mocha and shadow

these are the two new kittens at my dads house, mocha and shadow. i love them soooo much. it's funny to me how fast i fall in love with cats, it takes about a whole five minutes.

country jam pics

38 special at the end of the night



andy and i during the 38 special performance



andy and me in between performances



this is me happy as can be once i got my chair finally and i was off my really soar feet



andy in the middle of the crowded field



andy and me when we first arrived at country jam (and realized we forgot our chairs in the car)

2 weekends of excitement ahead

yesterday, thursday, i acquired 2 free friday passes to country jam (in eau claire), so since andy is taking the day off we decided we will go and leave sometime around 11am this morning. it should be interesting because i am not typically a country music fan but some stuff is starting to grow on me. i love love love taylor swift, brad paisley, and darius rucker. from that point on it's more based on the song whether i like it or not. last night was the big draw for the country jam...it was Tim McGraw but really i didnt mind not going...i dont care for him. But tonight the big performance is 38 special, which is actually classic rock and im definitely into that type of music!!! so it should be fun! i just hope the rain stays a way just a little!!


so then next weekend, it's official because i just bought everything last night, im going to six flags great america (in gurnee, illinois ) with my brother and my boyfriend! for now it's just the three of us but we are hoping to find at least one more person for an even number to make the whole rides thing easier (ride in pairs). i am sooooooo excited for this vacation because we all love the thrill of the roller coasters and i havent been to six flags in years upon years. and i am not sure, but i think andy has never been!!!! best trip yet to come!!!!!!!!

marbles update

vet visit for blood in urine results: urinary tract infection + medication ($130)

next morning he is vomiting blood

5pm same day is vet visit # 2 results: he has possible diabetes, definite asthma, and no answer for vomiting + a million and one tests and anti nausea shot ($130)


he is contained to just the kitchen but somehow still manages to escape somehow, it is like a 24hr babysitting job with him

marbles

my kitty marbles is not ok. something is wrong...i have feel it. he has been breathing really hard and heavy for a couple of months now, like his body is working extra hard. and this morning i woke up to find multiple puddles of blood on the tile by the basement door. i think he has blood in his pee which can never be a good thing. this has never happened before to him. im so sad for him, he is THE most loving, cuddly cat ever. he thrives on someone just saying his name and tickling him with their toes as they walk by and someone sharing a couple of kernels of corn or a few peas with him. he loves his vegetables.


i just feel so bad for him and hope he is not in pain. hopefully he'll be ok.


love you lots marbles!

night visitor

So the other day while I was taking Andy to urgent care to have his leg looked at (he had a bug bite looking rash on his leg from work--he works for the parks department cutting grass, removing brush, etc) and apparently when we were gone my mom had a visitor in the house…..a BAT….eeek.

So not cool! I don’t mind bats, but when they are in my house that is a completely different story. She said it was swooping low and flying in and out of all the main, open rooms of the house. Usually or at least with all of our other experiences they stick towards the ceiling when they fly and try to find some place to scurry on a wall and hide. I was just glad to know that she was able to contain the cats so that they wouldn’t attempt to get the bat considering it’s relatively low flight pattern.

She managed to get to the door without it making contact with her and propped it open so that if it got close she could use a large broken down cardboard box that we conveniently had lying around to guide it out. Now we are no dummies here, we understand that in order to somewhat ensure that the bats do not return (because they are highly territorial creatures of night) you either kill them (which mind you is nasty and illegal) or you must contain them in a box or something and take them at the very minimum 30 miles away. Unfortunately, it was during the evening that the bat appeared nor was it in any way about to be contained; so to my mom it was more of a priority to just get it out of the house for our own and the cat’s sakes.

Mind you that when she informed me of this upon my return home around 10:15pm…I was officially creeped out and found it completely necessary to duck tape the crap out of our fireplace and its slight openings, cracks, and holes. My paranoia led to me thinking I was hearing things from every corner of the house, ah ha ha.

I honestly think that there has yet to be a summer where we do not experience at least one bat. Lucky us, right?

a new promise

So it has been a long time since I’ve blogged last. It seems I have neglected my blog for peer laziness. I was afraid of eventually not being disciplined enough to manage this, and considering I do not have much to do with my time I should be able to better manage it than if I were really busy, right? Well, I do not understand my lack of blogging either. There have been many times where I have opened a new post up and began to type the title and by the end of the first sentence I decide to just close it all out and tell myself that I will get to it again later, but clearly I never do. So this is my vow to attempt to post one new blog every week. For every additional post beyond my promised one, that will be an added bonus for all of my readers (or well myself for my electronic journal).