August 2009 ArchiveAugust 27, 2009Look at what we almost ran over last night on a trip to the ice cream shop: Poor
thing. It's just a tiny baby, six maybe seven weeks old, and
horrifically, terribly infested with fleas. Trying to pet him is like
trying to pet fuzzy sand - his skin is just so
loaded with fleas/flea poop. He's a scurvy bastard alright! lol One eye
is completely shut and gooky (probably from the fleas also) and he's
severely anemic. Of course I KNOW ALL THIS
because I'm the stupid bugger who had to scoop him up and take him to
the vet this morning first thing. Nothing like spending $120 on a cat
you don't want or need. *sigh* (I've already got 4 - I'm *NOT* keeping
another!) But he was so sad just sitting there in the road, weakly
crying. (He's skin and bones too.) How could I not grab him? That road
is pretty quiet, no traffic, but there are also no street lights and
the next car that came along might not have missed him like we did. And
there are always fisher cats and coyotes to snap him up. So leaving him
there wasn't an option.Now I just have to figure out what to DO
with him once he's better. At least he's got nice colors instead of
being all black. All black cats are the pits for trying to rehome. His
'black' spots aren't actually black either - they're an orangey brown
in more light. Very pretty! Tortoiseshell like.I've dubbed him
Winky for the moment because of his one eye thing. (Also doubles as a
homage to House Elves ala Harry Potter. Maybe he's more of a Weasley
though? :))
August 26, 2009Are bees have flown the coop! Or at least some of them have. (Half of them?)They've
been acting 'antsy' for a few weeks and on Sunday they finally swarmed
- landing waaaaaaay up high in one of our trees. Just a big, buzzing,
hanging ball of bees.  If
you can reach them, you can catch them and start another hive but they
were too high to catch. He made many, many calls out to other local bee
keepers and no one had the equipment to grab them. Tried to entice them
into a hive using a hive on our roof, stocked with pollen patties but
that didn't work either. Sometime yesterday they finally 'un-balled'
themselves and took off to parts unknown. All gone. *sniff*It's most likely too late in the season for them to accumlate enough food to get them through winter too so that's a bummer. You
can never be too sure why they swarm because it could be any number of
things but they just may have gotten too big in size (numbers wise)
for our one hive to contain them. He took such good care of them they
growed up and went to find their own place to live. lol Still plenty
of bees left so no biggie I guess. Should be able to harvest a little
honey soon- Yum! Can't wait to see (and taste) that! :)
August 20, 2009 I's got myself into some eye trouble. *sniff*I've
been 'limping' around for a couple weeks now with a squinty, teary,
sand-blasted-feeling left eye (not non-stop - it comes and it goes)
and my stubborn-ass finally broke down and got to the doctor for it. Corneal scratch. Pffft. 3-4 days of no contact lenses, drops every 2 hours, etc. Figures right, because I have jury duty starting tomorrow. Heh. Nothing
like a goopy-eyed, constantly medicating, ghetto-pirate-looking day out
in public to bring your vanity down a notch or two. lol
August 17, 2009
Lots
of lots of fall/halloween stuff up for grabs in the Bead Shoppe today!
I loves me some Halloweenies - all that color makes me smile. I was
finding it mentally exhausting to
redo all the Halloween photos from last year, just absolutely ,
positively exhausting, especially with everything that is going on
right now so you know what? I cut myself a break and 'pinched' the
photos from last year. Do I care? Not one bit. lolol Sorry, but I
don't. It was just a HUGE burden off my chest to give myself the okay
to do that. I find making beads over and over again can be especially
zen-like when I'm stressed but doing photo taking/editing when I'm like
that is a one-way ticket to angry cryfests. *snort* So I'm just not
going there at the moment. I added a few new things and will just
continue to add new things here and there as I do them up. No mass
photo taking ...WHEW! Me - 1, Cryfests - 0.
In other news,
getting up early is for the BIRDS. *yawn* I have that jury duty coming
up and girlfriend (meaning me) isn't at all familiar any more with
getting up 6am ish so I'm trying to be all SMRT and crap and wake up
earlier each day this week so I'll be 'prepared' for the real thing.
