head asplode

[la_belle_laide]

Allergies have driven me INSANE. I wake up each morning with an exploding face. Everything itches.

Every time the stupid ice cream man goes around the neighborhood, I get that song stuck in my head. Except I don't know what the song is; to me it's always been the Murphy's Oil Soap song, so for the rest of the day I'm singing, "You'll be using Murphy's all the time, 'cause the dirt is finished, but the finish is fine."

Anyone born in the '70s, YOU'RE WELCOME. :)

Today I left early and got Sano to his vet appointment to get the last of his stitches out. He removed the tail ones himself. :/ It was pretty quick, and then I came home, covered myself in so much sunscreen I looked like a Geisha, tucked my pants into my socks, and headed outside. Ticks don't be getting up my pants.

Then I bathed both dogs until they sparkled. They were not pleased, but at least they once again look like they belong to someone, and are not made up of dirt. That done, I did YARDWORK. Not gardening, but YARDWORK. Repotted the massive sago palm into a huge damn pot (where am I supposed to put it in the winter? I don't know!) planted a bunch of perennials I got cheap at Home Depot (actually Mom bought them,) planted some of my exotics outside (I do that every year, then un-plant them and re-pot them indoors in the fall,) cleaned all the bird feeders, got rid of yet more leaves, fixed the filter on my pond, and generally tried to make things as nice and tidy as possible. The way Dad would have done it.

I also took Havok's cage outside. I don't know WTF, but he has been screaming for months. Screaming, so that you can't think of anything else while he's doing it. I don't know if he's reaching some kind of crow maturity or something, but it's maddening, and once he starts, he does it constantly. So I thought maybe he's getting nutty looking at the same stuff all winter, and I took his cage outside. He was a little freaked at first, then he started playing with his toys and stuff. Maybe I'll make a thing of taking his cage outside with me. But honestly I'm thinking of building him something bigger, outdoors, for spring and summer, and part of fall. It's tough because he's a corvid and I'm always concerned about mosquitos. I've got the big aviary, but obviously I keep my fledgling birds in there all summer, and it's also where Car lives. Havok would kill any babies, and probably Car.

So, I'm thinking.

After all of that, I went to Mom's with the dogs to show her how sparkly they were. A huge-ass gnarly yellowjacket flew into the dining room by the screen door, and Haku was lying right under it. I hate those emmeffers, and I whacked it with a rolled catalogue. It was still alive and it fell onto Haku. I panicked—the last thing the epileptic needs is to get stung by a huge wasp—and started beating it to death, while it was still on Haku. He tried to get up to get the hell away from Mom who had gone insane and started randomly beating him with a rolled up newspaper, and I didn't want the damn tenacious wasp stinging him so I held the poor dog down and continued swatting until the wasp was dead. OMG, I felt terrible, because how could my goofy little white dog understand, or how could any dog understand? But at the same time I was laughing hysterically for the rest of the night. "You stay here while I beat you with a catalog!" Haku was looking at me like, "What the hell? What's wrong with you?"

Because that's his attitude even when he has done something wrong and I scold him. It's always me, never him.

Oh, speaking of dogs, so my across the street neighbors have this bratty little kid. Not the neighbors directly across (with the pit bull that almost killed Sano and broke his leg,) but next to them. Actually they have about five kids, but there's this one that's a toddler and they let him run all over the damn street with no one watching him. It's not like cars never go down the road, you know? Anyway, every time he's out at the same time my dogs are out, this little bastard comes running up to the fence and starts barking back at my dogs. I always tell him, "You'd better get away; my dogs will bite you." And when his lazy mother finally drags her ass out of the house to call her spawn off, I tell her, too. Well, today he came running over barking at the dogs again like a small moron. And then he picked up a fist-full of dirt and threw it at Sano. I was like WHAT, UH, YOU DID NOT THROW DIRT AT MY DOGS. I actually yelled at him, "NO, NO, bad, you get away from this fence and don't throw things at dogs!"

Eventually his lazy mother came and carted him off, but I swear. It's the same kid who keeps going into my cousin's yard and playing on her lawn. WTF?

What else am I ranting about today? Oh, I know. I picked up a deeply discounted version of Final Cut Express (legal, yes, thanks!) and spent much of yesterday when I wasn't outside learning to use it. It is profoundly confusing for a newb like me. But I figure if I can learn Vegas, I can learn FCE, too. And I made a lot of progress today too, actually, just by switching a sequence thingie thing so I didn't have to render and re-render every single clip in the world every single time I edited the tiniest little detail, and oh dude I'd better remember WTF it was I did so I can do it again if I have to.

Kung Fu has been its usual springtime goodness lately.

Small Wheel:

I'm trying to find a TVTrope for each of my nakama.

I'm jogging so much more than I was when I began! I still have to pretend like zombies are chasing me, or that I'm chasing Ewan McGregor down the street, but yeah, I am actually doing pretty well with the jogging. Although it occurred to me tonight that I only jog so that I can eat pie or ice cream later.

Work tomorrow, on Beltaine of all days. (No lovely Anime Lazzara, meh. You know that actually bummed me out, because I kinda really thought he was interested.) But anyway.

Leon the Magnificent is staring at me. What does he want?

Am I the only one who feels that a remake of Nightmare on Elm Street is completely unnecessary?

A week till Iron Man 2!

"You'll be using Murphy's all the time, 'cause the dirt is finished, but the finish is fine!"

*Head asplode*







*NOTE TO SELF: For the future, there is now a TIKI LJ DESIGN. USE IT ALL SUMMER.

Comments

[shikei-and-cz.livejournal.com]

OH I HATE YOU NOW IT'S STUCK IN MY HEAD TOO FFFFFFFF D:

BAD GIRL, BAD!

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

MUAHAHAHAAAAA! Childhood flashbaaaaack!

[vamp-seamstress.livejournal.com]

I laughed my ass off at the visual of you attacking that wasp while it was still on Haku. Poor doggie! Is he still talking to you after this?

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he came to cuddle with me after the fact, but I felt even guiltier when he did that. Even so, Mom and I were laughing all night about it. Poor puppers!