whiskeykitten @whiskeykitten@icosahedron.website

It's only 0920 and I'm hungry! Definitely not a morning to do fasting.
Signed up for a course in Intuitive Tarot.
Hoping it kicks my woo-woo into gear, finally.
Hoping my head injury didn't squash those vibrations forever.
I'm trying to be positive, because my brain has healed a great deal in the last 10 years or so and I have recovered quite a few memories and skills I thought I'd lost for good.

Lovely stroll with my puppers this morning.
Once again, down at the NMSU agricultural grounds.
It's also nice and cool and overcast today, which helped!
Shady paths, lots of dewy grass (Azzie and Odin rolled) and the fountain to swim in too!
Happy, dirty, muddy, wet, tired dogs!
1.16 miles this morning, as I didn't cut corners and went a little extra way up onto the big open grass area to investigate the big trees.
Dogs are now zonked out in their spots. Odin wants to be with me, inside.

Not actually sure why I'm bothering with the fasting thing this morning - I ate WAY too late last night.
Even if it was just popcorn.
If I was to wait 16 hours, it would be like, 2 PM.
That's way too late.
So I should eat, right?
Just something small. Or a protein shake?

Morning, Mastos!
It's another beautiful cool morning here in the desert.
Dogs are fed, I'm sipping my morning tea, and then we're off to walk before it gets too hot.
Then, need to get some work done (online) and that kind of thing.
Then this afternoon I help my mother-in-law take one of the cats to the vet.
Should be interesting!

Thankfully, the scam I fell for was not for money, but for a creepy fetishist who liked watching women shave their heads with a clipper.
Quite specific, right?
Why are there no real people left on the internet?

So, after all the back and forth, the buyer that I really thought was the real deal, turned out to be a Nigerian scammer.
I thought I'd been dealing with a woman (Latino, maybe?) in the US, but apparently, I'd been dealing with a Nigerian named David.
When we got to the payment part (and I was so surprised that he was willing to pay full price) and he sent me his fake PayPal payment email, and the "you need to pay $400" I laughed. Out loud.
I told him "nice try" but I'd already been scammed.

Right! Time to get down and dirty, Mastos!
Yard work before it hits 40C!

Now Playing -

"I'm the only one!" - Melissa Etheridge

Now Playing -

"Cherry Bomb" - John Cougar Mellencamp

Thank you, 8tracks.com, for always having my musical back.

I feel like listening to some Bruce Springsteen and some John Mellencamp this morning.
No idea why...

Everybody's got a hungry heart...

Morning, Mastos!
Beautiful, cool, clear morning here in the desert!
Dogs fed, birds fed, garden and grass watered.
Sipping my herbal detox tea, waiting on an email reply, trying to remain positive that it's a genuine buyer, not another fetishist/scammer.
Watching Odin (aka Mr Boog) enjoying the pleasant morning air in one of his Odin-holes (places in the yard where he has dug shallow holes in the dirt - we're slowly growing grass, but it is only 40% of the yard, currently)

Eating hot food (not spicy hot, but temperature hot) on a hot day == nose runs!

Mother-in-law arrived home early this morning and she's already on the go - busy busy busy.
She's buying a car, registering my husband's Camaro and she bought some screen cloth for the fences on the West side of the yard.
She also ordered some pallets of those grass plugs we were all talking about and they should be here on Monday or Tuesday!
She was a little shocked at my hair cut, but she likes it.

Took the dogs for a lovely morning walk down at the NMSU grounds again.
This time, we walked up the lovely grassy, shady road and up onto the grassy hill at the top.
We also found the fountain! It was large, with sprayers, and turtles (actual turtles, swimming around, not just the American word for tortoise) and a nice easy grade into the water. Dogs had a lovely swim and nearly pulled me in too :)
Then, we had a lovely stroll back to the car - which was still parked in the shade! Yay!

Another beautiful, crisp, cool morning here in the desert.
Was talking to my friend T - the caretaker/groundsman at the big house - and he was saying that the desert actually has a "rainy season" and it starts around about August. Lots of thunderstorms and quite a bit of rain too. He says they were in a drought for a few years, but last year the rains returned, thankfully, as the Rio Grande was completely dry. I remember seeing it and thinking, that's not so grande, is it?
Now, though, it's good

And this new friend is an author and he is PAYING ME (and has paid me already) to read through his novel draft and offer insights and criticisms.
I'm loving it!
If I could do THIS for a living, I'd be a happy kitty.

So, things are looking up in the hair saga. The nasty scammy buyer has disappeared into the wind, but I reported them to the site admins and they were FURIOUS ("we run an honest site here!") with the buyer and they will be "dealing with him" shortly.
Of course, he has the documentation to back him up saying I didn't follow his very STRICT requirements and that's why he refused to pay me.
But, in all this I made a new friend in a weird roundabout way.

Also - Am I the only one left on this instance?
I checked the local timeline and absolutely nobody has said a peep for ages, except me.
Or maybe they've all blocked me?

How does one change instances without having to recreate your profile and all that stuff, and without losing all your toots?

Slept rather badly last night, despite drinking my Zzztox tea and even had a glass of milk after that.
Might have a nap today, as I managed to finish the priority work for my Aussie client in one fell swoop yesterday.
Was pretty pleased with myself.
And then he paid me and it as like... wow... all that work for that? AND Paypal took its cut and it was even less.
I'm loyal, and, obviously, a little bit crazy.