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I don’t get it.

Well, it’s not as bad as when the furnace went out this January, making it 40 degrees in here and forcing us to sleep on Adam’s floor in sleeping bags, but here’s my excuse for the day: The water heater’s out.
I was going to get up around 6:30 with Doug, take a shower after he took his, write a blog for publication later today, and get some other stuff done. On Saturday for some reason I was up and at ’em at 6:30 and ended up cleaning every floor surface in the house. Felt good to get some stuff done for the first time in weeks (the pup requires constant attention if we want our books and rugs to stay nice).
Well, our new landlords were doing something with the gas line and shut it off for the whole place–they relit the furnace pilot light and the oven is OK, but Doug said he ran the water for almost 10 minutes and it never heated up.
So, without the shower to jump start my day I just slept in until 8:30 :)

What’s keeping you from doing stuff around the house?

Reading (2)

Happy May, everyone! It’s still chilly here, not a typical Kansas May, which is in fact very irritating to me. That and the fact that my bike has disappeared, but that’s neither here nor there.

I’ve always loved reading, and when I’m not chasing around the dog these days (can’t take my eye off of him for a minute) I still try to fit in a few chapters every day. I finished those library books I wrote about last time, loved one (Empress Orchid) and thought the other was just OK (The Life and Opinions…). I’m on the waiting list  for Water for Elephants but since the movie’s out, the list is rather long, so we’ll see. Everyone (like me) wants to check it out before watching the film. I’m currently working on One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, an author I like (while in Morocco, I read Love in the Time of Cholera).

One Hundred Years of Solitude is on my (drumroll) arbitrary list of 100 books I will read someday. I know, right? Well, there’s a new tab at the top of the post which I adapted from a word document that’s been sitting around on my desktop for about a year now. I don’t remember who compiled it or where I found it, but it’s a list, and I do love crossing things off lists. I want to read many or most books on it, so it’s up there. If you want to check it out every now and then to see how I’m doing, well, that’d be fun :)

Also, don’t forget to vote for me (on the right sidebar). They’ve reset their counts and with lots of votes I could break into the first page easily!

Life at Home Lately

Yes, this is how things have been around here lately.

Image via Italian Greyhound Club.

Okay, okay, not so much. But see the cute little greyhound in the center-right? Toooooo cute!