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The dog is irregular. Or maybe he isn’t. It’s hard to tell when he spends the day somewhere else, and she doesn’t follow him around to see when he poops. (*waves at Barb*) So for a week or so now, every few days, he doesn’t poop. So I have to obsess about whether or not he’s got a bowel obstruction or something. He didn’t poop for us last night or this morning (I know, it was about forty below zero as I stood outside last night begging “Please…please get busy!” (That’s the phrase we use from the aborted clicker training we did.)) so I’m in poop alert mode again. But tonight he did a lovely one for me (a little softer than I like, considering he did it on the neighbor’s lawn and I had to pick it up before anyone noticed).

So now I can focus my energy on worrying about something else. Like how nailed we are on our taxes this year. We apparently are gagillionaires. I had no idea. But we didn’t do enough stuff that other gagillionaires know how to do to avoid having to pay a lot of taxes. Bill Gates hasn’t returned any of my calls.

One of the worst things was that we refinanced the house at the end of 2004 to get rid of a horrid 2nd mortgage we had and to lower our interest rate. We lowered it SO MUCH that we killed our tax return. We literally paid HALF this year what we did last year. My accountant refused to believe it had dropped so much. He asked me to go home and make sure there wasn’t another mortgage. I’m not sure how I would have missed paying a different mortgage, seeing that we only have one and I’m the one who pays it.

Maybe I’d rather obsess about poop.

I’m glad I’m not a politician or the President of a major corporation. Because I get mired in the mud of making simple decisions all the time. Some decisions I can make without a second thought. But when you find yourself unable to decide if you should cut your hair before vacation, you have a problem.

So here’s the thing – my looks okay right now. I’m not crazy about it, but it’s functional. (Heh). I love the way my current hairdresser colors it (although this last time we tried going darker and I don’t like it nearly as much) but I don’t think she can cut it at ALL. She is the winner of the “who can give Jody the oddest haircut ever” award for one she gave me about 3 months ago. So now I’m thinking I’ll just go to her for coloring and find someone else to give me cuts. Which is, by the way, a pain in the butt for me. But anyhoo…I have an appointment with her for the weekend before we go on vacation. I should probably get a cut between now and then, but I realized that I might want to put my hair in some kind of ponytail when we’re in Florida and right now it’s long enough to make one (just barely). So if I cut it at all, no ponytail. And that’s the current dilemma.

Do you see why you might not want to put me in charge of anything major?

Once I figure that out, I’ll work on the “should I bring a video camera or not” dilemma. (Video rocks, but that’s a whole extra piece of electronic equipment to keep track of, and really can only take one of them with me at a time if I don’t want to suffer back and shoulder problems. I’m old now, I have to be careful about how heavy my bag/purse/backpack is.)

I am crushed and heartbroken. I don’t know who I blame more for this happening – Adam or the Patriots’ front office for not making him a franchise player.

[Insert angry and sad face here]

You know, I really should pay more attention to the bloody groundhog’s predictions, you know? I believe “he” said there would be six more weeks of winter (i.e. no early spring). Damned if he wasn’t right on the money with the one, eh? It’s the first day of spring – there are only two weeks left to the month of March…and it’s not even forty flippin degrees. The high is only supposed to be 34 today. thirty four. But wait, there’s a wind, so it only feels like twenty one degrees.

On March 20th. The first day of Spring.

*sigh*

I know that on a Sunday afternoon, the best thing to ease you into Monday is a few pictures of our little love monkey Phantom, right?

I put a few new pictures up for you. Just click the Nose to see them.