Tikatu's Travels Through Time

The Girl just got the results from the two AP tests she took back in May. She passed both! So she now has some college credit under her belt.

The Hubby is home today, and has finished the last fence post across the back. We're talking about what we want to do with the fencing across the front, and the gates, and the fact that I want to put the dog in a kennel when we go on vacation.

Still waiting to hear back from the vet's office about the cats. Need to bring them in and have them medicated, as well as get their shots for the year. Want to see if I can get a discount or something for bringing them all in at once. In any case, I'll have to take the car tomorrow morning. 

More later as the muse moves.

Boy #2 had a friend over last night; he brought his Naruto game for the PS2 and they've been playing that and Crash of the Titans ever since he got here. Everyone's had a turn, so there haven't been any complaints. I think I'll suggest they introduce him to Raeman's Rampaging Rabbids. Hubby has the day off, of course, and has run to the store to get things for dinner. The Bro, Niece and SIL will be here later; poor SIL has to work so she won't be here until 3. The Girl will go home with them tonight and spend the weekend. I cleaned the bathroom so it smells heavily of bleach right now. There' s lots more cleaning to do, but that's the easiest and makes the biggest impact. 

I'm not quite here today. Might be because I ran out of antidepressants the other day and forgot to refill yesterday. Hubby took the prescription up and refilled it today. I slept well enough, but I made a pot of coffee around 10 and forgot about it until noon. But it's still good! I planned on making brownies... I just remembered that now! Yikes! I'll do it as soon as I finish this.

I wish everyone on my f-list, and indeed, anyone who who reads this, a happy and fun Independence Day. After all, everyone around the world observes the 4th of July... just not quite the way we Yanks do! ^_^

...you take a shower, wash hair and face and those parts that absolutely need it, but forget your arms, legs, back, feet, etc.

...you make a pot of coffee, and forget that it exists for a while.

...you forget what you're doing while copying files and wonder what needs editing instead.

...you start pouring creamer into your coffee as if it were milk. (I like a little coffee with my creamer, but really!)

Yeah, that's me today. Not at all with it.

Do you know how much crap collects in the casters of your rolling desk chair?

I sure do.

Mine rolls around on a hardwood floor, wearing down the finish on said floor and picking up more hair and thread and just general crud than you'd believe was possible. It wasn't rolling properly; some of the wheels were barely moving at all. So I had Hubby turn it over and put it on the back of the couch so I could clean out the wheels. Took a couple of hours as I had to do each wheel separately. They turn on their own, you see; each is on their own little axle, and not paired up so the two wheels work together. That made ten of them. Using an X-acto blade, scissors, three different pairs of tweezers, and a pair of needle-nosed pliers, I finally got down to the metal on some of them, and close enough to see the metal on others. A fresh X-acto blade at the beginning of the process might have made things a bit easier.

After all that, my back hurt quite a bit, and all I wanted to do was sit down and be waited on. So we went out to dinner to celebrate birthdays: the Girl's 17th yesterday, and mine today. Went to Applebee's and had an appetizer, entrée and dessert! It was nice to be waited on instead of standing in line at a buffet. 

Then a stop at Bath and Body Works for a few birthday goodies (in addition to the reprint book of Marvel Comics Invaders title that Hubby had already given me at the celebration with Bro, SIL and Niece a couple of weeks ago), and home. Boy #1 insisted on coming into the store and looking for a fragrance just for him. For some unknown reason, he chooses the most floral, fruity or pungent scents possible. For pity's sakes, he's 14! Wearing something frou-frou will get him teased even more than he probably is! We finally did settle on a cucumber scent; it's not too heavy or floral. Kind of clean and fresh. Much better for a teenaged boy.

Hubby is going to try and make coquilles St. Jacques tomorrow. He likes trying new recipes, but only when he has time to fiddle with them. I'm looking forward to the attempt; I love scallops.

Week before last, the Girl told us she was going to the prom. It seems she'd been resisting her friends' importuning for about two months, but had to agree when a boy in their group asked her to go as "just friends". So, thus began the quest for a prom dress. 

Ever since I've been online, I've been a customer of MSN's dial up service. That is, until Monday of this week. That's when I canceled the service in favor of BellSouth's DSL Lite service. The DSL was successfully installed last Wednesday, by a very patient DSL technician who first fixed the problem in the line that was keeping us offline, then jumped through a whole lot of hoops with AT&T to discover that somewhere, somehow, a number was one off at the office.

We're enjoying the new speed, and are finding that using IE7 is easier than expected. Of course, we can use the old email addresses (and add the new BellSouth ones if we want to), and I can even access five of my old MSN/Hotmail addresses without a whole lot of trouble. I plan on linking the rest of the MSN/Hotmail addresses as well a little later. Hubby is the one that has to relearn his way around; the kids have taken to it like ducks to water. And now that I've managed to import all our MSN favorites to IE (a frustrating experience), it's almost as if we've never left MSN.

Almost.

Our yearly letters will go out tomorrow, I hope.