To- Do lists multiply like rabbits
Its almost been a week again??? Wow time files when youre busy! That will probably make for a long rambly post.
I'll start off by saying we ended up taking the two female kittens to the SPCA. (I'll have a rant about the bitchy lady in the rant section) The vet lady was super nice and because they are so young, I'm pretty sure that they will get adopted fast. The one kitten is so retardedly cute I'm sure someone will snap her up.
We had a plan to try to find someone to take the third kitten, and if we couldn't before it starts getting cold we'd just adopt him, but almost the moment we get home from the SPCA our neighbour calls. She says the kitten we left tried to go into her house, and her son wanted it, but she didn't. She said she talked her dad into taking it because their cat disappeared. (They think a cyote got it... ) At first mom said yes, they could have it, but then mom and I talked and mom talked to dad on the phone and she decided that no, they can't have it because they leave their cat and dog outside all day every day. 365. We personally feel thats a pretty crappy life to have so it looks like we're keeping him. Moms blaming me for some reason. Even though I told her shes the one that decided no on her own, shes got it in her head that its my fault. Fine, I don't care, blame me. He's been in the house the last week or so and our other cats arent exactly happy about it but there hasnt been any physical fighting. Booboo likes to show his discontent with the situation by growling a whole lot. Like when hes sitting under the door waiting to be let out and you step beside him to open it, he growls. But its slowly getting better. He went up to the kitten and smelt him a few times and then voiced his opinion and walked away. Lola is just running away from the kitten anytime she sees him, I think it will actually take longer for her to get used to it, which is weird cause I thought Booboo would be hard to convince.
We ended up calling the cat a billion different names. I started off with neko, my brother is calling him bo-bo-nar-nar, cornelius, meowmeow, and a billion other things. Since its moms house, and her cat techically, she gets to name it. First, when we thought it was a girl, she named him Tea... with the thing over the e.... but now we're pretty sure its a boy she changed it to Theo/Theodor. But then she changes her mind and now wants to call him Eli. So... If we dont pick a name soon, hes never going to understand what his name is and never come when called.
Its been raining here for weeks. Literly. Every day. Then the day before yesterday we had a day of sun! Mom and I tried to get as much yard work done as possible. I cleaned gutters, raked some crap up and painted some stuff for mom. Then the next day it rained again and I wanted to cry. Instead I played some Dark Void on xbox because my brother told me he bought it, never played it and wanted me to tell him if it was actually any good. And then I tackled my To-Do list. It seems the more I get done off the list, the more gets added on. I've spent all week cleaning something, unpacking a box, repacking stuff away. I got yelled at for my efforts at one point because... my mom is a bit of a control nut. Just a little bit. And she always gets this nagging feeling of "I cant let you do it yourself because you'll mess it up or whatever and I'll have to do it myself anyway!" So yeah... but its okay. I just let her yell at me and went on cleaning. What else can I do? She keeps telling me to take a break, but if I do, if I dont get these things done, they probably wont get done. At least not for years. Shes only one person and theres SO MUCH that needs to be done.... theres no way she can do it all herself. /sigh
It was a nice day today too, but it looks like it will rain tomorrow. Mom and I each made a list of things we wanted to get done today, both of us had different things, so nothing over lapped.... we each got ONE thing on the list done. I dont know about other people, but mom and I always get distracted by other things that need doing. So a few things did get done... but they just werent the things we planned on. Mom went nuts today and started trimming the Cedar. Something about too much shade. She wants to trim the lilac bushes too.... I suggested digging the one lilac out and planting one of those chinese lilac trees, but then she bitched about not having shade. I asked her which way she wants it and she just kinda rambled on about something so I gave up and went and seeded/fertlized the lawn.
So I would like to get some things off my mind.... so heres the ranty part. I dont get people at all. There are just so many lazy and inconsiderate people around.... it makes me wanna puch someone in the face. My parents own both sides of this duplex. One they live in, the other they rent out. The neighbour on the renter's side... has garbage all along his side of the house and sometimes it blows over to the rental's yard/driveway. My mom is constantly out there tossing the crap back to his side. Its stuff like cardboard boxes, empty cans/bottles, news paper and crap. How can someone live like that. Don't they understand everyone can see that from the street? And that people get the impression that you're a SLOB. Doesn't that bother you?? I would go over there, if I was in my mothers shoes and ask him to clean it up.... or at least tell him its blowing all over the place. But she says they are friends with him (in passing... you know.. neighbourly... whatever) and that she doesnt want to upset him. I'd take the friendliness as a good reason to just go, "hey, I just wanted to let you know your crap keeps blowing over into my yard... when you got a minute can you clean it up?" OR SOMETHING nice?? Is that shitty of me??? Why does everyone just dance around problems??
