JdotMI's LiveJournal

So today was my first day of vacation where I was home alone. satyr_mi had work again, so I got the place all to myself. Well, myself and two yowling kitties. Daniel was insistent something was wrong because I was home. He eventually calmed down and went to sleep for a few hours. I spent the day with Sims and minor housework. Sim for a couple hours, do dishes. Sim for a couple hours, clean the living room. Sim for a couple hours, vacuum. Sim for a couple hours, make dinner.

Now I'm gonna go Sim for a couple hours.

I did not stay up last night to watch the ball drop on TV or anything special. After all, I had work today. Managed to get to bed before midnight, but didn't fall asleep until after. Maybe I shoulda kept watching TV anyway. Oh well.

Woke up this morning, since I had work and what not, to a kitty (William) snuggling up and demanding pettings. This was of the good. So he got his pettings for a bit, and then I got ready for work. That part was not so much of the good.

I stopped at McDonalds on the way in to work. THEY WERE NOT OPEN. So, now I'm sitting here with no breakfast, no caffeine and no patience. Great way to start 2010. Really, it is.

On the plus side, we've had all of 16 calls this morning. And we're fully staffed. Maybe not so much with the plus side, then.

Well, off I go back to see what stores are actually awake yet. And try to not gnaw the arms off of co-workers for lack of breakfast foodage.

Okay, so, like, yesterday I was supposed to be all good and domestic and make my apartment more presentable for everyone showing up on Saturday (which is now a scary number of people, I'm just sayin') and I did very very little of it.

If any of y'all see me online tonight before 10pm eastern time, tell me to go clean my house. :-p Seriously. It shouldn't take me more than two hours to get everything presentable, and I know there are things I'll be doing tomorrow when I get home and I'll do my vacuuming Saturday morning, but still.

Someday I shall have to kill rubicontiger. Really. He got me addicted to something that should not be named. IT IS ENTIRELY HIS FAULT. I may be gay, but I'm not THAT gay.

Anyrate. Monday I'll take the Xbox in and be all "OH HAI, REPAIR PLZ don't lose my saved games".

I'm ready for my vacation now. Really.

Apparently Daniel does not like being off his meds. Or off his food. One of the two. *sigh*

The cat decided to grace the Vet with a urine sample all over her exam table. Lots of bacteria and she found some crystals (which means stones). Pretty much what everyone expected. He's back on his happy pills again and he has prescription cat food. Seriously. Shit is EXPENSIVE!

Played a bunch of Sims 2 last night. Really. Maybe too much of it. But it's okay, I'll survive. ;)

Hmm. What else. First day back to work was pretty good. Played catch-up with email, had everyone tell me how much they missed me, and realized that the servers will never ever let me escape.

Well, time to go make lunches for today and warn satyr_mi that the kitties are being little shits when it comes to actually eating. :-p

Since I'm a bum, I've been lax in posting. So, here's a list of things I'd love to post about, but since I'm a bum, I'm not.

• City of Heroes and Villains
• My love of TiVo
• Xbox360 games to know and love
• Battlestar Galactica pseudoaddictions
• My freakish new love of cooking
• Coupled with the shiny new deep skillet we bought that I've used three times since we bought it last weekend
• The new Borders.com site
• Getting my oil changed on my car
• My kitty no longer peeing blood
• A strong desire to get back into WoW
• But finances still suck, so not so much

So, yeah.  That's a nice big list, eh?  Not so much with the posty of late.  Pretend there was content in the post.  :-p

So, I know, I'm only posting about my cat lately. :-p Deal.

Daniel was fine all weekend. Basically, from the time we got him home to the time I got up this morning he didn't complain once or anything. Fed him this morning, and then he decided to have issues. Little bit of spotting (on a white under-shirt of mine, and there appeared to be blood) and very little attempts at spotting after he came out of the litter box. It wasn't as bad as it had been, but after two days of perfectly normal kitty behavior it was a bit upsetting. He was happily staring out the window when I left for work this morning, so we'll see how the week of double dosed meds progresses.

We're home, Daniel's cranky and snoozing. He got a shot of antibiotics and we got some more antibiotics to give him for the next week. No blockate, so just a urinary tract infection. He was kind enough to bleed on the kitty weighing machine while we were there. -_- So at least we didn't have any doubt as to whether there had been blood in his urine. He had a slight fever, but the doctor said he'll be fine.

