cute kitten stuff

I know EVERYONE is sick of my kitten stories.  But I am like a proud parent and have to share! 

After Ashley died I got myself a necklace to remember her by.  See picture (click on picture to go to catalog necklace was bought from).  Every since I brought Sadie home she kept trying to nuzzle my neck.  I thought it was cute.  I finally figured out it was my necklace she was after!

Next cute story.  I picked Sadie up and held her in my arms the way you would a baby.  She reaches up and put a paw on either side of my face!  If that doesn't sound cute it was!

I added a like to my "how to find help with AOL journaling" site linking you up with John's entry on the latest virus to hit e-mails.  If you haven't read it yet you may want to.  BE SAFE!

Just got back from taking Sadie to the vet.  I am so proud of her!  She is up to 3 pounds!  She was 1.5 pounds when I found her on Jan 5th!  And Dr B seems to be really taken with Sadie!  He keeps saying how good she looks and plays with her more than he has my other cats.  AND he didn't charge me for today!  Remember he didn't charge me for her room and board when I first found her either.

Ok, I can't get the stupid image to line up to the left here.  I wanted it close to where I say Dr B is taken with Sadie.  Oh well... I'll keep playing with it.

Dallas doesn't seem to like Sadie so much.  She smelled of her and took off running and hid.  I just tried to do what Pamela said and rub a towel on Dallas and then rub it on Sadie.  Well, Pamela, sounds good and easy.  In reality though, Dallas had a fit and I though she was going to bite me!  She freaked when she saw the towel!  Will keep everyone up dated!

dentist

going to the dentist
and i'm
going to get my teeth cleaned
and i'm
going to the dentist
i hate
woeoooo

 actually, my dentist is a pretty nice guy (and cute too), but i always feel a litte dread when i go.

one of the worst weeks in my life

I have been remembering something that happened over 20 years ago and thought I would write about it today.  I can't remember the which days of the week things actually happened, do I will make those up to help move the story along.  But everything else is true.  One of those never gonna happen in a lifetime things, but true.

When my grandmother (my mom's mom) was in the hospital the doctor said she was getting better and could probably go home in a few days.  Sometime during the night we got a call saying she had taken a turn for the worse. (Well, I am here to tell you, yes it was for the worse, but it was a lie.) We rushed to the hospital to find out that she had died. (guess the turn for the worse is hospital speak for "died") This was sometime Monday night or in the wee hours of Tuesday morning.  Tuesday we start to make funeral arrangements. Then my dad gets a phone call.

My dad's sister (who lives about 1hour away) had been sick with bone cancer (which had followed her breast cancer).  She had been doing ok, but the call was to say that she had died sometime during Monday night/Tuesday morning.

Now, we have 2 family members that died close to the same time on the same day.  Mom is planning granny's funeral and dad's brother-in-law is planning Aunt D's.

To shorten the story, they were both at the funeral home for visting at the exact same time but in 2 different cities.  My brother and I stayed with mom here in town, while my dad's best friend went with him to his sister's viewing.

They were both buried on Thursday.  Grandma, here in town, at 10 am and Aunt D, an hour away, at 1 pm.  Dad drove to granny's funeral, the rest of us with mom's sister in the limo, to the graveyard.  As soon as the funeral was over we hopped into the car with dad and rushed to Aunt D's funeral.  We made it with just about 15 minutes or so to spare.

 

Thanks

I would like to thank Brittany over at A Door To My World for the little cutie doll in the "all about me" column.  If you want to see more of her "dolls" there is the link to her web page.

I will be back later today for another entry.

Where to find help?

Ok folks, it is offical.  I am opening up my new web page for business.  It is NOT a place to go for answers.  It IS a place that hopefully will help you to find answers to your AOL Journaling questions. 

I am still learning and don't have hardly any of the answers, but I am learning WHERE to look for the answers.  I hope that this web page will help others also.  It is in no way a place for everything but I am hoping it will guide people into the places that can help.

Please give it a visit and let me know what you think.  Click here to go there.