And then the people who are renting from my parents are actual family friends. My parents have been friends with her parents since they moved here... so like a billion years. Don't get me wrong. I like them. They are nice, good people. But heres the deal. My parents are charging them $450 a month in rent while everything thing else is going for 800-1000 dollars a month for rent. They get their tv for free because my dad gave them our second dish reciever, so we pay for the tv. My mom cuts their lawn and does all other yard work. Last year my parents put up a fence around the front yard... well half the yard, the bottom half's been turned into a parking spot. They asked them to keep the gate closed because they wanted to plant trees or shurbs or whatever in the yard and they dont want deer and or dogs coming in and killing them. They almost never close the effing gate. Its one thing to remember to do on your way out. Just SHUT THE GATE. Its not rocket science and they cant even do that one small thing. The neighbour with the garbage on the side of the house?? He has two dogs who keep going into the rental unit's yard.... Thanks for keeping the gate closed. The other thing that shits me is that on the lease it says they arent supposed to have a dog. What do they have? A dog. At one point my mom was cleaning up its shit in the backyard until she got so mad she told them she would start charging $5 a poo. Now they take care of it. But gawd, srsly?! Mom doesnt want to put her foot down on the dog issue because they are family friends, and fine, they can have a dog cause they are family friends... but you should be cleaning up your own dog crap with out someone else telling you to do so... and you should have enough respect to close the gate. Maybe I shouldnt be so annoyed about that?? But I see my mom going over there and closing the gate, and 20 minutes later they come home, go into the house and dont even bother closing the gate. Dont they see it was magically closed when they got back??? Ugh whatever.
Last rant thing.... When mom and I got to the SPCA to hand over those two kittens, we were standing at the desk waiting for someone and a lady came around the corner. She was glaring at me, but I thought maybe we surprised her so I said nicely "Hi, I called a few days ago and I was told I would be able to hand over two kittens?" THE LOOK SHE GAVE ME. She shook her head and shrugged her shoulders and just glared. In this rude tone she goes "name?" and she goes and looks for my name in some book. She asked me where i was from... and then just goes "Janett?" and my names Jennifer. so I say no, Jennifer. She tells me I'm not in the book. I think that its not MY fault whoever I called didnt write it down, but I dont say anything. She asks what the cats names are. I say we dont know, we didnt name them and she gives me this look like WTF WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DIDNT NAME YOUR CATS. And I say they are abandoned kitties that decided to hang out on my deck and we already have two cats, we cant take three more kittens. She asks me how many cats I have in such a tone, and I tell her again that we have two. She asks the sex. I say female, I think, but Im not pro on reading the sex of kittens. She glares at me and flips through a book and then says we have to wait for someone else to come over before we can sign them in (because she obviously doesnt know what shes doing when it comes to paper work) She called me to this back room with the kittens to put them in a cage. Shes throwing cat food dishes down like .. either she really hates her job or she thinks I'm the worst person in the world. Seriously this isnt the way to treat people. I dont care how much you hate your job, or whatever it is. You just dont treat anyone like that ever. She said they were feral cats at one point, and that they dont take feral cats. I told her that NO they are abandoned and very domesticated and loved to sit with us and be held and petted and wanted in the house. She, of course, glared at me again. WTF lady?!
Oh speaking of which I figured out why cats keep showing up here.... Our other neighbor is leaving cat food outside. Thats like a giant neon sign to cats "COME HERE!!!" ugggggh. Sometimes I feel like Im surrounded by asshats.
Other the all that... I guess I have nothing else to say. Long post is long. And I should go to bed soon so I can get up and maybe get more things done on my list of crap.... and maybe add more to it. /sigh. Sometimes I look at all this stuff... really just stop, stand, and look at all the boxes and things and wonder when we're going to go through it all, put it all away and get everything back to normal. Granted a bunch of it is my brothers stuff. ... OMG I got two things on my list done! I spent an hour pulling boxes outta my brothers room that are my moms...a nd putting my brothers boxes into his room. YAY! That makes me happier than I was. YAY!
