ok, i know i\u2019ve mentioned more than once that i\u2019ve sort of quit watching tv. except for “sex & the city” re-runs, which are a little annoying because they took out all the nudity and swearing. but i love it just the same and almost always watch unless i\u2019ve seen the episode too many times.<\/p>\n
but i haven\u2019t had the tv on more than a couple of times while house\/petsitting, but tonight i felt i needed to sit down and watch tv in order to have some bonding time with the dogs.<\/p>\n
see, when amy and jim are here, somebody either naps or watches tv or does something involving sprawling on a couch every single day, sometimes a few times a day. <\/p>\n
but i haven\u2019t been doing that. i\u2019m not here so often, and when i\u2019m here, i\u2019m sitting at this computer or i\u2019m sleeping. or perhaps eating. <\/p>\n
anyway, bonding with dogs. first, i was trying to talk on the phone while sitting on the couch with three dogs, but they kept getting into snarling fights, so i finally had to hang up and yell at the dogs for a while. they didn\u2019t really seem to care so much.<\/p>\n
i turned on the tv and began flipping channels and was somewhat dismayed at the lack of anything at all worth watching. at all. <\/p>\n
and then, finally, i found beavis-n-butthead.<\/p>\n
they were watching a pia zadora music video, where she was in prison.<\/p>\n
i can\u2019t tell you how this made my day.<\/p>\n
PIA ZADORA. i\u2019d forgotten all about pia zadora. wasn\u2019t she an actress? <\/p>\n
and clearly, a singing legend.<\/p>\n
the funny thing is, i bet it\u2019d be easier to find a pia zadora record than it is to find my elusive “arthur and celeste.”<\/p>\n
i keep giving the dogs rawhide bones and Noodle was sitting there on the couch with two bones. <\/p>\n
they love the bones.<\/p>\n
i can\u2019t eat anywhere near the dogs because they sit there and stare at me taking every bite, which makes me feel self-conscious. it also makes me feel like i\u2019m starving them, even though i just gave them some treats.<\/p>\n
today i was sitting on the floor while Numi was attacking me and i looked over at the fish tank and thought that one of the fish was floating UPSIDE DOWN! i panicked and jumped up and scared Numi. but the fish wasn\u2019t dead after all.<\/p>\n
whew. <\/p>\n
no dead animals of any kind.<\/p>\n
the dogs are all under the computer now, gnawing on their bones.<\/p>\n
actually, this evening suddenly all the dogs\u2019 bowls were completely empty.<\/p>\n
it must be so difficult to do all the mothering when women are actual mothers with real, live children. i can barely manage to not starve\/lose the various animals living here.<\/p>\n
it\u2019s funny how not lonely it is, because any room i walk into, there\u2019s another animal. Lemar, a cat, is always lying up against the heat register in the bathroom.<\/p>\n
every room, at least one animal.<\/p>\n
i tried to take a nap today and there were three to four animals with me at any given time.<\/p>\n
napping was pointless because the dogs just kept barking.<\/p>\n
this morning i was standing in the kitchen and all of a sudden there was KNOCKING ON THE DINING ROOM DOOR. this leads to the back yard. i was really happy that i was wearing clothes. it was a guy who wanted to read the water meter. i had to take him to the basement where there\u2019s a gate, because there are gates between almost every room in the house, and i demonstrated how he could climb over the gate but he didn\u2019t want to do that but he DID know how to open the gate. i hadn\u2019t mastered that, i hadn\u2019t even thought about it. <\/p>\n
people knocking on the back door in the morning.<\/p>\n
i let mr. kitty out tonight, and thought “what the hell are you doing, he didn\u2019t come back before and it was very stressful.”<\/p>\n
but he came back in, thank god. too cold out there for him.<\/p>\n
lots and lots of responsibility this week. i guess i\u2019m ok with the responsibility, at least for one week at a time. <\/p>\n
but no more than that, please.<\/p>\n
ok then,<\/p>\n
wednesday night grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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