Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Running Fluffy Puppy



I found this puppy image one day online. It is the cutest, happiest puppy ever! Button nose and black coal eyes on the fluffy white fur. And it looks so happy!

Fleeting Sanity

Oh Well. My "crazy neighbor" is crazy again. It really only lasted 2 days. She started slamming her door and screaming at me through my door, saying pleasant things like: "Fucking Cunt! Stay out of my apartment!!". When she goes downhill, she always accuses me of coming into her apartment at night. I wonder what goes on in that head of hers? Is she schizophrenic? Suffering from dementia? I just don't know.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Good Days

I've actually had 2 good days in a row at this job!

I booked a show for this Saturday night, had a couple of good pre-interviews with potential guests, got a hold of a publicist from a publishing company I've been trying to reach for 2 weeks and finally got a review copy of a book I've been waiting for! I also got to know my neighbor, Tia, who is an avid reader and had lots of potential guest suggestions for me!

Things are looking up.

Maybe it is something in the air. Tonight I bumped into the woman I not-so-affectionately refer to as "my crazy neighbor" - and she was perfectly sane - and pleasant! Her eyes fully focused on me and she called me by name. It was stunning and made me sad. This woman had shaved her head around the same time Brittany Spears did because she got tired of clogging her bathtub drain. Most of the time when I see her in the hallway and say "hi", she glares and stares strait ahead and doesn't say a word. She's been known to lay outside, fully dressed in jeans and a long-sleeved shirt during warm sunny days. She also turns off all the lights in the building and sits in the kitchen for hours on end and stares straight ahead. Clearly, she has a severe mental illness.

The reason I was so sad was because she was so pleasant when she was lucid. I assume she needs to take medication and runs out of it or forgets sometime. But, I don't know all of the reasons. I just wish she was always sane. She even offered me a sugar cookie this evening.

We both need more good days!

Monday, September 15, 2008

Six Dollars!!!???

I just came back from grocery shopping. Went to Trader Joe's for some frozen stuff - now that I have a freezer that works...whoo whoo! Then I stopped at the little farm stand on the way home and bought 2 nectarines and a tomato.

AND PAID $6 FOR THEM!!!!

SIX FREACKIN' DOLLARS!!!

TWO NECTARINES AND ONE TOMATO!!!

Is that reasonable? Am I crazy? WTF???

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Update Your Blog, Anne!

Really, I don't know what to write. I'm enjoying reading everybody else's blog but I don't feel I have all that much to say.

I work from home and listen to the constant hammering and drilling on the condo/apartment complex being built behind my building. It drives me absolutely nuts some days. I spend a good part of the day wearing earplugs to drown out the pounding. I've been averaging 4 to 5 days a week of walking. Yesterday I did a 2 1/2 mile walk, a good part of it uphill. Then, had about a 1/2 mile trek in the dog park with Lisa, Dudley and Abbey.

My laptop is functioning, thank goodness. Had a scare a little while back when I spilled water on it and it cost me a bundle to fix. I really depend on this little machine!

Have been speaking to a lot of publicists and a few authors trying to find guests for the national talk show I work on. Haven't had much luck lately. My boss has booked the past few weekend shows. I am constantly on a search for ideas and guests. And the guests have to be able to handle an interview for 3 hours. God help me. Whose idea was this? Oh yeah, Art Bell's. Thanks, Art.

The weather is changing. It is still sunny and beautiful, surprisingly, but the nights are getting cooler and the darkness is falling earlier. Soon, the clouds and rain and gloom will start. Must get prepared.

And that's all I have to write.