Haven't blogged in awhile

I haven't blogged in ages. I'm either tired, busy, stressed etc., but today reading MeanMrMustard's Musings I've been inspired by Larry to write some little tidbits that I thought about blogging and just never did.

To start off with, my divorce is not final. simply because my hubby wants to re-negotiate the terms of our divorce including wanting my camera since he says it's his cause he bought it. It was a birthday present to me, and I'm the only one that has used it (and he has his own, he must have dropped it... therefore :-<). Since then I've had evaluators in the decide how much every piece of furniture is worth and another evaluator in to decide what my house is worth. Nevermind that the house was mine before.. apparently it doesn't matter if he lived rent free, it only matters if he put money on the house and it's worth more. Grr..

Ok, that out of the way.. some of the quirkier things that have happened

well, as you know we have a cat.. Chiana. She's gorgeous and she's a little weird. She won't drink water beside her food. I've tried in ceramic bowls, in glass plates, in regular drinking glasses. She just leaves it there. She started trying always to drink my water that I had at my computer. So, now I have a regular human glass of water on my desk just for her. I fill it with fresh water all the time... and every time she eats, she comes around, jumps up and drinks. I'm quite happy that I finally can see her drinking but now she sort of thinks that whatever I have is hers.

Case in point: I often have cereal in the morning and sit in front of my computer and read the forums ... read up in chat what I've missed and as soon as she hears me crunching on my cheerios.. she's here.. she gets up on the desk.. and puts her big googly eyes in front of mine... and looks all sad, like "If only I could have a small sip and a little cheerios or two, I'd be a happy cat! " so, I say.. no, Chiana, it's mine..not yours. She continues, puts a paw on my hand.. "but, but.. look how sweet I am.. surely you can see that I could use a small sip of milk.. a tiny bit of strawberry ... please, purty please?" ...which ends up with me leaving her the bottom of the bowl.. some days she eats it all.. some days she has 2 cheerios and that's enough. Last week, was one of those 2 cheerios and I'm outta here days, so I continue to read the forums and of course the bowl with left over cheerios and milk rests on my desk while I do so. Hey.. don't look at me that way, I know I'm not perfect! :-D

Anways.. so I'm reading and all of a sudden my connection has gone wonky and I'm not connecting anymore. I restart my browser, click my repair net connection etc., and it still doesn't work. At this point, it's usually my router that has crashed. So, I pull the plug on it for a few seconds and reenter it.. still nothing. Ok, so now I'm on to my external modem (it's a cable thing) I unplug the router again, and then the modem and while I'm unplugging the modem ... of course the cable from the router falls underneath my desk. So, now I have to try and get the cable back up from underneath with one hand and pull it up with the other. This is not going well... my body is kind of all squished against the desk.. and my arms feel like I've been dangling from them from some torture system for hours.. it hurts. Finally I get the plugs back in.. and straighten up.. to feel something trickling down my neck. Yep... you got it.. milk, with a cheerio stuck to my hair too. Yes, yes, I know.. Very Elegant. :-P

Then there was the time a couple of weeks ago that I made some really great homemade stew. I cut up the meat and fried it with flour and onions, added carrots and celery, some red pepper, turnip and potatoes.. bouillon etc., it was going to be fabulous. Throw in some spices ... and a few bay leaves.. heck in a few hours, this will be SO good. Then I think.. hmm.. I should have put a bit of garlic in this (in my opinion, garlic makes just about everything taste better) so I take my garlic press .. and right on top of the stew pot, I squish those handles with all of my might and the whold bottom of the garlic press explodes.. garlic and apparently 5 metal pieces.

I look around and find 4 pieces. I can see there is a pie shaped piece missing. I look at the stew.. oh, man, if someone breaks a tooth eating this, I'll never forgive myself. If I break a tooth on this, I won't forgive myself. I cannot afford a trip to the dentist... and I hate going to the dentist anyways.

So, I spent the next half hour meticulously going through the whole stew, carrot by carrot, potato by potato to find the missing piece. Nothing. Day before yesterday, I find the piece.. lodged behind an old wooden platter I'd got from my mom ages ago.
Can you believe it? I crush the garlic right over the pot, and not one piece landing in it. LOL :-D

oh.. and another cat story. Chiana is female and has been having bursts of heat. Doesn't seem to matter to her if the temperature is -30C, she still gets them. At Xmas when the tree was up.. she's walk under the branches, rub her cheeks and then flip on her back and spread.. she's such a slut.. hehe.

During her last heat, she did something really odd. I was in bed sleeping on my side.. but I could feel her get on my feather blanket. So there I was, dozing and I could feel her walking up my leg as if she were climbing the ramp on a stairway... then down off my hip to my waist. I could feel her sitting there. I thought to myself, oh.. that's so cute! :-) ................... then she got off and sat behind me. I move my hands on my belly and I feel sweaty.. hmmm.. odd, how come I'm so sweaty.. heck, I'm not sweaty, I'm WET!! I get up and open the lights.. she's peed on me. When you hear people say they don't like to get 'crapped' on.. believe me being peed on is No Laughing Matter... well, not when it happens anyways.

Anyways, today it is raining. Literally raining cats and dogs, or at least if you watch Chiana, you'd believe it.. She's been running from window to window everytime a car passes trying to figure it all out. It's kind a cute, kind of annoying. :-P

Besides that, with help, I'm setting up a website for my photographs and art (both real and digital) and also another website for restoration and colorizations of images. Hopefully I can make myself a bit of extra money. Right now, the photo site is ready except not really if you browse with Internet Explorer.. so perhaps in a few days, still a couple kinks to work out. As for the other... still at the mock-up stage. I will be posting here when they both go officially live. I do hope you all come and visit and leave me a comment or two while you are there.

Ok, that's it for today, if you stop by, let me know.. :-)