2004-07-07

* * * The web page for the school the spud will be attending this year is the singularly least helpful web page I’ve ever come across in my life. If I were in charge of that web page, I would put up information such as when the schedule pickup for the various grades is, and what the bus routes are for Madison. I have no clue where around here the spud can catch the bus, and it’s information I’d like to be able to look up on the web page. Yes, I KNOW that school doesn’t start for a month, but I’m a worrier. What can I say?

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I went and had my stitches removed today. It didn’t hurt until she started removing the scabs, but even that kind of felt good, since it’s been itching an awful lot back there. She told me that to lessen the scarring, I needed to be careful to use sunscreen when exposing that spot to the sun over the next year or so. I didn’t tell her that I think scars are badass and it can scar up all it wants. I also didn’t tell her that chances are really good that my back probably hasn’t seen the sun since I was running around in a pink bikini, and I don’t expect it to see the sun ever again in this lifetime.
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Our cable internet service sucks so incredibly badly lately – every five minutes it goes down for a minute or longer – that if it doesn’t improve in the next few days (and this has been going on for a goddamn week if not longer) I’m probably going to sign up for fucking dial-up service. That is, if I don’t have a MOTHERFUCKING STROKE first. Knology. Don’t bother.
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In our library/ dining room/ whatever you want to call it sits a secretary (a piece of furniture, that is, not a person. Though I sure could use a secretary to answer the email sitting in my inbox.). Over the weekend, one of the cats (Meester Boogers, I think) was laying on the floor looking under the secretary. I assumed he’d knocked something under there, so I got down on the floor to look. There were a ton of toy mice under there – which I guess answers the question “Where did all their toy mice go?!” I got a broom and pulled all the mice out from under the secretary, then counted them. Sixteen. There were SIXTEEN toy mice under the secretary. Is it possible our cats have too many toys? Nah.
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They always look slightly guilty, as if they’d been doing something they shouldn’t. I suspect that when I’m not around, they snuggle up to each other.]]>

22 thoughts on “2004-07-07”

  3. Spot and the Bean look kinda sinister…they’re definitely plotting your death.

  4. I think the kitties just look sleepy, but perhaps p.o.’d that they’ve been woken up. // What a badass bathing suit! I think that style is still in vogue these days.

  6. Robyn,
    My cable modem has too slow in the last week also. I was thinking that dial-up would be faster. It did get me to do some major system checking and I did find a spyware program on my PC and found out that my Norton Network Security had a corrupt file that was really slowing my PC to a crawl. However, in the end, I feel safer but the web got no faster. Ugh!

  9. HA! BO! I find that when I go out to eat at a Mexican restaurant and I go back to work, that smell sticks to me and it DOES smell like BO! Had me laughing with that comment, as I always make the comment I stink like BO after eating at a Mexican place and everyone looks at me like I’m nuts!!

  11. Those are some damn panther kitties- they’re looking at you like you’re a gazelle they’re about to take down.
    Yeah, you’d think they would have noticed that the secretary was where the mouse toys go to die and alerted you they were hiding under there. A dog would have stood there and barked until you moved furniture. A cat just goes, ah, fuck it, whatever.

  12. All our cat toys are under either A.) The couch, B.) the bookshelf, or C.) The china cabinet. About once a month, I have to take a yard stick and sweep it under each piece of furniture to gather all the cat toys from their hiding places. Then I put them in a basket we keep on the floor near the couch. When the cats want to play, they take a toy out of the basket it and bat it around until it goes under the furniture again.

  13. I just got DSL, it’s actually supposed to be faster then cable internet and it allowes you to talk on the phone at the same time. Bell South has a good deal going on right now.

  14. All this cat talk….makes me want to run out and get myself a kitty or two..lol Not sure my 6 babies (chihuahuas) would appreciate a cat. But then,,i don’t think any of them have ever seen a cat before! 🙂

  15. 16? HA! I’ve got you beat.
    Craig started rooting around under our guest room entertainment center since that was the last place to look for toy mice.
    We found 25 of those little bastards.
    Reason we have so many? Betsy loses the 5 or so I get, then I get lazy and don’t want to crawl around with a flashlight and coat hanger, so I’ll go buy another couple of packs.
    We’ve got tons of mice in the house, hee.

  16. Hey, my sister found 6 REAL mice in her house, what do ya think now, huh? Snort. And my Nutmeg has a little pound puppy that she carries around like a dog. She has the stuffed mice but prefers chewing on the dog (that’s my girl) We have actually had to sew it up and stuff it twice already in the past 6 months.
    Just really wanted to say that the Bean is looking downright fluffy these days. He has grown up so fast (sniff)!

  17. I have cable service and mine slowed to a crawl too. I ran Spybot S&D and when I removed the spyware it found it threw up a message saying it was also “optimizing network connections” and after that things started to fly again 🙂 You might give it a try. The cable company kept telling me there were not any problems. I thought they were liars.

  18. OK, I must be a bad mom, ’cause the last time I dug mice out from under the bookcase, I only got 12. CLEARLY, my fuzzballs don’t have enough toys.

  19. Hi Robyn,
    We just switched to DSL through BellSouth and it is two to three times faster than our old cable internet through BrightHouse.

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