Zoey's claws

So... last night, I was sitting cross legged on my bed listening to my book while I played a computer game on my tablet. Zoey was sitting on my ankles watching me. I was ready to shut it down and go to sleep. So I reached out to the phone to stop the book and Zoey got oh so abruptly startled. She sprang up and sprinted and, in the process, dug two of her claws deep into my leg just above the ankle.

OUCH! But then blood - lots of it. And I didn't get to it in time. Puddles on the sheet that went through to the very thick mattress pad. Fortunately, I was able to get both off before it got to the mattress but it was quite the scene with me trying to keep the rest of the blood in my leg while I stripped the bed and got both the sheet and the mattress pad under running cold water.

Few of those sleep hygiene articles would recommend this as a way to prepare for bed!

I got all the blood out of the sheet and tossed it into the tub and then got the mattress pad mostly clean and tossed it into the washing machine and turned that on. And then put a clean sheet on the bed. This morning reveals that my actions paid off and all bedding is saved.

I'm kind of killing time now before going to the pool. I'm working backwards. I can't get to the bear delivery until 10. It takes about 20 minutes to get there from the pool. I'll still have too much time but not enough, really, to come home. Plus I'm going to make a run to Walmart after the delivery. I ordered some shirts online that were not at all what I wanted so I'm going to take them back. And the car need gas.

Google just sent me an alert that it's supposed to rain today. ???? This is Seattle, Google. Not sure rain calls for an alert.

addendum

While I was swimming I realized the critical component of last night's blood letting... The book I was listening to is called "A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back". I was deep in a part of the book about the blood and guts and gore that is routine for paramedics... But, they don't have to change my sheets.

I went ahead to the pool too early and so came on home for some coffee before I head out on my rounds.

A special gift

The bear lady's latest real estate is a funky storage/office location. I drive up and call her and she comes down to get the bears. (It's a secure building so I can't take them up.)

This morning I drove up and she was standing by this truck with two people which was great cause I didn't have to call and wait. I hopped out of the care with my 3 bags o' bears and dolls and went up to the truck. She introduced me to the woman as 'here's the bear lady!!' I handed over the bags and got in my car saying 'see you next month!'

She and the other lady started looking into the bags. They couldn't really see me and I couldn't hear them but I didn't need to. One would pull out a doll and the other would exclaim, look in the bag and pull out another one. Over and over again. It went on for a long time and it was hilarious to watch them discover and delight in each one. I just sat there and wallowed in it. Such fun to watch the two of them appreciate my dolls.

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On to Walmart where I returned $18 in shirts and spent $80 for groceries and other shit. The math there isn't working really well in my favor.

I drove through Burger King and got a cheeseburger and fries and a drink. It was nearly $10!! I rarely drive through fast food places for lunch and was amazed that it was so expensive. I totally get that the food is not good for you but everybody does it anyway. Now I'm curious about how people afford it! And those kids out there smoking cigarettes after their fast food meal? Those kids must be millionaires!!

Walmart doll love

Half of my $80 at Walmart went for food. The other half went to doll bits. They had some great (and cheap) tiny trims like the bobbles at her neck. And fabulous flower buttons (her hair). Lots of great doll futures...



I finished a bear last night so the empty couch and empty chair are not quite as empty now. Whew.

I finally made good progress on my Google Drive space reduction. 371 GB to 33. I still need to get rid of more than half of that.

I took the Best Buy USB drive and hooked it into the router so that now it is a network drive and I can get to the stuff from any of my devices independent of the internet. It's also on the cloud (Dropbox) so I've got sufficient backup.

Next up is to move all the music off of Google Drive. I only use it for the swimming iPod. The rest of the time I use Pandora or Google Play. Somehow I need to tell iTunes where it went but that should be the only wrinkle and then I'll be well under my free 15 GB's on Google AND all set up to move to the new computer next week.

I am not used to my hair color at all. The last time I had it dyed which was also the first time I ever had it dyed, they really just blended the gray in with the regular and the result was so subtle even I could hardly tell. This time there is zero subtle and it's kind of freaky.

Also yesterday in the hair dying chair, I discovered that I now have an old lady chin. I used to have a fine chin. And then I had several chins. And now I have a real old lady chin. The kind with the waddle in the middle. The chin on the left is circa 1985-ish. The chin on the right is circa 2pm-ish