Tuesday, but feels like Monday

We finally got Sadie to eating!  I am so happy.  She wasn't eating enought for me to get her meds into her so Dr B gave her some shots.  Since she wasn't eating he gave her a vitamin B shot also.  He said that shot would sting a little.  Just a little.  Well it must have stung more than a little because Sadie came all the off the table.  Dr B and I both dove for her but she was in the floor before we could do anything.

She had to go 3 days for shots but now she is eating.  He also gave me (well, sold me) some high calorie dry cat food.  It is made with green peas and duck.  Yeah, green peas and DUCK.  Two foods I wouldn't eat myself.

Yesterday when I came out of my doctor's office I found a kitten in the parking lot.  She had a collar with a tag that had a phone number.  I called the number but got a answering machine.  Two more ladies came around by then and we were trying to decide what to do.  Finally decided that I would take the cat to a vet just down the road and maybe they would keep it until they could get in touch with the owner.

They told me they would try, but if the owner wasn't reached or come to pick up the cat by the next day I would be expected to more or less become the owner as far as they were concerned.  That freaked me out.  I can not take another cat in right now.  Luckily several hours later they called and said the owner had been reached and had picked up the cat.  Whew!

I don't know about anyone else but when I am depressed my housework really suffers.  Then I get to feeling better and the house is a mess and I have no idea where to start to get it back in shape.  It seems hopeless.  I was telling this to someone and they told me about the 5 "rule".  You clean for 5 minutes at a time or did 5 things.  Doesn't sound like your going to do much but it gets you started.  G -- who is a hugh list maker -- says she makes a list (long list) of everything that needs to get done.  Then when you do the "5" you can mark off several things at a time.  When you look at your house you may not see much getting done, but if you look at the things you are able to mark off your list then you feel like you are accomplishing something.


                    
                            

September 11th Part 3

Three years ago today was a Tuesday.  A beautiful day.  My dad and I had went out for breakfast together.  The little diner we were at had a TV and it was the Today show.

I noticed everyone (or so it seemed) to be watching the TV.  Quite unusual as most of the time the TV was just sort of background noise.  We got up and went to see what was happening.

It looked like a tall building was on fire or getting ready to fall.  Then we gathered that a plane had hit one of the twin towers in NYC.  The first thing that I said was that it had to be terriorist. (why that popped out of my mouth I have no idea)  This man turned and looked at me, I said "well look how many planes fly over them for all these years.  Surely no plane would accidently fly into one of them."

Dad paid our bill and we went back to the house.  Mom was glued to the TV.  She said do you know what is going on?  Yea, we saw at the diner.  Just then we saw the 2nd plane hit. 

At that time my brother walked in.  He had no idea what was going on (as he had just driven to town from his house -- about an hour away).  When it hit him he started to freak.  I am like what is wrong with you?  His wife had been out of state and was due to take a bus to come home that day.  He was worried about her traveling.

I remember there not being anything on TV for what seemed like ages except all this madness.  Now I am not trying to make light of the situation, I was upset over what had happened but it still felt like it was a world away from me.  The more I saw on TV the more depressed I got.  So I went to a movie.  The pre-view was of the Spiderman movie that was soon to come out.  And it showed a helicopter (I think) crashing into the Twin Towers.  (shortly after that the trailer was yanked).

I go home feeling even more depressed.  The news people on the tube say not to watch so much of what is happening as it was affecting people (I for one was losing sleep and being just a real b****).  So I flipped channels.  There was nothing else on the TV.  Not the shopping channels, not the music channels, no place.  Finally one of the cartoon channels come back on. 

That is when I a 40something adult started watching cartoons again.  I found them to be relaxing and it took my mind off things.  To this day I will watch about 30 minutes or so of cartoons before I go to bed at night.

Because I live in North Carolina the change of the New York sky line wasn't something that I could grasp.  It didn't affect me.  But something else did.  Something that to this day I remember and will until I die.

