I think I want someone to high five me every time I accomplish a task and then give me a gold star, and after I reach a certain number of gold stars, that person should bring me a cupcake or some curly fries for a job well done.

I thought your company did that. I'm so disillusioned.

The inside scoop on all the perks Google does not, in fact, offer its employees is kind of a bummer. No IV caffeine for the commute; no high-fives and curly fries incentive program. Sad, really.

shrift, did you find a new place?

I did, Kat! I signed a lease on a 1-bedroom in Inner Sunset.

I thought your company did that. I'm so disillusioned.

I can get the high fives and stickers. I have yet to experience a curly fries cart. Things that I have been offered on a cart: beer, donuts, popsicles, ice cream sundaes, appetizers.

I'm hiding from the 101 degree heat

Yup, sounds typical. If you're going to be in town tomorrow, you can celebrate Pioneer Day.

Ugh so tired and frustrated. Trying to get the living room ceiling primed, and the two buckets of primer I thought we had are actually one bucket that had been previously opened and has now thickened to the consistency of glue. I got about a quarter of the ceiling primed before it got too thick to spread at all. Also, everything up near the ceiling is caked in cobwebs and dust and nastiness. I just want to curl up in a ball and suck my thumb, but that is of course not an option.

Curling up in a ball is always an option. #Iamnotarolemodel

Can you be a crazy cat person if you also have a dog to go with the cats?

I say yes. Somehow, the black tuxedo kitten who will not be picked up, and a story about how teacup pigs are being abandoned by terrible horrible people has led to me browsing petfinder for rabbits. I feel like Lucy might like this girl [link] or maybe one I could more easily distinguish at a glance [link]

OMG a greyhound/chihuahua mix. No picture, but that sounds like someone Walter would love. The cats would not, of course.

Hey, my insurance info is on my phone. I have $1 million liability coverage. I forget what the reasoning was to get that. In case there were medical bills we'd need to cover? Something like that. Premium is $150/year, which seems pretty reasonable.

Left work only an hour late! Not bad, considering I had all my scheduled-time-off prep to do after I finished testing. Then I realized I could use my pantry inventory to generate a shopping list and go to the farmers' market. So I did that, and stopped at Starbuck's on the way (I am closing in on the Gold Level. I'm not sure what that gets me, but it sounds exciting and it's literally across the street from the park where the stalls are set up) where I realized that I shouldn't generate my shopping list based on the next two weeks' needs, there's a farmers' market next Thursday, after all, so I cut it dow to one week and turned out I did not actually need anything. So I strolled through the market in case anything caught my eye, but nothing did. But I have confidence in my process for next time.

Greyhound/chihuahua mix -- that sounds like a real crapshoot!

Yeah, that could go a lot of ways. But Walter loooooves greyhounds, and loves small dogs.

I have unwisely drifted into browsing available kittens. The expression on this one [link]

Oh my goodness, this girl sounds like a pretty good fit, unless she'd be unhappy being just with Walter while I'm at work [link]