3/14/05

the solomon sisters wise up.

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Damn – is anyone NOT pregnant these days? Sundry, Aimee, Demi, not to mention just about every blogger in existence. It’s a veritable baby boom! Congrats, ladies. I’m looking forward to reading about it all!
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The Go Fuck Yourself ‘burb no longer exists. Saturday, after a – shall we say – less than intelligent person left an ALL CAPS comment saying YOU NEED TO BE CAREFUL WHO YOU TRY TO UPSET! THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN THERE ARE OF YOU….PERVERTED BITCH., I checked my stats and found that someone had hotlinked one of the GFY images in someone’s tagboard and some of the readers of that tagboard weren’t smart enough to understand that if someone’s hotlinking an image, chances are good that it’s not the person hosting that image, and one of them left the above comment (the person who left the comment, by the way, will be redirected should she try to visit this site again. I know she simply isn’t intelligent enough to understand that I have better things to do than hotlink MY OWN IMAGES in the tagboard of some site I’ve never heard of, but lack of intelligence is not an excuse). I thought “Oh, I need to tell the person who owns that tagboard that it wasn’t me, that someone was hotlinking!”, and the owner of said tagboard still wasn’t quite smart enough to get it, and I checked my stats and found several more hotlinkers, and I said to myself, I said “Self? Life is too fucking short. Fuck that noise. Buh-bye, GFY ‘burb.” and I deleted the ‘burb and the images, and the ‘burb no longer exists. Feel free to start up a GFY ‘burb yourself, though, and I’ll happily link to it. Hell, I’ll even send you the GFY images if you want. Edited to add: The awesome Heather is going to be taking over the GFY page. Yay!!! I know for sure it’s going to be in good hands because Heather is (did I mention?) awesome! Edited to add (3/14/06): Or not.
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So, I’ve changed a few things around on the site. I took down the FAQ page because, to be honest, I don’t think anyone was looking at it. I did a new bio page and answered a few of the most pressing questions (“Why do you and Fred sleep in separate beds”, “Are you ever going to have another kid?”, all that) at the bottom of the bio. I took down the links in the sidebar to Couch Potato and the GFY page, since neither of them exists any longer. I took down all the sidebar graphics, because they were slowing the loading of the page. I took down the “Currently reading” link at the top of the sidebar, because I was running that via Blogrolling and sometimes Blogrolling is down, and that meant that the sidebar wouldn’t load at all, which is annoying. I added a few pictures to the cast page. I have no idea how on god’s green earth I did it, but somehow the RDF feed and XML feed are working again. I’ll add links to both of those in the sidebar at some point this week – and if I haven’t done it by Friday, feel free to email and harass me about it. Oh, and if you have a livejournal, you can add me to your friends list – here for the XML feed. (Do I have that right? I think I do…) So that’s what’s going on with the site. In case you were wondering. And you know you were!
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From my comments: i know you have probably told us a million times, but what is that box thing around Mr Boog’s neck?? That’s his collar that works with the electric fence so that when he goes out into the back yard and gets too close to the fence, it first beeps and if he doesn’t back away from the fence, he gets zapped. I know it looks heavy and bulky, but it’s really quite light, and he hardly seems to know he’s got it on. When I call for him so that I can put his collar on and open the cat door, he stands willingly while I put it on and doesn’t fight me at all. Oh, and he doesn’t have to wear it all the time – only when we have the cat door open, which is usually (depending on the weather) from about 6:30 in the morning to 6 or 7 at night. If it’s extremely cold or rainy, we shut the door and take the collar off. Some time back you mentioned a book about women traveling alone by car. I did a search on your site but couldn’t find it. Can you please give me the name of that book! For the life of me, I have NO clue which book this might be. Anyone out there know what book it might be? If so, leave a comment – I’m dying to know! I just checked and “The Shield” is starting on March 15th. Yeah!!! Woohoo! I can’t wait ’til it starts – Glenn Close is going to kick ass on that show. We just finished watching Season 3 of The Shield over the weekend and I had forgotten how badly it ended for Shane (also known around here as “The only member of The Strike Team I would not have sex with”) and Vic. I tried to talk Fred into staying up late to watch the season premiere tomorrow night, but he won’t go for it. Hmph. What is a meme? The dictionary definition: A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. The Bitchypoo definition: One of those things you see in someone else’s blog or journal that looks like fun (usually a survey), so you steal it and do it in your journal or blog. Awww, Robyn – you should totally get the Botox!It’s just the best! Well, you know, at 37 I’m saying “Hell, NO”, but like anything else in life, that could change. You never know! I could get Botox in my face, and then I could be like Fred. Fred will say “I’m so fucking pissed off right now”, and it’s the exact same facial expression he has when he says “Do we have any ham?” Er, not to say that Fred has had Botox injections, just that he’s naturally expressionless. I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong … I tried just playing the Scrubs clip, and I also tried downloading it to my computer and then playing it. It won’t play in the RealPlayer OR in QuickTime. Any inkling as to what I might be doing wrong? Any other complaints about this problem? Honestly, I have no idea. Did anyone else have problems seeing the Scrubs clip? I can email it to you directly, if you’d like, that might work. Just email me and request it, and I’ll send it to you. Hey, whoever it was that commented about living in rural East Texas and wanting a kitten, could you email me? I live not so far from you and I volunteer for the Humane Society – I might be able to help you out! Thanks! (Just in case not everyone reads the comments) That comment was from Julie – I’m not going to put her email address in here, but you can get it from her site. Also, if you adopt a kitten, you’re required to send me pictures. It’s the law! I’m sure you’ve been asked this before, but, having grown up in Bangor, Maine, did you ever see or meet Stephen King? If so, what was he like? I didn’t actually grow up in Bangor – I was born there, when there was an Air Force base there, but only lived there for a few years, if that. I did once see Stephen King; he was signing books at a movie theater when Christine (I think) was made into a movie, and I went and stood in line for ages with my mother. I was so in awe of him that when he asked my name I said “Robyn”, and then didn’t say anything else, but my mother stepped forward and said “With a ‘y’!”, so he spelled my name right. I remember only that he looked kind of bored, but he seemed nice enough. I’m sure he still remembers me. Heh! He once came through the drive-thru when I was working at McDonald’s, but I wasn’t working the drive-thru that day. Oh, and I saw the Rock Bottom Remainders in concert at the State Theater in Portland, and after the concert he walked across the street to the hotel where he and Tabitha were spending the night, and someone up the street yelled “Mr. King! Could I get an autograph??”, and he didn’t even look at the guy – he said “Sorry, I don’t do that!” and kept on walking. Just wanted to know, how is it that your cats will sleep in those beds??? I don’t know – they just love ’em to death, and sleep in them all the time. Maybe you should bribe your cats with catnip. 🙂 I have a question. Why do cat beds cost more than dog beds of the same size? For this reason, my cats sleep in beds with pictures of dogs on them. That’s a GOOD question – I have no idea! They’re made of the same material and everything, aren’t they? Maybe they charge more for the cat beds ’cause they know cat owners will spend more than dog owners? I don’t know, that doesn’t sound right. It’s strange, isn’t it? oh my god Robyn, do you think that mouse is still in your house??? UGH… the thought of mice makes my skin crawl… I have two cats (looking for a third) and I did have a mouse come in once. that mouse didn’t stand a chance, I saw him come in, and the cats had him cornered in the about an hour… I’m sure it’s not, or The Mighty Booger Hunter would have tracked it down and eaten it for lunch. I’m not that freaked out by mice, though, so I’d probably be okay with it if it was still wandering around the house. Okay, wait – let me amend that statement: I’m not that freaked out by mice unless they’re running directly at me, in which case I scream and run around in circles.
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Da Boog contemplates what sort of trouble he wants to get into next. ]]>

