I was just outside with Georgia and Brooklyn. While Brooklyn was pooping, in 3 different places because the wind changed its direction or she heard some noise or whatever, I realized something.
It occurred to me that I was standing as if I froze in the middle of walking, one foot in front, and I was also holding my breath. Then I realized that whenever Brooklyn assumes the position, I stop in my tracks, not move a muscle trying not to blink and sometimes hold my breath until she comes out of her pooping stance. Not only that, when she strains for a long time to push that very last teeny piece of turd out, I even make a straining face, intensely staring at her butt. Yes, this is how badly I want Brooklyn to poop. It has been a rough summer for both of us with all that rain.
I think I’ve been whining enough saying how exhausted I am, how I need more hours a day, how I don’t have time to exercise, how I need a break, etc, etc… I’m just guessing I have blogged about all this since I’ve been whining so much that I think I must have, but I’m not quite sure since I’m so tired and exhausted and out of gas; yes, I know, redundant.
Anyway, you’d think I’m doing shit load of stuff everyday judging by the way I complain. But if you look closely, there is not much going on except I need some more R&R and need to sleep well without waking up so much, not to mention I’m getting old and not very fit physically.
The following is my typical day. The routine varies a little depending on the traffic mostly, and when I have to go to the store on the way home, and sometimes when have to do some other stuff, but basically this is it.
- 08:00 am: Officially get out of bed. Take Brandy and Foster out.
- 08:20 am: Take Georgia and Brooklyn out.
- 08:40 am: Feed Grizzley and get ready for work.
- 09:00 am: Leave for work. Drive and curse.
- 10:00 am: Arrive at work and, you know, stay at work.
- 06:00 pm: Leave work. Drive and curse.
- 07:10 pm: Arrive at home. Take Georgia and Brooklyn out.
- 07:30 pm: Take Brandy and Foster out.
- 07:50 pm: Feed Grizzley, change into a bum attire.
- 07:55 pm: Medicate Georgia, Brandy and Grizzley.
- 08:00 pm: Prepare food for dogs: trim the skin/fat, weigh and portion meat. Mix yogurt with Metamusil for Brandy. Cut up meat for Brooklyn, etc, cutting fingers from time to time bleeding and cursing.
- 08:40 pm: Feed the dogs. Hold the food for the Diva.
- 08:50 pm: Hold Brandy upright for 50 minutes, massaging her belly, sides, chest, etc.
- 09:40 pm: Clean kitty litter boxes.
- 09:50 pm: Fix something to eat.
- 10:00 pm: Eat.
- 10:10 pm: Fight off sleep – get online, plurk, read blogs, do dishes, take out the garbage, etc.
- 11:30 pm: Take Brandy and Foster out.
- 11:50 pm: Take Georgia and Brooklyn out.
- 12:10 am: Take a shower, brush teeth, etc and get ready for bed.
- 12:30 am: Get back online or read a book until the hair is not dripping wet.
- 01:00 am: Take Brandy and Foster out for one last pee and go to bed. Toss and turn. Wake up a few times. Try to fall back to sleep, etc until 8:00 am.
- Repeat.
Talk about a boring life, eh?
Apparently, there is a list of top 100 books published by The Big Read, and according to them, the average adult has only read 6 out of the 100 in this list. I have to say that I really REALLY don’t agree with the list itself. But it was fun to go through the list on my Plurk friend perpstu‘s blog, Popping Bubbles, and thought I’d do the same thing here.
I counted 44 books I’ve read from the list, which was quite surprising to me since I have been bemoaning the fact that there are so many good books I still need to read and I was sure the count would be much lower. So, how many have you read?
You know, one thing that surprised me upon going through this list was that I have never read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens! I have always assumed I’ve read it since I know the story very well from watching the movies so many times! Hahaha
The instructions:
- Look at the list and
- Bold those you have read.
- Italicize those you intend to read (for me, in the next year or so).
- Underline the books you LOVE.
- Reprint this list in your own blog.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8. 1984 - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma – Jane Austen
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50. Atonement – Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time- Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72. Dracula – Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses – James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal – Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession – AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92.The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Grizzley is going strong. He has the appetite of a tiger because of once a day prednisone. He doesn’t show any signs of the trouble a few months ago. This picture is a really bad one, he looks much better! Nowadays, he doesn’t have that kitty condo because I had to dismantle it to take it out of the livingroom after installing the doors, and wasn’t able to put them together again… hehe…
Georgia is doing well as far as I can see. We’ll get another X-ray taken in a couple of month to see if her elbow dysplasia is getting worse. I just found out she’s been sneaking in some pee on the rug I put down in the livingroom for her. So everybody except Brooklyn is having a blast marking or peeing inside after the new living arrangement!!! *shakes fist*
Brooklyn has been, well, Brooklyn, refusing to step down to the grass to pee or poop EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. This summer has been so humid and wet as to ruin a pair of my Timberlands because they get soaked from walking 10 ft on it to pick up poop. Naturally, Brooklyn refuses to have any of that, so I’ve had to drag her out and body block her from coming back to the deck, to force her to pee. I do that everyday, I tell ya.
Brandy’s poop is still too soft, and we can’t find any underlying cause of the bacterial overgrowth in her intestinal tract. I’ve been giving her plain fat free yogurt and that firms it up a little so that it’s not completely liquidy. But she’s not losing any weight, and actually gaining some and she hasn’t had any bad regurgitating bouts for some time. *knocks on wood* The problem is she acts like she doesn’t have bladder control after the new living arrangement and has been peeing inside.
RPIMFA, aka Foster, is of course doing good. The summer is almost over, and thankfully he didn’t hurt himself or give himself puncture wounds. I’ve caught him a few times following bugs towards his torso again and again, but so far, we haven’t made that second trip to the E-vet yet. Hopefully he gives me a break this year since he’s already caused enough grief by peeing and marking everywhere including my bed.
Serious Stuff. Seriously
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