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The Cat’s Head Went THUNK! 2007-05-24 20:13:28 I went over to my in-laws today and was playing with my cat and talking to my MIL.
I still call Moe my cat, but she has decided that my in-laws are her people and lives there of her own free will.
This past Christmas my MIL bought her a toy. It’s a red ball with a stick coming from the top of it, and feathers on the end of the stick. You wind it up and the stick spins and the cats supposed to chase the feathers.
Well, Moe never played with it….until recently when we gave up winding the thing and manually teased her with the feathers. She goes after them like crazy then.
I was playing with her, holding on to the ball part, and she latched herself onto the feathers so suddenly she snatched the ball out of my hand with her weight and with a hollow THUNK it hit her right in the middle of her head.
She walked off and licked her fur in that “I meant to do that way” that cats have, but when she went to my father in laws call, she walked WAY around her toy.
My MIL and I we
Playing with My new Toy 2007-05-29 20:19:13
By taking pictures of cats and stuff…
I’ve taken 40 some pictures with my new camera today, after having to stand in line behind ONE person for 30 mintues getting my memory card.
When you’re the second person in line you really don’t expect to have to wait 30 mintues to get checked out.
The picture above was taken with the cameras black and white mode. Black cats were born purely because they make lovely black and white subjects. -grin-
Also, that is photographic evidence that her head thunk did her no harm. -grin- I have several photos of her playing with said toy, but they were all blurry because I’m not so good at using my new toy yet. -grin- I do, however, have a picture in my Flicker Album of my mother in law on the floor playing with said toy while Moe watched. There are also other pictures there I took today.
I put this one in the blog because it seems to be a favorite of all my friends, so I thought it would be nice to share it with the int
New Toys are Fun 2007-05-28 21:05:49 I got a new toy today. It’s a kick ass new toy too, and one I didn’t think I’d get until December, if I even got it then.
I got a new digital camera today.
Of course, we forgot an important part. We didn’t get a memory card for it, thinking one came in the kit.
We got the camera body, two lenses, battery, battery charger. Well, I got the whole package listed HERE. When we got it hubby thought it had a memory card with it, but he was wrong. So I’ll be running over to Circuit City tomorrow on my lunch break (its right next door to where I work) and buying a card for it so I can come home and start using it.
Go me! Go me! No more blurry pictures taken with a shitty digi-cam. Now I can take blurry pictures with a better quality one. -grin-
Read-a-ton and 8 closer to 50 2007-06-01 20:00:50 While doing the blog surfing thing at BE I came across a banner for a “Read-A-Ton of Books” contest, and I had to get in it. Since I’m already trying to read 50 books this year, I though, heck, why not add to my 50 while trying to win some free credits. Reading + Credits is always a good thing. -grin-
Meanwhile I have finally written short quickies about the 8 books I’ve read since my last post.
#18 "Thirsty" by M.T. Anderson
Vampirism to symbolize adolescence or something like that.
Chris is becoming a vampire….for no apparent reason. Vampires want him to be their friends, his friends are pulling away from him, and a stranger shows up wanting his help to kill a powerful vampire lord before he can escape his otherworldly prison.
Not one I'd reccomend.
#19 "You Suck" by Christopher Moore
This book struck me with a WOW from the beginning. It has to be the single funniest book I've read in a long time.
A lovestory about 2 young adults Read more:closer
I lied, there is no wit here. 2007-06-04 20:23:20
Having just tonight discovered Toothpaste for Dinner, I guess my world may be complete.
Okay, not really, but I could always use one more web-comic to grin at.
I’ve been sick all week. I’ve got a cough, and my voice keeps going in an out whenever it chooses.
I’ve not really had the time I’d like to play with my new toy, between working at work, working on my day off, and spending 4 hours in a movie theater (was disappointed in the newest PotC movie.)
Work today was hell in the way that only retail can be hell, including people snatching shopping carts right out of my hand, and people tearing down the big yellow CAUTION tape we had put up to block off a certain area of the store because it was FLOODED.
Now its almost 9:30 and I can’t believe its that late already. I’m tired. Guess I need to get off this idiot box, wash dishes, and go to bed.
Spring Read-a-Ton (and 50 books) Update 2007-06-08 10:55:19 The spring Read-a-Ton started on June 5th, and I’m already finished with 2 books.
1. “Totally Joe” by James Howe
As with all teen books, it was an easy read. It only took me a few hours to finish it.
Its written in the form of Joe’s class assignment, and alphabiography. His life from a to z.
It was an enjoyable book. I really loved the humor of it, espically when he reached the X section, because everyone knows the only thing that begins with X is xylophone.
