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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
playing catch-up
I had a post almost ready to go today, and then I forgot I hadn't quite finished it, let LT have a computer turn, and told him to close all the browser windows. Oops. I hate rewriting stuff so I'll try to just hit the high points. I'm nearing the point where if I don't post now I'll never post again. (Considering my diary-writing history, I'm frankly quite surprised I've kept going as long as I have.)
Um. The dog is a pain in the behind with her chewing. She particularly likes to chew on C's clothes. Not the clean ones. And not necessarily always the ones that are suitable for bringing out in front of company, either. Eew. It is costing us money now (even at Target jeans are $10 a pair and her size is in short supply at Goodwill) and money is not something we have a lot of.
Speaking of which, ohmygosh food prices. Thank you, biofuels researchers! Thank you, burgeoning overseas markets! Here, why don't I just set up the direct deposit to be divided between the grocery store and the gas company and we'll just go live in a cardboard box. Goody! The economy gets to have its severe 1929-style cyclical correction when we just got a mortgage! Fabulous. Gas prices have hit the much-feared $4/gallon here. At least for mid-grade -- regular unleaded was still only $3.90 the last time I looked. (I feel truly sorry for the diesel people, good mileage and all. $4.50. Ouch.) Can I just say how tired I am of people talking about how now we'll all use public transportation or walk? HELLO. Not everyone lives in the freaking CITY, people. It is six miles of narrow, fast highways over steep hills from here to the nearest grocery store, and there is no public transportation. WE'RE DOOOOOOOMED.
Wow, I'm gripy right now.
Um. Claire was sick all weekend, sick enough that I took her to the ER on Sunday on the advice of the on-call pediatrician only to be brusquely and rudely informed by a doctor who spent all of five seconds with my child that since the strep culture was negative it was just a viral sore throat except she didn't have a sore throat. (The ped thought it might be mono. So far I'm thinking no, but I'm still not 100% sure.) HATE HATE HATE our emergency room. HATE.
We're doing a lot of work in the garden. (I know I have never posted pictures. They'd be really boring.) Right now we're filling the raised beds with dirt. Oh, I thought I'd told you about the raised beds but I just remembered that that was in the post that got eaten. We had this old rickety deck (one of those "no permit required because no segment is 8' or larger and nothing's attached to the house" construction deals) ouside our back door, and we'd meant to take it down for months but never got around to it until we realized how utterly perfect it would be if we "repurposed" (thank you craftzine) it into the raised garden beds we needed. Perfect. So much easier than starting from scratch, and as a bonus we evicted (and squished) a whole bunch of black widows and gave ourselves more backyard in the process. Filling the raised beds is a lot of hard work and oh my gosh the mosquitoes are awful in the evenings and oh my gosh it was hot during the days this weekend, but it's going OK. OK and slowly.
Also over the weekend (it was a very busy weekend), I qualified for my concealed-carry permit. It's something I've meant to do for a very long time and T finally made me stop putting it off. So that was good.
AND I spent much of my "free" time last week -- up through Sunday night -- writing a history paper. It was supposed to be 7-10 pages in 12-point type and it ended up being ten full pages in 11-point type and I still felt like I was leaving a lot of stuff out. Note to self: Next time pick a nice tidy topic like World War II or European history, and not the International Geophysical Year. That'll be easy, because I never want to hear the phrase "International Geophysical Year" again. Ever. Starting now.
I am all twitterfied. No, not the Bambi kind, the twitter.com kind. There's a link over there --> which you can use to "follow" me, if you like. Twitter is handy because I can do a quick little update without having to do the whole Major Blog Post (Must Be Coherent) thing. You might try it. It's not addictive per se because I just use it in conjunction with my Google Reader and Facebook so it hardly adds any time at all to my Wasted Hours Sucked Away By The Internet tally.
I got a whole bunch of TV seasons on DVD from the library today. When I reserved them I kind of figured they'd arrive all staggered-like, but noooo, now I have like forty gajillion hours of old TV to watch in three weeks. Can I just say that I have no idea why "Full House" was ever so popular? STUPID. GAG. And yet I can't -- look -- away. Maybe they have inserted subliminally-perceptible images of Cadbury Roast Almond bars between the frames, or something.
OK, now I'm hungry.
And I think thatisall. Goodnight.
Comments
Ugh, I hate losing posts. I am now "following" you on Twitter but I think you need to add me for me to see your updates. My username there is katelinnea.
Posted by: Kat with a K at April 30, 2008 04:33 AM
I LOVED Full house when it was on tv. I tried to watch it recently (sometime in the last several months) and it was AWFUL! Why did I like it?? Ok. I could give you one reason.... but it was soooo cheesy! and silly!
I am on my way to twitter to join. been meaning to do it, but I too have been working on my paper. SO GLAD that is done! wahoo!! Now I am obsessing on how I did. I think I will stay home next week. dont want to know! =)
Posted by: debi at April 30, 2008 01:11 PM
Ok. just joined twitter. now what?????
Posted by: debi at April 30, 2008 01:16 PM
Debi: does the reason maybe have a long black mullet and a Greek last name? I had the same reason when the show was current. :)
Posted by: Rachel at April 30, 2008 02:34 PM
Wow, you've been busy! (Well, of course.)
I hear you on the public transportation/walking thing. It's one of the few things I dislike about living in the "country", that we can't really do that, even if we want to.
Ok, you're the second person in a couple of days to mention twitter. Guess I'll have to actually check it out, now. ;o)
Posted by: Michael at April 30, 2008 03:16 PM
ah yes. I would assume we had the same reason! Sure as heck WAS NOT joey! GAG
Posted by: debi at April 30, 2008 07:24 PM
ah yes. I would assume we had the same reason! Sure as heck WAS NOT joey! GAG
Posted by: debi at April 30, 2008 07:24 PM
Another Uncle Jesse fan, here! :) I actually bought seasons 1-3 because my kids like it as much as I did when I was their age, and for some reason I get a huge kick out of them vegetating in front of the same shows in front of which I vegetated. Hmmm, that sentence looks really weird, but you catch my drift.
Anyway, I am SO with you on the freaking out over grocery prices...we're a family of six and I try to be careful (though I could plan better), and it's just getting out of hand. Gas is at like $3.50 here in TX, but I'm also a lot closer to things than you. Insert sympathetic sigh here!
To my shame, I have NO idea what the International Geophysical Year is/was, so you have my utmost admiration for writing eleven pages about it!
Thanks for the update; I look forward to the next one!
Denise
Posted by: Anonymous at April 30, 2008 11:14 PM
I think the antidote to a paper on the Int'l Geofizzickal year would be reading the old Pogo strips about it - I wonder if they're online somewhere?
Not even everyone in a city has usable public transportation available, though I do think that is a ridiculous shame (as opposed to areas like yours, where there's a good reason it's not feasible).
Posted by: Anonymous at May 1, 2008 06:30 PM
When my dog Chewy (heh) was a puppy she was the same way. She would drag my dirty unmentionables out to the living room to eat in front of whomever happened to be visiting me at the time. Usually some cute guy - and of course my unmentionables at that time were all of the granny nature.
I'm not entirely sure why you need to carry a concealed anything living where you do (I don't even carry a knife and I live in Los Angeles!) but congrats just the same :-)
I really hope Claire feels better soon. I hope she doesn't have mono.
Posted by: Jenn at May 2, 2008 01:08 PM
There's no way my 1000 person rural town is ever going to have anything like public transportation - my husband is looking for a small car to drive to take to work. I hope Claire feels better.
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