So I'm having my lunch of "a" cracker and listening to my unearthed Jayhawks cd "Hollywood Town Hall", a pivotal album of my life that I guess you could say I "overlistened" to during my teen years, subsequently shelved in my 20s, and have only just now gotten up the gumption to resurrect! What a blast from the past!
OK anyway so the Mr. is highly grumpy today and taking it out on everyone else, likely because the inlaws are on their way back down from K-town, and we're just gearing up for the crap.
So I will try and just ignore his ranting and go to my happy place. That's right, focus on something positive.
Like stuff that makes my friends happy! For example, Brandon and Adelly and my old HS friend Tessa will all be rendezvousing in San Antonio this weekend. Rather than mope because I can't be there, I will just read their smsing and mmsing and email and FB posts over and over and imagine myself there, double-fisting a Shiner and a Margarita.
The Animal Peeps have a new Sech in lock-down at the moment, and they really want us to take him, as he has a very sordid past of abuse & neglect - just like Sech - and needs some work. Lots of work. OK he doesn't have half a leg hanging off his body, but instead, he has no meat on his bones and is so frightened it took us 30 minutes of gentle coaxing (and meat) to get him to even stand up and walk 10 paces out of his kennel. The Mr. has been looking for another "project", and I believe this guy is it. The Animal Peeps really don't want to rehome him with anyone around here, because they know he's going to be a serious rehab challenge. Even though as soon as the general public know there's a nice big boerboel in the kennels, we get a wave of people all of a sudden desperate to adopt a dog and make the world a better place. Uh-huh. Nice. But what about this 5 year old street mutt? Um, no thanks. Not cool enough, right? Anyway, we took Reilly over to introduce them to each other and see how he would do with other dogs. He was so stressed out it was unbelievable. Reilly, on the other hand, is always a champ with dogs of any demeanor. She could really be a therapy dog, I believe. She knows exactly when to turn her head away and be "invisible", and exactly when to sniff, or not sniff, or lay down in submission or bristle in warning. Made a lot of progress in just 1 hour. But, I see long hours ahead of me. (yea!) We're getting him snipped Monday, and will bring him home with us Tuesday to see how he does. Fingers crossed.
Soooooooooooo off we go into the bush with the M/FIL this weekend. Nice safari lodge booked. I'm keeping my mouth shut. It'll be nice and "shut" when the FIL decides to rank, review, and pontificate on ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING and how "different" and "inefficient" everything they saw and did in K-town this week was, and likewise whatever we get up to in the bush Sat-Mon. I swear it must be hard to know abso-frickin-lutely everything about the whole universe and everything in it. I mean it just must be a real weight on your shoulders to have all that knowledge after only 58 years on earth! I bet his head hurts a lot... To be such a genius on all topics stemming from American politics, to what africans eat, the far superior conditions that The Netherlands has got going for it, to his profound observations along the lines of "black people smell different". Winner!!
Podgey says I just have to remember that these are the people who gave birth to the love of my life, the man I can't live without and who has made my life worth living. Now if I can just make some sort of catchy mantra that is easy to hum and I can dance to it, so it won't keep slipping away from my memory... he's right though. Serenity now...
OK anyway so the Mr. is highly grumpy today and taking it out on everyone else, likely because the inlaws are on their way back down from K-town, and we're just gearing up for the crap.
So I will try and just ignore his ranting and go to my happy place. That's right, focus on something positive.
Like stuff that makes my friends happy! For example, Brandon and Adelly and my old HS friend Tessa will all be rendezvousing in San Antonio this weekend. Rather than mope because I can't be there, I will just read their smsing and mmsing and email and FB posts over and over and imagine myself there, double-fisting a Shiner and a Margarita.
The Animal Peeps have a new Sech in lock-down at the moment, and they really want us to take him, as he has a very sordid past of abuse & neglect - just like Sech - and needs some work. Lots of work. OK he doesn't have half a leg hanging off his body, but instead, he has no meat on his bones and is so frightened it took us 30 minutes of gentle coaxing (and meat) to get him to even stand up and walk 10 paces out of his kennel. The Mr. has been looking for another "project", and I believe this guy is it. The Animal Peeps really don't want to rehome him with anyone around here, because they know he's going to be a serious rehab challenge. Even though as soon as the general public know there's a nice big boerboel in the kennels, we get a wave of people all of a sudden desperate to adopt a dog and make the world a better place. Uh-huh. Nice. But what about this 5 year old street mutt? Um, no thanks. Not cool enough, right? Anyway, we took Reilly over to introduce them to each other and see how he would do with other dogs. He was so stressed out it was unbelievable. Reilly, on the other hand, is always a champ with dogs of any demeanor. She could really be a therapy dog, I believe. She knows exactly when to turn her head away and be "invisible", and exactly when to sniff, or not sniff, or lay down in submission or bristle in warning. Made a lot of progress in just 1 hour. But, I see long hours ahead of me. (yea!) We're getting him snipped Monday, and will bring him home with us Tuesday to see how he does. Fingers crossed.
Soooooooooooo off we go into the bush with the M/FIL this weekend. Nice safari lodge booked. I'm keeping my mouth shut. It'll be nice and "shut" when the FIL decides to rank, review, and pontificate on ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING and how "different" and "inefficient" everything they saw and did in K-town this week was, and likewise whatever we get up to in the bush Sat-Mon. I swear it must be hard to know abso-frickin-lutely everything about the whole universe and everything in it. I mean it just must be a real weight on your shoulders to have all that knowledge after only 58 years on earth! I bet his head hurts a lot... To be such a genius on all topics stemming from American politics, to what africans eat, the far superior conditions that The Netherlands has got going for it, to his profound observations along the lines of "black people smell different". Winner!!
Podgey says I just have to remember that these are the people who gave birth to the love of my life, the man I can't live without and who has made my life worth living. Now if I can just make some sort of catchy mantra that is easy to hum and I can dance to it, so it won't keep slipping away from my memory... he's right though. Serenity now...
Labels: aggro, animal peeps, music
Dis you know one of the musicians in the Jayhawks lives in Richmond? Steve McCarthy. He plays bass in a band called Piedmont Souprize that I ised to sit in with.