Dear Doll-face,
You'll probably read this on your layover in Istanbul, so I thought I might as well blog to you about what we'll be doing tonight in preparation for you're return tomorrow.
I just gave Bella a bath. It's getting warmer out so she really needs the monthly flea baths to try and start the war preemptively. She hates them, and I don't understand why. When she gets a bath it's like an hour of attention completely dedicated to her. I keep telling her to think of it as extra heavy pets. She just keeps trying to bull rush me out of the shower so it'll all stop sooner.
Other than that, we're trying to finish up the laundry and dishes we didn't do during the boil order madness. We're also picking up the living room and dining room, they are a little bit scattered since Michael organized the tool closet. Also he cleaned the laundry room.
In general, we did spring cleaning and now the house is scary clean in ways it hasn't been clean since I've ever lived here. We're also going to go out and clean out the car, because we need to take some things to my mom's and some things just need to be pulled out of it to make sure there is room for your luggage... Like shoes, I always seem to have shoes in my car. It's annoying as heck but it keeps happening.
I started a radio station on Pandora based around the song Madness by Muse. It might have been the best decision I've ever made. I now have very little desire to do anything besides listen to music.
Okay, so now I need to go clean more.
Safe Travels.
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Two Days
Dear Doll-face,
I'm trying to decide what to do with this blog when you're back. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to write you letters when you are living with us again... but I haven't decided. Would you be interested in taking it over and writing letters to your mom? It was an idea I'd tossed around in my head. I dunno, things to think about.
Also I have no idea about any of your actual flight information, so if you see this before you leave or while you are on your trip you should forward me your flight information via e-mail or facebook so we can know if your flights are running on time or not. I tried to get them from your mom but she has a bad habit of not checking her email over the weekends. We were also trying to figure out what day you would leave over there since traveling there you skipped a day forward traveling here you would skip backwards in time (I think you might be related to the Doctor.). Even if it was a straight flight it would take about 12 hours and we know there is no way you got a straight flight. So far I've calculated that you would have to leave at least Sunday Evening. You'll probably be leaving them in the morning, which would be late tonight/early am our time.
Basically what I am saying is that your big brother and I are on pins and needles nervous because we don't know when you are taking off and that makes us on edge even more because there could be a moment where you are abroad alone and need help and we wouldn't even know you were alone already.
Also Killer has another UTI. Stupid cat.
Be safe.
We love you.
I'm trying to decide what to do with this blog when you're back. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to write you letters when you are living with us again... but I haven't decided. Would you be interested in taking it over and writing letters to your mom? It was an idea I'd tossed around in my head. I dunno, things to think about.
Also I have no idea about any of your actual flight information, so if you see this before you leave or while you are on your trip you should forward me your flight information via e-mail or facebook so we can know if your flights are running on time or not. I tried to get them from your mom but she has a bad habit of not checking her email over the weekends. We were also trying to figure out what day you would leave over there since traveling there you skipped a day forward traveling here you would skip backwards in time (I think you might be related to the Doctor.). Even if it was a straight flight it would take about 12 hours and we know there is no way you got a straight flight. So far I've calculated that you would have to leave at least Sunday Evening. You'll probably be leaving them in the morning, which would be late tonight/early am our time.
Basically what I am saying is that your big brother and I are on pins and needles nervous because we don't know when you are taking off and that makes us on edge even more because there could be a moment where you are abroad alone and need help and we wouldn't even know you were alone already.
Also Killer has another UTI. Stupid cat.
Be safe.
We love you.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
(5) EVIL Cat
Dear Doll-face,
Killer is mad at us for moving things around. On the first day of cleaning he proudly peed in a bag right in front of us. Today just as I got the bed made he peed on the freshly cleaned sheets. I'd be paranoid about him being sick but he's actually peeing, not just a quick spray.. and he looks us in the eye when he does it, just to make sure we are watching. I'm so sick of it.
