I am beyond angry at my teacher for speech class.. He's a freakin ... oh I don't know.. what would be a good word.. well anyway.. while ranting to the hubby about the comments he made on my speech last week, he said something that really hit the nail on the head.. he's just like my mother. This is NOT going to be a fun class.

I did my speech on the pros and cons of different webpage design elements. what a table is, and the good points about it, and the bad.. frames.. backgrounds, pictures, music.. etc.. I did a nice little intro as to why people want pages.. and a nice closing on when you decide on your page keep these things in mind, and gave a few nice referance urls.. and what was his comment? "can the viewer build a web page when your done?" I TOLD THE FRIGGEN MORON THAT I COULDN'T DO A SPEECH ON BUILDING A WEBSITE CAUSE IT WOULD TAKE TOO FRIGGEN LONG!!! I got demerits for using jargon.. but every piece of technical jargon i used, I EXPLAINED!! I don't know where he was, but he obviously wasn't listening to my speech!!

I stupidly looked at his comments during the class break. Stupid cause all I could think afterwards was going postal on the guy..

arrgh.. well anyway.. he gave me a B-.. Even being my own worst critic (obviously not though) I think I did better than a B-..

ok.. enough of that.. back to cute and good things.. like KITTENS!! this morning when the hubster got up .. all the kittens ran into the bedroom and piled on top of me.. purring and cuddling.. it was ever so sweet. Tomorrow is going to be one very rough day. For a while there I thought it wouldn't be so bad.. but last night/this morning.. oh yea.. tough.. Jenna just stole away a toy from ollie.. way too cute.. Charlie holds a grudge.. I had to wash his foot the other day.. he is just now forgiving me about it.. Jenna has also taken to nursing on my teddy bear lizzy.. it is SUCH a riot..

The place Ive been interviewing asked me to fill otu a resume.. did that today.. who knows when I'll hear from them again.. half of me is really looking forward to, and the other half really hopes they never do.. am I twisted or what?

Did go to the fryburg fair over the weekend. It was fun. Got a few christmas gifts. had a "turkey dinner on a roll" - and the roll was WAY too dry,, the stuffing was a little sage-ie.. but good.. and the crandberry sauce just made it all hard to eat.. :) got some blueberry crisp for desert.. that was ok. Saw lots of bunnies.. i love bunnies.. I bought a tapistry change purse made from fabric that had bunnies on it.. I had gotten my fill of fair food at the acton fair.. so that wasn't as big a draw.. but it was fun. On the ride home I saw a sign that said squash apples $x.xx and I joked, ok.. who would want squashed apples. (maybe you had to be there)

the Outback has been open up here for a couple of weeks now and I still haven't gone. Im torn between going tonight, or spending a few more hours with the kittens... hum.. steak.. kittens... steak.. kittens.. (NO! not kitten steaks.. that's just WRONG!!) well regardless, I should go spend some time with them.. toodles

kittens are still here.. there are just too many in the area, there is no room at the inn.. yet one more reason to have your pet spayed or neutered..

the place Ive interviewed with three times now called me yesterday. Im not sure what it was she wanted as I was half asleep. Im apparently sick... and the whole throat thing, the dizzy thing, and the nose thing were all related. This morning my ears hurt.. this isn't good. I left the kittens in the kitten room last night.. so this morning they are a little more than rambuncious. I'll be surprised if my curtians aren't all shredded by the time they fall asleep.. and I wish they wouldn't scale the furniture.. but they are still a little too small to just jump up it.. sigh.. and to think.. Im still not ready to give them back..

Well the hurricane is finally to us.. we're kinda protected here, so by the time it reaches us its just a windy rain storm.. which is good cause we really could use the rain.

my membership at the gym ends on monday. Im trying to decide if I want to renew or not. If i get the job at the place ive been interviewing at, it really wont be convenient..

well.. Ive been pretty boring lately.. hopefully this weekend will be a bit better.. the fryburg fair is opening, along with a few movies.. and the outback is now open in maine..

*actually writen on the 24th*

I called the shelter this morning but they weren't answering the phones.. so I packed up the kittens and brought them down anyway. I needed to pick up some food and litter for them anyway... well the shelter couldn't take them back.. they were packed full of kittens.. so I brought them all back home with me.. charlie is sleeping on my lap as I type this..

