To Do List

I'm texting with my bff, checking in on facebook, and watching the Saints/Falcons game.
Seems like the appropriate time to "jot" down a household to do list:

1. Fix the front door handle.  That's been an issue for like a year now.

2.  Fix the screen door, the hinges and the bottom screen.  These have both been a few months.  The screen, I tried to fix before, but Rudy just popped it out when he jumped on it.

3.  Fix the back bathroom shower so that the water is hotter.  This has been from the beginning.  I tried to fix it by taking off the hot cold handle and moving the plastic disc, but this didn't work.  And the water in the rest of the house can get scalding.

4.  Fix the clog in the other bathroom shower.  This has been really from the beginning too.  We tried to snake it, and the snake would get caught.  We've bought a couple snakes.  The last time, I kind of unclogged it a little, but that lasted just a couple showers.  Then it stopped up again.  We need a snake with a narrower..."head".  It gets stuck.

5.  Clean clean clean!  everything!

6.  Weed everything!!! So many weeds!

7.  Clean the pool!  It's so dirty.  But it's cold, so I  don't want to go in, and it's difficult to clean some parts standing outside.

8.  Do something with the solar cover that is just all over the back of the yard behind the pool.

9. Mow the lawns.  It's been a few weeks, so it's time.

10.  Clean out the litter boxes.  I dumped them out and put in new litter, but I don't think that is enough for the cats.  Stinky tends to piss everywhere nowadays.

11. Clean the shutters.  They are dirty.

12.  Fix the 2 broken shutters.  That's so ghetto.

13.  Finish decorating the house!

14.  Fix all those broken hinges on the kitchen cabinets!  They are annoying!

15.  Put up more cat perch shelves around the house.




That is all.  Easy, huh?  Not, for me....

good luck

All I'm going to say to any of you out there who bought powerball tickets, for the jackpot of $500 million, good luck!

Yeah, yeah, money can't buy you happiness right?  But you can sure have a great time trying!

And, yeah, I am sitting here wishing I had bought more tickets.....

What Do I Do When I Don't Feel Like Posting?

I post a video of the animals...

Today was a weird day.  I spent lots of time with Rudy, and I realized, I never have enough time or energy to spend quality time with him.  He needs a lot of work.  And lots of love.  The work... well, it's a work in progress.

The love, yes, that's also a work in progress too.  He doesn't like to be hugged.  He growls if we hug him.  And if we pet him or crowd him the wrong way when he's not in the mood, he growls.  He's high maintenance, because the reverse side of it, is that he doesn't like to be left alone outside or in a room when we are somewhere else.  He whines this high pitched whine like he's in danger or something.

But, we had a first today.  I was trying to rip the broken screen off the door, and Rudy was crowding me.  So, I pushed him away with my hip, and I might have inadvertently pushed his head against the door frame.  He looked a little stunned, but not hurt.  I felt really really bad.  I bent down to pet him, and he seemed fine, then he licked my face.  I have never let him lick my face.  He's such a dirty dog.  He eats shit and dirt and bugs and dirty napkins and licks the floor.  But I hurt him and I felt bad and I apologized, and he licked my face.  What a good doggie.

Anyhoo, on a totally different subject, I dropped my iphone for the first time today!  It was a horrible feeling.  That's what I get for using the iphone while driving (at a stoplight mind you) and then setting it on the seat next to me and forgetting it was there.  When I got out of the car, it tumbled out onto the ground.  Luckily, I had that big bulky lifeproof case on it.  I'm not sure if it would have faired quite as well with the cool smaller and slender transparent purple case.  It might have been okay, but it fell face side down. :(  I hate myself for doing something stupid like that.  I should know better by now, since I've had to live with myself for almost 39 years now.

Thanklessgiving

I could have gone traditional and written what I'm thankful for on Thanksgiving day.  But I was busy and didn't really have time to, and I'm sure I've done that before numerous times.

