Category Archives: true life 2003

holy cats and kittens!

Wow.

I’ve been reduced to one syllable words.

Wow.

Just wow.

I was at work this morning, minding my own business, when I looked up to see a college roommate standing outside my office door, peering through the window with a grin the size of Vegas. What can you say when your old friend shows up after many years on the west coast other than, “wow.”

And with pictures of his new baby, even. (You can see pictures for yourself, here).

Wow.

What a great day.

Wow.

steeping in my inner teapot

A few people misunderstood and thought my dog had died, rather than my dad. And in retrospect, the unintentional weirdness of being asked, “are you going to get another one right away” upon returning from my father’s funeral is rather amusing. How do you do that? Why would you want to do that? Now that the shock has worn off it’s really rather amusing.

And then she referred to my "look" as "soccer mom gone bad." Not knowing what else to do, I took it as a compliment.

I was very productive last night and did laundry. On my way out the door this morning I realized that I had put on the exact same clothes (albeit freshly laundered) that I wore yesterday. I decided it was ok, I could use a few more points in the ongoing Eccentricity Pagaent that is my workplace, I’m an amateur compared to some of these folks. Wearing the same clothes everyday (not identical outfits, my usual M.O., but the exact same clothes) doesn’t really get you a lot of points, but I’m not ready to go Pro and develop imaginary friends yet, so I suppose every little bit helps.

Cats don't learn from Power Point presentations either

Last night I dreamt that the Bunny called me and said “I’m picking you up in 5 minutes to go to John’s house to watch the lesson.”

I didn’t know what the hell she was talking about, but the next thing I knew we were at John’s. We walk in, and John’s fiance excitedly tells me that she’s flown my mom in to town to teach John how to toilet train their cats. (Nevermind that my mom has no experience toilet-training cats).

Mom and John are intently showing the cats a powerpoint presentation on how to use the toilet, a presentation that they had the military prepare for them. The cats just look bored. There wasn’t much time because they had to get the laptop back to the Pentagon, so the whole enterprise seemed to be doomed to failure.

I woke up so agitated I woke Husband.

I’m just going to stay in my house and read Harry Potter today.