In case you ever questioned...

There comes a time in everyone's life when they have to decide how commited they are to the things they love.

Well, Sorry mom, but I am pretty commited.

If I don't cut my finer nails, someone is going to get hurt

There has been a lot of controversy over if I can train my cat to walk on a leash, OR
More like if it is right to walk my cat on a leash.

For the Internet world who does not know me well, I have a cat named "The Boo"


I think he is just about the best cat in the world, but some have compared him to other more unfavorable characters...


Months ago I moved into a new apartment, which I enjoy but is the smallest place that The Boo has ever lived. Since moving this apartment he has become very attention starved and a bit rambunctious. So my solution has been to try and ween him into walking with me outside. So I purchased a cat harness and the great experiment has begun.

We started with just wearing the harness in the house, no leash, no restrictions, just a little harness. He is rewarded with treats to not bite my face.

Phase two so far has been difficult yet successful. We have made it to the porch and our goal is to "sit pretty". The first day he freaked out for about an hour and embarrassed me in front of my neighbors. Eventually calming down, but still tried to bit the Mexican guy that lives next to me.

Day two of phase two was much easier than day one. He only freaked out a quarter of the time as last week and fell asleep.

I am not ready to embark of Phase 3 yet, which is walking to the corner store, but all things come to those who wait.

Here are some helpful facts to cat walking
http://www.hdw-inc.com/leashtraining.htm

let the great experiment begin!

uh oh

So I am getting seriously nervous about how I am going to try and spend the next hour and five minutes looking like I have something to do.

I have managed to kill about 3 hours with internet searching, but the time is nearing no return. I will escape to lunch at two but there is so much time to look busy in between now and then.

The sad thing is I want real work. I would love to wake up and say, man I can't wait to have something to do today. Which I do, after 4. I have plenty to do after 4 pm today. In fact I have so much stuff I can do outside of this job, that it would be great not to have it. However looking nice thin by choice probably is completely different than being thin due to starvation since I cannot afford food.

I wish that more jobs were becoming available. Maybe I should spend this time looking for work.

I guess I will try that.

A little Rambo in the morning

Today's stock room discussion started off with me discussing my obtainable dream of owning an all Rocky montage tape. Mostly of trainging and fight scenes, but I would probably also add a few choice quotes. 

Anway, Howard (a small fellow of about 57 who uses an oxygen tank) told me that his favorite Rocky was "First Blood". 

I looked at him for a minute to make sure he wasn't joking, and than proceeded to explain to him that Rocky, is a character, and what he is thinking of is the person Sly Stallone playing John Rambo. 

He didn't quite follow what I was saying, but we did agree that "First Blood" was an excellent movie. 

You have to use three different marinades

So this weekend was another successful BBQ.
Harold threw a BBQ for me because it was my birthday last week.

I made food for it, and discovered that marinading is the secret to true happiness. Not just in food but in love, life, and sundays.

Let me explain,

When it comes to love,
You cannot just jump into the relationship. You have to let it stew, sit, soak in the juice (gross). You can't just assume that what you are doing will taste great at first bite. You have to put the correct spices into the recipe. If you just always go for the fast solution, you end up with the McDonald's of relationships over and over again.

When it comes to Life,
If you just went into it with what you were first handed it would be boring. Nothing to do, nothing to invest in, nothing to cherish. You have to develop opinions and morals. You would taste terrible over hot coals if there was nothing to you! You also have to accept that sometimes things are like onions, you cry over what will one day turn out to be delicious.

When it comes to Sundays,
You can't rush a perfect sunday. You have to go out to breakfast, decide if the movies you are going to watch for the day are going to be comedy, horror, or action themed. You have to pick the right combination of comedies to what you are going to eat.
You can't have chinese during a horror movie! You will be trying to pick up a piece of General Tso's with chopsticks and miss a slash or gash! That is a pizza situation. Quick bites that you don't have to focus on. Falafel during a romantic dramaedy? What are you thinking?! How sexy are hot balls? None to!

Finally when it comes to the Sunday you cannot just spend it with any friend, you have to find a Harold type character. One that knows how to pick Chinese food like a fine wine. Can understand the subtle joke of "Canadian Tuxedo", and will cry with you over the fat kid in "Bad Santa"

Yes Folks marinading is the secret. It only took me until 25 to learn it.

If you want to smile

Check out Vikki's blog.
She is an old friend.
I stumbled upon this today and it makes me pretty happy.

http://vikkichu.blogspot.com

Very talented.

Did Noah come down and tell anyone to build an Arc?

Yesterday I went to the Barnes Foundation and Museum http://www.barnesfoundation.org/

The patrons of the Barnes museum all had a creepily familar resemblence to each other. Most were middle age, "hippish", but obviously make over 65,000 a year. I saw more earth shoes and Sigg bottles then I care to on a nomarl day.

Another interesting thing about the people at the Barnes was that several of them were wearing protective masks, to prevent them from catching the Swine Flu. I saw more people wearing protective masks at the Barnes in the suburbs than all of Philadelphia yesterday. Think about that, think about who CNN is targeting to care about this "potential pandemic".

Of course I took every opportunity to get close to these people and pretend sneeze or cough. Say loudly near them how I just returned from a flight. I had one woman completely leave the room to get away from, while others just scattered in different directions.

Now don't get me wrong, some of the art was interesting to see, but over all the most beautiful thing about the museum was the people.

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