blah blah blah.. seems the same ol stuff happens to me every single day. I could sit and blather on about work, but I tend not to want to relive work when Im home. Other than that I play with kittens and I sleep. Sad isn't it??

Im reading anna karenina. Its interesting. I have to work to keep the names straight so I know who they are refering to, but so far Ive done rather well. I recently finished part one. It isn't so interesting as I am dying to pick it up each night and read some though, which is too bad. When Im done I'll have to find a good page turner. Amy from work was recently reading one she said she was having a hard time putting down, I'll have to ask her what it was.. although by the time I finish Anna, she'll have forgotten what it was lol.

On the political front, John Kerry announced his running mate yesterday, and had the first public appearance today. can we say BFD?? its amazing how big this stuff is in the media. Oh yes.. we are nice people.. see our pretty wives? and our pretty children? and look at the nice pretty back drop we choose for this occasion, aren't we amazing? you should so vote for us, cause look, my running mate is so hansome! *rolls eyes* Why on earth can't these guys say something like: "Hi, my name is John, I believe in A, B, C. I think D, E, F is wrong and should be fixed, and I stand behind G,H, I." but nooooo.. we've got to have all the window dressing for when all the mud slinging starts.. vote for me cause he sucks. I hate that most of us vote for who ever it is we vote for because we can't stand the other guy. I also hate that so many people are wrapped in party lines that compromise is totally out of the question, which means people spend their lives in the crossfire and never succeed in getting any serious help out of the goverment.

why is it I can never go to bed before nine?? im exhausted, and not feeling very well, yet here I sit at the computer at 9, trying to catch up on email. I just noticed the time and felt horribly foolish for not being in bed. Silly me.

On a side note, my birthday was tuesday, and it went pretty much as I would expect a tuesday birthday to go. Today is Jeff's birthday. not that he'd ever stop by here to read this, but on that odd chance he does.. Jeff.. Im thinkin of ya.. hope you had a wondeful birthday!

Happy 33rd birthday to me.. oh what an annoying day. You'd think it would be good, as 3 is my favorite number. But alas, it fell on a tuesday*..

should be enough said.

But I think I'll share with you this picture.
I came home to a nice candle light dinner, and Jack felt he needed to be a part of it. He was a very good boy, and just sat there the whole time.

*for those of you who do not know, for me, tuesdays are to me, pretty much like monday's are for everyone else. Nothing good has ever known to happen to me on a tuesday.

I am so freakingly pathetic sometimes it isn't even funny. I have a phobia about getting my hair cut. Not a phobia really.. cause it isn't paranoia if they really are out to get you. I can't remember the last time I got a decent hair cut. Although honestly, the last 'professional' hair cut i had was a year ago. I have red hair that shows every single cut mark if your not careful, so often I am left feeling like my hair was cut off with an axe by a madman instead of scissors in the hands of a professional.

Sigh. Im going to have to bite the bullet eventually. Its getting way too long.

On a side note. I just had my first "la creme mouse orange cream" and it is YUMMY!!

This was also the day of my annual physical. I dread these more than going to the dentist. The dentist only makes you open your mouth. Anyway.. we drew some blood, and are doing some tests.. nothing major.. I did really well with it. Usually I get all faint and light headed. today wasn't bad.

I had the weirdest dream last night. For some reason I dreamed it was september. I don't know why or exactly what happened, I just know that all of a sudden it was september, and I was not happy about it. I was freaked out and had a hard time getting back to sleep.

Went out shopping over the weekend. Finally bought my weeping cherry tree. I have been wanting one of those for years.. and now I have one. Its tiny, and I doubt it will look majestic for years to come, but I have something to look forward to.

Im watching VH1's 50 worse songs of all time. I have to giggle at some of the ones they picked.. like Snow's Informer. But some of the others I really like like the Rembrants "I'll be there for you" (from friends)

I ordered checks the other week. The company shipped them the other day. The postal deliverer gave them to someone down the street. My street is off a side street.. but my mailbox is on that street. Well the postal carrier gave it to someone about half a mile away. The street names are NOT the same. um.. HELLO!! *shakes head* Im tempted to say something, but I have a feeling it wont matter.

