little Katie is laying beside me dreaming. her paw flicks at stuff occasionally, and she's making munching noises with her mouth. I adore my little dog. I am so happy that all of the working that I've done with her has paid off. when it's just the two of us she is very obedient and sweet. she is not completely obedient with strangers, though, which I'm still working on. we don't get a lot of visitors around here, so it makes socializing her a bit tough.

ugh, but the roommate's dog just let some gas go. gross. she's on the other side. yesterday and today she's been a bit better behaved with me. she seems to have been taught the command "no lick" by someone, which is good. until yesterday I've just been saying "no" when she tries to lick me. no lick works much better! unfortunately, I was out for less than 30 minutes this afternoon and she pooped in the porch. so, back in the kennel when I'm not home she goes.

I really don't have too much patience for her antics. I think we're having a major power struggle. I almost wonder if I should fake beat up Nick to prove that I really am the boss of this house.

at any rate, other than that today was pretty good. I bizarrely woke up at 8 and stayed up! I watered the front lawn (where I scattered clover seed, which has yet to appear so I'm worried) and then left the house before 9. I had a little breakfast at Tim Horton's while I made a list of things to get done. the things on the list that I accomplished: got some gardening stuff, a new windshield wiper for my car, bought 4 lawn chairs, new cleats for soccer and frisbee, new flip flops, and a couple of random things from the grocery store.

I then spent over an hour, perhaps close to two, cleaning my car. it hadn't been vacuumed or wiped down in over a year and a half. ridiculous! it looks amazing now though. so amazing. I was gonna take the dogs to the dog park today, but I opted to enjoy my clean car for one more day.

I then read in the hammock for a bit, then had my first nap in the hammock. totally excellent!! oh and before that I painted the numbers on the front of my house. I've had temporary numbers there since I moved in; I made them out of milk cartons! I'll do another coat of paint tomorrow, but they're finally permanent numbers!

this evening I went to Atlantis (coffeehouse) for a bit, just to get out of the house. I texted everyone but absolutely nothing was happening. ah well. for 2 hours I read about the East Coast in preparation for my trip. I leave Wednesday and get back 8 days later. I'm way beyond excited! Susan, the friend I'm visiting, is too. we're going to have the best time ever. the music at Atlantis was pretty excellent tonight too. they played the new Rah Rah disc, which I have to buy as soon as possible.

I've emailed Justice Studies boy to see if he wants to go to dinner tomorrow night. I haven't seen him in a few weeks. he wants to see me before I go, but he didn't call me all weekend so I'm feeling extremely meh about him. dinner might be good though. Little Saigon--I haven't been able to get their bun cha off my mind! anyway, we'll see if he can do that. otherwise I won't see him until after June 21. I'm gone June 3 to 11; he's gone June 10 to 19; I'm gone June 19 to 21. ha!

on either Monday or Tuesday, I am not sure yet, I will be going to see Star Trek with Friday Guy. I am really looking forward to this! I haven't seen him since that Friday two weeks ago, but we've chatted on MSN a bit. he writes his final tomorrow! and then he gets to have a bit of a life again! he hasn't see Star Trek yet and I want to see it again, so it's going to be nice. I asked if I get to hold his hand at the movie. he said it depends on where my hand is. I said that was a secret. oh, silly. I do hope we hold hands, though. we'll for sure hug. we for sure won't kiss, since I'm still sick.

my illness is going away, but I am not all better yet. I cough a ton and it's gross. Thursday night I coughed all night and got little sleep. Friday was rough. tomorrow I'm going in to work for an hour or two to get a few things done. I can do them at home, but I'd rather do an hour or two and get out, rather than muse about it all day and kinda do a bit here and there and then feel all stressed out. I dunno, mostly I just want to do two work blog posts. I really can just do that from here.

well, that's me for now I guess.