was a lot of love and understanding and kindness. My heart is ever amazed.
I go camping this weekend. Oh hello. FUCK! If this site never gets updated again you will know that I was eaten by a bear. I paid for a year of hosting so it will be a while before it goes down.
Ghengis just asked to use the phone so he could call TC to get a chopper lift to the big island. We’re gonna have to have a talk.
Ghengis gets to hang out with Bela while I’m out of town. It’ll be like a magical sleepover for him.
We had tasty cool weather, but sadly it has come to an end. I had to turn the air back on today and that was sad.
Dear David, please hurry up and bring the toilet paper. and the cupcakes.
I wonder what sort of collars I could get the dogs to make them think they were on the A-team?
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Trash talkin
Well, I’m the kind of slut that wears a black bra under a pink tank top. Fatty boombalatty…cha cha cha!
There are days that I have to remind myself that this is mine, all of this mine and if it doesn’t get cleaned or straightened in a timely manner it doesn’t matter. It’s not a reflection of anything other than the fact that I prioritize differently than the anally-retentive or the boring. I slept late again today, tired and worn out, I got out of bed furious with myself for sleeping in and for wasting a morning not cleaning or doing something productive. In the shower I stopped myself, I reminded myself that it didn’t really matter in the great scheme of things if there were bunny mugs and dinosaur magnets and hippo clocks and hello kitty lunch boxes on the coffee table and it didn’t matter if the entirety of my filing was strewn on the dining room table. Sure, the dishes had to be done because I ran out of plates, but that would get done and My bedroom needed to be cleared a bit, but that will also get done.
I made our coffee and I chilled and I read a little then I did the dishes and rearranged things in my room while David did the yard work (sweet guy, that david, doing my yard work for me.), So now maybe I do some filing so I can clear the table so we can eat our dinner in there like civilized people.
Maddie is eating the doorknob in the living room when I am not here. She seems to have some massive separation anxiety when I’m not around and I’m not entirely sure what to do about that.
Do I want a new tv stand? I’m not sure. I have more dvd’s than my little dvd bins can hold now and I don’t like storing them on the sides of the bins. I’ll look into it. Maybe a cabinet type thing where I can close it and you can’t see the dvd player, the vcr or the dvd’s would be good.
Be good, chochachos, and keep your nose in your own business like a good norwegian should.
cold
The ‘problem’ with 2 dogs is that they always want to be by you wherever you are. I’m on the sofa with maddie next to me and ghengis draped over the arm of the sofa wedged in behind my back. It can’t be comfortable for him. I know it’s not for me.
There was a time where I wanted restaurants to be open at 2 or 3 or 4 in the morning so I could eat away the drunk. Now what I want is for restaurants to serve breakfast at 3pm. You stay up late, you sleep late, then you have showers and dogs and getting dressed and dawdling and suddenly it’s 3pm and you still want waffles. FYI – the Uptown Bar and Grill serves breakfast all day (and if you sprinkle the bisciuts and gravy liberally with the hot sauce you’ve got a pretty damned good breakfast).
(Ghengis is looking at my with his cute pouty face)
The Riverview Theatre was showing The Goonies at midnight last night. I’d seen it as a kid but for the life of me only really remembered a few things about it. It was funny, I’m glad I saw it. So yeah, we were out late and ended up sleeping late (also, i’ve been sporting a sore throat an swollen glands for like a month now and it makes me so very tired I just need to sleep).
After our lazy morning sleep-in we headed ver to the Uptown B&G (not to be confused with the Uptown Diner, home of the best eggs benedict on the planet). After ‘breakfast’ we headed over to my friend Jen Z’s place for an early afternoon cocktail and snacky party to celebrate her art being displayed at the 55408 show at Intermedia Arts (there are about 3.5 million things in this post that merit links but I’m too lazy right now). So we had snacks and drank beers and headed over to the gallery. When you work at an art college it stands to reason that a gallery featuring local artists would showcase a fair number of people that you work with. Still, though, I was surprised at just how many people I knew there.
It was hot today. Hot. I could not cool myself down at all so i feel limp and completely without energy now that I am home.
March of the Penguins is playing now, I have to go see it. It’s playing at the Uptown and I have mixed feelings about the Upton theatre, but they do have a balcony so that tips it over to the favorable side (it still doesn’t beat the riverview).
