Ok. I know it's a bit early but I am going back to Hawaii in November! I am goingt o do a pit stop in Arizona to see the family that I used to nanny for, (they are having boy/girl twins in October) and possibly to see my old co-worker and possibly to see an old friend who I haven't seen in 3 years.
Then it's off to Hawaii for a week to visit my sister and her husband. I am also going to be spending the night with my friend Heather while there. I haven't seen her since May and really want to!
I can't wait to go and wait to get some real Vitamin D!
Friday, September 10, 2010
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Adventures of a kitten named Zeek
This summer has been a rather nice one on the weather. I have had many outing with friends that include a trip to Wild Waves, Madison Beach, Coulon, Alki, Linkin Park, and 5 mile lake. I love the water and when the weather is right it is just so perfect!
This summer has also been one of AHHHHHHH! No matter what I say I love my little kitty and would not trade him for anything. Except maybe a nice Tabby/Calico belt sometimes!
I swear this cat is not like any other cat. But then I get told that it is just the kitty phase and that he will grow out of it. Good golyl I sure hope so!
This cat LOVES to chew on anything that he is not supposed to. Cords and my couch are his specialty. I have bought probably over $200 worth of replacements cords, cord protectors, duct tape and "spray" that promises to ride him of the habit. Yeah, that stuff doesn't work. He will chew through the duct tape and the cord covers, eat whatever he wants and when I spray him he just looks at me!
Night time is expecially challenging because that is when he gets into the most trouble. He lieks to wait until I am almost alseep then attack something that he knows he shouldn't forcing me to get up, get the spray bottle, try to catch him and spray him only for him to do it again 5 minutes later! During the day when I am not there he doesn't do anything to the things that I have. I think he saves it especially for me when I am home!
He is going to be neutered in a few weeks and from what I have heard that is supposed to calm them down a bit. I sure hope so.
Other times he is so sweet and cuddly and just wants to be held. Just like a little baby. He purrs whenever I talk to him, pet him, hold him or let him sleep on the chest/belly. This is the part that I love.
He is now MUCH bigger than when I first got him. I am guessing that he is 6-7 pounds now. His colors and striped are getting much more defined as his body gets bigger. They are slowly spreading apart due to size and he even has eyeliner that looks like he fits in just perfect on Pill Hill!
All in all this cat is very sweet when he wants to be and just like any other "kid" get into what he is not supposed to!
This summer has also been one of AHHHHHHH! No matter what I say I love my little kitty and would not trade him for anything. Except maybe a nice Tabby/Calico belt sometimes!
I swear this cat is not like any other cat. But then I get told that it is just the kitty phase and that he will grow out of it. Good golyl I sure hope so!
This cat LOVES to chew on anything that he is not supposed to. Cords and my couch are his specialty. I have bought probably over $200 worth of replacements cords, cord protectors, duct tape and "spray" that promises to ride him of the habit. Yeah, that stuff doesn't work. He will chew through the duct tape and the cord covers, eat whatever he wants and when I spray him he just looks at me!
Night time is expecially challenging because that is when he gets into the most trouble. He lieks to wait until I am almost alseep then attack something that he knows he shouldn't forcing me to get up, get the spray bottle, try to catch him and spray him only for him to do it again 5 minutes later! During the day when I am not there he doesn't do anything to the things that I have. I think he saves it especially for me when I am home!
He is going to be neutered in a few weeks and from what I have heard that is supposed to calm them down a bit. I sure hope so.
Other times he is so sweet and cuddly and just wants to be held. Just like a little baby. He purrs whenever I talk to him, pet him, hold him or let him sleep on the chest/belly. This is the part that I love.
He is now MUCH bigger than when I first got him. I am guessing that he is 6-7 pounds now. His colors and striped are getting much more defined as his body gets bigger. They are slowly spreading apart due to size and he even has eyeliner that looks like he fits in just perfect on Pill Hill!
All in all this cat is very sweet when he wants to be and just like any other "kid" get into what he is not supposed to!
