bumblepug

the urge

today i'm being urged by a lot of people to do a lot of different things...

mary beth cahill from the kerry-edwards campaign urges me (and i'm sure millions of others who are on the kerry-edwards mailing list) to: 1) donate money to the democratic campaign because its "critical August deadline" closes at mindnight, 2) call pres. bush (because i'm sure he has nothing better to do than answer the phone, seriously) to tell him to put an end to the smear campaign against kerry (the whole swift boat thing) led by ted sampley, who was responsible for the smear campaign against mccain in the 2000 presedential election, to call bush...212.356.2300 or 212.356.2004. the aspca is urging me to call or write gov schwarz regarding sb 1520 (bill that bans forced feeding to produce foie gras) to stop this cruel practice that enlarges the gooses liver. to call governor schwarzenegger...916.445.2841. 3) to top it off, my job urges me (rather, tells me) that before i make copies of any published or printed text, i must investigate its copyright status. if it is not approved for photocopying or scanning, etc., i must then request permission that might take up to 3 weeks! this doesn't make my job any easier, nor will it make my bosses any happier to hear, "sorry, can't copy that for you, we don't have permission. looks like you might have to wait 3 weeks despite your presentation first thing tomorrow morning."

sigh

the official announcement was made today that lindsay is leaving work for a position at googley eyes. boo hoo...i'm sad. do you know how many lunches we've had together? probably close to 1,037. she is my level-headed source of advice in the many departments precisely because she is my polar opposite (most of my friends and co-workers are so much like me that it's hard to see things any other way than my/our own). only she (and amanda, too!) could stand to hear a daily reminder about my bday 3 months in advance, or for that matter, a 2 month daily reminder about halloween. who am i going to scream over our cube walls to now? please don't hire a weirdo who won't talk to me or let me throw things over the cube to them, and they better remember my bday and get me a gift! i wish lindsay good luck in everything and i will truly miss the lil' ram (she's an aries). guess we'll hike on thursday morning and dine for lunch with amanda and irene since i won't be here next week for her "ceremonial" goodbye here at work.

tear

i'm excited about the spaghetti feast tonight. i was going back and forth on this trying to decide if i should have it because i've been pretty busy lately but pasta, how hard can that be? and if there are leftovers, the food will last me until thursday, which is good because we're off to vacation on friday. i can't wait to swim with the turtles and dolphins! although ralph told me it is tiger shark breeding season. sharks love yellow (scientists on the discovery channel call it yummy yellow) so i bought a red and white swimsuit. i always thought they were attracted to red. guess we'll find out who is right soon enough!

wink

tin man type of day

well, i made it out alive! after all that cleaning my hip feels as though i am the tin man and i need lots of oil! that's what he needed, right, or was it a heart?! my room still looks messy but at least there aren't clothes scattered about and there is now a clear path from the door to the AC. my toilet room is sparkling and 1/2 of the living room is spotless (i'll just ask guests to close their eyes when they get to the other half). i managed to spend 2 hours cleaning my car- it was detailed by ralph (and i helped a bit, too! ;) ). my main question is, in a whole day of cleaning, how can it look like i did so little? enough for now on cleaning. anyways, thanks to tin man status, i have a PT appt. with kyle after work so no hiking today. :( just when i thought i was done with forcing my body into insane stretches and manipulations, my body has decided that i need a little more excruciating pain because feeling like there are 10 million eels attached to my butt isn't enough.

i just returned from allergy shots and it was a lot better than last time. maybe this shot nurse had a better technique or maybe i'm having less of a reaction to the allergen.

i feel ho hum right now. i have a headache and i'm hoping that it doesn't turn into a migraine because i have to cook two dinners tonight. i'm sad because some good people are leaving my job. :( i'll miss them but i'm hoping to be gone soon, too, so i can have some new challenges. know of anything good? i'm also sad because i packed a bad lunch. thank goodness lindsay saved me some pesto pasta. i don't know how my body would handle another frozen meal or a can of tuna. i'm probably approaching mercury poisoning status with the way i eat tuna.

i'm so addicted to chocolate today! must be hormones acting crazy or something, just like the headache. i could also really go for a bubble (tapioca) tea but i'm not sure if it makes sense to drive to san jose right now (a 30 minute drive) for 8 ounces of pleasure that i slurp up in 3 minutes time- maybe on the way home?! i'm addicted to bubble teas, thanks amanda! if anybody has tips on how to make them please let me know. i tried prying some info from the tea guy but he was tight lipped about the whole thing. wouldn't tell me the calorie count, nor where to buy lychee syrup. he had a smile on his face like he wanted to tell me but i'm sure he was on camera and might be fired if he leaked the secret. now i just spy on them as they make my drink. and the trick is to ask them one thing each time you go in- is there dairy in this, or is it non-dairy, is there sugar? it reminds me of i spy but in this game you are permitted one question per paid tea and you can't be too obvious. here's a link that the tea guy must not know about because they spill the beans right here. now i want to parade around outside the tea shop in a bear costume holding a big cardboard sign with this web address on it, dancing around like a maniac- like you often see on street corners for apartment advertising.

