Happy end of DST, Sunday Chat!

This cold (or whatever it is I have) is seriously kicking me -- my head is so congested (even with Mucinex, decongestant, blah blah ) that I'm just plain off balance -- not 'vertigo' as such (am not nauseated at all) and I've got enuf ringing in my ears to supply the whole world with a ringtone for free!!

And truly ... all I want is ... to sleep!

Callie - you and I can be in our camp, since I like the time change.  Helps me get up "earlier" in the morning.  Going to work in the dark blows.  I hate sun glare on the ice on the way home, so I'm ok with it.

Good healthy vibes to all who need them.

Gracie was standing in front of me as I was sitting at the desk, she went to sneeze and as she bent her head down, her nose smacked my knee.  Poor girl!

I have a wide  monitor, and these kinds of things keep Willa entertained while I catch up on idog:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny8nvM_pl1g&feature=channel

(Sesame Street: John Leguizamo Is Captain Vegetable)

Today was indeed a lovely day for a drive...except wow!  It was dark by about 4:30!  I too love the earlier sunrise, but am not fond of the ultra early darkness.  Oh well, the days start to lengthen in December sometime......

The sling is for sure a major PITA.  It does help when I'm moving around (although makes life more difficult) but it bothers me sitting.  Tomorrow the big push starts for BOTOX from the ortho.  This has GOT to stop.

 ugh, it's only 6pm and it looks like it's midnight out. It's going to be a tough adjustment this week I think!

Does anyone watch Private Practice? I'd recorded the last 2 weeks and just watched them this afternoon. Oh man, it's been a long time since a show upset me so much. One of the female dr's was brutally attacked and raped and the whole thing was just hugely upsetting. I bawled my eyes at the end and now I feel really tired.

I was going to take a nap and never got around to it. Guess it'll be an early night tonight.

I'm seriously disappointed with the tv programming today. I am in the mood for mindless rerun watching but there's really nothing on!

cakana

Does anyone watch Private Practice? 

Yes!  That's one of my *must see* shows.  I always tape it because I usually fall asleep in the middle of something that doesn't start until 10 p.m., but not last week.  I sat there bug-eyed through the whole thing. Couldn't have gone to sleep if I had wanted to.

So - I had a few brief moments this a.m. when I seriously started to wonder if I was losing my marbles ... but fortunately - not. I decided to reconcile my atm statements and get them written in and when I got to the one from Pet-Co one of the items was "med bra". I'm thinking "What the hell-o is that?  Are they selling lingerie at Pet-Co and would I seriously buy underwear there if they were? And why can't I remember since it was only two days ago?  A peek inside the bag that I had stashed in the bedroom told me that "med bra" stood for "medium braid" as in "medium braid bully stick."  Quite a relief there, to know I still have all my marbles - at least the big, important ones.

Joyce

LOL! Joyce!  Too funny.

Yeah, we always watched the CBS shows on Thursday nights, then we moved to FL where we couldn't GET CBS, so started watching Greys and PP.  LOVE both shows.

I watch Greys, & PP.  Love them both!  This week's PP was a little too much for me to handle.  I made it through it, but I was really shaken up afterwards.

I've had a lazy day.  I had breakfast with the parents.  Then I played with the puppers, napped, & then got to spend some time with a dober pup. 

Glenda, hope you're fixed up ASAP!!

If anyone remembers The Great Teapot Fiasco with my crazy step-mother, the saga is not yet over. I sent her a replacement-replacement - an exact replacement for the one I broke - and she sent me back this semi-snarky reply that was at least her trying to be nice. So I figured, issue over. Nope! Now I'm in trouble for not responding to that latest email. My dad at least acknowledged that she was out of line with her initial horrible responses, and said he "talked to her about it," but a nice email from me "would go a long way." I pointed out that I bend over backward to try to accommodate her and be sensitive to her feelings, but in return she doesn't care a flying flip if she offends ME, or hurts MY feelings. He agreed (at least), but then said he's "working on it." Yeah, good luck with that. Ugh. IMO it really is an abusive relationship, but he absolutely does not want to get out of it, so it is what it is.

I had a nice week with BF. He almost exploded my brain when he asked, "When do you think we should think about getting married?" My first answer was, "After you propose!" I tried to convey that I want marriage to reflective of a strong desire for a lifetime commitment, not just hey, ho hum, we've been dating a long time, I guess we should get married or something.

I don't know. I'm feeling like right now, his career is priority #1 and our relationship is priority #2, and that's okay, but I'm not sure if that's a good way to enter into a marriage. But I'm having a hard time gauging whether I'm being overly emotionally needy (I'm pretty lonely here at school, and he's not) or if he's not fully grasping what it would mean to be married. A big concern for us is what will happen when we've graduated and are looking for jobs as professors - it can be very difficult to find comparable jobs at the same university, so there's going to have to be some really tough decisions down the road. I want to make sure he's committed to making them as a couple (unlike our grad school decisions, where it felt like he wanted to make the decision all by himself, and got mad at me for meddling). He still doesn't seem to understand my frustration with how that whole process went down. It makes me wonder if maybe he's not mature enough yet for marriage. Or maybe I'm just being a demanding PITA and requiring him to agree with me.

Anyone have good resources for helping figure out when "it's time"? Like, a checklist or something? :-p I tend to be emotionally very needy, so I'm having trouble objectively understanding if my complaints and concerns are legitimate or if I'm just causing problems for myself because I'm afraid of marriage! (See step-mother example for one reason why!)

 I wouldn't know a darn thing about marriage, because I have no plans on it.

I am going to beat my mom. She called me again to tell me to call and put the dogs in day care tomorrow. I'd rather have them here. My dad isn't home, so I want the dogs. I also don't want to drive an hour back and forth to take them over, I'll spend that hour walking them instead. I am also going to beat her because everything is about her. She has to stay up there tonight because she wants my grandma to go to hospice care. Like the heck with what my grandma might want, and it sounds like she is talking because my mom sounded like she was talking to her the last time she called to pester me. I need to get my affairs in order so that my mom can't make any decisions about my life if anything happens to me. Plus, since I will have a niece soon, I need to make sure that if I should have two cents to my name sometime, she gets to have it.

 Dominick the Italian Christmas Donkey posted this as his status

A cop found a missing child on the side of the road. The cop asks the little boy "son where do you live?" The little boy says "with my mom and dad but i don't want to live with them, they beat me." The cop asks "well who do you want to live with?" After thinking for a second the boy replies. "With the Dallas Cowboys, they don't beat anybody!" HEEEE Ha Ha Ha HAWWWWW!

 Haha. :P

It's like the oldie but goodie...

Q. Where's the safest place to be in Dallas if there's a tornado? 
A. Inside Cowboys Stadium- there's never any touchdowns there!

fuzzy_dogs_mom

So - I had a few brief moments this a.m. when I seriously started to wonder if I was losing my marbles ... but fortunately - not. I decided to reconcile my atm statements and get them written in and when I got to the one from Pet-Co one of the items was "med bra". I'm thinking "What the hell-o is that?  Are they selling lingerie at Pet-Co and would I seriously buy underwear there if they were? And why can't I remember since it was only two days ago?  A peek inside the bag that I had stashed in the bedroom told me that "med bra" stood for "medium braid" as in "medium braid bully stick."  Quite a relief there, to know I still have all my marbles - at least the big, important ones.

Joyce -- thank you SO much for that!!  That belly laugh is the best sound that has come out of me today aside from coughing LOL