three day weekend coming right up

First off let me tell you all........

Bernie has this whole weekend off!

(gratutitous calpurrnia picture)

WE have BIG plans that do NOT include going out of the house at anytime.
hahahaha
( I have some plans for us that do not include being vertical but I digress)

he also has NEXT saturday off but is going in to work on my van......
did you hear that????
amazing huh????
let me say it again louder.........
work on my VAN!!!!
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
now he tells me that I need a new exhaust valve that the old one is burnt.
I have NO FREEKEN idea what the hell he is talking about....
I don't actually care really I just want to hear




three of my baby boy..........that last one he WAS a baby.......... LOOK at them ears.....

'love, your van is back and runs GRRRRRRRRRRRRREAT.........'
yeah baby, gimme some of that tony the tiger growls..........

Then he said he wants to get it into the body shop for a bit of work.....

( someone should put ME into the body shop for a bit of work....... Mengele does her best and my shoulders are so very much better but my boobs are still footstools and my ass is a doorstop for a bank vault.......)

(vi's house at halloween..... think COOL thoughts )

Now I want you all to know that I have a pale blue van.......

I wanted a screaming magenta van with yellow flames and dalmatian spots on it........

Bernie didn't think that was a very good idea
he said.........
'maybe a thin purple pinstripe'
huh?
thin?
pinstripe?


(one of my miniature handpainted birdhouses......... I make a bunch of different ones)

does the man actually live with me?????
has he actually KNOWN me for over 30 humminita years........

he tells me............'it would hurt resale'
ah,
excuse me but my van is 14 years old....
I love it and want to KEEP it
what resale?
resale my pattootee
(will someone please give me the proper definintion of a pattootee also, if you would be so kind)

where the hell was I?
ahhhhhhhhh.......

oh yeah my van.
the other excuse for not painting my van magenta is.......
( are you sitting down??? cause this is a good one)
sit there now
take a deep breath..
hold it
hold it
.
.
.
.
the door linings would clash!!!

thump
yup I just dropped............
who the HELL cares about clashing door liningS?

ok soooooooo
I am going to be happy just to get my little van back that runs ok.......
safe dependable and boring blue transportation.....
sniff
I loves the van......
but would really have liked the magenta
an old broad can dream right???


the terrible two some, their 2nd birthday is July 17, I will probably get them new feather teasers...... as their great gramma ate the ones from last year.. and on tuesday, Calpurrnia will have lived here one whole year!!!!!
til next time

vi

here is where I go to therapy

I am about done with therapy, and as you know even though I call my pt mengele, she is very good and I am getting alot of movement back in my shoulders.
(although she does cause me a great deal of pain on a regular basis...... just so she doesn't think she lost her touch)

I dropped the second 24 hour urine test off at the lab and told them if they drop it again .......THEY will have to take it..... talk about PISS ON YOU......
oye

Ok so we have a three day weekend......YEAH!!!!
I plan on just resting with bernie as much as I can IN THE AIR Conditioning.

I am working on a beautiful scarf for my lace class at the local yarn store, and some cloth dolls for various things. I know I owe pictures to you all.......
yes I know
but there is the picture of where I go to pt...... is that ok?????

meanwhile aside from assorted annoyances going on here it is mostly quiet here

I really need to get to the farm and hug me some goaties.......
not the bucks as they are starting to smell again......( they really start smelling bad as they get closer to the rut)

I have soap and lotions to make and I want to cook another whole freezer full of food.....somehow one almost empty shelf in the freezer makes me crazy.

Bernie appears to be making more time at work, thankfully as we can't live on 35 hours a week.

so I will try to get pictures over the weekend......
til next time
vi

The insurance company is going to give me a heart attack

I am getting the run around from the insurance company...... Unfortunately I have to go through their hoops to get anywheres.
I am trying to get my claims paid. They will only pay part.
That isn't what they told me originally.
soooooooooooo
after I do their appeals process.......( excuse me, isn't that kind of like the fox RUNNING the hen house???)
I will turn them into the state insurance commission.
this is annoying the piss out of me.
WHEN did insurance companies get so outrageous?
and hopefully MORE people will turn them in to the insurance commission in the states that they are chartered in.

I do know that the last insurance company I had to turn in got it miraculously straightened out in 2 hours AFTER the insurance commission contacted them.
I expect the same for this claim.
so I have to do this thing again.
I hate this
paper work and legal crap make me extremely antsy.......

I really do wish I drank.

I need a goatie to hug.....
sniff
I won't be seeing my beloved goaties for a few weeks
someone asked me about them
they are my babies........ all them goaties are my babies
they actually live with carole and diana, but they are mine
yup mine all mine

they listen to me when I call them and if I ask them to smile pretty for the camera they do
so they are all my babies.....
I worry about them all, I can tell if one is not right........ I nag carole about them
I adore my goaties

actually I am thinking we need to keep little thaddeaus.. just cause he is so cute. (I already told carole I need to have him, so if bernie continues to do ok at work, money will change hands and he will be mine on paper)

now I am still waiting on my lamb
we are going to see at allentown fair the tunis breeder...... and hopefully the CVM breeder.
I am thinking of tunis.........
yes I know you all are sick of hearing tunis.

ok so have about cvm?
or california red?

between us, we have corriedale, BFL, BL, texel, jacob, merino, angora goats, cashmeres, & alpaca
so I want to get a ewe that no one else has, we have access to a 100% BFL ram, or.. possible tunis ram.
we of course will be looking to breed for fiber more then 'type'

anyone have any opinions please feel free to post them in the comments

I don't think I want shetland or icelandics......... and we do manage to trade fibers and such.....
( I trade soap a lot .............. or dyed fibers)

til next time
when I am in a better mood
vi

I need a break

we had a quiet weekend more or less.
I locked my keys in the ignition of my van and was sort of stuck down at the Local yarn store all day.
I got a ride home in the afternoon around 4 and a few minutes after I got home....Bernie pulled up.
we waited to the sun went down to get the truck.
we also got a free icecream from the swann guy.......... who was parked down the hill.
Moron neighbor put in a pool.
I reported him for no permit
while talking to the zoning board.......
which has the statues online that STATE no landscaping business on this road......
they informed me that the moron got a permit!
so I am thoughly disgusted..........

Zoning says it is illegal........but grants a permit?

and they are treating me like dirt when I call
they are not beleiving me about the barking dog........
we have a noise ordanence that they can't enforce.
they are hostile about when I complain about this barking dog
which barks all the freeken time........ except sometimes at night
they say they can only do something if the dog barks 24 hours and they pull up with the dog barking

I can't wait to move
I really can't

SOMEONE freeken SHOOT ME NOW

AGAIN with the day from hell
it started off ok
(btw you all are going to be reading this sometime Saturday, however it is Friday night as I type this)
I didn't really WANT to get up at 4am, but I sort of did.......
reluctantly.
However once in the shower at 5 am ,I was a bit more resigned to face the day.

I got on the road by 6:30 am to go to pt, and sat down in the lot there for about 1/2 hour knitting waiting for the pt folks to open. (they were a bit late)

I got mangled for an hour.......
really mangled
first Mengele had a crack at me then Ashley......... ( Ashley is a doll btw, and looks EXACTLY like one of my favorite teachers from high school)
Both of these wonderful ladies that look so tiny........ lemme tell you...... don't let them fool you........
they are strong enough to completely beat an entire defensive line into submission.
I kid you not
them ladies are TOUGH.
and STRONG
damn!
They are tiny skinny little things too......

