Thursday, May 31, 2007
Look Ma, No Cavities!
So all went well at the dentist yesterday. They were cool with the insurance issues. I love my dentist's office :) But the interesting thing is I started using my Sonicare about a week after my last cleaning. So I asked my hygienist her opinion... She said go back to the Crest Spin Brush. Not that I was all grody or anything, but she said my gums weren't as happy as before, and that it was probably because the Sonicare was thinner and she thinks round is better. Go figure. $100 toothbrush vs $6 toothbrush... the cheap one wins! Shh don't tell the people who gave me the expensive one for free!!
Ok since it's Thursday and I haven't done it in a while, I'll finish up with some Haiku's
Mexican today
Lunch with my friend Alison
Yummy fajitas!
Petsmart for cat fud
Also bought new catnip toy
Kitties wont share it :(
Ringo Stu is mean
Smacked his brother and stole toy Just say NO to drugs!
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Hmm disappearing posts?
I just posted that one about COBRA sucking and when I viewed it there were some posts I could have SWORN I wrote not there.
So now the question is, did I not actually post them and just hallucinated it, or is there some weird blogger glitch?
Ill try and recreate them as best as I can from memory.
Date: May 22nd
Title: The joys of motherhood...Or, how to waste $67 dollars...
So I just spent 67 dollars to be told to feed my cat vaseline.
I still have the litter box in the corner of my room from when I was on poop patrol for Seamus a few weeks ago. I was hanging out in bed, watching Judging Amy and Ringo came in to use the box. He was straining to poop and nothing. Dig dig dig, try another spot in the box, nothing. So he went into the bathroom (which I can see from bed) and tried pooping on the floor there. He has a history of bladder crystals and whenever he got those he'd pee on the bathroom floor to tell me something was wrong so this was definitely a sign for me. Anyway, nothing came out, but he ended up prolapsing his anus.
I called the vet, they said to come right in, by the time we got there it had gone back in. So she said feed him Vaseline and thanks for coming.
All that stress and money and if I hadnt been home, I never would have seen it prolapse and he'd be fine.
Rah. At least he didnt bite anyone this time ;)
Date: May 27
Title: Tea for Two
I have this really nice neighbor. (She's the one who shares a front porch with me, not the downstairs bug infested ones.) I've liked her since she moved in over a year ago, and always say I should make more of an effort to hang with her, but other than one time when she joined us for Beadazzling and then the other random running into each other chats, we really haven't hung out.
She gave me a call this Sunday to check on me because my car doesn't move much anymore. And then she invited me over for tea. I told her that would be lovely and I was just sorting laundry, I'd be there in about 20 min. Well I knock on the door 20 min later and she has made tea in an actual pot, and has set out some apple bread and fresh sliced strawberries. Mind you, this is all on fine china. (the china doesn't match at least! But that's because she collects random pretty china that makes her happy, which makes it even more quaint and sweet actually!)
If I had invited her over for tea it would have been the kettle boiling, and do you want my mug stolen from Denny's back in college, or the one that I won from that radio station down in Atlanta back in 1994?
But let me tell you, it wasn't uppity at all, it was just so damn nice. We took our tea and crumpets out to the porch and just hung out for hours chatting about everything from religion and politics to trees and television. It was so relaxed and lovely. She then fed me lunch because we hung for so long. She even sent me home with some extra applebread.
I really do have the nicest neighbor. I truly hope that the "we need to get together more often" actually happens in the future. It's wonderful to have someone so close who's just so damn nice. Ive been blessed, I really should take advantage of it.
(Plus if I know she could drop over at any given moment then Ill be better about keeping everything tidy!)
So there are my two disappearing posts. Oh and one other update- I've chickened out for now about the haircut. I may change my mind tomorrow though, who knows.
Cobra Sucks
So I have my 6 month cleaning dentist appointment today. I realize that since we switched dental insurance carriers since my last check up I need to make sure I had my card. Can't find it, so I go online to print up a new one. I can't get in. It lets me in the first part, then asks me to verify my birthday and zip code. I do, and it says that I'm wrong. I know I am not. I tried it with the work address zip code in case, nope. So I call. After pushing many buttons to get to a human I am told that I am not active. That COBRA never bothered to tell them that I am paying almost $400 a month. Sorry, they can't help. So I went to the COBRA website, they say I am active. I printed this off, which is what I will bring to my dentist with me. The COBRA website also says it can take up to 60 days for them to bother to tell the insurance carriers that I am, in fact, insured. ARGH.
So hopefully the dentist will be happy trusting that since I have something SAYING I have insurance that this will be enough. I have no idea how much a cleaning costs if I have to pay and get reimbursed, but I REALLY don't want to deal with that. My dentist seems wonderful in the past, so we can only hope...
And we can only hope that I have no cavities and don't need additional work!
Wish me luck!
Thursday, May 17, 2007
I'm afraid of my cat :(
It's sad, because I know he thought he was doing a good thing. Unfortunately, what has happened as a result is that I'm afraid every time he jumps into bed. This morning at way too early Seamus jumped up near my pillow and meowed at me. The last 2 times he did this was to bring a dead mouse into bed as a gift. So of course, my first reaction this morning was to look for the dead mouse.
For the last many many years, my little boy has been an "under the blanket" kind of cuddler. He always would just headbutt or meow for me to lift the blanket so he could come under and snuggle. This has been part of him for FAR longer than the mouse thing.
And that's all he wanted this morning.
I feel so bad that he just wanted cuddles and I freaked.
I'm not sure how to move past this.
Because *something* clearly happened last night. I came out to the living room and one of the couch cushions is knocked over and askew, and there's a little desk lamp that I had been using when I was doing puzzles that's knocked over. It looks like some kind of struggle took place, and I'm pretty sure it was kitty/kitty. But part of me thinks "what if there was a mouse on the couch?"
