5 posts tagged “cats”

Last night I wrote a blog and it was all negative and complainy so I made it private. Booo. Then I was all estrogen-y or something and upset and nothing and everything all at the same time...and wasn't able to fall asleep until 3am!

I woke up fine though...puffy eyed from crying and being exhausted, but no one seemed to notice. I guess I was fine by the time anyone else showed up at work a good 2 hours after I had gotten there. Sigh I need a new job that is not ridiculous and will not fuck me over come Tax day like this one will do again this year...and every time I think about it I want to throw up because I can't save up for it -- I don't make enough money to pay all my bills so how can I be expected to save any of it for anything? Unless I don't want to eat, which I definitely DO want to eat.

Um...so my cats were insane tonight when I got home so much that I wouldn't let them come into this room until they settled down. I heard a lot of running up and down the hall and when I went out for water Hobbes had tufts of hair randomly sticking out everywhere and was crouching by the door. Then he saw me and went running down the hall. I have no idea....  After an hour or so they calmed down and have been sleeping all over me ever since. Hobbes was konked out so hard I think he had a nightmare because he sat up suddenly and was all freaked out. I wonder what kitty nightmares are like...probably me never coming home...or the vacuum cleaner...or being left alone while everyone else is having fun on the other side of the door.

Nick texted me yesterday around 3 that the were at the hospital to have da baaby! Heard nothing after that. Texted him this morning and this evening and still no baby yet....finally, got a text...BABY! Madison Elizabeth Borg, 9:38pm, 19.5in, 5lb 13 oz. Wittle baaaby!

I did laundry tonight and when I took it downstairs I didn't take my phone with me. I never think I will possibly need it, but it never fails that when I leave it upstairs someone calls and/or texts. Tonight was no different. Travis called me AND left a message. You must understand that Travis never calls me, which sounds terrible because he's my boyfriend and should call me, but it's ok because we have an ongoing text conversation ALL day, so there's not usually anything left to talk about that requires a phone conversation. And then the message was normal-voice Travis rather than silly-voiced Travis asking me to call when I got the message, and I immediately PANICKED that his car had been smashed (which tends to happen when I want to go to the Brookfield Zoo). So I called, and he said his brother had something to tell me and asked him to call me...what a tease! PS his brother Justin and wife Mandy are randomly visiting...and keep in mind I asked several times, "So...are they visiting 'just cuz?'" as if I could not accept that as a reason. So Travis passes the phone to Justin who first of all says happy early birthday (we have the same B-Day) and asks how I am and how is everything and all that and I know he has something to tell me so I wonder why he is stalling, so I try to prompt it by asking how HE is, and he's like, "Oh you know, blah blah blah" in a "blah everything is normal and borderline boring" voice and slips in there "Mandy's pregnant." I shouted, "I KNEW IT!" Yes, indeed I did...I has suspicions about the visit, and when Travis told me Justin had something to tell me, I SO knew it. I just wish I had said it! BAH! So I get no credit for calling it...balls!!

Anyway, Baby Frost #3 will be here in about 6 months aka August. Meanwhile Baby Frost #2 is due in February I think? I forgot...how terrible! But I have not heard much of updates from them.

So it's funny...because there's a very weird coincidence that Justin ends up "following" the oldest brother, Jay. Jay decided to go to an art school in Florida...Justin decided to go there too (Travis ended up there too actually...). Jay moved to Minneapolis to be with his girlfriend...Justin moved to Minneapolis too...also for the girlfriend. Jay got married...2 months later Justin got married. Jay just had a baby....and nooooow Justin is having a baby. I of course has to rib him about it muhahaha. That is what little redhead future sisters-in-law are for, are they not??

So...Travis and I have a ways to go to catch up to everyone else lol. But we are in no rush. Plus, as far as babies are concerned, I have enough to handle with Hobbes and Ink lol.

PS....MY BIRTHDAY IS MONDAY!!!

I had a fabulous weekend with an early arrival of Travis on Saturday. We expressed how much we missed each other and then walked to Santullos for lunch. I had the most delicious slice of goat cheese and red pepper pizza of my life...who knew it could be so tasty!

We also spit a slice of BBQ Chicken and Green pepper that had a sad face...and way too much BBQ sauce.

Then we walked around Wicker Park for a while, just strolling down Milwaukee. We found a Empire Strikes back shirt on the $9.99 table at Urban Outfitters and I also got a very cute little owl ornament. I named him Owlie and carried him through the store petting him like a crazy. Travis said I could not have mice if I had an owl, so I said he doesn't eat mice, see how tiny his beak is?! I will feed him peanuts and M&Ms and bits of apple.

We walked all the way to Jewel, which is the one errand we needed to run for mimosa fixins for Sunday brunch. Then we went home and organized his iPod and made the most delicious beef stew ever and got really drunk and silly. I was extra chatty and knew it and was trying so hard to control it...which made me laugh a lot later. And I kept saying how amazingly good the beef stew was. Poor Travis lol.

Sunday we woke up late bc my alarm clock that automatically resets itself missed the memo that daylight savings was moved last year. Boo. It was ok though; I'm sure we needed the sleep. We headed over to Annie's and met Oliver who is very very VERY cute and had brunch and mimosas and sat on the couch tipsy and talking for hours.

Then we went to Marshall's and TJ Maxx where I wandered off and took pictures muhahaha.