Oh, I learned how to do the "screen capture" above from a link on the site!

depression and house buying

Depression, I guess that is my middle name.  I have had it for quite a few years now however my doctor does go between saying I suffer from major depression to saying that I am on the low end of the scale for being bi-polar.  I don't care what you call it, some days I am ok, and others I feel like I have slapped in the face!

I do know that even though I don't always have a good grip on myself I ususally turn out ok and haven't done anything stupid.  Ok, I do get on these buying sprees every so often, but I do manage to stop myself before I haul out the old credit card.  The only thing I have done with major money -- and I don't remember actually doing it, was to buy my house.  I know I did it because I have pictures of me at the lawyer's signing the papers, and mostly I have the mortgage!  I don't even remember looking at the house to be honest.  Mom says she tried to talk me out of it, but I was stubborn as could be.  The good thing is that I bought a house that was a little less than I could afford at the time, and now my house payment is lower than any rent I would have any place now. 

Buying a house was good.  Buying THIS house?  Well, I could have done worse!! Oh, please don't feel sorry for me.  Like I said the payments are within my current income so no real harm done.  The place is ok, but in my "right" mind I would have choosen one with a big back porch, and a bigger kitchen.

A new journal to visit

I just found a fairly new journal and I think you guys will enjoy it.  It is called Giggles, Guffaws or Groans. This journal is about "Bringing you some of my favorite jokes and stories found around the Internet. Some will make you giggle, some will make you guffaw, and I'm sure a few will make you roll your eyes and groan."  Please go and check it out.  It is worth the trip and you will at the very least get a giggle out of it.

 

                                                                                                         

cats

 Next Monday Sadie goes back to the doctor.  She has been doing really great.  At least I think so.  She is eating like a horse!  I don't know how much she weighs right  now but you can't feel her bones as easily as you could before.  And she has so much engery!  I had forgotten what a ball of engery kittens were!  She is tearing my bedroom apart!  Hopefully next week I can get her with Dallas and thus she will have the whole house to tear apart!

I had a siamese cat when I was little.  She was something else.  Her name was ChiChi.  She was an indoor/outdoor cat.  We had a dog outside and they got along great.  ChiChi would even curl up with the dog and go to sleep.  But she didn't feel that way towards all dogs.  Nope.  One of the neighbor's dogs came into the yard one day and you should have seen ChiChi knock the screen door open and run after Brownie!  Next thing you know she is on Brownie's back and Brownie is running like crazy.  Later we asked V about it, he said Brownie was hiding under the house and know he knew why!  Brownie never came back into our yard again.

trying something new

It is so pretty outside.  Got snow, and ice.  The roads in my neighborhood are all white.  I live sorta in the south.  I am in North Carolina and like I said we don't get much snow.  They are calling for more ice tonight.  Great.  Ice is really pretty, but after so much builds up on trees or power lines, well, lets just say it isn't pretty.

If you are wondering what Marvin is doing in this entry, well, no real  reason.  I just love the little guy.  I have a watch with him on it also.  I know I am too old for such, but.....

While surfing around I came across how to put an image in the middle of a paragraph.  Hmm....Think I can do it?  well, it looks like maybe I did it. hate that the first line of this paragraph is so high up though.  Maybe it will change when I save.  Holding my fingers......

snow, ice, sleet, freezing rain

It is cold.  It's 18 degrees outside!!  It had alread started snowing when I woke up this morning, and now it has changed over to mostly sleet.  Orginially we were to get 2 inches or so of snow, we are at about 4.5 inches of a mix of stuff now.

I know that for some of you that doesn't seem like alot, but you have to remember we don't get much here and this is enough to close down half the city or more!

We mostly seem to get ice in my neck of the woods, which can mean power outages.  I am hoping that that won't happen this time but you can never tell.

 

 

what do you think?

It is snowing!  We don't get snow all that often here, usually ice (which we may get later today).  So this has given me an excuse to start working on a web site that I have been wanting to do.  And I want your help!  If you will click here you can go there and check out what I have gotten started.   Just keep in mind that it is still under construction.              

