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Feeling of Violation and Christmas Cards

December 6, 2008 | By Heidi | Filed Under: holidays, life | Leave a Comment

And the titles keep getting worse! haha

On Thursday morning I got a call at work on my cell from the hubbs. He’s all in a frenzy and I had to hurry him off the phone. I called him back and he proceeds to tell me that his car has been broken into – radio stolen. Nice.

The damn truck was not 10 ft from our front door and IN OUR DRIVEWAY!

Whoever did this, broke his lock to get in, tore the F out of his steering column…to the point where the car would not start….and then unscrewed the dash and carefully took the radio out. How asinine is that? Jackasses. I bet they were mad that they couldn’t get the car to start so they took the radio.

And where were our fierce attack dogs when this happened. Hmm, sound asleep! haha…they must sleep like the DEAD! Well, I know Topaz does, he gets meds right before bed. But Onyx would have woke up (or I need to believe that anyways) had she heard them out there hacking away at the steering column. I actually am pretty sure one or more of the cats heard them and were probably watching from the window. Yes, I’ve had a talk with them!

So the truck needs to be fixed…again. Thank God for the inlaws.

And now the hubbs is all paranoid and worried..another thing to stress him out. Lovely.

Credits:
Paper and most embs by Lliella Designs
Sparkles in tree by Flergs…glitter by Flergs too
Christmas Bulbs by Bon Scrappitite
Here’s our Christmas card for this year! Ok, so it’s just a photo, but it’s cute and it took me a long time. I usually print out cards for both sets of parents, our grandmothers and a few other relatives and friends, so I’ll probably still do that. I have to get some black ink and get that going. 
I got the photos printed at Costco and I’m picking them up tomorrow so some of our cards will be ready to go out very soon! We didn’t send any last year, but I really wanted to do something this year.

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Thanksgiving & The Woe of Cat Poop LOL

November 26, 2008 | By Heidi | Filed Under: holidays, zoo | Leave a Comment

What a title!

First of all, Happy Thanksgiving to anyone in the states who happens upon my little blog. I hope you have a safe one!

I have many things to be thankful for:

  • my husband is still doing fairly well, despite having his illness
  • i am surrounded by my family who loves and supports me
  • my animals
  • topaz has gone over 200 days without a seizure
  • we have a nice house in a nice neighborhood
  • i have a good job with good health insurance
  • i have my own health
  • my friends

I could go on, but those are the main ones. It’s good to look at our lives and take a second to be thankful for the things we have. We’re always complaining (we as people) about what we wish we had or what we don’t have that sometimes we don’t take the time to look at the things that we do have.

This is Beans…she’s our little female kitty. She’s really skiddish and shy. We rescued her, and before she was at the shelter, she was locked in a house or an attic with no food or water while a lady was hospitalized for a couple weeks. She had to have been eating something, or she wouldn’t have made it. But anyways, she was kind of traumatized and she’s now really just not so friendly…not like the boys.

Anyway, we’ve been having issues with her pooping under our bed. The litterboxes are in a room at the back of the house. We have 3 large ones. Problem is that every one of our animals, dogs included, pick on Beans…and before you feel sorry for her, she is nasty and she also picks back. I don’t know who started it all, but they don’t always get along. They have their moments though.

My husband and I are tired of cleaning diarrhea up under the bed…and behind the couches. What a yucky mess…all.the.time! In fact, I’m washing my blankets right now because they got poop on them…nice. Can’t go to bed until the blankets are washed and dried.

She’s been doing this a while. I am thinking that she maybe can’t make it down to the boxes, or else is cornered. It would be different even if it was solid, but it’s totally gross.

What we’re going to do is get a couple or a few feliway diffusers and put one in our bedroom, one in the dining room and one in the literbox room. Take a sample of the poop to the vet, along with Beans and see if there’s anything wrong that’s causing the diarrhea. Maybe she can get the same meds that they gave Alex. And then we’re going to give her a little time and see how it goes.

We don’t want to have to get rid of her, but then again we don’t want to clean up cat poop for the rest of our lives. So we’ll see how she does. I hope we can nip this in the bud.

Tomorrow we’re heading to my sister’s house for Thanksgiving dinner. It’s just going to be my parents, my husband, my sister and I. We’re going to bring our Wii over and we’ll have a traditional dinner…just downsized a little lol. Although, my sister said she got a lot of munchies! We’re also eating at a traditional dinner time. (like 5pm) rather than 2 or 3 like we usually do.

We should have a good time! Maybe we’ll bring over a couple movies too. My sister has this Maine Coon kitten, Wasabi, and he’s a monster. He’s HUGE! I will bring my camera and try to snap a picture or two of him! He’s so fluffy and pretty!

Ok…enough babbling. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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My Mom's Christmas Decorations

November 16, 2008 | By Heidi | Filed Under: family, holidays | Leave a Comment

We had a lovely dinner at my parents house with my sister, her new husband and her son! My other sister is in Tennessee with her fiance. (He asked her this past week!! woo hoo!) I took a lot of pictures of my mom’s Christmas decorations. I am gonna share my favorites!

Mom Christmas '08
Mom Christmas '08
Mom Christmas '08
Mom Christmas '08
Mom Christmas '08

She also has this FABULOUS jewelry Christmas tree that she made. She’s making me (well we will make it together) a pear shaped one for my living room or dining room. I CANNOT WAIT to get that baby home! Here are a couple pix of her tree:

Jewelry Christmas Tree

Jewelry Christmas Tree

Yeah, that’s ALL Jewelry!! Very sparkly and cool. hers has these little lights in it too. It’s just the sweetest thing!!

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