August 20, 2010

  • A New Lamp For My Desk


    Every once in a while, the Beast does something nice for me without me asking.  Today he bought me a neat new lamp for my desk.  I have been using the flexible neck light that I normally use when I am sewing but it's not a good one for what I really need on here.  This one has two 60-watt bulbs in it and you can adjust the light.  I just love it.  Nothing fancy.  It has a glass dome type shade for it.  Another thing to dust but, hey, small price to pay.  Besides, I would rather have a glass shade than a fabric one.  Especially with my allergies.  When the pollen flies, I usually have my windows open and you know what that means.  It would lodge in the fabric and fabric shades are not easily cleaned. 

    I worked a bit on organizing this room a bit more.  It's slow going mostly because I keep getting distracted.  I found a couple joke books I had forgotten I had.  Then I had to go through some CD's and sort them all out.  Those are time consuming and slow you down.  I also found some stuff I forgot I had.  Mostly different types of printing papers that I bought for making my own greeting cards and also some nice stationery that I can use for letters.  Nowadays, with almost everyone having email addresses, no one does much of that any more, do they?    I use them mostly at Christmas time when I feel like including one of those god-awful newsletters that you hate to include but want to catch people up on highlights they don't know about.  I am always embarrassed when I make one up to send instead of writing an individual, more personal letter.

    Last night, I could hardly believe what Baron did to me.  Twice within a half hour he *knocked* on my door to be let out.  I always close it when the Beast goes to bed so the sound of my TV doesn't keep him from getting to sleep and the light doesn't bother him either.  So, I open the door and walk to the back door to let the dog out.  I set up the coffee for morning while I waited for him to want in the first time.  When he wanted out the second time, I figured he wasn't feeling well or else he had to poop.  After the second time, I figured he was down for the night but, lo-and-behold, about 10 minutes later he comes to the door of my computer room and makes a low bark.  I was like and walked out, mad as hell, figuring he was playing with me or something when I look and he's in the bedroom doorway, just standing there looking at me.  He made a kind of bark/growl and it woke the Beast up because he knew what it was.  He got up, laughing, because Baron was trying to tell me it was time for ME to get to bed!    I couldn't believe it!  He's done that to the Beast more times than I can tell you but this was a first for me. 

    The Beast got up, had a glass of milk and a couple cookies, laughing the whole time.  I did NOT think it was funny (actually I did but didn't want to give the Beast the satisfaction).  At least when the Beast went back to bed, taking the dog with him, that was the final time Baron came to the door.  He left me alone.  He WAS on my side of the bed but got off to let me lay down and laid on HIS bed next to my side of the bed.

    We got a bit worried about him today when he wasn't eating anything and he seemed to just want to lay at the foot of my bed.  I didn't even make the bed until much later than normal because you can't tell if a dog is running a temperature or anything...at least, not easily.  I don't even remember what a normal temperature IS for a dog.  Whatever it was bothering him, when we grilled a couple hamburgers on the grill (we made one for him, too), he chomped down on it and then ate his bowl of canned dog food mixed with fresh chicken and finished that off.  He even ate some of his dry dog food, too.  The Beast had taken him out for a run since it was not as hot today and it was cloudy outside so the road wasn't too hot.  He had hoped the exercise would encourage him to eat when they got back but it hadn't.  I told him if he didn't eat the hamburger, then he was going to the vets tomorrow.

    He's definitely feeling better now because he is chewing on one of his rawhide bones and even keeping it between his paws when he rolls on his back.  Looks so weird! 

    Well, time to get this posted and ready for you to read for your Friday enjoyment.  Love you all and have a really great day.