I left work early today, came home, got Max and whisked him off to the vet. Yup, he has an ear infection, drops were purchased and the poor thing will get two squeezes of the stuff in his one bad ear, once a day.

Started talking to a man who was sitting in the waiting area, one thing led to another, and come to find out he’s married to the woman my first ex-husband and I went to for marriage counseling. SMALL world!

Got home tonight and no lie…one of my dad’s friends was visiting, well actually, most of the people that were “friends of my parents” were Mom’s friends, Dad really didn’t need anyone other than his family…but anyway. This is one LOUD man and he’s a bit afraid of the dogs, so off Max went to the bedroom, where he began barking up a storm, Wolf’s barking upstairs, the tv was blaring, the radio in the kitchen was blaring, and the guy was like Janet! Come in here and show me how Tivo works, and did you know it does this and it does that, and and AND… and Ii was like OMFG!! Get me OUTA here!!!

So I ordered them a pizza, made ‘em a couple rum & cokes, picked up the pizza, served it and took myself off to Barnes & Noble, figuring I’d get some peace there

Sigh…not meant to be. There was the kid that kept yelling MOMMYMOMMYMOMMYMOMMYMOMMY and an adult with down’s syndrome who kept making the same loud noise over & over and the man sitting next to me who kept sniffing extremely LOUDLY (because if there’s anything that drives me more crazy than loud noises are REPETITIVE loud noises). AAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Finally I mostly blocked it all out, thanks to the latest Stephen King book, “Cell”. Before I knew it, I was 49 pages into the story. Know what made me buy it? This sentence: “He was naked except for a pair of what looked like brand-new Nikes with bright red swooshes.” AHAHAHA! Maybe MaryEllen will be so kind as to explain why!

Seriously. I am GOING to go insane. Don’t say I didn’t warn ya!

“…principal photography on Phoenix [i.e., Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix] began yesterday.” Mind if I do a bit of a happy dance right now?

There are quite a few scenes I’m very much looking forward to seeing, such as Snape’s memories in the Pensieve, Snape teaching Harry Occlumency, Fred & George creating the swamp, the centaurs carrying off Umbridge, the Threstrals and Tonks! Can’t wait to see Tonks!!!

Saw this yesterday on The Leaky Cauldron; glad to see I’m not the only one who’s fond of Snape!

I seem to have become violently allergic to noise recently.

Saturday: Took the dogs to the beach, nice quiet day right? Nah. There was a group of gas-powered model plane enthusiats there…and do you know how LOUD those things are? Very loud.

Sunday: Relatively peaceful, especially since I blew out the speakers to the tv (apparently, an unwrapped speaker wire touching a metal 7 outlet power guard surge protector is not a good thing).

Monday: Our receptionist was out, so I had to answer the phones all day long. Ring, ring ring ring. So what do I do AFTER work? Go see a movie about…you guessed it…a freak who prank calls some screamy-meemy whiny-ass teenage girl all night long. Hep me…

Tuesday: Tree stump grinder shows up at 7:30 am and commences work. OMFG!!! The receptionist is here today but has one of the worst cases of laringitis I’ve ever heard (and this girl LOVES to talk!). Altho I’ve told her I’ll answer the phones today, I’m stressing about her trying to answer the phones (which she has a few times), as the president of the company is traveling today. You watch. When he calls in, some combination of crap will happen (Murphy’s law, y’all), she’ll grab the phone before I can get to it, he’ll freak when she does and it’ll be all my fault somehow, someway.

And I feel that if ONE MORE PERSON asks me a question to which I do NOT have an answer (and that’s happening all too often lately) I will completely, totally & utterly lose it!

I really REALLY need that motherf#*king vacation RIGHT NOW!!!