Monthly Archives: February 2006

Yard Work and the Super Bowl

Posted on Monday February 6th, 2006 by | Comments Off on Yard Work and the Super Bowl

Ugh I am beat. The idea was 30 mins or so, just pick up some leaves etc, turned into a 2.5 hour job, we cleaned out the leaves in the 2 bad spots around the house where the wind blows them all to, which from the looks of it, had not been done in years, then we trimmed the hell out of the trees and bushes which looks like it had not been done in years as well, so now we have a huge pile of branches that will sit there until next Monday when the yard waste is picked up.

We still have some branches and 3 stumps I want to get a chainsaw to cut them up and then we will have to give the front yard a good raking, so many years of neglect has piled up and it is killing off the grass before it has a chance to grow, I hate raking leaves with a passion and the 3 blisters I now have remind me how much I hate raking as I type, but it needs to be done. This house is a hundred times better since we moved in, not even the same property. So we are pleased with what we have done in such a short time. We have just two rooms left to paint and a chainsaw and the worse will be over with.

Pittsburgh Steelers have won it all, not much of a surprise; I was leaning toward Seattle by about 51/49, so I am not bothered really. Nice to see Jerome Bettis get a ring, I have been a fan of his since he was at Notre Dame and I am also a huge fan of Antwan Randel El. He would have been a Heisman winner had he gone to a major football school and not Indiana University. IU is a great basketball school, but not a Football School.

We had gone up to some friends in Buffalo New York for a party last year and had a really great time, we went back there in October for a Bills/Jets game and again had a really great time and was suppose to go back there this year for another Super Bowl bash, but there was a “person” who was going to be there that we do not want to be in the same room with, a total piece of crap. What some people will do/want to do to “get even” with someone when they get their feelings hurt… ugh… so not worthy of being in the group of people who was going to be there, but that is not my call. Everyone has their own choices to live by and we choose not to be around this piece of shit completely out of respect to our friends who do not deserve to have a good time ruined, so we decided to stay home this year.

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RIP

Posted on Sunday February 5th, 2006 by | Comments Off on RIP

Feminism Pioneer Betty Friedan Dies at 85

  • Betty Friedan, whose manifesto “The Feminine Mystique” helped shatter the cozy suburban ideal of the post-World War II era and laid the groundwork for the modern feminist movement, died Saturday, her birthday. She was 85.

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    Getting Things Done

    Posted on Friday February 3rd, 2006 by | Comments Off on Getting Things Done

    Started the day with a friend of mine dropping of her motorcycle to store in our garage. Where she is moving to doesn’t have the room for it. It doesn’t have tags so we had to get it off the back of a truck. No big deal except the back didn’t want to come down on the truck. Harold figured out what happened and we able to open it and take care of the bike.

    We then went and did the grocery shopping done. We bought a bunch of stuff, a lot more then normal, but at least we shouldn’t have to get any thing major for the next few weeks.

    I spent the day catching up receipts, emails, & finally getting my magazines read. Feels good to get them done.

    But now I’m feeling a little lost………in general………….but I think I’ve gone on enough about that this week.

    Maybe I’ll read a book or something………I don’t know.

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    Life Goes On

    Posted on Thursday February 2nd, 2006 by | Comments Off on Life Goes On

    It sucks, but it does go on. I didn’t cry at all yesterday, even though I wanted to. I did cry a little tonight. I had to change the litters and we had 4 since Aurora was prissy and needed 2 for herself. Now that she is gone we can go done to 2 litters for 2 cats. Even if it was just nasty, dirty litters that I was happy to be rid of, I still cried cuz it meant that she was no longer here.

    Harold misses her bitching at him when he would move her tail when she flicked it on his mouse.

    Working has really helped to keep my mind busy and stop me from crying. Our GM, Cheryl, is transferring to another location and we have one transferring in. The problem is that the one tranferring to us won’t be here for 2 more weeks. It won’t be that big of a deal, but we are still down a manager. We hired one, but she just started and has no training. So my DM had to find us help from other locations. But it left me as the head bitch in charge………..LOL

    It is something I’ll enjoy, stress and all. Some times being “stressed” in the right way is enegerzing. I know I’m weird, but I do enjoy it…..for some unknown reason.

