A Little Rambling

animals I would like to keep as pets: Ragdoll cat - the biggest, laziest, sweetest lump of fur around. Siamese - one of these at the same time would just make a fun contrast, high strung and talkative as they are.

My Halloween was celebrated early, which I will blog about later. My actual Halloween was spent sitting in a vet's office with my black cat in an old tangerine crate, glaring balefully at me through the air holes. He suffered in the indignities of poking and prodding and awkward thermometers, being shaved, and having his wound painfully cleaned out. Tonight, he's been glaring at me with eyes filled with betrayal, peering out from inside his cone of shame. Now he's locked up in the bathroom, since he is clever enough to twist around until he fits through the cat door even with the ridiculous 'Elizabethan collar.' So I feel like a terrible person, listening to the wailing meows echoing down the hallway, accompanied by the sounds of plastic scraping along the wallpaper, and the thudding of a fury body into the door. Here's to sleeping with earplugs to drown out the pitiful cries of my favorite furry friend. Just look at those doleful eyes!

I am not a big shopper. Yes, I like shopping - provided I have money to spend, and preferred when it's not mine! But I don't shop often, and usually only when I'm going with someone else for a specific purpose. This week, though, I have been to a mall on three separate occasions, as well as many other stores in between - and I'm still not done! I need a dress for a recital I get to give in about a month. Having a bunch of other things I needed, and not liking to go alone, I called up the lovely Chantel and we had a delightful day. We got stamps, school supplies, school shirts, organizing stuff, and a perfect dress in concert black - but not one I want for this particular performance. We wandered all around Arizona Mills, which is a very fun mall. Malls vary a great deal in their atmospheres. AZ Mills - large, open, busy, clean, bright, fun. It's enjoyable to walk around shopping there. Since I used to work there, certain corridors smell like work, and it brin...

It's amazing the variety of [obnoxious] noises my kitten can make. Good grief, Charlie Brown. But he's so gosh darn cute (even if he is a little bigger than in this picture now). So, I wrote my blog post yesterday while still in a bit of a post-food poisoning delirium. I had this great idea for the post on Monday, fell violently ill, slept through till Tuesday, and then decided to write. Unfortunately, the inability to hold food down and the extended bouts of delirious sleep kept me from fully expressing what I had planned - and of course, I can't remember half of it now. It was going to be much more fleshed out than that. Instead, I ended up using a lot of Bible verses and not a lot of my own content. Not that I'm complaining - God says things much better than I ever can. I was listening to one of my favorite soundtracks today ( Godspell , if you're curious) and was struck by a line that reminded me of some of what else I was going to say. It's actually ...

I think I'm neurotic. Only mildly, mind you. But every now and then I catch myself thinking particularly OCD thoughts and I have to take a step back and examine myself. For example: tomorrow I'm going to see a play, Judy: the Musical . I'm driving three of my friends there, and as I was going about my day (by which I mean sitting around at work staring at the wall), I realized that means these friends will be in my car. My thought process went a little like this. Hey, there are gonna be people in my car tomorrow! It's a mess! I need to clean out the seats...heck, I should clean the car. Is there a car wash I can get to before my next lesson? No. Well, I could still vacuum it when I get home. Or I can sit here and hand pick up every speck of everything that doesn't belong. I need to take out the trash. I really should dust it. No, overkill. No one cares, right? But they're gonna be in my car! This is an impression of me! I should clean ...

Two things before I get to the picture. 1) OVERJOYED NERD MOMENT! Filming for the Hobbit has begun!!!!!! My first two thoughts when watching this were "12 years ago?!?!?" and "Wow, Peter Jackson is almost unrecognizable." BUT I'M SO EXCITED!! 2) I feel like I have an entourage. Every time I come home, Fiyero and Dallas ( my two of the four felines that live in my house) are waiting outside my car door by the time I'm ready to open it, and they walk with me inside. If I open the door again about 30 seconds later, Eli will be there - he's always a little bit slow. Alright, original picture of my city. As usual, I had several different choices to cycle through. Should I do a cool aerial view from one of my flights? Or a panoramic view from the top of North Mountain, or a deserty view with the city in the distance from the Sonoran Reserve? As I was clicking through them all, I liked most of them, and then I found this one and went "ooooooooh!...