Seattlistas, a question (for when you wake up): Do any of you know of or anything about meal assembly places there? I'm looking to buy a gift certificate, and it looks like Designed Dinners doesn't want to sell me one over the intertubes.

My dog hates people touching her paws, too. Guess what the baby loves to touch . . .

eta: Stephanie, you're probably already seated, but good luck on the exam!

I managed to desensitize Muppet about touching her back feet -- she had a broken hip as a kitten, and was VERY defensive about them when I got her. Mostly it consisted of very patiently stroking and petting and moving slowly down the body towards the Forbidden Zone so her lizardy brain eventually got the message that associated hind touches with Good Relaxy Things.

rainy yucky morning.

the house painting continues. he did the touch-ups yesterday, but I still see messy work. He only painted half a day because he had a family emergency, so the bathroom and kitchen have still nto been touched. tonight I am going to move kitchen stuff out to the living room and hopefully get mac's room back in order. It makes me crazy, but I know I will be doing touch-up work all next week.

That green screen thing is fascinating.

I'm javachik. And Windows 7 was my idea.

Those ads crack me up so hard, with the people's visions of themselves.

When I trained Dallas to her first soft-sided carrier (which she initially was having none of) it took about two weeks but it wasn't too tough.

First we'd only play if it was nearby. Then I'd only pet her if she was sitting on it. Eventually she'd sit IN it and I'd zip it a little more each time. In pretty short order if I took the thing out she'd come running over. The hardest part was ignoring her until I had the carrier in hand.

I don't think most cats would be impressed by such nonsense, but I suspect that if you ONLY pet a dog with empty balloons (same material, far cheaper, more comfy) on your fingers and then increasingly touched their feet it would be a pretty painless process.

These pillow covers I love. I want the front room of the new house to have two walls painted in the darker peacock blue and then all the furniture chocolate brown. [link]

Ooh, that would be gorgeous.

That's gorgeous, msbelle.

I want the front room of the new house to have two walls painted in the darker peacock blue and then all the furniture chocolate brown.

LOVE!!

We do have a great vet! And I saw one of the adorable vet techs out at brunch this weekend. So sweet!

I need to focus on things like this and not the things that are sending me from 0 to ENRAGED these days. It would be better for my head.

That's way sophisticated design, msbelle. Looks great.

Crinolines today. People will think I've lost my mind.