So Sorry

The house is going to stay dirty – that is just the way it is.  I’ve got most of the work done but not all of it and it is almost 11pm – I need to go to bed since I have to be up at 5:45am to get to work by 7am.   I hope the maintenance man comes in instead of one of the owners – don’t want a landlord seeing my messy house but the maintenance guy has seen it worse than it is right now.  He had to come in when I had very little furniture so everything was sitting around on the floor and I was using boxes for everything. 

The carpet really needs shampoo.  I was looking at a Bissell steam cleaner – they are around $100 and say they work really well.  It is either that or pay a company $80 to do it.

Bennie is learning the idea of fetch.  Baxter won’t play with him so he keeps bringing me a sock to throw for him. 

Anyway, the dogs want walked but I don’t feel like walking them.  I’m so tired and I have to walk them at 5:45 so don’t see why I should walk them now.  Of course they don’t see it that way.  Baxter is sitting here staring at me.  LOL

Rather than do laundry today, I bought new underwear and a bra…that way laundry can wait till Wednesday.  LOL  I needed both anyway but am delighted I don’t have to hurry to get it done.  Man, I’m tired. 

omg I’m tired

I am so tired I can barely keep my eyes open.  Even driving home a bit ago, at each stoplight my eyes were drooping – I can barely stay awake.

The maintenance guy is coming into my apartment tomorrow to drop off a turkey dinner from the owners of the complex.  They host a Thanksgiving and Christmas luncheon each year but I have to work so can’t attend.  The caters make up plates for those who can’t attend and the maintenance man puts them in our refrigerators.  It is nice of them, that is for sure.  However, the house isn’t clean enough yet to have someone come in.  Knowing my neighbor, she’ll follow him in to talk to him as he is dropping it off – better not.  Irritates me.

So I still have a lot of cleaning to do…damn, I’m so tired….

A First for Baxter

Took the boys to the dog park today.  As customary, we started in the small dog pen so they could run around without being chased by bigger dogs.  Bennie prefers this and will run to the far reaches of the pen.  Both dogs notified me it was time to switch to the bigger dog pen by going to the gate and pawing at it.  Baxter, of course, would do it right away but we wait till Bennie does it too so I know he is comfortable moving over.

Both dogs get in the pen and, surprisingly, don’t take off right away.  Bennie never goes too far from me but Baxter usually takes off to go frolic with the biggest dogs he can find.  It is so funny when he can run right under them without touching their under-bellies.  They are faster than he is, of course, but he tries really hard to keep up.  Bennie will run a little ways and then turns back around.

There were several little dogs in the big pen so Bennie usually plays with them as he isn’t comfortable with the really big ones.  Baxter will run around for a bit before stopping to see where I am.  Once he spies me, he will usually do a fly by so I can praise him for being a good dog.  I can guarantee he will come to me if I go to the gate with the pond but I didn’t today because I wasn’t planning on letting him swim and it would be cruel to get his hopes up by seeing me at the gate.  As I passed the gate he did go paw at it and then turn to me but I told him no and he seemed to accept that.

On our second time around, several big dogs got into fights that owners had to pull canines apart.  Baxter and Bennie would go close enough to see what the ruckus was about but otherwise stayed away from the ill-tempered dogs.  When I got around the curve going back toward the entrance/exit gates, Baxter surprised the heck out of me by running to the exit gate and pawing at it.  He came running up to me and then back to the gate, I guess he decided he had run around enough. 

Usually by the time I get around to that gate, he is as far from it as possible so we can stay longer.  Today though he walked right into the secured area and waited for me to put his leash back on.  We walked out to the water dish, they both got drinks and then Baxter headed for the car – another big surprise.  I usually have to drag him to the car because he wants to stay but this time he went straight to it, waited till I opened the door, then jumped in.  I would have gone another round in the big pen but who am I to argue?  

They are both sacked out here at home now.  I should start cleaning but don’t really feel like it at this moment.  It sure is nice outside. 

My Project

I don’t know if I’m having trouble writing on my story because I am tired, because I am stuck or because my passion for the subject is waning.  I believe it is the first one because I am still passionate about the story and while I do feel a bit stuck, not so much as to quite writing.

Tonight I’ve been typing with the screen as dim as possible and with my right eye closed.  No, it isn’t some hinky talisman to help the words flow.  I scraped my right eye last night while trying to get my contact out – there must have been a speck of dirt or a hair in there because I dragged it across the eyeball.  My eye looks bloodshot red with a lump beside the iris.  It feels best when the eye is closed so I am trying to accomodate it as much as possible.

Actually, it would be cool to have a muse that I could gaze into to get fantastic writing ideas and inspiration.  Wish I could have something simple like…a grapefruit…that every time I saw it, I wanted to write 2,000 words or more.  LOL.  If so, I would have pictures and bushels of grapefruit everywhere.

