Manged to get Jeff addicted to a tank game.

Hope he is having more fun inside than he sounds like on the outside.

Dilbert moment...

It was like something out of Dilbert. My work sent out a letter telling us we should celebrate the free air conditioning. I am so cold at work I had to bring a blanket and wear gloves. Not too much fun! Anyway it was pretty funny. I await the next Dilbert moment with trepidation.

It was a terrible day at work.

Really wish I would hear something from my applications. Really tired of my job. It is really hard to deal with so many angry people and sadly some of the worst ones are other employees who call in. We did go and see The Lost World and that was fun!

Not sure how much longer I will last at this job. I really wanted to run away today. Wish I didn't have bills. Really hope for something else to come along so I can dance some more.

I am going to try and start up a class again but not sure how it will go as I haven't had time to do much advertising.

I am proly just tired from trying to get the house in order. Really need to get rid of a lot of stuff! Wish I could have an unpaid week off but they would never allow that! Very irritated at work we aren't allowed to do anything between calls anymore. It really helped with the stress to look at news and such and just have a few moments to get away! Wish they would think about that. They sent out a company directive to stop walking on the grass, makes me feel like I am living in out on the coast. I am not sure what they will come up with next but Jeff put it best when he told me about a cartoon where they said employees having fun costs the company money. One of the girls I started with was let go last week due to absences as she was in the hospital. Sad for her but I kind of wish I could go too.

Very tired as we have spent the last few nights cleaning our room from floor to ceiling. There have been a lot of spiders this year and apparently one decided to move in and have babies. We were going to bed and looked up to find hundreds of them all over the ceiling. We have spent the last few nights in another bedroom and it hasn't helped sleeping. It is a bonus to get the room cleared out and I have a pile of stuff to get rid of though I could really get rid of more and be happy.

Oh yes funny thing I was walking back from the bathroom and overheard some of the managers saying they wished they would tell them how much flair they should wear, it was funny as we are given goals that are impossible to hit as well as some just contradict themselves.

Archery and more...

We had archery practice again this week. It worked better than last week. We only shot twice due to rain last week. We shot a bunch this week. I ended up giving myself a nice bruise on my arm as a reward for trying to shoot differently. But I am much better for switching and managed to quit hitting myself with the string after that. We shot at a bunch of different target. Sadly I am down 6 arrows as the glue used on the tips wasn't to good. I lost one tip last week and 5 this week. I am going to have to order tips and learn to put them on. I ended on a high note by hitting the head target. It was pretty cool to finally hit something. There is a video of the head target on youtube but Jeff and I weren't able to be there for the taping. Wish I could practice more. Lots of fun! We tried out some mead afterward and that was fun too. Would have liked to go to convergence this weekend but I couldn't get off Sunday so not much point. Maybe next year. Really sad to have missed Lilies but maybe next year for that too. Anyway by the end of the practice we were down one arrow and I had lost 5 tips. Not too bad!

After all this I went out and picked strawberries and Jeff cut the multitude of trees trying to populate our yard. Boy it is hard to keep ahead of them! My gooseberry bush has tons of berries, hope to do something fun with them. We had tons of strawberries. We would have had more if I would have been able to get out there and pick some sooner. Grandmas garden is doing great. I took a video of it for her. I am excited for her to see it. I also too a video of my nephew at his first fireworks. He seemed to like it a lot. That was a lot of fun too. I also managed to get rid of a bunch of stuff and get some things cleaned up. We even ended up having to clean out the birds cage again. Hope we can get everything done before Jeff's brother arrived in a few weeks.

We have had the cats up a bunch now since loosing Scamper. Arabella likes to be held a lot lately and Julian doesn't want to be left alone so the come up and play. We tired them out with a new mouse toy last night. Very cute!

Wii Fit and the kitties...

I was using wii fit doing the meditation exercise when my boy kitty decided to come over and start head bonking me. I guess it was attention time. Naughty boy! I usually have a perfect score but not today! Jeff tried to stop him but wasn't very successful! Arabella had to join in to but she just walked by and touched me with her tail. I don't know about Juilan though he is a pretty silly guy!