2. “Now You See It…” by Vivian Vande Velde
Another teen book. I started it the same day I read ” Totally Joe” and I finished it yesterday.
A teen fantasy novel about Wendy, who finds a strange pair of shades who lets her see ghosts, as well as see people she’s know for years differently. (Like the head of the cheer leading squad who looks like a REALLY old lady.)
This book includes time travel, and travel to a fantasy world parallel to our own.
I enjoyed the minor Read more:Spring
, Update
SBS: Year 2 - Week 1 2007-06-10 18:18:42 On June 9th I set sail on a three hour tour via the SBC cruise line, which ended up on an island somewhere between Gilligan’s and wherever the most recent Survivor is being filmed.
Yes, Shitty Blog Survivor: Year Two, has kicked off.
On the island with me are Monty, Utopia, Sparky, Chad, Tammy, Rose, Mango, Mike, and Nat.Jeckles isn’t anywhere to be found, and I’m halfway tempted to swim over next door to see what Gilligan is up to, but I don’t know if those fins out there are sharks or dolphins.
Nat immediately set to making a shelter out of some bricks, much to the dismay of the local wolves (they are a rare breed and most people don’t know them. Their Latin name is Canis Lupus Huffus Puffus). I’m wondering where the bricks came from to start with, and thinking that might be why our boat sank, never mind that damn storm.
Utopia has demanded that everyone call her Professor, and has become a little more frightening than usual. She’s become proudly evil since th
June 22 Means something….. (and read-a-ton update) 2007-06-22 10:14:05 Oh yeah, today is my birthday. I’m 26 today, and I can’t gather much enthausaim about it.I miss childhood birthdays, when it was a big deal and everyone told you happy birthday and you got presents.
Thus far today I’ve not even gotten a “good morning” most less a “Happy Birthday” from my husband. He’s been bitching about his new digital video camera he bought.
I’ve also not gotten any presents, just money.
I’m all about some presents. Money is good, but I’ll end up spending it on something
like shampoo or dish detergent instead of something fun and for me.
My aunt mailed me some cash like she always does. Of course, I can’t expect her to mail me an actual gift, and cash from one person is okay.
My mother-in-law isn’t even in town. She went to her daughters beach house. She has ALWAYS gotten me something. This year she left me a card with cash in it.
And my husband said that he coudln’t find one g Read more:Means
Damn, I have no rum 2007-06-27 09:37:23 This past Friday was my birthday. I turned 26.
It turned out to be a not so good birthday.
I had 4 days off work. Thursday being my normal day off. I requested Friday off with my one personal day I have (I can’t wait until I actually have vacation time) then Saturday and Sunday were my usual weekend off.
Thursday my hubby started sneezing and whatever was bugging his allergies lasted through all my days off (As well as Monday).
So, on my birthday he was cranky (and that was only day 2 of his sneezing.)
My mother in law gave me cash for my birthday, and I’m a person who likes to get THINGS for my birthday. Its more fun.
Hubby and I went to see “1408″ which wasn’t as good as I’d hoped it would be. That night we went to the Golden Corral buffet to eat, then walked from there over to the mall to browse.
When we got back our internet was down, and for the rest of my time off it didn’t work. I was so bored sitting around the house without
State of the YummY! Address 2007-07-02 14:56:30 Okay, so around the time of the 22nd of June our internet was of the not working variety.
After about 4 days they found out it was a server problem on their end and I got my internet back.
I had internet connection for one whole day before our computer suddenly started throwing us an evil nasty bad blue screen full of shit I don’t understand every time we tried to log onto the internet.
Hubby then took the computer to someone to see what was wrong with it.
As far as he could tell, nothing is wrong with it.
The husband is now in the process of changing things one at a time until it works again.
So, we have temporarily moved our old computer into the dining room so that it can be attached to the phone cord needed to get me on the Internets.
It’s slow, and the screen doesn’t work so well, and the mouse doesn’t work so well, but at least I can get online.
I have a few thousand e-mails to read, and as of right now I don’t even know whether I’m still ON Shitty Blog island, not to Read more:State
, Address
Yes… 2007-07-18 22:44:24 Yes, I am still alive.
My computer still works only when it wants to.
When it does work I’ve been playing neopets instead of blogging or doing other useful things like checking my e-mail or writing a best selling novel.
For those out there who give half a shit about neopets, I’m trying to get my Pack Rat Avi, which means MUCH playing of games and shopping of shops. I have over 400 items before I’m there.
A Bird in the Bush 2007-07-26 17:10:39 Its a baby mockingbird.
Grumpy looking fellow, isn’t he.
Just look at those LONG legs.
