3 Random Things

1. My rearview mirror fell off my windeshield. You may remember I got my windshield replaced for my birthday... well, I guess the mirror just didn't stay stuck. I've been driving around for the last couple of days without one, and boy is it a weird experience!! They came out today to reglue it... real quick and now I can see behind me one again... very important!!
2. One of our garage doors is broken... lovely... I'm not sure what we'll do to fix it, but in the meantime it's just annoying!!
3. I am bored at work right now... I know at some point very soon I'll be busier and wishing for this time, but right now I'm just plain bored... I've worked so far ahead on everything that I've just got nothing... very exciting let me tell you

Poor Stitch

Our poor kitty Stitch has awful allergies. Whatever she's allergic to gives her itchy bumps. She then scratches those itchy bumps and breaks them open... which causes them to scab. So poor Stitch has bumpy scabs all over her neck.

We took her to the vet on Monday (along with Pretty) for their yearly checkups. We talked to a different doctor and he gave us a lot of good information. Turns out it's rare for cats to get allergies... but he gave her a shot... we just needed to ensure that she would heal up ok.

Well, she's still been scratching and she has an awful wound on her jaw bone (we think b/c the scabs are itchy so she keeps breaking open the same one.) It's looked bad for two days so we knew we had to do something. We called the vet and they recommended a c-collar. So we headed up to Petsmart. When we got there we were first looking in the cat section and came across this... (ok wasn't actually that, but it's so similar we'll go with it) They are claw covers... kinda like press on nails for cats. We got hot pink and purple. Then we asked where the c-collars were and realized that even the smallest one they had was way too large for Stitch. So we just got some of that gauze (that was bright pink).

We came home and knew that we were going to torture that poor cat. We had to glue on the nails as well as wrap her neck with gauze. In the end she did really well, but she was not happy... and really you can't blame her. When I woke up this morning I thought for sure she'd be missing some of the pretty pink nails and for sure would have gotten the gauze off... but she didn't!! I'm really hoping she gets healed up... I hate seeing her all scratched up.

Here are some pictures (they are craptastic b/c they were taken on my iphone) You can see the pink nails in the bottom of this picture

And here's her neck wrap

Awareness Test

A long while ago, Chad sent me a link to this video. I think it's pretty interesting and really does have a good message... I'll admit I failed, Chad passed... what about you?

http://kaseystewart.com/the-awareness-test/

We got good customer service at Charter... what?!?

Last night we went to dinner with my brother and sister. My brother was talking about Netflix, I can't completely remember why, but he was. I've been trying to convince Chad we should do Netflix for awhile now... especially with summer coming up and there being nothing on TV. Well, even though I've been saying the same thing, when my brother said it I guess he really started to think about it and we looked into it last night.

The lowest cost option was $9 a month. This includes one DVD at a time and unlimited instant streaming. This is nice b/c we have a Xbox so we can stream directly to that.

Chad said in order to do the Netflix thing we would have to cut our cable bill by at least the cost of Netflix. I hesitantly agreed... I have grown accustomed to being able to flip and watch any channel pretty much (actually there are quite a few channels I wouldn't mind adding, Discovery ID being one of them). But I agreed to dropping some of the premium channels.

So Chad called Charter up... one of his favorite things to do, haha. But surprisingly he got good service. He told them he wanted to get rid of a couple of the premiums and basically lower his bill... well instead they gave us a $30 discount (since we've been 'long-time' customers) and gave us an extra service (EPIX or something like that). Can you believe that? Just for calling we get everything we use to have plus this new service and we pay $30 less a month. Who would have though?!?

The $30 discount more than covers the cost of Netflix, which really means we get all we use to have plus EPIX, plus Netflix and still are saving $20 per month. I'd say that's a score!!

Not getting me down...

Some small craptastic things have been annoying me lately...

