I'd also add that for all of you who think that since your cat or dog never leaves your premises, so a chip isn't necessary: Katrina, Oakland Hills fire, earthquakes, etc.

If there is a natural disaster, your pet might need to be evacuated and matched up with you later.

ITA, java.

Waterdogs, of course. I knew that. But thanks for accessing the info for me.

megan, I forgot to say earlier that I'm wishing you very strong fingernails. Hang on if you can!

meara, fingers crossed that you can see an ENT soon. Getting stuck in beaurocracy sucks.

Speaking of beaurocracy, i got a doctors excuse since i missed so much work due to the nasty virus that stole my voice (among other things). Today, my second week back at work, i get notice that i need a "fitness for duty certificate" "before returning to work." Ha. Ha. Hardy har har. I better get paid for the three days (2 days last week and 1 day this week) i worked before finding out that i needed written approval from a Dr in order to come back. Esp since one of those days worked was friggin xmas day, then the day after. I'm kinda counting on that 9.5 hrs of overtime. Sheesh.

erin, I hate your workplace.

Yay, Liese, and thanks for posting this because I was putting off onerous task number one, and seeing your post made me want to get it done.

Yes! This is the benefit of peer pressure. I am totally like a little kid in that I keep doing stuff today because I am thinking in my head "...and then I can tell the Buffistas that I did it!" I am for serious when I say that my life went way off the rails once people stopped giving me gold stars for doing stuff I was supposed to do already.

I am for serious when I say that my life went way off the rails once people stopped giving me gold stars for doing stuff I was supposed to do already.

I know you don't mean to be utterly adorable, but you are. I'd give you a gold star in person every day if I could - for being adorable!

Jesse - that's odd, when i adopted my younger cat from the county shelter he was already chipped and part of the adoption process was transferring the chip over to my name and address, i think the vet scanned him and confirmed all that on his first (shelter mandated) check up.

Oh yeah, I'm sure that happened at the first vet appt, but I have all new contact information since then, and am in fact hundreds of miles away from that location.

Onerosity #6: Desk clearing got a little derailed, as it does, but it is now complete! And! Now I have a clear desk to start back to work with. Although clearing involved a little creative stuffing of All The Things back into my in-tray.

Onerosity #7: Dining room table clearing: complete. Except I discovered the last bit of the antibiotics the SO failed to take. It makes me mad! He missed a day, I told him to finish anyway, but he didn't. And now he's sick again. YOU ARE WHY WE HAVE SUPERBUGS, SO! Harumph. Guess it's no use playing blame game.

Onerosity #8: Making lunch. Okay, so some of these are totally just normal household tasks that I should be doing every day, but since I'm coming back from being sick and doing squat, I'm counting it.

Onerosity #9: Reset Autofocus todo list. Done. And it's not so bad, actually.

What next? The big mundane tasks I have left are a) put away laundry, my chore nemesis, but I want to wait until it's all done so I can do it in one fell swoop, and b) haul firewood, which I am putting off because it's just such an onerous task. But it'll count as my cardio for the day, so yay?

I think next is email scary bigwigs.

I know you don't mean to be utterly adorable, but you are.

Ha. I am not adorable. I am a cranky oversized toddler who needs affirmation to achieve basic life tasks! But I am very gold star motivated.

An adorable cranky oversized toddler.

But I just realized that Pete is the True Adorable of the board, so I will have to come up with another adjective.