Where
have I been? Watching the olympics and cat-sitting. That's right,
it turns out I'm a very good cat-sitter. I might steal all the tomatoes
out of your backyard while you're on vacation, but your cat will
be alive and not malnourished when you come home. Also, I will only
snoop through your things a little bit. Prescriptions are of particular
interest to me. I like to know what you're putting in your body
because it might explain some of your behavior.
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Top
five things in my gray matter:
1.
Beans won't stop his counter-eating shenanigans. Latest casualty:
homemade peanut butter cookies from the next-door neighbors. They
were delicious and I can't re-create them. What do I say to get
more? "My dog ate your cookies, can I have a few extra?"
They will think I'm an a-hole. But no, in this case Beans is the
a-hole.
2.
Riding the coastal trail and having people never say hello and stare
stoney-eyed at the baby was poisoning me, so I did something drastic.
Today I took off my sunglasses and looked every single person we
passed in the eye and smiled and said hi, and most of them did it
back.
3.
I'm addicted to a certain social networking site and it's SUCH a
waste of time. Yet I cannot help myself.
4.
The baby had a fever the other day. In my opinion there is very
little worse in the world than watching the numbers on a digital
thermometer climb up into the hundreds without stopping. He is fine
now, except for a small cough.
5.
Since we moved here we took the TV out of our bedroom and now I
actually read. On Minjenah's
recommendation I read To Kill A Mockingbird and am now onto The
Autograph Man, which is like a big restaurant salad. The more
you eat the bigger it seems to get. Substitute read for eat in this
example.
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Today
the baby and I went to visit the Sunset Idea
House in Menlo Park. It was kind of boo-ring. The thing I was
most interested in was the A/V hub and how it was wired through
the house (speakers in every ceiling of every room), and I asked
every person working there about it and nobody knew anything. Maybe
it's just me, but when I pay $15 to walk through what is essentially
a model home, I'd like a little extra bonus info. I went purposely
today so I'd only have to pay one entry fee instead of tomorrow
when Gray would want to go with me, because I knew there was no
way it would be worth $30. And I was right. In the future I will
just go to Apartment
Therapy for free.
