lisaviolet's diary

Monday, August 29, 2005

05:07 PM - 08/29/2005

The topic: Fun little exercise
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I found this over at isfullofcrap.com.

Go over to Music Outfitters and put the year you graduated from high school in the search box. Copy and paste the list. Strike the songs you hated, bold the ones you liked and leave the rest alone. And if you find a very favorite, make it bold and underline it.

Truth be told, I don’t even recognize some of these songs.

1. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Roberta Flack
2. Alone Again (Naturally), Gilbert O’Sullivan
3. American Pie, Don McLean
4. Without You, Nilsson
5. ~~Candy Man, Sammy Davis Jr.~~

6. I Gotcha, Joe Tex
7. Lean On Me, Bill Withers
8. Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me, Mac Davis
9. Brand New Key, Melanie
10. ~~Daddy Dont You Walk So Fast, Wayne Newton~~

11. Let’s Stay Together, Al Green
12. Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl), Looking Glass
13. Oh Girl, Chi-Lites
14. Nice To Be With You, Gallery
15. ~~My Ding-A-Ling, Chuck Berry~~

16. If Loving You Is Wrong I Don’t Want To Be Right, Luther Ingram
17. Heart Of Gold, Neil Young
18. Betcha By Golly, Wow, Stylistics
19. I’ll Take You There, Staple Singers
20. Ben, Michael Jackson

21. The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Robert John
22. Outa-space, Billy Preston
23. Slippin’ Into Darkness, War
24. Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress), Hollies
25. How Do You Do, Mouth and MacNeal

26. Song Sung Blue, Neil Diamond
27. A Horse With No Name, America
28. Popcorn, Hot Butter
29. Everybody Plays The Fool, Main Ingredient
30. Precious And Few, Climax

31. Last Night I Didn’t Get To Sleep At All, 5th Dimension
32. Nights In White Satin, Moody Blues
33. Go All The Way, Raspberries
34. Too Late To Turn Back Now, Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose
35. Back Stabbers, O’Jays

36. Down By The Lazy River, Osmonds
37. Sunshine, Jonathan Edwards
38. Starting All Over Again, Mel and Tim
39. Day After Day, Badfinger
40. Rocket Man, Elton John

41. ~~Rockin’ Robin, Michael Jackson~~
42. Beautiful Sunday, Daniel Boone
43. Scorpio, Dennis Coffey and The Detroit Guitar Band
44. Morning Has Broken, Cat Stevens
45. The City Of New Orleans, Arlo Guthrie

46. Garden Party, Rick Nelson
47. I Can See Clearly Now, Johnny Nash
48. Burning Love, Elvis Presley
49. Clean Up Woman, Betty Wright
50. Hold Your Head Up, Argent

51. Jungle Fever, Chakachas
52. Everything I Own, Bread
53. In The Rain, Dramatics
54. Look What You Done For Me, Al Green
55. ~~The Happiest Girl In The Whole U.S.A., Donna Fargo~~

56. Bang A Gong (Get It On), T. Rex
57. Mother And Child Reunion, Paul Simon
58. Where Is The Love, Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway
59. I’m Still In Love With You, Al Green
60. Layla, Derek and The Dominos

61. Day Dreaming, Aretha Franklin
62. The Way Of Love, Cher
63. Black And White, Three Dog Night
64. Sylvia’s Mother, Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show
65. Hurting Each Other, Carpenters

66. Coconut, Nilsson
67. ~~Puppy Love, Donny Osmond~~
68. You Don’t Mess Around With Jim, Jim Croce
69. Hot Rod Lincoln, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
70. A Cowboy’s Work Is Never Done, Sonny and Cher

71. Joy, Apollo 100
72. Anticipation, Carly Simon
73. Never Been To Spain, Three Dog Night
74. ~~Kiss An Angel Good Morning, Charlie Pride~~
75. School’s Out, Alice Cooper

76. Saturday In The Park, Chicago
77. Drowning In The Sea Of Love, Joe Simon
78. Use Me, Bill Withers
79. Family Affair, Sly and The Family Stone
80. Troglodyte, Jimmy Castor Bunch

81. The Witch Queen Of New Orleans, Redbone
82. Freddie’s Dead, Curtis Mayfield
83. Power Of Love, Joe Simon
84. Ain’t Understanding Mellow, Jerry Butler and Brenda Lee Eager
85. Taxi, Harry Chapin

86. Don’t Say You Don’t Rememeer, Beverly Bremers
87. Sealed With A Kiss, Bobby Vinton
88. I Saw The Light, Todd Rundgren
89. Motorcycle Mama, Sailcat
90. Day By Day, Godspell Soundtrack

91. Roundabout, Yes
92. Doctor My Eyes, Jackson Browne
93. I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing, New Seekers
94. Vincent / Castles In The Air, Don Mclean
95. Baby Let Me Take You (In My Arms), Detroit Emeralds

96. Speak To The Sky, Rick Springfield
97. I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing, Hillside Singers
98. Walking In The Rain With The One I Love, Love Unlimited
99. ~~Good Foot, Pt. 1, James Brown~~
100. Pop That Thang, Isley Bros.

You know, I’ve read that as an adult, your favorite music is what you listened to in high school. I have to disagree. *lol*

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02:27 PM - 08/29/2005

The topic: It’s been really hot this past week
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I don’t like it. The cats don’t like it. And they’re getting snarky with one another when it cools down to where they feel like moving.