I told Ashley to go ahead and beat the crap out of me cause while I will suffer today, tomorrow I will be better.
And I am getting better but it isn't fun. I need a polar cap, & morphine to get rid of the pain

ok so I got home, all sore and stiff and aching........
I figured I would start some of the cloth dolls for the fair, and some of the stuff for the craft show that my spin group is going to attend.
Thaddeaus had different ideas...........
5 TIMES that damn cat threw the iron, ironing board and pressing gadget thingy down on the floor.
I swear I am going to skin him and make a hat.
then he ate the front part of the doll

then in pressing what was left of the front part of the doll, I scorched it!
I have NEVER scorched a fabric in my life.......
so I am thinking....... the iron didn't really appreciate those falls huh?
it is only about 30 years old............
maybe I need a NEW ONE????

ok let me take a break............... and the PHONE rings...............

now let me tell you, I was thinking it was bernie........ I was waiting on his call.
or maybe Bethie, or Shaggy ( who does owe me a call btw, you hear me Shag??)
nope it was the doctors office, ( not the shoulder doc..........the other end)
they have good news and bad news she tells me
...............
oh shit
...............
ok give me the bad news.....

(thinking to myself.......that damn thyroid huh? that stupid mass on that damn thyroid.)

the bad news is that the lab DROPPED and broke my 24 hour urine sample and they WANT ME TO DO IT AGAIN.............!

you all can't see me right now.....
picture a chicken that caught it's beak in an electrical outlet and is exploding all over the place.....
yup that would be me
but with less feathers

now I have pt three times next week.........Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.......
I have to pick UP the container Monday......
then I have to start at 5am, ( cause it is when you first get up)
and every single freeken drop for 24 hours has to go in that bucket thingy

fun it is NOT.
the contortions alone to get the samples are enough to give a body nightmares......
and this body has been through pt and already has enough nightmare pain.......

not to mention how hysterically funny I look at 3am balance precariously over the bowl. Hell even the CATS laughed their asses off at me. ( picture fawn on her back laughing so hard her feet are up in the air)

It was a sight to make you blind........
and I am about to do it AGAIN

any one who DOUBTS that the three stooges are running the universe...............
HAVE you been READING THIS BLOG????
trust me on this
larry, moe and curly are now watching over me............insuring that Mr. Murphy is always active in my life......
which they film as the blooper reel for the heavenly christmas party.......
who needs to drink?

til next time
vi
or a reasonable facsimile of vi

late breaking news flash.......

I dropped an entire bottle of my orange ginger blend fragance on the studio floor
just when I thought it could not get any worse.
Imagine if you will, 3-5 oz of a very concentrated highly scented fragrance that I use by the DROP in lotions and by the 1/2 oz in soaps..............

I threw 3 pounds of kitty litter on it all and called Bethie practically in tears.
I need to stop working now
right now

New knitting /tote bags

ok here are the new bags isolated without being buried in a post

this is the cream and blue toile, it is the smaller bag, either used as a sock knitting bag, or just a hand bag ( pockabook for those who speak 'jersey')




these two are the sock/handbag and the large tote ( shopping bag size)
I didn't take a picture of the lining of these but it is a very nice batik cotton with lots of pockets in the large tote.
enough to stuff all the things I need when I teach or spin group.

I have a cream/blue large bag & tool bag to make next as well as the wild colored set from spring, and a really nice dark tan and burgandy floral set to make.

now onto today.
After PT, I am working on a new cloth doll for this years county fair.
I hope to get the body done shortly, maybe today.
it is supposed to be brutally hot this weekend so I figure I will get that one made, then onto the other stuff for the fair.
I would like at least 15 assorted items to bring.
Premiums are not too bad between 15 and 20 each for first and second place, so I could make enough to justify buying my lendrum dt spinning wheel.

I had gotten a pair of SAS sandals for the deposition, and I wore them the other day to the hospital........... let me tell you guys, they are worth every drop of the almost 100 bucks we spent on them.
My legs did NOT hurt walking in and out of that endless hospital.
AMAZING!

Now I have to go as Amber the senile 4008 year old cat just peed on her pillow..(and then absent mindedly wandered off- time for the trip to the promised land?????)

I swear I am thinking of peeing on her head

And to Amie, who is undergoing surgery today, remember I am sitting on your shoulder...... and whispering funny stuff in your ears... you will be fine.
AND we will 'see you in october' to paraphrase the song..................

til next time
vi

The morning after the day before NOW WITH PIX

closeup of the blue and cream small tote


First off......... mamography hurts........
apparently it is gone but won't be forgotten for days.............. Aspirin or no aspirin
Husbands need to have ONE mamogram on their testicles......... Just one will surfice...
and I get to watch.
and put it on the christmas card

And truly it was so dumb to go from physical therapy to mamography........