  And if you know about wrapping text can you tell me why when I tried to wrap the above gif all I got was boxes with those red X 's in them?

update:Ok, smarty Gregg!  I got the image in here this time.  And I figured out my problem!  Before all the images I were using I had uploaded directly to my FTP space, this one was on my hometown page, that makes a difference in the "coding" you use, right?

questions from "The Book of Questions"

#64  You and a person you love deeply are placed in separate rooms with a button next to each of you.  You know that you will both be killed unless one of you presses your button before 60 minutes pass; furthermore, the first to press the button will save the other person, but will immediately be killed.  What do you think you would do?

#71  Would you be willing to have horrible nightmares every night for a year if you would be rewarded with extraordinary wealth?

#78    If you knew that in one year you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are now living?

#112  If you were at a friend's house for Thanksgiving dinner and you found a dead cockroach in your salad, what would you do?

#114  Would you be willing to reduce your live expectancy by five years to become extremely attractive?

funny story

This isn't a story about me.  This is one my pastor was telling us about this past Sunday.  Pastor G said that he has never understood people who like to read just for entertainment.  He reads to learn, but not just to sit down and enjoy a good book.  Now, he says that he doesn't remember the story I'm about to tell you here, but that he has been told several times in his life about it.  When he was about 9 or 10 years old he was excited to see what Grandma was giving him for Christmas.  When he opened the gift it was a book.  Black Beauty.  He starts crying!  When asked why was he crying, he asked --  What did I do to Grandma to make her mad enough to give me a book?  Now, we all know that Grandma wasn't mad, but this shows how much he hated reading even then.

I cannot understand why people don't enjoy reading myself.  Maybe it is because mom read to us when we were little.  I don't know, but I have always loved to read and if you were ever in my house you could tell by the amount of books you will find.

Today is a Sad day.

I can't believe it.   Captain Kangaroo has died. I love him when I was growing up.  I can still remember the ping pong balls falling on his head.  That was something that happened with Mr. Moose wasn't it?  One memory I have is that when President Kennedy died they took the Captain off the air to show the funeral.  That made me so mad!  Now, you must remember I was only like 3 years old.  People these days can talk all they want about Mr. Rogers, but in my mind no one, not even Mr. Rogers could hold a candle to the Captain!                                                                

Too young to remember him?  Check out this site on the show , or this one , or the AOL news story.

Bob "Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan  

While zipping thru journal land....

I found a couple of journal entries that you need to check out.  The first is mnelson581 who has a cat that is a little more than just shy, or at least that is what I think.  Go read about Honey and see what you think and if you have any hints on how to help Honey I am sure mnelson581 would be more than grateful.

Then we have ckays1967  that asks that age old question: does your mother-in-law rub your butt at night?  She also tells us what she thinks God looks like.  I love that entry.

Bettefan05 is just a little too hooked on the show "Golden Girls" if you ask me.

And then you have mountainmere.  Not much there, just some guy that wants her "used" lingerie.

There you have it, my little trip and some interesting reads.

 

Dallas

 

Well, AOL fixed our counters.  But for whatever reason mine went back to 0 on both of my journal. Oh, well......So, everyone drop by everyday several times, tell your friends and family to come by so we can get that counter back up there!

This is a recent picture of my Dallas.  Isn't she adorable?  My mom hates this picture she thinks it has a "wicked" look to it.  I think it is more mysterious.  Is she laughting at me?  Is she yelling at me?  Is she trying to be mean?  Just what is going on in that little brain of hers?  Well, in this case I know what is going on.  I caught her in mid yawn!  She can be a real sweetie.  But if she is hungry watch out!

Dallas hasn't come face-to-face with Sadie yet.  I am sure that she can smell Sadie on me though.  I take Sadie back to the vet on Feb 2nd and hopefully then he'll say it is ok for me to try to get them together.  And I pray that Dallas will be ok with it.

