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when dogs get cabin fever

ICE STORM 2007 : landlocked

i officially have cabin fever. so does willie, and he is none too quiet about it.

we've all been working from home since yesterday which is fun, but MAN i want to get out of the house. much easier said than done, if you knew the predicament i have with my car. ever since someone at work hit my car and drove off, my floorboards in the back seat fill with water whenever it rains. they only hit and broke out the taillight on the passenger side, but they bent something just enough so that water is getting in. it ain't gettin' in through the trunk, either. it's been poked, prodded, looked at ad nauseum, and nobody can figure out where the water is getting in. i just need to get a new car. that's not happening today though.

at the moment, my car sits in my driveway, glazed over with a half-inch coating of ice, and two huge chunks of solid ice in the floorboards of the back seat. it rained before it sleeted or snowed here, and the night that all of this started, it really poured.

it sure is fun going to the carwash after it rains so i can vaccuum all of the water out of the back of my car! and that's just a bonus; normally, i get to spend about twenty minutes dredging the water out of my car before i schlep myself to the carwash. yes, sure is a hoot. good times. not to mention how cool it is that my car sweats from the inside. condensation on the inside of my car? you bet!

speaking of fun, willie and i are just about sick of each other. he wants to be outside in the cold, but i don't want him out there very long because i don't want him getting a cold. whatever. he is mad at me because i'm rationing his time outdoors. so needless to say, with working at home, he's vying for my time while i'm on the phone with clients. so far, thankfully, he's been doing so quietly, nudging me and nibbling at me.

i've been bored, people. i haven't left my house since SUNDAY. did i already say that? maybe it bears repeating. here are some of the fruits of my cabin fever.

now here's where i really got bored...

my first "tea for one" teapot, a gift from my downstairs neighbors when i lived in dallas.

my glassware in my glass cabinet. exciting.

my big gay tea-for-one teapot collection. yeah, i collect 'em.

and here's some rocks.

and a lady that hangs on my dining room wall.

i need out of the house.