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** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** I know I look a bit scary, but I don't bite, much  This is my blog. A place to torture people I don't know with rants, opinoins and just plain babbling so I can keep a few friends in the real world. If you like torture, come join me. Fix a cup of tea or coffee and sit back while I tell you about the time when.... |
| My brother didn't call last night. I wanted to call him, but I was so wiped from work that I just kind of ...I am still so tired I can't even think of the word for staring into space. Which is what I did at my computer most of last night. I can't wait till it is noon and I get to come home and take a nap. And believe me, I am going to take a nap. I might not even make my Wednesday trip to the Chinese restaraunt. But then again, once I get moving, really moving and get all those carrots I ate last night stirred up in the blood, who knows, I might find some hidden energy. My son, Kyle, decided that after eleven at night was the time to bring out all his wrestling papers for me to sign. We were at it till almost midnight, but I think we got all our Xes marked and Ts crossed. I am doing a small count down till I get my week off. Since today is Wednesday it feels like the half way point, though it isn't as I work this weekend. Guess I better get moving around if I am going to have a second coffee before work. Have a great day. Hugs to all |
| I am still hanging in there and I am still writing for Nanowrimo. I realize my numbers are not the greatest at the moment, but I am still not giving up. I try to plug along a little each day, but as I have said before, like keeps trying to get in the way. I am happy to say that I finally broke the 10k word count. It isn't as exciting as the word counts of those who have already finished Nano, but I am happy to have made it that far. Not much other news. It is once again trying to snow in Southern Minnesota. right now we are getting flurries, but the weather change was enough for me to wake up achy and tired today. (I went to bed at a decent hour too.) I am beginning to think I should invest in the Ibprofen company. I might make back what I spend on the darned things. Oh, speeking of the change in the weather, I have also pulled out the afghan I had started for Ayron then had to undo. It is now wide enough to be a very, very long scarf. I have to run a couple of errands before work today so, I am off to the store. Have a great day. Hugs to all |
| We, here in Southern Minnesota, woke up to about a foot of very wet snow. Now, you may or may not know that I can be a bit of a procrastinator. Yes, it is true. Well, I woke up and looked at my girls huddled up in the coop looking like they were ready to shiver their little feathers off, which was just my perception. The temperature was hovering at the freezing point but unable to decide to stay above or go below. But, you know how guilty consciences work. I felt sure they were in misery because I hadn't gotten the plastic I had bought weeks back over the bars to keep the wind out and allow them to keep some heat in there. So, out I tramped. I measured the area that needed to be covered and came back in to cut and tape the plastic. I then used Ayron's new handy dandy hole-punch to make it easier for me to thread some yarn through to tie the plastic to the top of the coop. Back out I went. I should take a moment to say I wasn't being a 100% smart about the weather. I was going outside and standing in wet snow with just a pair of slip-ons on and a sweater. No hat, no gloves, no coat. Thankfully, it didn't take ten minutes to get the plastic in place and hot glued. It may sound weird, but it worked. Then I decided I should probably get the heated water bowl out for when the weather decided to stay below freezing. Last year we ran an extension cord through the garage door so could not close it all the way all winter. This year I drilled a small hole through the wall and ran the cord out that way. It works much better and will come in next summer too. I should have stopped at that. All the pets were warm and satisfied with their living conditions, but no, I wanted to knock some of the snow off the wire above the coop. I did that and then some. Apparently, wet snow is very heavy and if you bounce it on a really long thin board, it will break it. And IF like me, you are standing under it, you will get a Goony that hurts to beat the band. I am sure there is a lesson in there for me, but I will be one of the first to admit, sometimes I am a slow learner. On the novel front, I am making some progress. I wrote about three thousand words yesterday and a little over two thousand today. I still have a lot of catching up to do, but I have from the 22nd thru the 27th off so I feel there is still hope. I will say that I am glad I am not competing against some of the other people doing Nanowrimo. Some are already done and it is not quite the half way point yet. Well, if I want to get a couple hundred more words in, I had better get back to work. |
