The day after

I'm always grateful to have a clean house and almost more grateful that the house cleaner won't be back for a month. Weird. I know.

So last night and even more this morning, Biggie was very snuggly with no biting. We had our now nightly game of laser chasing and then he went to bed. This morning, he would have no part of the chill pill treats. I thought maybe they are two big so I cut them in two. Still, not interested. I put two of his regular treats next to them and he gobbled everything up totally right away. What a weirdo.

As long as he does not bite me, I'm fine with whatever it takes. He's gone back now for his morning nap.

I'd be tempted to take today off from going out because yesterday was so action packed. But, I actually want something. I've been using a paper bag to collect recycling and Biggie thinks that the bag is there for him to pull down and sprinkle said recycling. So... it's time for a new plan. Wildly, Amazon's plain old large trash bins are expensive and the cheap ones are too big or fancy. And... Home Depot has just what I want for $6. So... Also Krispy Kreme is in between here and Home Depot. So, we have outing.

Thanks to all who shared their favorite killing time apps with me. Goal accomplished. I have latched onto two with a couple more likelies hanging in the wings waiting. The NY Times Tiles puzzle that fauxklore suggested is deceptively simple. It is much easier to play on the laptop. My NYT subscription does not include puzzles so I'm only allowed two Tile games a day. And that's actually fine. Because my spare time is now being eaten alive by Bubble Cloud thanks to flo.

The Mariners do not play today so I will be using today to catch up on some TV. And some crochet. As usual.

But first I need to get dressed. After one more game of Bubble Cloud.

Birthday Answers

This is the second to last question. I asked for questions for my birthday and was showered with wonderful ones that made me think and consider and remember in rich and new ways. It's been wonderful.

spiritgirl Asked me about my car history!


My first car was a Ford Falcon - it was three years old when I got it in 1965. But it was cool. Bucket seats when bucket seats were only in play cars. And… a radio. It was white with turquoise seats. My parents got it for ‘the kids’ but I was the only one with a license and we got it on the day I got that license. So it was mine. My job was to chauffeur my brother and sister and run errands for my Mom. I did it all gleefully because I had a car! And a license to drive! I had made it, baby!

I left that car when I went to college. I bought a new used car after college but I cannot for the life of me remember a single thing about it. I can only remember that it was totally unmemorable. I had it for about four years. I got a job as a sales rep for IBM in South Carolina. I had four counties in the ohmygodsorural part of western South Carolina. The big city then was Greenwood which today only has a population of 20,000. They had unstaffed gas stations. Just pumps out in the middle of nowhere. You put your dollar bills in and pumped your gas. You could get about 3 gallons for one dollar bill.

I wanted a new car. A fancy car. My father’s best friend was the Buick dealer. Buick had just bought a little German car company called Opal. They had this adorable little sports car called an Opal GT. It cost $4000 and my father was horrified at the price but it was my money. It was tomato red and it was fabulous.



And all over western rural South Carolina, I got pulled over by the state police at least once or twice a month for Driving While Cute.

When I left that job, I sold the car and bought a cheap used something that I drove for several more years. Then I sold it and bought a moped. This was when I was married and living in Charlotte. I rode it to work and to the grocery store and everywhere.

Then I went back to work for IBM and had to get a real car so I bought another yawner. Cheap. Don’t remember it. After a couple of years, I was getting itchy to move on and IBM wasn’t moving me as fast as I wanted. I knew I needed to be patient but it was hard. So, one night, after work, I went to the Nisson dealer in Charlotte and told the sales guy I needed something small and nice but seriously upgraded. I wanted every gadget and gizmo they offered. The color was pewter. It did have gadgets. Well as many as 1985 knew about. The goal was to get a car payment big enough that there was no way I could quit my job. It worked.

I actually had that car for the next 10 years. It was a great car. Then I bought a green Volkswagen Passat that sucked (why in godsname would you make a car with no glove compartment????). I dumped it after a year and bought a red Ford Escort. I had it until August of 2011 when I bought my adorable little green Smart car. If something were to happen to it, I’d hunt the country for one just like it and pay extra to have it brought to me.

Biggie 2021

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