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Thursday, August 19, 2010
Stuffing myself
Well. My house is much cleaner than I had planned. Now, just in time to abandon it for a few weeks my house is cleaner than its been in months. All dressed up and nowhere to go.
I however, have some place to go and I am going but not yet . As of now I am still here, if only because I'm weighted down with all my stuff. I had no idea I needed so much stuff , I have a stack of things that I keep adding to, I think I have everything I need, will need, might need and I keep finding more stuff. My most recent discovery is that I'm probably going to need to score another card picture and so that means Christmas decorations. More stuff. I keep adding to the pile and I'm starting to wonder if perhaps I have a stuff problem. I think about it and I decide to reject this - I chose to not look at it as just things, I chose to see it all collectively as a very bumpy security blanket.
The animals have stuff, the dog has her doggy tent, her back pack and her travel food. Baby Kitty travels light with just his travel food and his crate.
I'll be posting, albeit lightly while I'm gone, stay tuned.
Well. My house is much cleaner than I had planned. Now, just in time to abandon it for a few weeks my house is cleaner than its been in months. All dressed up and nowhere to go.
I however, have some place to go and I am going but not yet . As of now I am still here, if only because I'm weighted down with all my stuff. I had no idea I needed so much stuff , I have a stack of things that I keep adding to, I think I have everything I need, will need, might need and I keep finding more stuff. My most recent discovery is that I'm probably going to need to score another card picture and so that means Christmas decorations. More stuff. I keep adding to the pile and I'm starting to wonder if perhaps I have a stuff problem. I think about it and I decide to reject this - I chose to not look at it as just things, I chose to see it all collectively as a very bumpy security blanket.
The animals have stuff, the dog has her doggy tent, her back pack and her travel food. Baby Kitty travels light with just his travel food and his crate.
I'll be posting, albeit lightly while I'm gone, stay tuned.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Getting Rover Ready for the Road, originally not posted on August 28, 2008
Venturing off on a road trip and don't want to leave your pup behind? Here are a few ways to make longer car journeys easier for her:
• Prepare her. Take her on a few shorter rides around town to get her warmed up and more used to traveling in the car.
Dogger loves the car. She was born to ride - in the back seat, she does not care to ride in the front seat. Sad for her because that is where the window is. She totally misses out on hanging her head out the window. Its a safety issue I am aware but precautions can be taken. Doggles for example.
• Protect her. Keep the snout inside the vehicle at all times. The breeze can be refreshing, but it can also whip up dirt and debris, which could get in her eyes.
Ibid.
• Entertain her. Give your dog a favorite toy to occupy her during the ride, and try to stop and stretch every 2 hours.
Dogger doesn't like to interact with toys in the car. I think it makes her car sick. She prefers to help the driver steer and failing that, she sleeps. All day.
I thought this little article would b appropriate since Dogger and I will be on the road verysoon and since I realized what time it was and how very little I had actually gotten done this evening. I do get points for picking up the litter boxes for the hotels, but then I lost points for going hungry to the grocery store and buying lots of food I won't be able to eat before I leave . Are peaches too messy for the car? I would think so, but then, how about cutting them up? Does it negatively effect them in the long run? Would I have to keep them refrigerated? I don't care for cold fruit - and just how ripe are they as we speak? Will they even live long enough to go on the road? What happens if I just eat them before I leave? I could do that too.
I've been on a real peach kick lately, what if I get arsenic poisoning? I don't also eat the pit but what happens if the pit leaks? Do peach pits leak? I did have to rescue a couple from the the disposal and they got a little damaged, did I then I have raw arsenic on my hands? Should I have worried?
I also bought some nice apples too. I believe they have arsenic in their seeds as well but I don't think I come in contact with those seeds directly. I understand that once upon a time people got ill from Waldorf salad because of the apple seeds. I do now however, eat Waldorf salad, so I should be in the clear. Could I be eating it and not know? Do they come in a Happy Meal? Would a Waldorf salad be able to disguise itself as a protean bar? And if so, why? Why would it need to disguise itself? Are those salads the tricksters of the food world? Are they somehow bewitched? And again, Why? Who would so that? Doesn't take a lot of energy to maintain that sort of thing?
Clearly. I am getting a lot done.
Venturing off on a road trip and don't want to leave your pup behind? Here are a few ways to make longer car journeys easier for her:
• Prepare her. Take her on a few shorter rides around town to get her warmed up and more used to traveling in the car.
Dogger loves the car. She was born to ride - in the back seat, she does not care to ride in the front seat. Sad for her because that is where the window is. She totally misses out on hanging her head out the window. Its a safety issue I am aware but precautions can be taken. Doggles for example.