I came home from work Sunday afternoon with a mega-migraine. I spent most of Monday in pain. I guess that's what happens when you work 11 days straight. I've got a 6 hour shift tonight (that makes 9 hours total today) and then I'm off Thursday. I'm picking up a couple of quick hours tonight, and then Friday morning I'll pick up an hour for a coworker/friend of mine. That just barely covers my silent goal to pick up at least 3 to 6 hours a week. It seems easy, but sometimes finding places to to squeeze those extra hours out can be tricky.
Sunday I'm going to wear a dress to work, to prove that I am a dress kind of person. In doing so I'm getting out of giving a couple of showers just because I wouldn't be dressed for it. My coworkers seem to think I'm not a dress person. Whatever, that just means I'll be comfortable Sunday and they won't be.
We've got another boil order, and a water conservation order to go along with it. Evidently the power went out at the treatment plant and they need us to conserve for 24 hours to catch back up. This is super frustrating.
I wore my PJ's to work this morning, and it's tempting to just continue wearing them for tonight's shift. I suppose I can put on a pair of jeans and I different t-shirt though.
The entire time I've been writing to you, I've been watching L roll around on the floor where some catnip was spilled. The entire time I've been listening to this song because it seems a little bit like stoner music, and is thus fitting. Also he doesn't seem to mind it, so I think that's a sign that he's really enjoying the sweet beats.
Wow, I'm doing a really great job of procrastinating right now. I've managed to sit here and stare at nothing for a solid 5 minutes. I can tell that the newness of my job has warn off because I really don't wanna go. This feeling occurs often. However I can tell I don't hate it yet because I still don't mind it once I actually get there. Also, time still moves at warp speed while I'm there. Once it gets to the point where time crawls, that's where the problems begin. My clients were in pretty good moods this morning, so that makes the day a lot better. A lot of joking and teasing happened. It sucks a lot when your job is to help people who are having a shitty day. It tends to rub off on you and it's hard not to take the crap home with you. But, at least I don't have another 6am shift until Wednesday next week. That is such an awesome feeling. I recently told a couple of the full-time staffers that live out of time if they ever don't feel like they wanna work a morning shift they should call me up and let me have it. I don't mind them, and they are pretty quick. Also I'm pretty used to having to get up for them at this point.
Okay, I need to actually put some effort into cleaning up and going to work now. I've got major bed head because I just laid in bed and watched netflix all afternoon. Take care of yourself.
Killer is mad at us for moving things around. On the first day of cleaning he proudly peed in a bag right in front of us. Today just as I got the bed made he peed on the freshly cleaned sheets. I'd be paranoid about him being sick but he's actually peeing, not just a quick spray.. and he looks us in the eye when he does it, just to make sure we are watching. I'm so sick of it.
I came home from work Sunday afternoon with a mega-migraine. I spent most of Monday in pain. I guess that's what happens when you work 11 days straight. I've got a 6 hour shift tonight (that makes 9 hours total today) and then I'm off Thursday. I'm picking up a couple of quick hours tonight, and then Friday morning I'll pick up an hour for a coworker/friend of mine. That just barely covers my silent goal to pick up at least 3 to 6 hours a week. It seems easy, but sometimes finding places to to squeeze those extra hours out can be tricky.
Sunday I'm going to wear a dress to work, to prove that I am a dress kind of person. In doing so I'm getting out of giving a couple of showers just because I wouldn't be dressed for it. My coworkers seem to think I'm not a dress person. Whatever, that just means I'll be comfortable Sunday and they won't be.
We've got another boil order, and a water conservation order to go along with it. Evidently the power went out at the treatment plant and they need us to conserve for 24 hours to catch back up. This is super frustrating.
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| If I had to take a guess, I'd guess right now he can taste purple. |
I wore my PJ's to work this morning, and it's tempting to just continue wearing them for tonight's shift. I suppose I can put on a pair of jeans and I different t-shirt though.
The entire time I've been writing to you, I've been watching L roll around on the floor where some catnip was spilled. The entire time I've been listening to this song because it seems a little bit like stoner music, and is thus fitting. Also he doesn't seem to mind it, so I think that's a sign that he's really enjoying the sweet beats.
