10/31/06

* * * So, my mother is on her way home to Maine. I got up at 6 this morning to shower and get dressed, then go out to Smallville to give everyone their medicine and put the kittens in their carriers. They were NOT happy at being put in such a small space, and either Westley or Fezzik howled all the way to Ardmore. Whichever one it was, he sounded JUST like Maxi. At the vet clinic I told the receptionist all of the kittens’ names, then we carried them out back for weighing. While we were back there, the vet’s assistant was holding either Fezzik or Inigo when a man brought his dog out back to weigh him. I thought the kitten saw the dog and was okay, but I was wrong – because when the kitten saw the dog, he freaked OUT, and that vet’s assistant ended up with some serious fucking scratches before I could pull the kitten off of her, poor woman. Anyway, the kittens are being spayed and neutered and are getting their ID chips today, and I’ll be picking them up after 5 to bring them back here to the house. I got back to Madison about 20 minutes later than I’d intended, but my mother wasn’t quite ready to leave yet anyway, and we had two hours before her flight left, so we had plenty of time. I dropped her off at the airport (I offered to go in with her, but she said she didn’t need me to), stopped at Wal-Mart for some Halloween candy, and came home. Where I’ve been doing various cleaning things around the house, cleaned Maddy’s room (which will belong to Maxi’s kittens as of this evening), and made spaghetti for Fred’s lunches this week. I also watched Lost from last week. Speaking of TV – how about that ending on Prison Break last night?! That was something, eh?

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The Nebshit Game! 1. If someone offered you $1,000 to be a phone sex operator for 1 hour, would you do it? I’d do it, but I don’t know that I’d be very good at it, unless hysterical giggling is considered a huge turn-on. 2. Have you ever left an anonymous comment online? Not that I recall. I’ve been tempted, but stopped by the fact that whoever’s site it is can see my IP address and might know that it’s me. 3. Have you eaten something that you dropped on the floor? Alllllll the time. I’m such a klutz that half of what I carry across the kitchen ends up on the floor. 4. If you call someone and get an answering machine, are you more likely to leave a message or hang up? Depends on why I’m calling. If I want them to call me back, I leave a message. If I had a question and can get the answer elsewhere, I don’t. If I’m calling ’cause I’m bored and wanted to talk sometimes I leave a message, sometimes not. 5. What is your favorite candy bar? I don’t really eat candy bars anymore, but I used to adore the Big Kat Kit Kat bars.
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Okay… um. I guess that’s it for today. Nothing to report, nothing to babble about, just nothin’. I need to do a little more cleaning, then perhaps some laundry and then I’m going to land on the couch with my book and read for a while. I’m currently reading Lisey’s Story, by Stephen King. I’m liking this book a LOT. I finished Stop Dressing Your Six Year-Old Like a Skank, and I’ve gotta say: Eh. I didn’t really like it that much. I got that it was supposed to be humorous, but I don’t think I cracked a smile even once while I was reading it.
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I don’t know why my mother felt that Maddy would make a good hat. Maddy did not agree.   Maddy’s favorite place to nap.   All of today’s uploaded pictures are hither. I understand that y’all are disappointed that we’re not keeping Maddy, but I TOLD you we weren’t! And I can guarantee that she’s going to a really good home where she’ll be spoiled rotten and loved to within an inch of her life. Maybe I can browbeat her new Momma into sending some pictures of her as she grows up.  
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Mister Boogers is currently in a state of catatonic despair, he hates you so much.    
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Previously 2005: Let the Seven Year Itch commence! 2004: Happy anniversary, you walnut-farting motherfucker. 2003: There’s nothing like a good second marriage to show you how bad the first one really was. 2002: He even sent me flowers. 2001: And they said it’d never last. 2000: And happy anniversary to Fred, who married me two years ago tonight, which was the smartest thing he’s ever done. 1999: “We don’t have to get married. We could just wait ’til next year. Shouldn’t we get married on the anniversary of the day we met? That would be more romantic!”]]>

22 thoughts on “10/31/06”

  1. Mr. Boogers luvs us all and is in a catatonic despair because he can’t choose who to visit first.

  2. Oh my gosh, I couldn’t believe the ending to Prison Break either! I’m just gonna hope one of them fell asleep in the car and it was just a bad dream.

