2010 NEW TOYS

i'm fairly certain if strawberry twizzlers contained some protein, i could live off of them. my wicked canines were designed for ripping and shredding plastic chew toys.

i've gotten back into my people analyzing mode while riding the bus. i did this last year while riding the bus to work, pattern recognition. i easily pick out patterns people and objects display. i can tell you the rotation for stop lights around town, if and when they change during the course of a day. i can take the noise of someone walking behind my desk and identify who it is.

on the bus, many people sit in the same seats everyday. woman with a laptop next to last row (she offered me a seat once, moved all her things). middle-aged woman with frizzy hair who uses my stop and always has to be the first on the bus. she sits on the back row with me, taking my coveted window seat, reading. there's also an hispanic man, short for a guy, oozing boring normalcy that mysteriously intrigues me. i'm a sucker for an old dude (relatively speaking). when he, frizzy hair and i are boarding the bus, he always smiles and gestures for me to go first. he usually sits mid-bus but today followed me to the back, sitting next to laptop lady (there were a handful of extra people riding today).

so, i did what any normal person would do: i analyzed what little i could see of him. his salt and pepper hair's always combed down neatly; he's well-groomed in general, probably early 40s. he's always wearing dark sunglasses, but when he turned his head i saw he has light brown eyes and long lashes. he's married, sways to his music like ray charles, has freckles on his left ear, the arm rest is uncomfortable for him, and he's currently experiencing neck pain. i have a bizarre attraction to arms and hands, but his aren't that great. well, his arms may be okay, but his hands are too...ugly, in a stubby, big-knuckled manly kind of way.

the other day when i attained window seat heaven, the opposite window was occupied by a rather young man (though older than myself) in a dress shirt and slacks holding a sheet of paper with greek writing, reading it aloud. bring some of that my way, man. since there were three empty seats between us, i sat facing him with my back to the window, alternating between my crossword and watching him.

i am currently ground zero for a uterine rebellion, so i'm returning to lounging. ideally i should sleep, but again i'm not too tired. hopefully within the hour.

4/8/09 23:11

We (my husband and me) got Boo on December 31 2010. We have had her for almost 9 months and it feels like a lifetime. She is a husky and malamute mix. There is something else but the original owner doesn't know what it was. We got Boo free. Her first owner, I think got her as a puppy. I don't know too much about her first owner except that she wanted to go on vacation had her sister dog sit and then a week later called her sister and said that she wasn't coming back and that she can keep the dog. The sister said where she is place doesn't take dogs, even though she is the top owner and could change the rules. Nobody know when she was born so we don’t know how old she is, the vet thinks that she is about 8 because her molars. The sister already had a wild 2-year-old dog and didn't want another dog. The sister had her for about 8 months. Boo was taken care of but I don't think she had much love. She was crated when they were at work and then got crated again about 8pm for the night. So she was only out of her crate a few hours a day. She is thriving in our house. When we got her, they said that she was all caught up on her shots, she doesn't like squeaky toys, and she likes to sit on your lap and loves car rides. When we called the vet to see about her rabies shot so we could register her in our town. We found out that she was due for her rabies shot 2008 that is 3 years past. So we had to get her rabies, distemper and a check up. They said that they haven't seen her since last year June. Boo also is on thyroid medince she had to have a 1/2 pill in the morning and 1/2 pill at night. That was the only thing that they were doing for her. We found out that she loves blankets and squeaky toys. Boo doesn't play with any toys unless they squeak. And true her last owner she loves car rides. That is the only thing that we found true about what they said. Boo is 8 but she doesn’t act it and doesn’t look it. She has made a few friends with the neighbor dogs. There owners are shocked when I tell them that Boo is 8. Everyone says what a good dog she is. She hardly eve3r barks and she LOVES to watch people. Our neighbors behind us don’t like dogs and they love Boo. She follows me wherever I go. If I get up and go to the kitchen, she is right behind me. I like to say she is the seven dwarfs in one. She is Sneezy, Sleepy, Happy, Grumpy, Bashful, Dopey and Doc. We feel like we have had Boo forever.