Hi everyone!
So Mom is taking a class two nights a week. Her work is paying for it so she has to to well or she has to pay the money back. It's American Sign Language 'cause one of the people she works with is Deaf and it costs too much money to hire an interpreter. Besides, I swear Mom can't hear half the time anyway so maybe it's a good thing she learning for when she gets really really old.
I know some Sign Language, though not necessarily American Sign Language - I know the finger wag means I've gone and done something I'm not supposed to do (like last week when Mom left her work bag open and I found a granola bar inside. Mom wasn't too happy to find a trail of wrapper from her bag allllll the way to the back door. It was raining outside so when I had to go out, Mom had to follow to see if I pooped foil wrapper. So there's Mom standing in the rain, with a flashlight, looking at my poop, then looking at me saying, "so there's my granola bar!") I just grinned :-)
I also know when Mom points to the front door and says, "Let's Go!" means we're going for a walk!!! When the weather was bad two weeks ago (what a little snow?) we hardly went at all. Mom said the sidewalks weren't cleared and it was icy and slippery, but I think it was just an excuse to flop in front of the computer all night long.
Or it could have been that I was falling behind at work and needed to spend the evening catching up!!!
This week Mom got two packages in the mail, one from Amazon and one from Barnes and Noble so now she's buried her nose into all her new books - I guess it's OK - what with nothing being on TV 'cause of the writer's strike all we've been watching is Star Trek. I know Mom loves Star Trek but come on! Every night?? With the laptop parked in front of the TV? That's just nuts!
Wait a minute...ohmygod those are STAR TREK BOOKS!!!!!
Why yes, Kira, they in fact ARE Star Trek books and I will sit back and savour each and every word as long as I like, thankyouverymuch! But I might remind you, Miss Kira, *I* took some extra days off this week and next for a total of FIVE days off so just imagine how much fun we're going to have spending all that time together! WE may even take you down to Miss VetLady to see how much you weigh 'cause even though I've been rationing out your food, you have obviously been sneaking some from somewhere (Oh, yes, my work bag!) 'cause I'm not seeing much change in your waist line! And no, bouncing up and down, nipping at my feet, grinning like a she-devil, and trying to trip me won't change that - even in a cast or bound up in traction I. Will. Find. A. Way!!
Chicken Jerky, anyone?
Between helping with the chores and hunting dust bunnies, I was pooped out. Mom tossed the flosser a couple of times but each time I went and got it, I couldn't quite make it as as close to Mom as the previous run...'til I just flopped down and chewed on the flosser by myself.
