Roh Roh - Rit's Rot RoutRide

I am miserable - it's hot inside and out and I'm stuck in this black fur coat! Yesterday Mom locked me in the kitchen as usual but had one of the fans pointing right in at me - it helped a little. The coolest spot to lay was tucked in under the cabinets by the sink - floor was cool - I could feel the fan - the cats couldn't see me! When Mom got home the first thing she did was move some dishes around in the sink - not sure why she was doing that - and then she picked me up and put me in the sink - that is not a good sign! Yup - she sprayed me down with cool water! Not sure why she was doing this - she kept saying it was going to make me feel better - I couldn't get past the water part! It was still so hot - Mom picked me up and we went outside and in to the car. I didn't understand this until we started moving and the most wonderful thing happened - cool air started blowing - I could feel it on my face and ruffling my fur - it was wonderful! I wanted to keep feeling it - I didn't care where the car was going! We drove for a bit and then slowed down and the window rolled down - I could smell things - wonderful things - burgers, fries, sweet things! We were at a drive-thru!! OMG!!! My tail started going so fast and I kept trying to climb in Mom's lap and out her window! Mom orders - blah, blah, blah - not sure what she ordered! We get to the window - and I got . . . . . . my own little bowl of soft serve vanilla ice cream!! It was cold and creamy and tasted wonderful - I couldn't lick it fast enough! Roh Roh - Rain Reeze!! I had to rub my head on the seat over and over again to get it to stop hurting!

When we got home it was still so so very hot inside - we went into the bedroom and just couldn't get comfortable. At about 1100 Mom jumped off the bed - said I've had it - went in to the bathroom and jumped in to a cold shower! She then came out and grabbed me - Oh No! Not the water again! OK - this time it did feel good - we laid in front of the fan and let the air blow over us and we fell asleep.

Today was pretty much the same except this time she locked me in her bathroom thinking it might be a little cooler - not too much - I think because it was just way too hot outside. We went for a 2 hour car ride - had the ice cream again - no brain freeze this time! We are back home now and I have a feeling it's going to be cold water time pretty soon. Oh well - I hope it cools down sometime soon - although I do like the car rides and the ice cream!

Muppet

A Hint of Drama

It was just way too hot to blog last night - I parked myself by the fan and didn't move except to open the blinds and turn on the fans in the bedrooms once the sun stopped shining in the windows back there. It was 88* inside when I got home last night and it "cooled" down to 81* by this morning.



I got a call from L on Sunday - she has been asked to leave her apartment. Per L it has nothing to do with the fact that she hasn't been paying her full rent - it's because Amber doesn't like Justin and there is too much drama. I am thinking it's the rent thing. They are letting her keep her stuff there until she can find a storage place but they made her give back her keys and she has to call to make sure someone is home when she needs to stop by and get stuff. She lasted about as long as I thought she would. I was good though and didn't give in to the need to fix it - she is not moving back home. The only advice I offered was that she needs to get another job - preferably full-time so she can make enough money for storage and/or rent.



L just called this morning to see if I had a copy of her resume on my work computer - She needs to turn one in to the shop she just applied at - what kind of shop you ask . . . . A Porn Shop in Kent! Yup . . . I said Porn! I guess someone needs to work there and a jobs a job! I am going to update her resume and print out a few copies so she has them to hand out if she doesn't get this job. She has a problem multi-tasking on the job front - she only applies for one job at a time!



I drove in to work today - yesterday's ride home on the Metro was horrible - no AC - crowded - bodies sticking to each other - I just couldn't do it again. I like my AC Car!!



Keep Cool!



De

Vacation Is Over

Vacation is over - time to get back in the work mode. I think I lucked out with the weather this past week - it wasn't too hot every day. If I had waited until this week I would be miserable - 90s forecasted for every day - too damn hot! I think I will like being in an air-conditioned building even if I have to do work!

I found my binder of recipes - Yay!! i though I had lost it. I found an old Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe that I tried out tonight - they didn't turn out like I wanted. Not sure if it's because I cut the recipe in half or if it's because it's so hot in the condo. I don't even know if I will bring them in to work tomorrow - very disappointing. I will next try the White Chocolate Raspberry Tart recipe I found.