Ive also decided im going to work at not complaining so much at work. I was tested today when I made someone a 9:45 appointment for a sick cat. She was concerned about making an 11:00 doctors appointment. I offered her an appointment later on in the afternoon. That didn't work for her. I offered her one for tomorrow. She starts complaining that a cat with diarrhea on a boat is not a good thing - um.. hello.. a cat with diarrhea is never a good thing, but I bite my tongue. She asks if she can drop the cat off. I tell her the doctors prefer to have the owner with the cat so they can find out what is going on.. cause frankly, despite what people think, doctors can't mind meld with pets and find out what is going on. Well the woman shows up at 10 past 10, and says she can't stay because she has a doctors appointment and insists we take the cat and find out what is going on. Um.. HELLO.. I told you to be there at 9:45.. UGH. Then a bit later, I get another phone call from a woman who says her daughter says the cat is crying out and then vomited. She can't possibly get the cat there until just before we close unless she comes now, which is lunch time. I just threw my hands up and told her to come on in with the cat and we'd deal with it. We had a kitten come in today because she was limping, because the owner's 4 yr old daughter pulled the cat out from under the dinning room table by the leg.

I hate people.

rain rain go away...

well actually I don't mind the rain one little bit. its these huge thunderstorms that are shaking the house that are freaking me out. I actually saw a lightning strike the ground about a week ago, and now when it gets really bright and loud, Im much more freaked out than I ever have before.

Looks like we are closing on our house on friday.. yea. Its funny.. Jessie at work is also closing on her house on friday. She has had the WORST luck building and selling her homes, and we seemed to just breeze right though it.

*sigh* with out talking about the kitties, there seems to be so little to say :) that's ok. Im sure I'll get on another rant soon enough.

Apparently it is official looser connie day, and no one bothered to tell me this morning. All day I was on the wrong end of one thing or another... although.. I did have my eye exam today, and my doctor said my eyes are actually improving a bit.. so I have a weeker perscription than I currently do. Which is a good thing in one respect, but bad in that now I have to buy new contacts and new glasses. Ok so I already had to buy new contacts as I am out.. and well my glasses are now two years old.. so its probably time to consider retiring them as well.

I have also had the worst headache all day. When ever I admit to having one, it gives it power and becomes intollerable. I usually have one, and Im able to ignore it most of the time, but the dr was currious about how often I have the headaches.. and I stupidly said "well yes, I have one right now" and BOOM like someone smacking me on the forhead, it came on with a vengance. Driving home, I kept getting cut off by tourists. I then went to my favorite resteraunt, and got one of my favorite foods.. a falafal, and she went and changed it and put carrots in it.. and it was icky. I got a mini cheese cake and a big pink cookie.. and the cheesecake got all smushed and the cookie got broken... not that they didn't taste good.. but all just added to that looser connie day.

I so need to give up, take a bath and go to bed.

I went out shopping after work. Went down to salvage and surplus store. Its been around the state for years, but recently came to be near me. I particularly enjoy this store too, cause they often have something that works for me. Today I found a very stunning two piece dress that I fell in love with. There is probably no where I can wear this dress and not look overly decked out, but it was $20 and I loved it. I do need to loose a few pounds to have the skirt buckle properly, but that shouldn't be a big deal, and if perchance it is, I can just move the buckle. I also found an amazing white shirt that I absolutely adore as well. (typing behind a kitty at the moment.. forgive the typos).. anyway.. (ah.. kitty gone) Then I went to the dollar store.. its amazing what you can find in a good dollar store. All I got was some ribbon to tie up a baby shower gift Im giving next week. I then trotted down to wal-mart. Found a nice black skirt for 2$! and a cute sweater with daisies and bubble bees on it on clearance. So.. while Ive said I can't buy any more clothes cause Ive got way too many.. here I am schlepping in bags of clothes.. *shakes head* I really need to purge. and soon.

