Today I will talk about The Creatures for the most part.
With the cooler weather, Tobs has become more animated. The Bat's coat is thinner so she and I are not too happy with the cold evenings. But Little Tobs now will run down the street instead of dragging along like he did this summer. He is so cute with his little ears flopping and his tongue hanging out (it always hangs out since the one side of his face is paralyzed).
He looks like a giant fuzz ball - seriously. He has gotten quite fat and his fur hasn't grown totally out (I cut his hair down in the summer to help keep him cool) so it is sticking out like a halo around him. With those big fat furry sasquatch feet, you can't tell what is body, tail or feet. He's just a round ball of hair rolling down the street. But he is so CUTE!
The Bat (Bella) is becoming more possesive of me lately. She will put those "owning hands" of hers on me and roll over so I can rub her Bat Belly.
The other night, there was some sort of scuffle between them after I went to bed. It sounded like Tobs was asserting his dominance. Bella was trying to score some of his peanut butter treat action and he wasn't going to tolerate his treat being poached. That's the first time either one of them has growled at the other. Of course it's over food. They only love me for my thumb.
I've posted some pictures that I need to link to here from my garden. I finally got around to transplanting those Peonies that I discovered this spring. The poor things were about taken over by those hateful bushes. When I cut the bushes back, the sun finally reached the Peonies and they tried to come out. They didn't make it but at least I knew they were there and transplanted them. Hopefully they will do better where I put them since they will get more sun. One of them was seriously old, too. About the size of my hand.
I also transplanted this Iris that was by the house. I'm guessing it's an Iris or a Glad - I don't know since it never bloomed. I moved that out into the sun as well. I also bogarted some wisteria seeds from a local plant and will try to grow them out back over the imaginary arbor I keep threatening to build.
So many grandiose plans, so little time!
My one rose bush is just going crazy. It was full of blooms and I loved looking at it. Most of the blooms have gone but it was just beautiful when it was out. The asters are really pretty, too. I have to remember not to spray those in the spring because the caterpillars eat them. I had forgotten about that.
Speaking of butterflies, I have seen several different kinds in the yard. Most of them are really BIG. There was a
Monarch,
Yellow Swallowtail and a black one with dark blue trim that was just stunning! They wouldn't stick around long enough for me to get pictures but I did get an eyeful! They seem to like the pinks and the liatris best.
The yellow mums are gigantic and I'd like to get some more mums to plant around but I'm a bit strapped for cash at this particular moment. It's brewing time, see. And after Pennsic. So my expendible income (what there is of it) has been given over to buying cider, honey, sugar and yeast.
Horrible Boss From Hell is hysterical again. Apparently someone sent out an email to various people and told her she is a dumb good-for-nothing (not me, seriously!) and it made her cry. Boo-fucking-hoo! Useless as tits on a nun. *shakes head* The sad thing is, HER boss hates her and her BOSSES BOSS hates her right on up the line. But no one will can her ass - they just keep shuffling her around like some sort of rotten fruit. Now she's stinking up THIS place until someone can find a place to shove her off on.
I just don't understand this mentality. She's an idiot. She's costing thousands of dollars a day in lost productivity, poor morale and stupid nit-picking yet nobody wants to do a damned thing about her. Damn, people! She got shoved off on us because her stupid shit finally started costing HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of dollars - but her stupid shit just started here.
Stupid shit - nit picking because you don't like the format of something. Nit picking because you don't like the program that's used to track materials so you refuse to use it. Nit picking because you only want 4 decimal places instead of 5. Fucking idiotic nonsense. But she does this ALL OF THE TIME.
It would be one thing if her stupid shit was worth anything - saving time or money or effort but it's not. It's just a bunch of stupid busy work that makes her think she's important. This is the same dumb ass who went to another departments meeting and didn't realize it until she was an hour into it and didn't recognize anyone. Well did you comprehend what was being talked about? Obviously not. Obviously you can't tell OUR department from another if you sit there in a meeting where the agenda is totally off your radar. That shows you how much she knows about US. Not a damned thing.
As my officemate so delicately put it "I just want her to go away. I don't care where but it needs to be soon and away from us."
Amen to that, brother! Amen!
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The Rogue Goddess saw shadows dancing at 1:34 PM
Some rambling and disjointed thoughts -
I sold my condo!!!! YAY! Finally! I'm very relieved at this. VERY.
And just in time to brew cider! Ah! I am thankful.