  3. I have a question for you. You may have told us before, but I don’t go back that far. Because you volunteer at the pet (?)store(?), do you get free spaying/neutering services for as many cats as you want to bring in? Or are you and Fred dishing out the normal fees for these services for all these cats? Just curious… I know it costs an arm and a leg here in the Northeast to have it done, so I can’t imaging having to pay for multitudes of cats to be done.

  4. Happy Anniversary!!
    Happy Halloween!
    The picture of MaddyHat is great, I was giggling like a hyena.
    He may hate me but I LURVE him and want to snuggle up and squeeze him until he just can’t stand it anymore.

  5. OK, were’s the nine month post surgery pics????? Don’t you know we are all just chomping at the bit to see how great you look!!!

  6. Happy Halloween!
    Do you all give candy out?
    Can you eat sugar free candy since having gastric bypass or no candy at all?

  7. I’m such a klutz that half of what I carry across the kitchen ends up on the floor
    Remind me to NEVER come over for dinner!

  8. I lurve Mr. Boogers and am hoping the purity of my love will one day win him over from his hatin’ ways.
    Happy Anniversary Fred and Robyn!

  10. My luck someone at my desk when I’m out sick or at lunch has left anon messages out there and people are secretly thinking what a bitch I am.
    Oh well! I miss Maddy – she is so cute. I’m glad that she’s got a good home though.

  11. Happy Anniversary Fred and Robyn!
    Mr Boogers can hate me all he wants…that won’t stop me from loving him!

  12. I just reserved Lisey’s Story from the library today and hope to get to read it soon, so I’m glad to hear you’re liking it. I usually like King’s books, but not all the time (sometimes they’re way too gross or instense for me). Dean Koontz is more my style. Have you read Life Expectancy? It’s my favorite Koontz book (in fact, the first one I read that made me read others).

  13. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY FRED AND ROBYN. WERE YOU MARRIED ON HALLOWEEN? I LIVE ON A HILLSIDE WITH NO NEIGHBORS AND I HAVE NEVER HAD A CHILD COME HERE ON HALLOWEEN. TOO MUCH EFFORT I GUESS.

  15. Happy Anniversary!!!
    Who gets married on Halloween? lol
    My son fell and fractured his skull once on Halloween.
    He was 4 at the time and dressed as a silver spaceship.
    He’s 22 now ….and OK, thank God!
    Ahhhh…memories…:)
    This post has brought up a few “Saint Olaf stories”
    When I read how long you and Fred have been married I thought “wasn’t Bitchypoo one of the very first on line diaries I read?”
    Picture it….Florida…about 9 years ago. A widow living in a trailer,with her first p.c (a 486)Hewlett Packard ($1700.00 for it too!!)
    gets the internet for the first time. Not having a clue what to do with it…she looks up “trailer trash”
    ha! somehow she finds “Gwens Trailer trash”
    Remember Gwen Zepeda ?
    Back then she was still married and living in a trailer.
    So, I guess she was the first. But she must have linked me to bitchypoo somewhere down the line….and the rest is history!!!
    I remember it vividly when I read your story of “the rich bitch” I was cackling outloud ,in a silent office full of succesful “worker bee’s” and I did not care.
    That was some funny shit! Being sort of from the south made it even funnier.
    I’m glad life has gone so well for you guys since those olden days ,8 years ago!
    Smooches…. a fellow “spoiled housewife to cats”
    Mocha

  16. Oooohhhh, Robyn, I was just purusing some Prison Break spolier sights. . . it’s going to just get better! I love that show! Happy anniversary to you and Fred too!

  17. Mister Boogers looks like he’s contemplating how good life is going to be once Miss Maddy Mack Mack is gone. More bandwith devoted to him 😛
    I’m sorry there won’t be any more daily pics of Miss Maddy, but it’s good to know she’s going to a home she can have forever and be well taken care of.

  19. Robyn–
    Did your Mom adopt Maddy?!? Just a passing thought I had–those two look mighty snuggly in those pictures. That would be cool.
    I, too, was wondering if the cost of getting the Mom and Dad cats and their kittens spayed and neutered was covered by the no-kill shelter. If not, I would like to donate to the cause. Let me know!
    P.S. You’re awesome. That is all. 🙂

  20. You’d think Boogz would be ECSTATIC that that dreadful kitten was finally making her departure! Harrumph! Your mother is right, kittens do not make for good hats. Happy anniversary, Fred & Robyn!

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