Sunday, July 11, 2010
The adventures of a new apartment continued....
Well, along with the adventures of almost freezing to death in the winter due to only having baseboard heaters and poor (or lack of) insulation this summer is promiseing to be the exact opposite. I love the sun and the heat but am NOT used to having my place of living be 88 degrees at 5 am! That is right! You read right! 88 degrees at 5 am! Even with two fans running and the windows wide open (blinds shut when the sun is hitting them) it has gotten hotter in this place that it did outside! It is fine until the sun peaks around the corner of the apartment into my window abot 4 pm and doesn't go away until the sun sets. This happens to be the hottest part of the day and I have no front door that leads outside that I can get some cross breeze!
On another note. My sister Holly will be getting married in less than 2 weeks. This should be quite an adventure for her.
My little kitty that I got in May in now 3 times the size he was when I got him making him a whole 15 weeks old. Last vet visit he was almost 4 pounds. My how my little baby has grown.
On another note. I have this dear friend that I am so very proud of. I think that she has found her soul mate and I hope to high heaven that she will marry this boy. She is so very happy. Happier than I have seen her in a while and she gushes about him all the time. I find this rather sweet and cannot wait to hear the latest cute thing that he has said to her!
My little nephew turned 2 this year. My nieces are as adorable as they come and my surrogate niece turned 2 too!
I had a great birthday that lasted for a few days. Dinner with family, out with friends, then home, then friends coming over, fun at work then fun at Pike Place and the piers with more friends! Went to the zoo with another friend. I forgot how much fun the zoo actually is and I got to feed a giraffe!
I hope that this summer keeps being as iteresting as it is starting!
On another note. My sister Holly will be getting married in less than 2 weeks. This should be quite an adventure for her.
My little kitty that I got in May in now 3 times the size he was when I got him making him a whole 15 weeks old. Last vet visit he was almost 4 pounds. My how my little baby has grown.
On another note. I have this dear friend that I am so very proud of. I think that she has found her soul mate and I hope to high heaven that she will marry this boy. She is so very happy. Happier than I have seen her in a while and she gushes about him all the time. I find this rather sweet and cannot wait to hear the latest cute thing that he has said to her!
My little nephew turned 2 this year. My nieces are as adorable as they come and my surrogate niece turned 2 too!
I had a great birthday that lasted for a few days. Dinner with family, out with friends, then home, then friends coming over, fun at work then fun at Pike Place and the piers with more friends! Went to the zoo with another friend. I forgot how much fun the zoo actually is and I got to feed a giraffe!
I hope that this summer keeps being as iteresting as it is starting!
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Kentucky Woman!
Before I go on and on about this trip I want to tell you that I drove 2400 miles from Winchester Kentucky to Seattle Washington in 47 hours and 45 minutes!
On thursday night I got about 4 hours of sleep and went to work for 8 hours on Friday. Friday after work I had to get my tabs renewed, house cleaned, things packed, cat packed and ready to go, fish packed and ready to go and be at the airport at 830 pm to meet my grandmother at the airport to help her get to her bus. My flight left at 1130 that night. Well it sort of did. We pulled about 20 feet away from the gate and the plane came to a screeching halt! The pilot came on the com and said that we had FROST, (in the end of may is seattle) on the wings and had to wait for the deicer machine to dome and spray the wings. Luckily for us the deicer maching was packed away and emptied for summer so we had to wait 45 minutes for take off!
I got to the Cincinatti airport in Ohio at about 8 am and walked around. Bought breakfast and a few little souveniers and went to get on another plane to Lexington. This plane only seated about 40 people. No is was not a propeller plane but it was still REALLY small!
I got to Lexington Kentucky about 1000 am on Saturday morning. Mind you I don't sleep very well in planes or cars so I only got about a 30 minute nap on the first flight.
I came down the ONLY escalator in the Lexington airport. There are only 8 terminals and 2 baggage claims in this little podunk town. Melissa was waiting for me and she had Kate(who is going to be 2 in less than a month) with her.
