and I have not been sleeping well so I just wanted to let everyone know that Zinny is completely back to her normal, adorable self. She has had a full recovery and just in time. Her mommy is going to be here on Sunday!
Thanks for all the well wishes.

Here’s to a new year, a renewed hope in the future and many blessings to everyone.

Happy New Year!!

Posted on 2008-Dec-30 at 09:18 in A day in the life..

After watching this video of Robin Williams’ again. It is hilarious.
Apparently back in 2006 or so Robin decided to embark back into the stand-up comedy arena again as he was getting a bit tired of films.

What I am not laughing about is the little cat emergency I had yesterday. I won’t go into details but let’s just say that cats don’t always land on their feet and sometimes they can get a concussion.
I have one that has a post-concussion right now. She is doing much better, however. Yesterday, as I was getting ready to go have lunch with a client of mine, I heard a weird yowling coming from the cat in the living room. I had heard stuff falling over outside but I had some cardboard boxes stacked on top of the other recycling stuff that was going to go today to the center.

I didn’t think much of it, let the cat in and proceeded to take a shower. She was in the bathroom eating her Science Diet crunchies and was fine.

After hearing this sound, I went to investigate and found her with her eyes dilated, her gait unsteady and her walking like a low rider to the ground. With my heart pounding I called my ex-boss and flew down to the office where I had spent so many years…

She of course screamed the whole way, not having been in a carrier or down there since she was 7 months old. She is now 6 yrs old and was MAD!!

After trying to get her to vomit since we both thought she might have ingested something (which by the way is very, VERY rare for you cat owners. Cats just don’t eat nasty, rotten things like dogs do) The most common thing a cat will ingest is antifreeze because of the taste. Cats do NOT like sweet stuff but there is something about ethylene glycol they love.

So after we figured out it wasn’t that at all, and she did have a small wound on her temple, we came to the conclusion she had suffered from a concussion. Only I would have a klutzy cat! (It runs in the family).

I stayed there with her for three and half hours to make sure she was going to be okay then brought her home. We were both exhausted. She is by the fire right now and I am sure she will be fine. She has some banged up body parts from the fall, because she isn’t carrying her tail right but she will heal. Nothing is broken and I won’t be stacking any more boxes outside!!

I will tell you one thing, it is much easier to NOT be the owner of an animal that is an emergency case. It is waaaayy easier to be on the other side of that stethoscope!!

Warning!! Don’t be drinking anything while you watch this!
Robin Williams on Obama and Bush…

If you don’t find this funny then check your pulse!
Robin Williams at his best!!

Well my gorgeous daughter went and got herself on the Dean’s List for Humboldt State, in only her second semester there!! She got As in her two hardest classes and I couldn’t be more proud of her!
She is just amazing. She has worked really hard for this so I told her to be very proud of herself too.
Aside from Poppa, who has a Phd, she is the only family member that has ever gone to a real university. Mine is online so I don’t think it counts.
Here is my Beans last Halloween at her place:

She and her boyfriend were Gnomes for Halloweeny. Here is another shot of her.

That’s my girl!!

I am here alone, rain pouring down, listening to Josh Groban. Amazing voice, amazing songs.

I know that people all over the world are (or have) celebrated their Xmas with family and friends.

I don’t really celebrate it due to my beliefs, but I do miss being with people I love and care about. I miss my Mom a lot, and am feeling very odd because I have very few memories of Xmas in my youth with her.

I know she used to get us a tree, always, always a Charlie Brown tree. She felt sorry for the worst tree on the lot, the smallest and least branched. So she always got one of those.
I do remember making ornaments in school and that those still hung on the tree probably until three Xmases ago- when she was no longer here to buy a Charlie Brown tree or decorate it.

I asked my Poppa (my step dad but he is really my only true Dad) if he was using the decorations she had carefully carried from one house to the next, from one state to another and yet to another house. He said no, not for the last two years. Two years but three Xmases ago…

That makes me sad, but what makes me sadder is not remembering what it was like in the house when we did open presents as kids. It was many times just the three of us, and my Mom was so broke all the time. I know we got a lot of clothes because we needed them, but I do remember once she got me a Beatles album I had been coveting for months. I still have it.

