I just got really good tickets for a Seattle Symphony concert tomorrow. I'm uber excited. Yay for cool board members! And not only did I get the tickets ... I got a parking pass too! Whoo-hoo! In the actual parking garage, so I don't have to take the bus or walk a mile in the freezing cold. Heather is happy.

The new Slayers series is awesome. Heather is happy.

I'm really tired of pissy people on non-profit boards. The woman in the charge of the upcoming auction this saturday has serious issues. Nothing anyone does will please her (most everything majorly infuriates her) and she actually yelled at me for sending thank you notes for people who couldn't attend the auction and sent in a donation. Take a ( Read more... )

I finally adopted a kitty! Yay! We went down to the Kent animal shelter, mostly because they had an awesome deal ($25 for adults, $40 for kittens + a coupon for a free vet checkup, a license, some information, and we got him micro-chipped for an additional $25) and looked at lots of kitties. I couldn't believe they had only 400 cats, but had only ( Read more... )

So, my mom finally took off for her (so-called) vacation. Trust me, in my family, vacation is pretty much as close to hell as you can get. We don't vacation well. There's either dire sickness, some sort of freak emergency, or mind-boggling drama of some sort. In China, which I was seriously looking forward to, I got really, REALLY bad strep-throat ( Read more... )

So, I've been at the Symphony for two weeks now and it's pretty cool. It's mostly been learning all the basic office stuff so far, but at least it's busy and time passes pretty quickly. Yesterday was actually kind of fun though. My boss let me tear apart one of their brochures and give suggestions on how to make it better. Yay, some actual writing ( Read more... )

I FINALLY GOT A JOB! Yay! Julia's parents told me that the Federal Way Symphony was looking for someone to be an administrative assistant of some kind and the next day I got the job. Whoo-hoo! It was quite nice to be told that I had the best qualifications out of 3 other people interviewed. It's only part-time, but I'll actually get to do some ( Read more... )

It's taken me awhile to actually post the news about my cat, but I'm finally doing it. Last Wednesday morning, my kitty could hardly breathe and he did not sleep a single minute (and neither did I). It was obvious that he was suffering. At one point in the night he turned from his usual position to face me and his look just begged me for help. ( Read more... )

Pill guns are freaking amazing. I just medicated the cat in like, 20 seconds. Bam! It's in the back of the throat! Squirt! In goes the water! And the cat swallows the pills! After all the times our cat has been sick and needed pills, how was I unaware that such a contraption ever existed?

So ... life sucks. I finally went to the vet last week and, as I dreaded, my kitty might not be alive for much longer. He has an enlarged heart which is filling his lungs with fluid. They wanted to do blood tests, urinalysis, drain the fluid, give him oxygen, and test all this stuff. It would seriously cost over $700. Are you freaking kidding me?! ( Read more... )