And poor DeeJay has a cold. He’s been sneezing so much, he’s shooting out blood. And his breath smells like the breath of someone with a sore throat. I started him on the l-Lysine paste I got back in March for Handsome. I figured he’d like it because he likes the Nutrical. Huh uh, not gonna lick it. He tried, and it just didn’t float his boat.

So I grabbed his little body, put him up on the counter and wiped my finger off on the inside of his cheek. This didn’t please him, but he got the l-Lysine.

He’ll get some again tonight and again tomorrow.

The cold hasn’t affected his appetite, he’s still begging for food.

And he must be eating quite a bit, because he’s pooping a lot, too. I wish he’d poop in one spot. But he doesn’t, he poops like a dog. *sigh*

Damn dogs.

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02:12 PM - 08/29/2005

The topic: It was great in theory
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The people behind us, the people with the dogs, the people who have never taken any pride whatsoever in their backyard, have started cleaning it up and doing things to it. This is the yard where Hollywood spent the last few hours of her free range life. The yard where Brian climbed our fence, with heavy gloves and a ladder, and went into their almost empty above ground pool to save the life of a feral.

The same yard with the cocker spaniel that liked cats until the son moved back in, bringing with him an unspayed female weim, who got pregnant at least twice that I know of. There may have been a third time (I saw the visiting male in the yard), but if there was, she was spayed before she came to term. And that weim has a pretty strong prey drive. On more than one occasion, I saw a possum in their yard, just playing (?) dead.

For the longest time, the dogs had the run of the yard. Then, the people redid the fence and made a dog run at the side of the house. I think that was last year. Well, they recently got hot on doing something with a nice sized backyard. The old pool has been gone for a long time. And a couple of months ago, they brought in a little bobcat and started digging and moving dirt. Behind their garage, they’ve finally put in a lawn. Complete with sprinklers that they actually have on timers that work. (We used to joke that they must be expecting company, because they’d start watering the backyard for days in a row after months of not watering it.)

And they moved their dog run. Back to the fence. Right behind our pool area. Their dogs hear our cats back there and they run back and forth, whining and scratching, but that’s okay, because there’s a double fence. Chainlink on their side, wood on ours.

But one of the problems is that the dog run is right where the water runs when Brian cleans out the pool filter. I don’t know if you’re familiar with this, but it’s very, very nasty, dirty icky water. All the crud that the pool has in it that is filtered out is here. And it builds up to the point that the pump isn’t as efficient and it has to be flushed out every once in a while. And Brian, being the considerate man that he is, thought of something else he could do when he flushed the filter. He would attach a heavy duty hose to the outlet and the water would go through the outlet at the house into the sewer system. The outlet is off of the laundry room, the same drain where the washing machine empties.

So, he got it hooked up. And he started it. It worked until the force was so strong, the hose split. He needed to get a bigger hose, but this did the trick. All set.

He stayed by the pool, putting diatomaceous earth into the skimmer for the filter, watching the water level, adding chlorine and making sure all was working as it should. I heard him a little later in the kitchen, talking. I thought he was talking to the cats.

Then I heard him bellow “WHERE ARE YOU!?!” Oh, my, this can’t be good.

“I’m in here!” (the office).

“Get out here!”

I go running into the kitchen. I look into the laundry room. The laundry baskets, all four of them, are gone, out on the lawn. There is dirty, nasty, icky water all over the floor. It’s deep and it’s into the kitchen. It came in via the drain where the washing machine empties. This is pool filter water. And it isn’t pretty. He told me to look into the kitchen sinks. They were horrible, covered in muck. The dish drainer was full of this crud. It not only came up through the laundry room drain, it also came up through the sink (I hope the rest of the house is okay).

Brian goes the shop vac and started vacuuming up the water. I helped for a while, then he pulled the washer and dryer out and I vacuumed out quite a bit, then he came in behind me and started. I noticed all the cat pee on the wall (thank you, Georgie and all of your kitty cat friends) and got a dust cloth wet and added some Simple Green. When Brian left the house to empty the water from the shop vac tank, I wiped down the walls and the side of the dryer. There really wasn’t much room for both of us out there, so I left and started cleaning up the kitchen. And as luck would have it, it was time for DeeJay to get his fluids. But I couldn’t very well put him up on the counter, because it was pretty gross and I didn’t want him ingesting this stuff when he cleaned his paws. I got the counter cleaned, he got his fluids and his treats.

I had to dump out the litter box that was in there, because it had gotten a lot of water into it. When Brian finished, I started putting everything back where it belonged. And I started a load of laundry, because there were towels that needed to be washed. Imagine my surprise when I opened the drawer where I keep the towels that are put down for DeeJay to pee on and where I keep my dryer fabric softener sheets to find it, too, got hit pretty hard. I pulled out all of the towels that had been laundered the day before and salvaged as many dryer sheets as I could. The rest got tossed. Then I had to clean the drawer (my washer and dryer are front loading machines that we got for a real good price at the Sears outlet store and they’re on pedastals which double as storage.

This morning, the kitchen smelled kind of funky, so I ran water down both drains for a while, figured I’d put the dish drainer in the dishwashing machine and plugged both sinks and put bleach into each one. I let it set for a few minutes, then I pulled the plugs. I rinsed the sinks out well. So far, that smell is gone (it was the smell of wet laundry left in a pile for weeks, stale and moldy and just unclean). And I have to wash the floor, it’s still pretty dirty.

So, in theory, it was a good idea. It just didn’t work.

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01:20 PM - 08/29/2005

The topic: In the news
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Does a cup of coffee get you going in the morning? Guess what? It’s also good for you!

First they find a little alcohol a day is good, now the same for coffee. Next, let’s hear how wonderful those French fries really are!

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