I got home, and I realized I was quite dizzy.. no idea why.. its not a good thing, nor is it much fun. I should probably go take a nap, but I have a ton of things to do today.

I went on an interview yesterday. it went ok. the job looks like it might really be enjoyable. Looks like they want me too.. I got a call this morning at 9am to schedual a second interview. my 'speech' yesterday went horribly. I got all nervous for some reason.. I also left my outline at home.. fortunately the hubster could bring it down to me though. next week is a 'bye' for me as the second half of the class has to give their speeches.

well.. I should go do something.. even if its only go take a nap..

One of the kittens has fallen in love with jack.. I joked the other day that he was her idol cause she followed him around for about an hour, but she keeps doing it, and this morning when I let them out of the kitten room rocky went right for jack, rubbed all over him and started purring like a fool. It was so cute.

the kitties are getting sick.. they have snot in their eyes and noses.. I think its cause they are so bored in that little room now. They really need to get back to the shelter and be adopted.. charlie still needs to put on a tad more weight though. its a really nice day here.. a little too nice for the end of september.. I am stuck on my homework since I need office 02 and I only have office 97.. so I need to find a copy of office 02 I can use.. *considers software piracy*.. wonder if you can "rent" it.. :)

Charlie almost fell out the window the other day.. the window with the AC in it only has cardboard on one side to keep the window "closed".. and he pushed right through it. I have no idea why he didn't go right out the window.. and wouldn't that have just killed me even if it didn't kill him.. (one and a half stories above the ground)

Oooh.. the season premier of enterprise is on now.. gtg

For our light and momentary troubles are
achieving for us an eternal glory that far
outweighs them all.

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but
on what is unseen. For what is seen is
temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:17-18

Ive been a little MIA lately.. Hubster is on vaca.. lets see.. monday.. I went to the shelter to help them 'cash out' from their annual fundraiser of strut your mutt. they raised about 20k.. very cool. Tuesday, well that is a shelter day, and since I went in on monday I didn't go. I played with the kitties, did a little shopping, went to the Outback steak house for dinner. MAN they make good steak. They also had a cheee and onion soup that was wicked. Wednesday.. exercised and hurt myself. My knee had been acting up (yes.. its favorite is shakespear) and so I was trying to take it easy lifting, which means going slower, which is how your supposed to do it anyway for maxium benifit, but well anyway, now my butt is soar, and my legs, and yes.. that shakespearian knee.. Thursday.. Ken's birthday.. HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEN!! (not that he reads this or anything) started the day off by going to the zoo. I hadn't been in years and I had wanted to go all summer. (they are only open till sunday... I wonder what they do with the animals in the winter) got on the turnpike and in the construction zone we got behind a cop. We saw a car come up and pass us going about 20 mph over the speed limit. the cop was quite a distance in front of us at that point so we were waiting and waiting for her break lights to come on when she saw him, but she didn't. and boom.. he pulled her over. it was quite humorous. There were a number of people in the car, so they must have just been gabbing along and were not paying attention.

The zoo was ok. Its a little small, and the elephant was off display. The bunnies which are the first "exhibit" you see when you walk in were making a dig for it.. The bunnies, the elephant, and the lions and tigers are about the only animals with names I can pronounce let alone spell so I'll just skip to the interesting parts. Ok.. bunnies.. then some primates, then some ducks. They have a large pond in the middle of the park that you have to walk around to get to the other side. There used to be (and still are you just can't use them) bridges to walk over the pond, but apparently they are unsafe. The pond was disgusting.. very very green and murky and covered with duck feathers. there was a black duck with red something or other over its face.. quite ugly.. we called it the klingon duck. Once on the other side of the pond, we went through some doors. the sign on them said large petting herds.. so I figured they would be walking around there, but they weren't. This is where the lion and tiger pens were. I must say they were very sad. The tiger just had a long rectangular box type chain link fenced in area with eletrified fencing and barbed wire at the top. No tree to climb, no rocks to play on.. nothing. The white tiger had pretty much the same set up, but he had a cement pool to lounge around in with a hump and a log to play with. He also had a tarp over the top of his cage for a bit of shade, but it was so in the wrong spot. The lions had a bigger set up, even had a nice "tree" in there. It was a nice set up for the people, as the cats could get VERY close to you.. but not all that nice for the cats I would think.