 

 

tv crisis

Dad wanted me to go with him to help buy a new tv.  Even though I hate helping him pick out big items I agreed to go.  The trip wasn't too bad.  But as I knew was going to happen I had to try to help him chose which one to buy. (I hate that because if he ends up hating it, then it's my fault )So he has me looking at remotes to see which I think is the easiest to use.  I try to tell him that you can always get another remote.  No, he doesn't want to do that.  While I am looking at one, he comes stands behind me and looks over my shoulder.   I HATE that!  He always does that, and I ALWAYS tell him to give me room.

So, he buys a tv.  We get to his house, and the tv is too heavy for him to carry.  I knew that was coming.  He gets one of those hand truck things and puts the tv on it.  Something told me this wasn't going to turn out good.  I tell him to go to the front door instead of the back (steps to go up ya know) but no, gotta do it his way.  Guess what!  You got it, the tv falls off the hand truck.  Mom is standing there and don't know what to say.  I told her that the tv is probably packed good and is ok.  But I am a coward so I leave BEFORE they open the box to see if it is ok.

update:  dad called and said the tv was ok.  I still can't believe it!  Guess they do pack them pretty good after all. 

Today I am still trying to learn new things.  This is my first attempt at right align.  So far so good.  I am also playing around with the using a word document in the "about me" column.  No, don't look, it's not there yet.  It is taking me awhile to "catch on."  But I will get it.  Now that I have the right align thing down, shall we try the left?

I am still making a mistake here somewhere.  Sure the text is wrapping around the pictures ok, but each time 2 pictures with pop up.  It's not that big of a deal though, I just delete one.  This is actually pretty easy once you have the code.  Now I will just have to keep up with where I keep the code!hee hee 

the game begins

Today we start the game.  After me you will have 7 more journals to visit.  Let's see how it goes!

Co-operation

It ain't the guns nor armament,

 

now got to:       for the next line and journal to visit. 

note: the above has changed to another person, so give it until late today or tomorrow to appear.  sorry for any inconvience.

update:  I had some good feedback to this idea.  Unfortually, most are busy with other things now, so I guess I will have to put this off until another time.  I am sorry.  But, hey, you never know when it could pop up again!

I have an idea!!

As a member of the group "The Journal Keepers" I have noticed alot of postings of people asking how to get others to come and read their journals.  And while there are probably millions, ok maybe not millions, of ways I have hit on an idea.  I mention it here instead of the above mentioned group because this way gives me a chance to see who is reading me! hee hee

My idea.  I post a line of a poem, song, joke, whatever, and send you to someone else's journal for the next line, or punch line, ect. Then they send you to someone else's journal for the next line, or joke or whatever.  Wonder if it would work?  If anyone would want to try?  Let me know what you think.  If I get one or two people and they get one or two people, and they get. , well you see where I am going here....

update: like I said I know there are other, better ways to get readership.  this just struck me as a fun idea.  and even after the fun is over people may not come back to your journal.

yes, I know there are thousands of journals out there, and I know you can post at the group sites.  I just thought this might be FUN.  maybe I was wrong. But if we are talking a short poem, this will only take you to maybe 10 different journals.  Think of it more as a GAME than upping your journal's readership.

I am back!

I know, I left at least one person hanging waiting for me to get back yesterday.  Sorry....

The NC National Guard has been called up for active duty.  They are going in to Iraq so some of the soliders there can rotate out for some well deserved R&R.  I know what I am about to say won't be popular, but here goes......I really think our government should at least think about bringing back the draft in some shape or form.  Why?  Because we are having to have our military everywhere (or so it seems), and whether you believe we should be where we are not, face facts, we are there.  Now we are having to call up reserves, and I know it is what they volunteered for, but it just doesn't seem right to be using them more and more like regular military.  With the NC  National Guard called up now it is starting to worry me a little.  Why?  The National Guard is supposed to protect us here (or so I thought) in cases of national emergency.  Granted we have only used them in floods, fires, during riots, but it is still here on American soil, and we need them, here.

And before you even say it, yes, I am a female past the drafting age, and no I don't have any kids that could be drafted.  Should women be drafted? I don't know.  But I do believe that in the world we are presently in I feel our military is streached too thin.

Ok, that is my polictial speach for the next year or so.  I try not to get into policital things here for many reasons.