• Protect her. Keep the snout inside the vehicle at all times. The breeze can be refreshing, but it can also whip up dirt and debris, which could get in her eyes.
Ibid.
• Entertain her. Give your dog a favorite toy to occupy her during the ride, and try to stop and stretch every 2 hours.
Dogger doesn't like to interact with toys in the car. I think it makes her car sick. She prefers to help the driver steer and failing that, she sleeps. All day.
I thought this little article would b appropriate since Dogger and I will be on the road verysoon and since I realized what time it was and how very little I had actually gotten done this evening. I do get points for picking up the litter boxes for the hotels, but then I lost points for going hungry to the grocery store and buying lots of food I won't be able to eat before I leave . Are peaches too messy for the car? I would think so, but then, how about cutting them up? Does it negatively effect them in the long run? Would I have to keep them refrigerated? I don't care for cold fruit - and just how ripe are they as we speak? Will they even live long enough to go on the road? What happens if I just eat them before I leave? I could do that too.
I've been on a real peach kick lately, what if I get arsenic poisoning? I don't also eat the pit but what happens if the pit leaks? Do peach pits leak? I did have to rescue a couple from the the disposal and they got a little damaged, did I then I have raw arsenic on my hands? Should I have worried?
I also bought some nice apples too. I believe they have arsenic in their seeds as well but I don't think I come in contact with those seeds directly. I understand that once upon a time people got ill from Waldorf salad because of the apple seeds. I do now however, eat Waldorf salad, so I should be in the clear. Could I be eating it and not know? Do they come in a Happy Meal? Would a Waldorf salad be able to disguise itself as a protean bar? And if so, why? Why would it need to disguise itself? Are those salads the tricksters of the food world? Are they somehow bewitched? And again, Why? Who would so that? Doesn't take a lot of energy to maintain that sort of thing?
Clearly. I am getting a lot done.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
ZzzzzzzWha?
Today my dishwasher is no longer a fire hazard. I'm so proud. I had to come home at lunch to let the repair guy in and while he removed large pieces of flammable metal from the maw of the machine I kept myself busy by preparing my dinner ahead of time - the garden totally paid for itself, I said Hmm. What do I want to eat? I need to get some of this stuff out of my refrigerator. Hmm. I see some ground meat of some sort and that needs to be eaten, what's out in the garden?"
As it turned out I had peppers out in the garden so I picked the largest one and made myself a nice stuffed pepper for dinner. Then I decided that Dogger should be bathed after work so I pulled out her towels and made a decision about her bedding and then I ate some lunch and went back to work only a half hour later than later. Not bad.
I came home after work, walked Dogger, fed Dogger, put the pepper in the oven, found some noodles that needed eating and settled in to read my Real Simple, finding my next craft project! Alphagal call me! We're making a lamp with little birds attached to it! In real life it cost $595, we're going to beat that. Be prepared, there are tiny metal birds and dangerous involvment with electricity in your future.
And then I fell asleep. Hard. The kind of hard where you suddenly wake up and panic because there is a really strong possibility that it is now tomorrow and you wasted all of what was left of today. Fortunately, it was still today and I had not wasted all of it, although I did end up bathing Dogger in the almost dark.
She got bathed and her bedding and towels are in the laundry and her Futon and dog bed are clean and smell good. There is still a film of dog hair on her carpet that I should have dealt with but didn't. There is always tommorrow, unless I sleep through it.
Today my dishwasher is no longer a fire hazard. I'm so proud. I had to come home at lunch to let the repair guy in and while he removed large pieces of flammable metal from the maw of the machine I kept myself busy by preparing my dinner ahead of time - the garden totally paid for itself, I said Hmm. What do I want to eat? I need to get some of this stuff out of my refrigerator. Hmm. I see some ground meat of some sort and that needs to be eaten, what's out in the garden?"
As it turned out I had peppers out in the garden so I picked the largest one and made myself a nice stuffed pepper for dinner. Then I decided that Dogger should be bathed after work so I pulled out her towels and made a decision about her bedding and then I ate some lunch and went back to work only a half hour later than later. Not bad.
I came home after work, walked Dogger, fed Dogger, put the pepper in the oven, found some noodles that needed eating and settled in to read my Real Simple, finding my next craft project! Alphagal call me! We're making a lamp with little birds attached to it! In real life it cost $595, we're going to beat that. Be prepared, there are tiny metal birds and dangerous involvment with electricity in your future.
And then I fell asleep. Hard. The kind of hard where you suddenly wake up and panic because there is a really strong possibility that it is now tomorrow and you wasted all of what was left of today. Fortunately, it was still today and I had not wasted all of it, although I did end up bathing Dogger in the almost dark.