a few more primates, a colorful squirrel, a few llamas, and then the petting herd.. it was a bunch of deer. They were adorable, so in we went. MAN those things are worse than goats. They were nibbling and eating my shirt.. I had to run away from them (litterly) to tuck it in so they wouldn't tear it off my body. Didn't stop them from trying, but it was harder to get in their mouth now so I had "won". there were dispeners of food for a quarter, but we had no change. One of the deer went up to the dispenser (looks like a gumball machine) and flipped up the lid as if to show us what to do. When they realized we didn't have any food and weren't getting any, most of them broke up and went away, except a brown one and one other. a baby deer showed up and I reached out to pat it but it ran away. it came back a second later so I leaned over the fence slowly and put out my hand to pat it.. which is when I got my butt nibbled on by the deer. I giggled and patted it and moved his head away from me and went back to the baby.. I got nibbled on again, and again, and when i didn't react, I got a nice headbutt quarely between the cheeks. The baby deer wasn't having any of my non food inclusive hand, so I gave up at that point anyway and started walking toward the ibex (but not and ibex) on the other side of the inclosure. Our two deer friends came with us. We then started planning a "break out" with them. they were to meet us on the other side of the gate as we were leaving and we'd let them jump into the convertable and make a break for it. They just kept walking along side us. It was really cute. When we got to the last food dispensory, we stopped to see if there was anything under the flippy lid, but there wasn't (those deer know where their food is) and the hubster was afraid they would try to follow us out of the enclosure.. So I told the deer to "wait there' and we went toward the door, and they did. It was a good chuckle. We went out.. saw the "ibex".. and some "water buffelo" <- they were HUGE.. some more llamas.. the reptile cage, and that was basically it. we walked back, saw the klingon duck again, went into the wild bird area where "mr. burns" the crain was out side the fenced in area. its amazing how much (from the back) that crain looked like mr burns from the simpsons.. We went back towards the entrance, and the bunnies were still trying to 'make a break for it'. We went over to sanford to go to chunkys for 'lunch' but it was 2pm and the movies we were interested in didn't start till 4.. and we weren't all THAT interested, so we just went to subway. The woman there asked if we had just been at the zoo. I thought she was phsyic till I realized we still had the zoo stamps on our hands... although mine faces down so when I look at it I see OOZ.. :)

I had a mediterainian chicken sandwich. the chick who built it built it so badly that it was hard to eat.. but I found a way.. Went to Renaissance Greetings outlet. Got a few note cards, and some pumpkin earrings and a mug that has my name in many different languages.. Went to home depo to get a new water filter. We are on a well, and our water is full of sediment (STILL.. ugh) and the filter we have broke. we were going to go grocery shopping afterwards but my legs were really aching, and I was getting tired, so we headed home, took a nap, then went out to dinner at a pizzaria I hadn't visited in YEARS but is right in town.. then grocery shopping. Our grand total was 122$ and after coupons and bottle slips paid 88$ I love that.

Today I REALLY need to do my homework.. I have a speech due monday afternoon.. where I actually have to speak it. ugh.. and my spreadsheet homework is also due.. so that is the plan for the day. Its an exercise day as well... but I think I'll put that off till tomorrow when I get home from L2.. :)

I have an interview on mondayl... and haven't I been in a tizzy about that one.. cause on one hand Im not really ready to go back to work, and the hours are till 8pm m-f.. but on the other its in a feild I think I could really really love, the money is incredible and the benifits are outstanding. so I suppose Im in a pretty good position.. if I get it.. great.. if I don't.. great.. :)

the kittens are going back on tuesday.. *sob*.. I still have to talk myself out of keeping them all cause there is no way we could handle 9 cats in this house full time :)

can't sleep.. clown will eat me.. can't sleep.. clown will eat me..

ok.. so there is no clown, and I know even if there was, he wouldn't eat me.. but I still can't sleep. although I must admit Im a bit more tired now than I was when I crawled out of bed an hour ago. I have class tomorrow. Ive done my home work - aren't I such a good girl.. but I still dont want to go. yup.. Im weird.

Something has felt really out of sorts with my life lately.. like a piece of energy is missing. No.. Im not all that much into karma and energy fields, but yes, I have had a number of precongnitive things happen to me, so Im an energy kinda girl. and somethings wonky... and I don't really think its the trivialness that is neo.. Hope everyone I know is ok..