I love those spots on his chest.
He chirped at me a little.
and even tried to fly, but he’s not so good at that yet.
I Impaled Myself Today 2007-08-03 15:06:51 Today, a little after 9:00 this morning I was walking past the framing counter at work, and I managed to impale myself on the cup hook they have mounted on their desk to hang the “employees only” sign on.
In case you’re asking, “Whatsa cup hook?” This is a cup hook:
It went in exactly between my middle and ring finger of my left hand. Left a deep, nasty and pretty large hole.
They took me to the emergency room and I ended up getting 2 stitches, a tetanus shot, and one shot of antibiotics in each cheek of my ass. (The ass shots hurt almost more than the injury itself.
It hurts a good bit, and I have a pretty large bandage on my finger that is making it really hard to type.
The nurse (the only male nurse I’ve had in my life in fact) that cleaned it and gave me my shots after kept asking me, “Now HOW did you do that again?” He said it was a odd place to have an injury and he hoped it didn’t set the theme for the days injuries.
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Are You Making Your Friends Fat? 2007-08-14 18:41:49
I've been seeing that everywhere recently, because of a study that says, if your friends are fat, or if they gain weight, then you will also get fat or gain weight. And you don't even have to see them face to face. Fat friends who live miles and mile and miles away can be making you fat.
I have to answer the "Are your friend's making you fat?" question with resounding NO!
Why are my friends not making me fat? Mainly because all of the people I call friends (which are my co-workers) are thinner than me. In fact, the one I like the best is so tiny that you could make 5 of her out of me. All of my life, as far back as I can remember, my friends were thinner than me. With the exception of Tabitha, who was the only friend who was noticeably larger than me.
So, I guess the question would be, Am I making my friends fat?
I would have to answer that one with a resounding NO as well. After all, I'm pretty sure that my friends feed them selves. I don't pack their lunches. Read more:Friends
Official Warning from The Neopets Team 2007-09-02 13:09:21 As I’ve mentioned before, and fairly recently, I play an online game called Neopets.
I’ve been playing for over six years in fact.
Today in my Guild on neopets I mentioned on old ad I had seen on Neopets. One that shocked me so badly I saved a picture of it, as it was an ad for Adult Friend Finder on a game for Chidlren.
I’m sure you all know what Adult Friend Finder is. If not, just google it.
Well, when I mentioned it in the guild, I got the following warning sent to me:
You have received an official warning from the Neopets Team for violating the Neopets Terms and Conditions. Do not discuss sex or sexual topics (including the size of body parts, stripping, underwear, or nudity) in any manner on Neopets. This is a family oriented site and sex is an inappropriate topic. If you continue to break the rules, your account will be permanently frozen. To see a list of Neo Rules, please visit http://www.neopets.com/chatrules.phtml. Please do not reply to this NeoMessa Read more:Official
When Good Zombies Go Bad 2007-08-30 15:25:24 Time seems to be moving too fast this year. I blink and whole days have gone by. I sleep and wake up in a new month.
I can’t believe August is almost over. Labor Day weekend is upon us.
Labor Day is when the store turned into pure hell last year.
Speaking of hell….
Christmas has descended upon Michaels, clearly intruding into the “No Sleigh Bell Zone” of Halloween.
The Mummies are going to war with the Clauses. The reindeer are trying to hold the skeletons at bay, despite the fact that Rudolph’s nose has blown a fuze and can’t help them. The elves, even though they are trying to remain neutral, are being stepped on by the Frankenstein monsters. Its really quite a war zone.
We have a thing at work…..a life sized Halloween display called “Donna the Dead.”
Donna, along with the male and female mummies (also life sized) seem to scare the bejeevers out of everyone. Not just the kids, but so many adults seem to be truly afraid of them.
Donna most of Read more:Zombies
Voices From the Past 2007-10-12 23:34:05 I logged into myspace tonight to find that I had gotten a message way back on the 22 of September from someone who was once very important in my life. Probably more important to me than he ever knew. (Yep, and if you’re reading this and feeling creeped out, its not that creepy any more.)
I was so happy to hear from him. Happy enough to squeal, and so overwhelmed that it was hard for me to compose a message back to him without using the term “HOLY SHIT”. Beleive it or not I wrote a whole message without saying fuck either.
*pats self on back for fucklessness*
At the same time, this message depressed the hell out of me.
Voices
from the past do that to me. Not because I DON’T want to hear from these people, but because it makes me think of better times. Times I wish I could live again. It makes me wonder if anyone other than me misses those times.
I wonder if Amanda ever thinks of me. She and I were best friends from Kindergarten until….