I’m off to go gargle and soothe my throat. David’s sister, the doctor, thinks I might be colonized with strep which would explain why I get it so damned often, why the infections are so severe when they pop up and why I can never seem to shake the sore throat. I’d make an appointment with my doctor but I realized I just don’t like going to see her anymore. The last few visits included some bizarre cheer fest for my ex, which is all well and good on some level but in my mind completely inappropriate during an appointment. Even a curt “no, i haven’t seen her lately” was met with a “well, she’s blah blah blah blah”. I don’t know, a mutual friend could certainly engage in this sort of conversation with me and I’d be fine with it, but I guess since I’m paying my doctor I’m sort of looking for a level of professionalism. Anyway, I’d been avoiding going and I figure that’s as good a sign as any to get a new doctor. I can’t change clinics until november and I dread that, too. What if I go to a clinic and don’t like the doctor. My entire medical history is made up of doctors that make me uncomfortable. There have been like 3 total that I liked and this one that I am seeing now was fine until recently.
anyway, time to play with puppies!
She said she’d like it to snow
I’m in shoe whore heaven. HEAVEN! I’m surrounded by 4 pairs of shoes. SIGH. Actually, 2 pairs get sent back. I ordered 2 pairs of hiking boots and 2 pairs of walking shoes. The New Balance felt cheap and uncomfortable which surprised me, I thought they’d be good. They also seem to be made to fight pronation (rolling in towards the middle) and since I supinate (walk on the out edge of my foot) something fierce I need shoes that discourage that rather than encourage it. The Vasque walking shoes feel great and are very comfortable when I walk. So Vasque stays, the New Balance goes.
Also got 2 pairs of hiking boots. The keen thing about feet as small as mine is that even the most inelegant shoe looks cute! The first pair of hiking boots were super cute and blue! YAY! But, they did not fit well and I could tell I would get blisters all over my heels. Sad for a few seconds since I liked the blue ones but I know enough to know that even if they aren’t pretty I need to go for the most comfortable, durable, safe boots. Besides, they’re killer cute on me!
So hooray for boots!
Ghengis cut his foot right by where his toenail comes out. I never saw it. I never saw it until it got infected. Sigh. Dogs are supposed to be cheaper than kids, right? pffffft! Another $85 to the vet. He cleaned Ghengis’ foot, wrapped it in a booty and sent me away with 2 kinds of pills and some cream. He almost didn’t see the cut either, but assured me it was very common with dog parks. WHAT THE HELL! The dog park is always making ghengis sick. Sad thing is that he’s all tired and mopey and not wanting to play. So we just cuddle and I tell him what a good dog he is. Maddie, of course, is sad that I am not paying as much attention to her.
hmmm anything else? I made udon/miso soup last night. So good. I love miso in the most unhealthy way possible. I don’t know if udon goes with miso but the soup was…comfort.
People, I’m an evil stepsister looking for a Cinderella to slap around. Any takers?
HUPO
the kids…they are not so cool
It’s summer and once again it is time for the high school kids to invade the college campus. The major benefit of this, of course, is free breakfasts and lunches for me from the cafeteria (though I usually don’t eat the breakfast as deep fried utility grade bacon and powdered eggs just don’t appeal). So every day I head up there and get my lunch and chill with the coworkers and listen to the kids. Thing is, you’d expect these kids to be all up on pre-trendy things, like this are the kids who know the cool things before they are cool.
Except they don’t. Today, the king of the cool kids table was regaling his minions with a blow by blow retelling of the GI Joe public service announcement parodies. He was particularly fond of Body Massage and tried to imitate the guy. After that he moved on to Cornholio and the Beavis and Butthead movie. None of these kids had seen it before. He knew all the Cornholio lines from the move and the episodes.
Man, I was so disappointed in them.
Sadly, my plans to go to Cupcake got cancelled at the last minute. No sugar high for me, but never fear, I will get to Cupcake very soon. Red velvet cupcakes are calling my name (as well as the mocha ones and the black bottom one). If we don’t go on friday then I’ll drag David over there this weekend. I need me sme cupcakes!
I have to figure out how to calm maddie! You would not believe the way she reacts when I get home. When David walks in she’s happy to see him, glad he’s there. When I come in it’s a completely different story. She freaks, she can’t get close enough, she can’t express how happy she is. Takes a good fifteen minutes to calm her down. She’s crazy!
Eeeeebloboo.
Not much else, it took me 3 hours to write this!
huzzah.