Three more episodes of House watched on Friday, three more suggestions of Amyloidosis. For the love of god, do they mention it in every single episode and it just took me a super-long time to notice?
On Saturday we went for a drive. Fred shopped for XBox games (but ultimately decided it would be cheaper to buy them from Amazon) and I wandered around the dollar store, then we picked up lunch and came home. We both puttered around the house for a few hours, and then he went into the living room to play a game on the XBox, and I went upstairs to visit with Maggie and read for a little while. After about 20 minutes of reading, I could barely keep my eyes open and ended up taking a two hour nap.
I was out cold for most of that two hours, and it was a GOOD nap.
Of course, Saturday night I couldn’t fall asleep to save my life, and when I was still tossing and turning at 1:30, I thought “I should just take a painkiller. THAT would knock me out!” So I did, and it did.
So let’s just say that Sunday, there was no nap in my afternoon, no matter how much I wanted it.
Before lunch, Fred loaded up the wheelbarrow with compost and potting soil and wheeled it over to the side porch, which is the perfect height to use as a potting station. I looked through our bag of peat pots and starter pots, and I did some math, and I concluded that we didn’t have enough peat pots and starter pots for the (doing math….) 80 plants I wanted to start (plus another 20 later this week – I’ve got tomato seeds on the way).
I thought and pondered, and then I remembered.
When Fred’s sister got eggs from him on Friday, she gave him egg cartons that she’d been saving. Some of them were styrofoam 18-egg containers.
I have no comment about the fact that Eggland’s Best eggs come from hens who are fed vegetarian diets despite the fact that hens are omnivores. Our hens will cut you for a worm.
And so I started my seeds in the styrofoam egg cartons despite the fact that I loathe styrofoam because our recycling center refuses to take it and thus it ends up in the landfill. Hey, at least this way it’s serving a useful purpose, right?
Fred, watering.
Fred’s got his work cut out for him next weekend – it’s time to top off my small raised beds and fill my large raised bed and put up a fence to keep the cats out of my raised beds, because I’m ready to plant my carrots, radishes, purslane, romaine, and spinach.
This is totally the best time of the year.
Finally finally FINALLY I got my LG Optimus V from Virgin Mobile! So far, I think I like it. It was nice to be able to peruse Facebook when I was waiting for Fred to come out of GameStop the other day.
One thing is that the battery doesn’t last for shit. I’ve had to recharge it every single night, and I haven’t spent THAT much time on it. Another thing is that there’s apparently no damn such thing as Snood for the android NOR is there Bookworm, and those are my two favorite games. DAMNIT. This phone was supposed to make it so I didn’t need to carry my iPod Touch everywhere with me, but if I’ve got an appointment or will be sitting in line at the bank, I need my Snood and my Bookworm to keep me occupied.
On the other hand, the SWYPE texting tool is fairly easy to use, even for me, and flipping back and forth between screens is fairly easy for me to figure out.
I’ll try to remember to report back when I’ve had the phone a bit longer and have used it for real. I did talk to my brother for about an hour on it, and could hear him perfectly fine, so that’s a plus.
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“Lady, I find your food offerings tasty, but I’m not quite sure they’re good enough to induce me to provide little squalling poop machines for you just yet. I’ll think about it and get back to you.”
No babies yet – BUT, I can report that between Saturday and Sunday, I went from being able to feel faint movement in Maggie’s abdomen, to being able to feel very strong movement. I can also see her belly moving if I watch very closely.
Her appetite MAY have dropped off some. Fred and I were in there with her for a while yesterday afternoon, and she just let him rub her belly and never went over to the food bowl to eat. That’s a first!
So, we’ll see. I’m hoping it’s soon, but I’m not holding my breath!
Saturday, I tested out the camcorder function on my new phone. Takes a pretty good video, as it turns out.
I also took a couple of pictures with the camera and posted them on Facebook – you can see them here and here.
I’m not sure why it is, but if I go in to visit with Rufus during the day, it only takes a minute or two for him to get up and come over to me and flop against me. However, if I go in to visit with him at night, he just lays where he is – usually under the bed – and watches me. Doesn’t come to me. MIGHT allow me to pet him, but then again maybe not. I’m not sure what’s going on in that little head of his.
“I likes to keep you guessing, lady.”
