Goodness gracious, Vortex. I just don't know. Your present was her failure to show up, I guess.

So far today I have: walked Frankie, pulled a load of stuff from the cube, fed the animals (at the moment Bella needs to be sat with and coaxed to eat), and I'm just eating my own breakfast. Next up is a shower, then mopping and some unpacking. When I get tired of that, I'll run errands to the cable co., hardware store, and maybe grocery store. Resume tweaking really needs to be on the list, too.

I'm out on the porch smoking and neighbor Pete just walked by, with his pit Candy. Found out last night he's also friends with K and K. Yay neighbors with doggies!

smonster, I am just so tickled to see you settling into your new 'hood.

Me too. The move-n-post is quite entertaining.

It's the best 'hood in the world!!!

It's a pretty sweet hood. Shower taken, kitchen mopped, have started unpacking first kitchen box, which took a tumble. Nothing broken yet!

30 minutes till summer break! I am so ready for the year to be over.

smonster, yay to new, terrific hoods!!

Yay for new home in a welcoming place!

I'm glad you are settling in so well, smonster.

Daniel was saying the other day that if I could guarantee him a job and a place to live with air conditioning, I could convince him to move to New Orleans. However it is my considered opinion that, climatologically speaking, San Francisco represents the least unpleasantness on either end of both our respective temperature tolerances combined with the largest concentration of resident Buffistae - although I could be persuaded that the Pacific NW might give us the most bang for the buck, should we undertake such a venture.

Happy Birthday, javachik!

Vortex, I don't know what to say or think about your mom. But it does make me grateful that I managed to extricate myself from my mother's clutches as neatly as I have done.

May Jeeves' little kitty dignity be restored quickly, as well as his colon health.

As for eating - I love broccoli. I love most veggies. I also love cheese and chocolate, some fruit, white meat chicken, and steak. I can eat potatoes, but I don't love them. Of all the dieticians I have listened to in the last three years, the one who made most sense to me was the one who gave the impression that she was less concerned about eliminating "bad foods" than she was about encouraging people to increase the amounts of vegetables, fruits, and other nutrient-dense foods they eat. If a pat of butter (or an ounce of cheese) is what it takes to make a bowl full of broccoli go down, do it.

I've been wobbling on the precipice of falling into some bad eating habits again, which is to say, I'm so crazy to lose weight that I've seriously been considering returning to the extremely low calorie diet that kick-started me years ago.

Problem is, with the anemia, I can't really do that any more and feel remotely human. So I have to have Very Stern Talks with myself where I insist that feeling good and being healthy has to take precedence over losing thirty pounds in a hurry.