Archive for February, 2004

Creepy

Friday, February 27th, 2004

From today’s Sun newspaper:
Pet spider kills its owner
A MAN who lived in his own “zoo” of lizards and insects was fatally bitten by a pet black widow spider — then eaten by the other creepy-crawlies.
Police broke in to Mark Voegel’s apartment to find spider Bettina along with 200 others, several snakes, a gecko lizard called [...]

Slow on the uptake

Thursday, February 26th, 2004

I’m pretty sure that was him at the mall the other night, but not 100% sure. It was just a brief encounter; a passing by in a department store. Not enough time for me to kick him in the nuts and tell him he’s an asshole, like I’ve been wanting to do for [...]

A little romance

Wednesday, February 11th, 2004

For Valentine’s Day, hub and I are going shooting. Then the next day we’re going to get up at 6 o’freaking clock in the A. of M. and go take our concealed handgun class together. This, laddies and ladies, is real romance and don’t you forget it.
Kid #1 got her shots last week [...]

Thwarted

Thursday, February 5th, 2004

I thought I’d make a bajillion dollars by putting in a Google AdSense toolbar on my site. They won’t take me because it’s a personal site, though. Oh well. Perhaps I’ll put in an Amazon thingie.

Katzen

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2004

I can’t believe this cat refused to eat. She follows me around all day long now, waiting for me to drop food. Someone enters the kitchen and she’s in there too, yowling for sustenance. She used to sit upstairs all day and was completely anti-social. Now I can’t peel her off [...]

Chilblains

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2004

I thought chilblains were something only damosels in distress in Victorian novels got. Apparently I was wrong.
My feet always get really really cold in the winter. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Cold feet don’t really bother me that much. Hot feet, I can’t stand. When I [...]