1. Our camera broke... we have a Nikon Coolpix L18 and it got a lens error... basically the lens will not retract back into the camera. It's true... I let a toddler play with the camera but she didn't do anything that I haven't done to it... I mean I'm pretty hard on small electronics I drop EVERYTHING... well I guess it was just one to many times. I'm sad and upset... looks like we're going to have to get a new camera... everything I'm finding says for the cost it will be to repair we might as well buy a new camera... blah...
   
2. Someone or something hacked both my AIM and Yahoo account. Both of these accounts are one I've had since high school... so like 10 years. I have been able to reclaim the Yahoo account but not the AIM one... it really makes me upset there's nothing I can do about it.
3. Mosquitoes love me... nuff said

Ok... that's not that many... I thought I had more... guess not. Really these things haven't gotten me as upset as they have in the past... it's just annoying. I can pull out my old digital camera for the time being and I don't chat on AIM anymore so that's good and really I should just use bug spray.

Here are a few awesome things that have happened lately

1. We have a brand spanking new air conditioner
2. Our insurance company refused to pay for Chad's gamma knife procedure saying it wasn't medically necessary... Chad's doctors are appealing it... fingers crossed on that one
   
3. I finished all the laundry today... I still want to do the sheets and duvet cover but I'm feeling pretty good about that
4. I also organized and condensed my sock and underwear drawers
5. I also went through all my pictures on this computer (makes me miss the camera this much more) and figured out my favorites to be able to print them

Alright, I'm going to try to hit the hay... not sure if it's actually going to happen or not, but gotta try... back to work tomorrow... boo.

5/25

I know it's been awhile since I've written a review... but well that goes with the review. It took me FOREVER to get through this book... honestly I'm not really sure why. When the end picked up I really enjoyed it and wanted to read, but I felt like the beginning and middle was dragging. Sometimes I find this 'really intense love thing' a little over the top as well. I'm going to take a one book break before reading Breaking Dawn to hope that speeds up the last book.

How does your garden grow?

Last weekend my mom and I went shopping. We went to Home Depot to get paint for my hallway (this was her birthday gift to me.) The paint ended up being pretty cheap so I was also able to get some plants for my yard.

Background: I am not good with flowers... I've been known to kill them in the past... Chad doesn't want me to waste the money on plants that are going to eventually die. I tend to agree with this. I figured that this would be a good way to test out if I can keep plants alive again. I really want our yard to be pretty... So my mom bought be a few plants. She also dug some up from her garden for me to have. I decided instead of waiting until the next to plant I came home and went to work. Of course my garden beds were much worse than I had remembered, so I had to weed first... blah, what fun that was...

I mean, look at the awfulness that is the front yard... I mean, what the heck is that random green leafed plant?? They are all over the front yard.

Looks like a forest floor!!



Since I'm wring this blog from a different than normal computer I am having the dangest time rearranging the pictures... so here's where I jump from the front yard to the back yard... Tune into the end of the blog to see how the front yard looks now...

My beautiful Knockout Rose bush... I'm hoping this baby grows into a lovely big plant... Yes... I need to weed around it, but by the end of the ripping up all the things in the front yard I was tired and knew I needed to get the plants in the ground.
And this is in the back as well... the lovely Clematis, hopefully this guy covers a portion of the fence.
And now we jump inside to my Angel Wing plant. Chad's grandma gave it to me on Sunday. I plan to transport some sprigs to make some new starters of my own.
Aw... back to the front yard... here's my 3 new Rhododendron plants... hopefully they grow big and beautiful... btw look how all those green leafed plants are gone... yay!! That other one standing up is something my mom gave me. Rose of sharon I believe... there's a few more planted all the way at the end as well. Those grassy looking plants have been there since we bought the house
And finally... lily of the valley.

the painting

This is something I have planned to do for quite some time... My mom bought me some canvases for Christmas one year. I really wanted to create my own artwork for my house - both cheaper and more original. Here's what I came up with... what do you think?

First I taped off lines on the canvas.

Then started to paint in the areas with different colors (dark and light blue and dark and light purple)

Then took off the tape...

And painted around the shapes... I still need to paint the edge of the canvas... but what do you think? I want to know!!