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I continue to be unhappy with that bitch, Mother Nature. The winter clothes, that I put away last week? I had to dig a fleece shirt out, because with the temperature outside hanging at 40 degrees, spring and summer clothes aren’t cutting it. Bah!
And I wouldn’t mind seeing some damn sunshine, damnit!
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A conversation that did NOT take place in the And3rson household, because marking up legal currency is against the law.
NotFred: NotBessie, are you marking all our money with a red “Where’s George?” stamp?
NotMe: Yep.
NotFred: NotBeeeeessie! That’s illegal!
NotMe: Prove I did it.
NotFred: (after a long pause) But you just said you did!
NotMe: Prove it.
Heh.
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The spud got her progress report yesterday, and so far for this quarter she’s got straight As. She always gets good grades, but there’s usually a couple of Bs in there as well. Go, spud!
The thing about the spud is that she’s not a procrastinator when it comes to homework. She’s got an MLA-style paper due in a few weeks, and instead of putting it off ’til the last minute (like her mother), she’s been hard at work ever since she got the assignment.
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April asks:
When something funny happens between you and Fred, do either of you ask that it NOT make it to either journal?
It’s actually somewhat rare that either of us does that – the only thing that really comes to mind is that I recently told Fred he wasn’t allowed to write any more “Robyn farts” entries, though I did let him circumvent it in his
most recent entry.
What happens more often is that something funny or odd will happen, and he’ll call dibs on the story. In fact, that happens a lot, though sometimes he’ll call dibs and then decide later that he’s not interested in writing about it.
If I’m writing something about him that’s potentially embarrassing, I’ll ask him to read it before I post it in case he wants me to change anything – though I don’t think he’s ever actually wanted me to – and vice versa. (
back to the FAQ page)
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I have a few questions that aren’t really frequently asked, but I thought I’d answer them anyway, since they’re interesting questions.
Say asked:
Are you planning on getting any more kitties? If so (or not) why (or why not).
There are, at this point, no plans to get any more kitties. We’re pretty much on the verge already of being crazy cat people, and I think that any more cats would put us firmly into that category. It’s hard to go to the pet store and see so many great cats and never be able to bring them home, but I’m afraid that if I showed up at home with another kitty, I’d find myself divorced, on the street, living in a cardboard carton with Miz Poo. I’d have to change the journal name to Homeless Bitchypoo, but you KNOW I’d still update every day.
We like to watch Animal Precinct and Animal Cops when there’s nothing else on, and a few days ago there was a show where the Animal Cops had to go to this woman’s house. The woman, probably in her 50s if not older, was living in absolute filth, cats everywhere, shitting in the corners of the room. And you just KNOW that there was a point when the woman had a normal number of cats (although I guess 5 cats is probably over the “normal number” line) and thought “Oh, I’ll just save one more… ”
Plus, we have a pretty good mix of cats, they get along fairly well, though every now and then one of them decides that another one needs an ass-kicking.
And Jennifer asks:
Do you guys have friends? You never seem to talk about going out with friends, etc, so I wondered if you were home-bodies like me and mine?
We have friends, but not really anyone we go out with, because we don’t really like to go out much. We’re very much homebodies, and a perfect day to us is hanging around the house, watching a movie, messing around on the computers, or hanging out in the back yard watching the cats and reading. We have a very low-key life, which is how we like it, and even the occasional yen to get out of the house is satisfied by a run to the store or a bike ride.
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