May 2006

May 30, 2006 21:00 hrs

Well don't I feel stupid. I started a new work schedule today. All day long I've been jammin' 'cause I go in an hour earlier and leave an hour earlier on Mondays and Wednesdays. This means my early days end at 1:00 pm instead of 2:00. One more hour of daylight for me to putter in the garden with! It wasn't until time for my Monday night meeting that I realized I'd spent the entire day thinking it was Monday...my co-workers must think I'm an idiot, not to mention my boss...

Anyway, if you want to see how I spent my holiday weekend, check out Purrfect Paws. I did the LACFA Cat Show booth two days and then spent the third updating their website.

Also, I have sad news to report. In addition to killing another mole today, I killed Mama Cardinal's eggs when I was working in the planter out front. Now I never laid a hand on them, but I needed to get the area between the bedding plants and the walls of the house weeded and mulched. There were lots of weeds. I also needed to prune the azaleas, which if you looked at the spring pictures you can see they've gotten completely stringy and out of hand. All this meant that I spent a good five hours working in close proximity to her nest and she flew away and didn't come back that day...or the next or the next. The first night was really cold and while I briefly considered taking the nest inside and putting it under a light bulb, the thought of hand raising three baby cardinals from scratch just seemed too daunting a task and so I just let nature take it's course. I now have a perfectly formed nest with three perfectly formed eggs and they've been abandoned. I may just buy me a silk Ficus tree and install the nest in it's branches...

May 29, 2006 20:45 hrs

Ha ha! It's still May! There's still time for me to update once more this month! I don't know how women who work full time and raise children do it. I could not possibly do it. You know how full my days were before with just the kid, animals, house and no job. It wasn't my choice, but I did trade the kid for the job and now I seem to have even less time than ever.

I am still slinging mulch around the yard, but I think another ten bags and I'll be done...for this year. I've caught three moles, one through the unusual method of flushing its burrow with water and then dispatching it when it came up for air. I have two more I'm trying to pin down, one in the new planter I built, one over by the peonies and both in burrows where I killed two previously! Persistent little buggers.

I took time out this weekend for Purrfect Paws.  We had a display at the local cat show hosted by Little Apple Cat Fanciers Association. There were a lot of pretty cats and a whole lot of money being spent on them. Now I have a ton of pictures and updates for their site, but there's something wrong with the server and I can't post. Hopefully tech support can fix it tomorrow. In fact, I'm only taking the time to post this because I want to make sure it's not my software that's causing the problem. If I can post here, but not there, it's their problem not mine!

May 13, 2006 16:55 hrs

I'm a public pooper. I'll have more to say on this later. Right now I just needed to get a link posted on this site so I could download some free software. Oh, I guess I'm a whore too...software whore.

22:45 hrs

I went to dinner at my friend Bonnie's house. Once again she prepared a divine repast. BBQ'd kebobs, lobster tail, white asparagus, twice baked cheddar potatoes and a salad. She's leaving town for the work week for the next two weeks and as most of you know I pamper her boys and manage her house while she's away. In return she treats me to lots of nice things like the lovely home-cooked meal, the frequent dinner out and even a cruise to the Bahamas this past New Year's. Can you keep a secret? I'd do for her even if she didn't do these things for me because I like her and I can truly say she's the best friend I've ever had. btw...I did bring desert...

Anyway, we were talking about pooping. Sooner or later, if you've got good friends that you've hung around with long enough, the conversation is going to turn to poop. Judi's co-workers giggle about bathroom habits. They refer to these functions in euphemisms like "going to the way back" meaning they had to use the bathroom that was furthest from anything else in the building because they were going to do a stinky.

Now as long as I am eating regular meals, I'm as regular as a clock. The only time I have trouble is when I quit smoking. Got to have that nicotine colonic to get things moving in the mornin'. Caffeine and nicotine really rock my world. Being a public pooper, I've never had a problem going into a public restroom and doing what needs to be done. The close proximity of other humans has never interfered with me dropping the kids off at the pool. I will admit to having a favorite stall in the big restroom at work. What I find annoying is when others enter the restroom after me and just sit there silently. I know that they are simply waiting for me to make "bathroom noises" to cover their "bathroom noises". People...it's a frigging restroom...it has but one purpose...use it. 

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