Annie took us home and then we went out on a hot date to dinner and wanted to go to this one place but couldn't because it was surrounded by construction! Woe! So we walked around a bit and I remembered another place we had previously eyed, so we went there and it was delicious. It's an English pub call The Elephant and so of course we got some cider to drink and I partook on the fish and chips. When we were done I realized I hadn't taken any pictures. Aww. Shame lol.

Then we went in Border for 10 minutes...because they were closing. Boo! Then we went home and watched Transformers on the couch with mugs of espresso drinks and kitties all over us. Transformers was far more awesome than I had expected and silly and funny at parts. It was fun. I thought it odd/interesting that Megatron was so organic. I enjoyed the other Hasbro toys snuck in there...like a My Little Pony and a Furby. Good ol Hasbro.

Getting up this morning was the most difficult thing to do in my life lol. It was dark, cold, and I was warm and cozy and comfortable and laying on Travis. Why leave that to go sit in my cold office? Stupid bills I must pay. At least I have tasty beef stew for lunch!

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Parts of this blog are taken from emails to my darling Michelle.

The other night I spilled a bit of water on my laptop keyboard and killed my left control key, which is extremely inconvenient since I am left-handed in using the control key. I'm glad there is a backup on the right, but still...very awkward.

So Sunday night my shower curtain fell and Monday I woke up to discover my thoughtful and considerate and EVIL kitties peed all over it and the towels that had been hanging on it! I was not as angry as I should have been because I had been looking an excuse for a new shower curtain and kinda wanted new towels too, BUT I was very angry that it happened on Monday because that is the only day I need to come home, shower, and go to bed....and do NOT have time to go buy a new shower curtain because I work all day and have 3 hours of dance class. So boooo on them. I spent the better part of Monday deciding on a gameplan, and was set on going to class and leaving after my class instead of staying for another hour, and at the last minute I decided I was too preoccupied and had to do it before class and had to go to Target (rather than Kmart or Sears or anywhere else) because it would be the prettiest, cheapest, and most convenient to get to dance afterwards (just hop on one bus and bam – there!) and I could grab dinner at Burger King and delight myself with a Cherry Coke...mmmm.

So I did...and they were all HIDEOUS or over $30!!! What the hell, Target? A year ago I was looking at them and they were all $9.99 and $19.99. AND AAAALLLL the liners were sold out! 4 other people were in the aisle sharing my plight, and we asked a Target associate who said, "Oh...well they were supposed to re-stock but I guess they didn't," and then shrugged and walked away! She was absolutely no help at all. Um, if multiple people are standing in an aisle needing something that you have but have not restocked, shouldn't you have someone go fetch the item from the Warehouse to meet your customers' needs?? I was so disgusted. Target has been so disappointing like that lately...such a lack of selection and that Target in particular is always cleaned out of what I need when I need it...like every time I would go to buy a mop they were completely out of mops. It's insane. That is my rant. I found one that will work but still it was $16. It's a vinyl shower curtain with little green leaves -- why is it $16?? But it served a dual purpose and I was able to shower after dance....except..... I get home to find that my other 2 towels that were in my closet had been secretly peed on sometime not recently!! So I had no towel! It was like nothing could go right. But it IS that time of year. So, in desperation, I just cut off the pee part of one towel and used the rest. What a hassle!

Today I went to Kmart after work for towels. Forget you, stupid Target! I spent much longer there than I had intended, growing more and more nauseated by the smell one of the last remaining Little Cesar's on earth that lives in the cover of the store. It's funny how Kmart can look so shiny and clean and it's still the same ol' ghetto Kmart. But it gets the job done. I had light pink towels in mind, but of course Martha Stewart held the monopoly on light pink towels and priced them at $11 each! Um...it's a TOWEL. I'm going to dry off my butt with this thing...it does not need to be $11. I found some others for $5 and splurged and got one of the $7 ones because I loved the color. I got rose, "Arctic Blue" (that's the $7 one, and green, of course, because I wouldn't be me if I didn't buy a green towel in my outing. After what felt like hours of pacing the aisles I finally found the smaller size and thinner towels for my hair that were a whopping $2. Sweet. They don't coordinate with the others, but, honestly, when have my towels ever coordinated by society's standards? They, like my sheets, match in that they don't match at all. *shrug* I just can't pick one color – they are all so pretty! So...the cheap little towels were sooo coarse and rough, but they're just for my hair and my hair does not mind. Note to self: the cheapest cheap towels at Kmart will be painful to touch in the store but after a wash and some fabric softener they are fantastically soft and fluffy!

I'd like to note that I bought 6 towels and a shower curtain liner at Kmart for LESS than the price of ONE ugly shower curtain at Target. thankyouverymuch *curtseys*

And now...pictures!!! Because it's me...like having a green towel.

New big towels: light green, rose, and arctic blue

New little towels: dark green, orchid, and light blue

New shower curtain: it's called "Whimsy Sage"

Aaand up close:

eeeevil kitties!

Holy Toast, Batman!

The End

I dreamed i was in my front living room here and looked out the window and there was a tree in which 6 birds had built nests...one was an eagle which may have some significance, I have no idea.anyway, i was taking pictures of all the nests because it was cool, and opened the window and then a lioness was in the tree and before I could close the window she jumped into my living room! I opened the front door so maybe she would go out into the hall until I could call animal control, and stupid Hobbes ran out into the hall instead! Then the lioness went out into the hall and smelled Hobbes and ran down the stairs trying to find him! stupid Hobbes going out in the hall like a nosy bitch lol. So I grabbed my phone and called 411 for the number for animal control, and in the meantime Hobbes came back unharmed...and animal control came and got the lion.