This Article Makes My Little Inner Librarian Happy

Dear little dollhouse libraries.  

Note to self: When your parents finally evict your childhood dollhouse from their attic, renovate it so you can install some built-in bookcases.


  

Again, Good News. . .

Regular posting about my life, work, The Cat still will appear here--it's just that some new stuff might not be of interest to all my regular readers.

I'll leave it up to you to read my new side blog and determine for yourself.  Start here: And So It Begins.

 

Good News, Plus

The good news is that after a week-plus of turning her nose up at her usual canned food, The Cat has decided that the new flavors I brought home are agreeable to her.

The funny side effect is that--perhaps because she has a little more energy again--she has rediscovered her catnip pillow!

She gets rather friendly with it--for quite a while.

 

Winding Down After Much Running

All right! It's been quite a week and a half: three school-related functions (four if you count one that actually occurred during school hours), a sinus infection that pretended to be strep throat but then turned into a cold, and a cat that has turned ambivalent about eating canned food yet has the energy to bug me at 3 a.m. (and 4 a.m., and so on).

I was exhausted, so I am very much enjoying the two days I've had off from school.  I'm not completely caught up on everything (obviously), but it is good to feel as if I'm getting things done.  Oh, and I took a personal day Monday (we're into use-it-or-lose-it time) so I will be rested up for the full-speed dash to the end of the school year.

Heading to bed now because I have to get up for my side-librarian-gig this weekend, but let me leave you with two things that really had me scratching my head this week:

1. Paul McCartney attacked by grasshoppers.  I'll be the first to admit that while I respect him as a musician, I think he's a bit of a snotty jerk--so I did find this amusing.  Now, I know he has a reputation as an animal lover, but don't you think he was a little grossed out, at least at first?

2. Have I mentioned my septuagenarian neighbor wants to fix me up with her handyman?  I don't think I have before.  It was one of those cases of "I wasn't flirting" but I was being nice to someone who was doing good things for my senior neighbor.  (I might have thought he was her nephew or something, so that might have made me feel friendlier than usual.)  I tried to demur. I asked her how old he was; she didn't know.  She just knows he has a full-time job at one of those large home improvement stores.  I honestly have zero idea if we have anything in common other than knowing her!

Of course, she has my phone number and gave it to him.  She keeps telling me he's going to call.  I think he's not going to call because he thinks he has to take me to dinner.  (I say let's do coffee or one beer and then see if dinner on another day's a good idea.)

So then yesterday evening, as I'm getting in from the gym, she sees me because she's sitting outside with a friend.  Proceeds to tell me, "Oh, [Handyman] was here a little while ago doing work for me--turns out he'd had a rip in the back of his pants all day and no one at work told him. So he was in a hurry to get out of here before [neighbor's friend] came over."

Really? A guy wouldn't feel, y'know, a draft of some sort? 

And she wants to fix me up with him? 

 

Doing the Auntie Thing Today

I've got the four younger ones in my care this afternoon, although I've been told that Bunny probably will sleep the whole time Mom & Dad are out.

My bag is packed with some sidewalk chalk because it's a nice day out, so maybe we'll "decorate" the driveway!

   

All Right, All Right, I'll Start Talking

Well, here I am in front of the computer.  A cat with a shaved "scruff" is napping in front of the stereo cabinet.  (As long as she's napping, she's not scratching and making more "boo-boos" on her neck, so that's fine with me.)

But that's not why you're reading.

You want to know all about the dating webinar.


So how did I end up taking a dating webinar?  It's simple: I am signed up for the weirdest e-mail offers.  I'm sure you all know Groupon (that's how I mysteriously wound up with free food that one time--a voucher gone crazy) and while I usually ignore 99% of those, another site I belong to (luxury-type offers I just window-shop to please the Libra in me!) started offering them, too.

Most of them were for things in the city, but this was a webinar with none other than Siggy Flicker.  It looked too interesting to pass up, so I got the voucher and signed up.

It was supposed to be two Wednesdays ago, but her assistant sent a rescheduling email saying she got pulled into some show taping, so they postponed it to last Monday night.  In a way, it worked to my advantage because. . . only one other person logged in to the webinar and said/did absolutely nothing the whole time.  Granted, I had a mic problem that created nothing but feedback, but I used the chat window and she'd respond, so it felt personal.   She's very upbeat and bubbly (contrary to how she kind of of seems blunt and mean on TV).  Really, I just listened and took notes most of the time.  And it ran longer than the allotted hour, so I think I got my money's worth.

What did I take away from it?  Well, I don't want to give away all the expert's information--yes I did save a couple of screencaps for my own personal use which I won't post here--but I will talk about the one thing I'm trying to figure out how to make happen in my life. And that is to go out twice a week.

The idea of going out twice a week brings up a lot of questions:

1. Where do I go?

2. What can I afford?

3. How do I not go alone but still remain "open to meeting people"?

4. When the heck am I supposed to do this?

Hmmm.  It took me a while to work up to one night a week playing trivia, and even now that's in flux because our home-base pub closed for renovations (and whether or not there will be trivia again when it reopens is TBD) and we've been itinerant and looking for a new place to settle in.

I'd like to try going out somewhere on a different night, but honestly I'm already tired out from work and trying to recommit myself to three nights a week at the gym and getting all my chores done (ha).  So what is the "going out" that works for me?

That's what I need to figure out.

I'm considering it part of my mini-makeover strategy.  Because if I keep doing what I've been doing, I'll get what I'll always gotten.

Which isn't a whole lot of good stuff right now.

I have got to get the good stuff flowing in my life again.  I did it before and I can do it again.

I hope!

    

Dating Webinar Tonight

I'll let you know if I learn anything interesting.

(I'd say "I'll let you know if it works," but it's not fair to make you wait however long that is, is it?)