The Adventures of Being Me

Took the cats outside and there are men at work, very noisy machine and floating rubber tubing with them. Walk was good, but when returning only Precious came back. Frodo refused to move passed the men digging a hole next to the building next door. I tried food, his favorite toys and carrying him back, but nothing worked. When the men starting leaving, he came when I called him and very hungry. Poor Precious was meowing at the window when I went outside for him. He wanted his buddy back. Later when I tossed a ball for the cats Precious leap frogged over Frodo lengthwise to get it. Frodo flat on the floor looked around like, What just happened? Frodo got his revenge jumping over Precious chasing a ponytail holder I flung and startled Precious. I have grasshoppers for cats. Post later. Bye!

I went out shopping to look for a pair of boots to go with a new dress I bought recently. The boots I found were black, black, black, red, black, chocolate brown, black, ivory, black, and the color I was looking for tan. Of all the boots for sale in 3 stores, I only found 1 pair of tan boots. They're okay, heel is a little high and toe is narrow but I think I can tolerate to wear them without murdering my feet. I love shopping but the mono-style of it is tiring for someone who loves a variety. Silly me thinking shopping early in the Autumn season would get a better selection. When one shops at the end of a season, one usually finds more mono-style that is deemed too ugly to wear and never can find the correct size in something one does like. Ah, fashion. Post later. Bye!

Friends at work are busy pushing a certain single guy my way. He asked me out but we can't decide where to go. That might be a bad sign saying we don't have much in common. Why are these friends so pushy about this guy?, you ask. He's alive, single, mature adult, and has a job. If those are the qualifications to push a guy on me, no wonder I'm having bad luck finding a boyfriend. I need more than a wallet to fall in love with. But try to explain that to friends eager to place a warm body next to me. I guess they changed their minds that men are nothing but trouble and don't waste my time looking for Mr. Wrong. Post later. Bye!

Romeo doens't think he will get the assisstant manager job cause there are 2 other people applying with much more manager experience than him. So much for fate. Then he writes a long email detailing the pros and cons of our relationship deciding our distance in miles is too great. He complained I didn't go to his Boy Scout picnic and didn't jump at the chance to meet his grandparents. He continued with his waiting for me to convert to his ideas in religion and homophobia, and it wasn't happening. He interpreted my comment once not feeling ready to have children as I had no confidence in caring for an infant. He declared he was moving too fast in giving me that promise ring and his lack of experience cause the rushing. He said I could keep it as a symbol of our friendship. He just wants to be friends now. He says we live and learn and then move on. He believes I hate camping and he loves it. He said if he moved to Des Moines he would look me up and say hello. Um, do you ...

It is amazing, I pissed off only one customer tonight. He has a reservation through an internet site, but it is not prepaid. Must swipe his credit card for payment. He wants to pay with someone else's credit card, or pay cash cause his debit card has no money in the account. No. We don't take card numbers over the phone and we don't take cash upfront. He demands that I call the owner to get an exception to the rules and can't understand the difference between paying cash upfront and paying cash when he returns. The difference is that upon return we have the car. I am not calling the owner because, as I explained to the customer, he will say "You know the rules". I have been here 6 years and the owner doesn't even let his friends and family pay cash deposits. Plus, it actually requires the manager's password to take any cash and directions to override the system and I ain't calling her either, but I didn't tell the customer that part. Let's ...

A while ago I got these new No-Slide ponytail holders with rubber elastic sticking out. They slide out of my hair anyway. So, this week Frodo discovers them and knocks them on the floor to bat around the linoleum bathroom floor. He loves to slide them under the door and paw at it from underneath the door and then run around the door to pounce when it gets out of reach. Like a puppy, he retrieves it after I fling it and now I can't find any of my new ponytail holders. There are a couple in my work bag I will have to keep in the bag if I want to continue using them. After they have been on the floor and chew on, I tend to no longer wish them to be in my hair. Last week, a friend came by to show off her new puppy. They just got at the local animal shelter. The puppy was 10 months Golden Retriever named Jake that they planned to take to the shelter's dog obedience classes called Good Manners Class and Puppy Kindergarten. Her 3 cats refused to play with this puppy so eager to play w...

I ran out of my inhaler stuff for my asthma so go get a refill. The prescription expired 2 weeks ago in August, so that will teach me to pay attention to expiration date. The pharmancy faxes the doctor's office and they call my my apartment because the doctor wishes to see me before he grants another prescription. Their records show I have not been there since 2005. Go to the office early in the morning and see the doc. He wants to have me try a new inhaler to see if it works better and gives a prescription to the old one. He also prescribes a new medicine on the market, singular, that is for asthma and allergies. We go through my personal and family history of allergies and asthma and wound up talking about me needing to see a gynecologist because sexual active women need to see one every year. I don't recall mentioning being sexual active (hello!, I can't get a date so how does this turkey think I'm getting any). Plus, I'm unclear how we got to this subject from t...

I came home from laundry at my sister's house and managed to lock Frodo out in the hallway. He must have been in the corner between my apartment door and the stairs fire door not to see him. I put my few groceries away and laundry, then heard Frodo meowing as if trapped or wants to go outside. I check the cupboard doors he likes to open and couldn't find him. I noticed Precious walking to the apartment door, naturally I assumed he just wanted outside, but took a chance since I couldn't find Frodo anywhere. He went straight to the litterbox. Had to toss Precious back into the apartment, then Frodo, and Precious again to quickly shut the door. Nothing else exciting today besides my sister taking my niece to get her picture taken. My niece had so much fun my sister took her into a neighbor's yard since her yard lacks pretty flowers. Post later. Bye!

I missed a big to do at work this week, a couple of coworkers can't get along. First it started with name calling over a music cd not found, then escalated to not tucking in shirts, and the bossman got involved threating to make us wear to "real uniform" of dress shirts and ties if we don't start tucking our shirts in. I'm unclear how all this went from cds to untucked shirts, but anyway. Of course I hear this 3 hours after I recited my birthday cake and dinner to the bossman, while I had an untucked shirt. Perhaps he didn't notice with my sweater on cause he said nothing about my shirt. My coworker telling me this said the boss made of fuss over the guys not tucking in, but didn't say anything of us gals not tucking in. She agreed that an untucked shirt feels much cooler in the hot summer than tucked in does, which is why in the summer I leave it untucked and in winter try to tuck in to keep out the cool draft moving up my shirt. I emailed my manager aski...

A Very Happy Birthday to Me, to Me. A Very Merry Birthday to Me, to Me. Now blow the candle out my dear and make my wish come true. A Very Happy Birthday to Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Post later. Bye!

Took the cats outside and neighbor boy comes by with his dog. Dog moves too close for comfort with Frodo, so he runs away, which makes the dog chase him with this poor kid hanging on to its leash. Frodo flies up a tree to the displeasure of the kid. He wants me to watch him climb the tree and get Frodo down. Frodo hisses at him. No, I say, he will come when he is ready, he is afraid of dogs. This kid will be scratched badly if he tries to wrestle with Frodo. Kid throws a pine cone at Frodo trying to get him down. I tell him not to throw things at my cat, that is mean. Next his sister grabs the wood shavings around the tree trunks and throws it at Frodo and I say the same thing to her. She laughs. They disappear with the dog to have have a woman come by with her dog. Frodo ran around a corner of the building so I go get Precious probably wondering where we went after the woman and dog are out of sight. He follows me around the corner and here comes Frodo. Precious did the weirdest thing...