FIFTY THOUSAND!!!!!!

Jeez I wish Spod could be here!  I remember the very first post I did with him sitting there and waiting to hear it.  I had been blogging for three years but I didn't tell anybody.  Then I talked it over with Spod and decided to post about the trip we were on and hand out the blog title so people could read about the trip.  I think it was a cruise from Dover to New York...via the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland etc.  ending in New York.  But mostly I blogged about the wretched people we met on the boat.  He loved to hear the post before I posted it.  About six months after that first post from a cruise ship I put the counter on the blog.  He always asked 'How many now?'.  And I remember when we finally reached ten thousand.  He was so thrilled...it took quite a while.  And now here we are at Fifty Thousand!!!!!  He would be so excited.

Yesterday I finally got all the laundry finished and the living room looking splendiferous.  But now my dining room is stacked to the ceiling with christmas stuff, extra dishes, rabbit etc....   So tomorrow I shall work on it.  Its a beautiful room when there is nothing in there!  My biggest problem is Willie.  I simply have no where to put him.  When its warm outside he just sits out on the deck but when its freezing I simply do not have any space anywhere for him.  Plus he stinks.  Now that I spend way more time out in the kitchen, nearer to him in the dining room, it has come to my attention that he is smelly, even when we change his cage constantly.

Speaking of animals.....Molly.  I am so pissed off with her right now.  She has been banished to the bad dog bed in the bedroom.

I was gone all day today.  Monte came upstairs around noon (I left around ten), and she had spread garbage all over the kitchen.  So Monte cleaned it up and gave her shit.

He left the house around three, putting her out again before he left.  I got home about five thirty and she had crapped on the kitchen floor, pissed in the hallway and behind the rocking chair in the kitchen.  There is absolutely no excuse for this.  None.  So I hollered at her and made her go to the bed in purple room.  And she had to stay there.  I let her out to feed her and to put her out for a pee but other than that she had to stay in there.  Stupid dog.  I could see it if she had been in the house all alone for eight hours like other dogs in the world do.  I get to the point where I just start to tolerate her and even like her a little, then she does something like this.  Man!  I was just NOT meant to be a dog owner.  (shovel list)

I had the most delightful day today.  I spent the day with Kathy at Craig and Jo's, babysitting Ainsley.  That kid is the most watchable little monkey!  She is soooo mellydram and nuts.  The faces she makes! and her reactions to things are so funny.  Kathy and I had a great visit.  At one point, while Ainsley was napping, Kathy had to pop down to her doctors.  I fell sound asleep on the couch!  Out cold!  Being down at their house is a lot like being on a little holiday.  Kathy and I were discussing this today...away from any work we may have at home, away from our daily routines, just sitting around watching a very entertaining eighteen month old play.

Well, its getting late.  Off to bed.  I have to try to get in a forgiving mood with Molly.  She sleeps with me and I don't want to be angry all night.  Sigh.  TTYL

ps....Shannon....that is a loooong time to be sick.  You poor thing.  Was it that awful flu where you cough you brains out, can't eat, shiver, toilet seat is so cold you could cry etc...?  I wish I could have been there to make you soup and plug in an electric blanket for you.  I hope you really are on the mend.  Email me!