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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

NaPoWriMo - Day One 4/1/2013

Have you heard about NaPoWriMo?

I hadn't and since I just discovered this, I've decided I'm up for the challenge.

It's been a while since I've felt the desire to write poetry, so we'll see how it goes.

April 1, 2013

She walks in beauty, like the night
silvered whiskers quivering....anticipating
the lure of a mouse in tall grass
the sudden swoop of a fragile wingspan
shocking her into the pounce.

She sleeps in serenity, like the stars
the twitch of an enormous white paw
or the slow rise and fall of tiny ribs
all that proves she sleeps
and has not drifted into the beyond.

She loves in totality, like a mother
and nothing can change the adoration seen in a glance
or the rub of cheek against cheek
the slow knead of soft pink pads
or claw-less toes massaging skin.

She trusts in devotion, like a child,
nothing can harm her, no pain will come
so long as you're there
a kind word, a gentle stroke,
a lap to hold her world.

She rests in peace, like a sunset
mourned until a memory returns and brings a smile,
or a tear of remembrance
A simple stone marks her presence in our world,
a presence still and forevermore missed.

In loving memory of our Perfect Precious Princess Boo.
4/16/2012






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Monday, April 1, 2013

And the holiday tradition continues.....

I've gotten to where I dread holidays.

Seriously.

Every single special day we lose one of our furbabies.  It's odd really, and it makes me scared for the next holiday around the corner.

I told my entire family not to let our one remaining outside kitty out of the house yesterday thinking I'd be safe.  Well our next door neighbor takes care of all the ones I can't take in my house, so on the way home from dinner at the in-laws last night, I get a text from my neighbor.

The little kitten born in the fall of last year was hit by a car.

Sniffle.

We named him Muffin Man because he looks just like one of our outside kitties who disappeared on Black Friday this past year, and her name was Muffin.  He was sweet if terribly skittish and I'll miss seeing his little orange and white face peeking over the bottom frame in the french door.

You'll be missed little man, but there are lots of your little friends already waiting for you just over the Rainbow Bridge.

RIP Muffin Man
3/31.2013
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

The Dental Trauma Begins.....

So, as the title says, the trauma begins.
I used to have great teeth.  As a matter of fact, my dentist once told me that if everyone had teeth like mine, he'd be a shoe salesman.  No more.
I took Ritalin for about 10 years and for some reason, I became a pro at tossing cookies.  Not literally, just you know....puking.  Within an hour after taking it, I'd throw my guts up without fail.  Three pills a day for 10 years and the subsequent issues are with my teeth.  They're dropping like flies.  
I've already had one pulled so I've got the hole there, but this new dentist says nope, we can FIX it.  To the tune of a root canal and crown.  Now, don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with dentists and I've got a crazy high pain tolerance, so I'm not worried or scared or anything like that.
Basically the downside is the cost and of course having to get up and get dressed to go out of the house which if you know me is a big deal.  I should own stock in pajama companies. 
 
So anyway, yeah, April 8th is the big day.  The pain right now is off and on, and it's not that big a deal except when I take a swig of an icy cold drink then well, you can count me out for the time it takes me to dance around holding my jaw yelling "OW OW OW" for a few minutes at any rate.  You gotta give me that okay?
I've never had anything more than a filling and the extraction so I'm not sure what to expect, but I'm definitively NOT listening to my husband who is horrified of dentists.  Nope.  Don't tell me what to expect.  I'll figure it out on my own and if it's bad, I'll be back here on the 9th complaining my butt off.  

That doesn't look so bad........right?


I guess we'll see, but until then.....toodles!







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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

I'm kinda sorta maybe back.....

