Bella

So while I'm on hold, I suppose I'll try and do something constructive. I lost my Bella for a couple of days. She ran away on Sunday, but I found her yesterday. For those of you who don't know, she is my first child, a gray and black tabby cat, who I rescued from the humane society in Monroe, LA in January 2000. She is almost 10 years old. She is a skiddish, witchy thing, but I still love her. So, I let her out back Sunday night (not uncommon) about 9 or 10 PM and when I went to let her in Monday morning, she was not at the door. She has never run off before, but she has gotten out of the gate twice, but each time she couldn't figure out how to get back in, so she was waiting for me around front. Apparently she walks the top of the fence too, but I've never seen it (that's what my neighbor said). So, I panicked and looked everywhere for her...all over the yard, house, shed, garage, street, etc, and I drove up the road to look. No Bella. I went on in to work but I was very very stressed out. She's lived a very sheltered life and doesn't know much other than my couch and bed. I went home twice during the day to look, but still no Bella. I passed out flyers that afternoon when I got home and one of my neighbors said she thought she saw her earlier that day so I told her to call me if she saw her again. Lo and behold, yesterday afternoon I was at home b/c I had someone there to look at my pool, and Peggy, my neighbor called and said Bella was in her garage. I ran out with the kennel and some food and coaxed Bella out of there. Evidently she found something fun to do b/c she keeps wanting to go back out! Needless to say, after this incident, her outside privileges are hereby permanently revoked!

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Gotta vent for a sec - I'm currently on hold with AT&T to remove some stupid $5.48 per month CRAP that my husband put on his phone months ago and never removed (HBO Mobile) and this moron that I'm talking to cannot understand me and apparently can't find it on my bill!! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Not Me Monday

My friend Sarah apparently has decided not to do this anymore....just when I get the hang of it...what???

I didn't leave the office early today to come home and take a nap. I wasn't tired from getting up before I usually do. Thursday through Saturday I didn't go to Murfreesboro for a Death Penalty seminar, secretly with the hopes that I might skip it and shop. I did attend it though, but I didn't shop some and enjoy my little get away. Friday night there weren't a bunch of squealing giggling girls in the room next to me who did not do said things until 1:00 A.M. That did not keep me up and did not make me want to go knock on their door and punch them in the face (I really didn't actually follow through). Luckily, I had not brought my earplugs (that I don't sleep with every night because my husband does not snore like a trucker), so after 1:00 A.M. I didn't finally go to sleep, only to have to wake up at 7:30 A.M. on a SATURDAY for a seminar, which I did not have to sit through for eight hours. Nope, didn't do it. And for those of you who know me, you don't know that I can't function on less than eight hours of sleep per night, so of course I wasn't sleepy as can be and ready to lay out in the floor at the seminar and take a nap. What did not keep me going through the day was that I had not planned to stop in Nashville at the Cheesecake Factory for of course, cheesecake. I did not skimp on my meals on Saturday just to make sure I could eat cheesecake. When I did not buy the piece of cheesecake, I did not savor the taste and make it last as long as possible (and I didn't make yummy noises at the same time) and instead of buying the low carb piece to eat right there, I did not buy the "original" thinking it was the "plain" cheesecake, which has half the calories as the original. And finally, before I left that God-sent place, I did not go in and buy an entire cheesecake to bring home (low carb of course). I didn't bring it home to share with my diabetic husband and I haven't eaten a piece every day for the last three days!! Still have four pieces to go! If there's any food in this world that I could not eat every day, probably more than once a day, that's not cheesecake.