it's almost halloween (61 days and counting)- and i'm getting excited!!! i plan on being a bee and dog will be a spider. she already looks like a spider and she'll bite you like one too, if you annoy her enough. last night she was really pissed at ralph because he didn't pay enough attention to her during the day- apparently there's an attention quota on the weekends. what a priss! she does this funny thing where she'll ignore you as though she's torturing you...thoughts such as these race through her little dog brain, "eat your heart out. i'll never let you pet me again. what a sad day for you!"

well, enough for now. time to find some something for this headache. i'll post pics tonight. and be on the look out for ralph's month-o-halloween!

yosemite

i didn't get to hike on friday because it was too hot and i was too lazy! instead of hiking, i went to a brewery and then watched collateral. it was an excellent movie (a tad violent) and i never knew jamie fox could act until then. if you are looking for a movie that puts you on the edge of your seat, this is a must see.

ralph, dog, and i went to yosemite yesterday (depite an 11 am start!). it was a lot of fun and quite breathtaking! and who knew it was so close? we didn't get to hike any trails because dog was too hot but we figured this might be the case if we took her. we chilled in ralph's truck bed for a while. he relaxed and i read the da vinci code outloud to them. i think a lot of the passerbyers thought i was reading to myself or doing a reading for them because they kept giving me weird stares. i guess i can understand because they could only see me since the others were zonked out. we'll go back soon minus dog so we can hike some trails and swim. maybe next year we can stay in the ahwanee and hike half dome. speaking of the ahwanee, i don't think i'm allowed in their gift shop anymore after dropping and cracking this frog figurine. it was really embarrassing and i had to escape to the sweet shop to buy some fudge to recover from the incident. i felt bad but at the time i didn't have $80 to pay for a frog figurine. this little boy witnessed the incident and gave me a smirk. he was holding the same thing but he did not drop it, lucky kid! as we left the park, the camera battery died, argh! i wish it hadn't because the colors around sunset were so amazing, they reminded me of golden skin with proper shades of makeup. oh btw, gas inside the park is $2.80, and even more right outside the park!!!! we also saw a volture eating a deer, and then we saw a deer that would probably soon be eaten by a volture for his daring road-crossing antics. i'm just glad he didn't jump in front of us! speaking of voltures (sp?), there was one at my job the other day. looks like i'm surrounded by them so i better be careful on mine and amanda's hiking adventures. one tip on leaving yosemite...if you need to get on to 120 to get home, don't forget that you need to catch it from yosemite avenue. we forgot and were circling lots of small towns that seemed endless and different but the same everytime we passed the same spot. we were totally lost so ralph thought it was fitting to play halloween music! i told him to lock the doors in case we crashed into a corn field and mysteriously disappeared.

i'll post some yosemite pictures tomorrow! if i'm not back, i've been swallowed up by the black hole, called my room because i'm off to clean! pray for me! ;)

what a feeling

i think i know what irene cara was singing about in her hit, "what a feeling," from flashdance. she must have had 4 allergy shots at once. it feels like i was just stung by a swarm of killer bees, but only on the right side. the shots go into the muscle which is uncomfortable. i'm grateful that i have pudgy arms or maybe it'd hurt more. i'm guessing that must be the arm that gets the doses of things i'm more allergic to- cats, dogs (poor dog), dustmites. i wonder if i'm getting doses for my food allergies, too.

nevertheless, i'm all set to go hiking with amanda after work. and i do find humor in the fact that we're meeting up in the tj maxx parking lot to drive to the hiking spot. i'll have to try my hardest to resist their new purse area. i feel like we're marathoners now! well, we're not running and we're certainly not going for 26 miles, but this'll be our 3rd day hiking this week! that's big for me and for her, that's major. i'm astonished at how she can glide up the hill without losing her breath (and how i sound like i've smoked cigarettes all my life), despite the fact that she hasn't been to a gym since college. what up with my lungs? today we'll go to rancho and i'll show her the farm- barn animals and herbs. last time i was there with ralph, i thought i could enter the animal pens and was going to do so. he must've known something i didn't because i turned around and he was nowhere to be seen. there was this odd note with directions on how to enter the goat pen so i assumed that was for me to get in to pet them. after 5 minutes of trying to get past the gate (crappy directions to whoever wrote those!!), i failed and went looking for ralph. he then informed me that it's "no entry" for the public. oops... he walked away from me because he didn't want to be a part of my trespassing! get ready ralph, we're going to be doing a lot of trespassing in maui! ;)

this weekend i plan to clean the tornado (a.k.a., my room). it's taken a few months to get the nerve to enter it, to do anything more than sleep. pray for me to not get swallowed up! we want to go to yosemite tomorrow and everybody at my job thinks we're crazy because it'll be a 4 hour drive each way. well, i think y'all are crazy! ;) maybe dog will join us if my mom can't watch her. i might catch a movie tonight so expect a movie review soon.

inner monologue

welcome to girl and dog. this blog is a place for me to note the adventures and misadventures of me and my pug as we live life. i'm not really a girl but she is really a pug. i'm a woman but girl had a better ring. thought i'd start a blog to get some of my inner monolgoue on the outter. not that that has ever been a problem for me- as many of you may know. i'm still trying to figure out typepad so i'm off to read the 79 page user manual while i'm in the waiting room after my allergy shots. it's the medical clinic's policy that you have to wait 20 minutes in their lobby after getting allergy shots so you don't go into allergic shock and sue them. yes, there's a chance of death involved in getting these shots- very rare though. just call me evil canevil (sp?). always living life on the edge! ;) look for more to come.