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Catching Everyone Up

Posted on Tuesday March 17th, 2009 by | Comments Off on Catching Everyone Up

This weekend was payroll, so I was tied up with that.  I know that it is a pain in the ass to have payroll during the week, but I’ve gotten into the habit of avoiding work as much as possible on the weekends.

If  I spend time online on the weekend, I want it to be surfing for my own interests or working on our personal stuff, not “job” related.  So I am looking forward to this weekend on avoiding “work”.  What I’m not looking forward to is finalizing our taxes and what we owe the government….icks  But I’ll feel better once it is over, then on to other personal projects…like digging back into health insurance and getting off my ass and seeing an accountant.  =(

We had to take the jeep in for regular maintenance and have them look at a few things.  Of course, they don’t keep us informed as to where is stands.  We had to call today when they told use that they would call us last night….annoying.  We were going to pick it up this evening, but really didn’t feel like dealing with rush hour traffic, so going to pick it up tomorrow probably after the gym.

Suppose to be nice tomorrow, so debating on going for some small hikes…we’ll see.

I’ve been doing ok at the gym.  Been very slowly improving on the treadmill.  I’m up to 3.27mile within 30min and finish off at 3.34mile at 31min.  We had a lot of useless posers at the gym today.  I love it when people just stand around the machine that I want and just talk…annoying jerks.  But I’m going to have to work on cutting my sugar.  I have increased it over the last few months even though I’ve been maintaining my calories.  I’m stuck at this plateau and it is annoying me.

I’m not feeling too well.  We tried this new brand of lasagna and I like it, but I think I ate too much.  I had some mint chocolate chip ice cream to settle my tummy.

For once, we are pretty happy with our setup furniture wise.  We got a five shelf and a three shelf bookcase for the bedroom that actually matches our bed set.  I really like how it came together, we have the space to put stuff without it being too crowded.  We got nice matching furniture in the dining and living room, even though the kittens have scratched up our leather sofa and chair while chasing each other….the little shits.  =)

I’ve been playing around with Twitter & Facebook.  I got the widget that Twitter had to add to my Facebook.  So now all I have to do it update my twitter and it updates my facebook, and my blog has them both in the sidebar and updated nightly.  I also have my feed from my blog going into my facebook.  =) That makes it so much easier.  Now if I could figure out how to edit myspace to add twitter to that.

I’ve been having fun sending pictures of our cats to my twitter from my cell phone…….lol The pictures have turned out much better then I expected them to.

The Culture Warriors Get Laid Off

**The one positive about the country being in a mess is that culture “warriors” have their power removed.  People are more concerned with more important things….like jobs, housing and food to let them force those issues down their throat and into their lives.

Ingraham to Meghan McCain: You’re a ‘useful idiot’

**Ingraham is a hack job.  She can’t even debate the points, she has to make it personal.  How dare she call her “plus-size”!?  For one, she is only a size 10…not even close, for two what the frakk does that have to do with jack crap?!

Sources: U.S. to sign U.N. gay rights declaration

**About damn time.  =)

Bush says Obama ‘deserves my silence’

**For once I agree with him.  I just wish Cheney would learn that.

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Checking In

Posted on Wednesday March 4th, 2009 by | Comments Off on Checking In

Just been working the last few days, although I hit the wall pretty hard yesterday.  I was in such an irritable mood that everything was annoying me.

Pretty much we have been doing our gym thing everyday, doing a few errands, gripe around the house since we can’t figure out what to eat since we are bored with everything, shower and then work.

Last night we did watch Into The Wild from netflixs.  It was interesting, but the guy may have been book smart to a point but no common sense.  If you want to have an adventure in Alaska, you research it, you take maps, compasses, and you learn how to prepare big game….what an moron for not doing that, he deserved his fate.

I spent a few hours on work today, but spent the evening playing around with the ideas that have been rolling around in my head for my site.  I started getting these ideas a few weeks ago, been mulling them over wondering if it would work, but annoyingly, haven’t been able to get to them until tonight.  I think it will actually work.

What I’m doing is that I can’t design, I suck at it.  And this blog system lets me find free designs that I can change to when I feel like it.  This system also lets me create “Pages”.  In this theme/design, it is at the top.  So I’ve create pages for the links that I have on the “site”.  I still have a lot to add and edit, but once I get them done, the other “site” will be coming down.  It will be much easier to update that the constant of reediting of the webpages and uploading them.  So I’m pretty happy if this works out for me.

Now I need to do the hard tedious part, organize my pictures from the last 1-2 yrs, resize them, gallery them up, ftp & post them.  It is so easy to lose control of them…..I have lost that…icks

When going through some of the pics I can see how big the kittens have gotten since Dec…wow.  They are big now.  I think Drew is going to be a big cat.  For the 1st time, we have all short hairs, that is strange, but it doesn’t cut down the amount of fur around the house……lol

Nothing having to chase Drew down to discipline him for shredding toilet paper and trying not to laugh.  We just can’t have him doing that.  We have never had a cat that shreds toilet paper and be so destructive all around once he is riled up.  Harold says that when I leave the room/house he starts to meow loudly and bits paper and stuff.  That is going to make traveling interesting.  We are going to come home to a destroyed house.

We finally got Reggie’s ashes back home.  I feel much better that we have him.

I’ve been still surfing the news to feed my information addiction.  Laughing at the GOP as the head of the RNC bows down to the real head of the GOP, Limbaugh.  I really hope that this destroys them, but knowing the dems, they will frack it up, they always do.

