Loose Ends and Minutiae

1) Remember the story of the "Concierge Who Saved Christmas?" Well, I neglected, in the hubbub of the holidays, to tell you that, even as I was in the midst of writing a huffy letter to the Sorrento, I got a very apologetic email from their Food and Beverage manager. I have no idea how he saw my link but it certainly is an example of the power of the blog, isn't it? Anyhoo, as I said, he was very sincerely sorry for the treatment we had received and hoped we would give them another chance.

(In truth, I doubt we'll go back, or if we do, it certainly won't be at Christmas. This owes to The Spouse holding grudges like a McCoy and Hatfield combined.

This is one aspect of my darling husband's makeup which I find unsavory. There is little moderation in it and one unfortunate experience is enough for him to sever long and abiding ties. I wish he would strive for more tolerance and forgiveness, as he himself is not fully perfected in all things.

Can you tell I was watching "Persuasion" on PBS last night?)

Point is, 'twas very nice of Mr. Food & Beverage to pour oil on troubled waters and I hereby lift the blog ban upon them. Go have a cocktail.

2) It was very fun to have all of you frolicking about my kitchen this weekend but it turns out that the culprit of the spilled coffee was, as Willym suggested, Notme.

No one copped to it, and all with the most sincere of faces. The Child I believe because, hello, she doesn't drink coffee. There would be no reason for her to remove the emergency packet of ground coffee from the freezer and then leave it on the counter, spilled or otherwise.

I am quite sure The Dog had nothing to do with it.

That really only leaves one person but as said person insists he did not, I have no option but to, well, I don't believe him - obviously- but there you go. Nothing to be done about it.

3) I would like to offer the sincerest of snaps to those of you who work full-time and keep your floors swept.

3a) Assuming my workload continues as it has so far this month and that some of the business cards which have gone out begin to bear fruit, as it were, I have decided that, at least for now, Monday and Friday will be treated as my "in the office" days. There are little bits of administrative work that go with running your own business (duh) but also, I really do need to try and get a handle on being an entrepreneur and still having a swept floor.

4) The final dotting of i's and crossing of t's on The Child's applications will be done today and then we sit and wait.

5) We have been on a campaign to reduce The Dog's increasing tubbiness. He is being taken for strenuous walks, having his kibble intake managed and generally being encouraged to be a littler dog. I did not think that this program had yet born much fruit but he just tore through the kitchen and bulleted his way through the cat door to bark at some offensive person. He hasn't been able to squeeze through that in some time.

I do not need to squeeze through the cat door, now or ever, but strenuous walking and management of my kibble intake is obviously an effective strategy toward mitigating tubbiness in general. Isn't that encouraging?

f) Child went with The Boy to a cat show yesterday, prompting her to call and beg that I come down and purchase one of the "very cute and sweet" kitties being offered for sale. I had no intention of paying $100 for a kitty. Now, in truth, this is a good deal as the kitties have been snipped and clipped and inoculated. Doing the same to a free kitty would likely cost as much if not more. But I am not ready for a new kitty. The Spouse confided that he didn't want a new kitty at all. We will get one, I'm sure. In the spring. But it will need to be a farm kitty, like Phoebe was, one born with a talent for mousing.

Which reminds me, that I must order Phoebe's rose.

7) I intended to insert links at all the appropriate places but every time I went to get a new one the old one disappeared. I'm done.