Poppa is having a great day and that makes me happy. My daughter is in Ohio with her boyfriend and his family- next stop is her dad’s in Virginia. She made it to the Dean’s List at Humboldt State and got As in her hardest classes. That was the best gift I could have ever gotten. She is very happy and proud of her self, as of course I am.

I don’t know where my son is, but he did send me a little card. I got a surprise call from a fellow EFXer, which was a sweet note to start the day with.
After being treated like crap last night for giving someone some gifts and feeling like I was slapped in the face for it, I needed some cheer.

So I have a nice warm fire going, I have wine and beer for whoever might come by and I am going to roast a nice chicken dinner for myself and listen to more Josh Groban sing Ave Maria.

No more computer work today for me. I am going to put up my feet, do some drawing and just chill all day.
Happy Winter time to all and to all a good night!!!

What I Know for Sure About Women~
By Mark Leyner

1. Even little girls, in all their blithe, unharrowed innocence, have a presentiment of sorrow, hardship, and adversity…of loss. Women, throughout their lives, have an intrinsic and profound understanding of Keats’ sentiments about “Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips Bidding adieu.”

2. This sage knowledge of, and ability to abide, the inherently fugitive nature of happiness somehow accounts for the extraordinary beauty of women as they age.

3. Women have an astonishing capacity to maintain their equilibrium in the face of life’s mutability, its unceasing and unforeseeable vicissitudes. And this agility is always in stark and frequently comical contradistinction to men’s naïvely bullish and brittle delusions that things can forever remain exactly the same.

4. Women are forgiving but implacably cognizant.

5. Women are almost never gullible but sometimes relax their vigilance out of loneliness. (And I believe most women abhor loneliness.)

6. In their most casual, offhand, sisterly moments, women are capable of discussing sex in such uninhibited detail that it would cause a horde of carousing Cossacks to cringe.

7. Women are, for all intents and purposes, indomitable. It really requires an almost unimaginable confluence of crushing, cataclysmic forces to vanquish a woman.

8. Women’s instincts for self-preservation and survival can seem to men to be inscrutably unsentimental and sometimes cruel.

9. Women have a very specific kind of courage that enables them to fling themselves into the open sea—whether it’s a new life for themselves, another person’s life, or even what might appear to be a kind of madness.

10. Women never—no matter how old they are—completely relinquish their aristocratic assumption of seductiveness.

And here is one last thing I know—and I know this with a certitude that exceeds anything I’ve said before: that men’s final thoughts in their waking days and in their lives are of women…ardent, wistful thoughts of wives and lovers and daughters and mothers.

Photo: Courtesy of Greater Talent Network, Inc.
Mark Leyner, a husband, a father, a son, and a brother, is the author of eight books and a co-writer of the movie War, Inc.

I hope a few men out there will contemplate those words…

Have a great day!

I told you that I would tell you what I am thankful for today.
I got up feeling great today and I had a free 12 lb turkey defrosting in my fridge. I started it around noon and made some stuffing and other goodies. I finished it all around 5 pm and sat down by myself for turkey, mashed taters, homemade gravy, cranberries and homemade sweet potato pie.

It was great but I am used to feeding a lot of people and there were none.

Anyway, I am still grateful to Lonnie and his wife Alison for giving me the turkey. And here is my list of other things I am grateful for not just today, but always:

1. My kids and family. Even if they are not around, I know I am loved by someone out there at least and that is worth everything.

2. My friends. I don’t have many but some of them really do care about me. The ones that don’t are drifting away anyway.

3. My work and my health. I know that is two things but I wouldn’t have one if not for the other. My back is shot and my health isn’t great but what I do have I am very grateful for.

4. My humble abode. I live in a mobile home but I own it and my land and I have a roof over my head that I can still afford. The poor thing is falling apart as it is 35 yrs old and its not the kind that was built to last that long. Its a 3 bdrm, 1 1/2 bath that I raised both of my kids in so that they could go all through one school and not move all over that place like I had to do.
My yard is awesome and the neighborhood here is quiet most of the time. We all have a minimum of 2 acres so no one is sitting on top of each other.