Day one so far: success in that I didn't snooze the alarm when it went
off. Complete FAIL in that I'm slow-pokey and getting LESS done than
usual even though I was up 3 hours earlier than normal. *sigh*
August 10, 2009Holy crap the 10th already? *gulp* That ain't right. *sigh*Anyhoo.
Will have new beadies up this week but not before Wednesday. We're
having all our crappy, old, wood windows (13 in all) replaced with
shiny new vinyl ones Wednesday (yay!) so my work area will be out of
commission for a couple days. Have to deconstruct my ventilation/work
area so the workers can get to the window in that corner and then
figure out how to rejigger everything for the new window. Not worried
about it though - the hubby will figure it out. He always does. That's
why he's a KEEPER. lol But there's no point in taking orders on new
stuff when I can't actually work on orders, yes?  Anyone
else a fan of the Sookie Stackhouse book series? I was stocking up my
Kindle with some new stuff for a jury duty stint I've got coming up
later this month (hopefully it will just be a one day thing but my
Kindle is prepared for the worst now, lol) and I noticed the new Sookie
that came out last May had dropped in price so I got that one too and
read through it this weekend. (It originally came out for $21. Um, for
a digital, non paper, non-holding-in-your-hand book? I DON'T THINK SO.
) Hmm...not
sure where all the bad reviews are coming from on Amazon over
this book. I love the Sookie series as much as any one but I'd hardly
call Ms. Harris the most skilled or clever writer I've ever read. Her
books are meant to be entertaining and this one certainly was so what's
the problem? These books ALWAYS have a few loose ends - I would think
anyone who read past the first few books in the series would just be
over that fact by Book 9. *shrug* I definitely liked
it better though than Book 8. (That one was a
bit of a let down for me after the stellar Book 7.) My major
complaint, I guess, would be that it ends too abruptly. Leaving people
wanting more is, obviously, a good literary device to get people to buy
the next book that comes out but the ending seemed too rushed. It
needed another chapter to properly finished it off. lol Book 10 comes
out next May I believe so we'll see where she goes with it. Seems
like the tv series is going to be around for a while too so it will be
interesting to see this book on screen, considering the ending. Scary!
I'll never think of fairies, even my own, in the same way. lolol
August 4, 2009
Ugh. I'm turning into one of those people who never updates their site blog. I *HATE* those people!!! lol
Maybe
I should hire 'guest' bloggers to update for me? If you send me
something witty, pithy, or funny, I will post it and repay you in
beads. Haha!
Anyhoo.....things are a little blah lately. I guess
that's why I haven't much felt like posting. The FIL's lung cancer is
no longer steadily marching through his system - it's now racing. The
past 3 weeks has brought drastic changes in his condition.
Realistically, that makes sense because he's not being treated for the
cancer so at some point you know you'll cross that invisible line where
you know it's all down hill from that point, but it doesn't make it any
easier to deal with once you get to that point. I think the next few
weeks or so are going to be a little rocky so I'll apologize now for
any blogging absences or delayed email replies that may happen.
I
need to not shop online any more when tired too because I did a stupid
thing the other day in ordering some chair pads where I didn't realize
they came in sets of TWO vs.
being sold as singles. Booooo for ending up with 8 pads when I only
need 4 but Yayyyy for saving $30+. (Or for saving $30 when I get around
to returning the extras because even though I like ORDERING online, I
only like RETURNING things in person, if I can. I'll get around to it
one of these days.) ANY WAY. I haven't bought chair pads for a long
time and, ummmm, where are the ties on them? Is this a new thing in
2009? Where they don't get tied to the chair any more? Oh, these have a
nice rubber backing on them so they stay put on my wood chairs. No
problems there! Those suckers don't MOVE. But I miss the 'look' of the ties. They just seem......odd without
them. ALL MY FAULT mind you because they aren't pictured with the ties.
So I overbought *and* ordered something weird. Way to go me!!!!! lol I
like the chair pads though so I think I'm just going to make some ties
myself for them. I figure if I sew some tubes out of fabric, iron them
flat and tack them in the back of the cushion it will work very
nicely. God knows I have enough fabric stashed away to easily find
something on hand that will match nicely. I'm just thrown for a loop by
the absence of ties. Time is passing me by with all these newfangled
gizmos like chair pads that magically stay in place without being tied.
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