new logo up top, there. Someone mentioned in my comments yesterday (or maybe the day before) that the logo I had up there wasn’t very Holiday-ish. She was right, of course, and when I got an email from the adorable and talented (also funny!) Kat, letting me know that she’d designed some buttons for Bitchypoo, among other sites (you can see them in the sidebar down near the bottom under “Link me”) and wanted to know if there was anything else graphic-y I needed, I said “You know, I could use a Christmas-y logo…” and lickety-split, it was done! That’s not the final version – there’ll be a cat in the final version – but I like it so much that I wanted to put it up immediately. (Note: While I was working on this entry, I got the final version from her. Whee! It makes me want to tie a ribbon around the Bean’s tail…)
The logo that Desi created will become January’s logo. Unless, of course, one of you wants to create a birthday-inspired graphic for January (in honor of it being my birth-month and all), in which case it would become February’s!
Big, big thanks to the lovely (and talented! And funny!) Kat for somehow reading my mind and knowing exactly what I wanted when I didn’t even know.
Also, if anyone else wants to design a Bitchypoo button for linking, go for it. I’ll stick it in the sidebar with the others.
Am I bossy, or what? “Design me this! Design me that!”
Oh, and I don’t know how many of you ever visit the front Bitchypoo page (I suspect the majority of you come directly to the journal page), but I put the Santa Tubby picture up there, for you crazy Tubby lovers, who’d like to go admire it.
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Speaking of my birthday, this morning as I was getting dressed, I thought to myself “Wow. I can’t believe I’m going to be 37 in a little over a month!” I marveled over that fact for at least five minutes before I realized that I am, in fact, NOT going to be 37. I’m going to be 36. When I was a kid and adults would have to stop and think about how old they were, I would think they were crazy. How could they NOT know??
Now I get it.
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At our grocery store, right around Thanksgiving, they put a couple of shelf units out near the checkout lanes. On the shelves, they put brown paper bags with canned food items in them, and a receipt on the front of the bag telling you how much the items in that bag cost. The idea is that you buy a bag or two and then the food gets donated to a local food bank. Once the shelves go up, I usually buy two or three of them each time I visit the grocery store (one year Fred bought all of the bags on all of the shelves, and the grocery store employees looked at him like he was a rock star). Yesterday I decided to grab four of the bags, and as I grabbed the fourth to put it in my cart the staple holding the top of the bag closed ripped a small gash in my thumb.
And I’m SURE I’m going to develop a staph infection and my thumb will blow up to the size of my head and I’ll be laying in the hospital in a staph-induced coma at Christmas time, and is THIS how you repay me, Karma gods? I try to help out a little and you give me a painful gash in my thumb that keeps rubbing on things and making me hurt?
Hmph.
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The carpet guys came yesterday to see what they could do about the Corner of Hell in the master bedroom. They’d told Fred that they could clean the carpet, but once they were in the bedroom and pulled the carpet up to see what was going on, and the fucking STENCH filled the bedroom, they gagged and said “Yeah, let’s just cut this carpet out, shall we?” So they cut up the carpet and padding and bagged it up and took it outside, and I went up to check it out. The stink about knocked me over, and I became bitter, thinking “Oh LOVELY! I get to fucking marinate in this stink all night long, and the smell will get into EVERYTHING, and I’ll be ONE OF THOSE FUCKING PEOPLE WHO WALKS AROUND SMELLING LIKE CAT PEE WITHOUT KNOWING IT!”
But one of the carpet guys said to Fred “I’ll be right back. I’ll get something to beat the smell down while the subfloor is drying over the next few days.” And he went out to the van and got something and he sprayed it on the subfloor, and the smell of cat pee was INSTANTLY gone. In it’s place was the pleasant and refreshing smell of fruity berries. (Which in the future, I am sure, will forever be linked in my mind with the smell of cat pee.)
So the subfloor needs to dry for a few days and then they’re going to come seal the floor with polyurethane, then it’ll dry for a few more days, and then they’re going to cut carpet out of our closet to put in that corner and replace the carpet in the closet with a similar color, and hopefully this will all become a bad dream.
A girl can hope…
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Did I ever put this picture up? I have no idea. This picture cracks me up because Spanky’s got a big drop of water on his nose. The boy can’t seem to drink water without splashing some up on his nose.
I was cold last night, so we turned on the fire. That made Spot, the heat-seeking kitty, very happy.
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Spot is cute — he has black “pants”….hahaha… (I really need to get out more)
So what WAS it that they put on the floor that took the smell away? Not that any of my precious angels have ever soaked my floor with pee.
Never.
It is supposed to fucking SNOW here this weekend and we don’t have a fireplace in this big ass house. Or perhaps we do and I just haven’t found it. Either way. Shit.
