Outback for my birthday - yes, it's July

   I left town pretty soon after my birthday, so tonight Mark and Kathy, Kathy's mother and her friend Sandra, Josh and Alex, mom and I all went to have dinner at Outback. We got there first, so we sat down and held the table. I asked the waiter how long a bloomin onion would take and he said three or four minutes. I was thinking they could put one in and get it ready so it would be hot when everyone got there, but I knew it would be more than three or four minutes. Good idea, no point.

   Eventually, everyone trickled in, Josh being the last cause he had to work today. When we were ordering our drinks, Kathy pulled out a coupon for a bloomin onion and he had it back out on the table in about a minute. Alex looked at me and asked how in the world he did that so fast? I told her I what I had asked him and that I suspected he put an order in as soon as everyone finally got here. Good waiter.

   Everyone got their food ordered and got it. I had ordered my steak medallions medium rare, more rare (you know me - I like it mooing). When it came it was well done, tasteless. Everyone encouraged me to send it back, so I did. When I finally got it back it was perfect, but everyone else was done eating, so I now have a complete Outback meal in my fridge to reheat for lunch.

   We went back to Kathy's house so we could meet Oshkie the puppy, and oh my, he is the cutest thing! I think he might be a mix, cause his fur isn't much curly as wavy, and his nose isn't very long. He's kind of a silver grey, except for his ears, which are very black.

**brief interlude to change mom's bed due to Sheba peeing right in the middle of it. She's now in time out in the office. It's not much of a punishment cause it's where she has a bed and a cat box, but she usually goes to sleep with Ozzy and me, getting loves until we all go to sleep and she starts snoring and making little, well some are kinda loud, noises. I put some water in there for her but no food, but she's not going to starve to death over night.

   Anyway, we had to strip her bed, take off the bed topper, that I paid $1000 for, and the teflon mattress cover, that obviously didn't work (maybe I'll get another one and go two up) and throw them in the washer (not the topper) and make her bed so she could finally get to bed. I hope she sleeps okay without that topper. It's not a real expensive bed - the topper is where most of the comfort is. Ack, ack, and ack.

   I used the carpet cleaner Hot Spot (made for animal stains) or something like that on the topper (well, it works on the carper..) but now the living room smells like the stoopid carpet cleaner. I sprayed her room with Febreze and her bed with a laundry spray I have that makes your bed smell like Egyptian Cotton. That one is very subtle - I like it. 

   I've checked my bed and I seem to have escaped the wandering peeing black cat, so I think I will haul my tired body off to bed. Mom reminded me today that my stress test is first thing Tuesday morning, so I'm not planning anything for tomorrow. Yeah, like that's new and different. Well, we did talk about a movie. I'll let you know.