My Random Thoughts

Oh my!  Tonight was the new kids well kitty visit. Well, let me just tell you, Yum Yum is strong. and fast. and sneaky. Princess Wu got into her carrier with little problems. Yum, not so much. I expected that i might get some scratches, but the bitch bit me. I know, she was scared and she was reacting. She’s an animal, she doesn’t understand, but damn, it hurts!

So, the vet says they are healthy. Of course we need to go through the deworming, but they are basically healthy girls. Thank goodness. When we got home, Yum Yum just took off to hide. It didn’t take her too long until she came back out. She’s now taking her bath on my chair. Silly girl.

I’m so glad tomorrow is Friday. I need to schedule a day off, but geez, i work on the weekend, so it really seems like it doesn’t make sense to take a Friday off.

Now, if I just move the money from this account….

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I couldn’t resist this shot. Jeff calls me into the bedroom tonight, Champagne was surfing again. This is not the first time we’ve caught her with her paws on the keyboard. I don’t know what she’s doing, shopping, plotting the overthrow of the cat government, doing the daily sudoku, but she’s up to something.

She seems to be getting along well with the other goobers. The hissing has all stopped and it hasn’t even been a week. The two new one have certainly changed the kitty cat dynamics a little bit. Margarita and Yum Yum enjoy playing together. Well, Yum Yum seems to enjoy having Margarita chase her. Yum Yum and Wu Wu guard me in my office for many hours. The three youngsters need to help in the bathroom, though I’ve assured them I know what I’m doing.

Champagne sits in her window, or sits on her bed. She’s pretty mellow about the whole thing.

I went through out cat food to make sure I didn’t have any of the recalled stuff. Now maybe its just me, but when the company recalls specific brands and types it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out which those are and take them off the shelves, right? Apparently I am wrong. I was at the pet store on Saturday picking up some food and litter. All over the store there are signs about the food, the brands, the recall and what foods you could buy. The signs said ‘as we continue to identify and remove the items from our shelves…..’ ok, and one of these signs was posted on the same shelf where some of the suspect food was sitting. I didn’t think it would take a lot of thought to say, oh, Science Diet canned, we should removed that from the shelf. Eukanuba pouches, we should remove that from the shelf. No, they still have it there.

Another thing is that is was specific types within the brands. So, take those off the shelf and don’t ask me at the check out if I’m sure I want to buy this can, which is totally different, but made by the same company. Well, you know what, no, no I don’t want to buy that anymore. I’ll just take my Fancy Feast and leave now. And I did, and I fed the girls and they were all happy.

Oh They Must be Sisters

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It was gut wrenching to return Phoebe. I didn’t realize how much I had bonded with her. When I was walking past the cage on our way out of the shelter, she put her paw out to touch me. I still get choked up when I think about that.

We took one back, and brought two home. I think we’ve landed on names – Yum Yum and Wu Wu, both of which are tropical drinks (and quite yummy sounding ones!) They are sisters. Very soft furry kittens, about 6-7 months old. They are gray tabbyish with some calico markings. Very Very cute.

We had to borrow a carrier from the shelter to bring them both home. We took it back yesterday, along with all of the special food Phoebe was on, as well as some food that I had left over from Sheba. We went to say hello to Pheobe. She glared at us (and everyone else for that matter). She was really unhappy to be in that cage. I wish is could have been different, but I suspect she has more wrong that we even realize.

Champagne has started eating again. She nibbles her dry when she wants it and eats at least some of the wet before the others hoover it up. The new nuts are fitting in and giving Margarita someone to play with. There were some hisses the first day, and the second day and probably a little bit this morning, but by this afternoon they were playing together. Right now Yum Yum is sleeping in the tree behind me. I don’t know where the others are. Champagne is probably on the bed with Jeff. I’ll have to go on a cat count soon.

So far there are no sneezes, no watery eyes. There has been one not so small ‘accident’, but I can attribute that to stress and newness since I haven’t seen any evidence of something like that happening again. Obviously I’m a little sensitive to their bathroom habits right now, given the experience with Phoebe and I will be starting their dietary changes slowly. As soon as I get their paperwork, they’ll be going to the vet for their ‘well kitty’ visit and any boosters they may need.

Even with the experience with Pheobe, I still admire the dedication Inga and her volunteers have to the cats. They are shelter kitties and she does the best she can do with them. It still amazes me how clean the place is. I wish she could place some of the older kitties in there. She has some very sweet ones. I wish I could take more, but 4 is my limit. If the market ever returns and we can sell this house, trying a rent an apartment until we find something to buy may be a challenge!

Time to do a cat count and snuggle into bed for some reading.

It certainly felt like it.

Work was rough – lots of meetings, lots of stress, still so much to do. I got an email tonight that confused me, but i’m going to let it rest before reacting to it.

Jeff’s work is craziness. His company was sold and now there are a bunch new issues with the new company. I hope he gets some answers tomorrow. Its pretty frustrating. He has to fill out all of his employment paperwork over again. I can understand why, but it opens a lot of questions up.

Probably the most stressful thing is that we made the decision to take Pheobe back. She’s not getting any better even with the meds. The food change helped from when we first got her. She’s still sneezing. The thing that really did it is that Champagne won’t eat the low alergen food and is losing weight. Champagne will eat other food, so the problem seems to be with that food. I still feel guilty about it.

