Oops and Other Updates

1) I aggravated Jake so much that i made him break his cell phone. Ooops! He should probably just take anger management instead of breaking phones. Anyway, he's getting a new one Wednesday and will finally have text messaging! (Ooooh! More ways for me to pester him...)

2) Even though i told him and told him it was pointless, Jake still started playing some new MMORPG. Aion. Ugh! He always comes back to wow, it's such a waste of money!! John, you better sleep with one eye open for pushing him over the edge.

3) My baby sister is turning TEN on Monday! I'm so freaking old.

4) I think i may be getting sick. My throat was sore today. Let's hope it ends at that.

5) I tanked heroic TOC and everyone lived!

6) The chilly nights feel awesome. I love cold weather.

7) Time to start planning Fall and Winter activities!!

Funniest Door-to-Door EVER

I really need to get to know my neighbors better. I love that my neighborhood is very friendly, everyone i've met is really nice and waves and talks to us when we're walking and stuff. But we have some of the funniest door-to-doors! Not too long ago was the guy that asked Jake if his parents were home. Today takes the cake though.

I hear a knock on the door and go answer it. There's a kid (about 11-12 years old i'd guess) standing there that says "I'm raising money for a game. Could i mow your lawn for $15?" He wasn't with any parental figure and wasn't wearing any type of uniform or other fund-raising gear. Not really thinking about it I told him we already has someone. I felt bad afterward, for not supporting the poor kid's little league team or whatever it might have been. So when Jenn came over tonight i asked her if he'd come by her house. He had. And he had been more specific. He's raising money "for a video game" What?! LOL He's probably getting a month's subscription to Warcraft for every lawn he mows. :P

Furbabies

I've been looking at all the pictures i've taken on my new camera. At least 90% of them are of my furbabies. I haven't posted pics in awhile so i thought i'd do some "life in pictures".

This is one of our first attempts at Chicken Pot Pie (before it was baked) It was soooo yummy!

Dala apparently didn't receive the memo that cats don't like water. She's enjoying a summer shower.

My typical WOW playing position. The cat is just trying to be cute to show off

We're teaching Dala to play D&D. Here she's rolling a D20 dice. (She got a 19--critical hit!)

What cat acne looks like. (Click to see bigger picture)

I've discovered that Anakin is actually worth a ton of money! He's the very first male calico. If you look closely you can see he has a white patch on his belly (and a white armpit, not pictured), tons of random white hairs, and if you enlarge the picture of him on the chair his hair is actually a dark reddish-brown-orangy color, and just black at the ends. He's totally a calico!

How Ally and Paul reacted to getting their flu shots.

Jake Are Evil

He won't quit the kitten talk! It's so cruel because i was perfectly content having my two kitties, but now he's planted the idea in my head and i can't stop thinking about kittens. And since i'm imagining them, i figured i might as well get some real pictures. So i spent the past hour looking at all the tons of millions of trillions of kittens in the area that need a home. They have the cutest little faces! I just have to keep reminding myself how upset Dala and Anakin would be. And how they'd hate me for "replacing" them. And i couldn't get just one because it wouldn't have a playmate and would aggravate the grumpy old kitties. I don't need more cats! (Do i?)

Today was flu-shot day. Jake refused to come to the pharmacy so i brought his shot home and stuck the needle in his arm to the hilt and then twisted it. He cried like a little baby!....Not really but it just sounded more dramatic that way. He just sat calmly in the chair and didn't even shed a tear. It was lame.

Kittens

"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens

Brown paper packages tied up with strings

These are a few of my favorite things"

My evil (warm & fuzzy) plan has worked! I have officially turned Jake into a cat lover too. My goal is to enact my evil-warm&fuzzy-plan one person at a time...

