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Cat ([personal profile] willowisp) wrote2002-10-17 11:59 pm

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We're slowly getting back into routine; Andy had lunch with Tanner today. His dissertation currently sits at 350 pages. Thena and Gail have been taking turns sitting on the monitor. Thena apparently doesn't remember her paw-dangling trick, though I discovered that Gail's plume of a tail nigh on blocks the whole screen when all is said and done. While looking for something else on the web, I found a site of some incredible paperweights. This is a serious ferret shock site for people who like dichroic glass. Without even looking at the names, I ended up liking the aurora one best; big surprise. Now I clearly need to become a benevolent dictator of a small island nation so visiting dignitaries will present me with these.

It was car-bound errand day today, one thing which I won't miss once we actually get back into real routines. I dropped off the film from the weekend at Wal-Mart, got Andy more saline solution while there, and rescued two Snowflake teddies who were my Mom's last Christmas present to Andy and me. Then I went to Whole Foods to replenish our Brown Cow stash. They're still out of egg substitute, which is now slightly worrisome. I left my remaining egg powder with Mom, fully expecting them to have gotten more in since last week. I also picked up some butter, which is hopefully the last thing I'll need to bake the committee bribes.

Once safely home I started my chicken soup and I started thawing Andy's. He likes white meat better and I like a tomato base in mine, so I make two batches. He also likes the noodles to be cooked in the soup itself. Unfortunately there wasn't much broth, so I had to add water to keep the stuff technically soup, and I think I went a bit overboard -- Andy said it was somewhat bland.

I also got laundry from the trip done, then spent a chunk of time switching out the summer clothes in out closet to winter. You can tell we both come from places which tend to have longer winters; our winter clothes outnumber the summer by at least double. I also cleaned out the litterbox, which appears not to have been done while we were away. Thank goodness it's a Littermaid, so it was mostly a case of the container the clumps are raked into needing to be emptied. I also had to put in nearly a litterbox load of fresh clumping stuff, since most of the old stuff had been raked up.

I saw the bunny, or possibly both of them, on round six of my walk tonight. I spotted one, but it ran off before I could get the camera ready. A few seconds later a bunny flew by from the opposite direction. Either it was bunny #2, or else the first bunny was silly and circled me. I got the second bunny (instance) in some pictures which I'll probably put up later this week. Speaking of pictures, Andy has uploaded the panorama shots from our trip upstate.

[identity profile] turnberryknkn.livejournal.com 2002-10-18 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
ReBenevolentDictator: (grin) Or, we all gotta get off this graduate student salary thing so we can actually have enough money to trade neat toys. :-)

Speaking as someone who might, if I am lucky, someday sit on Thesis committees, I'd certainly be very happy to recieve cookies. :-)

[identity profile] willowisp.livejournal.com 2002-10-18 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
> Or, we all gotta get off this graduate student
> salary thing so we can actually have enough
> money to trade neat toys. :-)

But being a dictator has such neat perks. Free rent, palatial estates, secret labs (working on dangerous scary things like cures for diabetes and food allergies), the right to contribute to the evil overlords list (http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html), making it illegal for people to call tech support before they RTFM... the list goes on.

And since I'd be a benevolent one, I wouldn't have to worry about any annoying heroes trying to overthrow

[identity profile] goldenlily.livejournal.com 2002-10-18 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I formally declare it unfair that you should taunt us with such pretty baubles when it'd cost me at least a leg, maybe two, for one of those, and then, me being me, I'd have to think up a reason for spending that much money on something I'd never use.. practical? Gah! :)

[identity profile] willowisp.livejournal.com 2002-10-18 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Scarily enough, we have used my paperweights for their ostensible purpose. Andy needed a way to flatten out some paper in preparation for folding, and after we both tried to figure out if we had heavy enough books or something, I suddenly realized I have all these heavy objects lying around...

Maybe if I get my small island nation to rule, I can make you an ambassador, so you'll get neat gifts too ;).