The Forgotten (which I mailed 2 1/2 weeks ago) hasn’t gotten there yet, and To Wong Foo (which I mailed two weeks ago) hasn’t gotten there yet, either. But Saw, which I mailed on Friday at the post office, got there yesterday.
We’ve always had problems mailing stuff from home – more than once I’ve mailed a bill payment (back when I was doing that silly “writing a check to pay a bill” instead of paying electronically) to have it just kind of disappear for a while, causing a late payment, and then show up a month or so later at it’s destination. For a while I stopped mailing anything at all from home, but I got lazy and started mailing stuff from home because it’s just so much more CONVENIENT than getting in the car and driving a few miles down a busy road to mail stuff, but I guess I need to go back to only mailing stuff from the post office. Or asking Fred to mail stuff from the post office on his way home from work.
I can tell you this – I’m not terribly fond of my mailman right now.
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So I’ve been a cleaning maniac lately. I finally got around to cleaning the hell out of the library/ dining room last week, and did so much straightening and dusting that I almost didn’t recognize the room. I cleaned out the closet in the kitchen, cleaned the downstairs bathroom (which I do far too infrequently).
Yesterday, Fred hooked me up with a wireless network connection, so that we could finally get rid of a wire or two, and then we moved stuff around on top of the filing cabinet, which is where the modem and, uh, other shit are located. He moved everything off the top of the filing cabinet, and I dusted (man, there was a lot of dust), and then I looked down behind the filing cabinet and decided to break out the vacuum cleaner and vacuum behind it.
Finally, Fred ended up pulling the filing cabinet out away from the wall so I could get back there with the vacuum. Just so you know, that filing cabinet – and it’s a
nice one – was put there the day we moved into this house in August of 2001, and it hasn’t been moved since.
As you can imagine, there was a ton of dust and cat hair and crap not only on the floor, but clinging to the wall and the back of the filing cabinet. And under the filing cabinet, where there’s a gap of three inches?
Scattered mouse shit. Quite a bit of it, actually. Apparently at some point in the past three years and seven months, we had a mouse living under our filing cabinet. Whether it was one of the mice the cats ended up eventually bringing upstairs to the bedroom, I have no idea. That’s the only place I’ve seen mouse shit so far, but I haven’t pulled my desk out to clean behind it since we moved in, so god only knows what’s living back THERE.
I can predict that there’s an awful lot of cat hair, though. That much I
do know for sure.
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So, Fred was looking at an old floppy, and he found a movie. Since y’all have been harassing (YES, I said harassing!) me for a new movie of the (ha!) week, I decided to upload it.
It’s a movie of Tubby, just sitting on the back of the couch, minding his own business, while I try to get him to let loose with one of his bitchy meows. In fact, at one point I sound like I’m making sheep sounds at him, for some reason.
So anyway, there ya go. Click on the “Movie of the week” link over there to the right under “Other”, and please right-click and save it to your hard drive, please.
Oh, and by the way that manly-looking hand that reaches out and rubs Tubby at one point belongs to Fred, not me. In case you were wondering.
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Spot practices his Paris Hilton “come-hither” look.
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Oh I LOVE Tubby. It’s so weird to see him on screen, moving around. And to hear your voice…a voice I imagine in my head, sounds a lot more like Janeane Garafalo. Hee. Thanks for putting that up.
That’s a brave mouse to take up residence in a house with 4+ cats!
Remember that episode of Seinfeld where Newman was hiding mail in his closet? Maybe your mailman saw that and got some ideas. Hope your movies arrive at Netflix soon. I hate when turnaround time takes too long.
Must be a little movie if it fits on a floppy! 🙂
If there was ever a cat who could make a long-suffering, “why me, God? why is this crazy woman harrassing me?” look, it’s the much-missed Tubster.
And I think Paris Hilton should practice Spot’s come-hither look. He works it much better than she.
You can try contacting the USPS Consumer Affairs Department: http://hdusps.esecurecare.net/cgi-bin/hdusps.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=HkkOSLyh&p_faqid=6454&p_created=1106076782
I actually had really good luck with them a few years ago when they lost a piece of registered mail that I needed (it was supposed to be returned to me if it wasn’t delivered to the recipient) – they actually sent me stamps to make up for the cost of having to re-mail the letter. I was shocked to get good customer service from the post office!