So, now that it's after Thanksgiving, let's take time to list the the things that I'm not thankful for!  In no specific order of course:

1.  Black Friday.  I don't like it.  Waiting in line to buy things other than concert tickets?  I don't get it!  And then, people kill each other over these sales?  Really?  No!  What material item is vaulable enough to constitute murdering someone for the chance to purchase it?

2.  Road Rage Drivers.  Scary.  Dangerous.  Cause fatal accidents that make me late for work.

3. Seasonal shopping traffic.  If I just need to go down the street a mile and a half to the shopping center, I don't want it to take fifteen minutes to get there, and then 20 minutes to get back.  Where are all these people the rest of the year?  Do they not go to the store the rest of the year?  And what about online shopping?  I thought that cut down on a lot of in store shopping?  So, it could be even worse?

4. Animal Abusers.  Why would you hurt and animal?

5. Rapists and sex slave traders.  They are just bad people.

6. Whoever decided to cancel Outsourced and then Community on NBC.  Bastard.

7. Brunch.  Who the fuck came up with this meal, and did they invent it to torture service industry people?

8. Pending transactions.  hate waiting to see if a transaction has gone through in my account, and seeing sometimes that it takes days.  Sometimes, it appears that deposits are purposely not put in right away, so that the charges can go through first and overdraft fees will apply.

9. Animosity between Stinky and Rudy.  It's been 8 months now.  Can't they just get along already?

10.  The debris - leaves, ants, sand and trash - that ends up in my pool.  And the fact that the pool skimmer seems to have stopped working.

11. The Animal Planet channel show Too Cute!  It is so damn cute that it wastes my time.  I will watch a whole episode and pretty much stop what I'm doing, even if I've seen it before.

Whelp!  I'm tired, and that's about all I can think of right now.  So, that ends the list of thanklessnessgiving, 2012.

technology

You might hate it, but you gotta love it.  I mean, I love my mac.  But, those new commercials with the tablets that snap onto the keyboard or can be flipped around and stuff, those are exciting.  Is that wrong?  Maybe it is.

But I still love my computer.  And I love technology.  Technology allowed me to have a video conference with my 2 sisters (and my littlest baby nephew) tonight.  It was nice.  I can't exactly go visit them as often as I would like to, but at least I can see them on the world wide web.

Oh, and yes, I love my iphone.  It's so thin and sleek and light and cute and fast and connective.  Like say, I have to wait in the car for the FP to get out of work.  Before I could get on facebook after turning on the web browser and logging into facebook.  But it was a very limited and abbreviated version of facebook.  But now, I can just push a button on my iphone 5, and I'm on facebook.  I mean, my friends probably are over it because I post a lot more dumb posts... but that's mostly all I do on facebook anyway.

So, if you're looking at what to get me for Christmas... maybe some itunes credits so I can buy some cool apps?

And no, I have not downloaded Angry Birds.  When would I have time to post dumb shit on facebook?

Originality

Sometimes you hear a song that reminds you of another song, right?  I do this all the time.  I was doing it long before Pandora started that genome project.  And I didn't need complicated algorithms to do it either.  Anyway, these two songs have some similarities, no?

http://snd.sc/106qDlU

Modern Family

Friday night crazy.  Maybe I like Modern Family so much because it's about the wacky crazy yet close family that I can't understand....today the lady at daycare said that dogs are like practice for teenagers... I don't think I will ever have the privilege or nightmare to raise a teenager though....

Yes.  Watching Modern Family.  Oh, and Degrassi is being recorded, so that next.  Maybe if I'm not tired after, a Netflix selection....

Woo Hoo!

Anyone have any suggestions?

What I would like to do is watch Twilight Breaking Dawn part 1, and then go to the movies tomorrow and watch part 2 while the FP is at work!  But sadly, it's not on Netflix.  And yeah, I could find a place on the internets to watch it... but it's getting a little late anyway.

