What hurricane? – Bitchypoo

* * * I’m sorry, is this coming out okay? Can you hear (read) me? I’m not sure that you can, because I can no longer see nor hear. I’m doing this by memory, with my fingers on the right keys and all, but I’m sure I’m typoing the hell out of it. Maybe I’m just typing in some random program, and iTunes is all “What? What the fuck? Who are you looking for? And you are?” :twitch: I recorded the CMT top 20 this past Sunday, as I always do, and I fast-forwarded through to watch the videos I wanted to see (the adorable Miranda Lambert singing Bring Me Down, for instance, and Sugarland singing Something More also, and is it just me or is the young blonde in that group a dead ringer for Kate Hudson?) and skipped the ones I didn’t, or had seen a billion times already. I was done watching the show, and about to erase it, when the host announced that the “sneak peek” of Jessica Simpson’s video for These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ was coming on, and I thought – :twitch: I thought, “Well, I haven’t seen that yet. I like Jessica Simpson okay. I should check this out!” Why didn’t anyone try to stop me? The horror. OH GOD, THE HORROR! :twitch: Jessica Simpson, if I want to see you doing the Tush Push for an entire song, I will go out and buy Nick & Jessica porn that your father will SURELY be flogging any day now. Until then, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, please put some fucking clothes on and stop simulating sex. Please? :twitch:

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For dinner last night, we had Honey Brined Turkey Breast, and Cabbage with Lime. The turkey was the BEST, juiciest, just flat-out yummiest damn ~~chicken~~ turkey I’ve ever had in my ENTIRE LIFE. The cabbage with lime was pretty good, though I think I used too much olive oil and not enough lime and salt. It didn’t quite have the zip I was looking for, so next time I’ll up the salt and lime juice both. Definitely a very good meal. It’s only about one in three times that I try a new recipe and have it come out as something I really like, so to have two new recipes come out really good on one night is… well, it’s unprecedented! I’d never brined before; now I know what everyone’s raving about! * * * Bonnie asked in my comments yesterday what was going on with Mister Boogers’ nose. What’s going on with Mister Boogers’ nose is that the kittens gave him an upper respiratory infection, only we didn’t realize for the longest time that he had an upper respiratory infection. He has allergies, especially in the summer, so we thought that the sneezing and abundance of boogers was due to allergies. We finally got worried enough that Fred took him to the vet, where he was diagnosed with an upper respiratory infection, given shots and fluids, and prescribed an antibiotic. Now, due to the upper respiratory infection and perhaps his allergies as well, he’s had some serious boogers. When he has boogers in his nose, they tend to make him whistle when he breathes, and so Fred will hold him while I pick the boogers out of his nose so he can breathe more easily. The things I do for love. So anyway, the day before Fred took Mister Boogers to the vet, he noticed a rather large booger and asked me to pick it out. I did, only not only did the booger come out but SKIN OFF MISTER BOOGERS’ NOSE came off as well. And his nose was bleeding. I don’t think I’ve ever felt so much like an evil bitch. Until a few days ago, Mister Boogers had a nasty-looking scab on his nose, and it at some point joined up with some boogers in one nostril, and we talked about poking a hole in the scab so Mister Boogers could at least breathe out of that side of his nose, but we were both far too nervous to do such a thing, so we did not. The scab finally came off the other day and Mister Boogers is looking a lot better, but for a while there I could hardly look at him, because his poor raw nose made me feel like the most evil bitch in existence.

* * * The sunset from our back yard Saturday night:

One morning last week I was leaving the house, and looked up to see the sun looking pretty cool. I snapped a picture, but the picture didn’t really do it justice: