I will start with the good.....

wow! sure has been a while. so much crap has happened I dont even know where to start!

My nephews are fantastic! all three of them. being around any one of them makes me wanna get pregnat and have a baby...i then one will have a "poopsplosion" or get sick, and i change my mind. I guess that is just a clear sign that I am really not "ready". but i will be someday, i hope.

work is good, i just switched jobs and I feel less stressed about things for now.

life is good, Logan is good.

I started going to the gym. right now I call it "project swimsuit" but as Michelle pointed out that is a pretty lame title. so i will have to think up something like "project thunder bird!" but who knows.

so that is most of the good news! i will post the "less good" news later. i hate calling it "bad" news because it is what it is.

well i have to get back to work now.

PEACE!

I can Feel my top lip!

My top teeth have been liberated from their stainless steel prison! after 2 years and 3 months, my top braces are off!! yeah!! I can finally go to the mall on a weekday witout people thinking I'm skipping school....

need to keep the bottom ones on for a while to close up some gaps, but I dno't really care, you cant really see those ones!


hehehehehe...I am so happy!

my killer cat.....

So, here's a little story that doesn't end so happy.

I was at my second job last night and got home around 10:30pm. so I get ou tthe car abd I am greeted by Chupa, I pick her right up because I really didn't want to play the chase me into the house game, I was tired. I look over because I hear penelope's bell, and she has something inher mouth, and I am like, "oh, fantastic" being tired, I went in the house and asked my loving husband to go get whatever it is away from her and bring her in. I follow him out a few minutes later to discover that what she has in her mouth is a baby bunny, and it;s still alive, and sqeeling.

My heart stopped. Logan looked at me because he knows my compacity for dealing with animals that are hurt ( I cried when I had to leave chupa at the vet for her tail wound) and he said " it's going to die" Hearing that, I freaked out and chased Penelope behind the house with the flashlight. I wacked her, and she dropped it and took off. Logan caught her and threw her inside only to come back out and find be holding the dying baby bunny in my hands, and near hysteria. He is so patient with me. He was just like "dear, there's nothing we can do" and then he shot down my attempt to bring it int he house. so I went across the street and went to put the bunny where I thouht his nest might be. he fought a little but calmed down , and sadly, by the time I put him down he was dead.

I was very sad. the only good thing about it is I know he wasn't laying outside all night dying. It was relatively quick, and he wasn;t eaten by a cat.

The circle of life blows. I love my cats, but I hate it when they bring me dead stuff. thankfully, they don't do it often. I wouldn't have been nearly as hysterical if the bunny was already dead.

I locked Penelope out of the bedroom and refused to pet her at all this morning. I know she's a cat, and doesn't understand why I am angry with her, but it made me feel better.

The weekend....

We had a pretty good weekend! very relaxing for the most part. We went to see "UP!" the new Pixar movine, it was awesome, as expected! then Saturday night we went to a party in Beaver Damms! crazy fun, lots and lots of J-E-L-L-O shots! woot woot!!

Sunday we went to the in-laws. I cleaned out the gagrage while Logan worked on his car. On the way home we saw this beautiful Australian Shepard get hit by a car. He just ran into the road, there was nothing we could do either. The jack ass that his him didn't even stop, Logan was so pissed, he caught up with him to get his plate number, not that it is really going to do anything, but he really should have stopped. Logan was so pissed off that he didnt stop. It's not like it was his fault, the dog darted out so fast, there is no way he would have been able to stop. We went back to give the plate number to the dogs owner like 5 minutes later and she was holding her dog, he was alredy gone. It was so sad, she just sat there crying holding her dog, I just about had a meltdown right along with her, and it wasn't even my dog! I felt so bad for her, and her three young boys that stood by and helplessly watched it happen. She said the dog just got spooked by the neighbors who were target shooting across the street and when she opened the door to go outside the dog just freaked out and darted out the door knocking her over. Poor puppy. at least he didn't really suffer much, or at least we can hope he didn't.

I swear if I ever hit someone's pet, I will never drive again, I feel bad if I hit a squirrel, I can;t imagine hitting someones cat or dog. and I deffinate can't see driving away, at least have the courtesy to stop, and see if the dog was okay, what if there was nobody outside? they would have just found there dead dog acrss the road? people are F***** up sopmetimes!

anyway. It was a good weekend over all. I did pretty bad with thw dieting though! we went to Friendly's for dinner on Friday and then the party saturday I ate a lot of junk, and then Sunday we went to ROn Don;s for lunch....thoses damn sqeezez are so good! but I am back on track today, I hope. It would be great to have weight loss again this week! this weight watchers thing really works for me. I think it's becasue if you really look at what you eat in a day and write it all down, it's scary!

It's been a while ....again

So I am a slacker when it comes to posting on this thing. But I am at work, it's the last week of the month and I don't have much to do today other than make a few phone calls and pack up some of the rap in my office becasue we are moving to a different building.

