These Pretzels Are Making Me Thirsty

My wireless router has been dropping a lot lately. Internet up, internet down, internet up, yadda. So, I finally broke down and ordered a new router ... and my connection hasn't faltered ONCE since I pushed "purchase". What the heck.

I've also made an appointment - doctor squeezing me in AFTER HOURS - for something I've been experiencing. Let's just say women in my family are prone to cysts and leave it at that. Anyway, appointment made; pain mostly gone. What the heck.

ETA: new mail box installed, it was much easier than I'd feared - the screws holding the old box in place were very rusted, and I'd thought they'd pose a problem. Took me about five minutes to swap boxes. Yay me!

I've also steam mopped 80% of my house. Best. Investment. Ever. My bathroom floor looks great, and here's to hoping a weekly steam will keep it that way. I did choose to steam, then scrub it hard to really get at the loosened grime.

You know what never locks, freezes, or dies and you can always reference it no matter how deep you are in flour or batter?

A handwritten recipe card passed from generation to generation.

I don't remember getting the autumn vertigo last year, but it's here in full force this. It's so disconcerting - one minute all is fine, the next the world skitters and rotates on me. Usually this happens at inopportune times, like getting out of the shower. Doesn't help that I rolled up my memory foam topper this weekend. Turns out once you go foam, you are ruined for any other mattress type. My pillowtop feels like a bed of nails, only less comfortable.


Cats are officially clued in that Something Is Happening, what with boxes and stuff littering the house. They are even touchier with each other than usual. Today I came home, gave John some love, then Roy and was about to get Abe when John approached him, sniffed him and then thwapped him good. Abe spends much time with puffball-tail, and so does John. I fear they will never get along and am grateful the truce time outweighs the attack time.

Just found out closing isn't until the sixth of November. The problem is, I was told earlier it was okay to give notice and I did. *sigh*


It will probably never cease to confound me when older, dyed-in-the-wool, gov't-should-stay-out-of-my-business Republicans come into to apply for government assistance programs and grouse about the Democratic government, the inability to live on a fixed income and how namby-pamby liberals have ruined Amurica the entire course of the appointment. I seriously don't get it. There seems to be a giant disconnect called denial there. I don't care what your politics are, I don't, but you have to admit that doesn't really make sense.

After a week of no cell service all day and being told that I cannot stream KEXP (something about slowing down systems too much), I'm getting twitchy. I've heard that most carriers are spotty where my office is (mountains, etc), but with my current carrier it's not spotty, it's flat out dead.

My question is about smartphones. *shudder* Don't want, but based on my own current coverage I feel fairly sure other options have abysmal internet service. Is streaming a radio station even an option for smartphones? Not Pandora. And if I do a prepaid plan, what are the chances the phones they offer on those would be capable. See: Verizon's options

Hmmm.

Other things that make me go hmmm:

Does putting broccoli on a pizza healthify it? (Oh, who am I kidding? The answer to that one is yes even when it isn't.)

Should I seek out a tattoo artist down here to give Bruce Hornsby (large owl tattoo on my back) a tree to sit in and an atmospheric full moon and clouds, or should I make the trek to the woman who did Bruce - 3.5 hours away?

1) Can this week be over now, please?

2) My cut tag fix seems to be broken already. :(

3) Is it because I'm old that I don't get Justin Bieber, or is that kid not talented or cute at all?

4) J said she wanted to ask me to be in her wedding and my response was, "Bzuh?"

Because this reminds me of the woman in refrigerator thing discussed so often, particularly in comics.

"Oh, I don't feel any self-satisfaction, believe me, in telling you this. Upon thinking of that time when I used to ask for everything without paying anything myself, when I used to mobilize so many people in my service, when I used to put them in the refrigerators, so to speak, in order to have them at hand some day when it would suit me, I don't know how to name that odd feeling that comes over me. Isn't it shame, perhaps? Tell me, mon cher compatriote, doesn't shame sting a little? It does? Well, it's probably shame, then, or one of those silly emotions to do with honour."

The Fall, Albert Camus



I do wonder which came first.