So it's been a while huh?
I've tried to justify myself as to why I've been M.I.A., but really it's just life happening.  Thank God it does that too, the alternative would not be amusing.  It's ridiculous really how fast time flies by, especially when you spend over 3/4 of your life having to sleep.  On the plus side, I've gotten quite a few of my projects done, although most are still half done at this point.
I'm tempted to just start writing and tell you everything, but then you know I'd have nothing to say tomorrow or the  next day or the one after that, so I'll try to refrain from spilling the beans for now.
I don't expect any of my readers to trust me that I'm going to be back for good this time, so I guess I'll have to be patient and prove myself, not just to me, but to you guys as well this time around, and hopefully I'll do better.  I guess time will tell huh?  
So I'll leave you with some teasers.  
Still have cats.  Lots of cats.
Daughter still at VCUarts. Still working at GameStop.
Projects done:  LR and Ofc floors, kitchen floors, painting, stairs, kitchen island.
Pets buried:  BooBoo 4/16/12, Fat Man 2/8/2013, Arpeggio 4/17/2013
Parents scammed out of $1000.00
Daughter FINALLY has new BF, he  moved here from Michigan to be with her and is currently living with us until he's on his feet.  He just got a job yesterday. YAY!
Husband still being trampled by cats every night, still working too hard for too little money.
Teeth are falling out from too many years taking Ritalin and throwing up three times a day.  This sucks by the way, I've always had great teeth, and I'm missing the one I had to have pulled so far and hating the two that are most likely next since they're killing me at the moment.
Currently serving as Secundo for Faith Hunter's street team, Beast Claws.  (Check out the Jane Yellowrock books if you haven't already, they're awesome)
Enjoying watching Denny Hamlin race, the Cowboys lose and the Avalanche struggle.
Still addicted to Food Network, although Walking Dead, Game of Thrones and Big Bang Theory are right up there.  Would probably give up Food Network for Walking Dead though since I'm not so secretly in love with Norman Reedus.  
Still roleplaying with my best friend.
Discovered Arbor Mist Blackberry Merlot and have turned into a wino, minus the shopping cart and "Will work for Wine" sign.
Putting off doing my taxes even though I really need that money cuz well, it's taxes and they're not fun.
I guess that's about it for now.  Hopefully I'll do better this time around.
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Sunday, April 1, 2012

It's April Fool's Day - He had babies!!!!!



My daughter is hanging out with her boss tossing ideas back and forth about her illustrating a children's book he's writing.  This is our text conversation from a few minutes ago.

ME:  OMGOMGOMG your bunny is a girl!  We have baby bunnies!

Her:  .....what

ME:  Baby buuuuunnnnniiiiiiieeeeeesssss!

Her:  Arpeggio is a boy....?  He has balls....?

ME:  Well he had baby bunnies!!!!!

Her:  Pics or it didn't happen -____-



Me:  (Photo taken from Google)

Her:  -____- if he had bunnies you would have called

ME:  OMG we were freaking!  I thought he was dying or something I've been taking care of your freaking rabbit!

Her:  -____-  that doesn't even look like his cage.  And if he COULD have babies they would be white.

Me:  OMG you're ridiculous they obviously aren't white and he's on his straw mat and was pulling out fur like crazy!

Her:  -_____- mother rabbits make nests way before the babies come

Me:  Well there's obviously something wrong if he's got balls and is having babies where do you think I took a picture of freaking baby bunnies?!?!?!

Her:  Google.

ME:  Huh?

Her:  -___- stop trolling me

ME:  You make April Fools Day so much fun!  I love you soooo much lolol

Her:  I hate you -_____-

Me:  Hahahahahaha




Gotta love my kid!
Happy April Fools Day Everyone!!!!!


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Sunday, February 26, 2012

Is Anybody Out There?


I'm not sure exactly what's going on these days.

Is Blogger screwy or is my computer screwy?

I'm getting minimal feeds, and when I look for certain blogs they're gone, and I don't think it has anything to do with Google Friend Connect, because they're Blogger blogs.  I haven't had any comments in about a week, and when I am able to check blogs I've commented on, my comments aren't there.....

I'm getting frustrated!

To top it all off, my page views are really wacky.....

Is anyone still out there?!?!?!?!




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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Cats, Housecleaning, Remodeling and Eagles


As most of my readers know, I've got a sleeping disorder that other than affecting my ability to stay awake wreaks havoc on my ability to focus.  Seriously.

Well, we're down to 17 cats in the house now, thank goodness!  We had one adopted last night and another lady is coming to look at one tonight.  Having so many in the house makes housecleaning not only a constant, but a constantly BEHIND.  It seems like no matter how much I clean there's still more to clean.

How many cats is too many?  Mine!


Part of that, I'll admit is my lack of ability to declutter, which I've been working on.  Until it's completed, cleaning is going to be harder than it should.  On top of that, I have a bad habit of starting projects and not finishing them.  Like my kitchen cabinets.  They were installed when we had the house built and are builder grade cabinets.  I've never liked them, and finally decided I wanted to paint them white.  I finished all the painting except for the two on the opposite side of the kitchen which is just as well, since I've decided I don't like the white.  So now, most of my cabinets are white, a couple are wood tone and a few are blue, oh and one is pink.  Yeah, staining over paint doesn't work.  I mean I knew it wouldn't but I thought I might like the color.  I don't.  

