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How pumpkin pies & whipped cream are made. Enjoy.





Have a great holiday!

I hate when the secretary is not here & I have to answer the phones. Proper phone etiquette should be taught in school. Honestly people, wtf?

Christmas card request. (and I promise to actually mail them this time!) If you would like a Christmas card from moi please leave your name & address here or PM me. No distance too far. All comments screened.

I've not checked the veracity of these statements, I wouldn't know where to begin. ( But - just for fun: )

( Animals make the perfect humans )

Your result for Which Were Animal Would You Be? Test...

You are a Were-Fox!

50% fox, 20% wolf, 30% horse, 40% tiger, 30% leopard, 40% rat and 20% bear!

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Have fun. ;)

Dear person on the phone: When I ask you if you want to leave a message and you say no, that is the time to say good-bye & hang up. When you continue to say 'just tell her I called' - that is a message you stupid twat. wtf.

Why do I wake-up when I'm still tired & then can't get back to sleep? It's very annoying. Plus my neighbor has a very loud engine that he sits & warms up for 5 minutes every morning. Now I know 5 minutes doesn't seem that long but it's forever when something is going on you don't like.

Went to my uncle's funeral last week - there were a lot of people - he was apparently well liked. Personally I haven't seen him in years & he lives just 2 blocks from my work. Ah well, I'm not friendly with my step-father's family anyway. I've made the effort before & it's never been returned.

Still missing Tuffie. I haven't moved Kiki upstairs yet. Mostly because I've been too lazy to give it the extensive cleaning it needs so he doesn't spray to try to cover Tuff's scent. Darn cats.

I think Cody is constipated. He pooed just a little Saturday & then nothing yesterday & he didn't eat very much yesterday. But he hasn't tried to poo either so I don't know. I did give him some Laxatone yesterday so we shall see what the day brings. He was bounding out the door this a.m. so I don't think he's in any pain. Darn dog - makes me crazy.

So I've been seeing a counselor for a few weeks now. I'm not sure I like it. She keeps harping on how I need to keep coming & everything I say she equates back to how it means I need to keep seeing her. Plus, she just expects me to sit there and talk. I don't always have that much to say. Work is fine, the house situation sucks, waiting for my dog to die, miss Tuff. I don't get it - I thought a counselor was supposed to give you some type of guidance.

My parents were here for the funeral. My mom makes me crazy. She was impersonating a helicoptor this time - hovering over everything. I was finally 'sit down already'. Yeesh.

It snowed last week. I could truly live without that.

And I have a cold.

So another week begins. yay.

So I put in my official request for tomorrow off for my uncle's funeral. My supervisor, obviously forgetting why I want the day off, asked 'oh, so you doing something fun?'. Ooops. She turned a little red. heh.

Although I seem to have stopped waking up to look for him I am still on Tuffie time & find myself feeling like I've forgotten something because I'm not going upstairs to check on him or give him his meds.

My period started yesterday. V heavy - again - one of those leak through everything including the pad & having to get in the shower to clean off cuz just using toilet paper is ridiculous. I couldn't even make it through a grocery shopping trip w/o having to stop & go to the bathroom to change. They really need to make a large size than super plus. Although, the chocolate mousse flavoured, cat shaped peeps I found whilst shopping mollified me slightly.

I had Cody's chest x-rays repeated Friday. His right lung is nearly 1/2 consumed, there is pressure on either one of the bronchi or his esophagus - the vet can't tell for sure - & he now has 2 tumors in his left lung. But - the vet says he still has plenty of breathing room left & that is the coughing gets too bad I can put him on codeine. IMO though, if the coughing gets too bad it's time to go cuz then his airway is being compromised. He's snoozing out in the back seat of the car right now - I thought he wanted to go for a walk but he headed right over to the drive way so I backed the car back out of the garage so he could get in it. *sigh* He has me well trained.

My mom & step-father are on their way up for my uncle's funeral. Pisses me off that Bernie couldn't be bothered to come up while his brother was alive to see him once more now he thinks he's making some magnanimous gesture by coming up now. Honestly, I'm irritated. Idk now long they will be staying. Will be nice to see my mom again so soon though.

Still haven't cleared the upstairs enough for Kiki to come up. I need to quit putting that off as he'd be much happier out of the laundry room. His repeat thyroid levels were WNL - not that I wasn't sure of that as he's almost 16 pounds now. Started him on R/D to hopefully take a couple of those lbs off. Fatso catso.

My uncle & cousin came up to get a load of leftover construction material out of the garage. I figure if asswipe hasn't missed it in the over 3 years it's been sitting there he'll never know it's gone and my cousin can use it since he's doing some work on his own house.

