Good Old Dog
Buddy Lee Dog of Action is 13 now. It's hard to believe. It seems like just yesterday she was mischievous little puppy with needle sharp teeth. Now she is my good old dog with a bit of a limp who still loves to chase rabbits and go for hikes. And she's always ready to go when I need a co-pilot.
When you have a dog who is 13, you know in the back of your mind that they won't live forever. But you're never ready for them to go. In the last 6 months our good friends Knotts and Knitts, my in-laws, and my brother have all lost their dogs. I felt so bad for them, but I had no idea what to say or how to help them in their time of grief. You may not know this about me, but comforting people...not my strong suite. And it's not as if I've not lost a pet. In April we lost our kitty, Saffy. She was 15. She was the first pet that Betty Please and I brought in to our home. It still seems strange that she isn't here, we miss her.
Now, sadly, it's been brought to the front of our minds that Ripley won't be with us forever. A few weeks ago she started having seizures. And let me just say, I hope none of you ever have to watch a person or creature you love have a seizure. It's awful. Anyway, we don't how long she'll be with us, but we appreciate each and every day that she is. Give your pets some extra love.
Now, if you'll excuse me. Ripley and I have a date with a trail.
Is it just me, or do Dunkin' Donuts k-cups make the best damn coffee. And I curse them, because the closest DD is an hour away and their k-cups are only available in stores. Who doesn't see their goods on line?
Morning Coffee
Every morning, Betty Please and I share a cup of coffee. This is a new thing for us. I used to consume close to a pot a day on my own. Now I'm down to between 1/2 cup and a cup a day. It's hard because I LOVE coffee, but I don't have nearly as many headaches as I used to and oddly, I'm less tired in the morning. I'm not going to lie though, caffeine withdrawal was a mega bitch that royally sucked ass. But now that I'm the other side of that 10 days of hell, I feel much better.
Anyway. We got a
Keurig coffee maker as an early Xmas gift from the in-laws, so now we can make one cup at a time. I make a travel mug for BP to take to work, and then I make a cup for her to have with breakfast, and for me to have a "taste of". And everyone knows that "I'll just have a taste of yours" ends in I'll have half of what you're having. So we promptly jumped straight to sharing a cup. Since it seems crazy to me to make a mess trying to divide a cup of coffee into two coffee cups, we share.
Now that we're sharing coffee, every morning while enjoying every last ounce of the little taste of coffee I get, I am reminded of this couple we "met" on the cruise we on last year. I say met because we sat behind them on a bus ride during an excursion and listened to them bicker for the entire time. The fight that started it all? Water. They did not think to buy bottled water before they left the ship to spend all day in some remote area out the hot Caribbean sun. A bottle of water was provided by the excursion company, but seriously who doesn't think "gee, I might get thirsty while sweating my ass off in the 90 degree heat between the hours of 9 and 5." I'm just saying. So the short of the long here is they were fighting over water. One of the girls had finished her bottle and was still thirsty while the other girl still had half a bottle left. Now call me crazy, but if BP had finished her water and was still thirsty, and I had half a bottle of water left, there wouldn't even be thought. I would give her my water. What kind of girlfriend wouldn't offer her water to her thirsty other half?
We ended up giving them one of our bottles of water. Cause we're just nice like that. It didn't stop their fighting, but I couldn't stand the thought that someone I didn't even know was thirsty while I had extra water. I really don't know why sharing coffee in the morning makes think about those two, but it does. I wonder if they are still together. I can't imagine that they possibly could be. Or if they are, how they could be happy. What I do know is that sharing coffee in the morning makes me happy, and thankful to have Betty Please to share my life, and water, with.
The Walking Dead
Anyone else watching
The Walking Dead? You had to know that with a zombie movie obsession like mine, that I am. I love it! Though I am beginning to think that all these zombie movies and survival shows that we watch are starting to seep a little to deep into the dark recesses of my brain. Lately, I have been seriously thinking about putting together ready packs full of weapons, food and survival gear for the two of us. You know, just in case there is a pandemic of some sort and we have to get the hell of dodge. Or a war on the home front. Or a
Cylon attack. Or worst of all, a Zombie Apocalypse. Although, I'm not really sure if a Zombie Apocalypse would be actually be worse than a Cylon attack or not. I don't know. Either would be really bad though.
Anyway, while watching last nights episode of 'The Walking Dead'...
bp: Can you hand me the Kleenex please?
me: [look over and hand her the Kleenex. Notice that she is either having allergy problems or she is holding back tears, but I say nothing]
bp: [now clearly crying] This show is making me sad.
me: This show?
bp: Yeah. It's so sad. She just had to kill her zombie sister.
me: What does it mean that my laptop won't shutdown?
bp: It means we should have bought Macs.
Monster Movies
I have a thing for zombie movies. Well really it's zombies, vampires and werewolves, but zombies are at the top right now. Betty Please has a thing for monster movies. You know, like Cloverfield, The Host, Godzilla, Creature from the Black Lagoon...monster movies. So as you can imagine, between the two of we watch a lot of really bad movies. The great thing about Netflix instant queue is that we can watch these waste of celluloids, and we haven't lost anything but an hour and half or so.
Last night we started watching one of the most fantastically awful movies that we've ever voluntarily watched that wasn't on
MST3K. This movie,
Mega Shark VS Giant Octopus, staring Debbie Gibson and Lorenzo Lamas, which aught to tip you off to just how stellar a movie it is, is so bad that it's hilarious. I don't know if it was meant to be funny, but it's a riot. How could you not love a movie where a gigantic shark jumps out of the ocean and grabs a passenger airplane out of the cloud cover in the sky. Or how about the octopus who is so enormous that it can completely engulf a drilling platform off shores of Japan. Perhaps the best part of this movie is the science. Debbie Gibson is
so believable as a marine biologist, I almost forgot I was watching sci-fi. Watching her reaction as she mixes together brightly colored potions for who only knows what purpose, is priceless. I so can not wait to get home tonight to finish the film.
Netflix thought we'd give Mega Shark VS Giant Octopus 4 stars. I think we just might.
Oh My Gawd is that movie bad. But it's so bad that it's good.
Almost Human Again
Well I almost feel human again. I've had a sinus infection for the last week, and I'm just now starting to feel not so completely cruddy. BP is still not 100% yet either. So it's been real exciting around the gaymo house lately. All I can say is, thank god I gave in and we joined Netflix. You just can't beat their instant queue. And since we've both been sick, we've watched a hell of a lot of television lately.
Just to give you an example of how exciting things have been around here, the other day we watched a documentary called Helvetica (as in the type face/font). For fun. And we enjoyed it. It was actually really interesting. If you like design, I recommend it.
Other than watching a lot of television this last week, I've been building my Starfleet (a Facebook game) and working on a new D&D character. I'm super psyched about my new character Loki, a shady Rogue with an avenging Paladin for a split personality. It's going to be so much fun to play.
If anyone is playing Starfleet Commander, let me know and I'll buddy you. If you want to play Starfleet Commander, let me know and I'll send you an invite. I could use the Crew Points.
That's all for now.
Now, sadly, it's been brought to the front of our minds that Ripley won't be with us forever. A few weeks ago she started having seizures. And let me just say, I hope none of you ever have to watch a person or creature you love have a seizure. It's awful. Anyway, we don't how long she'll be with us, but we appreciate each and every day that she is. Give your pets some extra love.
