6/21/05

Divine Comedy: Milla Hatful of Rain: Del Amitri Liz Phair: Liz Phair Tigerlily: Natalie Merchant 3 Sides: Bob Guiney) So I sat down at my computer and threw a bunch of random songs into a playlist in iTunes, and then burned them to a disc. It ended up being a really good bunch of songs to listen to when you’re driving too fast down country roads and in the mood to sing at the top of your lungs: Goodbye Time: Blake Shelton Probably Wouldn’t Be This Way: LeAnn Rimes Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy): Big & Rich Me and Charlie Talking: Miranda Lambert California: Phantom Planet The Blower’s Daughter: Damien Rice She’s Gone: Hall & Oates El Cerrito Place: Charlie Robison Over & Over: Nelly & Tim McGraw Always on my Mind: Willie Nelson With or Without You: U2 Leave (Get Out): JoJo Anymore: Travis Tritt Breakaway: Kelly Clarkson And it also happened to be the exact perfect length for the trip to and from the shelter. I started it as soon as I pulled out of the driveway, and the last song ended when I pulled back into the driveway. The only problem is that now I have California playing on repeat in my brain, and I can’t make it STOP. California here we come Right back where we started from Californiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Californiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Oh, Caaaaaaaaaalifooooooooorniaaaaaaaaa (You’re welcome)

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I finally got off my ass yesterday and got the last month’s worth of pet store kitty pics up: here, here, here, and here. I’m very pleased to announce that Loverboy – who also goes by the name Paolo, for some reason – was adopted in the past week. Yay!
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Starting Sunday afternoon, I had a headache that just would NOT go away. I took Tylenol, which would make it mostly go away for a little while, but it kept coming back, and if there’s one kind of pain I just can’t stand, it’s the pain of a headache. When we were going to bed Sunday night, I said “I should just take a percoset.” The doctor prescribed percoset for Fred after his vasectomy, and Fred only took one or two, and the rest of the prescription has been hanging around, because we pretty much never use the narcotics that are prescribed for us, but we do believe in saving them just in case they’re needed in the future. Fred gave me a faux-disapproving look and said “If you MUST. Will I be seeing you on Intervention in a year?” I counted the number of pill left in the bottle and said “If I can make four percoset get me high for the next year, you just might.” So I took the percoset, and the headache went away for about an hour, then came back with a vengeance, and I tried to go to sleep so that I could wake up headache-free – or so I hoped – but I woke up around 2:30 with my head absolutely pounding, got up, took a handful of Tylenol, and went back to sleep. The headache stayed gone until around 2 yesterday afternoon, when it came wandering back. I napped on the couch for a while (I couldn’t take any more Tylenol, because you’re not supposed to take more than 8 in a 24-hour period, and I’d gone over that limit by a couple. And the last time I took too many pills for a headache (though it was aspirin, not Tylenol) my ears rang for several hours and I HATE THAT), then after Fred got home I took a shower and put on the very comfy pajama bottoms Debbie gave me for Christmas, and my favorite sweatshirt. Which is when Fred came upstairs and asked if I wanted to ride with him down the road to the vegetable stand. We ended up driving around for the better part of an hour, and my head got better for a while, then worse, then better. It was driving me CRAZY, and finally around 7, I took a couple of aspirin, and a couple more around 10, and finally the damn headache went away and it’s currently still gone, THANK GOD. I guess it’s not a tumah.
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The kitten section. Flossie and Oy have discovered that they can climb up the back of my shirt and perch on my shoulder. Which is cute and all BUT HOLY FUCK DOES IT REALLY REALLY REALLY hurts when they climb up my back, and now my back is all scratched up, and OUCH. But damn it’s cute. We’ve started leaving the blinds in the cat room up all the time, because if we put them down at night, the kittens will hang on them which annoys me. So at night, when the light in the room is on, they see their reflection in the window, and both Flossie and Oy have gotten freaked out by their own reflections, complete with fluffy tail and hissing. I need to remember to take the camera upstairs with me at night some time. Flossie, mid-slurp. Flossie does this goofy thing where she sits over the water bowl and drinks some water, then lifts her head and… I can’t describe it, really. It looks like she’s nursing and she makes these sucking noises. I’m not sure what that’s all about. Da widdle Peanut. Miss Flossie, on a mission. Snoopy, snuggled up to his favorite toy. Edgar, rolling around in the sun. Snoopy. The sultry look. Hee! Mister Eggs does his bat imitation.
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Dsc03118 Spanky in the sun. ]]>

