Pittsburgh Girlie

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Homesick

Turkey is et, I can go home now, right? Right?

It’s going to be difficult for me to type this and you not to think I’m being incredibly sarcastic. I love my in-laws. They are loving and helpful. I get along with my mother-in-law even though we have very different religious views. Enough of our opinions mingle that we can have a pretty good conversation about things. My father-in-law is quiet and quite possibly a saint. He spoils me rotten too (they both do really) so I can’t complain there at all.

I dropped my cat off with my brother because I did not want to leave her home alone for a couple days. There is no way she would tolerate the drive either. Leaving her with my brother meant that she would be around people that love her. My mom and sister would be there for dinner so I knew she’d be getting all the attention she wanted.

She spent the first two days pissy with everyone. She hissed and growled; she really is all show and no business. But she was eating so I wasn’t worried. Today she cuddled up with my sister so I felt even better. Then I found out she has fleas. Erg. Sister is going to pick up a flea collar so hopefully that will take care of that. I hope that my brother’s cat is also okay. I doubt the fleas came from his cat, but there are a lot of feral cats in the area. Neither cat goes outside, but that’s not how fleas work.

I had very little choice in this, but I went shopping today. It was a mistake and I will write about it later when my head clears a little. I’m very stressy and tired now and I have a reunion to go to tonight. I think a nap is in order.

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Daylight Savings Nuthin’

Along with setting the clocks back we’re supposed to change the batteries in the smoke detectors. I wish I could tell you that our smoke detectors currently have batteries in them! We’re going to die in a fire in our sleep aren’t we?

The thing is that the previous owners bought and installed talking smoke detectors. Let me tell you how wonderful it is to wake up at 2am because a strange woman’s voice is telling you to change the battery in intervals that are too long to stay awake long enough to comprehend. It’s not fun and I am easily startled.

We’ve been taking out the dead/dying batteries and apparently not replacing them. They’re lying about in random places in the house. And even though we’ve bought 9V batteries a zillion times and I’ve asked him to go around and replace these, it hasn’t happened. I rarely ask him to do stuff around the house, because he’s usually working or he is doing my laundry and cooking for me. But, this is the only thing I’ve specifically asked him to do.

I’m pretty sure the smoke detector for the kitchen is in the freezer right now. It’s super sensitive and I guess it was easier to stuff it in with the frozen veggies. I think tonight my task will be to assess how many 9V batteries we currently have, decide on the key detectors, and just do it myself. Then I’ll need to buy more batteries for the rest of the detectors, because we’ve never changed a battery in the 2.5 years we’ve been at the house.

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