Last Saturday at 12:30 I dropped off little Bear Schnubs at the groomer, with half of a doggy “Xanax” in her system. I picked her up an hour and a half later and she looked like this! The shortest her fur has ever been…

…since she was a puppy, that is! MAWWWWWWW. This picture kills me. The other night I watched a bunch of old Bear Cub puppy videos on Youtube and laughed so hard I cried (PMS).

This one from 2008 made tears run down my face (PMS).

I timed my appointments rather poorly so I ended up making 3 separate trips to Lynnwood Saturday. At 5:30 pm I went to my salon for an eyelash extensions refill, but the woman who normally does my lashes was finished with appointments for the day, so I had booked with someone else. The someone else who did them wasn’t very experienced. She told me that when she took the job she had been hired as a receptionist, and later on started doing lashes and eyebrows and tans. Uh huh. She used way too much glue, so my eyes were watering like crazy, and managed to get an entire CLUMP of glue on my face (that I couldn’t get off until the next day). I was her last appointment of the day, and every single person before me was getting eyelash extensions for the first time, good grief, if that had been my first time I would never want to get extensions again!

Luckily, the woman who normally does my lashes was leaving right as I came in, and it turns out she’s leaving that particular business to work out of her home. I set up an appointment to start seeing her out of her home, instead of the salon. Well worth it–once you find a good stylist, whether it be hair, nails, or even lashes, you hang onto that person for dear life!

Sunday morning I woke up WAY TOO EARLY (6:30-ish) and did my couch-to-10K run on the treadmill downstairs while watching “High Fidelity” and thinking of Joshy, who was off doing a Gonzo abusive hike with his Muncle all weekend. Our 7 year anniversary is coming up in a couple of weeks, and wait ’til you hear what we have planned! It’s downright obnoxious. I mean, adorable.

Since I woke up so early on Sunday morning I had gobs and gobs of time to do house chores (blerp), run and walk the dogs outside and maybe even a little painting before meeting up with the Broad for our Broad Nail Date. I desperately wanted neon yellow, but the salon didn’t have neon yellow shellac! Tragic! Every other neon color, of course. Corinne got neon green and I picked aqua with some added glitter over the top.

Outside the nail salon, these amazing pink lilies caught our eye.

We went out for lunch and then I hung out at her house for a while and got completely covered with cat hair and played with three out of her five cats, all the male cats. Don’t forget, two of them are gay. Here’s my boyfriend Edward looking regal as always.

Here’s one of the gay cats, Seymour, who is adorable as all get out but will NOT LET ME NEAR HIM. He started batting at me and I said screw this, no cat scratch fever for me. Already the other gay cat Novocaine scratched my hand, but then he immediately licked my arm as an apology so I forgave him. Maw. I mean, Maggie just headbutted me this afternoon and where’s my apology? Hmmm, Mags?

A lone Black-Eyed Susan popped up in the front yard.

In the back, the Endless Summer hydrangea is thriving, next to whatever Josh planted in the ski boots.

The filter I used on this picture changed my purple jeans to indigo and my neon orange polish to goldenrod.

Instagram has been very helpful for plant identification. Every time I post a picture of something growing at our house that I don’t recognize and ask, “What is this?”, some helpful gardener will pipe up. I learned that this mystery plant is in fact Salvia! Ha ha! I think I smoked that once a million billion years ago. This variety is called “Hot Lips”. Thanks, IG friends!

Yesterday after work, in our backyard. That rotten Bear Cub woke me up at 5:30 in the morning, and this past week I’ve been helping out at another facility, so I was VERY tired when this picture was taken.

Yesterday I lucked out at work–we had an impressive Hawaiian Luau free lunch and I feasted on spare ribs, jerk chicken, coconut rice, crab pasta salad, fresh corn with cilantro lime butter, a chocolate-covered banana, AND a pina colada to drink. I also wore one of my favorite dresses and a koa nut necklace from Maui and felt pretty cute, in spite of the sleep deprivation. Yesterday was great!

Bear Schnubs outside yesterday. The short haircut is finally growing on me…the first couple of days though I kept laughing at her and then apologizing.

Current Mandala, all metallics. It has a lot of tiny details and is taking foreverrrrrr, but that’s okay because while I paint I catch up on Netflix. Shows I have been enjoying lately: “Key & Peele”, “Amy Schumer” (I want to go see her movie), and I decided to re-watch “Orange is the New Black” from the beginning because it’s so damn good.

Yesterday on the couch, in a sports bra, after running. I suppose this is a “healthy glow”. Ha ha ha, yeah right, it’s a spray tan! I am orange and loving it.

Now, it’s time for me to go exercise these crazy pets. Later, taters.