Time for a quickie

Just a brief note about life in general.

Still managing to avoid getting laid off.  Not sure how I'm pulling it off, and now there's rumors that I'm going to be cut from the national sales meeting schedule.  Which I totally call bullshit on.
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So far the trip to Chicago to teach the class is still on though.  Or at least, I haven't heard otherwise.  B and his brother are going to drive over to meet me on the Friday of the trip, and I booked a sweet room at Hotel Burnham for the weekend ($87!!  Holy shit!) so we can have some fun at the Field Museum and whatnot.  B's never been to Chi-town so it'll be fun... I just hope the weather is nice.

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Lily has started doing this weird thing lately where she balances on top of the dog/baby gate in the doorway to the kitchen, like she's a gatekeeper or something.  I have to try to catch a pic of her, it's really kind of funny.
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Three items into my list and I'm already running out of things to say?!?
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Oh, one more thing did happen lately, I went to the eye doc and he tried to prescribe me some glasses.  Until B looked at the prescription, and we realized they were cheater-strength.  Actually, LESS than cheater-strength, only .75+, and they were trying to sell me $150 frames!  Granted, most stores don't sell .75+, so we had to order them online for $30, but still.  I didn't like the doc much anyway (no sense of humor at all), and when they tried to rip me off, that kind of settled it.  I won't be returning to that doctor (although B still likes him, but I think we could get his contacts cheaper somewhere else too).  So now I have reading glasses, and despite the fact that they're pretty weak, I have noticed a big difference when I use them.  No eyestrain or headaches at the end of the day!

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Don't tell B, but I put out a dish of kitty bitties for these two stray cats that have been wandering onto our porch.  One is a pale orange tabby, and the other is a monstrous brown tabby tomcat with the biggest head I've ever seen.  I think I'll call him Head.  Maybe I could train him to bring me my pants.  I don't necessarily want to make these cats our pets, but if they would hang around and kill the moles in our yard, that'd be nice.  I'll try to catch them and have them fixed though.  I was this close to doing that to a stray cat last spring, but he must have caught my vibe and he disappeared.  But I think he might have been someone's pet, because he was super affectionate and not afraid at all.  I called him Jasper.  He was a dilute tortoiseshell, and so pretty!  I hope he's okay... I haven't seen him since.