Fathers Day (Wasn't too fun)

As usual another holiday I was privileged to work through. I tried to make it down to my parents yesterday but they were having a bike race in town and blocked about every road off so it was impossible to get to my dads or to mail Jeff's dads card out, granted it would have been late anyway but still it could have been picked up yesterday. Terrible day at work. I had one lady who kept me on the phone for more than 70 min. don't want to think about my call per hour ratio! I was asked if there was anyway I could let the call go as the customer simply just wanted to vent and there was nothing I could do to help her as she did not want what little help I could offer and was told no but later found that I could let her go if she refused my advise three times. It really was horrible! I was about in tears. I know how much technology sucks sometimes but still! Anyway I finally got her taken care of. Really embarrassed to have almost been in tears in front of on of my leads. This is a really tough job sometimes! I am about thinking of boycotting the phone!

Anyway finally got my fathers day card to my dad but sadly I don't think he like it that much. I was pretty bummed. Found a great talking Simpson card. Wanted to take him out to dinner but he was already going over to my sisters. Just couldn't handle that after all the calls today! Love her but sometimes her and her kids are too much.

Anyway At least I finally gave him his card!

What a day!

Miss my cat!!!

The Happening

We went to see this tonight and really liked it. A lot like the directors other movies. Don't want to give much away but it was a very suspenseful movie.

Tornado Watch/Warning

We sat through the tornado watch with Grandma tonight. Learned a lot of things, luckily we were not in the heart of the storms and they so far have passed around us. Found out my Great Uncle was a storm watcher. I don't remember this but Grandma told me we all once walked up a steep hill to see a storm that was pretty far away. You could see the lightning and I guess I was so quiet they thought I was scared so we walked back down the hill. When we reached the bottom I asked when we could do it again. I was just being quiet because I was interested.

It is also funny because Jeff has been through a lot of Skywarn training but I haven't been too excited about him going out. Maybe eventually. Have to see.

The Rainbow Bridge...

I just received a note from the vet with a paw print from scamper. Very sad but it made us feel a bit better reading the poem. Arabella and Julian miss her and are very skittish. Hope they start feeling better! We miss her too she was such a good kitten!

Scamper kitten is terribly ill... sadly she passed away during the night...

She has been at the vet for 2 days but is not looking much better. This morning she was like a rag doll in my arms but this afternoon she was a bit better. We will proly take her home in the morning as they can't do any more for her. Mom is going to come and help with her while I am at work. Had to take a sick day today so I could go see her. I was kind of hopeful at first when she looked so much better this afternoon but the vet says that she just isn't able to maintain her body temp on her own. She won't eat and her kidneys are not doing well. She doesn't seem to be in pain or we wouldn't bring her home. Don't know if she will make it through the night, have to see what happens.

She would be 15 this year and fairly healthy at the moment. She had breast cancer 2 years ago and had it come back several months ago. Though we had it removed the prognosis on that end of things is not good. We could have her put to sleep but my mother is very much against it so if she makes it through to the morning we will bring her home. I wish I dared to take another day off of work but I don't think that would go over well. They don't like it when it's your kids much less your cat even if you have had her for almost 15 years since she was born. Her and her brothers were late in the year farm kittens so we took them in the house for the winter. I was going to keep one of the boys but he died at 6 months with a malformed heart. Her other brother lived a long time but could not stay in the house as he was too destructive. She will be the last kitten we have from the family farm which is no longer in the family.

Anyway I don't hold out much hope but mom and Jeff and I are going to try. At least she can be happy at home. She purred this morning when all she could move where her eyes and tail. She was purring when I left this afternoon and recognized Jeff and I and was able to lift her head. Maybe she will have some small chance at home? I bought a hot water bottle and some other things to keep her warm and we will try and keep her hydrated. Doubt she will be able to eat but there is always baby food. I am probably being to optimistic though.

Anyway off to bed so we can go pick her up early. Wish us luck.

Not sure we will be able to sleep there is a firetruck outside though as to why we are not sure. Everyone from the apartments across the street are standing outside so it must be something wrong with the apartment. At least the people seem to be ok!

Update.

Sadly she passed away during the night.. The only bright spot in all of this if you can call it that is that she died in her sleep which is what we were hoping to do for her at home though I can't say we didn't hope for a better outcome. The vet said she just didn't respond to anything they could do and I don't think we could have done more. We buried her with roses since the loved them. We would always have to let her smell them when we brought them home or she would do anything to get at them and smell them. She was so tiny and couldn't jump very high but she would find a way to get to them.