'Hi, I'm violet and I am dumber then dirt, someone quick see if there is actually one intact brain cell in the vacuum that is my head'

another thing....... take a BEGINNING sock to knit with you.......not something you are ready to put in waste yarn for the heel........

and also let me tell you
I am NOT going back
I don't care if they find Mt Rushmore in my boobs........with Lincoln pointing the way.......
I am NOT going back

although my boobs did faint at the tightest compression and I FINALLY mercifully didn't feel the last films........
( they have a habit of doing that actually... first they are in agony...........then I don't feel a damn thing at all)

HOWEVER feeling returned when I got home........ and they were NOT happy with me
I was too sick for even icecream
dinner was crap and I didn't care
( did I just say that?)
I couldn't decide if my boobs or my shoulders needed the ice packs.

IS there alternatives to mamography?

if there is why are we still doing it this way?
and why do they send you for ultrasound after
if it hurts so bad why can't they just do the ultrasound FIRST?

ok enough of the mamo thing
even the name trips me up.......... I keep calling it 'mammyogram'
I loath it.
( imagine me saying that with all the loathing I can summon........ that still does not capture the feelings I have....... that is why I resisted getting one until there appeared to be a BIG problem
now I decided to refuse to get another one)

little fawn

I am supposed to take thaddeaus to the vet
I don't think I can
it is going to be really hot today
the vet is over an hour away
we have currently no air conditioning in the van
I don't want a fried cat when I get home

last time I did that whole take the boy to the vet in extreme heat
He was panting all the way home
I was frantic
I don't think I can live with that today after yesterday.


shoulder update,
they finally seem to be getting better.
FINALLY
Mengele told me to keep a little pillow behind my waist when I sit
to help keep my spine upright, and straight
that seems to be working
at first it hurt really bad
now it does keep me up and not slumping
and since I finally got used to it my shoulders seem better when I do the pt exercises
I am actually able to use the muscles I am supposed to be using for them
I know I still have a way to go as we haven't started to strengthen them at all yet but at least there is a bit of progress. So it is looking like no surgery on the really bad shoulder......YEAH!!!!

it is now 6am here
still peaceful and quiet
I can hear the wake up chirps of the birds echoing on the forrest floor.
I can smell the dew from overnight.
I watched the moon go down
it is so peaceful


blue and cream tole bag just finished & pink large tote finished tuesday which goes with




very shortly moron will throw that damn dog out and the barking will begin
I swear that man should be dropped out in montana or wyoming somewheres......
a million miles from anyone he could possibly annoy.
til next time

make a note......THINGS to NOT do again

1. do not drop a lab specimen off and then run to pt.
2. do not go from pt and rush over to get a mamogram
3. do not call an old friend and try to wash the cat all at once
4. do not eat an egg before cleaning up various substances ejected from both ends of the cat......( see number 3)
5. do not call bethie while trying to type this post (she yelled at me for typing as I am not supposed to be doing that......... mengele said)
6. do not yack breathlessly on and on and on cause you are having an adrenaline rush
7. do not leave the clean dishes in the dishwasher and then pile up the sink........... you will be tired when you get home
8. don't hug the cat until you see if he is covered in his own body fluids..........
9. use a sponge to wash the cat's crate to remove said body fluids......
10. CALL THE VET EARLIER
11. NEVER say you are going to sleep in the following day.......as you will be up and on the road by 6am, with a screaming cat you can't carry (shhhhhhhh don't tell mengele)
12. don't hold the phone with your shoulder fresh from pt, INVEST in a DAMN HEADSET
13. remember to FIND the ice packs for your shoulder before you sit down....... you really will be tired and won't want to get up
14. take tylanol BEFORE mamography............ and then take more when you get home.......
15. learn to drink...... really do that when you are young.
16. and most importantly NEVER CALL JOHN BACK........ he WILL be inebriated and WILL argue with you...........