We went to Walmart to get the cooler and all the stuff we needed for the trip. Ice included. Got to her moms house, loaded up the car and then headed off at 245 Kentucky time. We stopped at Sonic Burger to get chili tots, corndogs and a Route 44 (basically a 64oz big gulp) handmade cherry and vanilla coke. Yum! I now have been to Sonic burger! Then we gased up and headed out.
About 630pm we stopped at Cracker Barrel which is a southern restaurant and I tried Chicken and Dumplings for the first time! Can I say holy heck that is SO good!
After this I decided to try to sleep for a few hours so that I could drive at night so she could sleep. I tried for about 2 hours and couldn't fall asleep so I took over at about 1000pm and Melissa went into the back seat to sleep.
I drove until about 230 am until I started to see double and let Melissa know that I couldn't drive anymore. She took over but at 430 she couldn't drive anymore so we pulled over to a rest stop and slept for 2 hours then got back on the road.
I started driving again and drove until about 230 in the afternoon. Then we stopped for a short break and I decided to stay in the front seat for a while to keep Melissa company. We did some Mad Libs and a crossword puzzle together and then I got into the back to try to sleep.
Now by this time we were feeling pretty scuzzy and greasy and gross so we decided that the next trucker stop that there was we were going to take a break, take a shower and attempt to get clean. That happened at the time that I was almost asleep for the first time in 2 days. Although the shower felt AMAZING I was really tired. So I hopped back into the back seat to try to sleep. About an hour and a half later, Melissa pulled into a town call "Little America" (there are a bunch of wierd names in Wyoming) and we had lunch there, stocked up on more drinks and ice and headed out. I started to drive again about an hour later and drove til about 1 in the morning. Then got about an hour of sleep. I started drving and about 2 hours into it about 3 in the morning, on the side of the road, right ON the white line to the left on a single lane road was a buck, a deer and a baby deer. I slammed on the breaks, said HOLY CRAP! at the top of my lungs and Melissa goes flying into the back of the front seats and she sits up straight! What is going on! I said I almost hit a deer family! So after that I drove the rest of the way to home, stopping at Snoqualmie Pass for lunch, amd to let the car cool down so we could add some oil to it. We got to my apartment, unpacked her car, parked it a few blocks away, came inside and I fell on my bed, she fell on the couch and we took a 5 hour nap!
So all in all it was a good trip!
We stopped MANY times at rest stops, gas stations and trucker stops to use the bathroom because, lets face it, we are girls and we were drinking alot of liquid and caffeine to stay awake! Not to mention both of us had tumy troubles from something that we still don't know what it was!
I think the highights of the trip was seeing a Lexinton in almost every state that we passed through, (Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Washington are the ones we went through.) and seeing a "Unadilla" in nebraska and coming up with the lamest Armadillo jokes.
What do you call a one legged Armadillo? An Unadilla!
Then we came across Umadilla Wyoming and got started all over again!
What do you call a retarded Armadillo? An Ummmmmmmadilla!
So now that we were home resting on Monday we went crazy and went out on Tuesday....
All stops included: in the southcenter mall, Mac store, Apple store, Childrens place, Fye, zumiez, hot topic, Aeropostale, and Auntie Anne's Pretzel's. We always have a pretzel with cheese and Dr. Pepper whenver we go out to the mall together. Mattress King, (Melissa needed a mattress and not the floor for her house on post), petco, oldnavy, IKEA, outback steakhouse for dinner, PIMA Medical Institute to say hi to our old teacher, Target, QFC, Safeway and then to my work to say hi to a friend! Man! We had a long day!
And today we are going to fix up my apartment with a new bookshelf that I got from IKEA and we are going to make the existing things that I have a part of an Entertainment center. So that I can get the old bookshelf out of my apartment. It doesn't really go with all the things that I have.
I can't believe I drove across almost the entire country! We could not have done it without the GPS though. It was a system call Garmin, and that is what we called her. We mapquested and Google maped the trip and both of those said that it would be 500 more miles than what Garmin said. So we didn't question her. Even when she got on our nerves and started talking back when we pulled off the highways or freeways to take a break! we both would say "SHUT UP!" at the same time and try to get her to be quiet!