 

bigger and better things

Now that I have rant and raved about adding pictures, I want to make sure you actually saw the entry with my bull dog.  It's just a few entries down or you can click here.

I need to on to bigger and better things now.

Well, no time to finish this now. I'll be back.......

pictures again?

   

 

Thanks to Mr. Gregg I have gotten some of my pictures back!  Yea!!!  Guess it was the little gremlin that lives in my computers fault....

What the heck?

I am so mad.  What is happening to my pictures?  Where are they going?  I can't even add them back this morning!  I keep getting "this action has been canceled."  How can this happen?  Ok, it is just a computer and they don't always work right.  AOL messes up from time to time. But I was so proud of myself!  *boo hoo*

I will try to add them back later on today.  If anyone knows what is happening I love for you to drop me a line and let me know.

Christmas Decorations

I didn't do much Christmas decorating this year, but I did want to show you my poor old bulldog.   I have had the pooch for a few years now, he sits right outside of my front door and guards my house in all sorts of weather.  He puts up with the neighborhood cats coming over and suning themselves on the porch, he hasn't bit the mailman, and doesn't complain about the weather.  Over all he is a really terrific dog.  But, when I put the antlers on him for the Christmas season......well, he took it in stride as you can tell.  But he would give me looks......he was soooooo embarrassed!  When I mentioned maybe getting some bunny ears for Easter, well, I thought I saw a tear in his eye.

I feel so smart!

Ok, I am not all that smart.  But with plenty of thanks to other AOL journalers (and you know who you are) I finally learned to use the FTP Space thingy, and I learned how to reduce the size of my photos, not one, but two different ways!  I am so proud of myself! 

Now all I have to do is learn how to right align and/or wrap text?  You know, get my text to work with my graphics and pictures.

 

 

 

Smaller picture

   Hey!  I did it!!!  Smaller picture!!!!  This was done by the help of Mr. Gregg  the Golden Child. 

 

And this one with the help of Meredith from over at her mountain.. I am so proud of myself!  I finally think I actually GOT IT!  whoo hoo!!!!               

Big Picture of Sadie

Pictures of Sadie

We have pictures!  Not exactly how I wanted to show them, but here they are.  Isn't she just the sweetest little thing?  I hope you take the time to see each picture and do it using the "view larger".  You can't really see how small she is, but she is small.

The respiratory infection that she has is sort of like a cold or the flu in humans.  It is caused most likely by a virus.  We can't catch it (and neither can dogs apparently since while at the vet she was kept in with the dogs).  It is highly contagious to other cats though.  This infection takes awhile to get over, and while I am not sure how long Sadie will be contagious Dr B wants me to wait (if possible) until I take her back for a check up before I put her and Dallas together.  This is a problem to me.  Sadie isn't due to go back to Dr B until Feb 2, which is a long time to keep her separate.  I feel so bad about leaving her shut up in one room.  Yes, I spend time in there with her but I still feel guilty.  And yesterday while I was playing with her I had Dallas on the other side of the door meowing like crazy.

Oh, a site to read more about upper respiratory infections in cat is here at Columbia Animal Hospital, also at animal clinic

update: just got back from the vet.  Sadie weighed 1.5 pounds when I picked her up on the 9th, and today she weighs a whopping 2.5 pounds! 

sadie

I have been trying for over an hour to get pictures of Sadie uploaded to show everyone.  I have tried to get them uploaded onto my hometown page and it won't let me add the photos.  I am getting really mad.  I really don't understand how to use the FTP thing.  If anyone can hold my hand and explain it to me so I can get my pictures in here I would appreciate it.  I am going to go play with Sadie now, and try to get the pictures here again in a few hours.

 

 

 

I feel so special!

Well, who would have thunk!  Gregg listed me in his weekly top 3.  I feel this is quite an honor.  So thank you Gregg for making me feel so special. 

Picked Sadie up from the vet today!   I hate the fact that I have to keep her to herself for a few weeks, but she really seems to like her new place.  Sadie has been all over the bedroom I have her in.  For such a small thing she has gotten on the bed and on top of the dresser. I am taking pictures so I should have some to show soon.

