idle musings

I have taken the next two weeks off work in order to get all the pesky tasks done around my house. This is my list so that I can keep track of my progress because if I don’t have a list, I won’t get anything done! sand window sills in bedrooms – Tuesday Jan 10 [...]

I will be grateful when the weather warms up and my hands and feet are no longer frozen all the time. Thankfully I have an electric heating pad and a snuggly dog – otherwise I might turn into an icicle.

It’s another perfect beautiful day – sunny, blue sky, 0 degrees (remember I’m in Celsius!). I’m taking the dogs out this afternoon with a friend of mine that I haven’t seen in ages, and one of her boxers who I have never met. I am cautiously optimistic about Maia meeting Gwynneth as there will be [...]

Mike and I decided to have a relaxing time this Christmas, so we ordered dinner from his catering company that does individual sized turkey dinners and we hung out with my two dogs and his ex-boyfriend’s Doberman that he is looking after for a few days. We watched movies and ate a lot and hung [...]

Today is chore day: finish cleaning the car do laundry clean the floors vacuum move the junk out of the corner of the living room walk the dogs Right now I’m on the couch in my fuzzy robe with a snuggly Bosco on one side, and my feet propped up on the coffee table. It’s [...]

It just cost me over $100 to change a headlight on my car. I expected the cost for the two bulbs and I was even ok with paying for someone else to install them, but of course something else had to be wrong. The part the bulb attaches to was melted and had to be [...]

I picked up ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’ by Robert A Heinlein last night and I can’t put it down. I had forgotten how much I enjoy his books! I haven’t read one in ages and I never read this classic. When I took the dogs for their walk today I checked the sky, decided [...]

Every week it’s the same. I have Sunday and Monday off and by Tuesday I finally feel energized and ready to get things done … and then I have to go back to work. None of this energy is getting funnelled into taking care of things at the house, and the list is still really [...]

I was greeted by two very happy dogs at the garage door when I got home, so I have no idea where they both spent the day. However, nothing has been destroyed or eaten, and they are right now lying side by side chewing on separate antlers/pigs feet/bones/something else. I am going to need to [...]

Did you know that if you leave raw bones in the fridge, they go mouldy? Yeah, I so didn’t think about that. I just got home from taking the dogs for a two hour walk and all I wanted to do was give them each a bone and then ignore them for the rest of [...]