Day Off

[copied from dland]

Didn't write yesterday due to an upset tummy, which then got better but I was so tired that I couldn't sit up and my desk and type and just fell asleep instead.

No school today due to Good Friday, so I got a haircut (still long, just a trim) and such, and took Boo to be groomed. I think I won't be able to take him for grooming anymore. Despite his random pooping, the groomer, who is familiar to him and very good with him, said he seemed very stressed by the whole procedure, pooped several times there, and didn't seem to really know what was going on. Now, people have asked me before if Boo is blind -- he isn't -- but no one has ever suggested that he might be ... well, senile. When I brought him home, he still seemed confused, and investigated the house as if he'd never been here before. Then he settled in and began to poop in all his usual spots. I've been running up and down to the washer all afternoon with the towels that cover his usual spots; my hands are dry and cracking already from being washed over and over and over. TMI. Anyway, we're going to have to try to trim his claws here, because there's just no point in taking him anywhere anymore. At this point, he smells as bad as he did this morning. I guess the stress is just too much for my little old man.

On the other hand, my hair looks really nice.

On yet another hand, I cannot stand this weather. The sun was out for 45 seconds today. The wind blew threw my jeans as if it were January. Oh wait, it was warm in January. This is the first year ever that the weather was nicer on my birthday (January 12) than it will be for K's (April 10, next Tuesday.)

I'm thinking I may have to get a new TV for the family room. You cannot imagine how much I don't want to do this. The SCM commented recently that it's funny that I'm such a gadget/techie person and yet I don't have a TV that's a big screen, or HD or anything like that. Which is true. We have six TV's in the house, and two of them were $10 garage sale specials. Also, I have some point of honor thing that makes me not want to get a new anything for myself that the Hubs also needs new of, which is tough, because he would rather go without than get a new anything. This is why he's driving my father's 1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera instead of a car made in this century. And I don't plan to get a new car before he does. It's like a stubborn contest. I know he needs a new TV for his little study, since his garage sale model is going, but he will never get around to it. I told him to take the TV from the bedroom if he needs it, since we rarely watch there. I hope he does, because then I'll get a new little TV for the bedroom. But I digress.

The family room TV is a good size -- about 28", I think -- and has a great picture. I don't want to replace it on principle. So why am I thinking about it? Because the sound is going. And as K pointed out, she'd think I'd want the best sound I could get on a TV, considering my situation.

Damn. The closed captioning isn't very good on this TV, either. I guess I really should replace it. I could swap with the Hubs', who has super-bionic hearing, but he doesn't have the room in there for a TV this big. Oy. It's always something.

If K doesn't get home from work soon, I shall eat the furniture. I wish I had listened when she told me how late she was working tonight. Or if she was going someplace after. Really, I thought she'd be home by now.

(Okay, I called the store. She left, but came back for something she forgot, and then just left again. So she's alive, but I bet won't be happy when she gets here.)


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