I finished a huge order today and I feel like dancing. I learned that miniature easels are very, very labor intensive. I have callouses on my thumb and index finger tips, cuts on my knuckles, and stain under my nails - BUT I AM DONE!


When I order something online I track it obsessively. Like, 6-12 times a day. Am I the only one?


We are mourning the loss of Craig's laptop (formerly my laptop, having been repaired by Dell twice - maybe three times, and without warranty.) The motherboard finally gave it up. So long heavy, huge beast. One less inferior Dell product in my house.


How can it already be September?


We are going on a trip at the end of this month and I'm already having panic attacks about flying. I'm getting myself all worked up. I'm even debating on asking the doctor for some Xanax just for the trip. I hate traveling by plane. It isn't necessarily the flying part - although the idea of coming down suddenly is quite terrifying. It's the security at the airport. Stresses me out. I fear the alarm and the wand. Craig reminded me that we are flying out of Kalamazoo and into Albuquerque and vise-versa (sp?) so it really shouldn't be a big deal, I guess.

Random stuff.

If I won a trip to Chicago on The Price is Right I'd be irritated. It's only a 2 hour drive and I'd have to drive to Chicago to fly to LA to fly back to Chicago.

Speaking of Chicago: we're having Chicago style hot dogs for lunch. Yum.

I wish I could fall asleep at a decent time without drugging myself with anti-histamines. Two nights in a row it's been 4 AM and 3 AM, respectively. I'm exhausted. Taking some Benedryl tonight.

I caught Chewie eating the leaves of one of our trees in the back. He ate a few then proceeded to throw up. So, I put on my shoes to check out what came out (gross, yeah, but you need to know) and he met me at the door and trotted right to the spot - as if to show off his work. Just leaves.

We had a few rainy days last week and Booker was limping around because all four legs and his back were sore with arthritis. Poor guy. Aspirin helped. Today he is back to normal.

When you buy a laptop you aren't told that you have to buy a "chill pad" in order to not burn yourself and your laptop up. (Or is this just an issue with Dell's crappy products?) Anyway, I've gone through 3. The first lasted forever and finally just stopped working. The second lasted a few weeks before we kept finding little black shards of what turned out to be the fan blades all over the living room. The third one - while keeping its blades - makes a grinding noise every time you turn it on until you smack it about 33 times (infuriating). I ordered another one on Amazon since I've gone through all the ones you can buy locally. Hopefully it will last longer than a month.