We are doing something different tomorrow.  For valentines I had gotten Harold a couple of certificates for massages and we are going to be cash them in.  I’m looking forward to that house of relaxation.

Nothing like LOST giving you a bunch of new questions and then not going to be on for the next 2 weeks…..gggrrr

Need to head on to bed, wondering how long before Drew joins me since I had to “yell” at him.

ps..just totally freaked myself out, hit one button and lost my post…crap.  Luckly I “saved” a draft and only had to rewrite the last 3 thoughts…that was a heart attack.

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We Lost Our “Baby” Today

Posted on Wednesday February 25th, 2009 by | Comments Off on We Lost Our “Baby” Today

For those who have been reading my blog, you know that 13yr old, Reggie Miller, had an inoperable nasal tumor.  He was diagnosed over a year ago.  He started losing weight about a month ago, but he was still his ornery self, begging for food, demanding attention…..still chasing the laser beam 5 days ago.  But the last 2 days, when he tried to eat solids he threw it up.  After he did that yesterday, Harold stated that it was time….we lost it.

I really hate these kind of decisions.  He wasn’t out of it, his attitude was normal….was it too soon?  Am I selfish for wanting him to live longer?  To continue cuddling with me in bed at night?  Sometimes I wish that when it is time, our babies just go to sleep and not wake up at home, so we don’t have to make that decision.

But when Reggie didn’t even come downstairs to beg when I was having dinner, it confirmed that it was time.  Reggie use to just sit there and stare at me when I was eating, he knew I was easier then Harold….grin  In fact, he would take scraps more from me not him, just because I’m the one who gave him treats from my plate so he was use to it. He was use to getting food from Harold in the kitchen….he would be right there meowing at him when he heard that Harold was in there.

This really sucks.  It is going a long while before I won’t be crying every time I turn around when I think about him.  I try to be “logical” about it, less cat litter messes, less cat hair, less scratches in the furniture, less furballs….but it doesn’t work.  I still miss him as if none of those annoyances ever existed.  =(

It is going to be hard tonight.  When we had a queen size bed, Reggie use to sleep between my feet.  Since we got the king, he has been laying next to me.   He may be next to Harold when I come in, but once I’m in bed he aims for me.   I think it is because even in my sleep I’m “conscious” of our cats and careful of my movements.  Even when Drew would get next to me first, Reggie didn’t let it stop him from claiming his spot, even it meant putting his tail in Drew’s face.  But Drew didn’t care….you can move him anywhere and he is fine…lol

I really miss him.  2008_may_17_075

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Nothing Much & 1yr at the Gym

Posted on Saturday February 21st, 2009 by | Comments Off on Nothing Much & 1yr at the Gym

As of today, we have belonged to the gym for a year.  We have been pretty good at going M-F, other then normal traveling, sickness, holidays and life stuff.

I’m pretty happy with how far we have come, just stuck at plateau right now and it is driving me nuts.  Sometimes I wish I had a trainer again, but I love not having to be on a “schedule” and the trainer I want is no longer working there fully time when I would want my sessions.

I’m lost 37# since we started.   I just have about 8-10 more pounds to go and I’ll be close to what I was in ’92.  I had gained a bunch of weight due to treatments that I was receiving for my plantar fasciitis (cortisone shots…didn’t know the side effects) and then surgery for both my feet in ’07.  I’ve always been a curvy girl, but this was way too much,  I worry about my future health and how can I handle camping and hiking with being out of shape.  So we joined a gym and we have done pretty good.

What kills us, is our eating.  We grew up on midwestern eating….lots of potatoes, corn, breads and meat…..way too many carbs….and fancy food, is well….just too fancy.  We are basic people when it comes to what we eat.  So it is tough to find new healthy things for us to eat, that we like.

The last 2 months, I haven’t been going on my walks on the weekends.  I normally do that on days that we don’t go to the gym.  I think that I’m waiting for the buds and leafs to come out.  I love to take pictures when I’m on my walks.  I had full plans to go for a walk today, I was looking forward to it because it was so beautiful yesterday, but it has been windy as hell and I just didn’t feel like dealing with it.  So I was totally disappointed.

So I really didn’t do crap today……lol  I did get out to the bank and get disappointing drinks from ‘bucks.  Fingers crossed that it doesn’t happen tomorrow…..I really wanted that drink.  I did get some reading in and vegged in front of the tv.  Don’t do that very often.

Watching Letters from Iwo Jima right now.  Really need to make a to do list for tomorrow and this week, to help keep my focus.  That is the hardest part of working from home….focus.

Drew The Vampire

Drew The Vampire

Drew is so damn cute.  He will sleep for hours when held like a baby, lays his head back, his freaky long fangs makes him look like he is grinning….and his legs go up….such a silly kitty.  And yes, that is a Purdue kitty collar on him.  I could’t find a gold colored one that wasn’t girly…yuck.

Each of our cats get their own color.  The late Randi was black, the late Aurora was green, Alexis is pink, Reggie is blue, Drew is gold and Sukura is purple.

Sakura & Reggie

Sakura & Reggie

We love seeing our babies cuddle together.  Reggie is more tolerant then we thought he would be with the kittens and lets them lean against him.  Sakura has such a pretty 2-tone coat and her belly has gotten big, she is not as long as Drew so it shows on her more.

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