I should probably reinstall ICQ. No idea why I haven't done it since reformating. Probably cause its always a pain.sigh. I think I'll do that and then head off to bed and give this sleeping thing the ol' college try once again.

lets see.. what have I been up to? not much. volunteering, working out, sleeping, kittens.. just so you know, kittens do not like canned air, and they do like curtians.. :) there is something about a 2.4lb kitten that makes it bust out of the confines of the room its in and run like a bullet down the hall and under some piece of furniture so you forget about it so it can explore.. its ever so cute. Charlie is at this very moment in the kitchen looking under the refridgerator. something has caught his interest. Jenna earlier caught her tooth on the curtians.. and the day before caught her claw in another set. You'd think she'd learn to leave them alone.. but noooo.. :) I really love these guys.. they are so cute, and friendly and sweet, and surprisingly clean.. I wish I could keep them all, but that so wouldn't be feasable. I hope who ever takes them treats them VERY well. JENNA.. stop trying to open the fridge doors!! *giggle* Jack has become Rocky's idol. she's been following him around all day.

Last night we went to the movies. went to the spiderman/MIBII double feature. It was fun. Id seen them both before, but they were good and worth seeing again. I think this is the first time Ive gone to see a movie a second time in a theatre. it was a long long evening though.. my butt was very soar when we got home. Well the house is an aboslute sty (except the kitten room..go figure) should probably go do something about that.. Thinking about going to the garlic festivle next saturday.. but its kinda far away.. so who knows.

Yesterday I planned to spend the day away from the media and to spend a little money to help the economy. Driving into town I saw that the school my mother works at had a fire truck, an ambulance and a police car in front of it, so I thought Id stop by my parents (who live in town) and see if dad knew what was going on. He didn't. We sat and talked for a while. He was having problems connecting to the internet, so I went to go look. I removed his dial up adapter thinking it might be corrupt, and I couldn't get it reinstalled.(there was no adaptor option it was weird.. but then his computer is wonky at the moment and has needed to be reformated for a while so it wasn't my fault) so I left him to save the things he wanted on the machine and went shopping. I didn't get a few things I wanted cause I couldn't find them. I came home and reformated the other system in the house and fixed up mine to be formated (yes.. Im delaying that.. I don't know why.. I should just do it) and then went over to format his and I took jack with me.. but mom had come home and gotten the disk for her new internet service and gotten it installed and connected (after talking to tech support). Not sure how they did it.. but hey.. good for them. Mom also wanted to give me the quilt I must admit its a nice piece of work, but I have no idea what to do with it. I LIVE in my bed. My current quilt has stains and pulls and my cats sleep on it and it spends time on the floor. it gets quite abused. Mom would hate it if I used it in that fashion. I don't have a spare bed. I don't like the pattern enough to use it as a wall hanging, and frankly there really isn't enough room in my house to just stick it somewhere.. sigh.

Got home from the 'rents house and on the way I realized the power was out. I was hoping it hadn't affected out house cause we are on a different line from the route we took home, but apparently that has changed. No power.. but ofcourse you reach for the lightswitch anyway as you walk through the door.. Jack was glad to be home.. he's starting to not like traveling.. :( I so want a kitty who travels. oh well I read my homework by candlelight, and then read the first chapter of my dust book. When I gave up jack came up and started sucking on my ear and cuddling. One great thing about him is once you get him attached to your ear, you can pretty much move as you want to and he'll stay right where he is. My other kitties.. once you start moving they are out of there. So I got comfy, and tried to fall asleep. I wondered about the day.. I was able to stay away from the media all day.. still haven't seen any news at this point so I have no idea if anything happened. but anyway.. at the time, I was laying around in the dark, after having two huge planes take off and fly over our house (we are in a rarely used flight path.. and these planes were LOUD) cuddled up in bed, with my bear and my cat and my big soft pillows wondering what the end of the world would be like. I sent up a little prayer that the end of the world wouldn't be so confusing. I got a mental image then that gave the impression that the end of the world is going to be VERY VERY confusing.. and that's kind of the point. I took a bit of comfort in that, cause the world isn't that confusing now.

I need to get out of the house today. Go to the shelter, go to the clinic where I interviewed a while back. Apparently I lost my sapphire bracelet there during my interview. This really surprises me since I LOVE that thing.. and not only did I loose it, but I had no idea I lost it till the vet told me when I saw her during the rabies clinic I was able to help out at last week. Oh well. So.. Im off like a herd of turtles.. *settles back and finishes watching buffy and wonders if I should format my system before I go or when I get back.. votes for when I get back.. after I exercise*

the quilt..

