Domestic Geek

So, guess what Marcus and I have been dealing with the last hour and a half? Bathing the dog. Yep, Skippy managed to encounter a skunk outside. He was in and running around like crazy (like the toe bleeding episode) before Marcus realized what had happened. Now my whole frickin' house reeks. I went to the store for tomato juice and I guess the dog rubbed against me because I stunk up King Soopers. Oh, well. When I got home, Marcus had read on the Internet that tomato juice doesn't work. Yay. You're supposed to bathe them with a mixture of peroxide, baking soda and dish soap. I scrounged what little I had of those ingredients and we went to work. Poor dog is exhausted. Looks like this weekend he gets shaved. He was shedding really bad and now all that hair matted in the tub. What a mess!

It's no secret that I hate Blogrolling. Luckily there haven't been as many problems as there was a year ago, but I wanted the recently updated feature and most times it doesn't work anyway. I still end up going through most of my links to see if anybody has anything new. So, I saw awhile back that Yoshi was working on an Expression Engine Linklist module. He finally finished and released it, so I took the time this weekend to download and try it. I need to figure out how to customize it to my liking, but now I no longer have to watch my site spin while it tries to load stuff from blogrolling.com! I like the little favicons showing up. I need to get off my duff and make one. I used to have one when this place was LaDonnaBlog. Oh, well...someday!

I started working on my design business web site yesterday. Marcus bought me a starter set of business cards. Hopefully I'll be up and running for business by next week. I really need to find a client. Most of the designers I've taked to say they get business by word-of-mouth. Unfortunately, you need clients to get clients! There are some things going on at the job that I really hate, but I've decided not to air work crap here. I will say, however, that I've got some confidence in my design ability now and it's time I start making what my skills are really worth.

I'm poor. It's been a long time since I've been this bad off financially. Marcus says it's the growing pains of escaping pizza and that things will get better. I need to make them better NOW. I don't have money for anything extra...like food. LOL This week I'll be getting rid of everything totally unnecessary on eBay to raise cash. In addition to the necessities in life, I was a vacation, I want to move, I want a monitor that isn't fuzzy, I was a faster Mac. All these darned things take MONEY!

The exercise regimine gets restarted this week. I haven't gained weight, but I am terribly out of shape. Desk jobs suck. I didn't realize how much exercise I got making dough, but a walk around the park with Marcus on Saturday totally kicked my ass! I was so sore yesterday, I could barely move--FROM WALKING! I guess it will be time to resurrect the old Loser blog, too.

OK, my lunch is over, so I had better find something to do here at work.

Man, I so don't want to be here at work today. I've had a really stressful couple of weeks and all I wanted to do was stay home today and get stuff done around the homestead. We're going to be using Filemaker Pro at work in the next week and I'd figure I'd get some research into how that all works done, but I'm just not feeling like it today. I feel icky and I need a nap--BAD! What sucks is I have to be here at least another hour and a half. I'm not gonna make it.

Thanks to my Blingo Friend "ueblay", I got another $10 iTunes gift certificate today! Yayyyyy! So, if you are "ueblay", let me know who you are!

Now, everybody else sign up to be my Blingo Friend, use it and win me an iPod nano!

I guess I'm back in an insomnia phase. It took me hours to go to sleep last night and yet here I am—wide awake at 7:00 am. *sigh* I hope I can get a nap in today or get to sleep early tonight or I'm not going to do well at work on Monday.

It snowed a little last night. Tomorrow is the first day of Spring. I really, really, really wish the weather would warm up for good. The teaser of warm weather we had a couple of weeks back sucked. Perfect weather. I loved it. Now this. Oh, well.

Well, I've got Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and The Return of Spinal Tap to watch from Netflix today. I think I'll set my laptop up back in the craft room and watch while I clean. That room is a disaster area. I'm going to turn it into my home office, so I won't get distracted (as much) when I get some freelance work. I debated about turning the bunny room into my office, but they have too much hair and dander flying around in there to be good for my computer stuff.