I have the morning off of work tomorrow - cause I work saturday - and I have an eye doctors appointment at 9. I need more contacts.. so off I go. I rank going to the eye doctor with a gyno exam. *shudder* but then again I rank getting my hair cut up there with that too, and I really REALLY need to get that done soon. Is there ANYONE who knows how to cut red hair in this town!?!?!

hey look.. im here two days in a row.. go figure :)

Had a very hard time getting my butt in gear today. Ive made a pact with myself to exercise five days a week.. well, that was hard.. and I'd end up on the weekend with two or three sessions to do.. so I made a new one where I would exercise before I went to work.. figuring now that I have an extra half an hour in my morning, it shouldn't be that hard to squeeze a 40 minute work out in. Most days Im able to do it.. and its amazing how much better I feel through out the day if I do it. This morning I had to drag my sorry tushie out of bed to even get breakfast. I was able to exercise during lunch though, but when I got home from work, it took every ounce of strength to not crawl right into bed... someplace I'll be heading in a few moments.

I had some funky dreams last night, about swimming pools, ticks, fire and a ferret. Bet your dying to know how all those fit together hun? :) I was outside by the pool - at the old house - reading a magazine of some sort. I put it down to talk to someone, and when I went to pick it back up it was covered with ticks. It was so gross it gave me the willies. I took it inside after shaking the ticks off, but I couldn't not be grossed out by it, so I folded it up to throw it away, which is when it caught on fire. I was walking it quickly to the sink, when I saw that another bundle of papers were catching on fire. I yelled to the hubby to put them out. As I was putting out my fire, i saw a small animal on the back deck - of the current house. I went outside to investigate, and it was a baby ferret. My own kitties came out one at a time to investigate. I was worried for the ferret's safety, but my own kitties weren't interested in killing it, just seeing what it was. We all just sat on the deck for a few minutes. I called the hubby to come see the ferret, but when he got to the deck, it was gone.

ok.. well its been a freaklingly long time hasn't it. and didn't I say that in my last post?? well lets see if I can do better this time.

Lots has changed since last I posted. I have been working at my current job for over a year now. Seeing as I wanted to quit on my first day, after the first hour, Im pretty impressed Im still there. I got so sick and tired of the commute, and with looming reconstruction at the house, I declared I was ready to move. I said I wanted to live with in five minutes from work. I looked on line and found a few houses that were interesting, but were out of my price range... this area is hoity toity.. Hubby and I went for a car ride to look around the area, and frustrated with what we saw, we gave up and went home. There was one road we didn't go down, and one day on a fluke, I drove down it, and saw a new development with a for sale sign out front. We called about it and was told it was under contract. Well turns out that the contract was broken that day, so we went to see it and fell in love with it. It was just inside the high side of our budget (of course) We decided we wanted to try to move before we sold the house - I mean come on.. we have five cats, one with a fetish for urinating outside the box, and another with poop so foul it would have peeled off the wall paper had there been any. We took out a home equity loan to do it, and poof, we moved. What an amazingly stressful thing, despite how well it went. To put all of your life in boxes.. *shudder* I do not want to do that again for many a year. My husband knew this, so he asked how I would feel if I quit my job (something I threaten to do on almost daily basis sometimes) and I said that was ok, cause the shelter is nearby.. We like the house, we like the neighborhood - despite the train that drives by on an almost hourly basis sometimes. The cats really enjoy having the extra space.

I also set up a home office in the new house.. it quickly has become my favorite room in the house. I spend more time in here than I do the bedroom (awake that is). It was one of the best investments Ive ever made.

Its also spring time around here. Last year I commented on how late it seemed to come. Around here, there is usually a day when it pours and pours, and then poof, the trees are all fully dressed in their green splendor.. well this year, there was no rain storm.. it just kinda happened. The storm finally came the other day, but the leaves were already out. It was a doozie of a storm too.. Lightning to beat the band. Even saw a strike hit the ground.. its pretty much like you see it in the movies. cool but freaky.