Hounds of love


Heylove wants me to get this book because she heard about it on Fresh Air yesterday. I listened to a rebroadcast of the program, and the little ribs is right, this book is totally up my alley. Reminds me of the two sweet pit mixes I used to have and the other ones we saved.

Here's an excerpt from one rescue story about a rowdy looking pit:
"He [the pitbull] settled into the passenger's seat, and I pulled onto the highway, talking to him the entire time. After a few minutes he began leaning toward me. Then he put a paw on my lap. Next he was sitting on top of me, turning to face me, and settling down with his back to the road, his face staring directly into mine.

"What are you doing?" I asked, nervous, a little, to find out. I didn't think he would attack me, but we were in a closed-in space, on the road -- not a place to find out. Out came his tongue, and the kisses began. Now I was laughing, and still unable to see where I was going.

Sweet dog!

I got my wings


I got an Amazon GC for my birthday (thanks M&J!), but it took forever to decide what I wanted to get. So I got this necklace and something boring that I needed.

Yesterday after work, I was starving so Leon suggested we go out and grab a bite at the new Opa! Opa! I'm a falafel lover and I heard they had it, so we went to eat what we could eat. Okay, so this place gets a total thumbs down on falafel. I couldn't even finish it. I ordered a falafel pita and a side of some kind of greeky salad. The small side salad conisted of old tomatoes, red onions, slimy cukes, 3 kalamata olives and a dalop of feta cheese on top. It would have been good if it were fresh, but it tasted like it had been sitting in a prep tub for more than 24 hours. The falafel was not much better. About 4 discs of rubbery falafel sat in a greasy pita with tahini, romaine lettuce, 2 roma tomato slices and 2 pickle chips. There seemed to be some kind of hot sauce at one end of my pita, too. While these are all things I'm accustomed to having in my falafel sandwiches, the falafel itself as so weak that it ruined the whole experience. It just tasted stale and old. The texture was kind of rubbery and cold. I left the meal feeling so unsatisfied. Leon had the same thing more or less. We paid about $22 to hate this meal. I feel so ripped off.

Everybody loves the sunshine


My editors have me on a tight leash today, so I can't say much except that I'm dissappointed with last night's Lost episode. I also had a huge fight with my Tivo because it did not record the first 48 minutes of Top Model. Now I'll just talk about the weather.

It was sunny out this morning for a change, but all the rain is coming back soon. I just want it get dry enough so that Leon can cut the lawns. Our house has the worst lawn on the block right now. I also want to be able to get the front gardening in order, which we can't really do until the weather gets better. All this rain is nice for nature and stuff, but it's more than I'm used to and it's starting to cramp my style. Sorry, nature.

Wednesdays own me


I am not ashamed to be so in love with a certain number of television programs. Wednesdays, I belong to Lost, American Idol and America's Next Top Model. I already know what's going to happen on Lost (thanks to my spoiler message board, hey...that's how I roll). But no spoilers were to be found on the othet two shows. I'm predicting that Ace Young will have a bad day on Idol, and I'm going to guess that either Joanie or Furonda are out of the running to become America's...next...top...model.