I can't believe I am leaving for Italy in 2 weeks! I will be departing at 6:10pm on Easter Sunday. I'm so excited because I have never left the country before. Well, I've been to Canada, but I don't count that because at the time I didn't need a passport to get there. I just showed my birth certificate and they were like "Fine, whatever. Have a good time." This time I need a passport. Which arrived in the mail three days ago. I'm feeling super cool and international, even though there are no stamps in it. It just looks so official. My picture isn't too bad either. I look a little bit like a corpse because I am so white, but that's okay. That's normal for me. (Today I walked past my boss's office in a dress and he said "Girl, you need to get some color on those legs!") I explained that I am a shade-dweller and also I never wear shorts, so my legs never see the sunlight. But that's not the point of my story. Well, I'm not really telling a story. And I'm not so sure I have a point. But anyway, I need to get hip-hoppin' if I'm going to be ready to go in two weeks. Because technically I have to be ready to go in one week. I'm house-sitting for a friend the week before I leave, and I will be leaving from her house to go to the airport so when I pack to go stay there, I will actually be packing for Europe. I need to start making lists immediately. I need to clean out my frog-water and remember to leave the food pellets by the tank so that whoever is taking care of our animals can feed them.
Speaking of animals, tomorrow I am taking Alice and Grace to get groomed. Alice has been before, but this will be Grace's first time. I take Alice because she is long-haired and won't let me brush her. Grace likes to be brushed but she really needs her claws trimmed. I don't have a good feeling about shoving her in a crate tomorrow. She's going to flip out. I think she has feline-anxiety, so this is not going to be fun. Alice is hard to get in a crate because she is so enormous, but I think with Grace it is going to be a whole different ball game. By the way, I'm going to start training Alice to walk on a leash. I am going to the pet store tomorrow to get her a harness. I'm really excited- I think it's going to be fun. Well, I hope it's going to be fun. For me, at least. I think for the first few days I'm just going to put the harness in her bed so she can get used to it. Then maybe I will put it on her and let her wear it around the house for a few minutes at a time. I really hope she doesn't freak out because I think it would be fun if I could take her on walks around the neighborhood. She needs exercise. She is obese.
Okay, that's all. I've set my alarm for 9am tomorrow so I have plenty of time to get the cats ready for their day of terror at the groomers. Joy. I'll let you know how it goes.