| My writing on my Nanowrimo book has been excruciatingly slow. I know many people are half way done or farther and I am way back on 5,000 words. But in this I say, "Never give up, never surrender! At least till December 1st." My brother, Kevin has redicovered my phone number and not in a bad way. But he is slowing my writing down. Thing is I can't bring myself to say don't call or I need to go because we live so far apart and hardly ever talked before a week or so ago. I am loving every moment of every conversation and I don't want it to stop. I know with time it will ease back naturally. So, I will soilder on and succeed at both. It appears that I have found a way to entertain my kitten. I brought home some felt pillow outlines that I need to cut appropriately so the residents can tie them and make a small pillow. Mr. Bits has climbed completely in the bag, pulled stuff out and now has the bag next to the feed bowl. It is cute if messy. The weather has turned gloomy and cool. The weather people are threatening rain that may turn to snow in our area. Ick. In another complete jump to the random. My youngest is trying out for wrestling. He started to try out once before then backed out. I told him this time if he started he WOULD follow through. Which reminds me, I need to write a check for him to turn in, if he gets a spot on the wrestling team. Well, please don't think badly of me, but I need to go, swap laundry, load the dishwasher and get on the next chapter of my story. Hugs to all |
| Tonight we had Rita's critters. She had no little kittens so I brought Tibbles and Bits. I wanted to give Mr. Bits a chance to see Tibbles on a leash. My hope was that he would see that Tibbles didn't freak out and neither should he. I don't know if Bits actually noticed anything or not. It is possible that just having Tibbles there with him allowed the little guy to be calmer. Whatever the reason, we made it through a whole hour without any major incidents....Well, Tibbles did try to head towards the bird room, but I didn't let him. As I type Mr. Bits is sleeping across my arms again. This time he is on his back with his plump belly facing the ceiling begging to be rubbed. I wish I had great and wonderful news to pass on, but my day was just busy workwise and I came home whiped. Ayron and I watched two episodes of "Bones". Now he is off to bed and I am trying to motivate myself to work on my story tonight. The motivation is not there. That isn't a completely bad thing as I did do a bit of a rewrite for an hour this mornings, but my numbers suck wind. Maybe I will finally catch up some tomorrow. Good Night for now. Hugs |
| Here I sit attempting to type at 10:30 on Sunday night. I say attempting because it seems the more determined I am to type or write the more life throws my way. Now I could chase my family away and sit here by my lonesome, but I don't. I enjoy spending time with the boys and Jamie. What I didn't enjoy was knowing I had to work this weekend. I know I should be thrilled to have a job and the good life I have, but I find I do not like the idea of going back to working every other weekend or even Every other Monday. I liked having them off and though the pay check will eventually be a little bigger, having this happen now is annoying. Why couldn't it start in December? Well, that is my whine. Anyone got some cheese to go with it? In other news, I took Mr. Bits to the Nursing Home today. He didn't last 30 minutes and he wanted no more. I ended up putting him in the beatyshop till I was done working. He let me know what he thought of that idea when I came to retrieve him. He whined at me pitifully then snuggled up for a nice pur. My opinion on all that is though Mr. Bits might look like Tibble's younger brother, they do not have the same temperment. At least not yet. Tibbles is very laid back whereas Mr. Bits is a bit hyper yet... Well, that is all I have for tonight. Rest well and I will see you in the marrow. |
You would expect that one would know if they were ill or not. Me, I am not possitive. Yesterday, all I wanted to do is sleep. I did in fact take a three hour nap and then tried to lay down for a second nap after the vet visit. When I rolled onto my left side I got nauseous and decided I would deal with that better if I was sitting up. Since hubby was home and I was feeling needy, I went and watched Bones with him till bedtime. I stayed nauseous most of the night, but that was all. I woke up this morning still tired, but not much I can do about it. I got that 'long' three hour shift.... Ah well maybe once I really get moving I will feel less tired. Heck maybe I will come home and actually write something on the my story. Ayron and Kyle are considering going to Mankato today and I said it might do me good to be trapped in the back of the car for at least three hours with my lap top. Well, that is about all I have for today. Auntynae  |
