Aww Heck! >:{

I'm officially sick of Winter now.  Well, I always hate it anyway, but I'm REALLY hating it right now.

I didn't know that the gas logs got THAT HOT.  So I burned my hand on it a while ago while I was fumbling around to plug in my laptop.

And then Lucky puked on the floor.

The other day in my yard, I noticed that the crocuses were blooming, and the daffodils are tantalizingly coming up.

And now, Lucky's about to puke AGAIN.  And we can't get her to budge off the couch to go outside and puke!  DAMMIT.

I'm bored to death, and feel like my butt has been super-glued to the couch, cuz that's pretty much where I've been all day long.

I have a feeling that Lucky will be puking some more before the night is over.  Right now, she's laying on the couch burping.  This is not gonna be fun.

In Weather news, it's still 33 degrees, and I can still hear it raining outside.  Watch it somehow manage to be perfectly fine in the morning.  I almost think I might rather be at work than at home tomorrow, cuz if Jamie's work is closed because of the ice, we'll all be cooped up in the house together, bored and climbing the walls, between the day's highlights of Maddie's farting and Lucky's puking.

HURRY THE HELL UP, SPRINGTIME!!!  >:{

It's Raining Harder Than I Thought

I finally broke down and went outside to see the weather up close and personal.  The temperature is still 33 degrees.  It's raining quite a bit harder than I thought it was.  It's kind of mysterious to me how it can be 33 degrees and raining, instead of snowing.

The dogs are outside right now (but they're pawing at the door to be let back in), and Sassy is batting a piece of dog food around the living room (when she's not attempting to sit in the small box that the puzzle that Jamie and Lilly are working on right now came in).

I think the temperature is supposed to drop to 23 degrees overnight, and if it does, I bet we'll wake up to Icepocalypse in the morning.

I wish the school would just go ahead and do their automatic phone calls to everybody saying NO SCHOOL TOMORROW so I can enjoy staying up late tonight and sleeping late in the morning

*record scratch*

NEWS FLASH...SCHOOL IS CLOSED!!!  THE CALL JUST CAME IN...

HOORAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :D

OK, I got rid of Maddie

Well, the main reason I got Maddie up in my lap in the first place was because I was cold, and secretly just wanted to absorb her body heat.  I was too cheap to turn up the thermostat.  But it worked!  A 70-pound, 100-degree dog in your lap for a couple of hours works like a charm!

Now she's running around the living room trying to snuffle into everyone else's sloppy joes.  Silly doggy!

Anyway, it began raining harder (hard enough for me to be able to hear it happening outside while being trapped on the couch under Maddie).  The temperature is still 33, though.

So at this point, I don't know if school will be open tomorrow or not, but I have a feeling it won't be.

We shall see......

Update...Now I'm Trapped!

I'm having to make this post from my phone cuz right now I'm sittin' on the couch trapped underneath Maddie!

Maddie is sound asleep and lets HORRIBLE farts from time to time!

Now I'm tryin' to eat a sloppy joe but Maddie sprang awake & she's goin' NUTS tryin to sniff & taste it!

This ain't workin'!

AAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!

Somebody Get A Towel

I was sitting on the floor in front of the gas logs a while ago enjoying the warmth, reading a little book, with Maddie laying halfway in my lap.  Since the dogs usually stay outside, it's a huge treat to them to get to come in and lay on us and get good petting in a comfy environment.

Anyway, Jamie texted me from work to ask what temperature it was, and to say that it had started raining at his workplace.  I got up to look at the thermometer, texted Jamie back that it was 36 degrees, and looked outside.  I noticed that it had actually started barely sprinkling here at the house too, and let him know that as well.  It's raining so lightly that you can't even tell it's raining until you look at something like the porch steps outside and see little droplets of water.  So much for a wintry mix.

So I settled back down in front of the gas logs and continued reading my book and petting Maddie.  Maddie was so relaxed that I think she actually went to sleep with her head in my lap as I petted her.

After a little while, I happened to look up and something caught my eye.  Maddie had PEE'D IN THE FLOOR while she was laying with her head in my lap!!!  I guess my petting was just too relaxing!

So I hopped up, and made Maddie go outside.  Lilly grabbed 2 paper towels (which would help as much as it would be to absorb 1 drop of water out of the entire ocean), but hey, Lilly surprisingly offered to help, so I didn't shoo her away.  And I grabbed a cruddy old towel that we keep around for just such an emergency, and a bottle of spray cleaner, and we swabbed up the pee mess.

I'm not even gonna ask What Else Could Go Wrong...!

Oops...the temperature has dropped to 33 degrees now...could Icepocalypse become a reality...?

