I wonder how long I can keep this up.  Thursday Threes - my idea is to write three sentences about each topic floating around in my head, and then move on to the next one.  It made sense to me, anyway, as it floated around in my head.  We’ll see how well it works in practice.

OK here goes:

• I am drinking 100 ounces of water a day.  I pee 90 million times a day.  I’m wearing a path in the carpet between my office and the bathroom.
• I’m scanning the Black Friday sales.  Not much is catching my attention.  I keep clicking on links anyway.
• I broke my USB drive.  I want a new 8GB one.  With a retractable connector.
• I’ve been watching Nip/Tuck and catching up.  I am in season 4, and Sean and Julia split up.  I almost cried when he said goodbye to Connor.
• I’m going home for Thanksgiving.  Mom said there will be a big crowd.  I just hope it’s warm.
• I think sweet potatoes are manna from God.  Especially warm, with cinnamon.  I just finished one.
• I had so much to say, and then I got distracted by work.  Now I have nothing to say.  And I don’t want to work.

More next Thursday.

So our night at the 1927 Lake Lure Inn was the night that the time changed.  Do you suppose anyone told the kidlet that?  No.  Da Hubby and I had a room to ourselves, complete with wine, snacks, and leftover food.

And the kidlet came knocking on the door at …. 7AM.  Good cripes.  Yes, kidlet, go away.  My poor mother.

So we eventually get up and get going and we head downstairs and check out of one of the rooms - the dog had to stay in the other, and we needed a late checkout time for it so we could do the brunch downstairs in the hotel.

We had to wait for a few minutes for brunch to start so I took some photos around the front of the hotel.

Brunch was good, especially the chocolate fountain, but not really the kind that I would have gone back for thirds and fourths just because the food was so yummy, you know?  I enjoyed the one plate I had, and went back for dessert, but that was it.

Then we were off to the tour boats that I’d read about.  We wanted to take the tour to see where Dirty Dancing was filmed!

But we got there just a couple of minutes too late to make the boat that was pulling out of the dock, and we had to wait for the 1PM boat.  That was fine- there was a park right there we could wander through, and both the kidlet and the dog had energy to burn.

Okay, it gets fairly photo-intensive from here, so I’m going to do a MORE tag….. click on it below.

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And because I’m lazy, the email I sent to DaHubby just a few minutes ago:

so in addition to my swelled up eye, by the time she was off the potty this morning, my lip was swelled up. 

I suspect the pillow at this point with it’s fancy “keep you cool” technology, but I also have 3 tilapia filets that she needs to eat for dinner cause I surely can’t, just in  case, and oh because the doctor told me not to.  You know, in case my face and throat swelled up.  Yeah. 

anyway, so I took her to school and dropped her off with one eye, but not before i popped 2 benadryl.  GOOD for my eye and lip.  BAD for work. Before I did anything else I did my timesheet and sucked up to my boss for not doing it before yesterday *again*. and then ….

thunk.

My alarm went off, the hour I had allotted myself, and I went to get out of the bed and noticed that I was on the floor.  yes, I fell out of bed.  Good christ my knees hurt.

I got back into bed and gave myself another hour.

I have literally been sitting here staring at the computer, pushing keys every now and then, thinking that I am acting like smidgen thinking “how cool is that fucking mouse?” since 10:30 this morning. 

I am so zonked and zombie-like.  I will walk to pick her up from school.  LOL.

So it is entirely possible that I took too much benadryl given that it is hours and hours since I took that Benadryl and I am still zonked and out of it. 

But I don’t scare small children anymore when I leave the house

I redecorated, and OMG.  This was the EASIEST theme ever to install.  I had to re-do the header, an that was IT.

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• I still need to do day 2 of our trip to Lake Lure - I’ve got some great pictures to share.   Perhaps today while I am blowing off homework for the 2nd day in a row, I will get them posted.  Not a promise, just a “perhaps”.
• Smidgen was spayed last week.  We’ve given her pain meds a couple of times.  I think she is having an alternative reaction to them - she runs around like she is on speed, she scoops all of the food out of her bowl (and we have one of those that stores 4-5 days worth of food in it!) and dumps it all over the floor and in the water bowl.  She’s doing it as I type.
• I had the weirdest dream last night - and even weirder, I woke up several times to go pee and when I went back to sleep, I went right back to the dream.  It wasn’t a good dream, either.
• Apparently at some point during this dream I did something to my upper lip.  It’s all swollen.  I suppose it’s karma paying me back for the positions I put people in my life in during my dream.
• Go me - I have lost 9 lbs since Tuesday.  The reason I keep getting up to pee in the middle of the night is because I’ve started drinking 100 oz of water per day (or at least trying to!) and I’m not good enough yet to get it all in before 6PM so that I’m not up all night peeing.
• There’s some guy on TV hawking some program that will fix “every behavior problem”.  Wow.  How many people will waste their money on this program, only to see their child spiral further out of control?  Holy crap.
• I had so much more to say when I booted up my computer and logged in.  Amazing how it only takes a few non-caffeinated minutes to forget everything I wanted to say.  I swear I’m not getting old.  I’m not getting old.  I’m not getting old.
• I want to move, but it’s not possible yet.  I want to move, I want to move, I want to move.  I want to be somewhere I can paint again, should I choose to do so.  In a house that I picked out for what I loved about it, having seen it before we moved in.  Don’t get me wrong, I don’t dislike this house in general, but there are certain things I know I want that this house doesn’t have:  a bigger kitchen, more storage, a yard that isn’t … odd, a larger laundry space, and ideally an office space on the first floor.

OK, while I was typing this, I paused to go clean up the mess made by Smidgen.  I got most of it up with my hands and then went to get the broom for the remaining 20 or so pieces of cat food.

When I walked back to her bowl, this is what I saw:

Then she looked at me like this, before going back to scooping food out.  Forgive the obviously photoshopped eyes, cats are hard to not get a glare.

This theme is really hard to get the bullets and the text align on the pictures right.  I’m tired of trying!

OH!  And to Berek, who advises me that “I recommend to subscribe to RSS place in a conspicuous place! Readers will be more! Especially at a blog, how are you! Tested - a 30% increased the number of subscribers!”  Really?  And what will happen to my computer if I click on the link you left in your comment, eh?  The one with the .ru extension?  Hmmm?