For those of you that don't know this story.. sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip, that started out as what seemed like a good idea at the time. A number of years ago my mother got into quilting. Why? who knows. She's always sewen when we were kids (yes, I have school pictures as proof) but I think it has more to do with a few women she works with starting up a quilting club and she didn't want to be left out. she made a quilt for herself. She made a memory quilt for my sister (blocks that represent moments in her life.. mom is currently working on a block that could look like her new house if you can imagine that sort of thing.. she's not all that good at creating small details with fabric) Anyway.. next it was my turn.. *insert scarey music here*

Mom invited me out to pick out fabric colors. No idea why she invited me, she didn't listen to a single thing I said. the fabrics I liked were "all wrong" for quilting.. Didn't matter that i liked them. Then the ones that were appropriate weren't 'good colors'. It wasn't a fun experience.. but I did get colors I could live with (mustard, emerald green and purple) Anyway.. she then invited me over to the house to pick out a pattern. I walked in the door and she showed me a sampler quilt pattern. I didn't like it, and looked through the pattern books. I found one I really liked, and she found everything wrong with it. it was for a wall hanging quilt so the square wasn't the right size. So once again, it was what she wanted dressed up to make her feel like she actually took my feelings into consideration. This is a habit with my mother.

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder,
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger,
May you never take one single breath for granted,
GOD forbid love ever leave you empty handed,
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean,
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens,
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.

I hope you dance....I hope you dance.

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance,
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin',
Lovin' might be a mistake but it's worth makin',
Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter,
When you come close to sellin' out reconsider,
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.

I hope you dance....I hope you dance.
I hope you dance....I hope you dance.
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along,
Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder where those years have gone.)

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean,
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens,
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.

Dance....I hope you dance.
I hope you dance....I hope you dance.
I hope you dance....I hope you dance..
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along
Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder where those years have gone)

"I Hope You Dance" LEE ANN WOMACK LYRICS

*cuddles up in chair noshing on a "pumpkin flip* Yup.. its fall.. pumpkin flips are out.. I LOVE these things.. they are from little debbie.. she makes an apple flip too, but the pumpkin flip has "eyes" they are cute, and yummy and I love 'em.

I went to work out before I went to class yesterday. I had to take a shower at the gym.. I hate the showers at the gym.. the class was interesting. My professor dressed completely (and I mean completely except his shoes) in baby blue.. his socks were baby blue for goodness sakes. He is also the father of a girl I went to school with. There are four speaches through out the class. I am kinda surprised, I thought there would be more in the public speaking class.. but hey.. that's fine. Im thinking of doing my informative speach on the web.. not sure if its going to be 'why you need a personal website" or "why you should be blogging" or maybe "how to build a website" although that might take more than the four to six minutes I have. I got an email a few minutes ago regarding a quiz I have to take for my saturday internet class.. its due on thursday.. eeek.. I haven't read the material nor do I have excell installed on my system.. *shiver* I hate being this unprepaired.. but its so hot.. I really don't want to do it today..

lets see.. what else is new.. well the gym is getting new flooring in the weight area, so I can't work out today (which I never do) or tomorrow (which is a regular day) Im glad they are changing it. I hope the lack of the cleaning of that room has everything to do with their getting new flooring, cause its been kinda bad. Well not on a surface level, but in front of one of the machines has been a white cat wisker for about three weeks now, and there has been a broken hair clip near another machine for two weeks, and a left over bottle of water in a window for about that long... not to mention a few tracking cards being left around and no one picking them up.

Its hot and humid here.. 90's for the past couple of days.. Its going to be cooler and rainy tomorrow. Im glad.

On a sad note, I "killed" a plant I bought while my father was in the hospital. I over watered it, and didn't realize till it started turning all brown. it had been underwatered for most of its life, so I guess it really couldn't handle it. Surprisingly though it sprouted a few flowers. Im hoping against hope that it comes back to life.. there are three separate plants in the pot, so hopefully one of them will make it. Its looking at the moment like two of them will (the two that sprouted flowers). *crosses fingers*

I updated myfosterkitten website.put the seventh set on there. My sixth set is almost big enough to go back. Eddie currently is.. Charlie is the smallest at only 2lbs. I think Im going to keep them all till they are all of size, cause they really like each other, and it will be less tramatizing for them. When I brought smedley back, he looked so confused and lost..

well.. Im going to make a todo list so I get a few things done.. 1) reformat computer 2) go spend money on wednesday 3) do homework 4) do quiz not necessarily in that order. but of course, right now, Im going to go off and play on line a little bit more.