I really think Miz Poo has a bit of a crush on Alice. The two of them can be found play-fighting, and I always thought Alice was the instigator, but the other morning Miz Poo kept following Alice around…
Alice flopped down for a bath, and Miz Poo flopped down next to her.
Then Miz Poo got flirty.
Then Miz Poo got grabby.
Then Miz Poo got all “I AM THE BOSS OF YOU!” and stomped off.
Later, Miz Poo was laying in the middle of the living room watching House with me (she really likes Wilson, and I can’t say as I blame her, hubba hubba) and Alice came running into the room, threw herself at Miz Poo, sat on her head, bit her on the shoulder, and then ran off while Miz Poo was still flailing around trying to figure out what happened.
I’m pretty sure the lesson here is that you don’t go messing with Alice or she’ll get you back when you least expect it.
Previously
2010: I love me some Bookworms, if that wasn’t already obvious!
2009: No entry.
2008: “I think you mean ‘oaf’,” I said.
2007: That is a monster shredder.
2006: Someone kill me now. NOW.
2005: And THEN in the car on the way to Mom and Dad’s, I was thinking “Well, THAT was rude, to tell her she was being too loud!
2004: No entry.
2003: Miz Poo has an infection.
2002: And if you unsubscribe from the notify list? A reason for the unsubscription is neither necessary, required, nor desired. Thanks so much.
2001: No entry.
2000: No entry.
Really, you think Wilson is good looking? I just don’t see it, something about his mouth is weird, but maybe it’s just me.
Miz Poo and I like the sensitive sort. 😀 I don’t actually find anyone on the show all that appealing, I just didn’t want Miz Poo to have a crush on House, ’cause that’s too obvious. 😀
You should download WordFeud for the Android! It’s a fun crossword game, similar to Lexulous on Facebook. Also, I will bet you would like Angry Birds almost as much as Snood. 🙂
Oh, I suck so very badly at Angry Birds – but I have played it, and if I were stuck in a waiting room, it could certainly help while away the time!
They feed vegetarians to the hens?? That seems a little harsh … unless they’re the really sanctimonious vegetarians who ask how you can eat something that had a face, in which case I suppose I could look the other way.
Yay for spring, and planting! We have snow in the forecast here today, so I am living vicariously through your photos.
HA – I bet the hens would LOVE some ground-up sanctimonious vegetarians. 🙂
Where were you when I worked with two of those vegetarians? It was really fun when the farming/hunting/4H person shared the breakroom with them on occasion. My favorite “If Jesus ate meat so can I” arguement didn’t work-one was atheist and the other Jewish. The no leather thing? Leather shoes are healthier for diabetic feet-they breathe. I’m allergic to wool and synthetic fabrics don’t breathe either so I prefer leather coats too.
Lucky you, getting ready for spring planting!! Last year I tried to have a small garden in my backyard, but apparently the soil is so poor (even after I mixed bagged garden soil on it) that nothing I planted would produce anything.
I read recently about a method I might try: buy a huge bag of garden soil, cut holes in the bottom, sit it on the ground, and punch holes in the top for your plants — maybe a couple tomato plants. I wonder if it would work? Ever hear of that method? I’d like to have at least some tomatoes.
Cara, I’ve never tried that method, but I DO remember reading about it (maybe in a magazine?) and thinking that it was a cool idea. I don’t see any reason it wouldn’t work, and I bet you’d get some amazing tomatoes out of it! If you decide to do it, I hope you’ll report back, I’d love to know if it works as well as it seems like it would (that was a convoluted sentence, huh?)
my husband decided to save money by switching to cricket when the at&t contract ended. i had to give up my motorola karma (which i love so much i may as well have given birth to it) and get a cricket txtm8. the keys are bi-level and i can’t use it to save my soul. i figured out that i must use a big eraser stuck on a pencil to do it. my husband can use it by typig with 1 finger, but of course, my right index finger is crooked from where i broke it playing basketball as a teen, so that doesn’t work for me. i can’t decide who is the bigger asshole, at&t or my husband. all my texts end up looking like they were written by a drunken 5 year old.
Aww, Lee, you poor thing. It sucks to have a phone you hate, but even worse to have one you love and then have to switch! (But “a drunken 5 year old” – LOL!)
