I shall blame this on the fog I was in from my aching left wrist, which thankfully is again feeling better; hopefully I won’t wrench it positioning the dog again and I may well go another year before it plagues me. Stupid arthritis. Anyway, I realized I forgot a bunch of stuff I wanted to mention yesterday, so now I shall mention it:
- Wednesday I went to the library for a change of scenery within which to write and my bag got stolen. Thankfully, my new netbook wasn’t in the bag, but most of the contents of my purse were. I don’t generally carry cash — and when I do I usually have it in my pocket — so I didn’t really lose any money unless you count the two books of stamps I’d just purchased that morning. (The record will show that I do count this as lost money.) Instead, I’m without credit/debit/insurance/ID cards until they are replaced. Yesterday the first of my replacement cards arrived, my credit card . . . which says that it can’t be activated until after next Sunday. I don’t know how that is remotely helpful.
- I got a Google Wave invite. So, Wave me if you’re on there. (Not that I really have any idea what I’m doing.)
- I finally bit the bullet and joined Goodreads. Yeah, I don’t know why I dug my heals in about that one, been having a jolly good time there. (Though, most of Facebook and Twitter probably hate me for the inadvertent — and now cleaned up — spammage I did when adding books to my “shelf”.) Feel free to add me if you’re on there and if you’re not and you read stuff I fully recommend joining.
As for today, Sarah and Fay took us to Crossings, which is a fantastically beautiful park in Colonie. We let the dogs take a swim in one of the ponds and they had quite a fine time. I’ve been wondering how Yara would approach swimming, she’s always incredibly interested in water, but for the most part she just wanted to pounce on Fay. As such, she got nice and muddy — since she didn’t get her whole body wet. So after we walked around the park and the dogs had dried sufficiently we took a trip to Sarah’s apartment and Yara had her first bath since being placed with me.1 I’m very pleased to say she was very good about the bath; minimal whining and she didn’t shower us with dirty bath water and soap suds. She wasn’t particularly pleased with the entire event and she did try and take a few opportunities to jump out of the tub, but given her issues with having her nails done, I was expecting a lot worse. This actually works out remarkably well since we’re having our annual holiday card photos taken Friday and her grooming appointment was inconveniently not until the Monday after.
Anyway, I best get to writing some more on my Nano. Due to an upsetting personal matter I had a brief setback earlier today, but am still fully intending to break 20,000 words today.
1. Since she’s brushed every morning, she hasn’t needed to be bathed before now.