I would say that this trip was a sucess and I would definitely do it again but I think that I would take a lot longer to do it, stop at a few places of interest and try to enjoy instead of eing sleep deprived and trying to stay awake!
On thursday night I got about 4 hours of sleep and went to work for 8 hours on Friday. Friday after work I had to get my tabs renewed, house cleaned, things packed, cat packed and ready to go, fish packed and ready to go and be at the airport at 830 pm to meet my grandmother at the airport to help her get to her bus. My flight left at 1130 that night. Well it sort of did. We pulled about 20 feet away from the gate and the plane came to a screeching halt! The pilot came on the com and said that we had FROST, (in the end of may is seattle) on the wings and had to wait for the deicer machine to dome and spray the wings. Luckily for us the deicer maching was packed away and emptied for summer so we had to wait 45 minutes for take off!
I got to the Cincinatti airport in Ohio at about 8 am and walked around. Bought breakfast and a few little souveniers and went to get on another plane to Lexington. This plane only seated about 40 people. No is was not a propeller plane but it was still REALLY small!
I got to Lexington Kentucky about 1000 am on Saturday morning. Mind you I don't sleep very well in planes or cars so I only got about a 30 minute nap on the first flight.
I came down the ONLY escalator in the Lexington airport. There are only 8 terminals and 2 baggage claims in this little podunk town. Melissa was waiting for me and she had Kate(who is going to be 2 in less than a month) with her.
We went to Walmart to get the cooler and all the stuff we needed for the trip. Ice included. Got to her moms house, loaded up the car and then headed off at 245 Kentucky time. We stopped at Sonic Burger to get chili tots, corndogs and a Route 44 (basically a 64oz big gulp) handmade cherry and vanilla coke. Yum! I now have been to Sonic burger! Then we gased up and headed out.
About 630pm we stopped at Cracker Barrel which is a southern restaurant and I tried Chicken and Dumplings for the first time! Can I say holy heck that is SO good!
After this I decided to try to sleep for a few hours so that I could drive at night so she could sleep. I tried for about 2 hours and couldn't fall asleep so I took over at about 1000pm and Melissa went into the back seat to sleep.
I drove until about 230 am until I started to see double and let Melissa know that I couldn't drive anymore. She took over but at 430 she couldn't drive anymore so we pulled over to a rest stop and slept for 2 hours then got back on the road.
I started driving again and drove until about 230 in the afternoon. Then we stopped for a short break and I decided to stay in the front seat for a while to keep Melissa company. We did some Mad Libs and a crossword puzzle together and then I got into the back to try to sleep.
Now by this time we were feeling pretty scuzzy and greasy and gross so we decided that the next trucker stop that there was we were going to take a break, take a shower and attempt to get clean. That happened at the time that I was almost asleep for the first time in 2 days. Although the shower felt AMAZING I was really tired. So I hopped back into the back seat to try to sleep. About an hour and a half later, Melissa pulled into a town call "Little America" (there are a bunch of wierd names in Wyoming) and we had lunch there, stocked up on more drinks and ice and headed out. I started to drive again about an hour later and drove til about 1 in the morning. Then got about an hour of sleep. I started drving and about 2 hours into it about 3 in the morning, on the side of the road, right ON the white line to the left on a single lane road was a buck, a deer and a baby deer. I slammed on the breaks, said HOLY CRAP! at the top of my lungs and Melissa goes flying into the back of the front seats and she sits up straight! What is going on! I said I almost hit a deer family! So after that I drove the rest of the way to home, stopping at Snoqualmie Pass for lunch, amd to let the car cool down so we could add some oil to it. We got to my apartment, unpacked her car, parked it a few blocks away, came inside and I fell on my bed, she fell on the couch and we took a 5 hour nap!
So all in all it was a good trip!