Robyn, does your Publix keep recycling bins (that look just like plastic garbage cans) near the entrance? Ours has a couple for plastic bags and one for styrofoam. Our recycling center won’t take it either, but Publix must ship it all to somewhere that does.
Wilson’s wonky eye distracts me terribly.
Lisa, I bet they do! I seem to recall a couple of green bins near the door that I’ve completely ignored in the past. Oh, how AWESOME will it be if they have one for styrofoam – thanks for the tip! 🙂
When you started the seedlings in the styrofoam egg containers, did you poke a hole in the bottom for the water to drain? Or line them with pebbles or something? Or will water just drain thru the styrofoam? Or are you just so careful that you don’t overwater them? Because I can see an epic mess in my future were I to try that!
I poked holes in all the bottoms – Fred (who’s in charge of watering) is an overwaterer, and I want my seeds to sprout, not drown. 🙂
Are those starters in your house? We only have two cats, but every time I either try to start plants or nurture little ones from the nursery, my cats have a field day destroying them.
Oh, hell no – they’re upstairs in the garage. The sun comes in those windows for a good part of the morning and afternoon, and it gets really warm in there. I can’t imagine how fast the cats would have those containers on the floor if I even thought about trying to keep them inside!
I bought those Eggland’s best eggs once and they have NO flavor! So much for a vegetarian diet. I prefer bugs in my chicken’s diet.
Give your battery some time. Mine took about a month of nightly charging to get a full day’s worth of up time.
Also, check out Fruit Ninja! I appreciate Angry Birds, but Fruit Ninja is where it’s at 🙂
One thing that’s really helped me save battery life on my smartphone is turning off the backlight. It’s not that much harder to see (except in direct sunlight, when I have to turn it back on) and the battery lasts about twice as long without it. I don’t know if your phone has that option, but it couldn’t hurt to check.
Robyn,
Do you have the wi-fi turned on on your phone? I used to have it on all the time, but it drained my battery on my phone like crazy. Now I just turn on the Wi-Fi when I need it. I still charge my battery nightly because while I can get more than one day off a charge, I can’t get 2 days.
Val
oh, yay… I want Miz Poo and Alice to be besties…
you are right on seed starting time..it’s the best time, so full of hope and visions of bountiful harvesting vs the possible reality of the garden of dead everything I wind up with every few years…
I wonder if Alice and Miz Poo are going to turn into Mean Girls, making fun of Stinkerbelle and spreading rumors about her?
Android DOES have Words with Friends finally, though… but yeah, it’d be nice if they had Bookworm. Fruit Ninja is an addictive little game, too.
Today on the radio (in Dallas, TX no less) they mentioned a controversy surrounding a bill in Maine to name the whoopie pie the official state dessert. You know, of course, who I immediately thought of 🙂
Robyn,
I was 13 years old and took in a stray cat, much to my mom and dads dismay. She was very pregnant. I would watch her lay on her side and see the babies rolling. From the time I saw the babies rolling, to the time of delivery was exactly 5 days. Not sure that will help you with your wait, especially with all the variables.
Adding another tidbit to that story. I woke up around midnight hearing little “mews” coming from down the hall. I knew that my cat had had her babies, so I followed their “mews”. Where was mama cat? On top of my 8 year old brothers chest, licking the 3 kitties she just gave birth to!!! I turned on the light, which awoke my brother (the light woke him up but not a cat giving birth to three kitties and all the bloody mess, go figure) and he looked down at his chest and screamed like he had just seen a monster, which I am sure looked like he did. Anyway…totally useless info, but a funny story, no?
Happy Waiting!
Debbie
Wow, I love Rufus, and I’m not really a cat person.
If only you could stick him in a postpak and send him to Australia.
I think Wilson is cute too. I like the sensative types as well. I found Michael Imperioli revolting as the douche bag Christopher in The Sopranos. He has been a cop in some other things-The Lovely Bones and Detroit 187. I’m not sure if he got a lot better looking with age I think he has some (damn the men who look better with gray) but I suspect it’s the characters too. Anyway total reversal-I find him quite attractive now.
Love Miz Poo and Alice being buds. The mean girls comment was great!
“Are you going to give me some babies?”
Robyn, I just love the way you ask Maggie!