Was nice having 3 days off, even if I didn't get much accomplished, days off are golden.

The people at the emergency clinic who treated Tuffie sent me a sympathy card that I received today with a small card of the Rainbow Bridge inside. My poor Aunt, I called to tell her about it & just started crying. *sigh* So much for keeping it together. I miss my baby.

I had a dream about Alan Rickman last night. It was rather bizarre. The only parts I remember is us being at some type of flea market looking at cabinets & jewelry, I sucked on his ring finger & he said no one had ever done that before (bwuh?) & he told me he had a daughter somewhere. I kept wondering where Rima was. WTF?

Another thing to make you go huh:
New drugs that come out on the market that state not to take it if you've shown sensitivity to it. Yes, but, if it's brand new don't you have to take it at least once to find out if you're sensitive to it?

The alarm went off this a.m. & my first thought was 'be careful you don't roll onto Tuff'.

Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize - let's hope he ends up deserving it.

My uncle, a Vietnam vet, has maybe a week to live. He's been battling cancer (Idk which kind) for over a year now, my aunt says it's traced back to Agent Orange. He said he'd had enough and was sent home yesterday with Hospice care, he said he didn't want to die in the hospital but in his own bed in his own home. I sent my aunt a note to be sure she has the honor guard at his funeral.

Too many events happening lately. Luckily I finally got my lawn mowed last night. I haven't done it in 2 months so, yeah, really needed it. The garden was a complete bust - too much rain. I planted 6 watermelon plants, 6 cauliflower, 6 tomatoe, 6 cherry tomatoe, 6 green beans, radishes, lettuce, 12 pumpkins, 1 zucchini, 12 peas. I ended up with about 100 viable cherry tomatoes, about 10 regular tomatoes, 1 watermelon, 2 pumpkins, no beans, no cauliflower, 6 zucchini that grew too fast (seemingly overnight) & were too big to really do anything with, 6 producing pea plants, a few radishes & the lettuce actually did well. I am not happy about that turn of events. Hopefully next year will be better - now I have to pull everything up & get the beds ready for winter - the next time it stops raining long enough to do so anyway.

Yay Friday and Yay 3 day weekend.

Coworkers wedding tomorrow - yay free dinner. heh.

to bethie_p for the lovely graphic she made:



and to hogwartsvixxen for the icon she had commissioned:


made by iheartnickcath @ graphicsdelight


You guys are awesome *squishes*

I woke up twice looking for Tuffie last nite.

I 'rescued' 2 escaped dogs in the last 2 days while walking Cody. Yesterday morning my neighbor's a couple doors down dog got out after the monsoon the night before had blown open their gate (how about securing it better?) and today the neighbor down & around the corner who doggie sits, a little (extremely cute!) Schnauzer she's been watching for 4 years suddenly decided to dig a hole & make a break for it - his break was directly for Cody - thankfully no cars were coming when he decided to bound across the street to us.

Yummy dinner tonight of steamed broccoli, sauteed mushrooms, baked potatoe with salsa and avocado - oh yes, glass of wine also. Mmmmmm.

Cody in tomorrow for chest x-ray to see how his tumors have progressed & if there are any more - his coughing has increased. Thankfully guaifenesin has a 1 hour 1/2 life as I've been overdosing him. So, none tonight & proper dose in the a.m.

Petie in next Tuesday to get checked & vaccinated - he & Horse haven't been seen since I've been taking care of all the sick ones so they are both way overdue. Then it will be time for the kittens' yearly. Yeesh.

Borrowed against my credit card today to make sure I had enough money until my paycheck cleared tomorrow. I can just send it back in now so minimal damage done. The unfortunate trip to the emergency vet put the damper on the funds.

Time for a little reading & then bed...and so it goes.

In answer to my shameless begging for a drabble to honor the passing of my beautiful Tuffie the lovely and talented hogwartsvixxxen (glomps her) wrote ( this: )

I forgot to post here that my beautiful, sweet, loving Tuffie is gone. He went into respiratory distress about 11:30pm Sunday night which progressively worsened despite emergency intervention and was euthanized at 2:14 Monday morning. It was horrible, and extremely difficult. I hate this part of pet ownership.

Anyone of my lovely flist willing to write me a fluffy H/D drabble where they have a kittie named Tuffie? I would be ever so grateful. Thanx.</b>

My beautiful, sweet, loving Tuffie is gone. He went into respiratory distress about 11:30pm which progressively worsened despite emergency intervention and was euthanized at 2:14 this morning. It was horrible, and extremely difficult. I hate this part of pet ownership.