Dala had yet another checkup at the vet yesterday. As soon as we arrived Jake stepped in front of a cage in the waiting room and told me to look away. Of course i pushed him out of the way only to find four of the cutest kittens ever! We spent the next 15 minutes playing with them. For being a cat lover i'm actually pretty particular about what kitten i'd choose (female, short hair but soft and thick like Anakin and Dala's, preferably Calico) so right away i knew these weren't for me. Dala gave her 2 cents by hissing from the carrier box. There were 3 boys and 1 girl. A solid black boy that looked just like Poptart when he was a baby, 1 boy and 1 girl black and white, and a striped little tabby named Oliver. I would definitely have taken home Oliver but Dala vetoed my idea. Anyway, how do i know Jake is under my warm&fuzzy spell? Well he kept talking about the kittens long after we'd left. He told John and Jenn all about them. He kept saying how we have the cutest cats ever. He sat in the back seat with Dala so she could come out of her crate. AND he asked me on the way home: "Do you think there's enough cats in the world for every person to have one?" and i told him probably, since they have to kill so many at shelters. His response? "I think everyone should have a cat" I'm so going to be a crazy cat lady :)

I just heard back from the vet and Dala's thyroid is finally in normal range! We got Pill Pockets and she has no idea she's even taking medicine she gobbles them up so fast. So, since giving her the medicine isn't an issue i think we're going to wait on the Radioiodine treatment until after i have a baby just to be safe. Her kidney values look good as well (yay!) but she has two new problems. She has cat acne and possible high blood pressure. The vet told us to change her water bowls to stainless steel (apparently bacteria can linger on the rim of plastic and ceramic ones and get on her chin) and to use a Stridex pad once a day. Yes, those are the same acne pads that teenagers use. Hopefully this will help because she's had it for 3 weeks now. As for the high blood pressure: They took her blood pressure 3 times in a row. The first two were high (153/93, 180/102) but could be explained because she was at the vet and freaking out. But the last one was really high (212/111) and the vet was concerned. She said it could be that she was tired of being messed with and she moved around and messed it up, but at any rate they want to recheck it in a couple weeks and if it remains high she'll have to have high blood pressure medicine. Oy vey! I really think it was most likely because she was freaking out at being at the vet, plus they had just drawn blood and been messing with her so she was probably pissed, plus she was in the back and was thinking "Oh no! They're giving me away to the mean people with needles!" since we weren't anywhere to be found. I guess we'll find out!

Snail Mail

With everything "at your fingertips" in today's world, i get extremely impatient with snail mail. So explain this to me: On September 2nd i ordered an authenticator from Blizzard that was shipped USPS. Today is the 15th and it still hasn't arrived. Last Friday (the 11th) i ordered my Directv access card. It was also shipped USPS and arrived just 2 business days later, on Monday. I wish UPS would just take over. They have awesome shipping and the tracking is actually current. With USPS *if* i even get a tracking number i usually have the package before any tracking ever shows up on the website.

I had previously tested my dad's old tivo to make sure everything worked before i ordered the access card. I had restarted it several times and checked out everything and it was in great shape. So i was really excited to find the Directv access card in today's mail. But when i plugged in the Tivo i got the green screen of death! (This usually means your hard drive is damaged and you're screwed) I was sooo mad. The screen said not to unplug or restart it (I did, twice) and to leave it alone for 3 hours (Obviously not designed for me, my middle name is Impatient). So since the restarting/unplugging didn't help i let it sit and went and hooked up the other tivo i stole from Dad. It worked fine so i called Directv to activate it. But....they said it was still active on Dad's account! I frantically called Dad to tell him to deactivate it so i could use it. (It was almost 7pm and One Tree Hill was starting in an hour!) When he called me back to let me know it was available to use i decided to check one last time on the Green Screen of Death. It had fixed itself! I was excited because the Green Screen tivo can hold 70 hrs of tv while the other one could only hold 35 hrs. Now if these can just hold up a few more months until the new Tivos come out i'll be elated.

Life Without Tivo?

I had a mini-crisis. My Tivo is going on the fritz! It kept glitching like it does when there's a really bad storm....only there was no bad weather and it has been doing that for 3 days straight. So apparently one of the tuners is going out. Luckily my dad has an old tivo that (hopefully!) still works. I drove as fast as humanly possible to his house and snatched it...only to find out that i now have to wait "3-5 business days" to receive an access card so i can use it. I find it insanely stupid that i can't just use the card i already have in the failing tivo, or even the one that's not being used in my dad's old tivo. "So let me get this straight....I have two cards but i can't use it until i get a third one, AND i have to pay a $20 activation fee?!" Those were my words to the rep i was talking to. Whatever, this better work!!

On a happy note, one of the reps i talked to actually had some new info for me on the HD Tivo that Directv is making. They will be available at the very beginning of the year "right after Christmas"!! I think i know what Santa is bringing me... :)