I just watched a grey squirrel climb up onto the tire of my Kia. So cute!

(click to see full photo)

Yes, I did just mow that grass on Monday. On a very low setting. But Hay fertilized and it has rained so the grass is out of control again. The long part of our lawn is nice and short, I just mowed that last night! :)

I have a very important mission today. Let's start at the start. No worries, it's a quick story.

My little girl is growing up. I do believe Georgie has her first UTI:

1. Frequent alert crying way more than usual,
2. straining to urinate,
3. obvious discomfort when urinating,
4. frequent urination without passing much urine (between 9:30am and 10:30am we visited the litter box three four five times),
5. licking her "business" after each trip to the litter box.

:( Phooey. I shall be working from home tomorrow so that I can call the vet and say, "please dope up my kid so she's not sad anymore." The one amusing part about all of this is that this morning I instructed Georgie to tell me EVERY time she goes downstairs to use the box and she has kept her end of the bargain so well that I've moved a litter box up here and shut the basement door. She understands my English.

In other kitty news:

Flying Ripley

Laziest treat-eating Allie evah

One more thing, no Sunday Garden Party this week because nothing new is blooming outside. How about a squirrel instead?

Rest of the absolutely adorable chippy-squirrel images are at flickr. Sorry they're blurry. A combo of taking the photo through the kitchen window and only a 3x zoom will do that…

I am ill again today so I stayed home to recover. At about 4:00pm I was finally feeling well enough to walk myself up the stairs to take a shower. Before I actually got into the shower I looked out the window and saw that the snowstorm that had stopped for a while earlier today had started back up again. We now have several inches of fresh snow to go on top of the 2+ feet we received a few weeks back. It's pretty, but I want it to go away. Before January it was so warm here that my spring bulbs were starting to burst out of the ground. Now the little red squirrel who visits our feeders is having to dig tunnels underneath the snow so that he can get back and forth between the two sets of feeders and the pine tree. I think everyone's done with winter. Can we please have some warm weather? Without precipitation? Or other freaky weather elements? Please?

Things that make this day slightly out of the ordinary:

That's what I've got. What has happened to you today to make it not ordinary?

Chris is my favorite cuz he put out this album and lotsa people boughted it and I love him.

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*Yes, that's totally ripped from Barenaked Ladies, who I also love. But, I also love squirrels and pigeons, so I dunno if you wanna trust my preferences.

So, this friend of Avi's? She posted a meme. And…….well, it's not mandatory that I do it, but it looks like so much fun, so I really need to do it.

1. Capitalism :
2. Socialism :
3. Patriotism :
4. Nationalism :
5. Prism :

It's really hard on me when I watch a reality-type show and am moved by it in whichever direction it cares to move me, then during the credits I see that one of the people in the show has died. The first time this happened was when I was watching the Women's Entertainment (We) show Single in New York. Do you know where I'm going with this? Probably. It was the beginning of 2002, or thereabouts, and I had just finished watching a marathon of the 2001 New York episodes. In the very last episode one of the ladies was so excited that she had finally found her true love in a big financial hot shot who worked at the WTC. Her parting comments were that they had planned to marry soon and start their lives together. Her fiance died on 9/11 when the WTC tower he was in (either North or South, I don't rightly remember which, but that's not the point) collapsed. I can't tell you how gutted I was when I read that on the screen. I started bawling. Once I stopped crying, or maybe in between sobs, I started craving information about him and his fiancee. I found all types of In Memoriam sites at the time, even a bit of an update from his fiancee.

I know I'm cured of my addiction for now. After my ortho adjustment this afternoon (I've moved from vertical Impalas to Bears with a box pattern! W00T!), instead of rushing home to curl up and catch up with my favorite celebrity gossip sites I went to Agway to purchase potato tubers, onion sets, seeds for the veggie gardens, and dried corn cobs for the squirrels. Once home I did laundry, dishes, cat treats, mail sorting, dinner, and tweaking of the eVite guest list for our porch party. What the hell have I become? Old lady! No. No, no no. Responsible! Yes. Okay. But not that responsible, because I really should be in bed right now but I'm goofing around on my blog. 8^.D

Let it be known that from this day henceforth I shall be addressed as Private McNutty.

Wait. That isn't very regal. Oh well. That's my squirrel name, and don't you forget it! Thank you to President Furrycheeks* for helping me to realize my full potential.

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*the squirrel formerly known as P'nut