She got bathed and her bedding and towels are in the laundry and her Futon and dog bed are clean and smell good. There is still a film of dog hair on her carpet that I should have dealt with but didn't. There is always tommorrow, unless I sleep through it.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Missing Her
Saturday morning my door bell rang. I paused, the last time my door bell rang on a Saturday morning it was a junkie asking to borrow a spoon - but that was then and this is now and it was past 7am and there was a chance it was not a junkie. It might be someone trying to sell me magazines or to sell me on their church. We can be ever hopeful. I still waited because I also don't care for people trying to sell me magazines or their faith.
If they catch me on a bad day I will end up with a houndred subscriptions to Essence and a membership in the Church of Zorg. I can be weak, but catch me on a good day it is better for the both of us if you don't tarry, just leave your pamphlet in my door and then run away, don't wait for me to shove it back down your throat, because I will - this bad attitude brought to you by someone who does go door to door bothering people with both pamphlets and surveys. I know my karma and I approach every door as if I am answering it myself: I'm either going to win a convert to Zorg or I am going to cursed at and have the door slammed in my face. Everyone has good and bad days. I am hopeing it is a bad day for them. Go Zorg!
The young woman at my door looked like a magazine salesperson. I am working my way through school and to raise money we are selling blah, blah, scam, fraud, rip-off, etc... I brought all my available Spanish to the front of my mind , prepared to no esta her off my porch.
She didn't want to sell me any magazines, instead she handed me a flyer. Her mother went missing in 1993 and she used to frequent this area of town, should I see her, please call the number at the bottom of the sheet. There was a picture of a heavy set white woman with a mullet and a knock off Members Only jacket. According to the dates she was 33. She looks 45 the hard way.
A white woman in a mullet with missing teeth in my neighborhood circa 1993? When I moved here in 2001, the only other white women I saw were hookers. Who all had mullets, missing teeth and knock off Members Only jackets. The sheet didn't give an occupation but did give a lot of numbers and acronyms. NamUS, NCIC, RPD. I still didn't buy it. I decided that it was a wank, that it was really a ploy to see who was home and who wasn't, it was a theft ring checking out the neighborhood. Thanks to the Internet anybody could pull a picture and cut and paste to their little hearts content. I thought about alerting the police to this scam.
I went online myself. She really is a missing person and she was as I suspected a prostitute with ties to the drug business. A white woman in this neighborhood at that time was not here to go to church - and if she was, it was a really, really, really long service. She's been gone for 17 years.
The girl at the door made it sound like there was a reasonable chance I was going to run into her at Wal-Mart and that the woman was among us and perhaps just hiding, maybe changed her name or had a one night stand that got out of hand and now she was embarrassed to come home. I believe the lady is no longer with us and its a testament to her that 17 years later , her adult children ( I saw the girl and another guy hours later, still hitting doors) are going door to door in the heat to ask us if we've seen her.
Have you seen her?
Parley Ann Pate
She went missing on 2/9/1993
Last seen - Raleigh, NC
DOB 6/16/59
H/W - 5'7, 140-160 pounds
Eyes/Hair - Hazel, brown
Scar on forehead and abdomen.
Saturday morning my door bell rang. I paused, the last time my door bell rang on a Saturday morning it was a junkie asking to borrow a spoon - but that was then and this is now and it was past 7am and there was a chance it was not a junkie. It might be someone trying to sell me magazines or to sell me on their church. We can be ever hopeful. I still waited because I also don't care for people trying to sell me magazines or their faith.
If they catch me on a bad day I will end up with a houndred subscriptions to Essence and a membership in the Church of Zorg. I can be weak, but catch me on a good day it is better for the both of us if you don't tarry, just leave your pamphlet in my door and then run away, don't wait for me to shove it back down your throat, because I will - this bad attitude brought to you by someone who does go door to door bothering people with both pamphlets and surveys. I know my karma and I approach every door as if I am answering it myself: I'm either going to win a convert to Zorg or I am going to cursed at and have the door slammed in my face. Everyone has good and bad days. I am hopeing it is a bad day for them. Go Zorg!
The young woman at my door looked like a magazine salesperson. I am working my way through school and to raise money we are selling blah, blah, scam, fraud, rip-off, etc... I brought all my available Spanish to the front of my mind , prepared to no esta her off my porch.
She didn't want to sell me any magazines, instead she handed me a flyer. Her mother went missing in 1993 and she used to frequent this area of town, should I see her, please call the number at the bottom of the sheet. There was a picture of a heavy set white woman with a mullet and a knock off Members Only jacket. According to the dates she was 33. She looks 45 the hard way.