Well
I’ve expanded… 2007-10-12 10:25:58 Some of my shirts are getting tight. None of my bras go around me anymore, and my second chin has become my most prominent facial feature.
I weighed myself for the first time in a long, long LONG time last night.
The scale stopped at EXACTLY 230.
Today was shopping day. We shop for 2 weeks at a time.
Today I bought 2 weeks worth of slim fast shakes and EXACTLY enough food for 14 small meals for myself. So, I can pretty much stick to the diet, or eat all my food at once and starve later. Either way I’m bound to lose weight.
My plan is to stick to the 2 shakes, 1 meal a day. What meals get replaced by shakes will depend on what time I have to go to work.
When I work 9 to 5 it will be breakfast and lunch. When I work 2 to close it will be breakfast and dinner.
Also, within the next week or two I plan to get a Richard Simmons exercise DVD. I choose Richard Simmons because his are the only exercise videos I’ve ever seen overweight people in.
Need to get out walking
Somebody give me a refresher course 2007-10-08 21:38:45 *tap-tap-tap*
Is this thing on?
I’m a little rusty. I think its highly possible that I’ve forgotten how to blog.
Is that possible? Forgetting how to blog?
Meanwhile, my blog is no longer just labled as adult at some places. Now its tagged as pornographic!
Now, adult I can understand because I say fuck…..a lot. Pornographic however….I think I must have missed that one.
Now, having a lack of kool-aide in my cup, I’m going to go replenish my sugary drink and dive back into neopets.
Read more:Somebody
, course
Wednesday Night 2007-10-17 22:49:08 Wednesdays are the night I close every week. Some weeks I close more than one night, but I know I will always close at least on Wednesdays.
I hate it because you never know what time you’ll actually get to go home. It depends on how busy the store was, how messy it is. It depends on who your closing manager is, and who your closing co-workers are.
We close at 9 on weeknights. Tonight we got out at 9:40. Thats EARLY! I actually got home before 10. It was wonderful.
I’m sitting here now with a glass of apple juice thinking about all I have to do tomorrow. For Thursday being a day off its always a busy day for me.
I’m on a diet. Tomorrow is a week. Its slim fast and I’M HUNGRY!!!
I rented an exercise tape. A Richard Simmons one because his are the only exercise videos with real people in them. Meaning that there are people MY size in them and not just super toned gym bunnies in bikinis with their 12 packs taunting me.
I tried it tonight and Read more:Wednesday
, Night
Blog Action Day 2007-10-15 20:41:49 Writing About the Environment
At the risk of sounding like some of the least bright Miss Americas I say, “I love the environment, I want to give it a hug.”
Except there’s not much to hug around here except blacktop, cement and other building and road materials.
Sure, there are occasional palm trees on a postage stamp sized bit of grass at a street corner, but really….thats not a whole heck of a lot of nature.
In the summer this place soaks up heat, and then spits it back out. When we leave Savannah and go toward the middle of nowhere where I grew up you could almost feel the temperature drop.
And you can look at the trees, bushes and weeds that do try their darndest to grow by the side of the millions of blacktopped highways and see the dead on their lower parts. Brown, not green, when they should be green not brown.
Now, I know that cities are going to happen, but I don’t think that cities and nature should be segregated.
There should be more parks.
There’s plent Read more:Action
Houstin, We have a Possum 2007-10-14 14:07:40
This little dear has been coming up onto my front porch and eating the cat food if Buster and Moe leave any behind.
He looks like a giant rat, which give me an urge to catch him and put him in a cage, but of course I’d never really do that. (And besides, my husband said NO!)
I took a few pictures of it through my front window. I wish I could have gone out on the porch to get pictures because they would have been clearer, but I was afraid I’d scare it off and, honestly, a little afraid it might feel cornered an try to chew my toes off.
Sheesh… 2007-10-13 14:12:35 Okay, next time I write a blog at 1 in the morning and get all whiny……smack me. Or make me go to bed. Or bring me a fresh cup of coffee. Either of the above is sure to get me out of my doldrums.
Meanwhile I spent some time this morning with my camera taking pictures of the birds and the bees.
Or, actually, the butterflies and the bees. And also some dogs, a couple of flowers, a bunch of limes, and my husband.
I liked the butterfly pictures the best.
Now I’m sitting here trying to entertain myself online so I don’t start eating munchies just because I’m bored.
As of right now I’ve stuck to my diet for over 24 hours. That might be a new record for me!
Now, I’m off to search for a new look for this place. Time to lighten it up a little.
Disco Sweat 2007-10-19 19:17:31 I’m sitting here right now breathing hard, with my heart pounding, and sweating through my cloths.