We shall see...updates will be forthcoming......!

OWWWWWWW

Since it's been so cold lately, we've felt sorry for the dogs, and let them stay in the house at night, and let them in and out as they please when we're home during the day.  That means in addition to we 3 humans, we also have 2 big dogs, 2 cats, and a bunny all under one small roof.  To complicate matters, the cats can't be in the same room together because they would fight to the death.  The bunny can't be in the same room as the dogs because the dogs would scare the bunny to death.  And sometimes the dogs want to fight each other to the death.  So in my bedroom behind the closed door is one cat (Domino), in Lilly's bedroom is the other cat (Sassy) and the bunny, and past the baby gate in the living room are the 2 dogs (Maddie and Lucky).  Maddie doesn't seem to care too much about the cats, but the cats are petrified of dogs.  Lucky, on the other hand, is completely fascinated by basically all other animals (especially ones smaller ones than her, which she sees as playthings-to-the-death).  We spend a lot of time making sure no deaths happen in our household.  :/

Well, a few minutes ago, Sassy walked into the hallway, and even though the baby gate was up (and Lucky was directly on the other side of it), she really wanted to go into the living room, dog or no dog.  Sassy attempted to scale the baby gate, but decided against it at the last moment.  Stupid me tried talking Sassy into letting me assist her into the living room.  I told Sassy it would be all right, and that I would help her, as I petted her and picked her up.

1 half-step over the baby gate later, "WWRRREEEOOOWWW HISSSSSSSSSSSS SCRATCHHHHHHH"

That's my side.  In the very tender part midway between the boob and hip.  OWWWWWWWW.

I don't get tattoos, I get cattoos.

And when am I ever gonna learn?  NEVER.  I'm never gonna learn!  :P

P.S.  Still no rain/snow/anything yet...!

'Winter Storm' Anticipation

Well, we're allegedly supposed to get some kind of freezing rain/snow/ice/winter disaster today.  Yesterday we had to go to the grocery store, and every single bit of the bread was completely wiped out.  It's pretty silly if you think about it why everyone buys up all the milk and bread whenever 'bad weather' is expected.  I mean, really, who eats milk and bread whenever it snows?  It sounds like a bad prison sentence.  "Oh, Lord, it snowed an inch.  I'm so glad I purchased those 10 loaves of WonderBread and 8 gallons of milk, because it's the only sustenance that just might give us enough energy in order to possibly survive this disastrous 2-day blizzard!

I guess in the Milk & Bread Buyers' defense, it doesn't really help that all the newscasts hype it up like WARNING WARNING STORM STORM ICE ICE WARNING WARNING DEATH DEATH FREEZING TORMENT STORM WARNING ICE ICE DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!

So this alleged Winter Storm is due to begin around noon today with Freezing Rain.  We shall see.

I GUARANTEE that school will be closed tomorrow.  And possibly all the rest of the week.

I can kind of understand why we in the South get made fun of for acting so silly and helpless for being brought to our knees if it snows an inch (and if it snows anything more than an inch, then we act like it's the apocolypse).  Last night, Jamie's boss texted him to let him know that their workplace wouldn't be open today, in anticipation of the imminent winter storm...even though it was perfectly clear at the time, and wasn't supposed to start snowing or whatever until early afternoon the following day!  That's pretty ridiculous.  There are a few workers at Jamie's workplace today, so thankfully Jamie decided to go on in to work as usual.  It's kind of silly not to, especially when nothing is happening yet weather-wise, and isn't supposed to for many more hours.

Here's the winter storm as of right now, that I braved the elements to snap a picture of standing on the porch wearing only a hoodie, t-shirt, bloomers, and socks:

*crickets chirping*

Updates on this alleged Winter Storm will be forthcoming...

Good Morning (?)

I was laying in bed after just waking up a while ago, when Lilly came busting in my room and hopped in the bed with me, giving me a big hug.  She sniffed and said "Mmmmm...you smell good"!  I said "What do I smell like"?  Lilly sniffed and said "You smell like GOOD MORNING"!  Puzzled and amused, I asked Lilly "Well, what does 'Good Morning' smell like"?  And she said "Oh, I don't know...kinda like good rubber"!  Then she jumped up and trotted off.

I don't know if that's a compliment or not!  LOL!  :|

Lilly's Funny Saying of the Day

Last night, Jamie made some soft tacos for supper.  When they got done, he took some to Lilly, who was back in her bedroom watching a DVD.  A little while later, Lilly apparently got finished eating the tacos Jamie gave her, but she wanted some more.  So from her bedroom, she yelled, "Daddy!...I need a sequel"!

LOL!  :)

Happy New Year!