Birthday Wishes and other things

[cornerofmadness]

Happy Birthday ozma914! Hope you had a great day.

Yesterday was a waste. The Flexiril must have been much stronger than last time or my body chemistry has changed. It knocked me on my ass. I couldn't get up. I managed to get to the couch where I wasted the whole day. Finally around 8:00 pm I got up the strength to go weed then slept another 10 hours. Yikes. I'll save those for emergencies...

Today the weather went from the balmy reprieve to hello it's summer and I suck donkey hot (okay the 80s but it's HUMID!).

I did manage to get to Jackson to Big Lots for their 20% off shit sale. I got another plastic bin to hide my shit in, and some gardening tools (you'll see why later) especially gloves and a weed thing because I can not FIND my gloves or the wonderful sickle thing silvrethorn gave me. I suspect it's behind the plastic bins in the closet but my shoulders hurt too much to unearth it.

It's been a weird neighbor weekend.

On Friday one of the new neighbor's girlfriends comes over and asks for my password for my broadband. It never occurred to me these rednecks would try to ping off my broadband (but that explains so much about Verizon and the overloads). I said it's not encrypted. if you can't get on, I'm sorry. Meanwhile I'm thinking I need to call 1 Touch on Monday to learn how to a) encrypt the sucker b) get my name off of it when the other losers try to figure out who it belongs to. SHe was going to pay me for it because she wanted to pay bills but honestly since I didn't encrypt it I had no idea why she couldn't get on.

Then Sherry wanted me to take a kitten. I know this makes me seem petty and mean but I have done ENOUGH since I've been here. 33 cats. That's how many I've rescued since I moved in 8 years ago. I neutered 6 of them at my own cost. A black cat showed up just before I left. She had 5 kittens. Sherry found homes for 3. I WILL call my vet (who might hate me for dumping that pregnant female on her over spring break). But I'm NOT taking one. At this point if I do get another cat for Kanda, I will go to the shelter and for between 30-80$ I can get one fixed, all shots and know if it has FIV or not. ANd are they going to fix this female. Who wants to bet they won't. I'm just worn out. There are no shelters here. Let them deal with it. They tamed the feral momma just enough so she lets them play with the kittens, let THEM deal with the results. Other neighbors doing this same thing is how I ended up with Kanda and Soul.

Then tonight a neighbor boy knocks on my door with the bottom half of a very broken McDonald's glass in his hand (they just did those retro glasses) and said it was the landlord's wife's glass and did I have one he could replace it with. If I did (and I DO but since I broke all MY glasses in my shitty shallow sink, I need these glasses), I wasn't about to give it to him. Sorry kiddo, you broke it, you need to face the consequences. You'll live. Yes, the wicked witch lives here.

I find this really cool. Starfighter It's an erotic SF comic that I have sort of a love/hate relationship with. It has an interesting story and good art but the erotic part sort of creeps me out since one of the two is SO alpha male he's terrifying (also I'm not really sure yet about this culture but the navigators are all blond and rational and the pilots are all black haired and violent so I'm still waiting to see what's up with that). So as a relationship it doesn't quite work for me but I'm still looking at it. Anyhow I linked it up because somehow or other, the fans made a sound track for it. I'm assuming there was a contest of some kind and people came up with music. That is so very cool. Imagine how you'd feel if someone came up with art or music for your original creation? (need I say the link is NSFW?)

And how about some pictures?



Turkeys at Dawn at mom's place. For some reason I was up before 6AM. This is my parents' back yard. I DO NOT know why there is a purple cast. Maybe because the sun wasn't fully awake.


my new sandals. They are covered with black glass beads. Sadly the flash makes them hard to see and no flash was too dark. Got them at Macy's. They were too expensive but once they were on sale, they were on my feet. ignore please the varicose veins. whimpers.


And then I came back to THIS. My poor garden. I DO go for the wild 'English garden" look but this is ridiculously over grown. Not only is there weeds galore, the butterfly bush, the st. john's wort and the flaming spirea (named Roy) are out of control. It'll take me til October to get a handle on this (it takes a triptych to get it all in)

the part closest to the deck.

in the messy middle

at the far end which is the worst because a lot of that is GRASS which is a bitch mother to dig out.

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Your garden has gone wild. Again. Your hostas look nice, though. With all that direct sun, how do they survive? I thought they were shade plants.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it has.

they are shade tolerant. unless they're the blue-green kind, they can take direct sun. These would do better on the other side of the place in the morning sun but eh, they are blooming their little brains out so they're happy (hell they're shaded by all the other shit growing in there)

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I guess that's true.

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

Your neighbors are actually *asking* you for your broadband password and to replace broken glasses? Girl, you need to move in a big way.

I'd type up a list of vets and shelters you know about and give them to anyone who wants you to take a cat. I, too, want to hug every cat, but as the song says, you can't.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

no kidding. The boy I can at least understand. He's about 10 and didn't want in trouble (His parents are NASTY pieces of work)

the girl is probably high.

I have done that actually. These people have more teeth than brain cells which I know is mean to say but seriously, I'm only half joking

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

I totally hear ya on being burned out with animal rescue and irresponsible people who want others to be responsible for them

and sweet sandals!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

my apartment is trashed. it smells horribly from the rescue efforts and I'm just plain old fashioned done with it. They half tamed that feral female, they can deal with her.

thanks

birthday

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Well, it sounds like I had a better day than you did ... Emily has taken Flexiril before, so I know exactly what you're talking about.

Re: birthday

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that's good

Last time I took it, nothing happened. This time I lost a weekend. geez

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

Love the sandals. They're vaguely sinister, yet flashy.

At least your garden is overgrown with things that bloom. Mine is just overgrown, period. And the yard has been consumed by a shaggy tsunami of green stuff. Which I promise I'll mow down, if it ever stops raining.

How nice of you to provide your whole apartment complex with free internet service. Yes, by all means, encrypt it. Maybe it'll run faster without all the leeches sucking on it.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. That's a great description of them. Macy's.

yes it is blooming and grass. and yes if it ever stops raining I'll tackle it.

oh i'm sweet that way, freaking freeloaders