5. The earth and all of it’s natural beauty and inspiration. I am a child of nature and even as I age I need to feel connected to the ground, the earth and all that is around me in it.

6. I am grateful I live in this beautiful county in a free country. I am grateful that this country is waking up.

7. The career I had for over 25 yrs and still practice to a point. I loved being a Vet Tech and it took me many years of hard work to specialize in all the things I did. I was certificated 5 times over for Small Animal Nutrition and Small Animal Dentistry. I miss it everyday.My career that is!

8. The internet. Without it I wouldn’t have a living now. I am grateful to Tim Berners-Lee for that. Not Al Gore.

9. The wonderful people in the Computer Science Dept that I work with. They have inspired, supported, and encouraged me to get my three associate degrees as well as my bachelor’s degree. With that I will be able to teach part time and make enough money to live on with out disability.

10. To be alive still, everyday. To be awake, aware and enlightened. To be able to read and learn, to seek knowledge, wisdom and have hope and faith. To be conscious and to BE.
To have loved deeply and strongly.

I am grateful for being.

What are you grateful for today?

Well after my last diatribe about no one reading my entry I sort of fell of the planet again. I have just been swamped between work, this database site I am still building, homework and trying to get some sleep. I have been reading everyone’s blogs, however, then am too tired to post myself.

Well tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I am very, very thankful for so many things. Tomorrow I will post what they are. I took half a day off today and slept two whole hours when I got home. I was given a free turkey so I can actually cook myself a dinner now. I wish I had some people to feed but I don’t. My daughter is still up in Humboldt and I haven’t heard a word from my son even though he lives here somewhere.

I was invited to my nieces but it’s a two hour windy drive and I don’t have the gas money to get over there and I have way too much work to do. So it’s just me and the dog and cats.

I found this on Libertine’s blog and took the test for giggles and was surprised how accurate this came out. The funny thing about it that all my life I have been drawn to the moon. My name from the Cherokee tribe that adopted me is Moon Dove. My business name (coined in 1983) is Indigo Moon Arts. And now, this silly quiz says I am the Moon!!
So enjoy and I left the links on so you can take the quizy yourself.

Your result for What Planet are You From? Test…

You are from the Moon!

Take What Planet are You From? Test atHelloQuizzy”

I would like to add that I don’t really have mood cycles like that-never have. I never had them when I was younger either. Oh well, the rest of it is spot on. Very interesting to say the least. I will return tomorrow with a list of things I am very thankful for. Until then, Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

I guess I have lost any readership I may have had. No one has visited me (sniff, sniff) or commented on my bloggy. Too heavy for you eh? Well what are we supposed to blog about, only our happy little day to day dribble? The election? No emotional stuff?

I am pretty disappointed in that. I thought that in a community, people who claimed they ‘cared’ about you would care about ALL of you, not just your happy side. Maybe that is my major problem. I accept people for their dark as well as light side. I am out of the loop!! I wasn’t told that only the HAPPY side of us was acceptable in the world. I am not bitter, don’t get me wrong, I am just sort of surprised by this. :confused:

It’s not MY issue that no one wants to read my blog or that they can’t deal with heavier emotional things. My issue is whether or not that I care about it. I obviously do, so that is also MY issue to deal with. Granted I know that C and dozens of others are in a frothing, frantic, frenzy working up getting the next prez into office, but geesh. Take a breath you guys!! lol..

Maybe I am making way too much of this anyway, and maybe no one else is reading blogs right now. Whatever. I find the time to read the ones I get alerts on. That doesn’t make me special, it just shows I do make the effort on the other persons behalf, but that again, is another one of my issues. I am good at putting others ahead of myself and have to stop myself often nowadays from doing it. It doesn’t always serve me or my health to do that.

Right now I am not feeling well, sore throat and I did something to flare up my back injury. So I am on heating pads, ice and drugs. What a glorious way to spend a weekend. But it’s been pouring rain here anyway, so actually I am pretty comfy and cozy.
Ok enough ranting. If you comment then welcome. If you don’t~ you are still welcome here.

I think I need a hug……..:(