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dammit. i had a whole blogpost written up about my 'to knit' list and what bittens are, and then i went to use the dictionary and lost the tab that i was writing in.
so, i'll cut it short by responding to mum's comment from the previous entry: i don't mind the theory of halloween, and would willing to participate on a lower scale; but without being strongarmed into it.
we have to participate in halloween. we were told it was voluntary but it's not. we're spending a meeting this morning talking about it. some of us aren't happy.
companies are apparently moving toward plastic "credit" cards instead of rebate checks... i don't mind this so much, as i rarely go to the bank; except they seem to have an unreasonable expiry, and there's nowhere to spend the$2.02 that i have left on my Cingular rebate card. i feel stupid asking a waitress to run that amount on one card and the rest on my regular debit. should i just get over it?
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if only it came in orange.
but i forgot to take pictures.. :/
i just finished the knot ugly shrug for someone at work, and a stocking cap for someone at works' fiance.
i'm at work already. kurt got jones out of the bedroom to take him for a walk so i could sleep in, which woke me up so i got up at like 5:55 and thought about taking the bus long enough to check the schedule to find out that the trip planner on mymetrobus.com seems to be broken. so i drove instead.
as soon as i get 24 phrases, i'm going to make a lingo bingo card.
here are my favorite three from a meeting today:
"[we need to] raise the awareness up"
"...[just have to] give visibility to"
and my personal favorite (which conjurs up images to tasks that only take one full day to complete), "at the end of the day..."
i just have to say that if anyone is hesitating purchasing an ipod, the 5th generation gapless playback support is the best reason to do it. now.
tinker's eating better over the last 24 hours. he seems to be enjoying the pampering and is taking to the syringe alot better than on friday. the stitches look great, but he's bruised from all the stuff moving around and removal of the gland.
he looks kinda funny right now because the adrenal problems make a ferret lose their hair and then they had to shave a bunch on his underside to do the surgery.
time for another feeding...
why can't i think of stuff like this?
he's doing ok... he's way groggy and has been asleep for almost all of the 4 hours he's been home. i had to wake him up to force-feed him 2ccs of chicken baby food. he's supposed to have 15-20ccs every 2-4 hours but i can't bring myself to hurt him to get him to eat :( i'm gunna try again in another hour or so..
rinky is very interested in why his brother gets to be outside the cage for so long :)
i totally started bawling as soon as i left the vet's office this morning. i guess they'll call me by noon (to say if the surgery went well or not) and then i can pick him up between 4 and 6. and so the every-two-hour feedings begin.
update: they just called and said he's awake and walking around and doing great. i can pick him up at 3:30.
to all you cubefarm workers... are there instances in which you might wish for a door on your cube in order to facilitate uninterrupted work? if not, are there people at your workplace that create an artificial barrier across their cube entrance (nichole:yellow police tape, for example)? some people here do that and i think it's a little weird.
i've been afflicted by ennui for a couple weeks now.. it's getting slightly worse each day. i'm not sure what to do about it.
i just bought the new england kit for the afghan on the front of knit picks (click through the advert to see the kits). i already have a blanket for the couch, but this one looks like it might be good for wintertime, insofar as the color scheme goes.
i finally finished the wavy scarf. i added a crocheted flower to either end to use up the rest of the yarn. now i need to find someone who likes limeade to give it to.
maybe someome can point me to this list that i vaguely remember reading once... it was something like "10 things everyone does at least once in their life" and one of those things was suing a landlord, another might have been burying someone you love. one, for sure, was you'll change careers at least 5 times.
i wouldn't mind being a vegetarian chef.
i haven't rapped about the ferrets much since we got jones. reason being, we haven't really had time to hang out with them.
this will change very soon. tinker needs to have adrenal gland surgery and i'll have to feed him wet stuff for a day or two every couple of hours. imagine me, in the baby aisle at woodman's, trying to decipher all those little jars of baby food just to find chicken. only chicken. they have mac and cheese, which looks really gross cuz it's the same color as the pears.
anyhoo, i'm using up some more vacation time on the day of the surgery, so i'll be home to take care of my stinkertinker.
we thought this will probably be the last really nice weekend; so i brought the digicam to the dog park. here's jones not bringing back his kong (he's really goot at this).