Kalli – I don’t know, but you can bet your butt we’ll ask when they come back to seal the subfloor!
Kate – They’re saying it might snow here, too. Ugh. I’ll be huddling in front of the fireplace for sure!
All these years and I didn’t know Spot had black legs. Have we seen pictures of his legs before? Maybe his fan club will grow now that we know he is Spot Black Legs. Very stylish.
Are you throwing that damn gas fireplace in my FACE? Yeah, I THOUGHT SO! Grumble, grumble, grumble. Get your ass up here and help me shovel snow, dammit.
Don’t scare me like that Robyn! I know we are almost the exact same age, and I THOUGHT I was about to be 36…. but for just a second you made me doubt myself!
Hmmmm no snow up here yet:P
If your carpet in the bedroom is the same berber as the carpet Spanky’s sitting on, I might be able to send you some (looks identical to what’s in our living room; we have a bigassed roll of it in the basement). Let me know.
If nothing else, spare carpet in case Tubby strikes again.
Pants? Hmmmm…..no, they look like leg warmers to me.Go Spot!
Ahhhh…sitting here with the windows open, enjoying the fresh air, sunshine, and 70 degree weather. Wish you were here…you, Fred, Spud and the kitties…Kate, Tracy and family…really, I do wish you were here. I am not bragging about how good I have it here in PHX, I’m just sayin’!!!
Robyn, I am going to be 36 on Dec 14th and my HUSBAND keeps telling everyone I will be 37. I have to keep reminding him not to age me before my time. Also, LOVE the new logo. I am sending you a little something something, and hope to get it into the mail by the weekend. Oh, and they are telling us to expect an inch of snow overnight. We live in MN, so that’s to be expected this time of year. Spanky is sooo cute!
Spot has black legs!!!!!!!!!!!! Learn something new every day.
The cover picture of Santa Tubby made my day. I got a good laugh out of it. I’m one of the crazies who voted for Tubby as my fave, til I went back and voted again for “I love them all!” but it’s mainly ’cause of his big, wide, innocent looking eyes, when we all know what lurks beneath…bitchy “meh’s” and defiant pissing.
Robyn,
I simply MUST know what they sprayed on the floor. While my lovely Ophelia has never peed on the floor (no, really!), my son vomited cotton-candy-flavored frozen yogurt all over the back seat and carpet of my car on Sunday. I’ve tried every odor eliminator known to mankind, but the smell is still there. As Jerry Seinfeld would say, it’s an entity – it’s The Beast.
Many thanks in advance,
She who is driving with open windows in 40-degree temps
Kathleen – we’ll definitely ask tomorrow when they come back!
You know, it never occurred to me that y’all didn’t know Spot had black legs!
Another January baby! Me too! I also have the same problem with age – when people ask (why do they do that?!) I always have to take a moment to think… sometimes I even have to get confirmation from my S/O – how sad.
I had a nasty finger-gash-at-the-store-incident last night. Stupid sharp thing on the rack that holds the toddler clothes – of all places. It took one Wal-Mart employee and one concerned shopper to get me patched up. Just when I thought there were no good people left in the world…
Oh, that logo is perfect! Kat is very talented! I used to always think grownups were lying bastards when they claimed to have to “think” about their age. I now know better.
I didn’t know Spot had black legs either. What interesting markings!! You have a truly unique kitty collection
I’ve had all of my house recarpeted because of a pissy cat(named Buddy HUMPH). She is perfectly fine now that she is the only cat in a single guys apartment. Bitch. Anyway, after having all of the carpet replaced I saw this new carpeting that is in pieces. So lets say that Tubby strikes again, you could just pull that one piece up, toss it, and throw another down. It was cool as hell and I was pissed that I didn’t think of it.
LOVE YOUR CAT STORIES!
Hey, you know what would be really ironic? If you got an absolutely horrible infection in your thumb from the offending staple, had to have extensive and expensive surgeries to repair the nerve damage (as well as cost-intensive therapy to help you work through the anguish of being betrayed by your charitable actions), and your family ended up having to go get food from the very food bank that started the whole thing! Not that I’m wishing that on you…it would just be ironic.
You did use peroxide on it, right? Heh.
My birthday is Jan 10 when I will be 39 thankyouverymuch, but a number of people, including my husband of 14 years, are talking about a 40th birthday. Not ’til 2005 people. I didn’t realize it was a January birthday thing. I often forget how old I am and add a year, but not for the round numbers.
Did Spanky and Spot demand equal time like politicians? Love the holiday logo
Cathy – that really WOULD be ironic. Also, it would really suck.
Fran – I’m trying to up the love quotient for Spot and Spanky, but I keep getting REALLY good pictures of that damn Bean!