My father wired cable up to Lisa’s room. This means my evenings are once again MINE! Hahahahahah! A cable guy came a couple months ago and turned on cable in my bedroom since that was the only room properly wired. This angered me but it was better than nothing. Since that fateful day, Lisa has spent practically every night watching tv in my bedroom. I talked to my dad about it and he said he could run the cable up to her bedroom. Yesterday he did it. I am so happy. Now I can sit in my room and knit or chat or watch Avengers episodes or sleep early or or or anything that I couldn’t do because Lisa was watching Law & Order. Privacy is once again mine!

Drinking my coffee and feeling more and more awake with every sip.

I hope Lisa returns my car on time this evening so I am able to join my folks for pizza. Her car was low on gas and so I good-naturedly offered mine.

Last night I actually BACKED UP MY HARDDRIVE! Can you believe it? Now that I have an external hard drive, it’s very easy. All I do is schedule the backup to go off at midnight and I leave my computer running. Voila! Security!

I have an entire week off! What will I do with myself? I could have scheduled a trip somewhere using my Frequent Flier miles. Lord knows I have enough of them. The thing is, I would be by myself. I hate traveling alone. I know I am supposed to LOVE being independent. LOVE that I can go where I want to go and do what I want to do and not answer to anyone. Except, I don’t. I hate sitting at restaurants alone. Walking around a strange city, always one step from being totally lost. Worried some strange man is going to attack and rape me. Sad that I haven’t spoken to anyone in days. It’s not fun. For me. Your mileage may vary.

So instead, I will clean my house. Go shopping. Visit with friends. Bake gingersnap cookies. Watch artsy fartsy movies. Drink Hot Buttered Rum. And have a good ole time surrounded by the familiar.

Bobo’s new pet gate arrived today. Lisa bought it from Petsmart. It is quite a special gate because it is permanent! It swings open when people who don’t piss on the floor want to walk through but keeps little puppies who like to piss on carpet in the kitchen when his mommies aren’t around to watch him! I felt a little bad for Bobo. He was so happy when he saw the package arrive.
“What’s that!? Is it something for me!?! Something I can play with?!? Something I can chew?!? Huh? Is it? Is it?”
“It is a present for you Bobo!”
“Oh wow! Aren’t I the most luckiest puppy in the whole wide world!?!”

Dear Person Who Stole My Mom’s Purse From the Changing Room at Kohl’s,

I hope you burn in hell.

Love, Donna

More strange dreams. This time I was at the airport with Lisa heading somewhere. I saw JFK Jr in a crowd of people and was surprised that he was reanimated. My computer was having strange issues and after beating on the keyboard it finally booted up. Once on, the desktop icons danced around and made funny faces at me. Each time I would try to double click on an icon it would blow a raspberry and hop away from my mouse.

BIG TICKET ITEMS FOR THE DONNAVILLA
1. Heat pump
2. Hardwood floor for the dining room
3. Fix the patio, either build a deck or relay the bricks
4. Hardwood floor for the parlor

The only thing I am going to immediately do is the heat pump. The very last thing will be the floor for the parlor since that is only because I think it would look nice and there is no true reason for it other than aesthetics. I wish I knew what was underneath the carpet in the dining room. I wish Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen was my friend because he would convince me that I could rip out the carpet and plant peat moss; wouldn’t that be absolutely FABULOUS!?! Wait, I take that back.

Yesterday I went to AsSeenOnTV.com and I couldn’t find any record of my order. I checked my Inbox and I don’t have any email confirming my order. I know I ordered it, I just don’t know what happened. Perhaps it may just show up at the Donnavilla. It is just strange that I never received confirmation nor can I track my order from their Web site. Thank goodness all I bought was UrineGone and not one of their other products like the personal massager or magic salve. I can call up their customer service department and ask if it is in transit and not feel too terribly embarrassed.

I ate too much. Lisa’s watching TV. I have no desire to sit here at my computer. I have no desire to watch TV. I think I would be happy crawling into bed and disappearing. Maybe I’ll just go for a walk. The weather is really very nice.