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Calgon take me away!
I need a vacation. I mean it, don’t laugh, I really do need one. I need someone to babysit The Curmudgeon and dogs while I go find a nice warm beach somewhere. I need a break, a change in routine, a chance to recharge.
Just give me a nice, quiet shack on the beach with plumbing, electric where I can plug my lap top in, and a great place to eat nearby. A place where I don’t have to cook or clean, or worry about anything except did I remember the sun block?
You have no idea how much I’d love to disappear for a few weeks and do nothing but relax and not have to think or remember to ask The Curmudgeon if he took his medication while forgetting mine completely. Oh yes, I have done that often.
To not have to worry if that noise I heard was him falling again…yes, a peaceful vacation where I don’t hear him moan and groan all day long.
Maybe I just need to get out of the house for a few hours and go out to lunch with G. This snow has me stir crazy.
You all have a good one and if you are on a beach somewhere, please refrain from telling me about it. 😀
English: Ginowan Tropical Beach 日本語: 宜野湾トロピカルビーチ (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I never thought I’d see this.
These two will play together but they never snuggled together. It was that whole ‘TOUCHING?!” thing. The arrival of the soft, fluffy, fuzzy throw has changed things around here a bit.
You all have a good one. I’m going to sit back and enjoy this.
Are you a bully?
As a youngster I could never understand it when people were nasty to each other. I couldn’t see the point in it. That’s probably why even one of my own sisters had a habit of bullying me for a long time.
One day, in junior high, I had enough of being bullied by a couple of girls in school and stood up to them with great success. It felt good. The next time my sister tried to bully me, I stood up to her. Success! She quit bullying me and tried to go after the baby sister. I wouldn’t allow that.
I do not tolerate bullying. I understand it even less now than I did as a child. How and why do certain adults think that bullying is acceptable?
Bullying comes in all forms. If you are reading this and wondering if I am writing about you, you may just be a bully.
Summer road trip anyone?
I found out today while taking a survey on Facebook that I am four states short of hitting all fifty states. Those four are probably not the ones you think they are.
I missed Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. My Mother missed Rhode Island. If I manage to hit those four states this summer I’ll break my mother’s record.
Wish she could be with me. She would have been thrilled to make her final state. We had planned to make that trip one day but that day never did get here. That’s why I made a promise to myself last night.
I am going to see my four remaining states.
You all have a good one!
I think Hecuba would enjoy a road trip. Don’t you?
We had more snow
It wasn’t much really, just very stick to everything fluffy, one of those great packing snows. Ideal for snowball fights and snowmen.
I let Patty out without the leash (since the pond is frozen I felt safe) She tore around the yard like a gazelle being chased by a cheetah. She’s quite the lovely sight when she cuts loose like that.
Gavin walked out, peed, and walked back in, he wasn’t impressed.
Once inside, he was the bouncy one and she was ready to take a snooze on the couch under her soft and fluffy blanket.
You all have a good one!
I can do without the snow and ice.
We did have a few days of unseasonably warm weather and of course that tends to lull one into a false sense of security. I hadn’t as yet put the liner in my good jacket and had taken my hoodie out of my old jacket again so I could wear just the hoodie in the ‘warmer’ weather.
In the last hour the temperature dropped ten degrees and shows no sign of stopping.
Even though it has turned to plain old rain again, I know that in a few more hours there’s ice, sleet, and snow in store for us. Yuck. At least Texas got snow before we did. 😉
This date last year.
No one knew what they were for…
Years ago, when we used to put up a tree for the holiday, we came up with a clever arrangement to keep the tree from tumbling to floor when the resident cat or dogs wanted to mess with it. We lost a few trees to cats who climbed them, or dogs who want to play around them, or both.
We got smart and ran wire from the two decorative rings on the wall to the tree. Never lost a tree after that. 😉
You all have a good one!
Nope, I am planting my butt on the couch.
I will not be leaving the house today. I refuse to go anywhere near a store on Black Friday.
I had to work many a Black Friday when I was a retail manager. I hated it then and I hate it even more now. I don’t know how many of you hard-core bargain hunters are aware that most of the people working in those stores you throng to are there not from choice but because it is ‘work the day or get fired.’
Oh yes, while you get to enjoy your time off retail workers don’t get the time off. Keep this in mind when you are dragging your feet at closing time on Christmas eve too. They can’t leave until you get the heck out of the freaking store. Are the bargains really worth it?
English: DC USA, Target, Black Friday (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Honoring my Father
My father died on this day in 1995 after spending 15 years in a nursing home. He’d suffered a major stroke that took away his power of speech and some of his reason.
Not a day goes by where I don’t think of him and miss him terribly. I have few pictures of him, the ones I do have, I treasure.
4/8/1915-11/27/1995
I love you Pop.
Not my favorite time of year.
I truly do hate the months of November and December. I find them depressing and way over rated. My Dad died in November and we buried him in December.
I hate that a simple trip to the grocery store turns into hell on wheels because so many people are idiots. You had an entire year to shop for gifts, why did you wait until the last-minute?
Can I please just skip ahead to January? And not the first of it either since that is when my Mother died and with her the last of my immediate family.
So maybe February would be better. I could easily hibernate until then.
Gavin’s Birthday!
It certainly doesn’t feel like twelve years have passed, but they have. Today is Gavin’s twelfth birthday. The poor boy got a bath yesterday and today he gets to go to the place he dreads and hates the most, the vet’s. I am such a mean dog Mommy. 😉
You all have a good one!
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