Wow, I'm doing a really great job of procrastinating right now. I've managed to sit here and stare at nothing for a solid 5 minutes. I can tell that the newness of my job has warn off because I really don't wanna go. This feeling occurs often. However I can tell I don't hate it yet because I still don't mind it once I actually get there. Also, time still moves at warp speed while I'm there. Once it gets to the point where time crawls, that's where the problems begin. My clients were in pretty good moods this morning, so that makes the day a lot better. A lot of joking and teasing happened. It sucks a lot when your job is to help people who are having a shitty day. It tends to rub off on you and it's hard not to take the crap home with you. But, at least I don't have another 6am shift until Wednesday next week. That is such an awesome feeling. I recently told a couple of the full-time staffers that live out of time if they ever don't feel like they wanna work a morning shift they should call me up and let me have it. I don't mind them, and they are pretty quick. Also I'm pretty used to having to get up for them at this point.
Okay, I need to actually put some effort into cleaning up and going to work now. I've got major bed head because I just laid in bed and watched netflix all afternoon. Take care of yourself.
Saturday, April 20, 2013
(9) Boil Orders and other B.S.
Dear Doll-face,
We had a flood. It was so bad that one of the day programs got cancelled so I picked up an extra shift at work because people had to stay home. The buses couldn't get to the day program building due to the flooding. It has been since Thursday last week since I've had a day off. I get one Monday. Just today and tomorrow more and then I can get a break. I am so ready for this.
Yesterday it SNOWED and your brother mowed the lawn. Figure that out. We turned off the heat to save on electric since it was barely being used, and now we are freezing in the early mornings and late at night. I'm hardcore though, so I tell your brother to suck it up and put on more clothes.
So, along with the flooding, we had a boil order because the treatment plant was also flooded. It just got lifted, thank goodness. It made work a nightmare. When you've got 8 people who take their meds and need to drink water with them, and you are out of the bottled water, you run into a problem. Last night we were boiling pots on all four stove tops and pouring it into pitchers.
We've also got a new person visiting this weekend. She is replacing the resident that died a a couple of months ago. (We all really miss her still.) She's visiting this weekend but will move in May 1st after the paper work is signed off on. Senior staff is rolling their eyes about her actually returning to her old house for a couple of weeks, apparently the last 3 new residents that "visited for a weekend" the old staff just never picked them up so they stayed. That seems pretty dumb to me, but whatever I guess. She's fairly independent, so she does her own meds and has open community time. Thank goodness, I couldn't handle another wheelchair. I've been trying to steadily pick up extra hours, so far so good. I usually clock about 3 extra a week, but once college is out, that will stop because one of the girls won't need to leave early anymore.
Killer snuck outside today. He isn't home yet. He'll hopefully get home soon. I feel for him, but he just can't be out there were he can eat non-approved of things. The cats all three have different food dishes that they get at their two different meal times. We're trying really hard to get them used to eating at specific times and eating all of their allotted food at that time. They still spend a great deal of time begging and herding us to where the food is kept. We currently are sleeping on the pull out at night until we get our bedroom deep cleaned up because L stole a sleeve a saltine crackers and we can't find it. He meows at the door to try and get in so he can eat food from his cracker stash. It's like he's a druggie. It's adorable.
We have also been locking Bella in the kitchen at night, which means L comes down stairs and wanders. At this point he expects to be able to roam after she gets fed, and knows to go upstairs when we start taking down the baby gate. It's actually kind of cute. With any luck we can keep this routine up and eventually maybe she will get used to his presence downstairs and stop caring.
Anyway, I need to eat some lunch and take a shower. I've been cleaning most of the morning and I am kind of smelly. I don't think my coworkers or clients would appreciate working with me right now. LOVE YOU!!!!!!
We had a flood. It was so bad that one of the day programs got cancelled so I picked up an extra shift at work because people had to stay home. The buses couldn't get to the day program building due to the flooding. It has been since Thursday last week since I've had a day off. I get one Monday. Just today and tomorrow more and then I can get a break. I am so ready for this.
Yesterday it SNOWED and your brother mowed the lawn. Figure that out. We turned off the heat to save on electric since it was barely being used, and now we are freezing in the early mornings and late at night. I'm hardcore though, so I tell your brother to suck it up and put on more clothes.
We've also got a new person visiting this weekend. She is replacing the resident that died a a couple of months ago. (We all really miss her still.) She's visiting this weekend but will move in May 1st after the paper work is signed off on. Senior staff is rolling their eyes about her actually returning to her old house for a couple of weeks, apparently the last 3 new residents that "visited for a weekend" the old staff just never picked them up so they stayed. That seems pretty dumb to me, but whatever I guess. She's fairly independent, so she does her own meds and has open community time. Thank goodness, I couldn't handle another wheelchair. I've been trying to steadily pick up extra hours, so far so good. I usually clock about 3 extra a week, but once college is out, that will stop because one of the girls won't need to leave early anymore.
Killer snuck outside today. He isn't home yet. He'll hopefully get home soon. I feel for him, but he just can't be out there were he can eat non-approved of things. The cats all three have different food dishes that they get at their two different meal times. We're trying really hard to get them used to eating at specific times and eating all of their allotted food at that time. They still spend a great deal of time begging and herding us to where the food is kept. We currently are sleeping on the pull out at night until we get our bedroom deep cleaned up because L stole a sleeve a saltine crackers and we can't find it. He meows at the door to try and get in so he can eat food from his cracker stash. It's like he's a druggie. It's adorable.
We have also been locking Bella in the kitchen at night, which means L comes down stairs and wanders. At this point he expects to be able to roam after she gets fed, and knows to go upstairs when we start taking down the baby gate. It's actually kind of cute. With any luck we can keep this routine up and eventually maybe she will get used to his presence downstairs and stop caring.
Anyway, I need to eat some lunch and take a shower. I've been cleaning most of the morning and I am kind of smelly. I don't think my coworkers or clients would appreciate working with me right now. LOVE YOU!!!!!!
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
(13) Baking/Cooking/Cleaning
Dear Doll-face,
Holy crap I have officially become one of the "cool kids" at work. Today we had mandatory training and some of the girls invited me out to lunch before our class. I don't mean to be super excited, but I am... It's so lame. I think mostly I'm excited because maybe I can start calling some of these ladies friends... Maybe.
Michael and I have been doing some spring cleaning, because the house needed spring cleaning.. and so do the animals. They also all need spring cleaning. Mostly Charlie. Charlie always needs cleaning. It has been very rainy, so your brother hasn't had a chance to mow the lawn yet, but it already needs it.
Last night there was a big storm, and we woke up to hail. It scared some of the animals... which meant I've been up since probably 4am. I'm a little frustrated about that. I'm pretty tired.. but not all that tired, because I was awake enough to make donut holes for Michael for breakfast today. Next time I'll make some glazed and some cinnamon sugar instead of all of them just cinnamon sugared. They were really warm and yummy. Maybe we can make some together sometime soon.
I have also made rainbow cake in a jar this week, and last night I made no bake chocolate peanut butter cookies because we had guests over for dinner.
Okay, I already need to go get dressed to meet people out for lunch, so I'm going to have to cut the blog off here. Miss you! Take care of yourself(and everyone else too).
Holy crap I have officially become one of the "cool kids" at work. Today we had mandatory training and some of the girls invited me out to lunch before our class. I don't mean to be super excited, but I am... It's so lame. I think mostly I'm excited because maybe I can start calling some of these ladies friends... Maybe.
Michael and I have been doing some spring cleaning, because the house needed spring cleaning.. and so do the animals. They also all need spring cleaning. Mostly Charlie. Charlie always needs cleaning. It has been very rainy, so your brother hasn't had a chance to mow the lawn yet, but it already needs it.
