1. We get deer in our yard pretty frequently. They hang out and eat all the shrubs and drink out of the bird bath.
When Igor sees them out the window, he gets all quivery, his tail twitches and he locks on with the Death Stare, the same as when he's watching birds or squirrels.
It's so hilarious: his brain obviously recognizes them as prey somehow, even though he's about as big as a deer's head. And they see him too; they freeze and stare at the window. Are they recognizing him as a miniature predator, or laughing at his chutzpah?
That picture I posted yesterday: it's so true. In his heart he's a lion.
2. I created a "fake" twitter account in order to be able to check that the feeds I set up on a client's website were working properly. I set up the account with a fictitious, nonsensical name, checked the feed, and never looked at it again. Never posted, nothing.
I have three followers.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Technicalitude - register to comment
I changed my blog preferences so that one must be a registered user to comment. Not registered with this blog, but with, like, the Internet or something. I don't know, I don't understand it and don't have time to advance my knowledge. Essentially I am trying to weed out anonymous comments: almost without exception anonymous commenters say something foolish, irrelevant, or ugly (not that I've had many of those, knock on wood). I assume most of them come here by using the pernicious "next blog" feature.
If any of you regular readers have problems commenting, shoot me an email and I will try to adjust my settings.
Someone gave me this picture, I think it was on a greeting card. It exactly represents Igor's personality.
If any of you regular readers have problems commenting, shoot me an email and I will try to adjust my settings.
Someone gave me this picture, I think it was on a greeting card. It exactly represents Igor's personality.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Dispatches from the front
I've been busy: I haven't posted or painted or read anyone else's blog recently. My freelance work suddenly exploded last week. Which is good, I'm not complaining. However, it's taken up every minute of my time, so I haven't had any attention to spare for anything else.
Things I discovered recently: quinoa is an excellent addition to meatloaf. I'm also adding it to the ground beef in my breakfast scramble. That is an excellent substitution: the quinoa is half the calories, low in fat, tasty and filling.
I've been watching the first season of True Blood on DVD. I love it! I seem to be on a vampire binge lately. Don't anyone write any spoilers; I've only seen 4 episodes. I googled the show to find out the name of the girl's grandmother (the actress's name I mean) and found all sorts of things about the plot that I didn't want to see. I tried to squint and just look for the name, and now I'm trying to erase my memory of that wikipedia article.
No workouts have been done. But you know what? I'm not guilting myself about it. 90% of my misery and angst is self-inflicted. During especially difficult times I'm afraid I'm not doing enough, then I add the burden of guilt on top of all the other real burdens. It just makes everything harder and there's no payoff or compensatory upswing. It just sucks and is stupid. Workouts will return eventually, because I'm starting to actually miss them, instead of feeling I should be doing them.
Igor oddities: Almost every morning I find his teddy bear, Stephen Killbear, at the foot of the stairs. Why? He is obviously placing it there. Is he setting up a guard to protect the bedrooms at night? Is he setting a trap for me to trip over in the morning?
Vintage Igor picture: he used to play so hard (well, he still does actually) when he was a kitten, he'd just fall over in a coma and sleep for hours. Here he is draped over the arm of the sofa, because that's where he happened to be when the Sleep Fairy hit him with a 2x4:
Things I discovered recently: quinoa is an excellent addition to meatloaf. I'm also adding it to the ground beef in my breakfast scramble. That is an excellent substitution: the quinoa is half the calories, low in fat, tasty and filling.
I've been watching the first season of True Blood on DVD. I love it! I seem to be on a vampire binge lately. Don't anyone write any spoilers; I've only seen 4 episodes. I googled the show to find out the name of the girl's grandmother (the actress's name I mean) and found all sorts of things about the plot that I didn't want to see. I tried to squint and just look for the name, and now I'm trying to erase my memory of that wikipedia article.
No workouts have been done. But you know what? I'm not guilting myself about it. 90% of my misery and angst is self-inflicted. During especially difficult times I'm afraid I'm not doing enough, then I add the burden of guilt on top of all the other real burdens. It just makes everything harder and there's no payoff or compensatory upswing. It just sucks and is stupid. Workouts will return eventually, because I'm starting to actually miss them, instead of feeling I should be doing them.
Igor oddities: Almost every morning I find his teddy bear, Stephen Killbear, at the foot of the stairs. Why? He is obviously placing it there. Is he setting up a guard to protect the bedrooms at night? Is he setting a trap for me to trip over in the morning?
Vintage Igor picture: he used to play so hard (well, he still does actually) when he was a kitten, he'd just fall over in a coma and sleep for hours. Here he is draped over the arm of the sofa, because that's where he happened to be when the Sleep Fairy hit him with a 2x4:
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Briefly
1. Eating "normal" food gave me a 2-day headache and accompanying bloat. Too much salt, sugar, and whatever weird stuff is in processed food. I didn't eat anything extreme, or extreme amounts, it's just that I an unaccustomed to that kind of food now.
2. This afternoon I found an almond in the middle of the floor in my office. We haven't had almonds in the house for several weeks, if not months. Where did it come from?*
3. Igor has appointed himself Director and Inspector General of all things kitchen. No food may be prepared without his supervision. It started when he discovered the joy of people canned tuna, but now he demands a sample of EVERYthing, including corn husks, green beans, basil leaves, cucumber peels, and lettuce. He doesn't EAT these things, he just studies and then plays with them.
*Answer: Igor of course. He stashes things all over the house.
2. This afternoon I found an almond in the middle of the floor in my office. We haven't had almonds in the house for several weeks, if not months. Where did it come from?*
3. Igor has appointed himself Director and Inspector General of all things kitchen. No food may be prepared without his supervision. It started when he discovered the joy of people canned tuna, but now he demands a sample of EVERYthing, including corn husks, green beans, basil leaves, cucumber peels, and lettuce. He doesn't EAT these things, he just studies and then plays with them.
*Answer: Igor of course. He stashes things all over the house.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Free weekend
After 3 weeks of near-perfection ;-) this weekend is a "free" weekend for me. Oddly I don't have any plans for anything particular, diet-wise. I'm not craving anything, I haven't felt deprived, so it's not as attractive a prospect as it might seem.
We're spending a lot of time with friends, so I suppose my big adventure will just be eating "normal" food like normal people. Whoo-hoo!
After this weekend I have to start working in an exercise plan. I'm not planning on going right back to the P90X; that's too much to jump right into, plus I still need to maintain a schedule that allows me time to paint. I'm thinking 2x workouts a week, perhaps a yoga and an inside DVD such as that Gilad I like. Cooler weather might be the time to take up the P90X again.
We're spending a lot of time with friends, so I suppose my big adventure will just be eating "normal" food like normal people. Whoo-hoo!
After this weekend I have to start working in an exercise plan. I'm not planning on going right back to the P90X; that's too much to jump right into, plus I still need to maintain a schedule that allows me time to paint. I'm thinking 2x workouts a week, perhaps a yoga and an inside DVD such as that Gilad I like. Cooler weather might be the time to take up the P90X again.
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