A white woman in a mullet with missing teeth in my neighborhood circa 1993? When I moved here in 2001, the only other white women I saw were hookers. Who all had mullets, missing teeth and knock off Members Only jackets. The sheet didn't give an occupation but did give a lot of numbers and acronyms. NamUS, NCIC, RPD. I still didn't buy it. I decided that it was a wank, that it was really a ploy to see who was home and who wasn't, it was a theft ring checking out the neighborhood. Thanks to the Internet anybody could pull a picture and cut and paste to their little hearts content. I thought about alerting the police to this scam.
I went online myself. She really is a missing person and she was as I suspected a prostitute with ties to the drug business. A white woman in this neighborhood at that time was not here to go to church - and if she was, it was a really, really, really long service. She's been gone for 17 years.
The girl at the door made it sound like there was a reasonable chance I was going to run into her at Wal-Mart and that the woman was among us and perhaps just hiding, maybe changed her name or had a one night stand that got out of hand and now she was embarrassed to come home. I believe the lady is no longer with us and its a testament to her that 17 years later , her adult children ( I saw the girl and another guy hours later, still hitting doors) are going door to door in the heat to ask us if we've seen her.
Have you seen her?
Parley Ann Pate
She went missing on 2/9/1993
Last seen - Raleigh, NC
DOB 6/16/59
H/W - 5'7, 140-160 pounds
Eyes/Hair - Hazel, brown
Scar on forehead and abdomen.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Happy Friday the 13th!
Did you know my work computer has been beset by a still napping Trojan virus ( which was found because its brother woke up in another computer across the hall) that led to my beloved computer with all my carefully collected favorites and settings and desk top goodies being wrested from me and replaced with an inferior replacement - after struggling with that all day Wednesday I came in Thursday with the idea that everything would be back to normal and I would be able to dive back into my routine - but then my denile bubble burst all over me and reality was really sticky ... Thursday morning I was greeted with 240+ individual pieces of malware! And there was nothing I needed preloaded on the hard drive and the IT person had to spend hours messing with it and I wasn't able to get anything done and I spent so much time playing with my phone I ran the the battery down by 2:30pm!
240 pieces of malware! Sad, unhappy computer! Sad unhappy Diana! I spent two days feeling my blood pressure spike to new and exciting heights. I was horrified by the malware, I felt so violated because I hadn't even had a chance to mess with the computer that way! So, kudos to me on that front, because I admit to making really bad choices with my work computer and having almost no control what-so-ever with what sites I go to but this computer came pre-messed! and this was all Wednesday and Thursday August 11-12! What kind of hell will be unleashed today! I am fully expecting my computer to blow up and make the other computers blow up or spread some here-to-for unnamed virus that will send all our confidential information onto Twitter and Facebook under my log in.
And of course our federal over-seers have been here all week and so my boss has been in a super good mood all week and my computer issues have only made her a happier person. On the upside, I go on vacation next week, I don't have time for this crap. I need every spare moment for either fantasizing about not being in the office for three week sor spazzing because I'm not going to be in the office for three weeks.
Did you know my work computer has been beset by a still napping Trojan virus ( which was found because its brother woke up in another computer across the hall) that led to my beloved computer with all my carefully collected favorites and settings and desk top goodies being wrested from me and replaced with an inferior replacement - after struggling with that all day Wednesday I came in Thursday with the idea that everything would be back to normal and I would be able to dive back into my routine - but then my denile bubble burst all over me and reality was really sticky ... Thursday morning I was greeted with 240+ individual pieces of malware! And there was nothing I needed preloaded on the hard drive and the IT person had to spend hours messing with it and I wasn't able to get anything done and I spent so much time playing with my phone I ran the the battery down by 2:30pm!
240 pieces of malware! Sad, unhappy computer! Sad unhappy Diana! I spent two days feeling my blood pressure spike to new and exciting heights. I was horrified by the malware, I felt so violated because I hadn't even had a chance to mess with the computer that way! So, kudos to me on that front, because I admit to making really bad choices with my work computer and having almost no control what-so-ever with what sites I go to but this computer came pre-messed! and this was all Wednesday and Thursday August 11-12! What kind of hell will be unleashed today! I am fully expecting my computer to blow up and make the other computers blow up or spread some here-to-for unnamed virus that will send all our confidential information onto Twitter and Facebook under my log in.
