choke on that causality

Last night I laid down for what I thought was going to be a disco nap, but it turned into an all-nighter. I must have been really tired.

I guess not much has been going on in my world lately. I moved to a cubicle next to a window recently at work. I feel special. Oh and I got an award for doing a good job externalizing an application server. A $50 gas card. I thought that was cool.

Sammy and KC are as annoying as ever. Love em to death…but it is getting harder and harder to walk them. I bought a new leash that has a rubber grip on it, so my hand no longer gets burned…but it is still a huge workout to walk them. I’m thinking about taking them both to obedience classes. Sammy is on some medication now to get rid of his parasites. Hopefully he’ll get a clean test here in another couple of weeks. If he stops eating dirt and licking water off the deck that is…

I’m trying to patch up some missing grass areas outside. But now I have a feeling that wherever Sammy has chosen to pee now will be the new bare spots.

Yesterday I was outside weeding and mulching in the front yard. The neighbor arrived home and got out of his car and complimented me on my work. He said it was looking really good. Then he told me sarcastically that I was really going to ‘love’ those cottonwood trees. Then I said, uh, we moved here in May of last year…so we remember the snow-like cotton fall that was going on when we were moving in. Anyhow. Then he asked me if I was into basketball. Uh, no. Then he started blabbing on about some team he liked and that the games don’t come on til 10pm. ok… Well just when I thought it hadn’t gotten awkward enough, he decided to start taking down the christmas lights he had on his bushes…yeah it is May. I know it’s tragic. Had he not noticed those were there. Thank god I ran out of mulch…so I ran away and didn’t come back for awhile. I sooo never have anything in common with most people, and I’d really just rather not deal with them.

The dogs are driving me crazy. Love em and all…but I don’t understand how they can have so much energy. We went for a long walk and played outside forever…Then I had to give them a bath because they stank. And now they just decided to roll around in the dirt to get all the clean off of them. Damn them. I feel like I’m getting eaten alive by mosquitoes (hmm..I didn’t realize there was an ‘e’ in there like potatoes), but i haven’t caught one on me yet. Perhaps I’m just paranoid.

I love having a deck where I can sit outside. (It’d be nicer if Mike would help me get all the patio furniture out :-\) It is beautiful out tonight. I have no desire to sit inside and watch tv. Although it is kinda lonely by myself. I suppose the dogs are here…and the cats sit and stare out the screen door and sniff the air and listen to the birds overhead. It’s so nice having a quiet neighborhood, and I don’t go in my back yard to see some shirtless old guy in the alley fixing televisions and yelling at “Angel, Shut up!” at his dog every few minutes. Although…been there with k.c… the shut up part…not the fixing tvs shirtless part. Ugh could you picture it?

I’ve noticed that when I let my puppy KC out to use the potty, she can only do one of either pee or poo, and then she needs to come inside for a break, before she can go out again a few minutes later and do the other…I know my sister’s dog Tinkerbell is like that too. Kinda funny, like it’s such hard work.

So I filed my taxes last night. I know that makes me a huge dork, considering the earliness of it, but I was anxious to get all the money. This is the first year we owned a house, granted for only half the year, but it still made a huge difference to my refund…

Not sure what to do with the money yet. Would love to plan a vacation, but we might end up doing something a little more practical like pay off some bills. Stupid bills…Always ruining my fun. Or we could buy something for the house…I know I’d like to replace a certain ugly couch that’s only purpose seems to be collecting pet hair.

So our electric bill doubled this month. We have electric heat in our house, but I wasn’t expecting such a jump compared to running the a/c all summer…And we usually leave the thermostat at 68…so I’m going to have to do a little more investigating…I hope nothing is wrong, cause ya know…I sure as hell don’t know how to fix anything.

Don’t you just love the winter and snow and ice? The shoveling, salting, scraping of car windows, hats that give you that funny flat hair, and that feeling of just guessing where you should park because you can’t see the lines in the parking lot.

Mike and I haven’t put up any christmas stuff yet. No lights outside, no tree, or wreaths or anything. I’m completely unmotivated for any of that junk. We haven’t put up a tree in a couple of years, and even then we only did it once…so besides that I haven’t put up a tree since I lived at home with my parents.

Speaking of my parents and Xmas, they go all out for christmas. My mom literally puts up 2 full size trees, 3 medium size ones, and a various mini-trees around the house. Plus my mom’s normal display of Santa clauses balloons to massive proportions. And they put up this extensive christmas village scene with all these ceramic houses and fake snow and little figurines and snowmans and just bunches of crazy christmas shit.

I just don’t get christmas. I know it’s nice to get gifts and get off of work or school or whatever. But it seems like a whole lotta pain. Maybe it’s just not fun anymore because I’m over the age of 12, and now I’m actually responsible for buying people gifts. Speaking of which, I have no idea what to get anyone. Mike and I already exchanged gifts, and I’m really bad at guessing what people might like. I’m suddenly reminded of all the awful way oversized sweaters and brightly colored fleece shirts that I would get for christmas from family. I know it somewhat takes the surprise or fun out of it…but I’m thinking of just getting gift cards. That’s what I’d really like I suppose.

Wow this post is depressing. The only thing that could make it worse, is talking more about my cat who has ringworm. That’s a fun topic. Ah well…if you don’t like it, then you can just bite me. Merry Christmas everyone!

Finally got the keys to the house yesterday. My first act in the new house was taking down that awful farm scene wallpaper in the kitchen. I’m about half done. Oh and it really freakin sucks. I think I finally got the hang of it now though so it should go easier.

I was only there for about an hour and a neighbor already stopped by to say hello. She was very, very nice, and had her two dogs with her. Not that I’m a complete hermit and prefer my isolation….but I’m just not into the whole being best buddies with my neighbors. We’ll see. It could be much worse. I could have to continue to live in trash central for the rest of my life. Ugh.

So Mike has to work for the next 3 nights straight…and there is so much work to do before Monday when we do the actual move. At the bare minimum we have to paint the kitchen, dining room (soon to be den), and both bathrooms. So should be a tiring weekend.