53 posts from July 2009

at the oc fair

just moved to the top of my Netflix queue

Tonight I am thankful for:

1. None of the other cats doing serious harm to Skritches
2. Deciding to ask Brad if he can do without me as a volunteer on Sun so I can R&R
3. Being really F-ing good at my job
4. FINALLY remembering to pick up my dental whitening trays
5. So far, I'm happy with the new phone

There was a fun moment at work today when someone was asking about my phone's features and said, "how do you answer it?" I realized I didn't know!! He called me so I could find out. Doh! (I always said that voice service was my least desired feature)

The dental whitening trays are kinda cool. I thought they'd be hard plastic but they're more like thin silicone. I also got molds of my teeth to use as storage bases. I'm putting off trying the whitening cause I'm supposed to wear them all night, every night, for 2 weeks. I don't have that level of commitment in me right now.

I got a ton done at the office today/tonight. I'm quite impressed with myself - even though some of that "ton" was finding a set of updates that I should have caught last week. But it doesn't really matter cause we're nowhere near ready to use my docs.

Nothing else to talk about so I guess I'll stop.

my new phone... which can send multiple pictures at once!

so far, only downfall is that the flash is way too freakin bright

Skritches:
Has learned where the backyard "exit" is and found her way out, twice (once when the "blocking brick" was in place), today. BAD KITTY! Fortunately, I caught her both times.

Boo:
Almost walked all the way up to Skritches without having a fit.

Moshi:
Did walk all the way up to Skritches, and touched noses, without having a fit. But Skritches freaked out.

Espressa:
Is currently out front with Boo & Moshi - very unusual for her but she hasn't been getting much outdoor time lately so I guess she's exploiting it while she can.

Me:

• Woke up feeling pretty good cause I took my last 1/2 a Xyzal last night. I really need to ask the doc for a scrip.
• Postponed Skritches' next eye appt by a week.
• Bought a new phone and new calling plan (same price but I went from 1000 anytime minutes to 450 - just cause the new phone wasn't compatible with the old plan)(and phones that were compatible were not acceptable to me)
• Cleaned up the bedroom enough for the housekeepers to be able to vacuum. The whole house looks MUCH better today!
  
• I'm wondering if the housekeepers washed the dishes or just stacked them up different. I can't tell.
• I used extra strength Fabreeze on a lot of the house... no more cat pee smell (at least for a bit)
• Finally put new linens on the bed (it's been 2 weeks? 3?? I'm not sure)
• Laughed when someone, hearing me talking to someone else, said "how do you have so much ENERGY?" Me? The person who is ALWAYS tired?!?
• I think I'm gonna sign up for the next S session, just in the hope of bringing some of my mojo back (even though I'll probably end up with little more than a sore knee and bad backache)
• Now my right elbow hurts ALL the time - even with the daily dose of Cymbalta (which numbs the knee pain). That doesn't seem good.
  
• I would really really really like to get the spare room cleaned up - without actually doing the work
• I think I have another night "off" tomorrow. I could go to a pole class - but I could also just chill. Which do you think I'll do?!?
  

The LG env Touch (I stayed with Verizon).

It has touchscreen, keyboard, 3.2mp camera (good pics, and fast, but I don't think I have macro or other features that I had with my prior phone), video, web without data package (and my vox page displays nicely), removable/replaceable battery, easy access microSD card, and USB charging.

$99 after I a $70 mail-in rebate.

Its a little larger than I would have liked but all of the acceptable phones were large.

I need to take my old phone in, this week  to have my contact list transferred over to the new phone.

I'm tired. But when am I not?

Victoria and I went to a Tarantino-themed burlesque show last night. It wasn't as good as either of us expected. Not bad. Just... not really special in any way. Lux was really good as Samuel Jackson, from Pulp Fiction. And some girl I didn't know (and can't remember) was insanely good as the aztec-themed-sexy-dancer-with-snake in From Dusk Till Dawn. But, otherwise... meh.

Lots of cats up & down and in & out all morning so I pretty much slept in 20 min shifts from 5:30a to about 11.

But I still went to workout and did "fair". Didn't push myself much but found I had a lot more strength than in the past so I used that where I could.