these few simple rules will make your life infinitely more enjoyable if you remember to observe them

don't say I didn't tell you this..........

cause I love you all and want yous all to be happy

til next time

vi

back to the bump and grind......

it is currently 5:53 am, I am drinking coffee, listening to the morning wake up songs of birds, & typing this.
it is peaceful and quiet
no dog barking
that of course will change in about an hour
when the moron neighbor will put their dog out and it will bark for hours
I have called the dog warden and he has done nothing about it
I called the town about the illegal business.......they have done nothing about it

ok today
I have to run to the lab and drop off that test........ I am so glad that is over.....
the contortions to obtain these 24 hours worth of specimens drove me nuts....... mengele has her work cut out for her today because of it

I am concerned about the whole 'run to the hosptical for the mamogram after pt' thing
I am worried that either I won't find a parking space close enough and miss the whole appointment
or arrive so tired out from walking 17 miles from the FAR parking lot up hill to the hospital....that they will squish my boob and I won't even know.....
as I will be unconcious.......held up by my poor long suffering boob clamped in that machine

oh my......
oh and I best put that roast in the crock pot shortly huh?

AND THE WINNER IS.........
the tote bag
I got that pinkish tote finished yesterday......... it is HUGE so big I could fit thaddeaus in there.
maybe with fawn as well......
I certainly can fit all the girls in there at once.
but it will come in handy for teaching and also spin
I wanted to make a few more, however time was NOT on my side.
I did take a picture so I will try and show you all later.....
I also tried to get new pictures of the little curly headed monsters..............
we'll see how that turned out.

I have fabric to do a blue/cream/yellow toile set of knitting bags and that wild one that I showed you all a bit ago........ I still haven't done that one yet but soon.
And I have a very nice magenta fabric waiting as well.

I want to do a halloween set and a fall set just cause they are so much fun to make

hahahahah
I also love going to spin group with a different bag set for every season.......
Linda from Huntercreek farms........ one day asked me WHERE did I get the matching sets......
I told her I made them.....
she had thought I had cause they matched perfectly
hahahaha
there are some area's I am just anal huh?
til next time
vi

updated at 8:11 am to include
I CALLED the dog warden
they must have heard me as they took the dog in when I got off the phone!
( same thing happened last time I called the dog warden........I am not paranoid however......does seem odd....... as well as the fact that when I call the cops on them they LEAVE when the cop tells me they are on the way)

good morning world

well actually things seem to be all right within my little world today
I have a 'light' day..... ( only that pain in the ass 24 hour urine test ---pee in a nutshell and save it all.....yeah right....... my aim in not that good.....I am a FEMALE remember???)

Today is the ONLY day in over a week I am home all day......Hence the test being done today.

I am blissfully unencumbered and wondering WHAT to do with myself on this day off.

(for tomorrow is mengele followed by boobs being squished yet again..................)

I can't decide!
I want to sew a new knitting bag......( some folks eat potato chips, I sew bags)
I am knitting a new scarf for the yarn store as a sample for one of my classes
should I bake some muffins?
how about sewing a dress or tunic for me?
there also are the Toadcroft sisters to work on..........
**they are a really interesting project I have been working on, on and off for a while now- they are a trio of fabric dolls, who lead 'interesting' lives... they also have a handbound book with their story in it.......
I have the book written, most of the illustrations drawn......... and I have one of them done..
hahaha
I have two more to make then their 'props'
now they are 'interesting' like I said.........
so their props are things such as little pet bats, small dolls with pins and string... stuff like that....
hahahaha
you should HEAR the story
it made me laugh so I imagine it will all come together well at the end.

when I do finish them I am not sure what I am going to do with them.


ok back to stuffs here

we are sueing the moron neighbors, they have dumped dog feces as well as tons of other debris on our land.
They cut our trees
their dog tried to attack us, they are a pain in the ass
as I type this, it is 7:10 am, the dog has been barking since before 7.......
good thing I get up early huh?
I get about 2 peaceful hours then the dog is out there barking........ constantly.

