My Dog is Chelsea

I don’t really function well under stress. I spend much of my time at the brink of tears; I either get extremely quiet OR I can’t shut up about the little things. For instance, the other day I had a customer who wanted to buy rice crackers—no wait, a brownie—no wait, rice [...]

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Check out my roommate’s new blog! (I made the banner for her… can’t get it to stay centered on the screen. Any thoughts on how to get it to stay put? Blogger makes things so much more difficult than Xanga!)
Also, I’d like to point out that I live here:

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WTF is a podcast? Is it like the radio on your iPod? Or is it flinging a crate of peas out the window?? I know I sound like my mother here (Mother: “I just don’t understand why they can’t make cell phones with universal buttons so they aren’t so complicated.” Laura: [...]

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Today, 5:30 a.m: SCRATCH! The ear-piercing noise punctured the sleep I’d finally found after hours of tossing and turning. With just one brash movement of her claw, Chelsea woke me up.
“I’m hungry,” she demanded.
Sure, 5:30 a.m. is better than 4, but it certainly is no panacea. My alarm clock had another [...]

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I’m not quite sure how it started, but at some point in my dog’s 12 years on this planet she became known affectionately as “The Stink.” Maybe it was because of the time she stole an entire block of ungrated Saran Wrapped parmesan cheese off of the kitchen table and ate [...]

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