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dchenesThis weekend was one of the less fun ones.
Friday night I finally got around to using up the scallions I bought earlier last week (scallions are one of the nastier things to forget about in the fridge for a while). I made egg and lemon soup with scallions in it. I think next time I'll leave out the scallions and try mushrooms and rosemary instead.
On Saturday morning we loaded the kittens into the carrier and the carrier into the car and went off to the vet in Everett. More specifically, we went to the Mass Pike and discovered there are absolutely no signs that say anything about Route 1 until after the airport, at which point they say Route 1A, which is different. We never did get to the vet, because when I called them to tell them we were going to be late, they said we'd have to reschedule, and we didn't hold out any hopes of getting there any other day either. So I called the Metro Cat Hospital in Washington Square, and made an appointment for Tuesday, and then got a migraine. I should have known it was coming when I was having problems reading the phone book.
Saturday night I left my bedroom door open to see what would happen. What happened was an extended wrestling match all over the top of me until past midnight, at which point the kittens all curled up on various parts of the bed and fell asleep until 3:45, at which point the wrestling started in again. Outcome of experiment: keep door shut if sleep is necessary.
Sunday consisted of a trip to the grocery store and most of the making of Italian chicken soup. All it needs now is scrambled eggs and spinach, and I can do that when I get home tomorrow night. Other than that, not much happened on Sunday. I found out about the Columbia disaster on Sunday morning, and I haven't really processed it yet except to say that Fox News has lost me for good. They had, underneath a picture of somebody from NASA expressing grief and sympathy to the astronauts' families, a banner that said something about the event "so far not being linked to terrorism". Hello, not every tragedy is a result of terrorism. Does this mean that the next time there's an earthquake in California, somebody will be looking for links to terrorists?
There's a rant in there somewhere, but I don't have the time for it now.
Friday night I finally got around to using up the scallions I bought earlier last week (scallions are one of the nastier things to forget about in the fridge for a while). I made egg and lemon soup with scallions in it. I think next time I'll leave out the scallions and try mushrooms and rosemary instead.
On Saturday morning we loaded the kittens into the carrier and the carrier into the car and went off to the vet in Everett. More specifically, we went to the Mass Pike and discovered there are absolutely no signs that say anything about Route 1 until after the airport, at which point they say Route 1A, which is different. We never did get to the vet, because when I called them to tell them we were going to be late, they said we'd have to reschedule, and we didn't hold out any hopes of getting there any other day either. So I called the Metro Cat Hospital in Washington Square, and made an appointment for Tuesday, and then got a migraine. I should have known it was coming when I was having problems reading the phone book.
Saturday night I left my bedroom door open to see what would happen. What happened was an extended wrestling match all over the top of me until past midnight, at which point the kittens all curled up on various parts of the bed and fell asleep until 3:45, at which point the wrestling started in again. Outcome of experiment: keep door shut if sleep is necessary.
Sunday consisted of a trip to the grocery store and most of the making of Italian chicken soup. All it needs now is scrambled eggs and spinach, and I can do that when I get home tomorrow night. Other than that, not much happened on Sunday. I found out about the Columbia disaster on Sunday morning, and I haven't really processed it yet except to say that Fox News has lost me for good. They had, underneath a picture of somebody from NASA expressing grief and sympathy to the astronauts' families, a banner that said something about the event "so far not being linked to terrorism". Hello, not every tragedy is a result of terrorism. Does this mean that the next time there's an earthquake in California, somebody will be looking for links to terrorists?
There's a rant in there somewhere, but I don't have the time for it now.
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extending wrestling matches
Date: 2003-02-03 09:47 am (UTC)It started out with an extended wrestling match. The match continued to a 'tree climb' up my long drapes. I woke up and saw that they had made it 3/4 of the way to the top.
The kittens were removed from the bedroom and the door closed.
No more wrestling.
About 18 months ago, I started letting Chad the Cat sleep with me again. At first, the outcome was such that he would start meowing in my face shortly after daybreak. Now, he stays asleep and quiet for as long as I'm in bed, even until 1 in the afternoon.
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Date: 2003-02-04 12:52 pm (UTC)Let me be blunt, if the terrorists had the technology to intercept the Space Shuttle under those conditions, then DC would have been a smoldering ruin years ago.
Anyone else see the pic where CNN claimed the Shuttle was going 18 times the speed of light?