| Mr. Sexy...we're guessing he's about 6 months old. |
[06 Jul 2009|04:42pm] |
I like to say he's silver, not gray. His fancy coat makes him shine.
The camera won't pick up the color of his eyes. We didn't think he was true R.B. when we found him because his eyes were yellow, didn't have a double coat of short and long silver fur, and he had stripes in his fur. It turns out that the stripes go away, the double coat grows in, and his eyes turned from yellow to bright emerald green. His paw pads were always maroon/burgandy though.
As soon as I hear he was a boy, I was confused as to how I ever thought he was a girl!! I guess that just means that when I have a job I will need to go buy myself a female and name her Leila.
Actually, I'm pretty sure the first cat I actually buy will be a Savannah.
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| She's a he! |
[06 Jul 2009|03:34am] |
So did I post about my new kitty yet? I know I posted about my old kitty. (The one who met her end due to my enormous car.) Well, she was a Russian Blue. She was beautiful and sweet. Over a month ago my mom and I were walking the dogs in a field late at night and found a Russian Blue kitten that was all alone and starving. The cat came up to our Jack Russell and Doberman and wanted to play. We picked it up and took it home. I watched the paper, the neighborhoods, and the local online classifieds for "Lost Cat" signs. You usually pay for a Russian Blue, you don't just find them wandering the streets, or large fields behind churches.
Leila was her name. I chose the name and then found out it means "Night Beauty" when I was trying to figure out the best spelling for it. (I went with my first instinct after reading the meaning!)
It turns out that while she looked like a girl at first glance, he is actually a boy. He's bitey and our vet wanted to just wait and vaccinate 'her' when she was knocked out for the spay. So the day of I took her in. 5 hours later I get a call saying he's already been neutered, and that we might want to pick a new name. So now Leila is Leo. He snuggles with me in the morning, puts his hands on my face, seems to pull my face in closer to his, and licks my nose. I have never had a cat who curls up next to me and snuggles his face into mine. He attacks my mom's 13 year old Siamese, so I wind up having to keep him in whichever room I am in to keep an eye on him. He now brings me half-dead roaches. GIfts I guess. At least he brings them to me and then takes them away again. My little hunter.
He's feisty. My mom says he's bad. He has bad breeding. He bites her and won't let her hold him. What she doesn't realize is that she catches him while he is rampaging through the house. That is not the time to get a male cat to cuddle with you. She doesn't think to feed him when he is running around in the morning and just puts him in my room with me. Instead of locking him in the bathroom where the food and litter box are, I play with him. I buy him a new little toy each time I go grocery shopping, and 1/2 of them are pink, because he used to be a girl! I'm also trying to teach my brother that you can't wrestle with a feisty cat (that only makes him WANT to fight). You don't keep playing with them when they start to get an attitude. When he gets rough I put him down. He eventually comes back for lovin', not bitings.
I need to move out with him before they ruin my cat. Maybe if they stop talking about how bad he is, and learn that cats =/= dogs, he will show them how good he is. Maybe if they played with his toys, fed him treats, gave him wet-food snacks, and had a better attitude he'd lick their cheeks too!
I have finally convinced them to stop letting him outside too. At least now he's microchiped. I love that fucker. Maybe other people were like my mom and brother too, and kicked him out. (The vet thinks that might have happened; new cat bites old cats...) Oh well. He's my Prince of Darkness (Grayness). He brings me dead bug presents. Screw them.
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| RIP |
[25 Jun 2009|07:11pm] |
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What happens when someone like Michael Jackson dies? It is sad because he was an incredibly impactful human being, but he might have been an unconvicted child molester. I supppose I will mourn the once incredible musical artist and influence, and be sad that someone died. I don't watch MTV, but I am right now because they are playing his epic videos back to back. Today must be a sad day for Corey Feldman. It is my personal theory that MJ is the one who molested Corey Haim, but that's only based on personal observations from what has been said over the years. So the Three are Michael, Farrah Fawcett, and Ed McMahon. Also, I must say that MJ was my first celebrity crush. When I was 4 and had a blonde-haired baby doll named Daniel (which I still have), MJ was the father. We are talking 1987 here. (My second celebrity crush was Fred Savage.) Posted via LiveJournal.app.
