Welcome home, Andi and Daniel! Safe and sound, brave souls. And happiness abound to you.

Emmett is a wonder, with his outlook on life.

But then, considering the thoughtful and involved parenting he's grown up with, I suppose it's not such a wonder, after all. In any case, it's always a pleasure to hear about his take on life. He's a definite individual: thoughtful and with a unique perspective.

vw, you sound industrious. What? Baking is industrious. Now figure out a way to waft those banana bread scents through the internets and we can all share.

Casa Bev is far from industrious today. In fact one might go so far as to call us indolent and lazy.

There was a list for today. but the coffee shop was closed - so we got a call from one of our neighbors this morning - he was serving coffee and pancakes. so now, too much food. DH has plans. I might nap.

Joining Susan in the grump and whine corner today.

BTW Susan, I love the freelancing to keep your skills up designation because a) it comes from a powerful place and b) has the extra added bonus of being true.

If/when I go for a 'real' job, I'm going to have to explain what I've been doing for the last 14 years. Self-employment is obviously a viable lifestyle and, besides, you don't need to justify anything. Your skills speak for themselves.

On the grump and whine front: Spent 3 hours in the hospital with Bartleby this morning due to hourly bleeding from a part of the body no dog should bleed from.

When his system gets stressed, the immunity? she goes south. This time, he apparently dumped all the bacteria out of his digestive tract save for one. That one decided to seek its own independence and grew like kudzu, causing him to probably not take in any real nutrient since Wednesday and the aforementioned bleeding, of which, we shall speak no more.

He'll be fine. Just more drugs and some watching.

The grump part? I was supposed to go out on the Potomac with friends this evening to watch the fire works. My idea. I also took pains to arrange for a boat that, despite my travail (no sleep at all last night for starters) my best friend insisted on coming to get from my neighbor at her (the friend's) convenience.

As we were carrying the boat down a long alley to get it to her car I suggested that it might be possible to stay home with Bartleby until about 7:30 to make sure he's okay, hop a cab and have one of the 5 boats swing around and pick me up at the landing.

No.

Just no. Then lots of "Oh, well, we'll see if it's too far to come and we'll let you know."

At the end of a fairly heated discourse, this friend of 15 years says..."If you'd really thought it through, you wouldn't even have asked."

Huh. Asking is outlawed. While you sail off in the boat I arranged for you. Huh.

The simple fact that I would have done it for her without even thinking about it speaks less to her selfishness and more to what I putz I have been.

Feh.

Timelies...

I had a list of things to do today. However, I forgot to actually make sure several of the places were actually going to be open today. Oopsie. So only a few things got done.

I did want to have my brows waxed, which will either have to wait or I get to tweeze today. Decisions... I still need to change my sheets, launder my duvet cover and vacuum.

Then sweet, sweet sloth. And seeing if my grill is up to grilling, because somehow today calls for food cooked over fire.

Welcome to your new home together, Andi and Dan! Much joy and happiness to you both. And sleep. Get some sleep.

Oh, Beej, I am glad Bartleby is going to be okay...

The simple fact that I would have done it for her without even thinking about it speaks less to her selfishness and more to what I putz I have been.

((Beej))

Welcome home, Dan and Andi. I'm glad you survived your trip without any major car trouble. Best wishes for your new life together.

Beej -- your friend evidentally has a hole in her head and all of social skills fell out.

My 4th has been okay. I mopped the kitchen for the first time. Went grocery shopping and have something planned to take for lunch tomorrow.

They had all kinds of sales on ice cream. I ended up getting two kinds of Klondike bars (buy one get one free) rather than Ben and Jerry's. I know me, the B & J will be gone by tonight. I can't do that kind of damage to Klondikes.

I ended up getting hot dogs, deli coleslaw and potato salad and I'm going to fix that and some lemonade take a blanket outside, and have a little picnic and take something to read.

bad friends

so how did I end up help DH reorganize the garage again? I know it needed it , but still....

Thanks so much for the hugs and good wishes.

Having bitched about it, I feel better. I'm sure, had I spoken about the plan to anyone else in the group, they'd have been completely okay with swinging around to pick me up.

And that means I need to be a lot smarter about dealing with this friend. (I love the hole in the head analogy) She has a way of being in the world that is not my way. Can't take it personally.

Another friend suggested that I shouldn't have let her take the boat. One part of me would have loved to come over all spitey like that but it just isn't me. I'm not so much a push over, as I am all honor-bound, sometimes in ways that don't serve me. Gotta give that some thought.

And thanks for the good thoughts for Bartleby. He's going to be okay. I can tell that the medication is leaving him feeling ookey...but it will be over in 8 days and hopefully, he'll feel better long before then.

I've really got to do some research to find a good immune booster to help him avoid problems like this.