The baby shower went OK yesterday - people who said they were going to be there didn't show up - a lot of guests arrived late - including the guest of honor. The shower started at 100 and she didn't get there until 200. One of the people that got there at 2 brought her dog - and not a cute little tiny dog - oh no - it was a rangbunctious black lab! I am very thankful for the two other ladies that helped with the shower - Susan and Barb - they were incredible! They really should be professional party planners - they put together a really nice shower. Shannon - who was supposed to be the 4th person was not a help at all - she's the one that sent the evites out late and then didn't include all of the information. She was supposed to bring the water and soda and didn't. When Susan asked her about it she said - well, no one emailed me back so I didn't do it. Even though her email said - I will bring water and soda - i guess because we didn't acknowledge that she was doing that she decided she didn't need to. Overall - I think people had a good time - I felt like a hired helper.

It's 900 right now and I probably should head to bed soon - it hasn't really cooled off very much - I took a cool shower but am all hot and sticky again. Weather shows it is down to 79 outside - doesn't feel like it. Any ideas on where I could hang out for a bit after work during the week to stay cool - it would need to be a dog friendly area so poor little Muppet can cool off too. Only thing I can think of is in the car with the air-conditioning running.

De

Last Days

I am settling in to enjoy my last day of actual vacation. Tomorrow is Lyd's Baby Shower and I have finished making the Pasta Salad w/Lemon Pesto - it's in the fridge all set for tomorrow. The favors are all put together and the games are ready. I just need to wrap the gift and I will be ready. Meeting up with the other hostesses tomorrow at 11 to get everything set up and the shower starts at 1.

No other plans for the weekend - just get my mind set back on work. I have really enjoyed this vacation time and will definitely need to do this again - soon!

Here's the recipe for the Pasta Salad-

1 container Grape Tomatoes
1 small container Pesto Sauce
1 Large Lemon
Green Onion
1 Pkg Crumbled Feta Cheese
1 Pkg Penne or Rigatoni Pasta

Boil water and add Pasta. Turn heat down to medium and cook pasta until it is al dente.

Cut Grape Tomatoes lengthwise and place in bowl.
Zest and Juice lemon. Add Zest to Pesto Sauce. Mix in Lemon Juice until Pesto is desired consistency. Add to bowl w/tomatoes.
Chop Green Onion. Add to bowl.
Add crumbled Feta Cheese to bowl.

Drain pasta and run under cold water. Add pasta to bowl.

Toss together. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.

Enjoy!

De

Good Girl Gone Bad

I am a good girl - I follow the rules - I don't break the law - I generally do what is required of me. Except in one small area - movies!

What is it that I am talking about . . . . paying for 1 movie and then seeing more once you get in. I don't do this all the time - there is really only one theater in the area that this works well at - Lincoln Square Cinema - which happens to be the most expensive one - $8 for a matinee showing. You pay for the movie and they take your ticket as you walk in the door. There are 13 separate theaters at Lincoln Square and 10 of them are down one hallway. They have the names of the movies listed outside each theater along with the time that the next one is starting at.

I started out with the 1200 showing of the new Harry Potter movie. I thought it was a good movie - seemed like a connector movie though - you know - the kind that tie up a few things from the previous movie but is really setting things up for the next one. I haven't read the books so I don't know if the book Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was a connector book.

The next movie was 500 Days of Summer - a small indie film that got a lot of buzz at the Sundance Film Festival. It stars Joseph Gordon-Leavitt - the kid from 3rd Rock From The Sun and Zooey Deschanel - she has been in quite a few movies and guest spots on TV Shows. I became a fan of hers when she played DG on the mini-series Tin Man. I really liked the movie. I liked how it was so different - I had never seen a movie like this before - I liked how it didn't follow a regular formula.

When I left 500 Days of Summer I was planning on calling it a day but . . . in the theater right next door The Proposal was starting in 15 minutes. I thought - WTH - might as well see just one more. This one was funny but it followed the typical romantic comedy formula. Boy and Girl don't really like each other - they are put in a situation where they spend time with each other - they fall in love but don't think the other one has - they live happily ever after. The way they got from the beginning to the end was good - I am a fan of Ryan Reynolds! Betty White is hilarious as the Grandma in this movie.

