Tex said…
“I may have a problem with iPods, but at least it doesn’t take over the whole house.”
My witty rejoinder?
“Shut up.”
I don’t think of it so much as having 7 metric tons of t-shirts as helping to stabilize the Hayward fault line in my area.
And I’m working on a new system… and no, it doesn’t involve buying more organize-y stuff… the new mantra is “If it doesn’t fit in the space, it goes.”
My keening can be heard in the midwest.
Sorry about the noise, y’all.
Groundhog Day
Well last week was crummy.
Just after I said Bunny was fine (I jinxed it, apparently) she threw up about 6pm and didn’t eat until 3am. I managed to get a little tiny bit of canned food juice with a dose of Pepcid in there to calm her stomach down and also gave her a bit more subQ fluids, but that feeling of dread and inability to get her to eat gnawed at me until she asked for food later that night… it was awful.
I’ve been pretty fortunate in that Bunny has been pretty stable since last July or so, but I don’t look forward to the ongoing bad stuff since I go from “somewhat calm” to “freaked the fuck out” in about -3 seconds.
Happily, this weekend was pretty low key and Bunny has been eating like a pig since then.
I finally made it to Half Price Books to sell off a lot of old books that I haven’t looked at in years. I’m aiming for about a 90% reduction in books… physical books that is. I still have ebooks out the wazoo. I’m also doing a bunch of books on PaperBackSwap.com so I can still read new stuff and see if I want to buy it for my eReader…then I can post it back up and send it away again.
On the way back from Half Price, we meandered around and, after eating, wound up at a travel trailer lot. There’s no way I could keep even the pared down set of stuff I have and live in a trailer, but I told Tex about my idea of putting everything but the trailer fodder into storage somewhere cheap and then doing 6-8 month contract jobs and just moving in between. He thought it sounded pretty cool.
They were nifty trailers, but not what I would buy.
Did a tiny bit of laundry, but not enough to make a dent in the pile… but I can’t seem to bring myself to care about laundry right now.
I have a HUGE list of things to do to the house. Mostly involving clearing out stuff (nothing different about that.) but it seems to be happening (that is different). I think the trick is that I got baskets and if it didn’t fit in the basket, it went.
I like baskets…also, wine crates, but those are harder to come by… I tried to buy some off of Craigslist, but they flaked on me (really, CL has been pretty good, this is the first bad experience I’ve had.)
The list is taking a while to get through though, I keep getting distracted by the computer in between tasks.
Ah well.
I also test drove the $10 roaster I scored at Target the other week. I was hoping to be able to use it with a brisket, but, while it did cook it, it needed the long slow breakdown to make it tender. So, I’ll probably hack it up and cook parts of it in the oven or put it in the crock pot as stew meat for another 6 hours or so. I’ll test drive a turkey in it sometime. We had it on the Kill A Watt and though it loaded pretty heavily getting up to temperature, it dropped consumption down A LOT once it got there and just did little pulls to maintain temperature.
Pretty efficient after all was said and done; but not appropriate for brisket.
Today, I’m just tired.
Happy Monday.
so…the living room.
This last week was not good.
My aunt died, and given how I deal with that kind of thing (umm…I don’t.) I decided to finally do the living room cleanup/rearrange/prep for a possible tv addition to keep myself from dwelling on it.
I pondered several systems (actual entertainment systems need not apply… I need the lego/tetris aspect of furniture to rearrange into something else eventually.) like the cube system from IKEA…but as much as I love it, I just couldn’t go shell out for it (that in itself is telling) because even though it was beautiful, it was a bit too expensive to be so inflexible and heavy for furniture …
Expedit
Then I thought about doing Stolmen in the living room..and would love to do that eventually, but I don’t want to lay out $350 right now.
OK, how about about rearranging my 3 shelf bookcase (see below, the little shelf on the right) and adding one more to make a stand ($20 additional outlay)… putting them together and it would be the perfect height.
Well, then I measured and pondered and schemed (and got my xmoose present from grama) and then hopped in the car at 9:45pm (hooray for Target’s extended holiday hours) and got several more shelves to go all the way across the wall.
I think the best picture I have of them is my craptacular Treo picture:
I still have some rearrangifying to do and artfully arranging all the Gameboy and PSP games that we have…but that shouldn’t be too difficult. That one big hole in the middle is about the only place that I really don’t have something that specifically lives there.