Gregg said he didn't know much about me. What is there to know? I live in NC, love kitties (actually all animals) and I am not a young chick anymore (hint: I saw the moon landing, was even alive when Kennedy got shot(not that I was really aware of what was going on).  No kids, single.  

Oh, one last thing.  The vet gave me a break on my bill.  A pretty big one actually.  I paid $83 Tuesday (?) and they didn't charge for anything after that, not for the meds, room & board, and the meds I brought home with me.  I am still in shock!

 

 

surreal life

Did anyone see "The Surreal Life" last night?  Ok, I know that it is one of the worse reality shows on tv, but you have to check it out at least once.  Why you ask?  The people they have living together are:  Vanilla Ice, Eric Estrada, Trishelle from MTV's Real World, Traci Bingham, porn star Ron Jeremy, and (last but not least) Tammy Faye Bakker (Messner).  Whoever thought it would be funny to put Tammy Faye in with a porn star was right. Ok, I am not into porn, but if I were I would not be turned on by Ron Jeremy.  Is he really all that famous?  I always though porn actors had to be good looking with great bodies.  Ron is definetly not that.  Rob "Vanilla Ice" seems to think WE are aliens from other planets.  That's right, aliens that are more evolved than we are came and started earth?  I am a little confused about this, but I think he was saying that the aliens are kind of like gods or something.  Should have seen the look on Tammy Faye's face! priceless!  Tracy Bingham is such a DIVA.  She wouldn't take a bath in the tub because she didn't like the color of the tub.  She will use the shower, but the tub is the wrong color.  Is she serious?  I see alot of fighting in this series.  So, like I said, try at least one episode.

update:  remember I didn't say this was great tv, it is a lousy reality show, but lets face it, Tammy Faye and a porn star?  some laughs are there

Everything but the kitchen sink. part 1

I can't wait until tomorrow when I bring little Sadie home.  I have gotten the bedroom all ready for her (have to keep her away from Dallas until Sadie's respitory infection is gone), catbox,  some bowls (got the Kitten Chow), some of Dallas' old toys and a few new, an old throw pillow (that I was going to throw away) that I covered in some fleece material for her to sleep on, and got a brush and comb for that long hair of hers.  Yea, I am so ready!

Had to tell you about something I saw a few days ago.  While driving down the road I saw this cute little white dog running down the sidewalk.  What was even cuter was the fact that he(she?) had a McDonalds bag in its mouth!  The first thing I thought was how cute, it went to McD's for some take-out!

Everything but the kitchen sink. part 2

I don't know about other states, but NC state troopers (state highway patrol) have the most killer cars and uniforms!

     

Why bring it up?  No, I didn't get a ticket, but I saw someone that got pulled this morning and thought about it.  Wish I could find a good picture of their uniforms to show you.  Oh, well....

Went to see Aunt Betty this past week.  She is still in the hospital but doing better.  She is hoping to go home on or about Jan 20th, which will mean she will have been in the hospital for about a month. 

Dallas can be so funny.  I brought home something from Bojangels and sat the bag on the floor while I ate sitting on the couch.  Dallas stuck her head in the bag, and when she tried to come out it stuck.  I know she was freaking out, but it was funny.  I tried to tell her to sit still so I could get the bag off her, but I ended up having to follow her around and grabbing it before she really took off.

Lets see, anything else?  Oh, I am working on a hometown page to link to my journals.  On this page I am listing a few ways to find other journals, and fun things to do on the web (so if your bored or sad, or whatever you can go to this page for some links)  If you can think of anything to include please tell me.  The page is under construction and looks terrible, but to get a feel for what I am trying to do you can go here to check out the mess. I do intend on adding color and some graphics so don't freak out over the look.  I figure if I can get all the links down, then I can work on sprucing up the page.

 

Kitty has a name!!!!