lets see........
tomorrow I better remember to crock pot in the morning as I have to leave here at 8 I believe
I won't be back to late as my call back for the mamo is at 1:30 but I may also have to go to ultrasound on it again.

hey I made the BESTEST roast the other day.
and I took the easy out on it, instead of mushroom gravey from scratch...........
I threw a can of cream of mushroom in it.......with mucho extra garlic and onions....... slow cooked in the oven..........................
TO DIE for
I ate the last of it last night... as bernie was really late getting home so he told me to eat.

don't tell me I didn't tell you all

anyway..
any suggestions as to my projects will be welcome
you can just post them in the comment section if you all would
til next time
vi

ok got a call from the endo

I have to go to the Endocrinologist.
Those of you in the know.........will know that they are the vampire doctors......
they take 5 or 6 gallons of your blood every three months......
then give you awful meds that make you so sick you don't actually HAVE blood to give them
( the tests seem to be worse then the disease here I think)
anyway........ at the rate I am going with the doctors.......I just may be at my goal weight a bit PRIOR to 100 years.......

there I will be all shriveled up........ icecream carton clutched in one hand.....spoon in the other.....
too weak from LOSS of blood to raise the spoon to my lips,............ this is what endo's do..... test after test and before you know it.......you have lost 35 pounds and all of it is fluids.

do you think they can do intravenous iv of icecream? I mean if I have just plain vanilla without blueberries or anything like that? since I doubt the berries will get through the iv needles huh?

ok lemme see
I am very tired......
and I will probably just sleep
tomorrow I gotta pee in a bucket for 24 hours......
fun huh?

AND it needs to be kept in the FRIDGE!
this time however it isn't in a clear gallon like they used to do, so it won't be mistaken for a cold frosty beer....

and no we won't go there...........
so don't ask

oh my.........
gee I can see it now..........

'hey vi, what did YOU do on your summer vacation?'

(me) oh I got all my blood sucked out by the lawyer and the endo.....
they buried what was left of me with a cardboard cut out of my favorite icecream flavor..........
sniff

ok til next time
vi

oh man

ok the deposition is done......
thank goodness....
we did fine according to our attorney
no one wanted to see all the evidence.
and we have a ton
we are waiting to hear now.........
however the moron neighbors were late!
can you beleive this?
so I don't know what is going to happen
however the opposing council admitted to our attorney that his clients are 'combative'
oye

wide width shoes

http://www.zappos.com/wide.zhtml
http://www.masseyscredit.com/default.aspx?redirect=1
http://www.footsmart.com/Footwear-Womens-Wide-Shoes.aspx
http://www.marylandsquare.com/category.asp?parent%5Fid=119
http://www.wissotatrader.com/default.asp
ok you should be able to find wide width at 5-1/2 here
I used to shop at globe shoes in paramus nj........ but since we moved to pa 19 years ago......I go the mail order route
vi

Goaties are US

we are helping take the goaties to the show today.
I will be happily up to my elbows in goaties
I can't help much but I surely can get in the way.......
and I intend to get in the way often and thoughly........
some of my favorite goaties are going to this show
and I have to say good bye to little Thaddeaus and also to Austin, the worlds oldest meat goat for vegetarians.
who are going up the road a piece to become lawmowers for a very nice lady.......And live out their lives as pampered pets. they will have the goatie edition of heaven on earth......
huge lawn/pastures to eat and run around in.........all to their selves.....
a snug little barn and a family who will love them as much as I do.
I am supposedly allowed to go and see them......
which you all know I will.