22 thoughts on “3/14/05”

  1. Have you ever mentioned how many litter boxes you have? I’m in the process of adopting two cats from a local rescue. I asked how many I should have, since I’ve only ever had one cat at a time, and the volunteer said she always suggest one more litter box than you have cats.

  2. Elle: We only have one, but it’s actually not really a litter box, it’s one of those big plastic boxes you can buy at WalMart to store sweaters in. I keep it filled about halfway with litter and it works out well for us. I can’t imagine having multiple litter boxes, and to be honest, I think that if you keep the litter box clean (I clean it every morning), you certainly shouldn’t need more than two for two cats, and I really think you could get away with one.
    Oh, apparently I did write about it here:
    http://tinyurl.com/6wp6m

  3. Hey Robyn, your page loads much more quickly now (it has always loaded quickly for me ‘cuz I’ve got a LAN connection, hee!) but even quicker now. I’ve never had a problem with the sidebar. Don’t blame you for getting rid of gfy, don’t need that kind of harassment from silly people with too much time on their hands. Just out of curiosity… where have you decided to redirect her to? (or is it a secret?)

  8. Hooray, your news feed works! 😀
    I sleep in the same bed as my husband, but I have thought before about the separate bedroom thing… I am a very light sleeper (I am talking like the old Sprint pin-drop commercials here), but he used to sleep on an aircraft carrier with planes taking off over his head. I wish there wasn’t a stigma with sleeping in different beds than your husband; didn’t that used to be more common in the fifties? Doesn’t mean you don’t love him, just means you like to SLEEP!