Working out is good for me. I need to keep telling myself that. It will get easier, the muscles will hurt less. Yeah, and until then I’m going to whine and complain. GEEZ!  Saturday I did chest flys. Today getting dressed hurts. Oh and I did bunches of crunches. Pretty much any movement hurts and it hurts too much to fall asleep! Yeah, I’m in bad shape

I’m so tired tonight, but I can’t quiet my mind. I don’t know why, but college popped into my mind. I had the greatest habit during my senior year. I had International Marketing Thursday night from 8-11. I would finish work, go to happy hour, go to class and then go to karoke. It was time to leave when the blonde got up to sing. It didn’t matter if we had been there an hour or 5 minutes, when she got up, so did we. I miss those days. These days I’m in bed by 10. Oh what an exciting life I lead!

And here’s the Darwin award for the day out of Florida (as if we didn’t have enough….). A man calls the cops over a dispute with his neighbor. The cops show up and he has drugs in the open around the house and has a bunch of animals. Normally that wouldn’t be a problem except for the fact there were animal feces all over the house. So yeah, he was arrested.

Did the clock thing last night and while its nice to still see daylight at 7:30pm – I want my hour back. I have to many things that I want to get done today. I can’t believe another workweek is starting. The weekends are way to short. I haven’t finished folding laundry (ok, I haven’t acutally started folding laundry). The grocery shopping is done, the house is clean, Jeff’s lunch is made and I even managed to get through my weekend work to do list. Now if I just had a few minutes for me!!

I had a couple of good workouts this past week and i’m looking forward to more this week. My muscles are hurting in that good hurt way. Last they were hurting in quite a bad way (at least the arms were). Of course I’m making no sense at all right now, so I’ll go back to putting the programs back on my laptop.

WOW – There were some suprises on that episode. Sundance was out and Haley was in? What was up with that? Although I love American Idol, this season is pretty boring. There is no Ace. There is no Chris. No one really stands out for me.

Whiel there are no standouts, I will be watching right down to number 1

So, I get up early today to get a jump on things. I didn’t get as much done over the weekend as I had hoped, so I wanted to start early today. Well, that wasn’t to be. I woke up with Jeff, but had a killer headache.

Eventually I do get to the desk, have my cup of tea and have my furry kids hanging out. The pest guy shows up today, spraying the outside of the house. Some of the overspray hits the window, where Margarita is sitting. The noise causes her to take off like her tail is on fire. (I’m sure you can see where this is going….). She crashes into Phobe which causes Pheobe to take off like her tail is on fire. In the way of both of these tail burning cats is my cup of hot tea and my glass of iced tea. Oh yeah, now you really see where this is going, all over my desk, all over my papers and all over the floor. Sigh.

The good thing is that I set up my monitor yesterday so the laptop was closed and out of the way or it would have been an even worse Monday.

But it doesn’t end there. I wipe up the mess, I even take the glass top off of my desk because some tea had gotten under the glass. I didn’ t lose any important papers, so it was just a small disaster. Later in the day I make another cup of tea. No, the cats did not repeat their performance, but my elbow did. Yeah, a little bit of a mess there.

The weekends just aren’t long enough! It’s already Saturday night and I’ve not finished everything I wanted to do. Sounds like my mantra lately.

I did work out today. I need to be consistent about doing that. I’m going to have to track it better. Anyway, went to work out. Did 30 minutes on the elliptical and 30 minutes on the bike. I was watching a good movie on TBS, I need to figure out what it was so I can acutally watch the whole movie.

I opened a bottle of tonight. I’m not too impressed. Yeah, I’m really not impressed. I think I may not even finish the bottle I have opened. That’s really sad. Guess I’ll have a dish of ice cream instead. I was so looking forward to a bottle of wine tonight.

The cats are getting along well. Phoebe is now on prednisone. I hope it works. I’m going to have to run out and get some pill pockets tomorrow. I hid it in her wet food yesterday and had to crush it up on her wet food today. I don’t know what I’m going to do tomorrow! Champagne is losing weight. I think it has to do with her teeth cleaning and the change of diet. She could afford to lose a few pounds anyway. She’s starting to look better. Based on her last appointment, her bloodwork was normal, so I’m just going to think it has to do with diet change.

Margarita is such a nut. Jeff got a laser pointer and it is making her absolutely NUTS. Its so cute. Even phoebe got in on the act, which surprised the heck out of us. Champagne started playing again.

I need another nap.

We went to Outback tonight for dinner. Our waiter came out with our drinks and asked us if we knew what was the tallest building in the world. They had a trivia question every day. He said today was the first day he didn’t know the answer. I thought of Kuala Lumpur in Mayalsia. Jeff then thought of the actual name of the building, the Petronas Twin Towers. He goes back all excited. He came out a little bit later, telling us he got it right and won a t-shirt. We’re all pleased with ourselves for knowing this. Jeff tells me educational television is good for something. Yeah, I knew that because I watching the movie Disclosure. So much for educational television.

Anyway, while we were actually wrong (the tallest building is Taipei 101), we weren’t given any credit. When our salads were brought out he’s telling another server, ‘yeah, it just came to me.’ Uh huh, just came to you. SURE.

After dinner we went to the pet store to pick up a few things and run into Krista! It just came to her that she should go to the pet store tonight. ESP(n) was going strong.  While at the pet store, as a total impulse purchase, Jeff picked up a laser pointer, thinking he could make the Nut nutty. He breaks it out of the package and who jumps on it, but Phoebe!! I haven’t seen her play since we got her, but she chased that thing all over the house. At first Margarita couldn’t give a rip about it, but she eventually came around and is now totally wiped out on the chair. Champagne even looked like she wanted to get in on it. I’m going to start her back on her pain meds tomorrow. I hope that helps her joints so she can start to play again. Its a bitch getting old.