Nothing Special, But He Thinks He Is

So Mr. Puss thinks he's pretty special. I get up each morning and he shows up at my side in the bed. Is he there to see me? Nah! He knows that my spot on the bed is warm. As soon as I am up out of the bed he is claiming his spot. Of course it was my spot but I had to relinquish it. Next thing you know he's buried under the covers.

Mr. Puss has a way with words. I come home in the afternoons and when he sees me walk in he kinda squeaks. That's his signal for me to come see him and to heartily rub him on the back. He likes to be stroked on the back. When he is feeling "special sporty" he'll roll over and let me rub him on his stomach. You know he's had enough when he bites your hand.

Rory is the same except she is different. Instead of rushing to get the warm spot in the bed she rushes to curl up in the sink. She doesn't like to leave the sink. In fact she is very adamant about staying in the sink. Even if you turn the water on. Have you ever tried to get a hair ball out the drain pipe? Well that's easier to do than get Rory out of the sink. She goes limp and then the faucet gets in the way. Then she gets cranky. Maybe I'll just grow a beard.

Then there's Puppy. I took her out last night so that she could attend to personal needs. What do we do. We spend 15 minutes checking out the place that the rabbits run through the fence. I don't know what it is with those rabbits, but Puppy is intrigued by them.

Speaking of rabbits; yeah I did happen to make it from cats to rabbits. The last time I had my vegetable garden I had several visitors. I am certain they were the refugees from Mr. MacGregor's garden. I am planning another vegetable garden this year. I suppose I better start planning for the bunnies. I wonder if they like peppers?

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Good Mail? Bad Male?

Got home from work yesterday and checked the mail. I got a letter from my publisher. They are interested in the children's stories that I submitted to them. They are reviewing them and are considering a contract. I am told that if they publish the stories they will pay $25,000 for a signing bonus and then will pay royalties based on sales after that. The stories are about a little boy, his dog, and the adventures they have. The letter also said something about maybe going on a book signing tour and maybe even a few morning TV shows.

Gee! It all sounds too good to be true.

It is too good to be true! I made it all up. I don't have a publisher and I haven't written any books. Besides, I think the whole boy and his dog and their adventures thing has been done before. I think maybe it was Lassie.

Oh well, it's nice to dream.

I did get coupons in the mail from Shipley's Donuts though! Free donuts. Can't beat that. I won't be using them. I don't eat donuts. Too much sugar you know. There was a Wal-Mart ad, a couple of magazines, and the usual lot of waste basket filler.

Oh by the way, one day I might just write a story and I might just get a letter from my publisher and I might just get a big check and I might just go on the morning TV shows. Well, I might!!

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Super Tuesday, Super Dreams

Today is Super Tuesday.

Go vote if your state is participating.

The Texas Primary is on March 4 so I won't be voting yet. The Texas Primary comes at a very omportant time. As it happens it comes the week of TAKS testing. Since many schools serve as polling places also the state has had to reschedule the TAKS tests originally planned for Tuesday, March 4.

I was thinking about the City of Waco last night. The city is really wanting to develop the downtown area. They have several projects in the works. I have an idea. How about developing some of the vacant space in the ALICO building for a nicer restaurant. Imagine if you could place a restaurant on one of the top floors of the building. Think of the view. I was reading not long ago that the radio station WACO-AM broadcast from the building in the middle part of the 1900's. They even had the transmitter on top of the building. Imagine again if there was a station (radio or TV) that had studios there now and broadcast from there once again. I suppose I am just reniniscing of sorts and want to go back to a simpler time. Wouldn't that be nice?

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SB XLII

So where were the "Super' commercials last night? There were a few that were OK. I liked the FedEx carrier pigeon commercial. The Coke commercial with Charlie Brown was cute. I also like the Coke commercial with Bill Frist and James Carville. I think the best ones though were the E-Trade commercials. They were in the YouTube style with an infant making trades and beaucoups of money. Real Cute!

There were a few in the fourth that were good also. For the best commercial in the fourth quarter I think it's a tie between the Victoria's Secret ad and the Amp Energy Drink ad that came on after Victoria's Secret. Hmmmm! Decisions, decisions.

I still think the Coke ads were good.

There were several that were forgettable. I would tell you about them but I forgot them.

Better than the commercials though was the catch by Tyree with one minute left in the game. Everyone thought Manning was down but he wiggled out and made the throw. Tyree jumped and caught it at the 24 of New England to keep the drive alive and allow New York to go on in for a TD a couple of plays later and win the Super Bowl.

If you want to see the ads go to MySpace.

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Saturday was a beautiful day here in the great Heart of Texas. I was able to get the new truck tail light installed on the truck. Allen Samuels Chevrolet never called to let me know if the light arrived. I drove over yesterday morning just to check. They told me it was one and since they never called they would get it in right away. Super. It looks great. Afterwards, I went to Genie Car Wash and had the truck washed. It needed it.

I bought some echinacea for the garden yesterday. This afternoon I got out and planted them. I also started rearranging some of the plants in the garden. I plan on getting some aliums and planting near the echinacea. I still need to trim and cut back several of the plants in the garden in order to get it ready for spring.

I will post pictures as I get closer to completion.

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I Love Chris!

I love Chris! Chris is sort of like me. She has her opinions and it's often hard to change them. We went out to eat some time back at George's. Chris ordered Chicken Fried Steak. Shortly after we got our meal she said there was a problem. She said, "It taste's like meat." I told her it was supposed to; it's Chicken Fried Steak.

Yesterday we went to HEB to get some groceries. She asked me if she could get some more syrup. "Sure!" Chris said the syrup I bought last time was too sweet. I told her, "It's syrup. It's supposed to be sweet."

She also said she didn't like Pork Rinds when they taste like, well, pork rinds. She likes it when they have flavor. We bought a bag of rice cakes that were Cheddar Cheese flavor. She thought they were good. THEN, she saw that sour cream was an ingredient. She doesn't like them now. She does like Beef Stroganoff. Sour cream is an ingredient in it. Go figure!

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