I know everyone is interested in knowing what I have decided to name kitty.  You are interested right?  You check back every hour or so to check right? Ok, the person who suggested the name I picked is....(drum roll please) karensull12 over at Jukebox Woman.  She suggested the name Sadie, and after thinking it over I have decided that is the name for kitty!  So, karensull12 I will be making a donation to the local Humane Society in your honor!  Thank you.

I went to visit Sadie today and she is gaining weight.  When I picked her up Monday she weighed 1.5 pounds, today she weighed in at a whopping 1.7.  Ok, it's not much but it is a start and she has made a pig out of herself today, eating 2 bowls of food before 4 pm.  I am hoping to bring her home this coming Monday.  She will still have to be in a room to herself until her respirtory infection clears up, but she will be home and be receiving tons of love.  As soon as I get a picture taken and developed I will gladly show off my new family addition.

did a search for the meaning of Sadie, over at Bowwow.com they say it means  Princess, one of royal status.

Have I Done Something Special?

First, kitty seems to be doing ok.  She is still not eating much, but Dr B is working on it.  She is the most loving kitty you can ever imagine, and I can't wait until I can bring her home.

Last year when I had to put Ashley to sleep people were amazed at how old she was and at Dallas' age.  They kept asking me what I did to get them to live to be "so old."  I never knew how to answer that question.  Am I doing anything special?  I didn't (and still don't) think so.  I mean, all I do is water, feed, and love.  Oh, yeah, if I feel they are sick I take them to the doctor.  That's it.  Isn't that what everyone does?  Is there something specail there that makes them live longer? 

And now with kitty.  Everyone at the vets, and some of you here on-line, seem to think I am doing something really great.  Now, I know there are people out there that could really care less about animals, but have I really done something so special?  I don't think so.  I would like to think that anyone else would do the same thing.  Am I wrong in believing this way?  Even if you couldn't keep the animal or afford to take it to the vet wouldn't you at the very least pick it up and take it to the animal shelter?  Even if that was the only choice, and you had a fear that they may put the animal to sleep, isn't that better than it starving or getting hit by a car?  Am I the only one to feel like this?  Surely not.

Don't think I am special for taking in poor kitty.  Just help me decide on a name!!!

nameless kitty

Thanks for all the name suggestions!  I see two or three that I like.  Keep them coming!

Went to see kitty today (twice!).  She seems to be doing ok.  Dr B was worried about her not eatting yesterday, so he gave her fluids, and some nose drops.  After the nose drops I guess she could smell a little more and has been eatting a little.  Dr B wants to keep her a few more days to make sure she is eatting ok, and ideally I think he wants her to put on a little weight before I bring her home.  We are shooting for this weekend, but we will have to see.

Yesterday I took her a stuffed dog (I know, but it was the only really soft cuddly thing I could find) and she has been snuggling up to him some.  And when I visit she is all over me.  I hate to leave her.  Can't wait to get her home.

Now, the problem is will my older cat Dallas like me bringing in another cat?  Especially a kitten.  Anyone have any ideas on how to introduce them and get them to like each other?  I am praying that I can bring kitty in, and Dallas just fall in love at first sight and we all live happily ever after.  Yea, I do tend to live in a dream world.

     

homeless no more

John G you are so very right.  I know what I must do.  What I can't help myself from doing.  I am going to keep the kitty I found yesterday.  Or at the very least give it all I have to make it work. 

I went back to the vet to visit poor kitty.  Couldn't hardly stand it.  She is so adorable!  I thought I would bring her home after they give the little stinker a bath, but she isn't eating unless she is "force" fed with a syringe.  I am wondering if she is as old as Dr. F said, either that or she wasn't weaned properly.  So, I get Dr. B (the best as far as I am concerned) to start looking after kitty (he and Dr F is in the same practice, but frankly I never have liked Dr F) and he is going to start giving her some fluids via IV's because he thinks she is too dehydrated.

