And so in the end this is what it comes down to… the major excitement in my life is surprising my dogs with an extra treat on a Saturday night. They are hysterically happy, I am smiling giddily – ok, the margarita may have something to do with that – and my birds flap around with joy because they know that if I give the dogs a special treat, they too will come in for a surprise.
What amazes me the most is how utterly content I am with this situation.
Reason number 4,365,825 for me to panic
My wonderful cousin Marina (ok, there are a million Marina’s in my family and they are all wonderful but right now I’m referring to the one who will soon be Mrs. Williams) has thoughtfully invited me to not only the wedding but also to the rehearsal dinner the night before. I am honored by the invite. But I am also panicked since I’m going to guess I’ll now have to buy something for both the rehearsal dinner AND the wedding. That’s more clothes shopping than I normally do in a year or so.
If I try to make do with
What I’m giving thanks for
It being the season, I thought it most appropriate to enumerate the many things for which I am thankful this year. Unfortunately, Joe Miller is still around, thereby depriving me of the one greatest thing for which I was hoping to give thanks.
But I can at least be grateful that the campaign is over. I’m grateful I no longer have to be afraid to answer my phone. I have the joy of knowing it will bring nothing more than a telemarketer into my home and not some horrible push poll or even more horrible robo-call from some politician who
You know you’re a little overboard with your dogs when…
… there is not only a box of treats in every room of your house, but the minute you enter the room, your dogs follow, then sit and stare at the appropriate cupboard until that treat appears.
I’m not laughing now
I thought it was pretty funny watching Blue slip and slide through my icy yard and then end up splay-legged when she tried to pee. I thought it was pretty funny right up to the point when I realized she couldn’t get her legs under her to come back in and I had to navigate the ice rink that is my yard full of dog poop to grab her and help her in. Then it wasn’t funny at all.
There was a time
When I was growing up, pregnant teenagers went to a place called the Florence Crittenden home and had their babies in utter quiet and as much secrecy as possible. The babies were then adopted out and the girls returned to school with their missing months attributed to some vague illness. No one, not even the Catholic school girl I was at the time, was fooled.
It’s nice to be beyond those days of utter shame and secrecy when the teenager got little to no support for the emotional devastation the situation created.
But I do think we’ve perhaps gone a
Glen Beck…. Harry Potter villain?
Am I really the only person who thinks Glen Beck could play the evil villain in Harry Potter without missing a beat?
Some days
Some days you just need a smile mixed with a little drool to put all the brouhaha of a political election into perspective. I’d vote for Joey for President any day.
Hmmmmm
Given how slow my sex life has been for the past decade or so, I might have to start traveling more and opting for the pat down.
What do Joe Miller and bedbugs have in common?
America’s bedbug invasion has rapidly spread from New York City to Alaska. I can’t help but be suspicious as to how these critters have suddenly staged such a dramatic recurrence in our lives. Perhaps some mad scientist decided than rather than eliminate us all with some super Ebola virus released into a crowded subway station, he’d just ick us to death with bedbugs.
I find myself reluctant to go to a movie or stay in a hotel or take a plane trip for fear there will be bedbugs around who will follow me home. It only makes sense given that