Keep Smiling!

Ernie is starting to bring us some much needed rain. Remember I said that by Saturday, when things are flooded ... there's gossip of it still possibly reaching hurricane strength before making landfall. Right now, wind speeds are 60 MPH... winds are SUPPOSED to reach up to 69/70 and hurricane strength starts at 74.

Noone is particularly worried. I talked to a guy who didnt even know a tropical storm was coming ... he was just glad we were getting "some rain". That was just this morning. I didnt know whether to be sad or scared at his intelligence level. This wasnt a 'shut in' or an elderly person without access to news ... this was a married family man who works in the technical business, owns his own company, plays in a band ...

ANYWAY ...

I have a dead tree that really needs to come down. I just havent had the money to devote to it. I need to get estimates. With high winds coming, the tree only has two directions to fall - on my house, or on my next-door-neighbor's house. The angle of the tree is going to make it difficult and costly to have removed. Ah, well. Responsibility of a property owner, I suppose.

I was having a bad morning this morning. I've had an abscessed tooth for the past week or so (past 5 days) and have been in constant numbing pain. I keep telling myself that maybe it'll go away if I'm just patient, and keep popping enough ibuprofen. Until I ran out of ibuprofen in the middle of the night last night. That sucked.
(Have I mentioned that I'm scared of dentists?)
Yeah, yeah, I'm going to call on Monday and get it taken care of.

I stubbed my little toe when I was feeding the critters this morning. I never wear shoes around the house. I sliced off a really nice little piece, it turns out. I was running late, so then dripped blood everywhere as I hopped around. Of course, I didnt stop to put a bandaid on it, just pulled on a sock and my tennis shoes ... so I had a really pretty sock to look at when when I got here to work (that's when I noticed the chunk of skin).

And now I'm getting a headache cuz there's a horny cricket somehwere here in the office. Isnt that why they rub their legs together ... to attract a mate? What an annoying noise!!!!!! I know where he is, he's in the cube directly diagonally behind me... I keep asking him to shut up. He's not listening. I turn the tv volume up, and he gets quiet for a second ... then just continues his incessant leg rubbing scree's. It's a good thing we dont have security physically located in this building, they might come running if they heard me screaming at a cricket.

Didnt sleep well last night. On top of the painful mouth, I only got about 3 hours of sleep. Phone kept ringing, silly thing. I kept answering the wrong phone, too. My cell phone would ring, I'd pick up the house phone. The house phone would ring, I'd pick up the cell phone. I hate trying to answer the phone when I'm sleepy. I usually give up and dont bother, but some of the calls were important.

Done complaining now.....

What an odd day.

J called! I havent talked to J in ... uh ... two years? Since he never replies to my emails ... but that's ok, I keep writing him anyway cuz I know he loves me ... d;)

Talked to Kelli on the phone, too. Have I mentioned that she is the coolest 16 year old that I know? Alan and I are taking her out to dinner and to a movie ('Pulse', I think) tomorrow night for getting the highest score in her class at summer school, and passing with flying colors.

Willow went to the vet this morning, for her usual blood tests. It was like family reunion day ... it's starting to get REALLY sad. I know people. The nice oriental (that's probably not PC, is it?) lady who has the golden retriever, Toby, that has the same platelet problem as Willow, was there .... we compared notes since the last time we'd talked. Sorin - a Dutch Shepherd that I'd had in an Agility Class last year, came in. There was another white shepherd there ... he was there to donate blood. A Lillington policeman brought his german shepherd/police dog in ... the dog was 6, and they'd worked together for 4 years... the dog has cancer. There were three or four boxers ... there are always boxers. Every time I'm in the waiting room, there are always boxers with misc. health probs.

But it was so ... sad? ... that I recognized people and their dogs, could catch up on lives ... it's just not exactly the IDEAL place to hang out.

And I ate Ice Cream.

There's been some weird stuff happening around here this week.

I was working from home the other day. I was watching 'The Ring 2' on cable, talking to Kelli on the phone, and just vegging in front of the laptop on the couch. The power went out ... the phone line went dead, I lost the network connection to my laptop and it kicked to battery back up. The AC turned off, and the ceiling fan stopped. The fish tank stopped bubbling. Everything in the house went still, except for the TV and the movie on cable. The power flicked on and off several times (three, that I can remember ... Kelli kept calling back asking why I hung up on her). I never lost the TV and movie. It was possessed!!

Then the next day, I was putting the lawnmower away (under the house - I have a huge crawl space). I'd had the lawnmower out for days, just hadnt bothered to put it away. The door to the crawlspace was closed, but not latched. I went around to the backyard, and was attacked by two of my dogs .. Willow and Bailey. I called for Riley, no dog. He sometimes ignores my calling, so I didnt think anything of it. I opened up the crawlspace door, and .... ABRACADABRA, there he was! Somehow, he must have gotten the door open ... gone in ... and one of the other dogs had closed it (or it had slammed closed). I've never seen him do anything even related to opening a door, he's timid about new things except for eating hair scrunchies, towels and clothes, and/or digging holes. Maybe one of the other dogs put him in there ... Willow? Bailey?

Maybe I've got a Gremlin ...