It's a cold and rainy day here. My mom came over around noon and we organized some of the boxes that I still have all around my house. We emptied out 4 big boxes of old school work and stuff. I had about a thousand surveys from my high school journaism days, I had no clue I still had them. I threw a lot of it away but plan on posting some of my old English papers and notes and stuff up on a blog somewhere, maybe on a new blog. I don't know for sure yet.

The rain isn't just in my neck of the woods, it seems. They forcast rain and storms along the Gulf Coast up through my area and then snow up north. I am so glad I don't live up there, the rain is cold enough as it is. Brr.

I stained the deck some yesterday and it didn't bead up like the other parts I've stained did. I am going to have to go over it again. D;;

Well tonight we're going out to dinner with my Grandma for her 80th birthday. Happy Birthday Momo! We're going to Greenwoods, which is somewhat fancy, and I get to wear my new Asian inspired top that I just fell in love with when I saw it. It's maroon with gold embroidery and beading, it's very elegant.

I'm not feeling so well today, but I took a semi-long shower and am relaxing in my PJs for the time being, so I'll feel up to dressing up come dinner time.

My sister, it turns out, has a kidney stone. She's not so happy about that but at least it's not appendicitis. She's at home recouperating but spent the night in the hospital last night. I'm surprised mom didn't go to be with her but that's a sign she's all grown up, I suppose. (My younger sister is the youngest child)

Enough for now, my Faeriebell's blog is blowin up with pervs today searching for the Tammy Nyp videos. I sent them here: http://i1.tinypic.com/oiuetz.gif

yeah, I'm bad.

Tags: rain, weather, snow

My sister is at the emergency room right now being tested for appendicitis. I'm hoping she doesn't have appendicitis, that would require surgery, but I am worried because something has been wrong for the past week.

She got sick on Monday and thought it was food poisoning, and she was feeling better yesterday. But today she couldn't keep any food down and her stomach was really hurting her. Mom talked her into going to the doctor. Since it's Friday it's best to get in now before they're closed on the weekend, ya know?

She had to go to a doctor she hasn't seen before, but at least she got in. They sent her to the ER for the tests though. I just hope she gets better, I hate to know my sister is sick in Augsta when we're two hours away.

Anyhow, if you know my sister on Gaia or on Myspace, maybe think about sending her some get well soon wishes.

Jemima, appendicitis, stomach, well wishes

Going to Kabob Korner is my idea of a good Friday!! We're headed there to eat now. Maybe we'll stop by the mall or something. Anderson is a cool town. Having Indian/Pakistani food there makes it even cooler.

Farhan just called up to pre-order our food and all he had to say was "I'm calling from Lavonia..." and the guy said "One Karahi, spicy, for here?" LOL yeah we're known.

More entries later on my serious blogs. But isn't Friday a day to take it easy? =D

Tags: Friday, Anderson, South Carolina, Indian food, Pakistani Food, Karahi

Well it's been a week since I updated this blog. I am still in the process of getting back on a good sleeping schedule, which kind of stresses me out. I enjoy waking up early, but understand why we have been staying up. Farhan is working on an application and he programs best at night. So we've been staying up late. I support him, but I work most productively from about 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM so my days have been a little wacky lately.

When you sleep late, your whole schedule is off. You eat lunch later, and if we were eating dinner at home we'd be eating later. But luckily we've been eating dinner at my parent's house, so we're at least eating dinner at a good time and not at like 9 PM.

I am going to start a new blog devoted to talking about Garfield. I enjoy talking about her so there will be no shortage of subject matter, that much is certain. I want to make a header image with 5 or 6 images of her, each with a different mood, entitled "The Many Moods of Garfield". I got the idea from this thing my grandfather was given - 6 photos of himself with different moods. It's very funny.

Today was a gorgeous day. It was almost 70, the sun was out and there was hardly a cloud in the sky. It was a perfect day to stain the deck but I didn't get around to it. Hopefully tomorrow will be just as pretty and I'll get some of that done.

It appears that this blog has a 4 PageRank. Well that's something I didn't expect. Thanks Google. Now you make me want to post more intelligent things on here. xP

I've started another new blog: Relevant Perspective. I want to post news and politics blog entries there as well as at Faeriebell's Blog for some time, as a sort of experiment. Hopefully that will go well.

