SOooo not happy that my work blocked LJ.  The only access I have is at the p's place which means I'm only here maybe once a week.  bleh

I'm tired now, I've spent the last 6 days, when not at work, removing the badly placed, really badly constructed closet from my room.  Also had to remove the 2 walls it was up against (paster dust, hurray).  Now everything is dry walled, painted and the baseboards are up.  The floor still needs to be fixed, but that is, fortunately, not my job.  M will do taht piece of carpentry.

My room has a fresh coat of paint everywhere and looks sparkly clean, plus I have 4 acutal, usable corners!  OK, the floor is still kinda dusty; dry wall compound is such a pain.  A lot of time today was spent looking at the room, the furniture I already have and thinking about the wardrobe I want to get to replace the closet.  It's like a life size puzzle, there's lots of blue tape on tghe floor outlining various peices of furniture.  We quit when we realized we hadn't actually accomplished anything of value for a while; too hot, sweaty and tired.

Dinner tonight: bbq chicken, potato salad, fruit salad, green salad, deviled eggs, corn on the cob and strawberry chiffon pie.  Yummy!  I will have to roll up the stairs later on.  I do love my balcony, I can watch the local fireworks from it.  Can we say convenient?  Haha!

My life has been fairly quite lately.  No major excitement.  I didn't go out much at all last weekend.  I spent quite a bit of time gardening, continuing in my war against that bastard of a weed, creeping charlie.  I'm also fighting the clover, pernicious stuff.  

The cats have been amusing.  Miss susie downstairs has had some success in her attempts to get out of the house.  She's a fast little fuzzie and managed to get 20 ft up into a cottonwood after a squirrel.  Fortunately, she's not completely stupid and didn't continue climbing.  The squirrel laughed at her, ran down the other side of the tree and sauntered away while she looked uncertian as to how she was getting down.  We all turned our backs and let her figure it out.  She got down without damage and continues to escape from the house.  She does seem to be avoiding trees now.  My fluffy coward found D's leg weights and is in love.  He purs, rubs, and squirms all over them.  Bubblebrain hasn't done anything really stupid for a while, perhaps she's gaining, well, not wisdom, but at least some vestige of knowledge.  The demon has been highly affectionate towards me lately.  I wouldn't say she's mellowing, as she still hates every other living creature on earth, but she has discovered the joys of the house-ape's lap.

I'm really looking forward to IML's vendor area.  The combination of toys and eye candy is irresistable.

Very busy weekend, lots of running around.  I feel like  I got a lot of things accomplished.  The tulips are a lost cause, being transplanted and then frozed was just too much for them to take.  We'll have fun getting new bulbs in the fall.  I got some basil planted in my balcony boxes, they smell lovely.  I had some catnip seeds as well, so those went into a hanging basket.  We'll see how they do, the cats may be in for a treat.  I still need to find some oregano.  I'm not going for flowers this year, I like the idea of fresh herbs.

I introduced the BFG to a favorite family game, namely:  make-up-a-word-ending in a bad-attempt-at-humor.  We like to add -age or -i to the ends of nouns to make them plural.  For example, we have bulbage, weedage, tulipi and iri.  Why I don't know, but we find it entertaining.  The BFG found it highly amusing.

In the time since I sent in my grad school application, the university decided to add another form.  sigh.  At least they were nice enough to tell me.

It looks like I have dinner plans almost every night this week, this is rather unusual for me.  I'll meet Link tonight at his school, tomorrow I'm meeting S downtown near my work and on Friday Y from work is coming over to my place for dinner and we'll probably order in.  I'm rather enjoying a week when I'm either eating out, or having leftovers.  As much as I like to cook, it's nice not to need to do so.

Had a nice chat with Lucyazul last night, mainly just catching up.  Also spoke with link for a bit and got up to date on the soap opera that is his social life.  

I appear to have been finally forgiven by the fuzzies for locking them out of my room while J was over.  He's allergic and of course the big old scaredy cat, Puffy, desperately wanted to sit in his lap.  Isn't it just like a cat to beg for attention from someone who doesn't want them up close and personal and turn around and hide behind me while D stretches out on the floor, extends an arm, waggles his finger and carrolls "here, kitty kitty kitty, who's a good cat?" 

Once again, my grace, agility and general acute spacial awareness atound me.  While cleaning my bathroom this morning ('cause this is the kind of fun I have on a vacation day)  the radiator viciously attacked me.  I have a series of bumps matching the vanes of the radiator marching across my head, starting with the biggest lump right at my temple.  Where it is nicely visible.  And the fun thing about the head?  The ice hurts almost as much as the initial impact.

Tonight I get to go to the sleep clinic to see if my insomnia is due to apnea, restless leg or some other issue.  This is more of a rule out thing, as my doc and I don't think I actually have any of those issues.  Do I think they are actually going to get any readings of me sleeping?  No, I do not.  I anticipate a sleepless night attached to various monitors.  Ah well.  I have tomorrow off, so I can come home and sleep.

On the plus side, gardening may actually happen this weekend.  On Sunday we bought and planted some more hydrangeas and today the order is being placed for the two trees.  The BFG is going to help dig the holes, as we are declining to pay 60% of the cost of the tree for the delivery guys to dig the hole.  That seemed a little outrageous to us.

Another big plus, my friend J is visiting Chicago from Portland!  Hurray!  It's been about a year since I've seen him.  We'll be at GD on Saturday, so I'll get to bottom for the first time in a while.  As I am a kind friend, I'm taking him to the airport the next morning at 6am.  He has been warned that my verbal skills are non-existant at that hour.  "Go,... now, ... car, have keys,...ug."