oh, crazy girl

Okay, dumb story time!

Kirsten, our recent graduate of the university, with her very own double major in economics and marketing communications (evidence she's bright) wins the award for this week. Did she think the marines were recruiting her mother? Nope. Did she eat dog treats by mistake? Nope.

The air in her house is uncomfortably dry, as forced air heat often is when it's also really, really cold outside, so she wanted to make use of a humidifier. She and her friend who lives there with her brought up the machine from the basement... and realized it was a DE-humidifier. That wasn't going to help. It'd actually make things worse.

Well, her dad was over there and since the dehumidifier was in the dining room already, said he'd take it back home to our house, since it's ours. As he carried this big beast through the kitchen, water slopped all down his pants, "This is full of water!"

"Yeah. Me and Nick filled it." (snort, snort, i love this.)

They do have an actual humidifier in use now, don't worry.

In other news, the second caterpillar has now died, and Kari was is very sad. Her name was Tickles, and she's in a zip lock bag in the freezer in the office, waiting until spring for burial.

This afternoon, my niece suggested burying her in a houseplant. We can do that, I guess. What would it hurt? Kari's thinking about it. My mother gave her a pretty ceramic planter she can use.

Oh, and TIM. Kari had a wonderful zoo going in Zoo Tycoon. Five stars. She worked hard and was proud of her great zoo. Then HE ...and I can't even believe he did this... let the ANIMALS out of their CAGES and the whole zoo turned to chaos, as will happen when you OPEN ALL THE CAGES. Kari was livid. "It's bad enough Tickles died, and then you did this behind my back! What in the hell is wrong with you, anyway?" Well, yeah. That's a good question.

I told him it was despicable, and why? Why? How could you? He said sorry and sorry again and tried to keep a contrite expression on his face. I think at that point he did feel bad. It wasn't funny in the end, even though it had been at the time. He suggested, "Maybe Maria can help you fix it." Oh yeah, let's dump our wrecked zoo on Maria.

Okay. Onward to Tuesday. Life is good. Good enough, anway. love, Val