Well, dear readers, the dog days of winter are upon us and I mean that quite literally as Sophie the Dog has arrived and has currently taken over the couch and is fast asleep. I’ll have to wake her up before bed so she can do some business outside in the yard. She arrived around eight-fifteen and I learned of her main quirk – she is deathly afraid of wood floors and will not walk on them. That’s a problem in this house since all the floors are wood, but the Darling Daughter’s best friend Skye brought all manner of towels and rugs she can walk in. We made her her own little corner in her own little room (the den), all rugs and towels, her favorite toy, etc. I was told she loves couches so just in case we covered the couch completely with sheets because she does shed. That fact is not good for me, because it wreaks havoc with my allergies. I have one twelve-hour pill left, so today I’ll go buy a box of twenty-four-hour Claritin-D, which they’ll hopefully have. We took Sophie outside to walk around the huge yard, so huge you could actually build another large house back there. I gave her a snack pretty quick and so she liked me right away. She’s confused, I’m sure, but hopefully she’ll get used to it here for the next nine days. I think Skye may come back a couple of times just because Sophie knows her so well. Here is an actual photograph, soon after her arrival, in her own little corner of her own little room.
She’s a portly dog, rather like me right now. So, I didn’t really watch anything other than a few dog videos on YouTube on the big boy TV so she could watch. As soon as she fell asleep (she sleeps a LOT), I moved to the computer and have been doing stuff there ever since.
Yesterday was okay. Didn’t sleep all that well but did manage seven hours finally. Once up, I had a lot of e-mails to answer, then I did a Gelson’s run and got ingredients for my meal, as well as Diet Coke, which thankfully was on sale. The idiot before me at checkout took forever and unusually for Gelson’s there were only two other stations open and both had people with full carts. You want to know what the total cost the idiot in front of me paid for his groceries? Five hundred and fifty bucks. People are basically nuts. I, on the other hand, paid five percent of that figure. I decided my meal would be fettuccini with sweet Eyetalian sausage, onions, and peas, in a pink sauce. Prego has a pink sauce and that was the basis, although I did a few things to it that made it better. I came home and made the food – surprisingly easy and the entire thing took twenty minutes and here was the result.
Isn’t that yummilicious-looking? I ate it all up and it was excellent. I had some telephonic conversations, decided it’s time for me to watch Todd Haynes’ wonderful film Far from Heaven again – I’m not sure I have it on Blu and Ray, so I’ll just stream it for three bucks, but I knew that last night would not be the night to do that. Neither will tonight, but tomorrow night will be. Then it was just waiting for Sophie the Dog to arrive, which she did and the rest you know. I really would rather just let sleeping dogs lie there like so much fish, but I’m worried she’ll have to pee. We shall see.
Today, I’ll be up by ten, we’ll take a nice walk, then I’ll go meet Robert Yacko for a little belated birthday luncheon, so that will be fun. After, I’ll stop at the mail place and see what’s what, then I’ll come home. I’ll be here until around six-twenty, at which point I’ll go see the reading of a new play, after which I’ll come right home, and we’ll go for another walk.
Tomorrow, I’m home all day and evening. Thursday is our brush-up rehearsal, then we play Friday and Saturday night’s shows, and then our final performance on Sunday, which is completely sold out. I think there’ll be a little partay after in the green room. Then we’re into the last two weeks of the year. Unbelievable, really.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by ten, take Sophie for a walk, have lunch, stop at the mail place, come home, catch up on stuff, then go see a reading of a new play, then come right back home. Today’s topic of discussion: What pets have you had and what was the first pet you owned? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, dealing with the dog days of winter for the next nine days.