I looked up in the sky and there were no planes.  There were no streaks in the sky that planes leave behind.  It was so weird.  It scared me.  For me, that is what most impacted me.  I cry when I see the towers fall, but the memory of what I could see in my little part of the world is what hurts me the most.  Now that may sound weird to most of you and you may not understand.  And you may think how can something not showing up in the sky hurt more than all those people dying.  I have no answer for you.  I don't know.  I know that 9-11 affected everyone in different ways.  That is how it affected me.

        

If a picture is worth a thousand words

                         



                        


                                                   
                                    








                  


       


                        

Sept 11 part 1

                   
 

Ain't we having fun?

The graphics in today's entry have nothing to do with the entry.  I have tons of graphics that I like but can't seem to fit into an entry.  So today I am just going to use some of them.  No real rhyme or reason.

                             
  I have had to take Sadie back to the vet again.  Yea, again.  I guess she is just going to have problems all her life.  I hate it for her.  And to be honest I hate it for me too.  Today's visit was $89.00.

  Sadie had been eating since we took her off the steroids.  Well, she has quit eating again.  She is down to 4.8 pounds.  She had topped out once at 5.5. 
                           
  Dr B took a urine sample but it didn't show anything.  Sadie got really mad when he felt down along her spine.  So did the x-ray thing again.  Everything looked pretty much ok.  But there was a little inflammation at the bottom of her esophagus.  So we now have more meds to add.  A anti-inflammatory, and just to be on the safe side a little bit of an antibotic.

  So Sadie is up to 3 pills a day.  One in the morning and 2 at night. 

  We are having so much fun at my house.

                             
Got a letter from my health insurance people.  They are refusing to pay for my last visit to my srink.  I had permission from them but now they are dening that I had permission.  For those of you that don't know, any mental health services are treated differently than if you are going to a medical doctor.  They don't pay as much, you have to get permission first for your visits, and you have to chose from a very small list of doctors that they approve of.

 We have had a lot of rain the past few days.  I am tired of it now.  It can stop at any time now.  Please.  Any time now.  Are you listening up there?

                 

Check it out

While reading some journals today I found some that I had to share.  Ok, I am not exactly pimping journals.  I am pimping journal entries.  Big difference.  LOL

If you love animal pictures (and I know you do) you have to check out the photo in this entry  It's Been A While.  It you don't like it, well there is something wrong with you.  You don't have to read the entry if you don't want to.  Just look at the photo.  Ok?

In this entry Scott gives us the warning symptoms of a heart attack.  Today's lesson.  Go read it and learn something.  For those of you that don't know, Scott is an EMT in Hawaii.

Huge hurricane out there these days.  In the Soggy Days Ahead entry we get a look at the newest path the storm may take.  Grab your animals and head for higher ground!  The storm is a category 4.

What happens when you go to Hawaii for a EMS convention?  Read the story of Mike and Scott.  Scott has part one then he send you to Mike to finish up the story.

Ok, so I will pimp one journal.  Fairly new so I don't know if you know it is out there.  The Faces of AOL J-land.  This is what the journal says it is about: This journal is about other journals.  It seeks to put faces to the great journals written in AOL's Journal Community.

Surf on over there to see who's picture is up and what they have to say about themselves.

I have tried to make sure all links open a separate window so go ahead and click on the links.  I ain't going anywhere.

 

 

John's weekend assignment

    This week's assignment is to post a picture that means something to us.  Souldn't be too hard.  But what picture to share?  I already had this one scanned in my computer so that is the one I have chosen.  It is a picture of me. Oh, you didn't think I was going to post a recent picture of me were you?  LOL

This picture was taken on my 3rd birthday.  It is one of the few pictures of me taken when I was little.  Oh, there are tons of my brother when he was little -- guess since he was the first born or something like that.  Mom says they didn't have a camera by the time I came along.

  I had the dress that I was wearing up until fairly recently.  I washed it and it started to come apart.  Well it was kinda old.  LOL  I had it on a doll that I had gotten when I was little.  It was one of those big dolls that you could walk with.

  Back to the picture.  The other pictures taken that day show me with my brother and our grandmother.  From the way it looks I was having a great time.  Even though in this picture I am trying to decide if I was laughing or crying.  The other's looked like laughing so that is what I say I am doing here.