Monthly Archives: February 2008

Stupid cat part 2

 

We are still debating what to do with Reggie, he is still sneezing blood and after talking to the specialist, it will cost 2 1/2 times as much to have a camera shoved in his nose then I was first told. It is not the $ that is stopping me from having it done, we can afford it, (Not that I want to pay it) but it’s more of a “is it worth it” which not even my Vet can answer. The Vet is now looking into a MRI which would be more detailed then the camera in his nose thing, but of course they cannot take samples this way to confirm if it is cancer. So we are in a “Kobayashi Maru”. (Let’s see how many of you so called geeks know what that is) Its hard being in this situation, not knowing hurts, and knowing could hurt far worse, so we are just waiting on the Vet to let us know more information and we can go from there.

Reggie is still Reggie, crabby most of the time until he wants attention. And to clarify a few things, I posted last he weighed 10 lbs vs 13 lbs he weighed a few years ago, after I posted that I read the results I had and I must have misheard the assistant, he weighs 10.9 lbs, so it is only a 2 lbs loss over 3 years. Like that matters, just setting the record straight.

Ok, the Vet just called me, MRI’s are much more expensive then the camera in the nose, and after talking more the Vet thinks there is “less than a 50% chance it’s “good”.

So I guess we will just wait since there is no point throwing $ into something that will not help do a damn thing but stress Reggie. Reggie’s age is the main factor in this, he is almost 13 and for a cat that’s pretty old. I just do not want to put him under more stress then he has to be under so we will just wait and see and go from there.

This totally sucks.

How Do I Feel?: worried worried

We go Wii Wii….

 

Wii!

I am starting to feel my arm after throwing some serious heat in Baseball. And I actually like Golf and we both love bowling. Boxing leaves much to be desired and to make it worse we bought 2 pairs of the boxing gloves so that was a nice waste of $… But still, this is fun. I never thought I would have bought one until I started to play a few games, thanks to my pals Kris & John they showed me something with stupid name could be fun.

The Xbox 360 still kicks it’s ass but it’s something different….

And now thanks to my sore right arm, I am typing worse then I normally do which is bad. And we are going to join a gym tomorrow… how sad is it that we are joining a gym so we can play video games better?

Next on the list is a PS3 (Thanks to stupid Sony and their stupid BluRay… 1 month after buying my HD Player for the 360) and the old Sega and SNES consoles, I want to relive my youthful days….

How Do I Feel?: sore sore

Today’s Babble

We got our wii today. After arguing with fed ex……..gggrrrr My body is sore. =) Thanks to our friends Kris & John for bringing theirs down, we just had to get it. An actually video game that I will play. Hell, my parents played more video games then I did when I was a kid.

I’m just hoping that playing wii today will help me settle down in bed tonight. For some reason it has been hell on getting comfortable. And the other night it was so bad that I went downstairs just so my husband could sleep because I was so restless.

Actually went back to raining today after some stunning sunny days. But it was become clear again in the afternoon and it was perfect for viewing the lunar eclipse tonight.

We are going to visit a gym tomorrow to see about joining. It is with a national chain and they are all over Portland so it will be easy to transfer to where ever we move to.

I had a lot of other thoughts that I wanted to add, but just don’t remember them………lol

Man, these people are annoying!

** This is so true! If you have traveled as much as I have you would recognize it.

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Beautiful Sunday

It was a stunning day weather wise.  Sunny, clear and in the 50s…..a little breezy, but perfect.  Too nice out to stay inside, so I went for a walk today.  It felt good.

One thing I noticed the other day, that when we are driving towards home when Mt Hood comes in view it looks huge and it doesn’t seem that far, but when I walk it seems so distant.  I wonder if it is because the road that we drive is higher up then the road I follow when I walk.  Food for thought.

It is chilly when we get up in the morning, as normal mornings are, but it seems as if we never warm up.  Then it dawns on me, we usually end up in front of the computers so we aren’t moving…….so our circulation sucks and makes us cold.   But I didn’t have to worry about that today…….today is my normal attack the house.  Boy did that warm me up.  I like to vacuum just for the activity it gives me.  Then I did my walk and I’ve barely been chilled since.

I am also hoping that it will help fall asleep.  Activity is great for that.  I can’t wait for the wii…….that will help.

Our truck is as 99,998.5 miles…….I know it is goofy, but I want to try and get a picture of it at 99,999 and 100,000.  The only thing is that it is a digital………so I won’t get the turning of the miles, the old fashion enjoyment of it. I know, I’m weird…….lol

A Boilermaker won the Daytona 500! 

**It doesn’t say anything about his association in this article, but Harold said that they were saying the Boilermaker won the Daytona 500.  So that was cool.  I honestly find racing boring………but I’m always happy when a Boilermaker wins……..it is the school pride thing.  =) Here is his wikipedia page : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Newman 

Now this is when Bill Clinton is at his best : Fired Up Bill Clinton Goes Off On Pro-Lifers 

**I would love to see the video of that.

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Just Chilling

After 2 days of intense work, I’m just chilling mostly.  I some work that I can and will do…….but not the main focus today.  I’ve brought my laptop downstairs just to get out of the office.  Totally tired of it for now.

Grief-stricken? How to deal with pet death

I can honestly say that I have never gotten over it — I’ve just gotten used to it.

**This quote is a perfect description of how I feel.  I thought I was nuts and the only one who hadn’t gotten over it.

The most distressing are hallucination-type experiences that leave an impression that you are hearing familiar sounds of your pet walking or calling. Some people even think that they see their pet out of the corner of their eye, especially after just waking up 

**I some times feel as if I should still be seeing them……..even though we have moved since.  This article was nice in that I some of the things that I go through is considered normal.

I have a little quote thing on my google desktop and it came up with a very interesting one from John Adams, our 2nd President and one of the main architects of our government :
“The government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion” 

“This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it” 

**There is a lot more of similar quotes from other greats on that page, very revealing.

This is coming from one of our most religious of founders.

So I get to livid when people like Huckabee say shit like this :

“But I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that’s what we need to do — to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards so it lines up with some contemporary view.”

He just needs to be bitch slapped and given a huge history lesson on what this country is founded on.  The founders were very religious and used it to guide them, but they were very well aware of the dangers of a theocracy.  Which people such as Huckabee want us to be, they are no better then the Taliban and the other Islamic extremists……..ggrrrr

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