"...no dead end in sight..."

turkey day recap

 So yes, I realize it's December and yes, this update is going to be about our Thanksgiving. But I'm currently making a tuna noodle casserole and my lima beans have a few minutes to cool down from being microwaved in their steamy bag. I don't normally put limas in with the tuna noodle but I thought they were peas when I pulled them out of the freezer then dumped them into the steamy bag and realized they were limas. LAME. So in they go and I'll hope for the best.

Picture = 1k words, it seems:

Another reason to love McD's hot chocolate (besides the fact that you can ask for lowfat, which doesn't taste as good. probably because it's not filled with Crisco, or similar, that would deem it fatty? PONDER) is that the open lid looks like a smiley face :D

Little brother's adorable crazy kitten Lily. She is totally prosh!
(Also, cat in the lower right is NOT Rudie. It's my in-laws' cat Max, who is one cool dude. If we'd brought Rudie to Abilene she would have torn poor bebeh Lily to bits and worn her as a Lilyskin cap at this point in our visit ;_; she is kinda heinous like that.)

 
They want to play but they're both jumpy kitties D:

 
This trip would not be complete without a high school football playoff game!
(Cooper lost ;_; But it was to Denton Guyer so I don't know if I'm sad? GO WILDCATS? Ahem.)

 No Texas high school football team can come onto the field without running through a giant inflatable mascot head. Fog machine and/or loud noisemaking object (cannon, train noise, etc.) is optional.

Rudie likes to help me sort post-break laundry.

She also will assist in the folding of towels. But only if they're warm/fresh out of the dryer.

She will also offer a towel-warming service, free of charge. Only it's with her butt :(

This was my drive to work earlier in the week. Yes, that's snow. No, it didn't stick. And no, I didn't get to stay home from work and/or leave work early. LAME.

Of course, Houston got two inches of snow. My sister was thrilled.

This week is a lot of planning, planning, planning. Things are starting to kick into gear for pookie and we are just waiting for one of those lit fuses to set something off (as it will, mos def). Today I've got a paper to write but in the meantime I've made bento deliciousness and cleaned up a little bit. It's rather dreary outside. I've consumed the last of the vanilla soy milk (which takes a bit of getting used to but it's tasty if you're not expecting Real Live Milk) and now I'm thinking a good hot chocolate is on the horizon.

Cat + pink blankie = couch snuggling time, stat!!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

photos + wknd recap

So let's see what all kind of photos I've got going on here.

This is the McD's over by our apartment. WITH A DANGLING WOODEN AWNING. Scary, no?
SEE HOW JUNK FOOD MIGHT KEEL YOU. And I'm pretty sure it's not some sort of artistic, avant-garde statement. It is jacked-up architecture that is going to FALL ON SOMEBODY SOMEDAY.

Took both the little kiddos to the vet. Travelling cage photo as I was sitting at a stoplight, woohoo.
Which reminds me - I need to drop off BrenRat's doxy scrip tomorrow morning before work x.x;


WORST. IDEA. EVER. 
...or best? D:
Seriously, this is almost on par with the cherry pie filling-in-a-can.
I mean, where DID I put that pesky spoon?
Am also wondering how good it would be, warmed up over vanilla ice cream p:

AW YEEEEEAH. Those are HOESTYLE, biatch!

Ahem. Anyway.

So, rats to the vet, went grocery shopping, bombed my final exam for my class, ate Sonic, and am now sitting at the computer listening to the lovely rain and trying to put 4673805763 songs on my iPhone that I noticed this past week didn't sync-slash-upload. Excitiiiiing~

weekend cleany

So we are having a pretty industrious morning around here. Like I started doing some dusting. And cleaned off my nightstand.

 These are all the books I had to take off my nightstand to get all the warrens of dust bunnies out of it.
On top of a paper carton, also filled with books.
You'd think we would read more with all these dang books around here XD

Look at how clean it is! :D

Am about to fold some laundry, then get ready for the day, because we are going to Half Price + lunch, probably not in that order. I am jonesing for a book I saw there a few weeks ago, and even though it's not payday and I am semi-broke I'm going to get it. OR MAYBE READ SOME I'VE ALREADY GOT HMM TOUGH CHOICE.

I should also be cleaning the kitchen but that's no fun. And it's scary in there ;_; 

  

lunchtime

I'm eating lunch and it must be pretty windy outside. This little guy flew all the way up here to sit on the windowsill:

Hey there, buffafly!

photo dump!

So I went to Petsmar today and got Rudie some more food so she will quit whining about having only crumbles to eat in her dish because she is so picky she will only eat pieces of food if she can bite them in half and spit half back into her dish. I found a fancypants electronic watering dish on sale with my discount card-type thing, grabbed another huge toddler-sized bag of foo foo organic cat food, and as I was walking around trying to avoid the Coppell Humane Society's adorable animals for adoption (especially the big lug of a chocky Lab mix who saw me coming and was all happy, like, HEY WILL YOU BE MY MOM PLZ I LOVE YOU SO MUCH ALREADY and I had such a horrid rush of wanting to adopt this guy that I had to make a 90 degree turn down another aisle) I found this.

Meet Duckie.

Duckie is filled with catnip.

Rudie really, really likes catnip, come to find out. 

Thus, Rudie really really likes her new Duckie.

Poor Duckie has already been thoroughly groomed, gnawed on, rolled around on the carpet, and drooled all over. He is seriously damp and spiky-fluffed like a dog toy in the less than twelve hours she's had him.

I consider that a success?

Also this week we've had creepy Silent Hill-esque marine layer-looking fog one morning.

This week's bento is going to be seafoody. I've got tuna salad and fish sticks. Plus soy!sesame seed rice, plus miscellaneous fruit. I couldn't find any cheap fruit other than some oranges (tangelos? wtf is a tangelo) so I bought a couple of bags of frozen strawberries and peaches and figure they'll thaw nicely in the fridge at work. OH and left my bento box in my car for about four days with half a chicken sandwich in there. It's going to be so, so gross cleaning it out tonight. I might post photos of the bento tomorrow, if I have time.

That's all I've got so far. Time to work on schoolwork~