CAT-astrophe!

Last weekend I had a cold so Tom had taken over the cat feeding duties at night so I could sleep. On Monday morning he told me of his sanity questioning adventure from the night before...

He said he had let our cat inside to eat her dinner because it was a little bit cold out... she ate, sniffed around the house a bit, and went back outside. At around 2:00 am or so he goes out to the kitchen to get something to drink and in the darkness he thought he saw a black cat run through the room. He wasn't sure... it was dark. So he gets his flashlight and searches the house, doesn't find anything and goes back to our room thinking he's losing it...

He watches a movie and around 5:00 am goes back out and is hit by this horrible smell when he opens the bedroom door. He again gets the flashlight and searches the house and this time finds a pile of poop next to the front door. He's really thinking he's losing it now... he can't find a cat anywhere in the house, and he's starting to think it must have been there all along, from when he let our cat in to eat. Now I'm having none of this idea because I just KNOW my cat would not poop in the house... seriously... I know. But really, what other explanation is there? There is no other cat and my cat was in the house earlier.

Now we get to Thursday night and we head out to the kitchen to get food for our cat. We hear this loud noise in the room between the kitchen and garage, like things are being knocked around and the blinds are being shaken. My first thought is that someone is out there messing around, but we look in and no one is there... no person anyway... there is a cat in there!!! One of our neighbors strays that she keeps around has hidden itself in there since Sunday night and we can't get it out. We use that room for storage of your basic junky stuff... empty boxes, camping gear, old books... The stupid cat has gotten down under all of that stuff and will not move. So at 10:30 pm, we have to start unloading all of the stuff in that room into the back yard and dig out the cat. Finally, we get enough stuff out that we can see exactly where it is... for a while we would just move a few things then stop and listen for movement... and poke around blindly with a broom handle. After we found it, that is when the fun began...

The cat was obviously terrified. It would run around the room climbing on top of everything it came close to. At one point it climed the window screen and got on top of the blinds. I had to go outside and tap on the window to get it down... It kept going back down under this old weight bench and hiding. Finally we were able to get it to run outside.

We were so worn out afterwards that we just left everything in the back yard overnight.

We're still not sure how or when the cat got in. The door had been left open by a few people throughout the day, so I guess it could have went in at any time and found a place to hide. It's just amazing to me that it was there that long and no one saw it.

Dog or Cat?

You Are: 30% Dog, 70% Cat

You and cats have a lot in common. You're both smart and in charge - with a good amount of attitude. However, you do have a very playful side that occasionally comes out!

Are You More Cat or Dog?

First Deadwood...

and now I think they're going to cancel Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

I'm really not happy about it either... I like the show alot. I've decided that we just shouldn't even start watching any new shows again because they eventually get canceled when we like them.

More BlogShares stuff

I still haven't gotten this thing figured out completely...

I made a voting mistake and now I have - Karma

I did figure out how to get my Networth graph though.



Maybe after I get over this cold I'll feel like reading about it more... right now I feel like crap.

It's the weekend...

and I'm sick!

I was just fine when I woke up yesterday and went to work. About an hour after I got there my throat got a little scratchy and in another hour I was sneezing, had a stuffy nose and just felt horrible. I think that's the fastest a cold has ever come up on me before...

Blog$hares

I started playing a game called Blog$hares last night. It's a fantasy stock market game where you buy shares of blogs. I've barely gotten started but so far it looks interesting.

If you want to try it out, click here... who knows, maybe I'll even get something if you sign up.

You do not need to have your own blog to play.

Oh yeah... I had surgery!

I have been letting this blog go unattended for quite a while...

I had surgery in December... got myself fixed so I could stop taking those evil birth control pills. They were doing all sorts of horrible things to me and after taking them for about half of my life I actually am starting to feel better since stopping them 2 months ago.

The surgery went well and I got over it relatively quickly... and I don't think I whined too much during recovery, but you would have to ask Tom to find out for sure.

He really took great care of me while I was recovering. Yep... I have got me one really good boyfriend.

I had a laparoscopic tubal ligation, and I have only a tiny little scar from it. The worst part of the whole ordeal was getting over the carbon dioxide bubble that parked itself under my right rib for about 3 days after surgery. That was a horrible feeling and it kept me out of work for a couple days longer than I had originally planned. I am SO glad that went away...

I'm very happy I had the surgery AND that I have fully recovered from it... I do not miss taking those pills every day.

Orlando trip - April '07

I finally made my hotel reservations at a Universal Studios area hotel and am really ready to go...

Is it April yet?

I'll be spending 4 nights at the Suburban Extended Stay Universal. It's nothing fancy, but it's definitely affordable and extremely close to Universal Studios. I was actually looking forward to being able to stay at a nicer than usual hotel on this trip but the surgery I had, and the unexpected extra doctor bill from that surgery put an end to that idea. It's not a big deal though considering the small amount of time we actually spend at the hotel when we are in Orlando. We're really only there to sleep and shower anyway...

After Orlando, I'll be hitching a ride back to Alabama with Vera and Steven for a couple days before flying back to Miami...

V Day!

Well it's almost time... time to spend 12 hours at work inflating helium balloons and selling flowers. I will be so glad when it's over.

It's Stupor Bowl Sunday!

It's the big day in rainy South Florida. I'm looking forward to all of the great commercials during the game tonight and also the big halftime show with Prince!

I've just started using a new IM program that is web-based. It's called Meebo!



Check it out!