And, pu-lees.... Do Not judge!  Yes, I crave the Twilight movies kind of like I every once in a while crave Wendy's....

Now... what to watch for another half hour or hour before bedtime.....

2 Burning Questions

1.  Which came first - the porsche 911 or the emergency 911 call?

Answer: Porsche 911.  It came out in 1963.  The first 911 emergency call designation was in 1968.  But, according to this interwebs source, http://www.911dispatch.com/911/history/index.html, it wasn't officially designated the national emergency call number until 1999.

Oh, really?



2. Which came first - cell phone internet access or facebook?

I'm pretty sure it's cell phone internet access, but I'm not sure of the dates of either....

Answer: cell phone internet access in 1996.  I didn't even have a cell phone back then.  Facebook didn't start until 2004.  Funny, kids today must wonder what life was like before facebook.  It was myspace.
LOL! ;)

A weird day off

Is a day when I still end up waking up early and having to go into work.

Granted it was only a few hours, but I still had to go in, even though the owner asked me if it was my day off and why was I there.

I still had a nice enough day after work, but the stench of work was still on me.  If you've ever worked any kind of food service, then you know what I'm talking about.  Every day that I have to scoop ice cream, even if it's just one or two scoops, I can still smell the ice cream on my arms even though I tried to wash them.  Of course, maybe I'm ultra sensitive to the smell of ice cream despite my weak sense of smell because of my prior employment at Ben N Jerry's.

So, after work, the FP and I went to lunch.  Then we went to Publix to buy green drink and soy milk (makes us sound like pseudo health nuts, huh?).  Then we picked Rudy up from the daycare way early.  He was surprised, but at least he didn't try to run back into the back like he's done before... instead, he just passed out in the car and then went home and snoozed in the crate for an hour.

Later we took him for a walk downtown, during which we saw the coolest sidewalk stain.
It was a polar bear.  But, I'm going to be a tease, because I don't have a photo of it.  If you are facebook friends with the FP though, then you can see it on his page.  If not, tough shit.

Anyway, here we are now.  Everyone is napping, while I'm blogging, paying bills and watching Twilight.  I just have this urge to watch horribly cheesy bad TV and movies when the FP is away or asleep and I want to unwind.  This piano scene with Edward and Bella reminds me of some Sting video in the 80s or something.

Whelp!  Back to the grind tomorrow.  How else can I pay the bills to watch bad TV and then blog about it?

Addicted

to sleeping.  It's something that I just can't seem to get enough.  And I've become dependent on drugs to get it.

Is that wrong?

I mean, it's not like I'm popping Lunesta all hours of the day.  I have generic acetaminophen and diphenhydramine PM stuff.  I started taking 2 when I was sick and weening myself off of nyquil.  Then I went down to one, and now, I just bite off like a half or third of one.  So, it's not like I'm building a tolerance much... but it helps me sleep through the night, rather than waking up every 2 hours.

And don't go and recommend that new Nyquil Zzzzzzz.  I looked at the stuff.  It's just diphenhydramine.  The same amount that's in all the sleep aids.  But without the pain killer.  And I'm getting older and have a physical job.  I could use a little bit of pain killer.  It's just a little.

And not to change the subject, but this Breaking Amish show is funny.  They are in Atlantic City for a bachelor/bachelorette party drinking through penis straws and stuff.  It's funny, because it reminds me of that show Laguna Beach that was on MTV... but the opposite.  Oh, never mind.

Cats and dogs

This is a big deal. Rudy terrorizes the cats every chance he gets. It's nice to have quiet time with these two. Now if he will let Stinksy go onto the couch without trying to eat him!

Didn't feel it

last night.  Just couldn't blog.  

I don't really have the emotional energy to blog tonight either.  But I know that sometimes we just have to plow through.

