Archives for "May, 2006"

(12:13am)

I’m taking Roxy into the vet again tomorrow morning – she’s been barfing way too much in the past few days. Just cleaned up barf-fest #3 for the day. No blood or anything (I’d be taking her to the emergency vet if that were the case) – but she totally empties her stomach every time.

She either has a severe hairball, or she’s eaten something that’s caused her intestines to get all wound up. I wish I could tell if she’s been able to go to the bathroom….but with a shared litter box, it’s hard to tell.

Poor kitten. Now I feel even worse for being such an asshole earlier today. I feel like crying.

I’ve noticed that I have a very, very short temper lately.

Most noticably was me getting pissed off angry this morning at Rox for barfing on the couch sometime during the night. I seriously flipped out, yelled at her (swearing like a sailor) and then manhandled her to give her the Petromalt (for the hairballs) and her antibiotics for the cat acne.

Why in the hell am I getting so fucking angry now? And why did I get so angry at her? She’s just a little cat. I feel like such a heel now.

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I really should be painting my stairway – but instead I made a rhubarb cake.

I also discovered that I cannot wear sterling silver and sweat at the same time.

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Around 11pm last night, I was kept awake with this random thought:

I hadn’t really been paying attention when I had left that morning, so I wasn’t sure. Did I shut it? Was it open right now and hoodlums were ransacking my garage of its contents? Did they find my hidden house key and are stealing all my furniture and killing my cats?

Total, paranoid thoughts.

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a.k.a. “Reason #1,204,556 why I love my family.”

I fixed my A/C drain!

All it took was a frantic call to Mom to vent, then a call to my sister Laura to find out WTF was going on.

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Why is it that every home improvement project I tackle, there has to be SOMETHING that goes wrong?

Granted, this one isn’t my fault, and had nothing to do with the project.

I work with my iPod playing. I’m painting, minding my own business when I step into a puddle of COLD water. I’m nowhere near the sink, actually – I’m by the HVAC. I open the door and there’s a steady stream of water coming out of a random pipe all over my floor. My furnace filter is now all wet, and I discover that the fucking MORON who installed the new furnace before I took possession of the house CUT THE HOSE FOR THE A/C and just left it dangling off into nowhere. There’s no drain anywhere in there for the water to go down and now since the asshole CUT the hose instead of, oh I don’t know, remove and replace it – I had to turn off the A/C.

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Back at my old apartment, there was tons of lounge chairs for use by the people who lived there. On the weekend (or when I was on vacation), I loved going down there with a bottle of water, a book or my iPod and just sit outside and enjoy the nice weather.

Well, since I moved, I really couldn’t take one of those lounge chairs with me. So I’ve been on the search for a cheap lounge chair of my very own. “Cheap” is less than $20.

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I have yet resisted turning on my air conditioning this year. So when I’m in my computer room, I sit with the windows open (and a cat sitting on the desk looking out the window). My neighbors in the next building have their windows open all the time too.

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Time: 34:38
Distance: 3.42 miles

Notes: Ran outside. Used PodRunner.com’s “Emotion In Motion (155bpm)” mix. Right knee/shin was feeling a bit wonky – hope there’s nothing going on there. I think I’ll need to buy new running shoes in the next few weeks – perhaps I’ve run these out and they’re just not doing it anymore.