kittens

Today's Tribune front page includes:

Swamped with hundreds of kittens that need new homes, the Arizona Humane Society is facing a feline overload and worries some may have to be euthanized.

Tempting. Having a cat would be kind of fun, and there's a tiny bit of pleasure in doing my little part to care for all these needy kitties. But I'm not sure I care to be responsible enough to care for a cat, and I'd have to litter box train it, and I'm miserably allergic to them, as are some relatives that I like having visit once in a while...

Would be fun in a nerdy kind of way to toilet-train one.

Pita Jungle for dinner

Treated myself to dinner at Pita Jungle this evening while reading Bitten.

Making favorite cake recipe using Splenda

I got up early this morning to make my favorite cake recipe, substituting two cups Splenda plus one cup nonfat dry milk plus 2 teaspoons baking soda for the intended two cups sugar. Have to see how it turns out.

Dogsitting concludes

Rightful owner returns, dogsitting concludes.

It was fun. My apartment situation isn't amenable to pets, and I don't want to afford the commitment into my life at this point, but renting a couple dogs and a couple cats for a long weekend was a good time.

In some ways it was pretending to be someone else for a few days. With the pets came a house, a neighborhood, a quickly adopted routine involving the oh-so-cool Fry's around the corner, waving hi to the neighbors during the canine-accompanied peregrinations.

Fast forward fifteen years, and I could envision having a life something like all this.

But now I pop the stack and return to my regular life.

turkey soft tacos for dinner

I perhaps overstayed my welcome a bit in taking the person whose dogs I was caring for up on her offer to "make yourself at home" and cooked myself dinner this evening. Rachael Ray's pork soft tacos, except I used turkey. I was hungry for a real home-cooked not-eaten-out meal.

Strawberry, AZ waffles

After walking the St. Bernard this morning, I went to Arizona Bread Company and had the Strawberry, AZ waffles. Tasty.

Beef: it's what's for dinner...

... and breakfast, and lunch.

I picked up steak from Steaks-R-Us last night. Coupon was buy one get one free, so I just had to get two. Yummy.

Dogsitting

Dogsitting for a friend of mine. She thinks I'm doing her a favor, looking after the beasts while she's away. What I'm not sure she fully appreciates is that she's doing me a favor -- it's a blast getting to walk and run with these guys, and Brady (the St. Bernard) doesn't seem to get bored no matter how much I hug him. He's much more huggable post-washing.