Oy. I dont know how to work through this!
Friday, May 11, 2007
To cut or not to cut?
That is the question.
So I'm pondering cutting my hair. This is a big deal for me. For the last many many years I've gone with the simple all one length long hair. I like it because I can put it up, leave it down, whatever. It's the ultimate in laziness. Often I throw it up into stabby sticks right out of the shower and it couldn't be easier! I also go many months without even getting a trim too.
I had short short hair back in the Demi Moore Ghost era, and while I loved it, I hated that I had to keep up with trims every 6 weeks or so, and when I decided to grow it out, it SUCKED!
So here is my conundrum... If I cut it, I lose the potential for being able to put it up. I also most likely will actually have to dry it. However, It's been so long with this lame cut, it seems like I should take a leap. But if I hate it, Ill have the hell of growing it out.
But it's just hair.
I'm so undecided. 
Anyway, the cut I'm pondering is the same as my middle niece. I saw her for Easter and fell in love with her cut. I have bangs, so I'd keep those, but otherwise, here's the cut I'd go with. It's a steep wedge in the back and totally has so much lift and swing. Ok yeah, it's kinda wrong to want to look like a 4 1/2 year old, but she's not just ANY 4 1/2 year old, so I think it's ok!
I tried looking into programs like Locks of Love for donating my very long hair if I do it, thinking this would inspire me, but they don't want mine :( Because I have all grey that's been colored with permanent color they wont take it. If I had semi-perm I would have been ok, but they wont take what I've done. So I can't use that as an inspiration to go for the cut.
Anyway, here are some cute pics of my girls, give me your input?
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Eep
So I knew it had been a while since I updated, but I hadn't realized it'd been THIS long! I feel bad now! I was doing the funk thing very well, spending hours upon hours doing a whole lot of nothing, and it just got easier to not post. When one's day consists of watching TV, there's not alot to say.
Today though, I had something that finally got my ass on here to update. But before that, let me update yinz on the rest of what's been going on...
Um... ok so I cant think of much.
Oh yeah. Well a week and a half ago I got a call from the massage school asking if I'd be interested in coming in for a "complementary massage"! Um HELL YEAH! It was their last day of clinicals and they had some slots to fill. It was great. The student was awesome and did a great job. Any tension I was holding in my muscles was gone. For about 30 minutes. On the way home I was stopped at a red light and oops, the girl behind me forgot to stop. She was a high school girl who just got new eyelashes for her prom that night. They distracted her a bit. Fortunately, as you can see, there was only minor damage to the bumper and no injuries (although the massage was shot to hell!) and the family was great about the whole thing. I am disappointed they didn't buy me a gift certificate for a new massage though. I had a little bit of a sore neck for a few days, but nothing Advil couldn't handle, and I do think that it was because I was so relaxed from the massage that the muscles didn't spasm more than that, but still... Anyway, repairs are done and that's history now.
Last weekend my friend Deena and I volunteered at the Making Memories Brides Against Breast Cancer Wedding Dress Sale. It's an awesome organization that had granted a wish for our dear friend Ginni, so we try and volunteer whenever they are in town to give back to them for giving to her. It's also a blast! How much fun is it to help brides find their perfect gowns? I love fluffing their trains for them and helping angle the mirrors so they get the best view and telling them how gorgeous they look. It's nothing but happy. No Bridezillas would consider coming to a charity wedding dress sale, so it's only the good ones. Although the Bridezilla's are stupid because there are some couture dresses that are worth several thousand being sold for $700. Designer one of a kind dresses only ever worn on the runway models, how cools is that? But the coolest part is that 100% of the profits go to granting wishes to metastatic breast cancer patients to help them make some special memories with their families. Anyway, check out the site, and do what you can to support this awesome cause.
Other than that, the only big news is that my little boy is a mighty hunter! About a month ago I woke up to him standing over me in bed meowing his furry head off. This is common for Ringo to decide I need to be awake, but not so much for Seamus. When I finally opened my eyes I found he had killed a mouse and brought it to me (IN BED!) as a gift. Um, thanks.
Now Little Boy loves his Phone Gramma. Both of my boys love to talk to their Gramma on the phone, but lately Seamus has been really into it. I keep my cell phone under my pillow at night and sometimes Seamus will dig with his paw and drag it out, then pull out the antenna with his teeth and headbutt thing thing like he's trying to get it to work. This morning he did that again. But this time, he left a gift next to the phone, which I can only guess was for his Phone Gramma. Unfortuately it was 5am so we had to hold off on calling her for a bit, but I took a pic and emailed it to her so she could see what he was so excited about! I, on the other hand, was not so much excited. The last mouse I pitched into the woods after scooping it up with the litter scoop. This one I just burried at sea.
So here in lies the conundrum. If I let the complex know Id like the exterminator to come, he will leave poison around. This doesnt seem so healthy. I already have a feline "mouse trap" in my mighty hunter little boy. He enjoys it apparently and is quite proud of his accomplishments. I dont, but I wouldnt enjoy finding a dead from poison mouse either, and I would worry about the poison with the kitties around. So I guess I just hope that we will have no more mice around. I have yet to locate any mouse poop in the kitchen, so I think he's getting them from the porch? I just don't know. He does spend evenings staring at under the stove though so I do think that's where they live. I just don't know what to do. I have learned though that if Seamus wakes me up meowing proudly that I need to turn on the light before I roll over in bed. (ewww!)
So that's my update of the last monthish.
I have one other sad update. Last week my friend Paula lost her battle with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. She's left behind a middle school aged daughter, a high school son, and a husband with who she had the kind of relationship people only dream of having. Everyone who knew her was blessed and is a better person for it. Paula, you will be missed.