That's what I tell myself every other day at work.  Plow through.  Just plow through.  I look at my prep list every day and I think, I don't want to prep that.  Or that.  Or that.  Or that.  It's not difficult things, and it's not a whole lot of things, as we are not that busy right now.  But, it's just routine stuff. And messy stuff.  I hate prepping messy stuff on my teeny little station.  It... makes a big mess.

Anyway, I tend to overprep.  I'm always preparing for the apocalyse.  Or the event that I die on the way to work.  Or maybe I just wake up one day and win the lottery.  And I wouldn't be one of those admirable people who decide to go into work anyway.  Everyone laughs at my systems.  They don't get it.  Like why do I write the recipe for pancakes on the ziploc bag of dry ingredients that I make the day before I make the batter?  And why do I mix the dry ingredients the day before anyway?  Well, it takes time to mix 8 gallons of pancake batter by hand.  And I have to do it in 2 or 3 batches because that is all the gigantic bowl will hold at one time.  And so, it makes it easier if I premix the dry ingredients ahead of time.  And then, say that I do die on the way to work one day before Saturday or Sunday, or any day, really.  So, then, come time to make the pancake batter, lo and behold, it's like I'm an angel on the shoulder of whoever has to make the batter, and I'm whispering the recipe to him (not a her, because I'm the only female in the kitchen). 

So, you could almost... almost say the same thing for this blog.  Sometimes I start a draft of a blog idea.  That way, if I want to pick up that topic and blog about it at a later date, I could.  So, if I died and someone got into my account, they could easily pick up those topics and blog in my voice, and no one would know.

Oh, no.  I just might have given some sick individual an idea.  They could come over and hold us all hostage and blog as me, and no one would be the wiser from tracking my blogs!  

Wait a minute.

For all you know, some sick individual could be doing that right now.  Maybe we are being held hostage and someone is impersonating the Food Ho right this minute.  And you wouldn't even know the difference!

Election Day!

Remember that Reese Witherspoon movie, Election?  I loved that movie.  I wish presidential elections were as funny.  And that presidential candidates handed out cupcakes.  Some people might argue that presidential elections are as funny, and that candidates do hand out metaphoric cupcakes.  But I don't get any of those metaphoric cupcakes.  I would rather have actual cupcakes than metaphoric ones anyway.  I love actual cupcakes with nice soft icing.  I like a good red velvet cupcake.  And even just a plain yellow or white cake cupcake is delicious.  Coconut is always a favorite of mine.  Chocolate has to be moist.  I kind of cringe at the word moist.  But I don't hate it like the word turd.  Man I could go for a good cupcake right about now.  No, I'm not really over the cupcake craze because I don't frequent cupcake shops.  I just every once in a while get the occasional 6 pack of cupcakes from Publix when they look good.

Anyway, I think Election day and the day after should be national holidays.  Don't you think.  I mean like real holidays where almost all the businesses are closed or have shorter hours.  Wouldn't that be nice?

It's so scary and exciting though, to be a part of an important swing state.  Watching the numbers recalculate, it's a real nail biter.  But, I'll probably fall asleep before they have a decisive winner for Florida, let alone the name of the president for the next 4 years.

Anyway, I'm burnt out by all this campaign bullshit.  I feel like no public money should go towards campaigns, and instead of donating money to campaigns, people should donate money to charities sponsored by the candidates.  Wouldn't that be nice?

I know, it would also be nice to have unicorns as pets.  But they might still accidentally stab you with their horn.  And you would have to always worry about some poacher coming to steal the horn as well.  And also all the neighborhood kids would always be ringing your doorbell wanting to pet the unicorn.  And you would have to turn them away sometimes, telling them that the unicorn is fragile and dainty and doesn't always want to frolick and rough house with the kids.  And then the kids would be disappointed.

But, anyway, getting back to the topic at hand, the other topic besides cupcakes and unicorns - in the midst of the spouting off of political bullshit from all directions, especially on facebook, I found some unexpected words of profoundness from a facebook friend.  It's so strange that someone who I wasn't close to in high school can affect my line of thinking from facebook of all places - without even knowing the effect.

