la_belle_laide | Saturday nonsense and pics

It's really a shame I forgot my camera yesterday at work, because I could totally have had a cool pic spam. OTOH it would have been hard to find time to get the cool pics, because we were shorthanded again and it was mad busy. Ugh. Anyway, early in the morning I found a really awesome wolf spider, I mean this baby was HUGE. She was on the door and I didn't want her to get squashed so I put her in a cup. I brought her up front to show some of the receptionists, which freaked most of them out. There was a client there dropping her dogs off for boarding and I can't stand her because she's the one who ditched a dog with us for over a year and didn't pay a cent. Once I placed that dog for her, she went out and got another one which she tired of within a week and then ditched THAT one with us, too. I don't even know why she's still allowed to even look any of us in the face, but she always comes in like nothing's happened and drops her dogs off. Anyway, she saw my huge spider in a cup and was all like "EEEK! OMGz IT'S A RECLUSE!" I was like, Whore, it's a wolf spider. Only I didn't really say whore, but seriously, how hilarious would it have been if I had? I wish I could say to people exactly what I want.

Then later we had this really mean parrot come in and I was trying to get him in his cage and he kept talking and babbling. Jenn W. was with me and we were already laughing because of something I thought she'd said (she was telling me about something she'd seen on TV and she said, "It came on the TV" and I thought she said "I came on the TV" and I asked her, "Dude, what were you watching?") so we were pretty much falling all over ourselves laughing. Then the bird started laughing along with us, like a real, human sounding laugh and we were both like "WTF?!" And then the bird says to us, "Don't go there!" and we nearly fell on the floor laughing. I've never had a bird tell me not to go there before. Good times.

This morning I went to Tai Chi and we did line basics there, too. My legs were shaking by the time we were done. Then I went way the hell out to the dance studio because I'd asked if we had rehearsal this morning and no one got back to me so I assumed that we had, except I guess we didn't because I was the only one who showed up. So thanks for the heads up, guys.

On my way home I got pulled over and the cop was really nice, he was nice even before he saw my Dad's badge in my wallet. He asked me whose it was and I told him it was my Dad's. Then we chatted for a while about the Sherriff's department and what year my Dad had retired etc. I asked him how fast I'd been going and he said that at one point I was doing 87, but when he stopped me it was 76. The 87 MPH did surprise me, I had no idea. I told him, "Wow, I'm really sorry. It's a new car." He laughed and said, "I understand. Have fun, but just be careful," and he let me go. He was a really nice guy and all, but I doubt he would have let me go without a ticket if not for the shield. I shouldn't have been doing 87 though, that is pretty fast.

Then I came home and decided to remodel the kitchen. Another case of the whim-whams to be sure, but like when I usually get the whim-whams, I'm going to go ahead and do it. I want a stove and oven, a real one, nut a stupid little thing and a microwave like I've got now. (Although I still should probably keep the microwave because I use it to melt wax when I wax my eyebrows, true story.) And I want to take down part of the bar that makes up the counter, and put cabinets up instead of shelves. And I want a bigger sink. All of which is ridiculous and of course I would decide to do this when I have these new car payments and when the holidays are right around the corner, right?

After deciding to remodel the kitchen I went out shopping, both for groceries (OH HAI $76 for hardly anything!!) and stuff for my Halloween costume. At Michael's craft store, I ran into many hilarious things and I was glad to have my camera.

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