Work is...well.....okay I guess. I was offered a job with the state, btu I am not sure I wnat to take it. I haven't been formally offered the position becasue my background check hasn't been completed yet, I have to do that on Friday, but they can't tell me what shift it is. but I know it is not going to be Monday through friday and I know that it will not be first shift. I know some people out there would tell me to take the job in an instant, and I thought I would too but here are some pros and cons:

Pros
Benifits-good ones!
Pension
Better pay-fo sho!
hopefully room for advancement!


CONS
weekends
nights- for who knows how long. sure I could work my way up the ladder, but that could take YEARS people!
back to the bottom of the ladder.
Most likely would have to cancel vacation this year if they wanted me to start right away.

now I have some options. Because I only have an A.A.S. in Human Services, that limits my options with the state. but If I suck it up with this job for another 2 years or so and get my bachelors degree my opportunities with the state would increase big time, plus I would have 5 years experience with billing and what not, a valuable asset in deed. so I guess we will have to see what they offer.

They could throw a curve ball and offer me a part time position, and if it worked with my current schedule I could have the best of both. oy.......who knows, I guess I will have to go with the flow...I am a firm beleiver of "everything happens for a reason" so I am just going to let it happen you know?

On to better news. I joined weight watchers online today. I am so serious this time. I say it all the time, but Michelle ( yeah ) will be there to slap the cookies out my hands and hoe slap me if I try to go astray. and when I say "hoe slap" I mean I want her to hit with a garden tool.......hehehehe...Logan is suportive of it too, as long as it doesn't cost too much...lol....

so I want to loose weight and be healthy body and mind. we shall see...

opperation "penelope freedom"

so I haven't written in a while but I thought this story was "blog worthy"

And before I begin. The cat above only LOOKS sweet and innocent.....

The story begins on a lazy Sunday. I bunker down on the couch around 4pm for a nice nap. My husband lets the cats out and I sleep. I awake around 6:30 ( good nap) and see that Chupa is in, but Penelope is not, which is unusual as I am usually chasing Chupa down when it gets dark not my sweet Penelope. So it is starting to get later and later and colder and colder and I start to freak out a bit because I am worried about my little fur baby. I annoy my husband to the point where he walks up and down the road to insure she hasn't met the cruel fate of a cars tire. He can't find her and there is no sign of her. She has done this type of thing before but usually shows up around midnight. So we went to bed.

Not being able to relax, get up every 30 or so minutes to see if she has on the porch waiting to come in. No dice. So I sleep for like and hour and then the upstairs neighbor got home and I woke up to see if she was in the hallway, still no Penelope. Now even Logan is a bit worried, so he throws on his shoes and goes out to see if he can find my kitty. He is out there for about 20 minutes and he comes in. He calls me into the living room and informs me that he has found her, but he doesn't look happy. He tells me she is locked in the neighbors shed.......WHAT?? He said he heard her distinct meow.

She somehow got into the shed across the street. So we arm ourselves with a flashlight and head over there to free the cat. Mind you it is now 2 a.m. ,and we look like 2 robbers, and there is no one home at the house and question. So we look around the shed and there is no obvious entry point. I have no Idea how she got in there. I hear her sweet little meow and the bell on her collar, I am now determined to get her out. We go back in the house and try to call the police department to see if we can get someone to cut the lock on the door, but no one is on duty in out ho-boken town so we would have to call the Sheriffs department, not a chance in hell I am calling a Sheriff to save me cat from a shed. so I go over and try to free her myself.

needless to say, after some careful searching, I found a weak spot in the shed and pulled one of the panels back. She eventually found her way to the hole and was freed! sweet freedom! she jumped into my arms and dug her claws in hanging on for dear life. I was pissed that she had gotten into this mess in the first place, but happy to have my kitty safe and sound. we went inside and I gave her some canned food, and went to bed. She joined us moment later and was cuddled up in her normal fashion.

What an ordeal. I am glad my husband understands how much I love these stupid cats.

And just in case any of Penelope's friends read this...she's grounded for a while.

it's been a few weeks...

and life continues. it's been boring around here.....yeah right!

So last week my boss told me she has to cut my hours, ouch. I am supposed to do all me work in 35 hours a week, doesn't sound like a big deal, but it is. I hate my job! I took the state test yesterday and I think I aced it, it was a lot of common sense stuff. I have to wait 6WEEKS for my score, and then I can apply my score to other jobs that I see posted, hopefully I get a high one and get put at the top of the list, it would be nice. I really don't know how much longer I can do the job I have, i hate it more and more everyday. I feel bad that I might have to leave the consumers, but they will be left in good hands I am sure.

Logan is good. I love him very much. He has been supportive of all my hissy fits and declarations of hate for my job, I hope he knows how much that helped me. well, back to work....blah!!!