The Weekly Daily Stuff

I spent the weekend cleaning and rearranging the guest room. Although I made a lot of changes after my daughter "moved out" in 2003, I had never moved the GIANT black dresser. This dresser is about 8 feet high and 25 feet wide. (That's 1/2 mile by 4 miles, metric.)

We took out all of the drawers before we attempted to move it and the bottom four drawers are so wide, we had to crab-walk sideways style down the hall with them. It was a lot of work, but the room seems twice as large now. Which is odd because with the exception of some wall shelves, which are now holding junk in the closet, we didn't remove anything. ANYTHING. So all of the same stuff is in there, but it seems like there is twice as much floor space. That makes no sense to me at all. I am baffled every time I go in there. I guess it's like one of those optical illusion things. Like this image where the center dot on the left seems larger because it is surrounded by smaller things: But the floor in there is not surrounded by smaller things. It is surrounded by the same things, just in different places. I don't get it. I need to stop thinking about it.

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Tuesday night my daughter came by "after work," meaning she got here about 1:00 a.m. Wednesday. In all fairness she does work until 11:00 p.m., but she works about 15 minutes from here. I pretty much told her she needed to come Tuesday night to spend the night because she had planned to do Meals on Wheels with me for the past two weeks, but never made it over. But this particular Wednesday I wanted her to drive me because I had a doctor appointment downtown. For this:

That is a skin tag on my left eyelid and I'm tired of it. My regular doctor referred me to an "eyelid specialist." What's that? An eyelid specialist? Eyelids are what? two square inches of the whole human body? That didn't make any sense to me. Until I saw his "before and after" book. DO NOT EVER look at an eyelid specialist's before and after book after you've just had lunch. And I'm not even as squeamish as some people. He was an odd little man. He reminded me of a gnome. I had hoped he would just snip it off and put some human band-aid superglue stuff on it, but no, I have to go back. He held my hand and explained the procedure to me: He will INJECT my eyelid WITH A NEEDLE to numb it, then snip it off, and then CAUTERIZE it. I said, "Mmmm, that will smell good." My daughter, who was in the room with me, said, "Well that's going to be horrible." Then I said, "So have you ever, you know, slipped, and the needle went through the eyelid and into the eyeball?" He seemed offended and taken aback, but he calmly replied, "No. Not in my 30 years of practice." I said, "Can you just do it without the needle part?" He told me no and that's when he told me the cauterizing part involved a tool that would be 2000 degrees. I can see how he wouldn't want to be touching someone with a 2000 degree thing ON THEIR EYE and having them jump. I'm going to do that August 1st. Oh boy!

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Tuesday night, Elaine, the stray kitty seemed a little more bold than usual so I went out there to try to make friends with her. The only things I made friends with were about 19 mosquitos. I have been getting an average of five bites a day for over a week now. I should be dead from West Nile Virus by now. Tonight I tried to sneak up on her from behind but she is faster than lightning. I called the animal control people today about a trap and he said I needed to leave a $50 deposit check. I told him I had cash, but he would have none of that. I do not have a checking account so My Sweetie wrote a check tonight and I am going tomorrow (Friday). I'm hoping he will find someone at work tomorrow to take her. My second option is the neighbor lady who was Reebus's mom although she lets her cats out. The main option is to take her to the Humane Society. I wish we could keep her, but four cats seems like too many (sorry, Jeanette). I will try to get pictures of the trapping experience. Wish me (and Elaine) luck with all of that!