Collected Thoughts

 Dean does not like to be alone. He's currently crying and clawing at the door. Yesterday he got his paw far enough under the door that he snagged some laundry and dragged it under the door.  He does better with Maddie in there, but she's being kept separate after being spayed.

Dean is a lover.  Well Maddie is a sweetheart but Dean wants to be on me, near me, under my feet. Maddie can keep her distance she's more cat like like that.

And having two litter boxes, doesn't seem like any less work than having one.  Thursday they go to get Booster shots and then hopefully that's it for a year.  I wasn't expecting the expenses, but luckily the adoption was free and teh spaying was discounted.

But I love my kittehs.

So things didn't work out with Rose the Cat. And it's too bad.

But I went and saw today (and fell in love with and took home) two cute 5 month old kittens.  Dean (originally called Nalu) and Maddie.

and of course I can't get it to work to add pictures so here is the link to Maddie -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/85929981@N00/3361546252/

and Dean =-- http://www.flickr.com/photos/85929981@N00/3361545832/in/photostream/

The cat saga continues.

Saturday I'll be looking at 2 cats, males, raised together. They've been in the same foster home for a couple of years, the woman is a dog trainer and these are the first cats she's had. I'd be taking the two of them. One she taught tricks to and they are both crate trained.

We'll see how it goes.

Random association meme. Ask me to associate you with five things. When I do this, post this meme and an explanatin of your interest in those five things in your journal.  I asked arliss  to name five things and she gave me: Work  Videos Family Fun Fiction

I'm a little late on this and I may just get to work and videos tonight.

Work. 
Which makes me think about my job and various jobs I've had and where I thought I would be in my life when I was younger. I thought I would have a Career. Something, perhaps, bookish -- maybe librarian or who knows a proferssor of some kind.  But that means college and I haven't finished that (Someday, perhaps, someday). Instead I've worked a variety of retail and office jobs and am currently a Receptionist (although my boss says it's in name only I do much more). I really like my job. A lot. Oh, sure, there are times with long periods of boredom only broken up with an odd person calling and then a flurry of jobs, also usually boring, but still important. But my job is important, I'm the Gateway into the phone system, and I'm the Voice people hear. I'm the one who answers questions and tries not to get upset and wants to know as much as I can so I don't sound like a fool.

Plus people talk in front of me or I'm todl about phone calls to make sure someone gets, or a fax that comes, or sometimes someone needs to vent and I'm there.  But it's a good job, low stress. I go to work at 8:30, I come home at 4:30 and I leave my work at work. Right now that's exactly what I need and it's about all I want to do.

The other thing I think of when "work" is mentioned is .. I'm rather lazy.  I am, which is why my place is always a mess and I put things off and put things off. I don't know if I'm just lazy because it's a flaw or there's something where I just can't get my self together and go. I'm distracted, I'm flighty, I don't have Direction and , right now I lack structure. And I really perfer to have structure. I would never want to be In Charge, I suck at that part, but being the Support I'm good at. I wonder sometimes about my future...will I go to school, will I have a career, is it so bad if I just have a job I like and then find ways to fill my spare time doing things I enjoy and making a mark somewhere. 

I mean, right now I make more money than I ever have before, I've got a nice place to live, a good job, and if I were smarter with my money and followed a budget, I'd be a little bit ahead.


I think I'll leave it at Work for now and wait and finish the others tomorrow.

So, I tried to get a second cat, Rose's daughter Sadie. But that was.. not meant to be.

Sadie went home and a few hours later Rose jumped on the couch and then climbed on me so I could pet her.

Right now she's hiding in the window.

Tomorrow I get my teeth clean -- new dentist, but I've heard good things from him.

Well Rose was very affectionate last night and got on my lap on the couch and even got up on the bed with me last night.

Today, hiding under the bed. But progress! 


I'm enjoying the Wii, but with other stuff going on I haven't played tne NiGHTs game very much. And I kinda suck at it, but I need to practice controlling the joystick thing on the nunchuck. AND I got a Wii Fit , which is good and going along well. I can already see some improvement. I'm thinkign about getting the My Personal Trainer game to use in conjunction with the Wii. I'm not sure I really think the scale and everything is accurate but I realized I shold be wearing the same clothes when I excerise and weigh around the same time of day.

There's only one problem for me and the Balance Board -- my right leg is almost 1/2" shorter than my left. So my I'm naturally off balance and it's really hard for me to do some of the stuff where I have to even ly distribute my weight, because to do that I have to stand iwth my legs wider than the board allows.   And also my right leg is strong er than my left since it bears most of my weight.

However! It is easy to see how much of a diffefence there is in my leg strenght and how I need to work to make my left leg stronger.

My upper body strength sucks and I can't do a proper push up, I know I can't and I need someone to teach me how, so I skipped the push up and plank portion of the strength training. I have no idea if I'll some ho wbe penalized for it.

But over all this is a good purchase, I like the Wii fit, I like seeing the feed back and the Wii Sports games are fun too.


I did a half hour of exercise, which translate to longer time in Wii Fit since you have to wait for all the feedback and selecting the games and stuff, but it went by quickly and I  opened up more games and difficulties.  I'm not trying to lose weight in the fastest amount of time, I'm trying to lose it and keep it off.

I'm kinda spinning my wheels in Second Life, not sure what I want to be doing. I told a friend I'd help with her club, but that's not going as smoothly as I'd hoped. I know some things I want to try but I hold back,

First, my vet sent a very sweet handwritten sympathy note about Anna. It was very nice and included was a little pin that has a cat with angel wings. I think I'm going to put that on Anna's favorite sock toy I have on the mantle.

I miss my sweet girl.

Rose is...coming up on the bed in the early mornings but just now she walked into the living room and let me pet her, I think she wanted to jump on my lap, but I had the laptop and when I went to move she ran away. So it's going.

I'm seriously thinking of adopting her daughter, Sadie, because I think maybe Rose is lonely,b ut I want to wait until Rose is more comfortable with my apartment.

I had to put my beloved kitty Anna to sleep on Friday it's been a hard week but I knew she was sick and this was coming.

It's hard not having a kitty, another life in the living space even if I know she's just sleeping. So I started looking, I was going to give myself a week, but...well I fell in love with one of the first cats I petted --

I was looking for an affectionate fluffy lap cat and decided that whatever cat I got would have a fannish name --

I'd like everyone to meet my new companion Rose -- http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=9520605

She's coming tomorrow and it will just be a trail fostering until I'm sure it's right for both of us.  Which I'm sure it will be.

Not that I post much but I logged in and my default icon was some weird chick.

So I changed it to ticky box. But the dragonfly is not  there. Weird.