ok I went shopping reluctantly
I got bernie a pair of dockers khaki's a shirt and tie to match........also a second shirt in purple and a tie to match that.
all I can say is.......
damn that man looks GOOD in dress clothes.....
( no he didn't stay in them long at all........ I really mean he looks GOOD)
I finally got shoes......not the ones I wanted......... but they fit and I can wear them.
they were NOT cheap however I could have gotten three pairs of shoes by mail that fit for what I paid for this one pair.
I am a 6-1/2 WW ........... I swear the extra W came from the last pregnancy.
I went from a 5W to a 6-1/2 WW through three pregnancys......
is that FAIR?
Try and get shoes at Payless in THAT size....
but the good news now is..
as I am offically a 6-1/2 WW ( I was measured)
I can eventually get all the shoes I want by mail order...............
so maybe I will get new barn shoes and also walkiing shoes, snow boots, and clogs..
?
lets see..
Fawn has a slight cold.
She sneezed all night.
I gave her the chinese herbs that the vet gave me for the others when they sneeze so she should be fine by tonight.
I am not worried as long as she is eating........ concerned yes..I will watch her, but not worried.
It hasn't slowed her down any either.

ok til next time
vi

Shopping and such

ok so a very fast one
I am off in search of sandals for court
as the mouse pooped in my purple shoes and I don't think mouse poopied on shoes are appropriate to wear do you?

I did clean the mouse poop out however
but there is something ewwwwwwwwww about having had mouse poop in your shoes.....

ok I dropped off the tank I knit as a sample for the yarn store and am knitting a sample for my lace class there.
it is very nice yarn and I have to post pictures etc later.

I am happily in a denim tunic today after nothing but tee shirts because of pt and the hospital
yesterdays pt was not with mengele.......... the pt dejour ( how do you spell that Louise?)
did not stretch me out well at all........nor did she do anything for the knots in the muscles.......and she didn't tape me.......
so really going yesterday was a waste of gas.

I was up for about 20 minutes early this morning just petting fawn........she was on the bed......
so I got her to purr and roll over a bit..... she resents that calpurrnia is sleeping with us as well as her.
wait to we get thaddeaus up there....
oye
I probably will let fawn have one night without calpurrnia up there this week......just to see if I am right about that theory

And Amie, once someone lives here, they pretty much are free to be themselves.
There are rules...... like don't jump on counters in the kitchen
and don't eat doll hands........
oh and NO ONE jumps on amber cause she is 4008 years old
but after that.......
everyone is pretty much left alone to have their own lives
we all sort of co exhist....... we do spend time with each other....but if someone needs space.....there is plenty to be had.
( so to speak as it is a VERY small house)
however the cats do have to tolerate baths, nail trims, ear cleaning, tooth cleaning.........
but we give them cookies after to bribe them
oh and usually take pictures of the bath thing cause it is so damn funny
oye
vi

A word or two about fawn

She is really amazing us.
To think a few short months ago she would cry all night and hide under anything she could......!
Fawn is ALWAYS in motion......
she runs and jumps and plays like no other cat I have ever known.......... Even kittens would be tired out before she is.
She doesn't really like to be held...... so that's ok, we respect that.
She loves to be petted however, and will run around your legs and feet like a goldfish waiting for food.

I watch everyone move through the space of the house and I am struck by how differently they all do that simple thing.

Thaddeaus strolls.... he is king here and he knows it.........
He strolls and favors us with his lordly presence.

Calpurrnia dances & scampers........ She is feminine, she is all that is grace and full Victorian beauty. She reminds me of the Worth ball gowns from the 1890's.

Amber sort of meanders........ think of an old person with a walker.... that is Amber.
But when she was young she hopped like a bunny!

Fawn charges around like a tiny bull in a china shop........she slams into walls and cabinets.... legs and doors..... And is often caught hanging off something like a monkey.

Fawn doesn't really want as much to do with us like when she first decided we were ok, but that is fine, she is free to be herself here. However I do get followed anywhere I go....... it appears she wants to always know exactly where I am.

Actually all three laperms are like that.

