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| Pixel is growing quickly and Aslan has taken to him quite well. We went through the bout of URI, weepy eyes but it wasn't anything that antibiotics and Lysine couldn't take care of.
It's been a simply "crap-tastic" month. Daryl has coined that word. I got rear-ended on I-40 during rush hour. My car has about $2500 in repairs. The other people's insurance company is making itself hard to get hold of - and its especially difficult since the accident report can take 7-14 business days to show up at the State Police Headquarters. So I'm going through my insurance and then they can go after the other people's insurance. Apparently it'll be the fastest way. BUT.... and there's always a 'but'.... my back is killing me ... right below the left shoulder blade. I ended up in the ER on Saturday morning. (Pixel needs to stop helping me type). So now I'm going to end up missing some days of work to try and get my back figured out. This really sucks...
... so
.time off of work
. I get to pay my deductible for my car. At least until my insurance goes after the other insurance and I get reimbursed
. medical will come out of my pocket, until the above statement is also true.
Brandon discovered the joys of text messaging.
Kara went over her text message limit.
That's another $150 that will come out of the budget
The VA shorted Daryl this month. It's because of Brandon and him turning 19 this month. BUT, Brandon shouldn't have dropped off because we got him declared a "helpless child" back in October so the it should have been a smooth transition. Someone messed up. So between the kids and the VA, I'm missing $800 out of our budget. And I have to pull the deductible out of it. If the kids and the VA hadn't pulled those stunts, things might not be so *grrrr*, but........... CRAP-TASTIC!
I am happy to be working and what I'm making working is helping, but with the price of gas..... there goes 1/3 of my check every 2 weeks to feed my car. (Kitten get off laptop!!!!). At least my beast gets 25 mpg on the highway!!  Oh yea, I have to get it fixed. *sigh*
I need a windfall.... (and the kitten to stop attacking my computer cords!)...
but I can't be depressed...
I have muscle relaxers..
pain killers..
and 2 snoring pooches..
Aslan stalking Fozzy's tail...
and Pixel now eating my headphone wires.
As long as THEY can make me smile... things will be OK.
(more, current pictures of the animals once I get my back back!)
From last year's 4th of July celebration.. :)
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| Meet the newest addition! Pixel!Work has kept me busy and it has made Aslan very unhappy. Granted he has Daryl and Brandon home all day, but without me there he's just getting very obnoxious. He's always had me, or Polgara, or another cat around to amuse him. Because of this, Daryl announced - even though it greatly pained him to say it - I needed to get another cat. Since the guys are home all day, it's going to be their turn to bond with a newbie!
So, after several days of looking and trying to figure out what Brandon would be looking for in a cat, we found one today at the Pulaski County Humane Society.
We couldn't look at ANY tabby, because Brandon was afraid it would remind him of Bilbo. Fair enough.
We couldn't get any cat that was like Polgara (ie: anti-human and pees everywhere).
What we ended up with was a little boy, 6-8 weeks old, in fairly good health (he needs a BATH!!! He has kennel stink on him. YUCK!).
He's playful. He's sweet. He purrs. He'll fall asleep on his back in your arms, or on your chest while you're at the compute. But he hates car rides and it's a 40 minute ride from the Humane Society to Conway!
Meet Pixel:
Pixel is pretty content in these pictures with Daryl :)
Where does Pixel's name come from? Well, we had a long discussion in the car about what to name the little boy. I insist that the animals be named after something in literature (well, all of them except Fozzy). This was the list of potential names:
- D'Artagnan
- Aragorn
- Eragon (or Arigon, Aragon)
And all of them would have worked well with the pets we currently have.
But when we hit Pixel, that just seemed to be it. His name comes from the fact that his spots tend to make him look pixelated (think of a picture that's blown up really big and you can see all the different spots/pixels on it). And from Robert Heinlein's book "The Cat who could Walk Through Walls".
So far, Aslan's not very happy. That'll take a couple of days.
Copper just wants to sniff the kitty butt.
And Fozzy's a big dope who probably looks like he wants to eat the kitty in his enthusiasm to sniff the kitty.
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I wanted to add:
Polgara is doing great in her new home. She's turned into... well.. something I couldn't get her to be... a cat who likes to be around people. Maybe it's because she's an only cat. Maybe because it's Kelsey. I don't know. But it's good to see that it's working out.
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| Even during vacation it's busy busy busy!!
My dad is here for Brandon's graduation.
It's non-stop .... stuff. I can't say 'fun' and definitely not 'action' either :)
Here's
the two pics from yesterday ... with Brandon all decked out. My boy in
a dress shirt and tie ..*sniff* .. and all clean and styled. It's sad
to realize they're adults... but happy too!
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