So, over a month ago, I mentioned Potemkin.  He was a gorgeous, fluffy, flame-point Siamese boy-cat, perhaps around 3-4 months old.  The neighbor a couple of doors down brought him over, knowing that I have taken on the title of neighborhood Crazy Cat Lady; he had found the cat in his back yard, cowering in a corner and crying.  Poor baby!  I said ( Read more... )

WE'RE ENGAGED!!!
So, Monday was my 42nd birthday!  Woot!  Jon and I had Chinese take-out, and he said he had dessert covered.  After dinner, he brings out a very nice box of chocolates.  And there, stuck in the very center one, was a beautiful ring, and under the chocolate was a lovely printed note asking me to marry him!  Squee!


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Dapple has been driving me crazy for the past three weeks!  All three kittens were in their new homes, and Dapple's milk had dried up, so it was time to get her fixed.  So, I set up the live animal trap with her favorite canned food, and waited.

No luck, she wouldn't go in, even after two days of no other food available.  Poo.

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Well, kitten number 1 is now at his new home.  Linda found a home for the black cat - his new mommy named him Bagheera, after the panther in the Jungle Books; he already comes to his name, and his mommy's family is showering them with gifts, including an automatic litter box.  Dang, those are expensive!  I have no worries for him, he will be ( Read more... )

Cats, cats, and more cats.....As some of you may know, I have two indoor-only cats that I actually own, and a variety of outdoor strays that I feed and keep an eye on.  A couple of months ago, a new one was added - a pretty little calico that I named Dapple.  The weird thing was, she was one of only two cats that grey & white Bashful would tolerate ( Read more... )

Why are male cats, even fixed ones, so much stinkier in the littler box?!  Romeo can just about knock us flat.  I can't wait until we have the basement redone, then the box is going down there!  Maybe it's a testosterone thing ( Read more... )

I thought 2009 was going to have a crappy start.  The hotel I work at laid off a bunch of people, including half of my department, and the rest of us had our hours cut by two-thirds.  The other hotel of ours did the same thing.  Luckily for me, I have a lot of seniority (as in, more than anyone else in the whole department), so I didn't get laid ( Read more... )

So I'm sitting here, drugged out on hydrocodone, and trying to get something, anything accomplished.  So I figured I could post here, and that would be at least something.  My surgery was a success - the doc found that I had endometriosis around my ovaries that hadn't showed up on the CT scan, and cleared it out without having to remove them.  I ( Read more... )

We've had a record-breaking amount of snow - I think they said on the news we got 22 inches in a 24-hour period.  Jon and I managed to dig out his van and get his chains on so he could get to work....maybe it's good that my surgery got postponed, so that I could help him.  Here's what we had to deal with:


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Well, my surgery is canceled because of the freakin' BLIZZARD going on is making it too dangerous to get up and down the hill to the hospital.  I can only hope it doesn't take forever to reschedule, tho the doctor's office isn't answering their phones.....I wonder if anyone even made it to work today?