Custer's last stand

Did I ever mention that I hate Icarus?!??!!?
Yup I most definitely do.
He is peeing on everything, he even decorated the Christmas tree with cat urine. I'm at my wits end for real this time anyone have some advice other then offing him. Even though he is an asshole I'm not in complete favor of that kind of solution just yet. I threw him out the front door the other night but he just sat on the front porch and yowled. Bastard. As I type this we are at the vet so he can get his booster shots and hopefully there will be a solution like kitty Valium.

Happy birthday to Memaw!!

happy 21st birthday mom!!

watch out!!

i saw this on the daily beast.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/1990/1/

NaCl

Check this link out. Turns out my favorite food additive is quite useful.

http://shine.yahoo.com/event/green/46-smart-uses-for-salt-2270681/

I've lost my damn mind

I went to target, Costco and tower dogs like this. WTF?!?? What in the hell is wrong with me?? Ugh it's the baby. I have mommy mush brain. Sad.

Score

Bo got this at a yard sale yesterday. Only ten bucks, they said it is vintage I'm not completely sold on that but either way it says schwin and you can't buy any trike for ten bucks

Four

I love me a Sunday newspaper but why on the hell did they leave me four of them. One with plastic and three without?!??!!!?!!!

Coriander

Today I learned that coriander is the British word for cilantro

Wow what a day!

Sent from my iPhone

wonder if anyone called??

yuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmy

175k

I just want to give a shout out to my honda civic!! thank you for
being such a good car and may we have 10 more years!!!!

update

sooo my appointment was about an hour and 20 minutes late.....however the doctor did change my prescription even though he was quite sure that he was right the first time. I feel much better and now i can focus without it hurting my eyes. HOOOORAAAAY

and i don't feel like i am poking myself in the eye. a double victory.

a zoo

it has been awhile since I have called upon the services of lens
crafters. The last I had heard of them I got a 20 dollar check for
their shady relationship with the drs located inside their doors.

I had the joy of a return visit because i lost my glasses last week
and spent 7 days hoping the would reappear however it started to feel
like I was just keeping my finger in my eye at all times. So I am 3
months away from qualifying for new frames/lenses thru my insurance
and if i order thru my regualr doctor it takes a week or more to get
them back. so anyways long story longer I ended up here.

in three hours start to finish i got new glasses in my hand and
although I had to pay a lot at least I now had them.

Day .5:hmmmmm seems a little blurry but i am tired
day 1: something ain't right
day2: can't stand it my right eye can't focus without a lot of effort
finally I call them an schedule an appt as i arrive the place is full
of people some browsing some complaining and I am sitting here typing
this 20 minutes after my scheduled appt

they asked me if I had my glasses checked?!?WTF does that happen so
often that they are concerned that i don't have the right lenses in? I
am getting more pissed by the second and am also realizing i should
stick to the regular doctor.

goooo giants!!

wearable blanket nite is crazy

sizzlin bacon

these seeds are delicious!!!!

random

i saw this in target's Sunday ad and I had to have it! I even washed
it by accident and it survived. I think it is pretty cool and has been
making the day go by just a wee bit faster.

LA-X

is that an angry puffer fish or athelete

crash

my computer has been crashing all day

nerd alert

today's crossword has a clue related to surveying ! hooray I got one
take that Friday crossword!!!!

people

note to whoever it is at work that pulls too many ass gaskets out of
the dispenser and then shoves them back. if I use an ass gasket that
you touched all over and shoved back in it is making the point of the
ass gasket a mute point. I am pro- recycling and all for cutting
waste but come on!!!!

coucous

for reasons still unknown to us the dog started vomiting yesterday
afternoon. it continued 3 or four times and then was coupled with
breathing issues. So after trying to initially wait it out we took her
in to VES.
They of course coul not find a definitive answer from the blood
panel and therfore recomended we keep her there over
night and let them do more tests to
see if he has an inflammed pancreas or an abdominal obstruction or we
could take her home and take our chances but they didn't reccomend
doing that. I asked to see an estimate as to how much that would run
Nd they brought back a slip of paper ranging from 900 to 1100. We
really really love our dog, but a grand just like that and then whAt
happens if
it is pancreatitis then is it another grand to fix that. Anyways
feelin like assholes we elected take her home and take our chances.
The discharge instructions even said " while we wish you the best of
luck we do not think couscous will do well at home"
well she slept all night with us and this morning Although much sadder
then usual she made it. so keep your fingers crossed that it isn't
anything bad.

icarus

Icarus is still being an @#*(#*@(*$(@*#$(@*$(@)*$

we are currently engaged in a literal and figurative pissing match. The grill work did not help he is still peeing on everything. He even peed on the counter top, which is something i wouldn't have even thought as a possibility before now. I really don't know what to do but it is getting out of hand. I think it may have been triggered by a male cat on the "outside" that keeps sitting in the front yard and marking the front door, he may have activated some territorial madness that has spiraled out of control. I keep hoping it is going to stop and then i keep finding things that don't smell good. ugh

Grill

icky is getting his grill done this morning. Hopefully he both lives
and stops peeing on things in the house.

rip

Howard Zinn and J.D. Salinger in one day, what a bummer. I still have
good intentions to start my copy of the people's history of the united
states any day now.

