What Donut Are You?

You Are a Boston Creme Donut

You have a tough exterior. No one wants to mess with you. But on the inside, you're a total pushover and completely soft. You're a traditionalist, and you don't change easily. You're likely to eat the same doughnut every morning, and pout if it's sold out.

What Donut Are You?

Heidi....HO!

so, Heidi's all moved in and things are going well - i'm really on the fence about crating her though. her wimpering just makes my heart ache, and she doesn't counter surf or anything, so i guess i don't see the need for it. adam says i should do it though, and he's got lots more basset experience than me. *shrug*

getting ready for the roomie!

that's right - i'm gonna have a roommate. she's probably gonna move in next weekend. her name's Heidi, she's tri-racial (black, brown, and white) and has four feet. yeah, she's a doggie! a Basset Hound, to be more specific. i'm so excited!! more info to come...

pink!

that's the color of my hair now! used manic panic's Wildfire after bleaching my hair out...came out pink, with a few blondish streaks...so we used some more red - this time it was Pillarbox Red - still pink, but it's pink consistently. i like it. i'm dye-ing (har har) to get to a place with blacklight, cuz it supposedly glows in blacklight.

Wii!

i've now joined the section of the human race that owns a video game system - this weekend i managed to get my hands on a Nintendo Wii. playing with Adam's while i was doggy-sitting made me want one, and i finally managed to see one in the Target ad and get there early enough to get one before they ran out - whoo hoo!

learning about my condo

the woman who owns the condo across from mine gave me a bit of info that i didn't know...mine was the first one moved in to - she was #2. the guy that moved in here was single and when he found a woman, they moved off to a house on the northside. then Lori moved in - the previous Lori, the one whose death was the reason for the sale of the place...

granted, this isn't majorly interesting stuff, but this is a building built in 2004, not 1904 like some buildings in the city...it's slowly building a history...

time to restart the ol blog...

seems like i've been using twitter more lately as a blog, so i ought to just start blogging again.

right now i'm doggy sitting for adam while he's at the detroit electronic music festival - madison's my bitch, she just loves the hell outta me. milwaukee likes me okay enough - especially when i'm filling her food bowl. i'm supposedly cat sitting as well, but i have yet to see the things since adam and codi have moved into this house, so i'm beginning to wonder if they even exist - they could be playing an evil trick on me to see if i'll continue to feed the cats even tho they're no longer around.

this weekend was lots of fun - aunt joan was in town, so there was lots of fun stuff planned - friday night we went to indiana downs to check out the horse races - didn't win anything, but it was still fun. then it was a family picnic on saturday that we weren't sure about happening because of rain and the fact that we hadn't reserved a shelter at any of the local parks, but it all worked out - the rain went away, the sun came out, and we had a good time. yesterday was a trip to the casino with joan, joanie, george and ashley. this being ashley's first trip now that she's a 21 year old, it was quite a trip - lost some $$, but still had a lot of fun.

been a very busy holiday weekend!!!

the most wonderful godson in the world...

sorry to all you other Fairy Godmothers out there, but I have the cutest godson in the world. Dominic and his brother and sisters and parents went to my cousin's house and we had a little early Christmas celebration. I gave Domi his very first tricycle - he preferred riding it Fred Flintstone-style, avoiding using the pedals and trying to use his feet. Also got him his very first cell phone (okay, not a REAL phone, but one that allowed me to record a message to him telling him i love him) and some clothes. he's such a cutie!

Xmas with dad...

so dad came to visit early for christmas this year - a plane ticket that's $750 during xmas week was $325 last week. he spent a few nights here, coming back this afternoon so we can go to the cemetery with adam before he heads back to Utah tomorrow.

matt and paige and adam and codi were here saturday, we did the xmas with dad thing...i can't believe how grown up my brother and sister are, but i should - it's easy to do the math, after all. matt's 18 now, duh, he's not gonna look like the 10 year old that's stuck in my brain. got the goatee action goin on, playing guitar, working at Home Depot...the typical 18 year old type stuff. paige is her same self - i talk to her a lot more cuz she's always online and we IM each other. things got a bit tense for a while because matt brought up the fact that paige doesn't have her cell phone anymore because she ran up a $900 phone bill from sending text messages! holy crap! i know we all do stupid stuff as kids, but my farkups weren't that expensive!

all in all, a nice visit.

long time no type....

no posts in a long time - not sure if that's a good sign or not - sometimes when the depression lifts, i don't write as much. or perhaps i'm depressed and feeling lazy. probably a combination of the two - get depressed, don't write....feel better, don't write...

so i've pondered closing down the ol' blog, but i just don't know...

