Yummy!

Just went into Etsy - been spending a little bit too much time there lately .. ahem.  And this was the screen that greeted me.  I was like - ooooohhh - and I don't know why.  It was just incredibly appealing to me.  What do you think?

Or is it just me?

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Maxine Monday

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.. and on it goes

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Early in the week I noticed that suddenly I was not getting the upper channels on cable.  Kind of threw me for a loop because those are pretty much the only ones I watch!  Come to find out I had ignored emails from the cable company telling me that if I did not have "the box" and was just plugging cable directly into my TV, I would need to get some kind of converter to continue to get the top cable channels.  UGH.  So I ordered some converters and commenced to feeling unsettled as I tried to find other things to watch in the meantime.

Coming home from work on Friday after the end of a really crappy week, my brakes decided they weren't just bad, they were worse than bad and started squealing in protest.  Wonderful.  

After I got home and collapsed on the couch that day I discovered, oh joy, my TV was dead.  Simply died during the day while I was at work. 

 And to finish that day my full figured kitty Norah was sitting on the other end of the couch and when I looked down at her she had a tuft of fur sticking out of her mouth.  I told her NO! but she simply reached around and pulled another tuft out of the center of her back.  She's been doing this lately but now she has almost gotten a bald spot.  She's always been a nervous cat, very skittish and now I guess she has turned the corner into full blown neurosis.  I sat on her and wrangled a "calming collar" on her, that had been waiting in the wings to go on Abby next month but Norah seemed to need it more.  Next I have to look for the rescue water drops that I bought and immediately misplaced so I can calm all the doggone cats!

And me?  I just might be looking at downing some calming wine.  Or something.  Damn I wish cigarettes didn't kill people.  Cause I would give my right arm to start smoking again.  I think I deserve it.  Deserve the wine, not the cigarettes.  I won't smoke.  But I will whine.  This is me whining.  Argh-h-h-h!   

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Could have been a better week.

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There are many things that happen in life that aren't fair.  And while I always wanted everything to be fair - I learned very early that not everything is.  I can't say what happened this week wasn't fair, because I don't know why it happened, but I will say it was really quite stupid.

My office roommate who makes me crazy half the time was let go on Monday.  She has worked for the company for 26 years and is incredibly talented.  She spoils her child to a point that I can barely restrain my comments sometimes.  She is self centered and a bit obsessive compulsive and a germaphobe.  But she is also very sweet and sensitive and generous.  I will miss her.


It was a huge shock when they let her go.  She was not one you would have pointed to and said - oh yeah, I can see why they would choose her.  And what the company does not seem to understand is that in whatever cost saving measure they were implementing - they just let a fantastic amount of knowledge, talent, and information walk out that door without a key card to get back in.  Seems to be a trend too - people who have worked there for many years - being let go.  Maybe they make too much money.  Maybe it is ageist.  But beyond the whys - it just isn't good business.


There were many things my office roommate was very good at, and one was making sure she had skills and certifications for different areas of the business.  By the time she left today - she had heard from at least 3 competitors looking to snatch her up.  Our company's short sightedness will be someone elses gain.


Stupid, stupid corporate decisions.  When will they ever learn that people are not chess pieces or numbers on a spreadsheet?  And really, not everyone is expendable.  


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He HAD a new do!

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Took crabby ol' man Riley cat to the vet for his once weekly "drink".  The technician came and carried him away in his carrier like usual, while I amused myself listening to these crazy cat people obsessing about their cats, pretending I wasn't one of them.  


It wasn't too long before Riley cat was being returned to me in his purple carrier, all watered and ready to go.  Except the tech had a strange look on her face as she approached me, which wasn't usual at all.  She hesitantly asked me, "are you painting your house?"  


Well isn't that the strangest question to get at the cat clinic!  

Cute even with a clean head!

"No, not painting anything ... "


"Well Riley had this stuff all over his head .. "


Oooof!


I realized I should have warned them but I had forgotten.  "OH!  NO!  That was cottage cheese!  He wanted to finish the container of cottage cheese and stuck his head all the way down to the bottom and it kind of slicked back the fur on his head and dried like that."  I went on.  "I kinda thought it was cute, so I didn't wash it off."  


The tech smiled at me, not nearly as amused as I was.  "Well it's washed off now."


Oops. 


It really was cute, though.  Really.


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