Tomorrow is my last vacation day - I'm spending the afternoon with Lyd. Then I will be getting things ready for her Baby Shower on Saturday.

De

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JA Jance

Throughout the years I have found authors that I love and I would run out to buy their books as soon as they were released. But none has stuck with me as much as JA Jance. Hers were the first books I ever read where the backdrop was Seattle - it made reading them so much more - I could see in my mind where the characters were. In her first few books she even had some of the action taking place in Issaquah. The main character in these first books was JP Beaumont Seattle Police Detective. Over the years she started 2 other series' of books - The Joanna Brady series and the newest series Ali Reynolds. It's funny - when her new books would come out and they were a Brady mystery and not Beaumont I would get upset - I wanted Beaumont - I don't like Brady! Today I went to the Bellevue Library to listen to her talk about her latest book - which actually has both Beau and Brady in it.

Let me start out by saying when I got there I felt like I was at a Senior Citizens gathering! There were 100 people and maybe 5 were my age! We all had one thing in common though - we loved Beaumont and were there to listen to JA Jance.

This was my first time going to a book signing where the author was going to talk first and not just read a few pages and then sign the book. I learned quite a bit about my favorite author and the other readers of her books. I learned that the readers in Seattle love Beaumont and do not like it when the next book is a Joanna Brady Mystery and the readers in Bisby, AZ love Brady and do not like when the next book is a JP Beaumont Mystery. Everyone loves to read a story that revolves around the area they live in. JA addressed this - she said that if she were only allowed to write Beaumont he would have been killed off long ago - she likes being able to write from different perspectives - this has enabled her to keep each series fresh. She understands that not all her readers will like every series and she's fine with that.

She was a little scattered during her talk - she got sidetracked a lot and would go off in different directions but she was entertaining. Even though Fire and Ice was just released yesterday she finished writing it a year ago - in that year she has finished another book that will be released in December and is in the editing process of a book coming out next June. She said her daughter reads her books right before they are released and then talks to her about them so she can refresh her memory on what it was about.

I left the library with one impression - here was someone who has always loved writing - who has been a published author for 23 years and 38 books - and is still so passionate about it.

De

Pamper De Day!!

I had such a great day today! I think I could really get used to this staycation stuff! Doing things you always put off for another weekend and not having to rush around to fit everything in to 2 days!

The morning started out with sleeping in a bit and a nice leisurely shower - took Muppet out for a short walk - then watched Price is Right. I then started my wonderful day of pampering. Started with a Pedicure and Manicure at Klahanie Nails - no appointment, was able to get right in. First had my nails done - new acrylics put on with French Tips. Next was the pedicure - Hooker Red nails! That's not the name of the polish - just what I like to call the deep bright red color I always have on my toes.

Next stop was Barnes $ Noble - the new releases are here, the new releases are here! I slowly wandered through the book shelves starting with the New Fiction Releases and making my way to the Best Sellers and BN Recommendations. In case you didn't know - I Love Books!! I was able to keep myself to just 5! May sound like a lot to some of you but I had to whittle it down to 5 from 10 that I wanted - I think I did a good job!

I next went to Red Robin for a late lunch where I started in on the first book - Dark Places. By page 3 I was already sucked in - great way for a book to start! I will definitely have this one finished and ready for the Texas family to start reading it when they get here in 2 weeks. The guy that works in the Red Robin bar during the week is really nice. I got my food right away and my iced tea was never empty - not sure if that part was such a good thing after all - 5 glasses later!

Next step of Pamper Day was my Lisa Appt - pampering of the brain! Nice - talked about how nice it is to not be responsible for L anymore - how my blog is going - and other things that will probably be posted about later.

Haven't quite decided what tomorrow will be yet. JA Jance - author of one of the books I bought - will be at the Bellevue Public Library tomorrow at 2 talking about the new book. I saw her 24 years ago when she first started writing her JP Beaumont series! She was at the little bookstore in Gilman Village signing books. My Granddaddy got me started on her books - we shared books and talked about them. I think he would like how the series has progressed. I find it hard to believe I have been reading the same author for 24 years!!

Happy Days -

De