Author Archives: Alison

A Cat is on the Death List

A Cat is on the Death List

Today I’m headed off to South Jersey to visit mom and dad, then saddle them with the grandkids while I go out to dinner with a couple of friends from ModTheSims2.com.  All three of us are excited, because we’re meeting for the first time face to face.  I decided I’d sleep in as late as I could to get a good start – even packed everything in advance.  So at 4:20, Rhonda starts hissing and growling at another cat.  She runs across my body a few times.  Then she perches on the headboard over my head and growls.  This has been happening almost every night, but after an hour of it, I was too angry and hungry to go back to sleep.  She’s really asking for it – this has been going on night after night for more than a week now.  At least she didn’t slash my face, which she has done when the running across my body thing happened above the covers line.

Now, normally I don’t sleep well in different beds, but tonight I’m at mom’s, the next couple I’m at my sister’s, and without the damn cat, I might just sleep better.

Talk About Lazy!

Talk About Lazy!

It’s been a while since I blogged, eh? Well, stuff happens.

This past weekend, we went out to Pennsylvania for our annual President’s Weekend trip with our friends from Bloomfield. It was great fun, as usual, and we decided to go snow tubing at Camelback. It was nice to have a hotel close by and a couple of adults who didn’t want to tube – as the kids dropped out, the hotel-bound adults picked them up and brought them back to swim in the pool. The hotel was icky – the Comfort Inn in Bartonsville – cigarette stench in the halls, more than enough bathroom mildew to go around, a minimalist free breakfast in a room large enough for about 8 people. However, it met the requirements. Rooms close together, near an activity, with an indoor pool. It won’t be next year’s choice, though.

And speaking of inadequate. . .I’ve spent enough time in the last week having to use public restrooms, and I want to know whose brilliant idea it was to manufacture gossamer-thin toilet paper in 30 pound rolls and put them in hermetically sealed dispensers? Even if you do manage to reach a hand up into the dispenser to move the entire roll, you’re still likely to get an inch-square piece of the stuff. There should be a special level of hell for all the people involved in this creation. . .

LaundryCam is Fixed.

LaundryCam is Fixed.

We took a break from shoveling snow and making a snow fort to get it up and working.  When the snow fort is done, I’m taking pictures.  Those plastic boxes from IKEA make great brick forms.

I’ve been busy trying to learn new stuff on the computer, too, and having a mighty frustrating time of it.  Don’t expect momentous news from me any time soon.  *sigh*