I have also made rainbow cake in a jar this week, and last night I made no bake chocolate peanut butter cookies because we had guests over for dinner.
Okay, I already need to go get dressed to meet people out for lunch, so I'm going to have to cut the blog off here. Miss you! Take care of yourself(and everyone else too).
Thursday, April 11, 2013
(18) Fast Times?
Dear Doll-face,
Work has been intense... and I've had some mega migraines to make it even more stressful. We were supposed to have a staff meeting today but it got pushed, so I don't really know when it will be. That's always anxiety inducing.
The trip to California is off. Trish isn't making the move. I'm sad, but it's not a huge loss. I've decided to go ahead and keep the time off request in the bin, maybe we can make a mini trip somewhere that weekend when it comes along.
For now we are slowly picking up the house and rearranging things. We've had a lot of people move in and out, and things feel a bit awkward, so we're moving some furniture out and around. We're even going through and pulling out things that we are getting rid of during city-wide pick up. Sadly it's been raining the past couple of days so we haven't finished the yard yet either. Now it's top priority though, because your brother is going to have to mow any day now.
Killer is still moody and frustrating, because he can't go outside. I've been thinking of hitting the pet store to look for a new toy for him. Their starting to do a little better with the timed feeding now that we've moved it into smaller amounts twice daily.
Bella got her first "hair cut" of the season to help with the hair in her hind quarters that tends to get messy and tangled in the summer. She'll get a bath in about a week or so. She's really starting to shed her winter coat off now.
Anyway, I'm making some mac and cheese, so to the kitchen I go.
Take care!
Work has been intense... and I've had some mega migraines to make it even more stressful. We were supposed to have a staff meeting today but it got pushed, so I don't really know when it will be. That's always anxiety inducing.
The trip to California is off. Trish isn't making the move. I'm sad, but it's not a huge loss. I've decided to go ahead and keep the time off request in the bin, maybe we can make a mini trip somewhere that weekend when it comes along.
For now we are slowly picking up the house and rearranging things. We've had a lot of people move in and out, and things feel a bit awkward, so we're moving some furniture out and around. We're even going through and pulling out things that we are getting rid of during city-wide pick up. Sadly it's been raining the past couple of days so we haven't finished the yard yet either. Now it's top priority though, because your brother is going to have to mow any day now.
Killer is still moody and frustrating, because he can't go outside. I've been thinking of hitting the pet store to look for a new toy for him. Their starting to do a little better with the timed feeding now that we've moved it into smaller amounts twice daily.
Bella got her first "hair cut" of the season to help with the hair in her hind quarters that tends to get messy and tangled in the summer. She'll get a bath in about a week or so. She's really starting to shed her winter coat off now.
Anyway, I'm making some mac and cheese, so to the kitchen I go.
Take care!
Monday, April 8, 2013
(21) CHICKEN!!!!!
Dear Doll-face,
I cooked a whole chicken, with the bones, the entire thing. I cooked it in the slow cooker. It is literary falling off the bone. It is so yummy. Also I am using the bones and the giblets to make chicken broth overnight tonight. I'm going to freeze some of it into cubes for easy use, the rest I'll just freeze in bulk for other use. I am super proud of myself.
Today is my day off, so I am trying to relax in preparation for a hardcore week. I'm working some weird hours and I have a lot on my non-work related to do list.
Anyway, I just wanted to pop in, and tell you about my epic chicken.. because I am proud of myself. Muahahahaha. <3
I cooked a whole chicken, with the bones, the entire thing. I cooked it in the slow cooker. It is literary falling off the bone. It is so yummy. Also I am using the bones and the giblets to make chicken broth overnight tonight. I'm going to freeze some of it into cubes for easy use, the rest I'll just freeze in bulk for other use. I am super proud of myself.
Today is my day off, so I am trying to relax in preparation for a hardcore week. I'm working some weird hours and I have a lot on my non-work related to do list.
Anyway, I just wanted to pop in, and tell you about my epic chicken.. because I am proud of myself. Muahahahaha. <3
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