I fell asleep on the sofa at 4 PM this afternoon and now I am semi-awake, but slightly disoriented and I keep thinking that somebody is going to come home any minute and I cringe every time I hear a motor engine or a door slam. I have just made myself a large mug of coffee and I hope that with the aid of it, I will soon return to the reality that is my life and not this half awake life in which I am only imagining things. I am sure you all know this feeling of waking up in the middle of the day and having to place yourself in the right context again and sometimes that takes awhile.
The Überhund is sound asleep at my feet. His solid presence comforts me and i realize how much he has changed and how nice and mellow he has become. He used to be such a pain in the neck and constantly want attention and beg for it by being slightly obnoxious, but he does none of that now. He is a nice and quiet dog and talks to me if there is somethings he wants or needs and I can usually figure it out. I think he was in competition with the Exfactor for the Alpha dog role and it made him insecure.
I am not sure which role I have now. When we go for a walk, I am the boss, I made sure of that, but I don’t know for sure if I’m the Alpha dog at home. I hope I am, because he does listen to me and follows me wherever I go, so I must be. When I get home, he is very happy to see me, but he always turns his butt to me to be greeted, does anyone know what that means? Is that submission? Or the opposite?
I have decided on Facebook, that as soon as a person I am ‘friends’ with keeps adding friends at a phenomenal rate and does not communicate with me, I remove them as a friend. I have gotten rid of two so called ‘friends’ that way today and I think I will be removing more. It is after all not a competition to see how many ‘friends’ a person can gather, although that seems to be the purpose for some people. I am not in it for that. I like to approach people myself and sometimes that works out, but sometimes people approach me and I take a chance. There is always the remove button, though. It’s nice to have your occasional comments reacted to. It means people care and are paying attention.
We’ve had a hot weekend, but just now it has started to rain. It is assumed that this was the last of the summer weather and that now the fall will start, although it seems to us that process has been going on already for a while. I was just about to go outside to water the potted jasmine, but now I won’t have to. It looks like it survived it’s haphazard transplant and i think I will have a really healthy plant there next year. With any luck, it will bloom this winter.
The weekend went by quickly. I didn’t actually do very much, except for vacuum and that was a real fun job, because i had changed the bag in the vacuum cleaner and then it always works extremely well. It would suck up the cats if they didn’t get out of the way. It works well on the new area rug and that is good, because I was hoping it would take care of the dog hair there and any fleas or other nasty things that decided to drop off the animals, although I think that the Überhund is flea free now. I ended up buying him Frontline, as I thought the stuff that the vet gave me wasn’t working that well, but the Frontline seems to have done the job. He is also wearing a flea collar, but I don’t have much faith in it. Vacuuming a lot does the trick.
In a way I am happy that the weekend is over. I do like the laziness of it, but tomorrow i have creative therapy and I am looking forward to that, when I finish peeling the backs of those images and start putting the paint washes on. It also means the bureaucracy starts up again and I will have to gather the paperwork on why I don’t want to pay city taxes to go with the objection I sent per Internet this weekend. Basically, because I don’t have an income and I have to show that.
I also have to make an official objection against them withholding my welfare check. It’s all a pain in the butt, but it has to be done. I have to find out where to send the paperwork.
Well, my pall the Überhund really wants to go out now, so I suppose that’s what we will do.
Have a nice end of the weekend and tell me how you deal with adversity, I would so like to know.
Ciao…
Irene, it’s been very hot here and we’ve had storms. You could try frontline combi on the Uberhound and the cats, it kills the egg too. Good luck with the social. Debs x
I don’t use facebook that much but I do like to stay in touch with people, check out their status and play a few word games. I like to keep it small.
As for dealing with adversity? If only I knew! Take everything one step at a time I suppose. Trying to cope with everything at once is just overwhelming.
Enjoy your creative therapy session.
ps I love the header photo!
How to deal with adversity… hmmm. You know, I believe opening yourself up to others and not keeping everything withheld inside is the way I handle problems. Gaining the strength of friends and family when sometimes we fail to find strength inside ourselves. Taking problems one step at a time, tackling what we can and accepting when we can’t.
We have a holiday day tomorrow, so my weekend isn’t over … quite yet! Take care, enjoy your day tomorrow.
Sadly, I deal with adversity by eating lots and lots of chocolate
Adversity!!!!!!!! I don’t really feel I do it well. I think recognizing what you can change and what you cannot. Talking to wise friends, and putting yourself into the hands of God & trying to trust him in it all, seems to help me. I’m not too good when things come in droves, like they have been doing with us recently. One thing at a time is easier!
I have 2 days of holiday left before school starts. This morning will be spent with a good friend, out walking. As you know, walking is healing!
Tomorrow, I am seeing another friend who I don’t see very often. I have sadly neglected friends for family lately! Couldn’t be helped.
Saturday was really hot! Think that was the last of the summer!
Enjoy yourself at the creative therapy session. ‘Bye for now X
It is definitely the end of the summer here. When I woke up there was just a tiny bit of frost on the fields, you know when the grass just has a slight white shimmer. Not that we’ve even had a proper summer here. *sigh*
Good luck with our objections and you’ll see, it’ll turn out right in the end. They can’t require you to pay city taxes if you’re not earning any money, surely.
And I’m sure you’re the Alpha dog now! I bet when the Überhund turns his bum to you he wants you to sniff it, lol. You know how most dogs start sniffing each other when they meet… At least I think that’s it.
hmm facebook … i’m only friends with people in real life (except for ariel, recently) … perhaps that’s naive? and rather un-facebook, the point of which *must* be to be friends with as many people as possible and show that off?
Ughhh I hate paperwork, but it must be done. I used frontline with my old dog Jazz and my old cat Myron and it worked brilliantly so I’m sure uberhund and the cats will be fine.
I’m a bit slow at facebook as there’s jst not enough time in the day but I think it’s a nice way to say hello every now and then and check in. Does that make sense??
Hope you have a great day and I have no idea why uberhund shows you his bottom, unless it’s his way of saying, ‘follow me’ . He perhaps is telling you he’d rather you were with him than off out somewhere. Or he’s just a cheeky monkey.
When did you slip this post in Irene? Goodness! Where have I been?
Why on earth are they withholding your welfare cheque? Because of the help you got from the exfactor? What crap!
Cold hard cash Irene – always and forever.
Adversity? Sigh……….