Here's the two quotes:

I am proud to have NOT posted one political thing all season long. At the end of the day, we will vote from a point of personal integrity...not because our beliefs were positioned and skewered by insatiable social media.

When you're too religious, you tend to point your finger to judge instead of extending your hand to help. Keeping a formative pulse of your own piety is wise.

Whelp! Here's to seeing you tomorrow on the other side!!!!  Goodnight all!

Eve of choice

I do not pretend to be political or understand all the issues that I have to vote on tomorrow.  And yes, I know that it all affects me personally.  But, like in school, sometimes it does work to do a last minute cram for the exam.

The problem is, I want everyone to be happy and healthy and prosperous and productive and free to have their own ideas and opinions, as long as those ideas and opinions don't harm anyone else in action.

Is that unrealistic?

I guess so.  I can't wait to have people stop talking about it though.  I will never be forced into sharing someone's opinion if they try to beat it into me by ranting about their point of view.  It doesn't work that way.  The more someone goes off, the more I go into a coma like trance.

All I know, is that tomorrow is a big day.  People are going to be all in a lather.  I'm interested to see the results.  I just don't want to be preached at.  And I don't want to have to stand in a long ass line.

I'm not sure if I can avoid either of those things, though.

Hmm.....

So, it's Sunday.  You know how I hate working Sundays.  Brunch.

Interestingly enough, the chef quietly took today off.  Sunday.  Off.  The busiest day of the week.  He's had several Sundays off.

1.  His birthday.
2. His vacation week.
3. His wife's birthday.
4. A couple Sunday's after his wife's birthday, because his wife's birthday was during the hurricane Isaac warning, so they didn't get to do anything.
5.  This Sunday - I'm not sure what for.

I have been off one Sunday.  When we went to Michigan for our friends' wedding.  We worked through Thursday, then we flew out Friday morning, drove up to Traverse City and got there in the evening, tried to relax Saturday day, went to the wedding and stayed out really late, got up early Sunday to drive back to Detroit and get on a plane, then we went to work Monday morning.

Fuck that shit!  I am like the least important person in the kitchen on Sundays.  Why have I only had one Sunday off.  Oh well.  The chef is not going to be happy when I tell him the days I am going to need off during the busy season....

Tired and Confused

I don't know what time it will be when I wake up.  Will my ipod automatically change time, so that when my alarm goes off it will be the right time?  Or what?  This is weird.  I don't know if I have a watch with a working battery.  Oh... the stove clock doesn't update automatically.  So I could set it now, and when I wake up in the morning it will be correct!

Good.  Because I'm about to take some Nyquil, which means I won't quite have all my faculties when I wake up tomorrow morning.

Regression

I started sleeping with a blankie, or binky or whatever you want to call it. When I got sick I took one of the cuddly couch blankets into the bed to keep me warm and keep my nose and mouth covered so I wouldn't get more sick. The FP pulls the blanket around his feet, so my top half isn't fully covered.

Well, my cold or whatever has travelled to my chest where I can feel the congestion. And the blankie has stayed in the bed where it keeps my mouth and nose covered every night. No stuffy sinuses though...

un....

settled.

Do you ever just have this unsettled, uneasy, unhappy, edgy, and weary feeling?  Have you ever felt this same atmosphere fall over an entire group of people?  Like, maybe at work.  That's what it felt like today.  Things were just not right.  And service was not smooth.  And I really just didn't want to be there.

Sure, everyone feels like that some days.  Some people feel like that every day.  But today was just weird.  It was like it was a full moon.  Well, it's not.  I checked, and the full moon was on November 29th.  Anyway, it was a weird day.

And we have ticks.

And now my nice new easy to use iphone 5 won't pair with my macbook pro.

Why?