I went to work yesterday prepared. Prepared for SOMETHING. A little excitement maybe. A comment here or there. Hell, even a snide comment here and there. But NOTHING. I was not prepared for that. My ex and I had talked about it the night before, about being prepared for snide comments…not to take them to heart TOO much. Rather to even confront the comments are not. So I was prepared. I was not prepared for total disregard. There’s a slow anger building for ignorance…urgh…
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My dad has surgery today. Mom didn’t want me at the hospital. I wonder why? She was very adamant about it which she usually is but eventually she gives in and says okay okay okay. Makes me wonder if something is going on. In ways, I called them this morning about 5 because the hospital is about 60 miles from them and surgery was scheduled at 8 so I thought they’d be up but I woke them up. They had stayed up watching coverage of the Inauguration, flipping channels to watch things they’d seen earlier in the day. My mom…bless her heart, even took pictures of the coverage of the Inauguration. ON.THE.TV.
Yeah….that’d be my mom…
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I’ve got to call Petco. Part of the agreement for getting another dog was that the boys had to give it a bath every other week. We used to do that in bathtub but when he got bigger, it was harder to do that. Not because he would fight but because both boys would have to be in the tub at the same time and lets face it. He’s huge. So we got a wading pool. Which is fine during the summer months but once it got cold…baths had to move into the garage which there is no running hot water through the garage so we had to fill up the wading pool with huge pans of hot water, filled from the downstairs bathroom shower and carried into the garage. Well, hello…I heard Petco lets you use their grooming center to give your dog a bath! Genius! I cant see spending the money to pay someone to groom my dog but I will pay to use the facilities to do it.
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I got an email about upgrading my camera. Right now I have a Canon Powershot S3 13 and the word is to upgrade to the S5 13. Of course my eyes are bigger than my wallet and I would become a love slave to have the EOS 5d Mark II, or work as someone’s intern to have the EOS 40D or let some one move in with me for the EOS Rebel XS but my budget calls for the S5 13. I know I say that almost with an attitude but hey…I want what I want. I still love my camera. Am not going to trade it, sell it or give it away. I’m keeping it. I love the Powershot’s but I’m interested in the EOS’s too. Anybody go from one to the other and prefer one to the other? I know Jodi has the 40D and I love her photo’s but I'm surt that is more because of the operator and not just the camera.
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Just got a phone call that my dad’s surgery went well and he’s in recovery. They have hopes that he will be going home this afternoon. Yay! Now he will be hell on wheels and we will have to avoid each other for the next 4-6 weeks.
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Just talked to my dad. He is at home now but when I called... he answered the phone 'mercibeaucoup'...yeah...he's higher than a kite. Although I guess I cant talk...I often go off in bits of foreign languages too....