I forgot to mention I had one of the new subway sandwiches.. the chicken with the feta.. VERY yummy..

Ok.. topics from the other day.

a) law and order. I love this show, but the fact that almost every time there is a black defendant the subject of race comes up. I ranted about the whole race thing a while back, so I wont get into that. The other day the episode was about a guy who killed a man from the middle east cause he thought he was a terrorist. He had all kinds of information that looked like he was, and he was spying on his cell phone conversations and due to the topics talked about he was even more sure he was a terrorist, and in the wake of 9/11 he felt justified killing the man cause a) he was once a soldier in the service of the US and swore to protect it and b) he was the enemy. However, he tied the man up, wacked him in the back of the head, untied him, then blew up his appartment to cover up the death putting his neighbors in danger. Hearing the evidence I thought the guy was a terrorist, and I'd still have convicted the guy of murder cause there are soooo many better ways to handle the situation. Call the police with the info you had. Even if no one would do anything and you KNEW he was about to do something, you could have just tied him up. He didn't have to kill him, and if he REALLY thought killing him was justified, why did he hide it?

also on tv that night was the slice of america show a highschool put on a production of the show "hair". One boy admitted to the televsion that he became friends with a homosexual boy in school, and that he knew his parents were against it because being homosexual is so blantently spelt out in the Bible as being wrong. Well I hope his parents never stole anything, never told off their parents, and didn't have sex before their marrige, because all of that is also spelt out in the Bible as being wrong. Being a Christian, I don't think homosexuality is right. I feel those who feel those desires should fight them. But I also feel I am so NOT the one to tell ANYONE how to live their life (unless of course they ask me)

b) 9/11 and religion. I also watched a show on PBS about how people were eiher loosing or finding their religion in the wake of 9/11. My thoughts on the matter is this.. We sinned and were cast out of Eden. Anything that happens on this earth is of our making. Yes, God could have interviened and stopped it from happening, but that would be contrary to the times we are living in. God has left us to make the choice on our own to believe and love Him. If there was undenyable proof that He exsisted choosing to believe wouldn't really be an option. Love given freely is so much more rewarding than love that is required or duty bound. I have no doubt He did intervein in small ways that day. There was the possiblity of so many more deaths that day. The planes that crashed were mostly empty from what I heard. Despite it being after 9 AM on a work day, there were a lot of people who weren't in that morning due to elections or running late. Tens of thousands of people were in those buildings. and despite being the tallest buildings in the city, they didn't take down any others when they fell because they fell straight down. (yes, a few others were damaged when they fell, but I think it was the vibrations of the falling and not that they fell on the buildings) imagine the devistation if they fell sidewards. One thing I heard on that show really bothered me. A catholic priest was at a rally with a number of other religious leaders. His collegues then started charging him with herecy for standing on the same stage as the others. He was a heretic for standing level with the other priests and leaders creating the appearance that they were legitimate religions, cause we all "know" that catholosim is the only "true" religion. *blech* (personally I think catholosim as a whole is herecy.. but I don't think I want to go down that road today)

So yes.. God lives. He loves you. He was there on 9/11 He didn't turn his back on us. People die every day, because this is the world we made. When He returns, THEN things like this will not happen.

c) kitties! :) things are getting a little better with the second set. I finally have a new battery for my cam so I should be able to get a few pictures up soon. Shyla the mother is coming around a bit. She's still on the iffy side erring on the side of caution when it comes to humans, but I keep giving her good food, and cleaning up her litter, so she tolerates me. The first set has fleas again. I feel so bad giving them a bath again, but I think I'll get some more flea bath and do it tomorrow afternoon after class. They are having a rabies clinic tomorrow and asked me to help out, but I can't cause I have my first class that morning, but I should be able to get there for the last hour or so.

d) gas prices. WOH.. what happened. last time I looked they were 1.20 or 1.30.. they are up to 1.50 now.. what happened?? yes yes.. talk of war with iraq, and the start up of production of heating oil.. but man.. that one hit me out of the blue.