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| No more Implanon! |
[17 Jun 2009|04:39pm] |
After 2 years and 6 months exactly, I no longer have my implant! I posted a few months ago about how originally I paid $285 for the implant from Planned Parenthood. Now it costs $500 and removal is $250!! F- that in the Ass! Luckily we have been going to the same family doctor for 20+ years. He's always willing to come to the office in the middle of the night for emergency stitches, and is big on natural cures and is willing to try out just about anything new, and will train my mom on how to do anything now that she's an RN. He was excited that I wanted my hormone implant out, and was willing to do the removal.
It was smaller than he thought it was going to be, and he didn't think it was close enough to the skin to be so simple. But then I showed him the end where it looks like you could just push hard enough and it would pop through the skin. So, a little shot of anesthesia, a small incision, and a bit of tugging and it was out! The local anesthetic was the worst part! I didn't look, because I may have passed out, but my mom sure did, and he even had her push on the end so that it would pop up out of my skin while he pulled it out with a tool (that I don't know the name of). I barely felt a thing, other than the skin pulling as it popped out. It bled a little, but he didn't stitch it. He just put vitamin E oil in the hole and put a pressure bandage on. We'll see what it looks like tomorrow.
It was so easy, and he had so much fun that he only charged us for an office visit. $45.00!! I want to say 'Up yours Planned Parenthood", but I should really say 'Up yours Republicans!" because they have taken away so much of PP's funding that they are just barely able to function as a low cost clinic here in Florida. They used to offer so much patient assistance and free birth control to low income people and young girls. Now prices are slowly climbing again. I'm sorry that I couldn't pay them something for a procedure that costs nearly nothing, but it sure wasn't worth $250. I just gave them $150 yesterday for an annual exam, STD testing, and 3 months of pills. That was worth a little more than a 10 minute procedure that my mom could have done at home if we'd had novocaine!
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| Ugh... |
[04 Jun 2009|04:47pm] |
I am going to quit smoking. These past few weeks that I've been hanging out with friends and drinking or being bored with nothing to do, I smoke. I've worked up to a little more than 1/2 a pack a day, sometimes less, sometimes more. Now I get really tired after a cigarette. I think it's because of a lack of oxygen. I'm not short of breath, I just get totally wiped out and feel like I need a nap. Either that or it's like I'm trying to suck air through a straw. I crave a cigarette and don't feel satisfied.
I'm at the point where I'm starting to feel guilty too. If I end up with lung cancer then I will die because of my own doing. I never wanted to quit, because I enjoyed it. I quit for almost a year, but started up again around Thanksgiving of this year. I'm back to not enjoying it.
I won't buy any more smokes. Time to get some gum.
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| WooHoo!! Now I know it's ok to keep playing the waiting game! |
[12 May 2009|12:56pm] |
( What a great thing to find in the morning!! )
I have been really nervous about my job situation lately. My grandmother keeps asking if I've heard anything, and so does everyone else that I have told about my graduation. I keep having to tell them what I heard when I was still in school. "They won't do anything with our applications until June or July, even though they usually hire in May. They fired all the first-year teachers in our county, and put many of the veterans on the 'Displaced List'. At our last county-wide Intern seminar, they promised us that Spring 2009 grads would get jobs by the end of the summer. Now I just have to wait." I started wondering if that was all BS, or if I had even followed all the steps correctly. I woke up this morning and checked the email on my iPod and that's what I found!! It's a bit of a relief, but I am still broke and have nothing to do during the day...
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| Go see Star Trek!! |
[10 May 2009|01:21am] |
was incredible. It was one of the best that I have seen in a long time. The whole cast was incredible, and really did justice to the original series. I grew up watching that show with my parents, and watched The Next Generation religiously once I was old enough to be allowed to watch TV at night. I can't say that I'm the biggest Trekkie in the world, but I will be a life-long fan. I watched a little Deep Space Nine, but never paid much attention to any other spin-offs. I loved Generations, and First Contact, but this new movie is my favorite.
