Cats do love their exercise equipment

For awhile Nombly's been spraying the cardboard covering the treadmill. Of course, once the smell was there, it kept attracting him to spray it again. We finally threw it out, and I covered the tread with a thick sheet. And now he's gone back to what he used to do, back in the day... lounge on it.

So now I suspect that the peeing campaign was just to make me get rid of the cardboard and give him back his lounging spot. Curses! Those clever cats.

I'd better get to bed

...Though I did have a nap around midnight. Still, our cold and flu level is getting high, and look at the towns closing in on us! Sherbrooke! Trois-Rivieres! Chicoutimi! Eep!

Not that I've been following the flu tracker report... I can tell from sick calls at work, status updates on facebook, and the lack of ginger ale in stores.

yay yay yay

Someone finally posted Measha Brueggergosman's interpretation of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" on youtube. Yay yay yay. I loves the youtubes. Yays.

Now I must go zamzar it, since she hasn't seen fit to release it as a single!

(If you care to see it, it's on my Tea Scone blog. It's all opera-jazz-orchestral-Mitchelly. Crayzy!)

Nombly likes to sit and hear how Fernando's shift went

I am the master of lost objects once again!

Having grown up with a perpetually messy room, I've always been good at finding lost objects. (Useful when you marry someone who always misplaces his things.) But my confidence was shaken when I lost my glasses.

I need my glasses to see far away, so I used to wear them a lot--watching TV, at lectures, or even at work to quickly read the titles on higher book shelves. But my glasses sometimes trigger my headaches, or if I have a headache they will make them worse. That's been the case since my headaches started in my 20s. As the headaches got worse, I wore them less and less (just as I progressed from wearing ponytails, to pigtails, to barettes, and now I can't wear even a bobby pin in my hair).

That summer I "remerched" my apartment, moving all sorts of things around, and around that time my glasses disappeared. So I assumed that I had accidentally packed them away in some box or other and would eventually come across them.

I've been searching for the darn things for almost two years... mostly so I can start watching foreign films again! But though it seems to me I've been through every box, nook, cranny in the apartment, they didn't show.

Buying a new pair isn't the end of the world as Fernando has insurance. But getting an eye exam is a bore, because my prescription rarely changes; and picking out glasses takes time; and I really liked my last pair; and they're not worn out or broken or out of fashion so there's no REASON to get new ones. But I was about to bite the bullet and make the trip to Lunetterie.

It finally occurred to me tonight that, in my assumption of the Apartment Remerch Theory, I overlooked the Classic Missing Item Areas. Areas I should have checked ages ago. Like jacket pockets. (I never put my glasses *away* -- they always went into backpack pockets or coat pockets.) So just now I went to the front closet and picked my way to the back, looking for any jackets I might now wear often. And came across my jean jacket, which I don't like the cut of. And there they were. In the pocket.

I'm writing a full, long posting about this because I am SOOOO excited. I HATE an unsolved mystery, and this one was driving me BANANAAAAAAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to run out to the library and rent subtitled movies! I want to drive a car! I want to sit here and read the book titles on my shelves (though I know most of them by sight.)

But I've got one of my headaches lingering at the edge of the Tylenols w/ Codeine I've been taking... and I'm already listening to music under my headache-causing-headphones... so the glasses will have to wait.

I'm so excited! Ohhh it's the little things in life.

those computers do love their shoes!

Those computers that dump crap in the comment field of blogs are getting less original. Usually I get comments like "Interesting point!"

This time my sites got hit with a list of shoe store sites. Only one was in the usual comical vein:

It seems my language skills need to be strengthened, because I totally can not read your information, but I think this is a good BLOG
jordan shoes

Where is my cookiiiiies??????

Well... the Valentine's marketing has gotten to me. No, Fernando and I never do anything for V Day. But I just spent the entire evening tidying and refilling cookies and chocolates. I want cookies toooooo!