This is an extremely rare occasion. I am cooking something and I wanted to share this exciting experience with my blog reading public! I am making veggie spaghetti! It is a multi-step process, as you folks who are familiar with spaghetti know. I have even added onions to Bocca fake veggie meat and Ragu sauce. Oh, I should stop, I am probably making y'all hungy.

Okay, I ate it. It was pretty good. It will be a lot better after I refrigerate it overnight.

Just when you thought my blog could not get anymore boring...I am now struggling with the decision to go to sleep or go over to LeTonda's to watch a movie... Oh, what to do what to do.

Oh no. I just got a note from my ISP telling me I have the blaster worm and I might be spreading it to other computers. I must follow their directions in the note, which is probably from the blaster worm people in the first place, or they are going to cut off my service. Going to bed is looking better and better. I have a book I am really excited about so maybe I will read that for a bit. More on this book later...

Well, probably the "blaster worm" has done my public a favor by killing off this really boring post.

Let me just add that you should all check out the Tofrutti Cutie soy ice cream like sandwich! I just ate one and it tasted about 98% like normal ice cream sandwich! Well, maybe 95%...

Spanky, how do you know I don't have a friend named Dale?! We haven't seen each other in over a decade... Unless...with this last comment you sound kind of like Dan! Dan, fess up! And you pretend to not even read my blog!

I had another dream... Sarah is very freaked out by sea creatures, particularly of the long skinny variety. I about had a heart attack when I saw an octopus arm in the waters of Kiribati. I just saw the arm and darted off ASAP before I saw the rest. Turns out, there was nothing else to see. It was just a sea slug...

Anyway, in my dream, I was on a dock with my sister and some other people. Someone jumped out of the water after seeing a sea creature. I looked into the water and saw a terrifying nest of long skinny colorful sea creatures. I was turning to run away from the dock when Phantom fell in the water! I was deciding whether I was brave enough to jump in after her when I was spared the decision by waking up. Thank heavens because things weren't looking very good for Phantom...

Thank heavens! I am not getting chunked out of my library science class. Squeezing money back out of Kent State is impossible, so I would take a class in cat eyeball disection (only if the cats weren't mine and died a natural death) to avoid that fight...

So, getting up to rush to the library this morning was not for nothing since I will have to turn in my homework...

I have some pictures from my trip to NY that I will post later. Featured will be the world's cutest child and Niagra Falls...

I have a lot to say tonight! Tomorrow, I have to get up at the crack of dawn to track down 5 school library magazines to review for a class I might get kicked out of... Apparently, the class I registered for is not an elective for people not registered in the school library licensure program. I just realized this today, but I still have to do the homework in case I don't get kicked out of the class. Argh.

Eek, everything reminds me of me today!!!

On the back of a book entitled Why Girls Are Weird...

"When Anna Koval starts posting partially fabricated stories about her life in Austin on the Internet, she hardly imagines anyone beside her friend Dale is going to read them. Teaching herself HTML just seemed like a way to kill time at her library job...."

The picture on the cover features a frumpishly dressed woman with a cat on her lap...

It is not just me. Coworkers were overheard to remark upon seeing the cover... "Oh, a book about Sarah..."

Eek... From the news about the guy who blew up..

Friends of deliveryman robber don't find him capable of heist

ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Living in a rented cottage with hand-me-down furniture and three cats, Brian Douglas Wells was content to deliver pizzas 27 hours a week and spend much of his free time listening to his stereo. Money, say his friends, never meant much to him.....

With a few changes we could have...

Friends of pizza eater don't find her capable of heist

West Carrollton, OH (AP) — Living in a rented apartment with hand-me-down furniture and 5 cats, Sarah was content to eat an occasional pizza and spend much of her free time listening to herself nap. Money, say her friends, never meant much to her...

Woo-hoo! Unmaterialistic cat owners can commit crimes without suspicion (but we are going to sound kinda loserish in our news stories...)

Help! My rat May is suffering from domestic abuse. Mean old April (my rat, not my human friend) chews on May and pulls out her hair. She also tries to keep May from getting any of the good food, even if she herself has plenty at the moment. Well, actually, all rats do that and it is really hilarious. You hand one rat some food and she puts it in her mouth and then rushes over and tries to grab the food you are handing to the other rat. If successful, the rat tries to stuff the newly stolen food in her mouth but finds it is already full. This is particular funny with chocolate covered peanuts. This food thievery is only a problem for these two since the fat and robust April easily dominates skinny sickly May (mycoplasma, the scourge of rathood...)

I tried separating them, but rats are like people. They don't necessarily get along well with others, but they don't want to be alone, either. So, when I put them in separate cages, they look bored and sad. And then when I open both cages and let them roam at their pleasure, April goes to sit in May's cage for awhile while May walks around the table. Eventually they both end up going to the same cage to snuggle up for a nap. So then, they look so cute and happy that I hate to return them to their separate cages. I never see April actually beat up May, but something must be going on for May to have those sores. Me and the cats didn't do it and I don't think that May can bite herself on the back on her neck. Hmm, the cats. Last night Elsa did swipe May off the dining room table! A terrible assault on a sickly and weak creature. Elsa does have a mean streak... I yelled at Elsa extensively so hopefully she won't do it again. Luckily, May's indomitable spirit prevailed. When I put her back on the table she quickly waddled back over to the edge where Elsa swatted her off. I am surrounded by weirdos...

Last night I dreamed that I took two of my cats (Elsa and Phantom, I think...) to the vet to see if they were suitable candidates for a...cat foreign exchange program! Apparently, they passed their veternarian examinations and I was told to take them to the airport to fly them to someplace like Brazil in January. At first I was excited about this in my dream, but then I started to wonder if why on earth I would consider shipping my cats to Brazil? To share the wonder of my cats with others?! To expand the cats' horizons? Right before I woke up I started to worry that the Brazilian person was going to send me his/her cats... I always try to figure out what dreams mean... I think this one might have been sparked by reading a Dear Abby column about a husband who is obsessed with his visiting foreign exchange student. Also in way of explanation, yesterday when I woke up, I had three cats snuggled in my arms with their noses up by my face. I thought about how lucky I was to be greeted by so many friendly eyes in the morning. But then again that night, I was thinking how unlucky I am to rarely get to read in bed in peace without Bean sticking his nose under my book or Blacky kneading my stomach.

Then I dreamed that I systematically hunted down and killed all my blog readers with a knitting needle.*



*Just kidding...