Books, Books, Books, and even more books

First let me update on Sadie.  Took her back to see Dr B (per his request) and she is doing ok.  Since Tuesday she has gained two tenths of a pound.  And when you are as skinny as she is every little tenth counts! He says that her breathing is better and her lungs sound tons better. I am to keep her on her meds and take her back next week for followup.

Now on to books.  Got up early and went to the HUGE book sale.  It started at 9am.  I got there 10 minutes after and had trouble finding a parking space.  Once inside you could hardly move for the people.

I could go on forever about the books I got, but I won't as I know most of you really don't care.  But I know everyone is about saving money so I will tell you about the money I saved.  Or rather the money I spent.

As most readers will tell you the cost of the average paperback book can be around $7.99 or higher.  And the cost of hardbacks is $20 and up.  Mostly on the up side.

Today on my first round (had to stop, pay, and take a load out to the car they were just too heavy to keep toting around), I got 23 paperbacks for $14.50!!!!  That's what? About 63 cents per book?

The 2nd, and last, round I got 13 paperbacks and 4 hardback books for $15.00.  That is 88 cent a book?

So for a total of $29.50 I got 40 books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now I just have to find a place to put them! 

And for those of you that think that I over bought, you should have seen the boxes, crates, bags, and everything else people had crammed with books.  I think I came out with next to nothing compared to most people there!

 

Books

A local charity here in town has a HUGH book sale once a year.  Thursday, Friday and Saturday is when this years is.  Cann't hardly wait!  They have paperback and hardback books from 25 cent up to 5 dollars with the average being $1.  People show up with bags or even boxes to put all their loot into.

I have never been on the first day of the sale, let alone in the first few hours of the sale, but I am trying for it tomorrow.  I am on such a high I am getting all kinds of anexity about it.

If you don't do a lot of reading you probably don't understand the feeling a person can get for one of these sells.  It is almost heaven I tell ya.

And on top of that a branch of the public library is having a book sale starting tomorrow. 

Can you guess what I will be spending all of next month's spending money on?  Or where I will be spending it at?

 

Sadie is doing better

I guess you all know how worried I was last night about Sadie.  She was in a chair in the livingroom when I went to bed so I slept on the couch to be close to her.  I woke up during the night didn't see her.  I looked all over the house and couldn't find her.  I was so freaking out.

I finally found her.  I have this cat "tree" like piece of furniture for her climbing pleasure and at the bottom has a little "house" like thing that I call the "dog house".  She was curled up in there.  She had never done that before so I reached in to make sure she was ok.  She was.  I woke her up.  Oops, didn't mean to do that.

This morning when I got up she was still in the dog house.  I reached in and petted her.  She came out and laid in a sunbeam for a few hours then started acting better. 

I guess maybe her being sick and then with the shot Dr B gave her on top of it really did her in yesterday.  She still isn't her old self but she does seem a LOT better. 

I was able to get her pill into her today which was no small task.  If you have ever given a pill to a cat you know what I am talking about.

I plan on taking her back to see Dr B tomorrow afternoon so he can see her improvement and decide if we should do anything else to help her.

Sadie is pretty sick.

Just got back from taking Sadie to see Dr B.  My poor little kitty doesn't feel good.  But I think it may be worse that I thought.  Even Dr B said he was worried about her and wants me to bring her back in in a couple of days.

What's wrong?  Don't know.  She isn't gaining weight.  Her tempature was low.  Should be around 100 but it was 96.4.  She is breathing kind of hard.  Dr B gave her a shot and a different kind of med for infection. 

While he was examing her he siad he felt something different in her chest than he had felt before.  Something about the way she was breathing.

Sadie is usually pretty active but she just lays in one spot.  She did that in the car (she usually gets in the back window) at the vet (she usually plays some with Dr B) and when we got home I sat her in the floor and she just stood there for awhile before she went ino the bathroom and she is laying on the rug in there.  That is totally weird!

With Dr B worried it makes me more worried.  It hasn't been all that long since I lost my beloved Ashley.  I don't know what I will do if something happens to Sadie. 

I know, I am a worrier.  You give me a subject and I can find something to worry about and will continue to worry about it until I get something else to worry about.