So, last night as I was leaving the weekend job, I got a bit melancholy (why?????) since it was probably the last time I'd be in that particular building. And while I was very excited to go home and go to bed, I was kinda bummed out, too. Anyrate, I get in my car and leave the garage and the first song on the radio comes up as... well, I'd give zute69 one guess as to what song it was, but I'd have to explain more to everyone else. Needless to say, it improved my drive home considerably purely for nostalgic reasons. Ahh. Good ol' gaming days!

So, I got home and was all excited to go to bed... and discovered that my cat had decided to upchuck all over my freshly washed comforter and carpet. >_< He pretty much puked up everything he ate yesterday, so we were worried, but I noticed he hadn't puked at all overnight, and I know he ate cuz his food dish was empty. So we'll see how he is today.

Back to work I go!

It's Shadowrun weekend, which means I gamed on Saturday and then came to work at midnight. This means I am now very very tired.

satyr_mi and I traded in our old cell phones for some camera phones. I have, of course, had way too much fun with the camera portion of the phone. Now just need to find a non-expensive way to get the pictures off the phone and onto my computer. :-p Why, yes, I do have a digital camera I could use instead of the phone, but what's the fun in that? I have some really cute kitty pictures on the camera. And some pictures of margaras, who wants the pictures. Tried getting some of lilacmoon5, but sticking a camera in her face is grounds for murder apparently. :-p

I've been drinking coffee tonight. It's not helping the tired bit. :-p Well, correction. It helped while I was drinking it. Then, when I stopped, I was like "zzzzzzzzzzzzzznrk zzzzzzzzzz" and it was bad.

I ate way too much junk throughout the day. We wound up ordering pizza for gaming dinner, but I only had two slices before being full. Of course, having eaten nothing but cookies and two chicken sandwiches and potato chips and CrackSnack (aka puppy chow in most recipe books, although lilacmoon5 made it with Crispix as opposed to Chex) all day means that my stomach is on strike against the lack of real food.

I've now watched Rent five times since buying it Wednesday night. And I've listened to the movie soundtrack twice through, not counting the play time in my car.

Going back to the food thing... I am just now finally getting hungry again. Which means I'll be starving by the time I get home. This does not bode well. Maybe I'll cook up a chicken sandwich or something.

Kitty!
Poor Daniel. He really tries to be a nice non-problematic kitty. Sadly, he has very long fur (part Maine Coon) and therefore gets really big hairballs. Around 3:30 am or so this morning, one of said hairballs decided to eject itself upon our couch. I cleaned it up, but we need to wash the cushion covers now.

Sleep?
Yes, I was awake at around 3:30 this morning. Only long enough to get a drink of water and clean up a hairball the size of a small third world country. The past few nights I keep waking up randomly in the middle of the night and then falling back asleep. It's getting kind of annoying.

Kombat!
We decided to keep Mortal Kombat: Deception for a few more days as the game has grown on us both. I'm enjoying it and whatnot. It's cheap to keep it for five more days anyway. Cheaper than renting it again anyway. :-p We will probably wind up buying it, but we actually need money for that and all.

Money...
Speaking of, we really have none at the moment. And I mean that in the most literal of senses. As in, I don't know how all the bills this month are getting paid on time. In fact, I'm 99% certain that some bills will not be paid on time this month because there just isn't the money for it. It's not the end of the world. Taxes have been done and need sending. I'm going to try to find a place that will let me e-file my state taxes. After all, that is where my actual refund is coming from. I owe the Feds again this year, but the State more than makes up for it. That tends to happen when you pay twice as much in State taxes as you actually owe throughout the year.

D&D
Want Complete Arcane. Need to download the 3.5 updates for a few other books and print them out. I've been doing incredibly short write-ups of Deities from my campaign world. Incredibly short in the Name, Alignment, Portfolio, Domains sense. I have some more detailed information on some of them elsewhere, and this is really just a first pass, but it's progress at least. I've got things planned out for long term goals for the game, but I need a few more short term goals in place to get things rolling. I hope to have a few more choices for the players in the next session. A few things they can choose to do. None of which is particularly urgent, or, at least, that seems particularly urgent at the time.

Oohhh things just clicked in brain. Must write down so I don't forget them. ^_^


And, now, it's time to do some work.