7.11.09
I have some wonderful friends. they sent me flowers yesterday when they hear Gus died, they brought me lunch, and then supper, and then sat with me while I cried. and cried again. and some more. same with hubby. he's offered to get me another little birdie whenever I am ready. it won't replace my Gus, but I think it will be good for both me and Pokey. that's all.
my house is too quiet.
6.11.09
my little gus passed away today. it was a sad accident, and I am glad he didn't suffer, but I am heartbroken.not only am I having issues dealing with it, but poor pokey keeps calling him and flying around to all their favorite spots. crappiest day ever.
1.11.09
yesterday I helped my sis in law clean the place she's moving into, and wow. there was a lot of...ickiness. and a lot of paraphernalia for some not so legal activities. when it came time to open the fridge, I gagged. it was that awful. my sis in law told me not to worry, that we'd draw straws to see who had to deal with that monster. being evil, I asked if we would draw regular sized straws, or the short little cut off ones that we kept finding all over the house with the burned pop cans. we laughed until we cried. then we cleaned the fridge.
28.10.09
I have a spider living in the bathroom off the bedroom. he's been there all summer, and for some reason I can't kill him. he has such an impressive pile of little web-bound corpses, that I know he's been earning his keep. but lately, I noticed a startling lack of bug bodies. and I imagined spidey was looking a little thin. so I've started to catch bugs from other random parts of the house, and "accidentally" drop them near his web. at least I know he won't starve on my watch.
my least favorite annual report was delivered at work this week. it's the annual safe deposit box listing....and nope, I don't go through peoples boxes, that would at least be interesting. I just have to check the lease agreements and signature cards to our database to make sure the boxes are in the right names, they are getting a discount if they are eligible, etc. tedious, teeth clenching type stuff. I just find it funny that this report has been reviewed annually since before I was born, and yet all these years later I find mistakes that no one ever bothered to fix. and because I am nothing if not obsessive I must fix them. all of them. each and every one. but I must listen to all the people NOT doing the bloody report telling me how it should be done. sigh.two days down, two to go.
25.10.09
soooooo embarassing moments.....involving falling off chairs and quite possibly resulting in a broken tailbone, but you won't go to the doctor because you don't want to admit the stupid way in which you injured yourself. ever done that?I was trying to hang up the birdies play gym yesterday, and I had a weird tumble/fight with a kitchen chair, and the pain, oh the pain. I almost passed out AND threw up. even when my back was broken I don't think I had that violent of a reaction to pain. today I am mega sore, and more than a little bruised, my ego included. sitting for the next few weeks should be interesting..... a good lesson to wait the five minutes for my husband to help his short wife hang things up instead of being so bloody impatient. the point of pain is to learn, right?
24.10.09
mmmm. my hubby just brought me coffee in bed. I have a crummy cold/flu that's been floating around our branch for a couple weeks now. so I plan to do nothing more strenuous that surf the interweb, waste time on facebook, sleep, and rewatch my favorite glee episodes. which is pretty much all of them. oooh! and I have a stack of library books. which I had to pay 6.50 in late fines for before I could take them out. dang. I am a bad library patron. the problem is I take out 5-10 books at a time, and fees run at a quarter a book, a day. usually I manage to return them in between two-three days late. once you hit five bucks in late fees though, you can't take out anymore books till you pay. this is my greatest recurring moral failing. sigh.next moral failure is shamelessly bribing my husband with his one weakness, world of warcraft, to feed my weakness, clothing sales. we're going to vancouver for christmas, and I keep teasing him about taking me boxing day shopping in the biggest mall. I told him to think of it as an instance set on heroic, but he wasn't buying. so I told him he can use my laptop and free wi-fi to play wow while I shop, and he cracked instantly.evil, manipulative, me.
17.10.09
I found a plaid peacoat AND knee high black winter boots for 65 bucks today. it was pretty sweet. I've never had high boots before...they make me feel sorta dangerous...