New topics. I was listening to the clark howard show (www.clarkhoward.com) and a guy called in asking how he could recoup money for a lost engagement ring. He was going to become engaged in the next month, so he bought the setting, and his girlfriend who worked for a jeweler bought the diamond.. two carats. It was lost. Lost.. how do you loose a 12k ring? you take it off in a nightclub to wash your hands apparently. He was still making payments on the 2K setting.. What I want to know (among other things) is why on earth was she wearing it if they weren't engaged yet? and how on earth could you take off a 12k ring in a night club and not be paranoid beyond thought while it was sitting on the shelf?

Ive been listening to a lot of talk radio lately. Sometimes pop music just gets too much. One show's topic was "what's the grossest thing you ever saw in a supermarket or resteraunt". I turned that off. What is it with us that we feel the need to share the most disgusting things in our life we didn't create? If you smell something in your fridge, how often do you say "hey..come here.. you gotta smell this.. it smells horrible!!" When I worked at the service desk at a grocery store, one woman was INSISTANT that I smell her bad fish. I assured her I didn't need to smell it to believe her, she kept insisting till I took the fish and put it away. Someone pointed this out to me a while before that incident.. and ever since then, I make a point never to do it again. To this day Im glad I didn't smell that fish :)

And what's with the weather. it was summer, it was summer, it was summer, then it was september 1st, and POOF, its fall. A lot of the trees up here are starting to turn colors now, espeically along the turnpike. Im still mentally somewhere in the middle of summer. I saw tulip bulbs at sams the other day and thought, those are fall plants, what are they doing out now. Sigh.. halloween stuff is coming out.. and then all too soon christmas stuff will be on the shelves. Guess this means I really can't put off telling my family that this christmas trip of theirs is just not going to work out. It is a good idea in concept, Im just not keen on the reality of it all. Especially since Em is diabetic and needs shots twice a day with her food. We boarded her when we went to NYC to see the macy's parade, and she didn't eat for the three days we were gone. Finding someone who would inject her is next to impossible. We were going to have a friend do it, but she up and got herself pregnant (stop me if you've heard this before) so now we are SOL on getting her taken care of. I was telling mom this, and she had two suggestions (cause the new destination is Montreal) a) come up for one day or b) leave em with out her food or injections while we're gone. YEA RIGHT.. Have I told you lately that my mother is an ogre? Anyway.. I don't really want to go to montreal anyway.. (nothing personal.. I just don't travel well, so when I do travel, I want it to be some place I want to go and with people I want to see and spend time with) Im also a little afraid to fly cause the last two times I flew home from someplace far away I ended up with stomach cramps for a month or two. (that and my pilot will probably have a gun)

Well.. Jack wants my ear.. ttyl

Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and
beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness,
humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing
with one another, and forgiving one another,
if anyone has a complaint against another;
even as Christ forgave you, so you also must
do.

Colossians 3:12

I had so many ideas for a post today.. but I have a massive headache, and don't really want to rant right now..
but for when I come back
Law & Order
9/11 and religion
kitties
gas prices

btw.. if anyone has a comprehensive list of what needs to be saved before reformatting one's system, Id love to have it.

Over the weekend, I went to the movie Simone. It was cute. went out to eat at flatbread, which is a very granola pizza place. it was one giant room with a wood stove for cooking the pizza, and a small area for food prep.. and one guy even was chopping wood. The pizza was ok, but I don't think I'll be back. the service was a little slow, and the chairs were very uncomfortable (but yes, they were hand made)

My BIL works for konica, and I asked the hubby to get some AA batteries from him (they pull them out of the one time use cameras and get to get them for free) for the digital camera. He brings home all AAA's.. anyone need any AAA batteries? I should sell them on ebay.. lol.

Its rainy and cold here.. well not cold cold.. but high 60's. I feel like Im walking through a wall of water. Im making chili for dinner, although Im not feeling well, so I don't know how much Im going to enjoy it. Speaking of not feeling well, I think I'll get off and go take a nap in the kitten room.. toodles.

I was letting my brain wander around the other day, and I came up with a life lesson while combing my hair.. *can you believe that?* Anyway.. substitute life for hair, and you'll see my vision.. If your hair is straight and smooth, you can't put it up and do wonderful things with it..

Ok.. you'll have to look a little harder, but I know what I mean.. :) If your life is free of troubles, you'll never know your true metal,