For the record, I look NOTHING like Barbie!

Then there's the countertops.  I decided I was going to paint them too.  I got two cans of textured paint and a little bottle of copper glaze and went to town.  Everything was going great until I ran out of the spray paint.  When I got another can, it didn't perform the same way so a section of the countertop looked different than the rest which meant sanding down that entire portion.  I also didn't realizing sanding would be so hard.  That stuff is like crazy glue!  Soooo, my cabinets are less than half done, my countertops are a little more than half done.

Now I'm in the process of taking up the carpeting in the downstairs.  We're going to get insurance money to have the kitchen floor repaired, but I was planning on doing the installation myself, that way I can get laminate at our local salvage store and replace the flooring in the entire downstairs with just the money it would cost to replace the kitchen flooring.  The problem is that I've got too  much furniture.  How do you move everything in one room to pull up carpet when there's no room in the other room for the furniture.  Easy right?  I've decided I'm going to just start cutting out squares of the carpeting, then move one piece at a time out and cut out that carpeting until it's all done.  The problem is I'm married.  

How is that a problem?  The hubs immediate has concerns that the house will get cold if we don't replace the flooring right away and I'm not quite ready to do that.  On top of that, there's the small problem of the unfinished do it yourself jobs and the long list of more do it yourself jobs I've got in the wings.

Like what, you might ask?

I want an island!!!!!

and fewer walls!


1.  Ripping out half the floor cabinets in the kitchen to move the dishwasher and install an island.

2.  Sanding the kitchen cabinets back down to wood and staining and finishing with chalkboard paint for the doors.

3.  Getting rid of the current "living room" furnishings and turning that room back into a dining room (you know since the island won't leave room for a table!)

4.  Hacking an old desk into pieces and salvaging the hutch on top to use as shelving and getting rid of another old desk to be replaced with the "new" desk that's currently sitting in the middle of the office.  (on top of the carpeting that has to come out!)

5.  Sanding and refinishing the staircase.

6.  Building a detached garage.

7.  Expanding the back deck.

8.  Restoring two antique chairs.

9.  Building two bookcases for the bedroom to flank the double window.

10.  Replacing the kitchen sink.

11.  Building access doors for the upstairs plumbing in both closets.

12.  Tearing out two load bearing walls in the den/office/foyer to open the rooms up.

13.  Installing new laminate flooring in the den/office/living room or depending on how the projects end up, the dining room lol

14.  Finding a corner cabinet to replace the sink cabinet in the master bath.

15.  Painting the entire interior of the house.

16.  Adding crown molding to the den.

17.  Ripping out the double window in the kitchen to replace with french doors, once the back deck is expanded.

18.  Building and installing new shelving for the utility room.

19.  Getting rid of at least half the "stuff" in my entire house, which of course involves a truck and many many trips to the dump and Goodwill, or a major miracle.

20.  Builidng an all in one cabinet with a liftable top to create a "covered" litterbox that's still easy to clean and would work as a window seat too.

I think I'll stop the list now, I'm depressing myself.  Ugh!

So you're wondering where the eagle part comes in right?  Well apparently, we have a mated pair of eagles living just off the James River here in Richmond and they've just mated and laid two eggs.  How is that a problem you might ask?  The CCB (Center for Conservation Biology) is doing a study on the ecology of the mated eagle population along the Chesapeake Bay.  As part of that project, they've installed live action cameras on the nests.  You guessed it.  I've been watching the eagles.  They did a contest or a poll of some type for Richmond and the city named the eagles Virginia and James.  Virginia of course for the state and James for the river.  Pretty cool.  She's such a good momma!  I've been mesmerized.  James brings her fish and twigs and grass, and every once in a while, she'll take off a fly a bit and you can see the little eagle eggs laying there.  Sometimes she'll take off and he'll settle over the eggs to take care of them until she comes back.  It's totally fascinating.  You can click here if you want to check them out!  It's worth the click!

To end this particularly rambling post, let's put one and one and one together shall we?

Cats = constant cleaning.
Remodeling = focus and ability to stay awake
Cats + Remodeling = Bigger Mess
Cats + Remodeling + Cleaning = Lots of work.
Eagle Cam = Total Distraction.

So cats + cleaning + remodeling = Good.
Cats + cleaning + remodeling + eagle cam = Bad.

Somebody send help.  Please!?!?!?!?!?  

I've gotta go for now, Virginia is being awfully cute today!

Virginia and James, aren't they fabulous?


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