I did it. I did it all by myself. I did the research, I looked here and there, I decided what I wanted and I did it.
I drove it off the lot today at 4:30. I got a good deal, my payments are almost half of the Saab’s. The suspension and the turbo were both dead in the Saab, I didn’t want to put the money into fixing it when it had over 95,000 miles.
It might not have been my first choice, but it was definitely a high choice.
Woo.
Beebo update…
On the night of my birthday party Beebo went into his chrysalis. He glued some leaves together at the edges with caterpillar boogers. We let it sit and we worried. Eventually the leaf packet was crispy and somewhat hollow. Fearing he had died we opened up the leafy envelope. Inside we found a beautiful shiny black chrysalis. And that’s it. We’ve left that alone and hoped for the best. Hopefully he’ll survive and become something wonderful.
And that’s all we can really hope for anything.
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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.
I go back
On my day off work I go back to work to meet the ‘gals’ to go to lunch. Gals. I have vacation time to burn up so I’m taking a day here and there to keep it manageable until I go on my vacations later (camping in the BWCA, the Badlands, Austin TX). Since my boss takes every Friday off and I was �ber-busy early this week. So I take a wednesday off, but we had plans to go to Cupcake and I’m not breaking those plans!! This is Cupcakes! If you have that whole healthy thing going on, you do not eat at Cupcake. If you worry about carbs or sugar or weighing your portions you do not eat at Cupcake. If you are one of those people that makes it really hard to go out to eat with, I will not invite you to Cupcake.
Cupcake is torturous hell for the anorexic/orthorexic crowd! They frost everything. I think my egg salad sandwich had a crown of rich buttercream on it the last time I was there, I can’t remember, i went into a sugar coma.
Yeah, so…Cupcake today.
Then I go back home, get the all too charming Maddie-Delicious and bring her BACK to work so the ‘Gals’ can meet her. Then I take her to petcosmart whatever and get new collars for them. Something sparkly! Target had nothing in the way of cool collars, they did have an entire section devoted to those tiny yippy little dogs. It was upsetting.
I restocked the chew toy supply as Ghengis was getting dangerously low on things to chew on and was digging out toys he never wanted to touch before. I picked up a big pack of rawhide rolls and offered one to each of them. Maddie is not so keen on taking things from people, especially if she does not know what it is. She’s not particularly interested in chew toys anyway. Ghengis, on the other hand is a selfish jerk (and I mean that in the most loving way!). He ran off with his rawhide and then came back and got Maddie’s and put that next to his. I got Maddie a new one (you just can’t teach dogs about personal property, they believe everything is theirs). Eventually, Ghengis ended up with a pile of rawhides and Maddie napped next to me unaware.
The only thing Maddie IS protective of (besides me, and that’s its own post) is mushy food. We gave them some and Ghengis naturally pushed his nose into hers and a great explosion rattled south Minneapolis as these two dogs battled. David got them apart and I held Maddie down. She was terrified that she was in trouble, I felt so bad for her. I know now to keep them apart when there is mushy food!
Yeah, okay so housewarming party is 8/27. If it is a manageable crowd (doubtful when I start to look at the list) we’ll have sushi dinner. If it’s bigger we’ll do finger foods. Suppose I’ll have t decorate before then and set up the fish tank!
Ordered hiking boots and walking shoes yesterday. Ordered 2 different pairs of each and will send some back. The walking shoes are a toss up, the New Balance are lighter and more what I need, the Vasques are kiwi green and cute as hell (and probably way more than I need in that they are trail running shoes). The hiking boots are just going to be determined by which feel better.
Yeah, I bought hiking boots and walkign shoes. Jesus. Maybe I don’t have cancer, maybe I am actually losing weight. Doubtful. I’m going to Cupcake anyway. Suckers.
maudlin
Tonight was a night of maudlin reflection. I’ll spare you the details.
On a happy note, my housewarming is 8/27. More details to come. Come to my housewarming!!!!!
chill
I have to rearrange my living room, one of the vents is right next to the end of one of the sofas and I’m sitting here getting blasted in the head with freezing cold AC air. It doesn’t help that I keep things pretty cool in here. That thing is giving me brain freeze.
Did my hair. Lime green suckahs! I was hoping for more of a crayon green but this isn’t really an exact science. My worry is that it will fade out to an icky yellowy color. Luckily I have enough bleach/developer around to bleach it out of that happens. Or I could get more green from Owen and redo it.
anything new? Lessee….swedish pancakes, dog parks, jackass brigade, shoe shopping, readig old stuff…
Living one block from a yarn store is dangerous. Especially dangerous if said yarn store is two doors down from the waffle offering coffee shop. They had red cotton yarn on clearance. Purse? Probably.
Dogs are a couple of jackasses but what do you expect, look at wo their role model is.
Spent a couple days reviewing writings from various people from the last year or so. I can say this with all honesty, there are some real fuck-jbs out there but conversely there are also some real gems. Be safe, people!
What’s the deal with Chipotle? It’s a burrito place. They sell very large burritos. I eat at Chipotle now and then, the burritos are large. They aren’t bad, they’re definitely a step up from Taco Bell, less gimicky too. I know people who freak about how much they love Chipotle, like this place is the end all for burrito places. The way I see it, the only thing they really have going for them is that their burritos are big. The quality s really only middling, there’s nothing flavor-wise that stands out, they aren’t particularly authentic, they charge extra for guacamole. Don’t get me wrong, I think they’re tasty, I just don’t see what’s got people in panty bundling mode. Speaking of Chipotle…the boy promised to get me some for dinner tonight.
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