Amy: But she’s from New York, isn’t she? 🙂
Rachael: I know! For that matter, it could have been back when we had five cats; I suspect that one of the cats brought him in, and he got away and under the filing cabinet. I’d like to think he managed to sneak back out and is living in the back yard with all his children and grandchildren now, but that’s probably unlikely, right? 🙂
Melinda: I told Fred that the mailman’s probably stealing my Netflix movies and watching them and handing them around to all his friends before he puts them back in the mail!
Susan: It was – that’s a good thing about that crappy old camera: it made crappy movies, but they were pretty small, too. 🙂
Fitchypoo: Oooh, thanks for the suggestion!
Love Spot’s impression of Paris Hilton. What a hoot!
I had a problem with Netflix for a while…it turned out that one of my Freaky Ass Neighbors(tm) was STEALING the damn things out of the mail bin – it’s hard to explain but the mail setup in my apartment is not very secure – and would eventually take them back to the bin (without envelopes) and leave them there. Except the ones he really liked. I was so happy when that sucker got evicted (and I got my DVDs back so Netflix stopped being all suspcicious.)
I don’t think I’ve ever heard your voice before, and even though you’re making sheep sounds, I think you sound quite lovely.
BTW – and this is not a complaint – you’ve been cussing more in you posts. Have you noticed?
You sound very feminine in the movie. Which i suppose is good considering your a woman! 🙂 But, I mean you sound very girly and proper. So does not fit the bitchypoo image. I imagined your voice to be alot more tough sounding.
BeckaJ: No, I hadn’t noticed that there was more cussing lately – but usually it goes in cycles. I’ll go for a while without using much bad language, and then a while where every other word is “fuck.” It all balances out, I guess. 🙂
Nicole: Oh, I’ve always wanted to have one of those deep, sexy voices like Ellyn from Thirtysomething, but I got stuck with a high, girly voice. 🙂
“Spot practices his Paris Hilton “come-hither” look.”
Boy,life sure is interesting when you don’t wear your reading glasses.
I read the above as,”When Spot pratices his Penis Hilton…”
It’s more fun when I don’t wear my glasses. :o)
I wonder if Netflix is having some kind of nationwide issue right now. I returned two movies last week that still haven’t gotten there. They usually arrive the day after I mail them. I realize that we’re not both with the same distribution center, but it still seems odd.
oh my god Robyn, do you think that mouse is still in your house??? UGH… the thought of mice makes my skin crawl… I have two cats (looking for a third) and I did have a mouse come in once. that mouse didn’t stand a chance, I saw him come in, and the cats had him cornered in the about an hour…
There is a theory that Netflix does something called “Throttling” where they purposely don’t log recieved movies until a few days pass because you might be renting “too much”. I really don’t know if it’s true, and I haven’t had this problem but apparently a lot of high volume renters have had it. I haven’t had my account for that long, and my turnaround times vary. I guess if you rent more than a certain amount of movies a month they actually lose money. Google “netflix throttling”. Although if you have had problems with your outgoing mail in the past, that may be the problem anyway.
Oh Robyn: THANK YOU for the heaping helping o’Tubby Love. Puts a smile on my face to see my MostFavoriteCatInTheWorld.
And, thanks for the link to Despair, Inc. that I culled from your giveitaway page. I love that site. And I can see why Fred would love it, too.
It is right up his alley.
Love ya! Have a groovy Wednesday!
Sounds like the mailman might be enjoying netflix movies! We’ve had those problems before.
I belong to blockbuster online and have been having the same problems. They mailed me out the grudge and i never recieved it so i clicked on link and said to resend. They did and i still have it but now they are saying it has been returned. I suspect the 1st one was taken by mailman or someone at post office and watched for their own enjoyment. I dont know for sure, but one of the movies i recently received was opened.
We live in an apartment building and all of our outgoing mail is just placed in a bin near the lobby.
See where I’m going with this?
I had put out three movies to return back to Netflix one day, as I had been doing for months, and didn’t think twice of it.
Netflix never received them so I had to report them as “lost”. I thought they were either going to charge me for them or close my account but Netflix was actually very cool about the whole thing.