Icarus or a MacBook

So I had a sort of impulsive thought the other night involving a Macbook. I have wanted one for years but have been too cheap to pull the trigger since i can get a windows one for so much less. However my current laptop is starting to fail and has to be plugged in all the time and Someone depends on it quite a bit for school, including a class this semester that requires you to submit an essay in the last hour of class. I am worried that without a plug someone might have a computer failure and get an F in the class. So Sunday night I put it in my cart, but then had second thoughts about the 1000 dollars it would cost and removed it.

Thank goodness because then this week we had to take Icarus to the vet. He has been crying a lot, acting weird and worst of all started peeing on all kinds of things. I know from experience that male cats are predisposed to getting urinary tract infections so I was afraid that might be the cause. Well that issue hasn't been answered but in the examination they found he has a broken tooth(WTF, how did he break his tooth?!! Was he in a bar fight I don't know about) and the extraction will be about 500, the other tests etc about the same.....
now if i can only get Icarus to send emails and wear an apple sticker.

Christopher Buckley

I love Christopher Buckley's books and I stumbled on this article at the Daily Beast:



http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-25/the-audacity-of-oops/p/

birthday dinner

yummy!! To put the icing on the cake of the crazy suprise party that
Bo threw with lots of help from the rest of the family my mom made my
favorite dinner!!! For those of you ho army familiar that is salt pork
and crock pot mac n cheese with some beans on the side. I love salt
pork and can usually only guilt trip my mommy into making it on my
birthday!
I'm very lucky!! Thanks to all my friends and family that made this a
birthday i will never forget. I'm going to refrain fromm posting
pictures from the party because the embarassment factor was quite high!!

The Chicago connection

tried this little pizza place out at first and bullard in te center by
Savemart. It was delicious!!!!! The corn meal crust was really good
and for the quality and quanity of food the price was good also. The
owners were there and were very friendly and very nice. The place was
squeaky clean, I just had a leftover piece and it was still delicious.

Mike's Pizzeria

I just dropped in the Mike's pizzeria(on west and shields) and got some yummy minestrone soup. They are always so friendly and nice in there and I enjoy their food. Their minestrone soup and fresh bread is the perfect answer for this weather. I also enjoy the other location on shaw.

making a mountain out of a mole hill

clerk(via email 9:14):
subject: safety hazard- mud in parking lot
good morning
it has been reported that there is a truck outside in the parking lot
that brought mud into the parking lot. can the person using this truck
please clean up the mud to prevent a safety hazard?
Please remember safety is our #1 priority.
**followed by graphic showing someone tripping

Supervisor(via email 9:18am) :
subject : re: safety hazard mud in parking lot
we are taking care of it now.

---several employees and shovels called to parking lot to shovel the
mud( it is raining)

supervisor (via email 10:40)
re:re safety hazard- mud in parking lot

the area ha been cleaned with a shovel but it still remains a slipping
hazard. cones have been placed to delineate the area. we are working
on getting a hose that will be long enough to spray off the area.

**rain continues

employee(via email12:24)----
we need to use some caution in washing the area so that we don't
deliberately discharge large volumes of mud to a storm drain system.
this can result in negative consequence with the agency. probably best
to use a large street broom and continue to shovel until most of the
solids are taken up.

WTF

supervisor asks employee to make sign and laminate to place on stake
and place In cone to provide information regarding the cones off area.

FYI -still raining in fact pouring is the word. It is most 2 pm and
the hose hasn't arrived. I hope no one slips while trying to hose of
pavement on rain.

doesn't anyone have something better to do?!?!??

playing ship

the night isn't over yet but so far they are both alive and well an
sort of in bed!

hmmmmmmmmm

yosemite

happy new year

The new year so far is going well. So far in the new year I have been
quite unusually active.
Friday- new years day just some shopping and pretending to see Avatar
again ( keep going to theater then bailing) but managed to grab some
lunch at Panera and get some good deals at the bookstore.
Saturday- headed up to Yosemite. The snow quantity was a bit
underwhelming but it was still pretty and the number of people wasn't
too high. It was good to go there, I can't even rememvet the last time
I was there probably almost 10 years ago.
Saturday Night- hit the Rocky Horror live show at Tower Theater.
that was a good time I really enjoyed myself even though rice throwing
was prohibited. The plce was packed to capacity I was really happy to
see te turnout. I hope they bring it back next year.
Sunday- broke out the bikes for a jaunt around Woodward park.
Yup I am out of shape!!!!!!!! Watching my bro-Inlaw dust me then turn
around and relap me while pulling a trailer with a kid and a baby seat
on the back with a second kid is quite humbling. I'm so tired right
now I can barely move, it quite sad!!! I'm very sure that this year I
will think about attempting to exercise more frequently and then not
do anything.

awww

world peace Is possible!!