So I will leave kitty at the vet until she starts to eat and maybe gains a little weight. (love the kitty but I see $$$) 

The receptionist nicknamed kitty "snotty" because, well, kitty had it all over her face in her ears, on her tail....But I can't live with that name.  Sorry, no can do.  Therefore I am looking for a name.  Help me!!  Kitty appears to be solid black (hard to tell for sure until the bath), long hair, female, and the lovingist (is that a word?) thing you ever saw.  I should say that I am not much for the cutey animal names (tiger, fluffy, snowball, etc..) Anyone have any ideas?   I will make a donation to the local Humane Society in your honor if I pick your name! 

Found: kitten Needs: good home

As most of you know I had to put my beloved cat Ashley to sleep this past year.  I still have an 18 year old cat named Dallas.  I have been wondering if I should get another cat, or even a puppy, but about decided that Dallas may not take too kindly to another pet in the house at her age.  Then I joking told someone that if somehow a cat or dog found it's way into my life (without me going and looking for it) then I would probably keep it.

Guess what?  Driving home today I saw this little kitten beside the road.  I drove a few blocks, turned around and parked about 1/2 block away from where I saw the kitten.  I fully expected the kitty to run when I walked up to it.  Nope, it just sat there and looked up and me and meowed.  I can feel the ice melt a little off the old heart here.  You KNOW I couldn't just walk away.  So I picked it up and took it to my vet.  Dr. F says that the kitten looks to be about 2 1/2 months old, at least a pound underweight, and has a respiratory infection.  What do I do?  Dr. F says lets run a   leukemia test first to see if it is sick.  No, not sick.  Now what?  The respiratory infection is contagious to other cats so I can't bring the kitten home.  I left kitty at the vet to get cleaned up (it was so incredibly fifthy, and stunk!! whew) and to start the antibotics.  He said it could take several weeks before kitty isn't contagious anymore.  So, I have several choices to pick from.  First one and I can't afford it is to leave kitty at vet until she's 100%, but that's $11 a day.  Second, bring her home but keep her in a room to herself until she's ok.  I feel kinda guilty about how much time alone the kitty would have alone.  Third, find a foster home or perm home for said kitty.

Face the facts here.  I have already fallen in love with this kitty.  Even though she is NOT what I wanted in another cat.  I would like to have another siamease, if not at least a short haired cat.  Kitty is long haired and black (no siamese there.)

What should I do?  I did call the Humane Society, but they have a long waiting list.  I do like the kitty, she is so loving.....

Anxiety shows its ugly head.

If you have read my journal any lenth of time you probably know that I have an anxiety problem.  I have several forms of it, and when it is at its worse I have full blown panic attacks.  Today, I have anxiety in one of the smaller forms it takes (at least for me.)  I am so nervous about going to Sunday School.  There is no reason for this, and it comes from nowhere.  I try to fight my anxiety attacks.  Well, some of them anyway.  And this is just going to be one of those "pull yourself up by your boot straps" kinda morning. It ain't going to be easy.  And if anyone out there has ever been told "its all in your head" "get over it" or anything similar, don't sweat it.  Whoever told you those things has No Idea what anxiety or panic attacks are about.

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Women are what?

I admit that I can get defensive over my singlehood.  I don't know what it bothers others more than it does me but it does, trust me it does.  Why am I bringing this up now?  I heard that word on tv yesterday and it got me to thinking about all the words used in describing women.  I am about to get on my soap box, so you may want to surf on over to another journal now.       

That word is "spinster".  Now let me ask you this.  Men who don't get married are considered lucky to have "dodged the bullet," and they are refered to a bachelor.  Women, on the other hand that aren't married have people wondering "what is wrong with her?" 

The female of the species are always called something that sounds  more degrading or something.  An adult male dog is well an adult male dog, but the female is called a bitch.  Homosexual men are called "gay."  Homosexual women are called "lesiban."  Now, please correct me if I am wrong, but does "gay" sound happy, and "lesiban" sound like a disease of some short?  And what about that older man and woman that don't get married?  He forever stays a bachelor, and at some point she becomes a spinster.

Ok, I can be making something out of nothing.  And maybe I am just sensitive because I may end up being a spinster, but it bothers me.  Ugly names for women and not for men are just wrong.  Saying that a single man is OK, but if a woman stays single then something must be wrong with her -- or else why hasn't she married?