We stopped MANY times at rest stops, gas stations and trucker stops to use the bathroom because, lets face it, we are girls and we were drinking alot of liquid and caffeine to stay awake! Not to mention both of us had tumy troubles from something that we still don't know what it was!
I think the highights of the trip was seeing a Lexinton in almost every state that we passed through, (Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Washington are the ones we went through.) and seeing a "Unadilla" in nebraska and coming up with the lamest Armadillo jokes.
What do you call a one legged Armadillo? An Unadilla!
Then we came across Umadilla Wyoming and got started all over again!
What do you call a retarded Armadillo? An Ummmmmmmadilla!
So now that we were home resting on Monday we went crazy and went out on Tuesday....
All stops included: in the southcenter mall, Mac store, Apple store, Childrens place, Fye, zumiez, hot topic, Aeropostale, and Auntie Anne's Pretzel's. We always have a pretzel with cheese and Dr. Pepper whenver we go out to the mall together. Mattress King, (Melissa needed a mattress and not the floor for her house on post), petco, oldnavy, IKEA, outback steakhouse for dinner, PIMA Medical Institute to say hi to our old teacher, Target, QFC, Safeway and then to my work to say hi to a friend! Man! We had a long day!
And today we are going to fix up my apartment with a new bookshelf that I got from IKEA and we are going to make the existing things that I have a part of an Entertainment center. So that I can get the old bookshelf out of my apartment. It doesn't really go with all the things that I have.
I can't believe I drove across almost the entire country! We could not have done it without the GPS though. It was a system call Garmin, and that is what we called her. We mapquested and Google maped the trip and both of those said that it would be 500 more miles than what Garmin said. So we didn't question her. Even when she got on our nerves and started talking back when we pulled off the highways or freeways to take a break! we both would say "SHUT UP!" at the same time and try to get her to be quiet!
I would say that this trip was a sucess and I would definitely do it again but I think that I would take a lot longer to do it, stop at a few places of interest and try to enjoy instead of eing sleep deprived and trying to stay awake!
Zeek! (aka itty bitty kitty)
On May 14th I took my friend Danielle to Federal Way to get her a brand new kitten to replace her Missy Kit (aka Misfit). I walked into the apartment that the kitty was being raised in and fell in love with another kitty. A calico/tabby mix. This little guy just snuggled right in and fell asleep on me. That was it! I had to take him home! So I had nothing for a cat. And I mean NOTHING! My apartment was set up the way that I like it. NOT suitable for a kid or cat! I had him about 5 days before I named him Zeek. Now this cat was so snuggly and cute for the first 2 days. Now he is snuggly an dcute and CRAZY! He is so fun to watch but is like a little kid you have to keep an eye on or he will chew thru a cord or something! I am so very glad that I got him to keep me company and for me to have someone to come home to. It gets a little lonely sometimes and Zeek helps with that!
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Fishies!
I got new fishies! One is a crowntail beta and one is a regular beta. The crowntail is blueish-purple and the other one is blue and red. Their names are fluffy and bali bali. This is what I get when I let a 4 year name them. I think the names sort of fit them though... Fluffy looks like he has spikes for fins all around and bali bali looks like he flows like an angel fish.... hmmm..... they are not pets that I can cuddle and hold but I can talk to them and it is nice to have something that is alive to come home to....
Monday, February 22, 2010
10 things you may not know about me....
1-I am terrified of people in costumes such as Chuck E Cheese and Mariner Moose, so much that I cry, shake, cover my ears, shut my eyes and hide behind someone until they leave.
2-I am a total wuss when it comes to the cold. I sleep with an electric blanket and a heating pad on high.
3-Laundry soap makes me sneeze every time I use it. Liquid or not.
4-I have 2 adorable little nieces and a cute little red headed nephew.
5-The only living things that terrify me are spiders and geese.
6- I can hold my bladder for an extraordinary amount of time.
7- I have 5 layers for my bedding, sheet, electric blanket, doubled over micro fleece, and comforter.
8- I still take little kid gummy vitamins! (the big ones make me sick)
9- My favorite movie is from the 80's.
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