  9. Elle: Awww, they’re so cute!!! I love that they’re best friends and play well together and groom each other. I wish I had kitties that got along that well. Well, Mister Boogers occasionally will try to groom Spot and Spanky, but after three or four licks he wants to see what’ll happen if he takes a bite, and then all bets are off. Heh.
    Susan: I think back in the 50s – on TV at least – husbands and wives slept in separate beds in the same room. Didn’t Lucy and Ricky have two twin beds, or am I thinking of another show?
    I’ve gotta say, it’s funny that our sleeping in separate rooms bothers some people – we actually go upstairs and lay in bed and talk for half an hour or 45 minutes every night, then he goes off to bed and I lay in bed and read for a few hours. He gets a good night’s sleep, and I don’t have to worry about keeping him awake with the light. It works out well all around. 🙂

  10. Thanks for pimping my comment, Robyn! I’m always on the look out for people that want a kitty! I promise pictures.

  11. Hey Robyn,
    Love your journal & have been a silent reader for awhile now (a year?). We’re headed for Myrtle Beach in a day and a half & I’m wondering if you have any recommendations of what to see, what to do from your last visit. We were there 7 yrs. ago & I’m sure a lot has changed (really have no desire to go to Dick’s again ;p) My husband got tickets for us to see Robert Plant at the House of Blues next Monday which we’re both absolutely stoked about! Can’t wait! Thanks for any input you may have.

  12. I think Stephen King has a thing for McDonalds.. I used to work at the Hogan RD. McD’s here in bangor, and he was there at LEAST once a week in either his spiffy little silver convertible or his SUV. I also once told him to shut the hell up.. He was sitting behind me at a Old Town vs. Bangor baseball game, being VERY loud. I whipped around and yelled at him, and as soon as the words were out of my mouth I recognized him. Turned VERY red. LOL

  13. My husband and I have our own beds too–in fact, our own separate rooms. We love it. It kicks ass. People always act like we’re weird…until they try it. Then they too admit it kicks ass, and convert. We’re not weird, just trendsetters. 🙂

  14. Joan – Honestly, I can’t think of anything. I would have mentioned the House of Blues, but you already know about that. Most of the time we were there, we shopped our butts off at… oh, I can’t think of the name, it’s a shopping center near the House of Blues and has all kinds of shops on both sides of the lake. When we weren’t shopping, we hung out at the condo. Sorry not to be of much help. 🙂
    DustyJae: Bwah! I can’t believe you told Stephen King to shut the hell up. But most importantly: did he? 🙂

  15. heh!
    Cute pictures on the cast page. Brian is adorable. So is the Spud of course. And, at 16, I am sure she is very glad that you put a picture of her online in her belly baring cookie monster bathing suit! 🙂 Cute tummy spudles!

  16. Robyn-
    Totally off topic but I wanted to tell you that I made PANCIT tonight from a recipe you posted awhile back. I printed it and kept thinking about it. That family LOVED it!! YMMMM!
    Also, for Joan above who is going to Myrtle Beach..you must eat at the RoadHouse on Hwy 17. Their baked potato soup is to die for..everything there is wonderful..Palm trees inside the building..high ceilings..very reasonably priced!!
    Thanks again for the yummy recipe!!!
    🙂 Kathy

  18. I was thinking of exactly the same book! But I could not think of the title of it….The Bad Girls Guide To The Open Road, that is. My friend lent it to me a couple years ago and it was hilarious. The cover is done up in hot pink cheesy looking vinyl type plastic so that attracted me right off the bat.
    Anyway, I give it a 4 on Robyn’s 5 is tops scale…definately worth buying as you will probably reread it.
    Oh BTW Robyn……………….How is Fred doing??????????? Give him my best healing wishes.

  19. My son just got botox shots in his legs because he has cerebral palsy and walks on his toes. Because he has jr. high starting next year and is easily knocked down, we thought it was important to see if we could relax those tight back muscles and tendons and see if he could start walking heel-to-toe.
    The botox stuff for the face came from the research done on kids like mine!
    The nurse and I joked the doctor that if he had any extra, he could feel free to drop some in a few choice wrinkles of ours. The doctor rolled his eyes and changed the subject.

  20. One of my cats killed a mouse and left it on the floor right next to my bed. My neighbor had told me he’d seen mice in our apt building, but I never had. It was gross…. Hope I don’t have to see that again soon!

  21. I think the reason sitcom couples in the old days were shown sleeping in separate beds was because it was too risque to show them sleeping in the same bed because that would imply that they have sex!

  22. That comment sounds much dumber when you can’t see the “gasp!” I put between pointy brackets mid-sentence. Or maybe I just like exclaiming!

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