23 thoughts on “6/21/05”

  1. I cannot see the picture to the caption “Mister Eggs does his bat imitation”. Is it just me?
    Val

  3. I used to have a cat who did the same thing you describe Flossie doing when he drank water. I never figured it out either, and he did it for eight years. (P.S. Val, it’s not just you, I can’t see it either.)

  5. Yeah, ringing ears is supposed to be a sign of aspirin overdose. Happens to me even if I just take two of them, though, so I don’t take it…

  6. Re: headache. I get all kinds of headaches – tension, sinus, migraine, etc. The kind that lasts for days tends to be sinus. For that, I take 2 excedrin and a decongestant pill with a coke or something that has caffeine in it.

  7. Percocet gives me horrible rebound headaches, so I avoid it. I’ve found Tylenol 3 to be pretty good, apart from the nightmares it induces. (Nightmares or pain? Pain or nightmares?)
    My Edgar love is growing. So very cute.

  12. I’m still hung up on the fact that you have Milla’s CD!! I got that (as a tape) when it first came out and I’ve been in love with her ever since. A couple years ago I found it as a CD and scoffed that up.
    She has one of the most beautiful voices in the world – and it’s a shame that she hasn’t come out with more. She did a couple songs for some of the movies she was in – but nothing like Divine Comedy! And she was so young, too, when she made that album!

  13. Martha: Hope for another batch to need a home, of course!
    Jessica: I saw her in concert probably ten years ago. She was opening for Toad the Wet Sprocket and when I heard it was Milla the model, I just kind of rolled my eyes, but I was absolutely blown away, and went out and got her tape the very next day. She’s awesome!

  15. Mary: Bwah! I didn’t even notice that! That’s a little toy lamb that happens to be sitting on the floor just right, so it kind of has a freaky effect.

  16. Man, I’m glad Mary asked the question about the eyeballs! I thought maybe I was crazy. I looked at that picture for a looooong time trying to figure out what it could be!

  17. I’ve had a headache on and off for about a month now and I can’t get it to go away either.
    I thought I was just about the only person who even knew that Milla had an album out. It’s one of my favs too.
    Hope your headache gets better!

  18. I was wondering about the eyeballs under Flossie, too!
    Oh, such cute photos. And a lovely one of Spanky, too, of course.

  19. Honestly, Percocet is a very strange drug. I had it prescribed for all “that” pain after giving birth and it was fantastic. Months later I had a wicked headache and no Tylenol so I took one; it did absolutely nothing for the pain. Weird.
    Aspirin has always been best for my headaches but sadly I haven’t been able to take it since 2001.

  21. Your cats are so great! I have 2 of my own, and they both used to try to climb up me when they were kittens–and it did hurt. One of them is over a year old and *still* tries it–ouch!

  22. I see that others have been offering headache med advice, so I’ll chime in too! Tylenol does NOTHING for a headache for me, I might as well be taking tic-tacs. But me LOVES the Ibuprofen in any form. 20 minutes and I’m good to go, almost like clockwork. I have been getting some strange headaches lately, that I attribute to sinus. The regular ibuprofen does nothing, but Advil sinus, bingo! 20 minutes for that one to kick in too.

  23. Sounds exactly like the headaches I’ve been having the past two weeks. Went to the doctor and he said they were tension/cluster headaches.
    Seriously, try Excedrin Tension. Works like a freakin’ charm. Even when the Amidrine I take for my migraines didn’t!

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