A · Quiet · Place

I did it.  It is a rough draft so I need to clean it up but the story arc is down.  This was the most I had ever written and I think I'm proud of it.  Going to not look at it for a couple of days and then reread it to be sure.

Now I can relax as much as possible over Thanksgiving, what with a soon to be sixteen month old and having to help cook.

We have POWER!  Mord, Erik and I are back home after spending two weeks at my parents' house without power.  As great as it was to spend time with them, I'm very glad to be home.  We don't have cable but we do have internet and phones.

Well, it looks like the rain has finally stopped coming down for the moment at least. It has been nice and wet down here for about a week now,the biggest rain day was on Monday when portions of the freeway on my drive into work were underwater. So because of various factors from the storm, I ended up missing work Monday so now I'm going to try to make up the time I missed on Monday during the rest of the week. Though according to someone that made it in on Monday, there was maybe ten people that made it in. So instead of being a short day on Friday, there is talk of having it be a full day. Not much fun.

The kitten, Dottie, is making herself right at home and driving the rest of the animals bonkers. Well, the rest of the ones that she has met. She has yet to be introduced to the outside dogs. She goes back into the bathroom when they come in at night. She's still too small to meet them. I worry that our over 100 pound dog might decide she looks like an inviting snack or something. Well, not really. I know he wouldn't hurt her on purpose so this is probably just me being very overprotective of the little girl.

On a very happy note, Mord and I found some friends that we hadn't seen online in years on Friday. So we spent a good bit of time over the weekend catching up with each other. Elaine, Ise and Sabe, I'm going to try to keep in touch better this time around, I promise.

Argh, now I need to get ready for work so it is time to wrap up these ramblings. Take care all.

What do ya know? An update with just a week in between. What's this world coming to?

As Mord pointed out earlier, we decided to call the kitten Dottie. And she is nuts, in a good way of course. And she has Mord wrapped around her little finger. She isn't quite as healthy as we thought. But what she does have is very common in kittens and she just needs to be given medicine for ten days. We are halfway through the cycle now. Mord gets to give her the medicine, by his insistence, because the skin on his hands is thicker than mine. I told him I could do it, he said no. So he gets to be the bad guy where that is concerned. I get to be the one to keep stuffing her back in the bathroom when playtime out in the living room is over. I think the rest of the cats are slowly starting to get used to her. At least none of them are actively growling at her anymore. Always a good sign. Pino, the miniature doberman pincher, is the only dog to have met her yet. She is still too tiny and the biggest of the primarily outside dogs could swallow her whole if he was in the mood to.

This weekend has the potential to be fun. We are going to get together with my parents and grandmother on Sunday to cook outside and just hang out together. Both my dad and Mord have to work on Monday. I'm going to spend Tuesday with my mother just hanging out and seeing what kind of mischief we can get into. The likelihood of my sister, my darling niece and my jerk of a brother-in-law making it down this weekend is so slim it isn't even funny. Of course, they graced us with their presence on Mother's Day so we should be grateful for that. At least, that is probably the way he sees it. I figure the only reason why they came down was because my sister informed her husband that if they didn't come down, there would be holy hell to pay. But that's neither here nor there.

And again, I'm going to try to start to write. I have ideas bouncing around but every time I get ready to put them down, they say "Ha! Fooled you!" and run off into the dim recesses of my mind where they stay until I get up and wander away from the either the computer or notebook. Then they come back and taunt me some more. I think I finally have something going that won't disappear on me. I suppose if it does, I can just put it aside and come back to it later. I hate having lots of little writing projects started but nothing complete.

Now I've taken up enough of anyone's time that decided to read my ramblings that I think it is time to call it quits again.

Well, the household just grew by one eight week old female kitten. Who just happens to be adorable. We adopted her from the vet's office where my mum works. Well... actually, the story goes something like this.

I went to my mum's house this morning and heard a kitty yelling its fool head off. Mum and I decided to see if we could find said kitty, for fear it was up a tree, and this little bundle of white and grey came pelting across the street straight towards us.

Mum and da feed the stray cats on their street so they have a food bowl on their front porch. Mum put the kitty by the food bowl and the kitty climbed into the food bowl and began to eat rather quickly. Mum went inside to get her cat carrier and took her to the vet's office to make sure that everything was fine with her.

After I got off work, I swung by and picked her up. She is a tiny little thing that fits easily into Morden's hand and is one of the sweetest kittens I've had the pleasure of getting to hold. She is also very loud and extremely playful. She just got finished attacking Morden's pants legs for about five minutes.

For now she is in the bathroom and we will slowly start to get her used to the other cats and dogs. She has already gotten to meet the min pin and they seemed to get along fine.

And we are also trying to figure out what would be a good name for her.

Okay, after a long break I guess I should update this thing, huh?

Well, I've finally gotten off my tush and started to write again. Is it anything good, who knows? At least I'm writing. Always a good thing.

Mord and I helped my folks undecorate this past weekend. Which was a chore and a half.

And the best part is... there is stuff that we all missed. YAY! We overlooked the rugs and pot holders in the kitchen completely and there was a box of ornaments that didn't make the trip up in the attic. Oops. So we just thought we were done.

I was slapped in the face this past weekend with the fact that my grandmother probably won't be able to see much longer. She's really good at hiding it as long as she isn't having to do anything. Mum and I went there to take some dishes back and to help her figure out how to work her cassette player again so she can listen to a gift my mum got her. She couldn't see the buttons that she needed to push. Mum ended up taping a piece of white paper next to the start button and a piece of red next to the stop. Gram could see those. She put her finger on the white and mum slid it over to the start button for her to press down on.

Something tells me that she isn't going to be able to live alone for much longer and that before too much time has passed, she will be back living with my parents. She isn't going to like that a bit.

Okay, enough rambling for now.

Well, it is just Mord and me again now that Stranger has moved out. I suppose it is going to seem a little strange not having him around. It will be nice though. It's been a long time since I've been able to spend time alone with my husband. I wish Stranger luck in finding what it is that he needs.

On another note, my sister and her husband are flying back from Florida tomorrow morning and yours truly gets to go and pick them up at the airport What fun. Especially considering I have to take my brother-in-law's truck because of the car seat for their daughter. The problem with that being the very simple fact that... he is a chain smoker and the driver's seat reeks to high heaven. I got behind the wheel today to get a feel for it and my eyes immediately started to water and my allergies kicked into high gear. Even more fun. And my sister warned me about the brakes in his truck being a bit squishy, I think that is the way they were described to me. Well, the brakes I can live with, they are pretty much along the line of Morden's truck. What is going to drive me batty on the drive to the airport is the fact that the get up and go for the truck.... got up and went long before I ever managed to sit in the driver's seat. So this is going to be interesting. I'm going to have to be extremely careful on the drive and not drive like I normally do because of this. Of course, all of this is dependant on whether or not my father manages to get off work early enough. If he does, he gets to go and pick them up. I'm not holding my breath though. He still doesn't know if he is going to be able to.

Well, that's enough disjointed ramblings for now.

Well, here we go. I finally talked myself into getting one of these. How often I do anything with it is another story. We'll just have to wait and see. Not sure what to say yet so that's all for now.