I just made it through almost 40 minutes (38 or 39 mintues of it) of my Richard Simmons tape, Disco Sweat
.
I stopped only when I coudln’t pick my feet up anymore….lol
Half the time what I was doing only even REMOTELY looked like what they were doing but everyone keeps telling me it doesn’t have to be exact, just that I keep moving is all that matters.
And I kept moving, that for sure. -grin-
I had to lock the dogs in another room to keep them out from under my feet and I kept running into the sofas as I went backwards and sideways. It was kind of funny and almost (but not quite) fun.
Those six pounds gone this morning I think were all that stopped me from just quitting again when I coudln’t keep up with what they were doing.
Webkittyn recommended a George Foreman walking video and I’m thinking about getting it too.
Of course I WILL NOT do any exercise
Mah Doggeh 2007-10-25 22:40:33 He iz teh kute.
He was not quite so cute when he was snarling me when I hurt him today (accidentally hit him in the eye with his toy….poor thing.)
I still think he’s a pretty boy though.
Hello out there…also NaNo 2007-10-24 22:43:24 I have a few people on my blogroll I am having trouble commetning to! So here are your comments:
Seraphim every time I try to comment on your blog I get an error message. Glad to see you back though!
Utopia, either your captcha hates me, or you hate me and have blocked me. Either way I can’t comment to you either and I say….“flaming eyebrows are easy enough to achieve.”
KatKat….I miss youuuuuuuuu!!!!!
Meanwhile, in non-diet related blogging, I’m doing NaNo again this year. I put a couple of story ideas over on my writing blog. I’d love to hear what you think of them. Or if you have any extra novel ideas floating around your head, feel free to throw them my way.
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Does this make me a diet blog? 2007-10-23 19:52:33 My stomach hurt all day today. Grr..
Another lady told me, “ I can see that you’ve lost weight. Right here…” and then the motioned from her chin to her chest.
YIKES!
A fear of mine is losing weight and losing what little boob I have. Many women have told me that when they lose weight the first place it drops from is the chest.
I’m hoping that a smaller tummy will give my poor little b-cups more presence, not less.
Meanwhile, back at work….
Tori and Janet brought BREAKFAST for everyone. Janet brought dough nuts (glazed and powdered) and Tori brought some of her EXCELLENT breakfast casserole and biscuits.
I told both of them, “Shame on you! If I can’t eat neither can anyone else.”
I didn’t eat any when I came in, but at 11:30 when I went to lunch I DID eat a little bit of her breakfast casserole. (Basically egg, cheese and sausage). I DID NOT eat a doughnut, either glazed or powdered and I almost ate a biscuit, then decided that I didn’t
Grrr…I want to shrink faster… 2007-10-22 21:47:04 I’m a tired YummY! tonight. Weekend was hectic at work. People are crazy man…CRAZY!
The last of my aquarium fish died and was flushed down to fishie heaven in the sewers. (Not really, but that’s what most people do with the poor things. That leaves Bruce the betta as my only scaly/finned pet left.
Sticking to my slim-fast. 11 days in.
Sunday the One Stroke instructor was in. It had been a week since she saw me, and when I went in to say hi her first words were “You’ve lost weight!” and she didn’t even KNOW I was on a diet.
The hubby, however, says I’ve not lost enough to see yet.
I’m down one notch in my belt. Still can’t fit in those size 20 jeans.
Sunday I ate lunch and had a shake for supper and was STARVING by 7pm. It was scary how hungry I was…..but I didn’t eat.
Today I woke up still starving, but was working 9 to 5 so it was shakes for breakfast and lunch.
My stomach hurt all day. I chalked it up to Read more:shrink
Weighing In (also other stuff) 2007-10-27 22:09:37
As of yesterday (Friday, October 26) I was down to 219 and as of this morning I buttoned up a pair of size 20 jeans and could stand, walk and sit comfortably in them.
For those keeping score, thats 11 pounds and 2 pant sizes that YummY! has lost!
This is my weekend off, but I’ve been doing CRAP today. Robert had huge plans today, but then we didn’t do any of them.
We DID go see The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3d today, which was okay. I’m not the worlds biggest fan of 3d as for some reason I just dont SEE it properly, but at least it didn’t give me a headache like Spy Kids 3D did.
I’d rather have gone to Saw 4. My hubby is a movie wuss…he hates horror/slasher/monster/gore movies. I love ‘em!
After that we came home and did a lot of nothing. I’ve been online most of the day, bouncing between my e-mail, my yahoo groups and myspace.
Someone left me the following game on my Yahoo! Mash. Its pretty fun as far as hangman goes. Lo Read more:stuff
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