Wikipedia Brown, Boy Detective

an interesting combination of those Encyclopedia Brown books of my childhood, and Wikipedia - it's Wikipedia Brown, Boy Detective

somehow, i don't think she'll be able to serve...

i'm still receiving mom's mail, although it should certainly ease up once her estate is closed next month.

today, she recieved a card from the clerk of the marion circuit court - my mother's being summoned for jury duty! errr, sorry folks, she's been dead for almost a year now!! actually, the first day she's supposed to call is the anniversary of her death - how friggin weird.

up at 3:30 for no apparent reason...

perhaps it's the sniffles i'm starting to get - coming down with a cold, perhaps?

saturday's birthday was very nice - joanie, george & brandon came over with a cake...i answered numerous calls and emails from people with birthday wishes...had dinner with kat & john...then on sunday i went to spend some time with dominic - i have the cutest godson in the world, that's all there is to it.

saturday morning, i was filled with a sense of dread - this being my first birthday without mom, i figured everyone would forget and i'd be stuck spending the day alone. nope, not happening - which made me feel very good. i guess people actually DO like me.

reckon i ought to try to go back to sleep now...

Angie Dickinson, Eric Stoltz, Jenna Elfman, Fran Drescher...

they've all got something in common with me - a September 30th birthday!!

granted, they're all older than me (i'm 34 now) but we're all Libras...woo hoo!

trying not to get too sad about the fact that this is my first b-day without mom, but it's hard - last year's birthday sucked because it was shortly after her cancer diagnosis and we were in the midst of chemo and all sorts of crap. *sigh* i miss her so much.

but i know she wouldn't want me dwelling on it, she'd want me to have a good day today, so i'm gonna give it a concerted effort to do so. happy birthday me!

comment of the day...

TotalFark had a discussion titled "Post your favourite saying you say too much. Finer than frog hair split six ways, doesn't count"

i think my fave comment was from sweettoothbear:

"I'm so broke that I have to jack off the dog... just to feed the cat."

that's pretty damned broke.

Bingo!

Kat & i went to play bingo last night...it's been a loooong time since i've done bingo - college, perhaps? - but i managed to watch over 12 cards with ease (for the most part) i won $30 in one of the early birds, and i won a door prize - a Halloween decoration of a purple kitty in a witch's hat - that i promptly gave to Kat. the only major problem is the smoke from all the smokers - i wonder how well a non-smoking bingo hall would do? but we had a good time and will probably go back...

maybe i could make some $$...

perhaps i could sell descriptions of my latest dreams to Rozerem and they would put them on tv - last night involved King Kong in a Hawaiian shirt at the dealership that sold me my car. (i must say, i find the Rozerem commercial with Abe Lincoln and a beaver playing chess to be rather amusing)

i'm so butch...

i'm so butch that i buy my medical supplies at the Tractor Supply store. And i've heard of the things they've had there, even though the cashier looked at me like i was an alien when i asked her if they had cow magnets. maybe she thought it was just another stupid city girl walking in - she told me maybe i should try Kohl's - er, no, i explained to her - not a refrigerator with a pic of a cow on it, a cow magnet that you put in a cow's stomach to attract the metals that it digests to avoid harming the cow...i poked around the store and eventually found them...then i had to explain to her that i didn't have any cows, that i used them to activate my Vagus Nerve Stimulator. hey, bargain hunter that i am, i'd much rather pay eight bucks for three of them than get the "official" version from the VNS company for thirty bucks EACH.

a to-do list 4 miles long...

...but that's okay, because it was 5 miles long - i've managed to cross off a mile of things this weekend. Whoopi's glad about that - i got her fish bowl all cleaned out and fresh water put in, it's crystal clear now!!

success!

the cookout was a success. except for that minor incident with singing a large portion of hair (on the front/top of my head, my eyebrows, eyelashes, and a bit on my forearm. didn't hurt all that much, but it's definitely made me realize that grilling with charcoal is NOT for me - not enough control like there is with a gas grill.

i think kat was a bit disappointed that it wasn't a games night sort of event, but i wasn't about to herd everyone in to the clubhouse to play games when just sitting and chatting was very nice.

i made mom's tropical fruit salad, in the bowl she always used - just a small way of including her in the festivities.