Today was Will’s Company’s Annual Company Picnic, which means that we spent four hours sitting around in the blazing sun and now my brain is all the way dead.  But! I haven’t updated my blog in a while so you get to read a bunch of random updates and other stuff.  Fun!

First, I don’t remember if I told you this already or not: Stray Cat finally has a home–with my former neighbor!  After, what, a month? My former neighbor FINALLY called and said that he did still want his cat after all and that he was going to come pick her up.  Will made me promise not to rip him a new one when he got here but boy oh boy I tell you, it took a lot of self control not to give him a very stern lecture on responsible pet ownership.  Who let’s their cat stay stray for a month??

That cat spent roughly nine hours in our apartment.  We brought her in the night before he was supposed to come get her because we wanted to make sure that she would be around when he got here.  We fixed up a little nest for her in our bathroom with food and a litter box.  It was only nine short hours but O. M. G.  The Fleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeas!  It was like a Joe’s Apartment of Fleas situation!  Poor Poppy got attacked by the things so badly we ended up having to give her a bath because she was starting to scratch her own belly raw from the itching.  We’ve since also dosed her with some Frontline but every once in a while I see a flea jump on me (usually while I’m on the couch and can I just say WTF fleas?  Why do you have to infest the place I spend the most time?) so I’m thinking of making a second trip to the vet for some flea spray.  Ugh.  Even typing it out makes me itchy.   Also?  It was Will’s idea to give the cat a bath.  He’s the one who held her still while I lathered her up and rinsed her off.  I was the one who dried her off and snuggled her in the towel while she calmed down but I was the one she hated for a week.  Where’s the fairness in that?

In other news today was Will’s Company’s Annual Company Picnic.  First I have to be fair: they do try to put on a good afternoon for their employees.  This Company has a couple of hundred people working in different locations so keeping everyone happy is really tough.  Every year they rent out a farm that’s about a half an hour outside of the city.  It has a little train that goes around it and a small lake with boat rides.  There’s a bouncy house slide thing for the kids and a clown who wanders around making balloon animals and doing card tricks for the little ones.  They put up a volleyball net and encourage all sorts of other games like horse shoes and a tiny bit of mini golf and other picnic-y things like tug of war and sac races, etc.  They also feed everybody for free and there is an open beer garden.  They really do try.  But if you do not have kids and are not into sports and do not drink beer?  It’s kind of boring–especially if you’re relatively new in the company and don’t know that many people.  The other thing is that, while the picnic is not mandatory they do sort of manipulate you into staying for the whole thing because they raffle off some really cool prizes.  Every year there’s a ginormous flat screen tv that gets given away and this year there was also an iPad and an iPod Touch.  The only catch is that you have to be there to be able to take the prize home.  The picnic starts at 3.  So everyone shows up at 3.  And every year they wait until 7 or so to start the raffle.  Four hours is a long time to sit around and be bored.  In the sun. When you don’t drink beer and your only other beverage option (unless you were smart like us and stopped for sodas on the way out of town) is a cooler that gets filled with water from a hose and then sat directly in the sun.

But hey, free food that I didn’t have to cook.  That’s pretty nice!

I had a whole other thing I was going to write about.  But I forgotted what it was, so it must have been really important!