So, I didn’t lay on the couch and watch TV all day yesterday as I thought I might, but I got a lot of small tasks accomplished, so that’s good. But don’t worry – I know you were worried – I got caught up on some of my reality TV while I went through the three-foot stack of paper that’s been sitting next to my desk for ages. The stack was comprised of mostly recipes, and I ended up dividing the recipes into several different categories and paper clipped each category together, then stuck a post-it on the front page of each so I’d know which stack belonged to which category.
It was all very harrowing, as I’m sure you can imagine, trying to decide whether frozen hot chocolate (these are recipes I’ve never made, by the way, once I make the recipe I either toss it or commit it to a recipe card in the recipe box – and that one’s been sitting in my stack of “make this someday” recipes for about a year) belongs in “breakfast” or “dessert.” If I called it “drinks”, it would have been in a category by itself. Oh, the dilemma!
(I put it in “dessert.” You know you wanted to know.)
I also found a large number of printed out comments from last year when some of you gave me some gardening advice, and maybe this year I’ll actually take some of that advice now that I know where it is!
(In the “gardening” category, obv.)
Speaking of the garden, yesterday I saw that there are flowers on the tomato plants that were planted before the tornado went through. And there are tiny little tomatoes-to-be on a couple of the tomato plants I transplanted from the compost heap to the garden. The corn and beans Fred planted are coming up nicely and the squash plants… well, they’re hanging in there.
We just may have a decent garden this summer after all!
I got my dumbphone from Virgin Mobile last week, and it’s working out pretty well for me. I got the Samsung Restore and so far the only thing I don’t like about it is the way it “threads” text messages. Well that, and the fact that the pull-out QWERTY keyboard is bigger than the one on my Kyocera Wild Card was (which is what I had before the LG Optimus V), and I find it awkward with my tiny doll hands and short fingers to type messages on it.
Never happy, am I?
(I admit, I miss my Wild Card a wee bit, but the camera on the Samsung is better, and I can check my email on the Samsung too, so I guess I’ll learn to deal.)
Also, I charged the new phone on Thursday and didn’t have to charge it again ’til Sunday EVEN THOUGH I sent and received text messages IN THE DOUBLE DIGITS. Go, Samsung Restore!
Alice is all “If I wasn’t so sleepy, I would NOT be putting up with this, you little upstart.”
“Dorfy sweepy too. I can haz a snuggle?”
Alice: “Don’t push it, whippersnapper.”
More snackin’ time for the McMaos. Note that even though Maggie has her very own plate, she goes up the line partaking of the kittens’ snacks.
I can’t swear to it, but I think the lineup is, left to right: Macushla, Cillian, Ciara, Fergus Simon, Maggie, Finnegan, and Declan. It’s hard to know for sure from this angle.
The McMaos tussle.
Maggie takes a breather.
They really really love this little basket. Sometimes one of them will sit in it and another one will bat at them through the openings. Also sometimes we put the basket over the top of one of them, and the others gather around and mock him.
Finnegan makes with the crazy eyes.
Cillian. Don’t you want to kiss his little nose?
Fergus Simon, about to tip over backwards.
Macushla in my lap.
Loony Jake is annoyed.
Previously
2010: One thing y’all do not know about Fred And3rson is that when it comes toward clothing, he gravitates toward the bright, flamboyant colors.
2009: No entry.
2008: One of the many things I don’t get: sour cream.
2007: No entry.
2006: No entry.
2005: WHERE’S THE SENSE?
2004: ”It’s HOT in the SOUTH in the SUMMER?! You don’t say!”
2003: No entry.
2002: I hope you’re planning on marking the occasion with style and panache, people.
2001: And so on until it’s lunchtime and I’m so excited at the thought of Lime Jello for dessert (it being Tuesday and all) that I hang up on her and go hobbling out to the lunchroom with all the other old people.
2000: Fuuuuuuuuuuuck.
I was all “Awww” over the kitty pictures till I got to Loony Jake…which just made me laugh. Annoyed kitty faces are so funny.
I love me some baby kitty bellehs!!!
Where did you get those plates? If there is a link, would you mind posting it?
Thanks and have a great day!! 🙂
If they ever make a Crooked Acres Movie, they need to get Jack Nicholson to voice Loony Jake.
Yes! Jake = Jack! In “As Good as It Gets.”
“Where do they teach you to talk like this? In some Panama City “Sailor wanna hump-hump” bar, or is it getaway day and your last shot at his whiskey? Sell crazy someplace else, we’re all stocked up here.”
I went from the Blackberry Curve to the iPhone 4… The blackberry has actual buttons that were close enough together that I could type with my thumb (you may have doll hands, but I have toddler hands). The iPhone is so honking huge that I have to hold it in one hand and poke at the touchscreen with the other hand. I, too, am a princess who is never pleased. 😉
Since you turned me on to Snood a few years ago, I’ve always been grateful! I recently got a new computer so downloaded the latest version 4.10. Oooh! There is a puzzle preference option where you can pick puzzle games made by other snood players! SOooo much fun! Thought I’d tell you in case you didn’t know. I only like the easy/medium ones not those evil evil levels!
Gawd,I lurve those kitty dishes!
I told someone this gardening tip last week: If you have trouble with birds raiding your garden produce whilst still on the vine,put an old,dark colored belt(or rope,old power cord,etc…),in-between the garden rows. Make lazy ess curves of said “snakes” and move them around the garden ever so often.You can get rubber snakes from the dollar store as well.
Birds think they are snakes and will not go there. You will probably hear some “angry bird chatter” from your yard birds as they warn the other birds in the area(“Snake!Snake!”).
My birds,four cockatiels,get upset every time I use the vacuum and leave the cord extended(which is daily because my bird are “powder birds-birds in the cockatoo family and African greys have special powder in their feathers that coat everything in the house as the birds go throughout their day.)
The fear of the extension cord(or what they think is a snake)is hard-wired into their brains.
When my Mom,a non-bird person,first began interacting with my birds,she leaned in and softly hissed like a snake.”Uh,Mom,you are scaring the birds because that sound to them means danger.”
Early on in my Bird Mom stint,I went to Michaels and bought six baskets. Three-stripes on each basket-I used them to store bird products under their cages.It took months for them to get over their intense built-in fears of stripes(Who knew,right?).
Sorry I rambled on. The Cliff Claven in me is difficult to contain(“A little known,but interesting fact…”)
LOVE all the kitties pics, and want all the kittens! LOL. also love the bowls the kittens are eating out of (the cat shaped ones) where did you find them?
Lurve the kitty pics; they always make my day :)! How precious is the nickname Dorfy…….squeeeeeeee…..ah,um, sorry about that ;). And I love, love, love the entry from 2010 about Liberace Fr3d and his hoopty wallet!
Goddamnit, Robyn, I was going to suggest you name your pigs Pork and Mindy, but since you’ve got a third one, that doesn’t work.