today I talked to the Queen

Mary called from Kuwait today on her mobile phone, making it clear that that's what they're called--not cell phones. She's found an apartment, but she didn't realize that when renting a place, it came with zero appliances, so she had to buy a stove, a fridge, a washer/ dryer, etc. Kitties are doing remarkably well, but Rooney's still whining about having no toys to play with. Today's temp was 117. School starts in early September, but she starts tomorrow, Sunday (their weekends are Thursday/Friday) because she's got to build a writing program or some damn shit like that. I recommended legos and offered to ship some if she ran out.

For those who want to know when she's going to set up a blog: it takes a while to get internet service in her apt because she needs to get a land line, and before she can get a land line she has to get a civil ID, which takes some time, apparently. She had to go to a doctor for some kind of exam associated with this civil ID (I think) and she said it was DIRTY. Ick.

Okay. Done with my reporter duty for today.

By the way, Belly was high-larious at Doggie swim. She wanted to go down the slide, so she climbed the first five steps but came back down when Auntie Julie yelled at her. She didn't swim so much as wade because, like her momma, she has issues with control. With that many people and dogs around, she didn't want her feet to leave the ground. That's my girl.