The Adventures of Being Me

Wednesday picked up niece from daycare and found her schedule on the fridge. Guess my sister doesn't like me distrupting it. Watched a movie and ate dinner when it was over, otherwise she won't eat at all. Went outside to play and then she colored hearts on scratch paper for her preschool friends. No heart picture for me. She chatted on her friend Eli who is her best friend. I asked what they do together; draw pictures, stack blocks, play with clay. Yes, yes, and yes. They play on the playground together, they like the slide. Then she got distracted tearing the paper off the crayons so I stopped asking questions. She was awake when sister got home and niece jumped up excited to tell what we did. Thursday was sorta busy at work. Told a guy about my impending trip to California and he freaked that I was never coming back. Such a trauma it would be if I quit and moved away. Well, so far I am just going to be gone one week and there are things called email, phones, and letters to k...

I slacked off yesterday only doing my grocery shopping and didn't do much else. Today I washed the litterbox in the bathtub, cleaned my black make-up uniform clothes, washed the stove and countertoops, started packing my suitcase, made a list of things to buy for trip, and put up my Halloween decorations. I'm sure I'll be too busy looking for work to worry about putting them up when I come back. Precious is much better on his walks. No climbing window screens, but he did try to get on porches and I held him back. They have been doing construction in a few apartments on the fround floors so Precious has to check it out. All the carpet ripped out to reveal concrete, doors taken off hinges leaning against the wall, parts of the walls removed mostly the bottom half, and repainted the walls tan with white trim (Yuck). No new carpet yet so hopefully that is a better color. I can't imagine too many people (especially females) who want to live in a brown apartment. Though at le...

Precious has been naughty during our walks the passed few days. He is attacking the space under the neighbor's door, jumping on cars, stirring up the ground floor dog napping in front of his glass door, and scratching up the neighbor's window screens. I pushed down on his head, grabbed at his paws, and walk beside him so the ground floor dog doesn't see him going by. But he doesn't stop, he is determined to do as he pleases no matter what I do. Apparently, last week there was a big car crash on the interstate and the crash victim had been shot. But the car rolled over so it is impossible to tell if she was shot before or during her time in the car, the windows are gone. Though an interesting twist to this story is that her divorce was finalized the day she died. Hmmm, that would make an interesting Law and Order episode of Did the former husband shoot her or was she an innocent bystander of a street corner fight. That reminds me of an event that happened when I first st...

Coworker was asking where my make-up school was located. Burbank, CA. Oh, he says. That's next to Hollywood. OHHH, he replied. I told him I could meet a rich and famous star, elope to Las Vagas, and never come back. He says, You better come back cause I don't want to close all week. Now have to ask someone to feed the cats while I'm gone in 9 days. Guy at car rental next door offered but he is not the type I desire snooping around my apartment. Plus, he actually asked what he is suppose to do with a litterbox. I don't have time for training lessons. Later.

Having quite a day. I arrive and the counter is busy with customers and rent out most of the cars. Customers keep coming and guys are bringing the wrong type of cars. What gives?, my coworkers ask them since I'm doing my reservation list. Oh, they were just bringing cars over that they just washed, that's all. Guess what, all the type of cars we need are clean. Coworkers explain which cars are needed and need immediately cause another busy hour is coming in half hour. While they are in process of shuttling cars, I get a club member furious I don't have a GPS for him, hates the few cars I have, then my coworkers have to place keys on the wrong hook so I announce a car I don't have and that's the car he will accept, and can't understand why I'm not ready when he made his res months ago (him and everybody else). Coworker jumps in explaining the car rental next door has better cars. "This is ridiculous. This is Sunday for crying out loud" he continues....