Oh my goodness, it is almost 4 am and I have to be to Walmart at 9:30 for the oil change in my car.  I best sign off and get a few hours of sleep.  Hopefully the nightmare I had earlier won’t revisit me now.

Stuff to clog my mind

Took the boys out for their nightly walk at midnight.  The breeze was stronger than I had thought it would be, probably because the building shelters my apartment from the direction it was coming so it looked calm when I glanced out.  I hadn’t thought to grab my gloves but I had grabbed the band that keeps my ears sheltered so that was good.  My jacket is long enough that I can pull it down over both my hands and the leash handles.

Tomorrow I am going to get up relatively early to shampoo my living room carpet right after I go get the oil changed and new tires for my car.  I need to get a few groceries after I pick up my son tomorrow.  I will probably pick him and Beth up, take her to her car and him home, go find some things to do and then pick him back up for soup and coffee before dropping him off at work.

I ordered his two Christmas presents today – I’m not sure if I will get him a third or not because I usually give him money too.  Neither present was overly expensive so I might get him one more plus money.  I want presents under the Christmas Tree this year!

Looked at tables at Stuff, Inc but didn’t find one I liked.  I found one that would work but it didn’t come with chairs and I really wanted to get a whole set.  I will look tomorrow at the Stuff, Inc in Iowa City and also at Houseworks.  Is it just me or has Stuff, Inc really gone downhill? The place was filthy, half the stuff was junk (broken and badly scratched up) that should have gone to a dumpster.  Really, it was awful and I couldn’t wait to get out of there.

Shopping

My son and I spent nearly the entire day shopping.  We started at the Coralridge Mall around 2pm and quit at 10pm – I’m exhausted.  We had a most excellent time even though neither of us bought a lot.  It was fun to browse and get ideas for Christmas.

It is 4am now and I’m going to bed.  I know this isn’t a long post but I am totally exhausted.  Am going out to look for a kitchen table tomorrow – I’m excited about it. 

Walk

Time to go walk the dogs.  It is 2:30 am and I should be in bed because I’m trying to switch my sleeping patterns around.  Ugh.  I don’t want to walk the dogs but I will.  They’ve been walked twice today but are both looking at me like they need to go out again so guess I’ll take them.  My side still aches but not as bad as it did so that is good.

Nano Writing!

I have 5038 words done so far – have to hit the 6668 word mark today. It sounds like it would be hard but really, once I get going on it the words pretty much flow.  I would like to say it is going to be an awesome story BUT I haven’t gotten that far into it to know for sure.  I’m delving into a smidge of sci-fi along with murder so it is new territory for me.  Hope it goes well.

Day Off Went Fast

My day of vacation went fast I must say.  Went in and picked up my son for lunch.  He took me to the steakhouse which was nice.  I was planning on taking him but he had a gift certificate so we used that.  It was delicious as usual.

We had a good talk about his plans for the future and the things we needed to get done – such as, he needs to get to the dentist for a filling that came out and I need to get new tires for the car.  I really should go to the dentist as well but will refrain until I really need to cuz that is the kind of person I am.

Went and started to get groceries but ended up having that pain again so cut that short – only got a few things.  Came home and have been playing on the internet whenever I get the chance – the darn thing keeps crashing on me.  I have no idea what has kept me occupied for this long – got home about 7:30pm and here it is 11pm.  What have I been doing?? Was looking at Christmas music, looking at books, researching tv’s as I need a new one but don’t want to spend a lot of money.  I have a 27″ right now but will probably have to replace it with a 20″ because I want a flat screen and the 20″ is about all I can afford.

I’m working on my writing project for the month – had 3700 words done as of yesterday – not sure yet how many I have today as I hand wrote them out so have to type them into the computer.  I didn’t want to take my laptop with me into town so used a spiral instead.  My son laughs at me because I seatbelt my laptop in…doesn’t everyone? If I have to stop suddenly or am in an accident, I don’t want my laptop getting slammed around. 

Realized when I got to the store that I hadn’t put the reusable bags in the car so I bought four more – I swear I have over a dozen of them now.  Maybe I’ll see if Wayne wants a few.  They really hold a lot of stuff and are nice because they don’t break.  I string a bungee cord through all the handles when I put them in the trunk and then secure the cord to the little handles for the back seat – that way none of the bags fall over spilling stuff…its great!

Well, anyway, hope everyone is having a good Tuesday!

BTW

Don’t mix soda and Tums – it doesn’t taste good and the foam it causes in your mouth makes one gag.

I chewed some Tums about 30 minutes ago but apparently there is still enough residue in my mouth to still cause the foam – so very gross!