It Is NOT !

It is NOT joolery. It is *jewel*ry. It's about JEWELS.

It is NOT Realitor. It is a *real*tor. Like REAL estate.

It is NOT nuke-kyew-lar". (This one just makes my ears bleed.) It is nuke-*le*-ar. Like a NUCLEUS.

gah.

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I Remember Now Why They're Spelled Car"rot"s

And, as far as our household is concerned, I guess it should also be spelled celer"ot"y as well.

I am just going to pretend that I bought those veggies for compost starters. Yep. That's it.

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*sings* Love Potion #9. . . err. . . COLLAR #9

Yes.

Again.

Turquoise sparkly lost to either the wilds of our neighborhood woods or the Collars for Catnip scandal that I'm sure is brewing.

Must dash. I'm sure I will have to shave my legs when I'm called before Congress to testify.

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Leatherheads

Go see it. Quickly.

That is all.

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The Traveling Gnome Can Bite My Tuckus

So, Robert checked out flights to go down to SoCal over Memorial Day. He selected a flight that met his schedule and budget and made arrangements with Travelocity to fly down.

Sounds easy, right ? Simple.

But, noooo. My loving man decided that he would use a certain credit card, which will not be named here. The credit card is accepted in a GREAT deal of places, but NOT by the particular airline that offered the flight that he had requested. If the website had MENTIONED this, that would have been fabulous, but, unfortunately their software engineers (or upper management) are apparently dedicated to churning out steaming piles of software that only appears to work.

He received a confirmation email. Good.
He received an email that told him that his card had been charged. Good.
Three days LATER, however, he got a phone call. *cue ominous music*

The person on the other end of the call told him TODAY that the card he had chosen is not accepted by [ airline ] and, thus, he would have to rebuy the flight. At a cost of more than TWICE the original price. Whu ?

Why exactly was he not told when he booked the flight via a software dialog window ? Good question.
Why did it take THREE days for him to be told about this oh. . . bait and switch sound about right ? (Yes, I said bait and switch. And I meant it.)
Why exactly did he get a call JUST within the four week lead time period which forced the flight to be { exorbitant freaking amount of money } instead of the { relatively inexpensive upgrade } that would have been possible OUTSIDE that four-week period ?

I have no answers except to say this -- and you can quote me:
1) We will not be doing business with Travelocity again
2) For the amount of time on hold, I think we should get frequent flier miles just to reimburse him for the minutes, and
3) I am not usually quite this irritated, but. . .are you kidding ?

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Day Trip to Westport = Collar #8

So on Saturday while Robert and I were driving out to the town of Westport, which is on the Pacific coast, it appears that Kismet was busy trading her last collar for more catnip.

Anyone know a good catnip rehab program ? Or a way to buy cute collars in bulk ? Or how to glue collars to fur ? I'm just sayin'.

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Collar #7

But it wasn't Kismet this time ! It was Scooterpoo. He finally ditched that reflective yellow number that looked *sooo* spiffy against his fluffy white hair. [ sarcasm=off ].

It's rather unfortunate for him, however, that I was prepared this time. He is now attired in a very glittery black number that will go great with the patent leather SoftPaws that I plan to glue on him. (I might be kidding about only part of this.)

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The Stupid. . . It Burnsses

Fortunately, there's Jell-O !

Have ya ever had one of those days ? Yeah.

I am SO tempted right now -- rather than putting cut up fruit in a pan of jello, I am having to stave off the insane notion of just throwing M&Ms in there. Vodka-soaked M&Ms.

Because THAT, dear reader, is the type of day I have had. And -- fortunately it's now OVER.

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