Had a boring day at work with hardly any customers that I ran the battery out on my cell phone from playing solitaire. And that is with 2 full movies and the last half hour of third movie. New gal at the car rental next door got scratched by her new kitten and wants to get rid of it. I said I could take it in. She is convinced this is a mean kitten because the mother was a stray and gave birth in a friend's garage or because it was taken away from its mother too soon. Whatever the reason, it tears things up, knocks things over, and attacks her daughter. Sounds like a normal kitten to me. My cats did the exact same things when they were kittens. Then she comments how does one discipline a kitten. I'm still working on that. I said that positive reinforcement works better than punishment. When they use to climb on my screens (well still they do but less often and they get down when I say "Down"), I would grab they off, set them down saying "Down", then while th...

Went to sister's house after Oprah. They had Cher and Tina Turner on so had to watch that. Had to deal with rush hour traffic and thought I was going to get into an accident a few times, but luck smiled upon me. I arrived just after they did. My niece let me smell the flowers they got me. They're fake. My sister didn't want the cats to eat my birthday present. Yes, they have that tendency to do that and spill water all over the table. They are beautiful pink roses in a white vase sitting on my display case. Niece wanted to wrap it, but that is a little hard to wrap. They also got me a big cupcake balloon. Frodo ran away when he saw it and jumped on the cupboards. After watching Precious chew on the ribbon, he came down and chewed on the ribbon too. So anyway. They got a marble cake with lime green and pale pink icing. Niece opened my card for me. She even signed her name, mostly. It is a music card singing "Girls Just Want to Have Fun". We went out to a fancy loca...

A Very Happy Birthday to me, to me. A Very Merry Birthday to me, to me. Now I'll blow the candle out and make my wish come true. A Very Happy Birthday to Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Had fun babysitting my niece last night. We watched Disney Movies and had pancakes for supper. Niece wasn't hungry until the cat stole her bacon off her plate. I grabbed it back with cat hissing and growling, washed it off and gave it to niece telling her to eat it before the cat steals it again. She ate it. She was wanting a snack of crackers, but I said no because she has a pancake here she hasn't eaten. Pancake first, then she got her bedtime yogurt and milk. Got her pj's on and read stories, but refused to join her stuffed animals in bed until Mommy came home. She was wired when sister showed up and I forgot to brush niece's teeth. We almost forgot her stuffed animal at daycare, but niece remembered it when we reached the car so went back for it. Must have her lamby and pony. Had a ...

Precious and I had a lovely cuddle session with him snoring like a hurricane, okay more like a whistle. Then he flipped over wheezing and gagging so I was afraid of him vomiting on my pillow, then my blanket, and finally the rug. No vomit. Poor baby. Took Precious out yesterday and the UPS guy pulled up. I rushed right over giving my name since I am expecting packages for my make-up school. Precious had to investigate the box. I pried it open to find 2 packages of eyelashes in a large box full of peanuts. Peanuts for 2 plastic boxes of fake eyelashes? Weirdoes. Then Frodo had to meow from the balcony several times. But I know he wasn't going to put on his harness so left him upstairs to meow. Got two more birthday cards. One from my brother and one from another aunt. Brother's card had a kitten with a large tutu collar asking how I stay so cute all these years. No walk today. Much colder today so back in sweatshirts after dragging out my tank tops from the heat of the past few ...

I took Precious outside today, after 5 minutes of fighting the harness. The bird feeder lady came home with one of her sons. Precious was no where near her bird feeder or her porch so she didn't bite my face off as usual. When her son came out, he told I have big cat to ask his weight, then asked if I was serious when I said his name is Precious. Precious came up to him and he asked if he will bite him. No, Precious doesn't bite (he scratches). He petted Precious. Precious continued to sniff around and plopped himself by the bird feeder. Bird feeder lady comes out and I tell Precious it is time to go home. She invites me to sit with her and chat since my cats love her yard so much. That was a first after having the cats for two years. She didn't pet Precious when he came up to her. It was an awkward conversation with Precious yanking the leash to chase a bird, then chilled on the grass. She told me her name, talked about her husband, her 4 sons and 1 daughter, she's dea...