We have a dishwasher. Unfortunately we can’t use it yet because we can’t get the hookups put on the sink. We drove down to Mom’s today and ended up taking Nanny’s truck to get its tires replaced and filled the gas tank and got it washed. Eddie found $5 in the parking lot and gave it to the Coventry fire department’s boot drive for Katrina donations when we drove back to our house.

We’re not going to the drive-in tonight (obviously). Eddie’s sleepy. Pickle’s sleepy as well, since she’d been out of the cage pretty much the entire time we’ve been home. When Mom and Brian dropped the dishwasher off, I ran in to pee and she followed right after me. I told her that the bathroom door didn’t close but she could go into the living room and play with Pickle. A few seconds later I hear my mom in the other room saying “hello baby” in the same voice she uses when she sees a baby anything - animal or child. Sure enough, I come into the room to find Mom on the couch with Pickle in her lap, cuddling her. I swear that Mom wants one of her own.

I cooked an awesome dinner of fettucine alfredo with chicken and garlic and Italian bread. It turned out hella yummy.

Link of the moment: Sell the Ranch - a letter to our president.

Eddie’s at work, and has 6 hours left before he starts his vacation.

Yesterday I sent him a text message telling him we had no soda, and asked if he wanted to go grocery shopping when he got home. He called as he was leaving and told me to be ready when he got there, and we spent an hour or so walking around the remodeled Stop & Shop. then we came home and cleaned out the fridge of all the nasty crap in there and stocked up on everything yummy we’d just bought. We were stocking the fridge when I had a question for him.

me: Do you think Ann Rice got swept away in the flood?
him: No, she’s holed up in her crypt. The watertight one, because it’s more goth that way.

Rhode Island is sending some National Guard down to New Orleans. They leave later today for 10 days. It’s kind of scary when the news reports refer to Americans on US soil as refugees.

Pickle is going crazy. She’s claimed the loveseat as her own again, and has attempted to take over the big couch since I made a slipcover for it. I was laying on it yesterday and she crawled right up on top of me, walked up to my head, and tried to steal my earrings. I tried to get a picture of her playing on the couch with a stuffed animal, and she turned and went crazy, lunging at me as though she was Bjork and I was part of some evil crowd of paparazzi. Right now she’s running around the living room chasing a plastic ball.

It’s Blog Day! BlogDay was created with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest. On that day Bloggers will recommend other blogs to their blog visitors.

With the goal in mind, on this day every blogger will post a recommendation of 5 new blogs. In this way, all Blog web surfers will find themselves leaping around and discovering new, previously unknown blogs.

So without further adieu, here’s 5 of my favorites, in no particular order:

1. Eddie - he doesn’t post as much as he used to, but his longer stuff is almost always interesting
2. Simply Complicated - Mimi never fails to make me laugh with every single post.
3. Beauty Dish - I swear, Birdie is the only one who ends up with customers freakier than mine. But her blog’s not just about work, she also posts the best posts about her family.
4. Things I Can’t Tell Boyfriend #1 - I love his writing style, and I’m a sucker for well-written sexy blogs.
5. Atomic Bombshell - She’s always got something great being posted about, and always with a picture to match.

Eddie just got home and announced that to celebrate my return to school, we will have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for dinner tonight, because we’ve both been craving them. Tomorrow is his last day of work before vacation next week, so we’re trying to come up with good things to do while he’s off. Suggestions are always welcome.

And in scarier news, now that the news has moved onto the prices of gas and how many people are looting New Orleans and other badly hit areas, the lunatics are starting to come out of the woodwork to tell us that Katrina is punishment from God and was meant to stop the abortion clinics in Louisiana.

Found in the comments to this awesome post, was a link to a flash cartoon that thoroughly sums up everything I hate about the idiots in the media (audio and decidedly not work-safe) who treat every natural disaster as a way to get themselves higher ratings.