| The title sounds like something we would make a children's story out of. Today was Mr. Bits big day, not happy day, big day. I made his appointment yesterday to go get his shots so he can officially start going to the nursting home. He is a good month or two younger than Tibbles was when he started. Mr. Bits wasn't quite as calm on his second ever ride in a car as Tibbles, but he didn'g yowl the whole way either. Once he got close enough for me to pet as I drove, the little guy calmed down. He was perfectly fine with the hand off to the vet's assistant and she got his wieght okay. Then they took the little guy in to examine him. The vet mentioned his ears were waxy, but he didn't appear to have any ear mites. If they had seen how agressively I treated them, they would know why. Then, of course, they wanted to know if I wanted him to have the feline lukemia shot. Sucker that I am, I said yes. So, poor Mr. Bits got his temp taking in the not fun way. He got two shots and then to add insult to injury they forced him to drink some nasty dewormer. I was warned not to be surprised if he pooped worms this coming week. Ick! Then the bill came. It was double what they said it would be. Suprise, suprise. They charged $9.00 to clean his ears and another $16 for the shot and I am not sure where the other $5. came in. I did get a free tag for the guy though. They were kind enough to call and tell me that he also has fleas. The spray they use to clean the exam area turns color when it comes in contact with flea feces. No problem, I have enough flea treatment to do all the cats at once. That should begin to correct the problem. As I type, my little tot is purring away while sleeping across my arms as I type. So, though he had an adventure today, I think with a little rest he will be fine tomorrow and he will definately be ready for his trip to the home Tuesday night to join the critters Rita brings to show. In the meantime, I am having a very tired day myself. I am thinking I will go lay back down a second time and rest. I hope this doesn't last long. I have things I want to get done. Hugs |
| admit that I have had a slow start with nano, but I refuse to become discouraged so early in the game. These last few days have shown me why I haven't been writing much though. My life is busy. It is full of love and family. I guess I took that for granted to some degree. My children seek me out to be with them and that I love. My husband is more than willing to hang and watch TV, even pretend to be interested in what I am doing when sometimes I suspect he isn't. And my cats like me. Now that may seem strange, but I like my cats and I acknowledge that each of them needs a little me time and I give it to them when they come asking. It takes time to give a proper belly rub to Dott or to properly pet then tease Tibbles. And who can resist a kitten that cuddles up to you for a nice long nap? Speaking of kitten, more specifically, my kitten. I got a good scare last night. My son, Kyle, gave me a phone number and said a woman had seen the flier about Bits at the Vets and she thought he was a kitten of hers that had gone missing. I called her and she said he sounded like her kitten and if he was she wanted him back. Now I have had him at least three weeks now and I have grown very attatched to the little stinker, but right is right and so we set a time for her to come get him. I admit I was ready to cry, I wanted to cry, but crying is almost impossible for me. So, I went about my business on the verge of tears, waiting and fearing I had lost my baby. Finally the woman arrives and takes a look at bits and says that he is not her kitten. I was so relieved. When she left I hugged him up good and did a little happy dance that I am sure left the unsuspecting kitten very confused. Today I am calling the vet's offices to make sure they take down the flyers. Bits is so not up for grabs any more. I also get to call our mechanic to make an appointment for Ayron's car to go in and get some part of the exhaust system fixed. It shouldn't be the muffler because we had that replaced just over a year ago. All we know for sure is that the thing is loud... Just made the call and I have to run down there to have the car doctors look at it. Have a great day. |
| I did sit down and write for a little last night, but I only got about 400 words written. The rest of the evening I was reading a new story from Sara King. If I get my words in today, I will be working on another story along the same lines as her. It should be interesting. I am off to work in ten minutes, but thankfully it is a very short day today. I feel very crappy this morning, but I suspect with enough coffee and a little moving around that will improve. Now I am not assuming anyone actually wants to read my book especially since this is the rough draft, but I am posting it here as a back up because my computer keeps acting hinky. Rest assured the story is not me complaining about family members or preaching, though my husband and I disagree about the beginning. I am very descriptive because I am trying to give people a feel for where my Heroin is. It may or may not be the right path to take. Have a great day. I must away. |
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