Tags: sleep, sleeping late, blog, new blog

Today was busy, even though I woke up late AGAIN. I don't know why but our sleep schedule has reverted to our old cycle, staying up late and waking up at like 12. I am happy we have the freedom to do this, but I enjoy my day much much more if I get out of bed earlier than 9:30. I can just get more done in the day. But Farhan is a night person, and so am I to an extent, in the fact that I can stay up really late, I just get much less done. I tend to get on Gaia after 1 am. I'm just too tired to do much else. But not Farhan, he can code all hours of the night. I just really want to get back in the habit of waking up earlier. It makes me frustrated the minute I wake up that I've slept so late. But my body just doesn't let me wake up if I've not had 8 hours of sleep, I don't know how I did it in college, sleeping for like 3 and 4 hours a night sometimes... I'm so glad I'm out! LOL

My dad is going to Tampa tomorrow morning, which means he took the laptop I was using. It's a good laptop too, I have enjoyed using it. I got out my old laptop and let me tell you it is a POS. It's a KDS laptop, Valiant 6000 series, and the fan is utterly incapable of keeping it cool. It has already overheated once this evening. I sprayed some WD-40 in the fan in hopes of giving it a helping hand. It sounds horrible sometimes, the fan is struggling. KDS stopped supporting their laptops too, since they got out of the laptop business (because their laptops are horrible..), so I couldn't get it fixed even if it was still under warranty, which it's not. But hopefully I will be taking at least one of my sick desktops to the repair shop tomorrow to get it repaired. My God I have been jumping around from computer to computer lately. I'm a hardware slut. xD (it's late, can you tell?)

Tonight was the monthly Friends of the Library meeting and I presented my letter to them. They liked it. I was happy about that, I wasn't sure if it was too personal, or what. The only part I messed up on was that I put "when I was a little girl", and should have put "when I was a child", so that the male members of the association can send it too. I have to fix it and get it sent to them in the next few days so our representatives can get bombarded with letters from us in the next few weeks. Really the Georgia library book budget needs help, and I want to do everything I can to get it increased, if not to 1 per capita, to something greater than $0.35 per capita.

A man came last weekend and asked if he could cut up and haul off the tree branch that fell in the ice storm. I said of course, my dad was not looking forward to cutting up that behemoth of a branch. It was a very large branch from a very very large oak tree that is in our side yard. It's a beautiful tree that must be more than 100 years old. It's huge. I can't wait to see how it looks with leaves in the spring and summer. The man must have hauled off at least 4 loads of wood that day with the help of his son, and he has been back more than once to get more. This afternoon he came back and finished up, I think he got it all. He is going to be coming by my parents office in town so Dad can show him where he has two more trees that he is welcome to take off. I hope they are making good money selling firewood, that is hard work. He inquired about Farhan's Camero today, wondering if he wanted to sell it. We are actually thinking about selling it so he's going to come back and talk to Farhan about it sometime. ^^

This morning Garfield was scratching at the back door, and I was like "What in the world are you doing?" I tiptoed out to spy on her, and the little black feral cat was at the door, staring in at Garf. They were scratching at the door and meowing at each other. Very cute except that cat doesn't look very healthy. Not that Garf wasn't around unhealthy cats in Dawsonville, but yeah. That cat is terrified of me, but is very curious about Garf. My mom said Garf is the "cat in the plastic bubble" to the little black cat. ^_^ Well seeing the cat outside set Garf off whining and making a pitiful plea to get outside. After lunch I took her out on the harness again. Heh, yeah, she doesn't like that thing at all. She pulled it off once and then I took it off her to let her go under the house because she was getting really pissed off at me.

Went to Hartwell today. It's funny, it's the same distance there as it was from our House to Dawsonville but unlike our apartment in D'ville, everything we need is so readily accessible here, minutes away. We only have to go to Hartwell when we need the bank. (There are 8 banks in Lavonia, we should really open an account at one of them) In Dahlonega, (I use D'ville and Dahlonega interchangeably because we were smack in the middle of both towns) we had to drive 10 minutes to get anything, the only thing close to us was a gas station convenience store. But here the grocery store is probably less than 2 miles away, and everything else is too. I love it.

