February 24th - Thursday Thirteen

I have been trying to blog more - but oddly enough - as much as I intentionally structure my life....I sometimes feel the need to rebel against my routine.....and blogging (or rather not blogging) seems to be how I do that.

I mean, I can't not feed the cats or the fish, or not show up for my bowling team, or skip a weeks worth of classes..I've got responsibilities.

So today I have a few minutes to do more than a bit of facebook catching up- and since it happens to be Thursday, I can give you some snippets of recent life at Chez Em.

1.  A fish died.  Yes I know that's part of an aquarium owners life.....but it's a part that is generally invisible to me - the snails and the other fish take care of the remains and I generally don't know there was a death in the family unless I take a headcount.  However this was one of the bigger fish and maybe he (or she) just didn't taste good because the carcass just lay there and I had to net it out. 

2.  Pumpkin has decided he will only eat canned food, and not a whole lot of it.  I don't know whether it's because he has teeth issues or smell issues or if it just means he's not very hungry and is getting near the end of his time with me.  He's an older cat anyhow - and if you've known me for a while you might remember that last October the vet discovered an inoperable tumor on his leg.   All the furkids are off to the vets next week for shots - and maybe I'll be lucky enough to find this appetite/weight loss thing is something treatable.  But whateve happens, we've still had almost a year and a half of good times since the tumor diagnosis - and I'm grateful for that.

3 Financial Accounting class still sucks - but at least the homework gives me three chances to get it right - only three more weeks to go and I think I'll manage an A.

4.  Work kinda sucks too - there's a lot of it and we're shortstaffed and the big software project I'm helping with is busy as well so I feel like I never get a break anymore. 

5.  But I'm going on vacation in 23 days.....in a Spa Cabin with unlimited use of the giant hot tub and the thermal suite.

6.  And the ports on this trip are full of opportunities to do two of the things I love best - snorkel and look at archeological sites.

7.  I also booked my flight to  Nova Scotia to meet up with my friends Bundy and his GF in September.  And it was lucky that I went ahead and booked....I was doing this with airmiles - as it was the number required had gone up so I barely had enough - but I did, and that's what counts.

8.  I love this season of Survivor - I thought the show had gotten predictable - but the twist of Redemption Island is going to make things interesting....and I have to admit that Boston Rob is brilliant.

9.  A Facebook friend of mine had a great quote up this morning - I think I might needlepoint it as a wall hanging for my office.  "The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it"

10.  My Safeway started selling naan again (yum)

11.  My state AND federal tax refunds arrived safely in my savings account this week - and I only filed on February 15th.

12.  I've got enough flexibility back in my right knee that I can do a proper quad stretch on that side.....and it doesn't hurt me at all anymore.

13.  I have a friend who works at Best Buy and he used his discount to get me a deal on a water resistant boombox - perfect for taking out to the hot tub...which is where I think I'll be heading shortly.