Say a little prayer for my little Sadie.  I want her to get better and have a long HEALTHY life llike Dallas (and Ashley had) has.

 

Cell phone troubles

I would have never gotten myself a cell phone.  But my parents got one and in the deal mom told dad he would get a 2nd one to give to me.  Sometimes being the youngest, still single, live right around the corner, does have it's perks.  LOL

The other night I couldn't get the phone to charge.  I called my dad and the "man gene" said I had to have done something wrong, bring it over and he will fix it.  Well it wasn't anything I was or wasn't doing!  So there "Mr. Man Gene"! lol 

Dad took it to get it looked out.  Something about the "mother board" or whatever had problems and Mr. Cell Phone Man fixed it.  He fixed it alright.  Didn't know how well he had fixed it until the next day when I was visiting Aunt Betty.

Mom tried to call me and kept getting my mailbox.  So she dialed their cell phone number --thinking she had gotten the numbers confused (which Dad had left at home) and my phone rang.  Wasn't until I played around with both phones later that day that I finally figured out what was happening.  When Mr Cell Phone Man fixed my phone he somehow turned off my phone number and put my dad's number in it's place!  Dad's phone wasn't ringing but mine would when you dialed HIS number.  If you dialed my number you went directly into my voice mailbox!

Mr Cell Phone Man got it straightened out.  It was his fault and he couldn't say it wasn't. 

My dad's "Mr Man Gene" is still intact even though I did nothing to harm my phone.

Floors

Went to visit my Aunt Betty friday and took her the rocking chair I had gotten her.  My dad thought she wouldn't like it so he was surprised when she did.  I love my Aunt Betty she is such a cool lady.  She lives about an hour away so I don't see her as often as I would like.

I had put money back to by the floor with and instead of not putting enough back I had some left over!  WOO HOO So I decided to get some rugs to spruce the floors up with -- and maybe save some wear and tear on them at the same time. So while visiting aunty I shopped at a store they have that we don't.  I found a really nice rug for the hall but the ones that I wanted for my livingroom was just too much money.  I was really bummed. 

After we got back to town I discovered something wrong with my cell phone so we went to get that fixed.  And because the place was in the same block as Lowe's I thought well why not look at thier rugs.  My dad rolled his eyes as he was thinking they would be way to expensive.  Well we were both surprised.  I have the most beautiful rug that was in my price range!!!!!  The only bad thing is that they have to order it so it will be a couple of weeks before I get it.  Can hardly wait.

I even picked up a rug for the bathroom while at Lowe's!  I am so happy.  My livingroom and hallway have been painted, new floors put down, and now some really nice rugs!!  Can it get better?

I still have carpet in my 2 bedrooms but I want to take it up later this summer.  They won't get new flooring though.  Flooring ain't cheap -- in case you didn't know.  But the carpets are so nasty.  My cats have thrown up on them and I can't get the stains out, so up they must come. 

I have seen where people painted their floors but I am not so sure about that yet.  I will have to see what they look like and then decide on what to do.  Whatever I do it can't cost too much.

John's weekend Assignment

Weekend Assignment #2: Describe your second-favorite of the following: movie, book, album, school teacher, ice cream flavor, sports team, comfort food, celebrity crush, cartoon character and way to relax. If you feel like it, add in any other second favorite you like.

 

My 2nd favorite movie?  That is hard.  Probably a movie from the 1980's "The Breakfast Club"  or maybe an old Jimmy Stewart movie "Harvey"

My 2nd favorite book?  Easy, Dean Koontz's "Intensity" great horror book about a serial killer.

My 2nd favorite album?  Gin Blossoms' "New Miserable Experience"

My 2nd favorite school teacher?  Gee, I don't remember their names.  Sorry.

My 2nd favorite ice cream flavor? Chocolate

My 2nd favorite sports team?  I am not really into sports. 

My 2nd favorite comfort food? Pizza, pepperoni

My 2nd favorite celebrity crush?  Chris Meloni

My 2nd favorite cartoon character?  Courage the Cowardly Dog

My 2nd favorite way to relax?  Playing with my cats.