Well that's my day. Kind of busy. Not really though. ^^

Tags: sleep, my day, Gaia, oak tree, cat

Man was I surprised to see that She-Ra, and most of her Etherian counterparts have MySpace profiles!

That just is totally rad. I also found Jem and the Misfits. yay. I feel like I'm 6 again.

Tags: MySpace, She-Ra, Cat-Ra, MySpace Profiles

I got a migrane headache last night at 7, causing me to miss House: mega sadness. Farhan came to bed around 9pm, he was tired too. So because of our very early to bed time, we were up at 6am. Which was good because I had to go to the office anyways this morning.

I went in at 9, did data entry for 3 hours, and came home around 12. When I got home I went to the back of the house to get some water, and what do I see?

The back door wide open. O M G. I knew Garfield was gone. She'd been really wanting to go outside for days now and of course she'd taken the opportunity. I yelled to Farhan, "Honey the back door's wide open!!" as I ran out the door.

How long had the door been open? Which way had Garfield gone? I mentally challenged myself not to freak out. But as I got my bearings, and heard every dog in the neighborhood barking, that was a very challenging thing indeed. I first went down to the church where she'd explored one night, not there. I called and called and some kind lady came and said she'd seen a big yellow cat run the other direction. There were two dogs really barking up a storm, so I poked around in their back yard to see if she was there: no Garf. I asked the mail lady making her rounds if she'd seen a cat. Nope.

At that point Farhan got the car out and drove around the neighborhood. I started my own circle around the neighborhood on foot, calling her name. Must have walked a mile just frantic. Down the street, looking into the woods, Farhan following behind me, having since parked the car. I really really tried to not freak out, knowing she's a sensible cat. But I was scared, relaying all the what-ifs in my brain. There must be 50 dogs in the neighborhood, all were relaying the message, "Fat juicy cat, look look!" As we came round the corner to the back of our house, a man suggested she might be down in the greenery behind the church, where the dogs were barking. So we looked there again. Nope.

So we start walking home, and there she is! Just poking around the outside of our house. Elated, we start jogging up to our driveway and what does Garfield do? Run the other direction.. you can imagine my emotions turn from frantic to pissy in one look at her. Acting like a willful teenager, "You can't make me come home, no way!" She hides under the run-down house next door (inhabited by squirrels and cats.. it should be torn down) and I have to bribe her out with food. I pick her up and scuffle my way inside as she struggles to get loose. She was VERY pissed that we cut short her independence.

Her point: She REALLY wants to go outside. I got it, thanks Garf.

I went to PetSmart tonight and got her a harness and a long retractable leash. We will learn to use it; that is her only ticket to outside. I also got her some cat shampoo and a cool massage/brush thing, as well as some Kitty Grass. (Thanks BicycleGirl, miss you!)

She sulked all afternoon, but I think we're friends again.

I really should not have freaked out, and I didn't too badly, but I was feeling very panicky until I caught sight of her, all sassy and smart in our front yard.

cat, cat drama, willful cat, garfield

My cat has gotten very whiny the past few weeks. I don't know why she has gotten so hungry for attention. She was never like this at our old apartment in Dawsonville.

Sometimes she whines when she's feeling sick, I can understand that. (A few days ago she ate some plastic and had a tummy ache til she barfed it up.. poor girl)

But most of the time she's meowing and meowing just to get attention; to have us play with her, pet her, look at her, and of course feed her. I just don't know why it has gotten so insistant.

I was reading the forums at TheCatSite.com, and read that it might be male cats outside spraying. She's spayed, but that could still drive her nuts. But I don't know why it would be all of a sudden like this.

She was around other cats, some unaltered males, in Dawsonville, but she didn't like them. She doesn't like other cats, so I don't know why she would be "missing" them now.

My sister says she needs a friend cat, but that just isn't going to happen. I don't want another cat, for one, but also I wouldn't feel right getting a cat that she wouldn't get along with just so she'd be quiet.

*Sigh* She's just getting on my nerves. She was a very mellow cat before, but now she seems discontent. It may be that we're not letting her go outside, she does enjoy going outside. But in this new location it makes me really nervous to let her out. She likes to roam too much.

Anyways, that's my cat rant. Garfield, behave!



Tags: cat behavior, cat, cats, meow, whine