I love the way that all of the actors captured the essence of the original cast without making it hokey. All of the heart, none of the camp. It was perfect! Karl Urban was a fantastic Bones. He got the attitude and facial expressions down perfectly! I also spotted the Spock eyebrow raise a couple of times! Sulu and Scotty didn't get enough screen time as far as I'm concerned. They were way more valuable to the show than the movie made it seem! Chekov was absolutely my favorite character from the show too, and he didn't disappoint me either! Kirk was excellent. There was nothing to mock about this incarnation of him, and I'm really glad that Pine didn't try to talk like Shatner. That might not have worked at all. I love the way they showed his arrogance and skirt-chasing without making him seem like an asshole. That was something that I never hated about the old Kirk. He just loved women, and was never a dick about it. Pine even got the way Kirk sat in the Captain's chair juuust right!! That man did his homework.
Finally a movie that wasn't predictable and had just the right amount of suspense. I've been disappointed in nearly every movie that I've gone to see lately. I even jumped once and almost screamed a little when Kirk and Spock were on the Romulan ship! Rarely does a movie have that effect on me. (Finally, Eric Bana played a character that I liked too!! Some how he was far more attractive as a Romulan than himself! :-x He wasn't boring at all while playing an alien!)
I am so proud of this movie! I know my dad would have loved it, and would have wanted to see more Scotty for sure. He wouldn't know anything about Simon Pegg though. (I love that he and John Cho were in the movie!!) Spock and Scotty were his favorite characters. Spock, of course, for his logic, and Scotty because my dad was an engineer. My dad even used the Vulcan neck-pinch on my brother and I when we were little and fighting. We never passed out though, much to his disappointment, and it always just broke up the fight with a laugh and not too much pain. I definitely think that my mom was more into Shatner than the sci-fi aspect, but she'd love it too.
I totally have a crush on young Spock now.
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[07 May 2009|06:16pm] |
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I downloaded some 30 Seconds to Mars, just to give them another chance to grow on me, and they came in under the genre "Post Grunge". That has to be the funniest thing I have ever heard of. More like "post Jared Leto being my ultimate celebrity crush". I think I can love a man even if his band is a loser.
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| Ok, so... |
[04 May 2009|05:41pm] |
I found out what the point is to the shading. I guess it's traditional and part of the style or whatever. It's growing on me fast, but still I don't love it.
My complexion is cool, so I'm gonna skip the sunset idea and go for black shading, deffo.
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| I always think I hate Hugh Jackman until I watch him on the screen... |
[04 May 2009|08:41am] |
Wolverine was great. Now I guess it's time to go back and pay attention to X-Men 2, and actually see #3. I spent many hours watching the cartoon and reading the comics with my little brother, but for some reason the movies didn't interest me very much. The same goes for Spiderman, but I don't really plan on going back to watch the ones I missed. So far I've only not been let down by the movies that I've seen BEFORE I read the books, like Hellboy and Watchmen. I read and watched tons of Batman stuff, but really, how can you be disappointed in any of those movies? I miss Batman: The Animated Series though. I'm quite sure I've seen every single episode, but Joey and I were talking about getting ahold of some DVDs the other day. Bobby has never been able to see any of that one yet.
I am so excited about getting my new flesh wound today that I woke up at 7am! I took Bob and our cousin Brian to school, made pancakes, coffee, cleaned up the kitchen, and now it's time to take a shower. I need to wash my hair (for the first time in a few days!) because it's going to be a bitch to get my arm over my head for the next week or so! It's a good thing that I have to take Jojo to the doctor, because I'd go nuts if I had to wait around and do nothing until 1pm! I would wind up smoking too many cigarettes, drinking too much coffee, not eating, and then having low blood sugar in the middle of the tattoo!
I'm thinking about doing more than just the rose and the bird today though! If Danny has enough time in his schedule, I'm going to ask him to just go ahead and re-work my purple flower today too. I've decided not to cover it up. My mom says that the flower is pretty, even though it's not a real flower. He might even be able to change the leaves a little to look more like my chest. It might be possible. He's so quiet during the session, and then busts out with these great little ideas for finishing touches. It really makes me feel like he's putting his heart into it!