Now I should be cleaning up crap in the living room and my bedroom - so the housekeepers have a path to vacuum tomorrow. But that doesn't seem to be happening. I managed to get the clean clothes off the fur-covered floor, and onto the fur-covered bed, but they haven't moved since.

I don't even know for sure if the housekeepers are coming tomorrow. Juan usually calls me but he only has my cell number and the phone has not recovered from its encounter with humidity. It's really pissing me off - I mean, the phone still works... I just can't see what it's doing. I'm currently torn between staying with Verizon, and getting a Casio Exilim phone (5.1mp camera and military shock/water proof), or switching to AT&T and an iPhone. Dunno. And I'm in no great rush to visit stores and make a decision.

The highlight of last night might have been meeting this totally hot model-looking chick wearing a latex dress (and looking GREAT in it) and this awesome latex necklace from Art With Latex. I ordered one (necklace - much simpler than hers) today. I'll look STUPID trying to work the look - but I had to have one (I might "need" a mask too). Which reminds me: I need to go measure for my necklace length. They're made so they can be "buckled" but I liked that the chick, last night, just wore hers draping around her neck (cause latex is so sticky).

Back to fanatic feline femme:
The cats are all doing okay... except I exceeded "critical mass" and my house now smells, distinctly, like cat pee (it probably did before too but now even I smell it). I've been terrible about giving Skritches her eye drops - didn't start till yesterday and have only managed them once a day. She HATES them.

Boo is getting along with Skritches better. Still tries to "cut" her - but now she waits till she's a few feet away instead of freaking from 2 rooms away. Yesterday everything was so calm all morning, and Boo came back to bed (and stayed) or the first time in a month, and Skritches was nowhere to be found, that I thought Boo had killed her. But, nope, everyone was fine... just a new pattern.

This morning, in one of the many 20 min intermissions, I woke up and felt Boo sleeping against me. Then I remembered that Boo was outside. It was Skritches!! Awwwwwww!

I'm filling up my August & September calendars already... donate blood on Aug 1 (this Sat... really??), dinner with Earl (he's cooking!) that night, champagne tasting on Aug 8, MM concert on Aug 24, art deco walking tour of Long Beach on Sep 4, champagne class (guided tasting - all high quality champagnes) that night, 1940s hairdo instruction class on Sep 26 (i think)... and I don't remember what else.

I guess I'll finish this off with a bit of a lame Things on Tuesday:
Loathe:

• People who buy high performance sports cars and then drive them too slow, in front of me, on the freeway (50 in the fast lane when the freeway is clear.. WTF?)
• 1/2 dead cell phone (full dead would actually be better to me cause I couldn't pretend that it will magically resurrect)
  
• Heat + humidity
• My mojo going missing (again)
  
• Chores
• Forgetting to run errands (sundries; pick up whitening trays, and whatever else I forgot for the billionth time today)
  

Love:

• When kitties fall asleep touching me
  
• Temps have been lower this week - so it's tolerably horrid
• other stuff (my brain just shut down and left me staring at my computer, with no thoughts, for about 10 min)
  

And someone just texted me. But I can't see it. I just heard the single ring that means a text message.

I can make calls. I assume my alarms are going to go off - but I'm not going to be able to remember how to turn them off.

The phone was struck by the humidity last night. Display screens have been blank since. I can see condensation inside the small screen - but the big screen is blank too.

I have it in front of a fan but I doubt it's going to recover. I am not in the mood to pick a new phone - possibly a new carrier. Do I want the same one (I love the camera!)? An iPhone? PalmPre? Something else? Stay with Verizon? Switch to AT&T?

Worst part? I can't see any of the info I have stored in the phone. My pics (400 or so) are all on the removable mem card, so that's good. But phone #s and addresses aren't. Saved messages aren't. Whatever I'm not even thinking of isn't. Ugh.

Money in = money out!

BOOKMOLE!!

Her guess & charity: "$155.90. Any cat related charity, after you have had a large something long and fizzy to celebrate."

Actual value of my spare change: $168.95!!
(I about had a cardiac!!)

My coworker guessed $168.50 but he hasn't specified a charity yet. I'm thinking I'll donate the money to the North Carolina Blind Cat Rescue & Sanctuary, Inc.