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Today, I’m going to be packing up dishes from the kitchen to take to Smallville. Since I do most of the dinner-cooking in Smallville and Fred and the spud do very little eating in Madison, I’m going to leave them a few plates, cups, and some silverware, and take everything else to Smallville. For that matter, I can probably mostly clear out the pantry in Madison, a lot of the stuff from the freezer, and whatever’s left in Madison of the pots and pans while I’m at it.
I can’t wait ‘til we’re all living in Smallville, have I mentioned?
Next week the internet, phone, and (hopefully) DirectTV will be installed. I don’t know that I’ll know how to act when I’ve got internet whenever I want it, it’s been so damn long since I’ve had it!
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I’ve mentioned in the past, I believe, that I’ve read books highly recommended by Stephen King, and every single time I’ve thought “You thought THAT was so great?!” You’d think by now I’d know better than to get excited about books he loves the hell out of, but you would be so very wrong.
A few months ago he wrote… something somewhere (I don’t remember at ALL – possibly I read it on his site, or in his newsletter, or in a column somewhere. Who the fuck knows?) extolling the talent of Meg Gardiner, talked about how awesome her books were, and told me I should run right out and get all her books and read them immediately.
Because I never learn anything EVER, I got all her books, put them on my bookcase, and then ignored them for a few weeks. Finally, earlier this week, I picked up
China Lake and started reading it. About fifty pages in, I was like “Goddamn Stephen King. He did it to me AGAIN. This isn’t bad, but it’s nothing special GODDAMNIT.”
And then it started getting better and better, and by the time I’d gotten 150 pages in, I could barely stand to put the damn thing down.
Evan Delaney (whose name I inevitably read as “
Evany”, which then makes me start singing “Evany and Ivory”, because I am a DORK) kicks ASS. I hope the rest of Meg Gardiner’s books are as good as China Lake turned out to be.
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Hatehatehate.
“Tastes like chicken. I think. Perhaps I need to taste test a real chicken, just to be sure.”
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Previously
2006: No entry.
2005: Taking the week off.
2004: No entry.
2003: Fred: That was a cowardly yellow-dog liberal DEMOCRAT thing to say.
2002: Things are getting back to normal.
2001: One of these days I’ll get my ass in gear; I just never know when that day will be.
2000: Squooshiness begets squooshiness, you know.]]>
I know you posted this before and I searched for it – but what kind of cat litter do you use? My cat has taken to not covering (boo!) and I figure if you have 6 times as many cats as I do
whatever you’re using must be awesome!
I know you posted this before and I searched for it – but what kind of cat litter do you use? My cat has taken to not covering (boo!) and I figure if you have 6 times as many cats as I do
whatever you’re using must be awesome!
Just wanted to say I love reading you!!!! Yours is the only journal I read on a daily basis. Also, you’ve got me hooked on Keith and The Girl — since I refuse to miss a THING I am listening to them backwards..so i’ve got 2 years to go thru..wonder how long THAT will take, luckily I have a long hour commute to work..and another hour home!!
I was going to ask the cat litter question too. Aimee doesn’t cover as well as JoJo. We’ve been through 5 litters in the past 5 months. We hate that the mainstream ones have so much dust. Poor kitties SMELL like dust when they come out. I can’t imagine what they breath in. We’ve tried a new Arm&Hammer one that didn’t cover the pee odor for nadda. So, what do you use?
If you’ve never read Tess Gerritsen I highly recommend her books. I’ve only read Vanish and Body Double so far, but really enjoyed them. Good mystery books.
Oh my gosh, that’s the best hate I’ve ever seen from The Boog. Love it!
You know what would be absolutely freaking amazing? A side by side of Maddy now and when you first got her. We had a set of kittens we were bottle feeding at the same time and it would be fun to see how she has changed too. Thanks! Besides, you have all this free time….
please tell me you know that song is EBONY and Ivory!!!!!
Does The esteemed Boog really have one blue and one green eye or is it just something in that picture?
It occurred to me this morning that the few times I have commented, it has not been in a positive vein, and that is entirely misleading. I read every day and enjoy every day, and you should know that.
Faithful Reader Heidi, attempting to break the cycle of being Just Like My Mother.