I've managed to find a plastic food grade container to put the final product in and I have gathered all of my ingredients. Now I just have to wait for the moon to give the sign (Friday). So I'm taking off on Friday to brew.
Also my new washer & dryer is being delivered. YAY! No more hand washing and line drying! (Not that I mind the line drying but the hand washing was getting a little tedious).
It will be so nice to just throw in a load of laundry and forget about it. I have to say that I was shocked and disgusted at the prices on some of those machines. I mean, really.
And I discovered I don't like those front loaders at all. Too much bending over to pull the wet clothes out. I'd prefer that the dryer have a lid that pulled down instead of opening to the side but they didn't have one of those. AT ALL. Kinda bogus.
But they are new, under warranty and have a large capacity so I am happy.
Now I need to get a load of firewood delivered for the winter and get the satellite hooked up. Wow. TV. It will be very strange. Like when I when to college and had cable for the first time ever in my life. I was mesmerized by it. lol!
That's pretty sad, I know, but it's the truth.
I've also realized that I feel so much better after I skate. It doesn't matter how crappy I skate as long as I do it. I just feel so much better physically, mentally and emotionally.
That's another thing I'll have to do now that I have the money - rejoin the skating club and start hitting more sessions! I really miss that!
The Yeti has decided to take ANOTHER vacation (I guess a week off and three days of seminars were too much for her - eye roll). So she's out until early next week. Then the following week she's gone again for more "training".
I swear, all that moron does is boondoggle and spend money. It's pathetic. I don't even know why she has a job. She certainly doesn't do anything aside from expense all of her nonsense and act like a complete barrier to getting anything done.
Maybe I'll just start disappearing for weeks on end and see if anyone notices! HA!
And since SHE is absolutely useless everyone has been coming to ME and wanting to know what's going on.
Like the evil fiend I am, I just send them to her and say, "it's her job. She hasn't been in the office since she started so call her cell phone and ask her."
Apparently it's starting to sink in to her thick head that I'm not going to do her work nor pawn it off on someone else. She's been getting some nasty calls from our customers wanting to know why she isn't doing her job.
Her excuse has been "I've been on vacation/in training/in meetings" but ya know what? Nobody is going to give her any slack. During the first 6 weeks, ok. Yeah, you're new and learning. It's been FOUR FUCKING MONTHS and you're STILL unable (unwilling is more to the truth) to function? Nope, nobody gonna cut you slack on that BS!
She's finally started to get called on her crap and it's about time. I'd sure like to know who in the hell is protecting her - it's got to be somebody pretty high up the food chain for her to still have a job and not actually show up.
Anyway - enough about that fugly hag.
I'm thinking of having a Halloween party but I'm kinda torn. I'd like to invite God & everybody but then that would mean kids. And I'd just like to keep the kids and my hard core drinking friends separate. That's just me.
The optimal would be to have TWO such parties. Maybe both on the same night. Kids ok before 10pm and after 10pm I let the fang face killer loose on 'em! heh, heh!
I dunno. Fangers will probably wonder WTF is going on but she'll recover quickly enough. I'll have to keep her in my bedroom so people don't step on her.
So we'll see. I'm still contemplating this. It would be a lot of fun. And nobody would mind the overgrown lawn! lol!
My fang-faced killer is doing just fine. I think she has some eye allergy or something because she has scratched her one eye raw. Poor thing. It seems to come and go.
She loves having the yard and likes to lay at the end of her rope watching the street and "buffing" at the squirrells.
That's kinda like between a bark and a snort. It's just a soft "buff". Some times she gets all indignant and huffs and puffs and buffs (that's kind of amusing to watch). But mostly she just likes to lay on the sidewalk by the house or near the herb garden and watch the street.
I've brought all of the plants in that I want to overwinter. It is getting cold and night and that is bogus.
That and with the days getting shorter it makes me want to just sleep all of the time. I'm not alone - everyone here is just dragging along.
My upstairs bedroom is actually nice and toasty and I love it. The dog climbs up to see me some nights and hides under the bed. Her snoring is enough to wake the dead but I find it oddly comforting. And it helps me locate where she is so I don't accidently step on her in the morning.
Speaking of the dog, she still likes her long walks and has even taking to making me run (gasp!) on occassion. You know I don't like this very much but I'll do it. Fortunately for me she doesn't run very fast so I can just trot along and keep up with her.
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The Rogue Goddess saw shadows dancing at 12:15 PM