    I have tomorrow off, don’t know if we are going to do much. I have 3 weeks of Time magazines to read so I really need to get those caught up. I may edit some of our last pics of Aurora. I’ll see how I feel tomorrow.

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    Yesterday

    Posted on Wednesday February 1st, 2006 by | Comments Off on Yesterday

    Randi was my cat of 17+ years who we was forced to put down almost 2 years ago, she was close to death at the time and hardly moved at all and wouldn’t/couldn’t purr, I got to hold her as the Dr gave her the shot and she passed on 30 or so seconds later in my arms.

    Aurora was yesterday and we knew her time was close; she was always a skinny cat but had lost a lot of weight in the last month and was just doing things that for her was not normal. (Hiding in places she never hides in both outside and inside etc) so we knew the time was close. But she was still somewhat active and bitchy as ever and purring but not as much and hardly eating/drinking at all. She was always a solitary cat to begin with, but wanted to be alone more so then normal, so I think she was looking for a place to die on her own.

    I had contacted the Vet a few months ago to get questions answered etc so my wife would not have to deal with it and when we took her in to the Vet yesterday we had 3 nurses ask Aurora’s age and when we said over 17 they was all like “WOW!” and then the Vet came in and she asked her age and we again said over 17 and she was the same “WOW!” then she asked the last time we took her to a vet and we said 10+ years and the mood turned and she got pissy.

    She literally said “Well, had you brought her in for yearly checkups she would be here until she was 18.”

    I got pretty pissed, I’m crying, Pauline is a wreck and this bitch has no heart. So after a few minutes she determines Auroras kidneys had shut down and the only thing left was to put her to sleep. So after some hard crying we agreed and the nurse asked me to pay first so I went back to the front desk and paid and the other nurse told me we would not be allowed to hold her. After demanding that Pauline got to hold her during it they finally agreed to put her to sleep with gas and then bring her back to us and they gave the shot.

    Supposedly there is a law that says we can not be in the same room where there is gas in use, no idea this is news to me but I was not in the mood to argue and that was not the time or place to bitch at us because we do not believe in getting cats shots they don’t need. But what do we know we both had cats live 17+ years with out shots.

    Pauline got to hold her and her death was much faster the Randi’s. I took Pauline home and then went back to make arrangements for the cremation and ash’s and paw print they will cast of her paw with her name on it. Same thing I had done with Randi. Needless to say we will not be returning back there in the future once we have her ash’s I am still pretty pissed over the Vets attitude and lack of tact. I just think she could have worded that better and the tone at which she said it was pretty shitty so that made it worse.

    Today I am struggling just to get some work done, I have a huge project that I need to do and have ready by the end of the month that will take me that long to do, and I am struggling to stay focused. I am very lonely which is not what I expected.

    For the last 6 years of working online and for the most part I have spent it at my desk, and for 4 years I had Randi on my desk and when she passed Aurora took over and would always flip her tail on my mouse and then bitch at me for moving my mouse and yesterday was the first time in a long time I didn’t have a cat on my desk. We still have 2 others, but I rarely see them when Pauline isn’t home, they normally sleep in the living room and bedroom all day and follow Pauline around. It’s just “lonely” in this office now.

    Pauline is actually dealing with it better then I expected, she completely lost it at the vets and we both have been tearing up since yesterday, but we are getting through it but only because we have to.

    The thing that is really bothering me is Aurora was a prissy cat, she demanded 2 extra litter boxes for her only so we had 4 boxes total, if not she made mess’s and other things we did for this stuck up cat, now we no longer have to cater to her demands and it’s just weird that after 13+ years of having her (Pauline had her 4 years before we met) that we just have 2 “typical” cats who behave like typical cats, no special needs to make them happy, so we are back down to 2 boxes. Geeze the stupid shit you will miss.

    I know I have been very lucky in life I have never lost a person that I was close to. I have lost aunts and grand parents etc, but never someone close to me other then Randi and Aurora, so it’s a true heart breaker.

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