K bedtime
I'll start off by saying we ended up taking the two female kittens to the SPCA. (I'll have a rant about the bitchy lady in the rant section) The vet lady was super nice and because they are so young, I'm pretty sure that they will get adopted fast. The one kitten is so retardedly cute I'm sure someone will snap her up.
We had a plan to try to find someone to take the third kitten, and if we couldn't before it starts getting cold we'd just adopt him, but almost the moment we get home from the SPCA our neighbour calls. She says the kitten we left tried to go into her house, and her son wanted it, but she didn't. She said she talked her dad into taking it because their cat disappeared. (They think a cyote got it... ) At first mom said yes, they could have it, but then mom and I talked and mom talked to dad on the phone and she decided that no, they can't have it because they leave their cat and dog outside all day every day. 365. We personally feel thats a pretty crappy life to have so it looks like we're keeping him. Moms blaming me for some reason. Even though I told her shes the one that decided no on her own, shes got it in her head that its my fault. Fine, I don't care, blame me. He's been in the house the last week or so and our other cats arent exactly happy about it but there hasnt been any physical fighting. Booboo likes to show his discontent with the situation by growling a whole lot. Like when hes sitting under the door waiting to be let out and you step beside him to open it, he growls. But its slowly getting better. He went up to the kitten and smelt him a few times and then voiced his opinion and walked away. Lola is just running away from the kitten anytime she sees him, I think it will actually take longer for her to get used to it, which is weird cause I thought Booboo would be hard to convince.
We ended up calling the cat a billion different names. I started off with neko, my brother is calling him bo-bo-nar-nar, cornelius, meowmeow, and a billion other things. Since its moms house, and her cat techically, she gets to name it. First, when we thought it was a girl, she named him Tea... with the thing over the e.... but now we're pretty sure its a boy she changed it to Theo/Theodor. But then she changes her mind and now wants to call him Eli. So... If we dont pick a name soon, hes never going to understand what his name is and never come when called.
Its been raining here for weeks. Literly. Every day. Then the day before yesterday we had a day of sun! Mom and I tried to get as much yard work done as possible. I cleaned gutters, raked some crap up and painted some stuff for mom. Then the next day it rained again and I wanted to cry. Instead I played some Dark Void on xbox because my brother told me he bought it, never played it and wanted me to tell him if it was actually any good. And then I tackled my To-Do list. It seems the more I get done off the list, the more gets added on. I've spent all week cleaning something, unpacking a box, repacking stuff away. I got yelled at for my efforts at one point because... my mom is a bit of a control nut. Just a little bit. And she always gets this nagging feeling of "I cant let you do it yourself because you'll mess it up or whatever and I'll have to do it myself anyway!" So yeah... but its okay. I just let her yell at me and went on cleaning. What else can I do? She keeps telling me to take a break, but if I do, if I dont get these things done, they probably wont get done. At least not for years. Shes only one person and theres SO MUCH that needs to be done.... theres no way she can do it all herself. /sigh
It was a nice day today too, but it looks like it will rain tomorrow. Mom and I each made a list of things we wanted to get done today, both of us had different things, so nothing over lapped.... we each got ONE thing on the list done. I dont know about other people, but mom and I always get distracted by other things that need doing. So a few things did get done... but they just werent the things we planned on. Mom went nuts today and started trimming the Cedar. Something about too much shade. She wants to trim the lilac bushes too.... I suggested digging the one lilac out and planting one of those chinese lilac trees, but then she bitched about not having shade. I asked her which way she wants it and she just kinda rambled on about something so I gave up and went and seeded/fertlized the lawn.
So I would like to get some things off my mind.... so heres the ranty part. I dont get people at all. There are just so many lazy and inconsiderate people around.... it makes me wanna puch someone in the face. My parents own both sides of this duplex. One they live in, the other they rent out. The neighbour on the renter's side... has garbage all along his side of the house and sometimes it blows over to the rental's yard/driveway. My mom is constantly out there tossing the crap back to his side. Its stuff like cardboard boxes, empty cans/bottles, news paper and crap. How can someone live like that. Don't they understand everyone can see that from the street? And that people get the impression that you're a SLOB. Doesn't that bother you?? I would go over there, if I was in my mothers shoes and ask him to clean it up.... or at least tell him its blowing all over the place. But she says they are friends with him (in passing... you know.. neighbourly... whatever) and that she doesnt want to upset him. I'd take the friendliness as a good reason to just go, "hey, I just wanted to let you know your crap keeps blowing over into my yard... when you got a minute can you clean it up?" OR SOMETHING nice?? Is that shitty of me??? Why does everyone just dance around problems??
