2003-11-05

Wolves of the Calla (aka: Dark Tower 5), using coupons I’ve earned by buying other books from Waldenbooks. Since I have more than enough in coupons to buy the book I want, I’ve offered to buy something for Fred as well. He’s given me a list of books, none of which Waldenbooks carries in stock, those bastards. I finally give up on Fred’s book and just buy Wolves of the Calla. When I’m in the car, I take the book out of the bag to see how many pages it has (736!), and find a bookmark in the front of the book. It’s priced $3.50, but when I look at the sales receipt, I see that I didn’t pay for it. I have no idea how it got there. As a plus, it’s a cat, and thus clearly a sign. What kind of sign, I have no idea. Drive from the mall to Sam’s Club. Wander around Sam’s Club and buy: napkins, paper towels, gum, Splenda, mini babybels, and large padded envelopes for multi-book orders. Look at the book section and see that it appears that Sam’s Club is selling Wolves of the Calla for the full $35. I got it for 25% off, plus another 10% off for having a preferred member card. Go, me! Drive from Sam’s Club to the pet store and check out the kitties (that damn little Blacktoe is still there, and I am seized again with the urge to stick her in my purse and sneak her home. She’s so small Fred would never notice, right?). Walk around the store, telling myself that our cats do NOT need a Panic Mouse, especially for THAT price. Inspect litter boxes before deciding which will work for us (one the size of the sweater boxes we’ve been using, only a bit shallower), buy a Comfort Zone (with Feliway!) plug-in as well. Also, grab a small bag of rattly toy mice, since they seem to be disappearing at an alarming rate. While checking out, chat with cashier, who somehow remembers me from last week when I bought a big container of Nature’s Miracle. “Is this for the same problem?” she asks. “Is your cat still peeing outside the box?” Be surprised that she remembers me. Chat for a few minutes about our cats (she has five cats, too!) and then leave. Get home, unload all the crap from the car, check orders, and finally (I’m starving!) have lunch. After eating lunch, check email, and then settle in to process book orders, which is a somewhat laborious process. Processing the books goes like this: Print out a packing slip for each person on the Paypal page – and you can only do one person at a time, you can’t print out several different people, unfortunately. Go through and match each packing slip to the email I got notifying me of the order for that person. Go into Quickbooks and begin an invoice, listing each person on a separate line, then the Paypal charge after each person. Check for referral codes, and if any of the orders has a non-OFB, BP, or VIT referral, enter the referral in the Excel spreadsheet. Open Stamps.com and begin printing out postage for each order. While each person’s postage is printing, email to let them know that their book will be shipping within 24 hours. Once the postage is printed, get correct number of books and envelopes. Check each packing slip to see if a signature is required. If not, put book and packing slip in envelope, tape flap shut, and tape postage to the front of the package. If a signature is requested, stick packing slip in front of book, tape postage to front of envelope, and leave on Fred’s desk. Between that and having to make dinner, I think that pretty well explains why there was no entry, don’t you? I have to admit that I kinda like the busy days, although I’m glad they don’t come along all that often.

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My sister, who is insane, has already started her Christmas shopping. Crazy, CRAZY woman.
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If you’re on the notify list, you know that I had an appointment for a cut and color this morning. If you’re not on the notify list, well, now you know! I showed up at the salon on time (for once), and B3v looked at my hair and said, with less disapproval than I would have expected, “Did you color your hair yourself?” Whereupon I cringed and lied about how busy I’d been, and that coloring my hair at home was only a temporary measure until I could get it “done right.” When I told her I was ready for a change, she got briefly excited at the idea that I was going to change the color that I usually get, and then we discussed how I wanted my hair cut. “Your ends are pretty damaged,” she said. “I’d like to cut a few inches off.” And we settled on having it cut to the shoulder. And then she chopped and chopped and chopped and chopped.
(Yeah, I’m aware that I look like I’m about to flip out and go on a shooting spree)
I don’t know if I like it or not. I know it looks helmet-y, because she always blows my hair out straight (though at the moment, my hair is rebelling, and I have a bit of a flip going on in the back). I go back and forth between liking it and hating it. We’ll see what happens when I style it myself. But damn, y’all don’t let me grow my hair out to one length again, please. She ended up taking about 4 inches off the back and 8 in the front (for the bangs), and my hair actually feels somewhat healthy again.
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So after deciding that Tubby might be having a problem getting into the litter box due to the setup and possibly the deepness of the current litter box, Fred did some brainstorming and came up with the idea of buying a big box at U-Hawl (yes, I know that’s not how it’s spelled) and lining the inside of it with cheap stick-on tiles that he bought at L0we’s, and closing any gaps with duct tape. He did all that yesterday, and – well – it’s not pretty, but it’s functional.
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You know, I keep meaning to mention this. Stanley will play-attack any of the cats, but he seems to prefer Miz Poo. And frankly, I think that Miz Poo kind of likes it, too.
A year ago: How freaky is it that I had a hair appointment exactly a year ago? Two: is there anything cuter than a hissing kitten? I think not. Four: What will I talk about next, dryer lint? Woohoo, somebody stop me!]]>

47 thoughts on “2003-11-05”

  2. Robyn, I really love the color on your hair,plus I love the cut that she gave you. I personally think that you look a few years yonger,it just looks so much more viberant and healthy !!
    Be good !
    ~Denise~ in Georgia

  5. Yep. I like the hair. Can you come get Gizmo now? She won’t stop meowing at me to give her love and I can’t just stop everything and hold her all day. Or can I?