And here they are all fancy with little lights on…
OK, I like.
…and I promise to take a picture of the living room as a whole slightly before the party saturday (a.k.a. the cleanest the place will be until my next party. ;))
I suck at selling on eBay…
SOLD!
so I’m on Amazon…
Calphalon Double Boiler anyone?
Weekend recap
Priority items first: Bunny is GREAT. (I didn’t post on Saturday and Mama texted me a little worried – she knows I just shut down when bad things happen, I think I posted it on Facebook though.)
No bloodwork back yet, but the vet was super impressed that she gained 2 whole pounds and is eating all the time.
He seemed concerned and asked how much regular cat food I was giving her but wasn’t all that upset when it only turned out to be about 10-15% of her food all day.
He said he had planned to test for hyperthyroid, but that since she hadn’t lost weight (and kept it on without me using the anti-nausea medicine AT ALL) he didn’t need to test for it.
He said keep doing exactly what I am doing, its clear she’s thriving (and I told him about her being excited about the renal diet food and trotting though the house, then levitating on to the very high bed and he looked thoughtful and said “amazing. at 17 even.”) and I might not have to bring her back for 4 months this time depending on the numbers.
I got a second prescription for a different brand of renal diet food to maybe get her off the regular cat food – it wasn’t a problem with Bunny needing the flavor, but when I tried to move her only onto the renal stuff, she got a bit runny and I sort of freaked out and didn’t want to lose any ground by letting her get anywhere near dehydrated again. So I went back to the previous mix. He said that was weird but if it made a difference, definitely keep her hydrated. I asked if he wanted to give me another script for a different kind of food to try to see if that would work instead, he did and I need to order it today..can’t find anything locally at all.
Saturday had started off way too early.
At 5 am (you know, that time I don’t ever want to see) Bunny was jumping up and down on me a little worried. I figured that she was just hungry, so I rearranged her food only to find that the ants were there before me.
So I dragged my arse out of bed, fed her in the kitchen so we’d have about 5 hours in between feeding and the vet visit (they say 12 hours, but it is just too hard on her to go that long without. I told the vet that and that the last time we came in she didn’t do 12 hours either and the numbers held steady then as well. We shall see, but I’m still not going to torture my cat when I know I can prevent it.). Then I attacked the ants with the Method Grapefruit Wipes and spray. Works like a charm, but I’m not charming at 5 am, so I made coffee and watched some infomercials.
I knew if I went back to sleep I’d miss the vet appointment, but I catnapped anyway and woke up just in time to throw clothes on, catch Bunny and go.
She was utterly unamused by this trip.
Survived the trip there, the appointment and back home (Bunny didn’t unwind as much as she had previously, so she sulked for a little while when I got back.) I knew if I fell asleep I was going to sleep all day, so Tex and I went to Mikey and Lee’s and got some errands done, had some AMAZING ribs then came home to feed the Bunny.
She’d forgiven me by then.
Sunday I got a harebrained scheme to fix my closet that refuses to be tidy. I moved my Elfa drawers back into the actual (and woefully inadequate) closet then decided to add another hanger rod where it used to be (here is a pic of the set, but it is two iterations out of date… the luggage was where the Elfa drawers were and now the new hanger rod.) to hang all my trail clothes/cold weather clothes/favorite new thing du jour.
Have I mentioned I LOVE Stolmen? Its like a closet version of Tinkertoys.
I got more hangers at Ikea on a kamikaze run last night before they closed (I was feeling that manic feeling where I’d never sleep if I didn’t get this done RIGHT THEN) as well as that light that I wanted originally, a new dish scrubby and some skirt hangers. Got it all hung and leveled (with the help of a free iPod touch app ;) ) and my clothes are being arranged slowly. I need a few more of those padded pants hangers from Target, but they were out of stock yesterday when we went. I’ll go today after the doctor’s appointment. (Podiatrist, the foot is immensely better, but still not there… it feel crunchy when I accidentally roll on it and that squicks me out something fierce.)
I’m tired and busy (nothing new) and all I want to do is hang out with the Bunny and either read or design new closet iterations (nothing new).Still need to win the lotto, but it is being recalcitrant.