I thought about trying to turn it into a purple Anemone flower, but then it might come out muddled or weird looking! It wasn't a mistake, and my mom helped me pick it out back when I was 16. She thinks it just needs to be brought into the 2000's. She's funny. She hates too many tattoos, but she's got her little black phoenix on the back of her hip, and she has plenty of ideas about what I should do. She's mostly concerned with me not getting a bunch of ugly random stuff all over my back. She said that I NEED to do something, because the style of my new work is so different, and I'm going to look "trashy" with pieces on my back that don't match. But that means more pain...oh the pain. The pain that is so worth it! I have butterflies!! At least I don't have anything to do school-wise for the next few weeks, so I won't have to wear a real shirt. My collection of sleevless shirts and dresses is so small though! I'm going to have to hit up the clearance racks at Target, Walmart, and scout out Goodwill and the Salvation Army!!
Billy's feet are all sticky because the pancake he ate had syrup on it! Mmmm, sticky bird feet!
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| Alanis |
[03 May 2009|02:06am] |
You're unsure and you're not ready, so that must mean I want you. You're unavailable and disinterested, and to you I look for comfort. A million times, in a million ways, I will try to change you. A million months and a million days I'll try to somehow convince you. I have waited for you and adjusted for you, and I'm done. I have deferred to you and enabled you, and I'm done. You're too young, or you're too old, or you're simply not inclined. You're asleep, or you're withholding; be that my cue to crave you. Several times, in several ways, I'll try to squeeze love from you. Several hours and several ways I'll feast on scraps thrown from you.
I have bent for you, and I've deprived for you, and I'm done. I have depressed for you, and contorted for you, and I'm done. I have stifled for you, and I've compromised for you, and I'm done. I have silenced for you, and sacrificed for you; and I'm done. It won't be long before I am reclaimed. It won't take long, and I'll be on path again. It won't be easy for us to disengage. I'm at the end of self-deprivation stage...Several times every several days I've tried to un-crush on you.
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| Monday, May 4th |
[02 May 2009|11:52pm] |
1) Transcripts will be ready to be sent out, and my application to the school board will be complete.
2) Jojo has a Vet appointment at 10:30am so that we can figure out what to do for her itchy skin. She's on Revolution, has flea shampoo, takes a doggy anti-histamine every 12 hours, gets sprayed with Benadryl, and still chews the fur off her booty and bites herself until she bleeds. I have been treating her with Neosporin and rubbing her with Castor oil at night, but it's not helping much. I hate putting chemicals on her because they dry out her skin, and she's so small! I don't want a drugged up puppy, but she winds up bleeding and in pain. She takes a baby aspirin to help with the pain once she's hurting, but that sucks too. I need to get her on doggy EFA supplements Monday too.
3) I have an appointment with Danny at 1:00pm!! He's going to touch up the spots in my bird wings, and when I was showing it to him he asked if I wanted to do something about the eye of the bird! I love him. I hadn't even gotten around to pointing that out and he noticed it! He's only charging me $80 for the rose to cover my shoulder and the touch-up. It pays (my pocket) to keep going to the same guy! I love how his face lit up when he recognized me, even though he was working on someone at the moment! He's so nice, and I love having such a friendly artist. We have barely spoken to each other, other than to talk about designs, placement, and coloring, but he's done about 7 hours of work on me so far. He was tattooing a friend today and she started squirming around at the end. He said "Can you stop acting like a teenage girl for about 10 minutes? You keep moving and look at that! It's a broken line dammit!" She laughed and became stoic, but man I'm sure glad I have never complained to him. He's a big, burly, handsome dude and I might have peed in my pants if he said that to me! It's comforting to be worked on my someone who isn't gruff and grumpy right off the bat!!
I'm going to have to put my arm in a sling or something too keep from moving it too much after, but damn, I'm excited!! My mom was sad that I'm putting more ink on my body, and keeps trying to convince me to just cover my purple flower with the rose and not "ruin anymore beautiful skin". But after I showed her the design and she said it was beautiful. Then she said something about my "obsession" and something about it all being pathological, but I stopped listening at that point...
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Now all that's left to do is go see Danny and make my tattoo appointment, and decide if I'm going to make the Silk Spectre II costume from the movie, or the novel. I think the movie version would be more comfortable, because even though it's totally skin-tight, it actually covers more skin, with longer yellow shorts-type-things on my thighs of course. If my mom weren't a seamtress I couldn't pull it off, but at least I have 5 months to think about it. I found the perfect black material at the fabric store today. It's not latex, but looks damn close!!
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