Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tales

I spent the last hour watching Blurred Lines cover and parody videos, trying to find a good one for this post. It all started with my canceling my TV cable service... *flashback wavy lines* When I want to watch stuff, I have to do it online. I'm surprised at how many sites like this one host hundreds of shows. More shows than I knew existed!

Apparently there's a version of the Great British Bake-off for kids (Junior Bake Off), so I started watching some season of that. The show used Blurred Lines in the middle of the ep. You know, the rape-y song? Made me blink quite a bit! Apparently it was banned in UK schools, but it's used on a TV show featuring kids?

The song sure is catchy though, thus listening to covers and parodies was really no hardship.



A scene from my current obsession amused me today. All my cats sitting around inside on the new expensive piece of cat furniture I bought, and one silly dopey cat hanging out outside under a hat.

This might be the most specific tip I've ever posted. My apartment came with vertical blinds. I love them! Unlike the horizontal one, they don't collect tons of dust. Then they started falling out. How does the little tab break? I have no idea. Is it my fault? It might be? (Sometimes I slide them open without turning them open first.) Since I live in an apartment I could go and ask them to fix it, but I didn't know if they would think it was me. (Let me tell you about the time a squirrel ran across my porch and got caught on my sliding glass door screen, right at the height a cat would scratch... Of course they'll think my cat damaged it even though it was the squirrel!) I tried fixing the blind slat with tape, but that didn't last even a day.

I decided to google before going to management. Turns out there's an easy and cheap-ish fix. Vane Savers! (The official name of the slats is apparently "vane".) This is the cheapest one on Amazon, so I ordered it. Under $10 to fix ten of them? I can handle that.

In other news, my focus for TV shows is so scattered. A friend introduced me to Lost Girl and I love it... but I watched three eps and never returned. I downloaded Teen Wolf to catch up with this season, but watched two eps and now I can't force myself to watch more. I love West Wing, but I've not watched it in ages. So many series on Netflix that I'm in the middle of, but I just can't concentrate on them.

Speaking of that, my google is failing me, so I can't confirm this or not. I wonder if people are more emotional after a long illness/injury recovery period? I swear, I cry endlessly now, at the silliest, littlest things. It's driving me crazy! My doctor said prolonged infections have a lot of effects on your body (for example, your red blood cells explode (I'm badly anemic now) -- "explode" is my doctor's word) Maybe it has an effect on your emotions, too...

On the To Do list for this week: Tomorrow night I'm going to the second information class for my surgery. Two and a half hours (ugh), same exact class I took the first time (sigh). We're required to attend it twice, even though it's the same class. There's not even a break! Two and a half hours sitting and listening to someone talk.

Also must do taxes. I know we still have time yet, but it feels like I'm running late. I'm still trying to catch up with paperwork/bills from my time in the hospital/recovering. Turns out I missed a credit card payment! EEEK! My first one ever, in the nearly ten years I had the card. They waved the fee for me (even without me asking, which was very nice), I just hope it doesn't go on my credit report.