Last month I discovered Black Sugar Transmission’s cover of The Glove’s song, Mouth to Mouth. I’ve always loved that song but think BST’s cover is even more interesting than the original. I could not stop playing it over and over off their website. Unfortunately, it’s not available for purchase. Trust me, I checked. I contacted the band via MySpace and the other day they sent me an MP3 copy of the song for free. How awesome is that? And now I have the best song ever! You have to check it out on their MySpace page and if you’d like a copy, maybe they will send you one too (I wouldn’t feel right sharing it as it’s not my place to do so).
Month: August 2009
Dirty Rat
So another weekend comes to a close and there’s a ton of stuff I thought about doing but didn’t. Typical pipe dreams when you’re at work thinking about how great the weekend is going to be and then it gets there and you don’t have the motivation to do squat. I really want to get back into shape but for some reason today I felt incredibly exhausted even though I got a good 8 hours of sleep both nights. WTF?
Yesterday we took the kids garage-saling which was mostly a bust. Nothing real good although K and I each got a purse for $1. I was even more excited about my find when I looked it more closely after getting home and found it came from New York & Co.
K wasn’t in the mood to do much yesterday and since it was her birthday weekend (her actual birthday was the 19th), we let her choose what to do which was sit at home on Facebook. Teenagers! LOL! She’s 15 now so I can hardly blame her. She wasn’t even in the mood to shop with the money and gift card she was given. So it was a pretty lazy day.
This morning we ran errands and then contemplated what to do for fun. Couldn’t really think of anything and since we were both feeling run down we ended up just having lunch at Sonic (strawberry limeade = yum) and then coming back home and taking a nap. I know, how lazy can you get!?
After that we gave the rats a bath. I bought ferret shampoo at Petsmart and while neither rat was happy about it, we managed to get them a bit clean. Let’s put it this way – the water was darker when we were done. I didn’t use nearly as much shampoo as I should have, but this was their first bath so I wanted to ease them into it. Templeton was really enjoying being rubbed down (dried with the towel, pretty much) and was doing this chattering and eye-bulging thing that rats do when they are happy/content. Even Nutterbutter, who really isn’t a fan of being petted or picked up, let me pet him after his bath. Then they got treats of grapes (with the skin peeled off). I’m hoping that they will associate the massages and treats with the bath experience and come to enjoy it. We’ll see since I plan to give them a more proper bath next weekend as they still are smelly.
iPhone update & pet stuff
So it’s been just over a month since I got my iPhone and the novelty is beginning to wear off a bit, thank god. Because I really was spending way too much time using it! Now I am back to reading during my lunch break instead of screwing around on my phone and I feel smarter already. ;)
I think the one thing the iPhone has afforded me is more time to keep in touch with friends without being tied to my computer. Last thing I want after working at a computer all day is to be in front of mine at home. There are days where I don’t have to boot up at all. It’s a beautiful thing! Between Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook, I can keep on top of what everyone is up to but still have time to relax. Although I must admit the evenings just fly by. I don’t even know what I’m doing since it’s not cooking healthy meals or working out, two things I SHOULD be doing daily. When the Fall shows begin I’m going to be even a bigger lazy ass if that’s possible.
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Is it bad that I don’t want my pets anymore? Don’t worry, I won’t be getting rid of them, because that’s irresponsible, but the work to keep their cages clean is completely out of proportion to the joy they bring. In other words, I am finding them to be more trouble than they are worth and when they go to the hamster wheel and sewer (lol, just kidding) in the sky, that’s it. I’m holding out for a cat.
The rats especially make me question what I was thinking. They are much better than a hamster in that you can actually interact with them, but there’s no good place for their cage and I feel bad that they don’t have a bigger one. In addition, after Joe shampooed our carpeting we don’t want them running around on it anymore so I have to lay out a blanket and surround it with the makeshift wall we created from some boxes. That makes it difficult to interact with them. And even worse is that for whatever reason they are making my house smell like mothballs which is seriously annoying me. I can’t figure out if it’s the litter I’m using (Yesterday’s News) or just them. I have a brand new bag of litter to go through and after that I’m going to see if the smell gets better.
Oh and on top of that, I feel like my breathing has been getting weird lately. It almost feels like I’m developing asthma. If it gets any worse I might just have to find them another home but we’ll see if it comes to that. As much as they annoy me, I think I’d be upset if I got rid of them because they are like relatives – you love them but don’t really like them. That is how I am feeling about the rodents in this house lately.
Making Progress
Joe is working on the guest bathroom today since it’s raining out. Yea, it’s still not done, but we’ve run into some issues with the stupid wall. I’m also pissed that the paint color didn’t come out looking like the sample. It looks like purple instead of grey but whatever. I’m so sick of this project that I don’t care what anything looks like anymore as long as it’s done. Seriously, I have no patience for remodeling projects.
In happier news, Friday after work we had friends over which was nice. One of them used to be an electrician so he helped Joe replace the switch by our front door. We couldn’t get it to work properly because it turns out they had the wiring wrong. Nice. Then we had pizza and the guys drank like they always do. I seriously don’t get the appeal of beer. It’s disgusting.
Yesterday we went to see G.I. Joe which wasn’t too bad. After the show we were stopped and asked to take a short survey and we scored two free movie tickets out of the deal which was cool. We had lunch at Chipotle and then walked around downtown Geneva eating ice cream. It’s a real cute area.
Ugh. I so don’t feel like blogging lately as you can tell by the lack of updates. I don’t know what it is… maybe spending so much time in front of a computer at work has started to make me hate sitting down in front of my computer at home. The last two weeks we’ve had working lunches so I’m completely behind on my podcasts and reading because I never have time to do either.
I’d rather be on the couch on my iPhone than sitting at my desk. I did want to write an entry about some of the cool iPhone apps I’ve discovered lately but I lack the motivation to do much of anything lately. Joe and I even discussed hiring a maid so I don’t have to clean the stupid bathrooms anymore but I doubt we’ll do that because I’m too cheap and now that our wireless bill has doubled, I don’t want to spend any more money than I have to.
Oh, we’re going to run to the store and get a light for the guest bath. Hallelujah it might be done soon.
* This entry was brought to you by a cranky Nicole