And then the people who are renting from my parents are actual family friends. My parents have been friends with her parents since they moved here... so like a billion years. Don't get me wrong. I like them. They are nice, good people. But heres the deal. My parents are charging them $450 a month in rent while everything thing else is going for 800-1000 dollars a month for rent. They get their tv for free because my dad gave them our second dish reciever, so we pay for the tv. My mom cuts their lawn and does all other yard work. Last year my parents put up a fence around the front yard... well half the yard, the bottom half's been turned into a parking spot. They asked them to keep the gate closed because they wanted to plant trees or shurbs or whatever in the yard and they dont want deer and or dogs coming in and killing them. They almost never close the effing gate. Its one thing to remember to do on your way out. Just SHUT THE GATE. Its not rocket science and they cant even do that one small thing. The neighbour with the garbage on the side of the house?? He has two dogs who keep going into the rental unit's yard.... Thanks for keeping the gate closed. The other thing that shits me is that on the lease it says they arent supposed to have a dog. What do they have? A dog. At one point my mom was cleaning up its shit in the backyard until she got so mad she told them she would start charging $5 a poo. Now they take care of it. But gawd, srsly?! Mom doesnt want to put her foot down on the dog issue because they are family friends, and fine, they can have a dog cause they are family friends... but you should be cleaning up your own dog crap with out someone else telling you to do so... and you should have enough respect to close the gate. Maybe I shouldnt be so annoyed about that?? But I see my mom going over there and closing the gate, and 20 minutes later they come home, go into the house and dont even bother closing the gate. Dont they see it was magically closed when they got back??? Ugh whatever.
Last rant thing.... When mom and I got to the SPCA to hand over those two kittens, we were standing at the desk waiting for someone and a lady came around the corner. She was glaring at me, but I thought maybe we surprised her so I said nicely "Hi, I called a few days ago and I was told I would be able to hand over two kittens?" THE LOOK SHE GAVE ME. She shook her head and shrugged her shoulders and just glared. In this rude tone she goes "name?" and she goes and looks for my name in some book. She asked me where i was from... and then just goes "Janett?" and my names Jennifer. so I say no, Jennifer. She tells me I'm not in the book. I think that its not MY fault whoever I called didnt write it down, but I dont say anything. She asks what the cats names are. I say we dont know, we didnt name them and she gives me this look like WTF WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DIDNT NAME YOUR CATS. And I say they are abandoned kitties that decided to hang out on my deck and we already have two cats, we cant take three more kittens. She asks me how many cats I have in such a tone, and I tell her again that we have two. She asks the sex. I say female, I think, but Im not pro on reading the sex of kittens. She glares at me and flips through a book and then says we have to wait for someone else to come over before we can sign them in (because she obviously doesnt know what shes doing when it comes to paper work) She called me to this back room with the kittens to put them in a cage. Shes throwing cat food dishes down like .. either she really hates her job or she thinks I'm the worst person in the world. Seriously this isnt the way to treat people. I dont care how much you hate your job, or whatever it is. You just dont treat anyone like that ever. She said they were feral cats at one point, and that they dont take feral cats. I told her that NO they are abandoned and very domesticated and loved to sit with us and be held and petted and wanted in the house. She, of course, glared at me again. WTF lady?!
Oh speaking of which I figured out why cats keep showing up here.... Our other neighbor is leaving cat food outside. Thats like a giant neon sign to cats "COME HERE!!!" ugggggh. Sometimes I feel like Im surrounded by asshats.
Other the all that... I guess I have nothing else to say. Long post is long. And I should go to bed soon so I can get up and maybe get more things done on my list of crap.... and maybe add more to it. /sigh. Sometimes I look at all this stuff... really just stop, stand, and look at all the boxes and things and wonder when we're going to go through it all, put it all away and get everything back to normal. Granted a bunch of it is my brothers stuff. ... OMG I got two things on my list done! I spent an hour pulling boxes outta my brothers room that are my moms...a nd putting my brothers boxes into his room. YAY! That makes me happier than I was. YAY!
K bedtime