And of course our federal over-seers have been here all week and so my boss has been in a super good mood all week and my computer issues have only made her a happier person. On the upside, I go on vacation next week, I don't have time for this crap. I need every spare moment for either fantasizing about not being in the office for three week sor spazzing because I'm not going to be in the office for three weeks.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Ah Ha. We have posting.
I was able to post from my phone but when I went to the horses mouth it was a no go. Whatev I can post now. Not that I have anything to post, I had a very frustrating day computer-wise at work and I discovered that not being able to work all day is almost worse than working all day.
It turned out that I had a nasty little virus, well, not just me, other people as well and it was really hard to get the bugger out, in fact, I had to get a new computer - which took time and then all of my crap had to be loaded on to it and that took time and all and all, everything took a lot of time and I got nothing done. I did spend a lot of time playing with my phone though - lets hear it for mobile versions! I wish more of the sites I go had them. You would think in this day and age they would be the norm, doesn't everyone spend too much time surfing with their phones? Isn't it the whole purpose of the Internet to provide us with more and better time wastes? It's appalling to not be able to access a site because its not mobile ready. Shocking really.
I shouldn't be playing with anything. I am going on vacation in a very short period of time and I am not prepared. Or worried. I should be very worried! I should be shopping and packing and collecting and doing! Thus far I have done some shopping, for car food and I found a word search book I will use in the car - that's it. A couple of boxes of protean bars and a word search book. I haven't decided on clothes or thought about what toys I want to bring with me or started to collect books - I have three days in the car to prepare for and I have a word search book! I am appalled with myself.
I have thought about packing. I have been thinking a lot about the plastic vacuum bags I have under my bed. I got them for storage but I never got around to storing anything in them so now they look a lot like suit cases. I have a really big one, a cube, and according to what I remember about the blurb on the package, it will hold everything in my house. The furniture, the fixtures, all of it. I'm sure it will hold a couple of weeks of socks and underwear and enough t-shirts to see me through. I mean it will hold a couch.
I have half a mind to just go buy a bag o' socks and a bag o' undies and be done with it, I mean who doesn't need more socks and undies? Because If I do it, I can just sift through my 47,000 tee shirts and take the least offensive and throw in a couple of pairs of shorts and maybe some khakis and be done. with. it. - But I was kind of thinking of bringing the nicer shirts that I wear to work - You know, I'm older now and maybe it would be better for me to project a more mature image. Tee-shirts don't exactly say "Hi. I'm a 42 year old woman", but then whoever wanted to say "Hi. I'm a 42 year old woman"?
I was able to post from my phone but when I went to the horses mouth it was a no go. Whatev I can post now. Not that I have anything to post, I had a very frustrating day computer-wise at work and I discovered that not being able to work all day is almost worse than working all day.
It turned out that I had a nasty little virus, well, not just me, other people as well and it was really hard to get the bugger out, in fact, I had to get a new computer - which took time and then all of my crap had to be loaded on to it and that took time and all and all, everything took a lot of time and I got nothing done. I did spend a lot of time playing with my phone though - lets hear it for mobile versions! I wish more of the sites I go had them. You would think in this day and age they would be the norm, doesn't everyone spend too much time surfing with their phones? Isn't it the whole purpose of the Internet to provide us with more and better time wastes? It's appalling to not be able to access a site because its not mobile ready. Shocking really.
I shouldn't be playing with anything. I am going on vacation in a very short period of time and I am not prepared. Or worried. I should be very worried! I should be shopping and packing and collecting and doing! Thus far I have done some shopping, for car food and I found a word search book I will use in the car - that's it. A couple of boxes of protean bars and a word search book. I haven't decided on clothes or thought about what toys I want to bring with me or started to collect books - I have three days in the car to prepare for and I have a word search book! I am appalled with myself.
I have thought about packing. I have been thinking a lot about the plastic vacuum bags I have under my bed. I got them for storage but I never got around to storing anything in them so now they look a lot like suit cases. I have a really big one, a cube, and according to what I remember about the blurb on the package, it will hold everything in my house. The furniture, the fixtures, all of it. I'm sure it will hold a couple of weeks of socks and underwear and enough t-shirts to see me through. I mean it will hold a couch.
I have half a mind to just go buy a bag o' socks and a bag o' undies and be done with it, I mean who doesn't need more socks and undies? Because If I do it, I can just sift through my 47,000 tee shirts and take the least offensive and throw in a couple of pairs of shorts and maybe some khakis and be done. with. it. - But I was kind of thinking of bringing the nicer shirts that I wear to work - You know, I'm older now and maybe it would be better for me to project a more mature image. Tee-shirts don't exactly say "Hi. I'm a 42 year old woman", but then whoever wanted to say "Hi. I'm a 42 year old woman"?
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
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