ok, it’s not THAT late. kevin and i watched a few episodes of “arrested development” that amy and jim lent to us. they talked about AD for months and months and we finally started watching it and it’s BRILLIANT and i’d love to sit around watching it all day long.
then we watched a little jon stewart. michelle obama was on for a few minutes. she looked very tired to me. she said they’d been campaigning for 20 months now. can you imagine that? the stress, the fatigue, all that talking and thinking and…now i feel even more tired just thinking about it.
then i started to watch stephen colbert but the show seemed too loud so instead i opened up the computer and got SUCKED INTO ALL THE NEWS STORIES once again. i was about to shut the computer and go to sleep but then i checked my e-mail and there was ONE MORE E-MAIL FROM WANDA, this one about a cool bunch of stuff for sale that says “that one” on it. on them.
perhaps wanda will stay up later than me, obsessing about the campaign.
i was going to watch the debate last night but one minute after it started, amy and jim came home from asheville NC where they’d been vacationing. did i mention i’ve been dog-sitting for the past several days? they talked about their trip and i missed the entire first hour of the debate and i was VERY GLAD about this because i didn’t have to listen to the debate. we watched the last half hour, so i didn’t hear mccain say “that one” when referring to obama, but i know i could watch it a billion times on youtube if i chose to go there.
which i don’t. because i’m tired. tired of all the campaign stuff.
twenty months.
oh yeah, sunday night we had the potluck for the 114th regiment. kevin thought people would show up at four, but they were all getting their pictures taken at lincoln’s tomb by a guy who did actual old-time kind of photos using old-time kind of equipment, and it was running late and so kevin didn’t even call me till 4:45. and shortly thereafter a family i didn’t know showed up at the door. two parents and three little kids and MAN kids are a full-time job. amy’s dogs, i can stick them in the hot tub room and keep the door open and they can run in and out to bark at squirrels and pee and run around. it’s not the same with kids at all.
i encouraged them to go down to the water. one of the kids was scared of dogs because she’d been pushed down by a dog when she was even smaller than she is now, which is pretty small because i think she’s only four. i felt sorry for her, because i know adults who don’t like or are scared of dogs because of just such things and i wished that she could bond with mollie and get over it before it ruins her life.
luckily kevin finally showed up and then people started arriving. except the guy with the food and drinks and plates and silverware and napkins wasn’t thee yet but people kept arriving so we sent david to the store to buy chips and dip and coke. just before he returned the guy showed up, with lots of chips and dip and coke.
we could have another party right now, featuring chips and dip and coke.
we could save them for the halloween party but i’m not crazy about serving chips at the halloween party. the party that i have to start thinking about pretty soon, i’ve decided to send out the invitations on friday but i haven’t finished them yet and must get right on that. time has been continuing to escape me a lot this week, but at least today i got a ton of writing done. i also found my halloween candles, which were somewhere but i didn’t know where. i kept looking down in the basement because i knew i hadn’t put them in the garage because they would have melted over the summer. i couldn’t find them in the basement so i kept looking in random drawers throughout the house. i looked in the basement about three times, and i found them the third time. they were in a rather flat box that i had assumed wouldn’t be big enough to hold candles.
i’m feeling kind of like a crazy person tonight. it’s supposed to get down to 48 degrees tonight, pretty dang cold. according to my computer it’s 49 right now. how does my computer know this?
when i was dogsitting i was also cat and fish sitting. the cats were almost no work, and i fed the fish from little plastic bags that amy had measured out so i WOULDN’T OVERFEED THE FISH.
except she has four fish tanks, and in one is a big white fish that is apparently retarded. it swims upside-down most of the time, and when you drop food in it won’t go near it. now this seemed like a pretty big fish to me and i figure that if left to its own devices it would eat some of the food, but amy is convinced that it would starve if not hand-fed.
yeah, you read right. you have to stick your whole arm into the tank so you’re surrounding the fish and then you have to guide it to the food on the bottom and make sure it eats. it seemed to spend a lot of time trying to eat my fingers, and it was quite an unusual experience.
like i said, i really don’t think the fish is THAT retarded that it would just starve to death.
but i did what amy told me. what if i hadn’t hand-fed it and it died? that would have been very bad.
DON’T LET THE ANIMALS DIE, that’s what i focus on when taking care of all of them.
we’re going to DC soon for a few days and amy and jim will be in charge of our animals. no fish to hand-feed, though. actually, i’ve been thinking about it and i feel that all our pets would probaby be happiest if they just got to stay here, and somebody came over and fed them a couple times a day. mollie gets very anxious when she’s forced to stay next door.
right now she’s snoring in her bed next to me. winnie is lying here on the couch beside me. i just petted him and he tried to take a big bite out of my arm, but luckily i’m wearing a big fuzzy bathrobe so he just bit fuzz.
all is quiet here. i’m the only one still awake. and now it IS pretty dang late, so i must go to sleep.
ok then,
wednesday grace.