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| I'm usually not very crafty but this week I made a bunch of these calico cat ornaments for our neighbors and for the pet hospital staff who helped take care of Meow when we were out of town or when she needed to see the vet. I'm not a huge fan of sewing but it can actually be sort of therapeutic at times. Making the calico cat ornaments helped a little bit in keeping my mind off of missing Meow so much. | | |
| I am seriously missing my beloved Meow who lived from Jan 1, 1990 (or before) to Dec 9, 2009. She would have been at least 20 years old on Jan 1, 2010... the birthday I made up for her since I didn't know her actual birthday. I met Meow in Feb 1991. She was a stray cat who chose the warm spot behind the outdoor clothes dryer of an old rental house to have a litter of kittens. I officially adopted her later that year. The vet said she was probably at least a year old when I met her. Meow continued to thrive for so long even after being diagnosed with adult diabetes in Dec 2000... even after using up all of her nine lives and then some. We were beginning to think that she was invincible. But in the past few months her health declined dramatically and last week there were complications she would not be able to recover from. Today was supposed to be her last day but she was doing so poorly on Tuesday that we decided we needed to put her to sleep sooner. We stabilized her for the night and had one last good night together. On Wednesday morning we said our last goodbye. She was the best cat, best friend, and we had so many good years together.
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| i can fall asleep at the drop of a hat. often L will wake me up after i've fallen asleep to show me something interesting online or on late-night tv. i can always get right back to sleep again so it's all good. last night started out no different. L says, "hey wake up and get your glasses on and check this out..." both the tv and computer are on and all that's on tv is some infomercial so i just assume it's something online and i turn my attention to the computer. until L says, "tell me that's not [former co-worker] on tv..." i had only seen this former co-worker a few times so i was like, "yeah sure does look like him..." but all doubt was erased as soon as he (former co-worker) started talking on air. and then a few minutes later his name showed up in the captions. right next to the name of the product being sold. the product being a hot new personal lubricant product. which he (former co-worker) proceeded to discuss, with the host of the infomercial, for as long as we were willing to watch until we just got too weirded out and had to change the channel. best "where are they now, former co-workers edition" moment ever! by the way, spank juice is not the name of the product. that is the name of the fake product that L proceeded to make up today when we were thinking back to how weird it was to see former co-worker on tv last night. L made up a tag line for his fake product too: when you're too naughty for ordinary lubricant! hahaha! yeah he is seriously disturbed. | | |
| ha i just logged in to see if i still remember the password and yeah i guess i still do. it’s summer time and i’m loving it. except that recently it’s hot hot hot here. and humid. it’s nice and cool in the morning but after about noon time our place is an oven, even with fans. so if i’m not productive in the morning time then i don’t end up getting much stuff done because it’s just too hot in the afternoon to get stuff done and then i’ve given up on getting any stuff done by the evening time and then i just vow to try again the next day. but three mornings a week i have ballet and that takes pretty much the whole morning. so that leaves only a few other mornings to try and get some stuff done. in any case, i’m not getting a lot of stuff done that i’m supposed to be getting done this summer. gah. i just got my tiger t-shirt in the mail. from topshop. love the tiger print. but why oh why did they have to make it a sleeveless shirt? they basically just cut the sleeves off. why didn’t they just leave the sleeves on and give people the option of cutting off the sleeves themselves? it would take less than a minute with some good scissors. so yeah i wish it still had sleeves but i loved the tiger print so much i had to get it, even sans sleeves. it’s really big and comfy and it’s black and white so it goes with everything… i think it will be my new uniform. two more things: 1) i need to go now to play pian-o. 2) this blog is lame-o. | | |
| The first graders have been preparing to sing some holiday songs this week. I was explaining to them that "O Tannenbaum" means "Oh Christmas Tree" in German. And I made sure the students were pronouncing the words correctly. In the hallway after school I ran into a grandparent (of a very serious child, not one to goof off in class very easily) who said they were very excited to see the performance. And then she said, "I had to tell you, because I thought it was funny, that my grandson thought the words to 'O Tannenbaum' were 'Atomic bomb' and he kept singing it like that at home until I corrected him." Oops... I guess that just shows how much the students pay attention to me. "Oh he did say he thought it was German though," she added. Well okay so they are sort of paying attention... haha. | | |
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