  6. We do a lot of friggin’ shit for our cats, y’know tha? That is quite the pee-catchin’ setup for spoiled tubby cats!

  7. Ok, I might have just found my new cut & style…it looks GREAT and like it doesn’t take much work to maintina (ALWAYS a plus!) I LOVE IT!!!!!!! 🙂

  8. I like your new “do”, Robyn, and the hairdressery look will be gone by tomorrow 🙂
    Glad to read you had a busy day processing book orders (wish I could say that) but did it have to be on my birthday??? Sniff. A sneak into bitchypooland was supposed to be one of the highlights (and between the toothache and the mean editor, it would have been). Sniff. Please, do not repeat next year! 😉

  9. I like it! Great color, too. I used to have mine cut very similar and it always flipped up in the back no matter what I did.

  10. I think your hair looks good. I need to get MINE cut.. damn hair. I went to some cheap place when I was at home and the guy cut my hair all wrong. One side is noticeably shorter than the other. And he grunted and made weird snorting noises while he cut it. 🙁

  12. I LOVE this cut and color on you! I was going to write you to day that you should go for a more layered short look…a definite thumbs up!
    And the tiled kitty potty walls…hysterical and practical at the same time!
    April

  13. Love the cut and color, it really does look great. I agree with Turtlemama, new style for me to consider too. Mines down to me ass and I actually love the length but getting completely sick of the tangles everyday. Hmmmm, will have to consider.
    Pretty soon Miz Poo will be all huggy and kissy with The Bean. You can just see her wanting to but not allowing herself in that picture.

  14. The tiles on the inside of the “litter box” are the same tiles currently in my bathroom. What does that say about my taste in decorating? And, yes, I chose the pattern myself.
    BTW, I love reading your journal everyday.

  16. Robyn – I love your haircut!! It really flatters you!! Do Fred and the Spud like it?
    Denise in NC

  19. I have ALL of my Christmas shopping done! Stay right here while I go find my “I’m a Dork” badge. 🙂

  21. I KNEW you’d look good with bangs – not that you looked old before (you didn’t) but you look even younger now. GREAT cut and color.

  22. Loving the bangs and the color! Cannot wait to see what you do to your hair next November 5th~~ LOL

  23. Robyn, your hair looks great- I LOVE it! Jeff is always telling me that bangs make a person look younger, that’s why I have them now too.
    You look great! 🙂

  25. uuummmm Robyn? Maybe I’m a dork, but I’m trying to send you an email and can’t for the life of me find a way to send you something…cat related and very funny! Would ya could ya email me? I promise it’ll be worth your time! wink wink!

  26. Oh wait…maybe I should have showered you with compliments….opps! You luuuuuuuuk marvolus daaaahling! Love the cut!

  27. The hair is fabulous! I love the color on you, it’s really great. And you never really know how you’ll feel about a cut until you deal with it yourself, so I hope you like it better once it’s not helmet-y, although it looks rather nice as it is!

  31. I haven’t just started, I am at the very end of my christmas shopping. Just getting those last few pesky things:P Nice dooooo, ya damn copy cat!

  32. that hair cut looks like crap, why do you let your husband go on day trips with your daughter, are you out of your mind… you’d better get back on track with the weight loss honey or keep looking over your shoulder. Get a CLUE!

  33. Holy shit, I think the last poster, who by the way is a fucking coward posting shit like that anonymously, needs to get a fucking life!

  34. Wow, Robyn!!! Looks like Lee-Ann found your website!!!! 😉 (See comment above Tina’s)
    Too many freaks in the world….

  38. Robyn, it appears that you are now collecting cunts instead of cats. Cowardly cunts at that. Oh, my. Apparently jealousy is rearing it’s ugly head and someone feels the need to be nasty…
    Pathetic, twat-head bitch, you may think it’s cute to come in here and make comments like that, but rest assured…what comes around, goes around and you totally fucked yourself this time!

  39. Just me, but I’m guessing that the anonymous poster was not serious, and that the comment was supposed to be funny. *I* laughed, anyway–but I’m also a jackass.

  40. LOVE the Hair! It makes you look younger- it makes your skin look nice! Bangs are always a good bet.
    Love the cat box- Poor Tubby! It’s tough being fat! I should know! Although- I always seem to make it to the potty (for now at least!)

  41. LOVE THE COLOR!!! love it love it love it..I did my hair like that once but the damn sun out here wont let me stay dark…rotten burning ball of gas! lol….you look good!!

  43. Cute cut Robyn! Love the bangs – I really wanted to get bangs when I had mine cut a few weeks ago, but I was so afraid I wouldnt like it (and bangs take FOREVER to grow out!) but yours looks so cute, I may take the leap and do it to my own hair 🙂

  44. Hey JACKIE:
    I’m sure you’ll keep coming back to check the damage…If you haven’t bothered to read Robyn’s post for tomorrow, I suggest you check it out. Oh, and by the way, go fuck yourself!

  45. Robyn,
    Thanks again for turning me on to “Natures Miracle”. I discovered there are two formulas and since my problem is with dogs instead of cats I got the right one. It works GREAT!!! I have never been more pleased. I bought a gallon jug 🙂

  46. hi robyn, i’m a nebshit and shelleyness reader and just came over on a lark when nance pointed to your journal in today’s entry. i like your haircut… i agree with the first poster that in a couple weeks it’ll look perfect. it isn’t helmetty at all. i like the way it feathers. and i’m glad you kept the weirdo anonymous spammy post up there so i could read the comments thread. what an unbelievable, as nance puts it, “Pathetic, twat-head bitch.”

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