Amber doesn't seem to care anymore.......... 'in the house somewheres' appears to be good enough for her now. As long as her food bowl is full.
hahahaha
I really have been most behind on posting pictures I know
and this week frankly doesn't look good for them either.

however the last week in JUNE maybe ok
oye
til next time
vi

I got a 'call back'

now when I had that mammogram on monday I told the tech, that since I had the bilateral lumpectomies........ I would probaby have some scar thingies showing up......
sure enough
I got a call back
I also told them it was nothing
WHY don't they believe me?
I am just LIVING in this body.......
so on wednesday I am again to get squished................
right after pt.....
oh man this is the summer of medieval torture

gees
vi

There should be a constitutional amendment

and it should cover women's dressing room.........
lighting and mirrors.
first off you need a MAGIC mirror in there......
and one that hopefully makes object appear much smaller....... say maybe 150 pounds smaller?????

can anyone guess what I did today? (which really was yesterday when you read this)

yup

clothes shopping.......
ewwwwwwww ranks right up there with do it yourself root canal..........

ok so I have the deposition on Monday and needed something other then the jeans/tee shirts I live in.........
so I girded my loins..................
( that probably should read ..........LOONS)

and Diane from up the hill and I ventured out in my rattled trap van to Allentown to the mall.

did you all know that Lane Bryant stores do NOT have dresses........
all they got is hoochi momma tramp clothes............ewwwwwwwwwww
oh yeah........ that is what I really want to wear........
hang ALL my rolls bumps and grinds out for all the universe to see.....
yeah
right
not in this life
not until I am at my goal weight.............in 100 years.....

all I wanted was a nice 'church' lady type dress..........
in rayon.......
maybe blue?
and two jackets, one short sleeve in a lighter color
one longer sleeved in a darker color!
10 stores later..........
I was ready to cry or at least go postal.........

I did finally get the one dress in the one store that actually FIT me and didn't look like Omar the tent makers clearance rack..........
and I also got a short sleeve cardigan sweater that looks like a jacket, in a lighter color
and a LONGER sleeved cardigan sweater in a DARKER color..........!!!!!!!!
but not in blue.....
in PURPLE
so I am a very happy camper.........
amazingly enough huh?
I was so thrilled that I handed over my plastic and didn't even look at the total.......
desperation set in you see
I suddenly got scared that this magical garment and it's little jacket sweaters would disappear into the poof of smoke and wishes that I was so sure it was.......

leaving me with a muumuu in tropical colors................. and a christmas tree shape......

ok now fast forward as I had typed the above last night..................
to this morning.........

I discovered that the dress and it's little jackets were hanging quietly up in the soap room.......
perfect and pristine in the little plastic clothing bag they wrapped them in.......

I even discovered a pair of purple shoes upstairs......... they match!
so if I can't find the sandals I am looking for....... I have something to put on my feet..
and the mice only ate a tiny part of the shoes which you can't see from the outside
(insert sigh here.......... damn uninvited mouse guests.....)

now I am going to swear..
on my curly cats collective heads............
I will not let the state of my wardrobe get this bad again.............................
I WILL occasionally buy a dress/jacket thingy............... even though I have no place in mind to wear it.
I WILL keep at least TWO business/career outfits in the closet......in classic styles....... at all times.......


I WILL not continuously refer to my body as the Willendorff goddess even though I SOOOOOOOOO do look exactly like that stature of pre-historic fertility.....
( or maybe it was a pre-historic advertizement for their version of CURVES?)

and btw the way while we are at it........
Them damn dressing rooms need artic level air conditioning....... I swear......
fat old broads sweating and trying on clothing is NOT a pretty picture at all....
and I got to see me doing just that in THREE freeken full size, full length, freek house mirrors.

To say I was tramatized was to say the least........

sniff

oye
til next time

vi
who is feeling much better now
if I can ONLY find the sandals I need.........I am good

the laperms are taking over the house

Well, at least Fawn & Thaddeaus are....
Calpurrnia is, as usual, playing happily with a leaf.
Fawn can NOT sit still
Damn I swear that cat has ADD or ADHD, even THADDEAUS sits still more then Fawn does

(shhhhhh and between you and me, with Fawn having blown out a coat, she looks a bit like a monkey,.............. she acts a bit like a monkey.......you should SEE her swinging from one arm on the cat tree........ we actually do now call her 'little monkey')

We've had brutally hot weather here in the North East........ so the airconditioners have been on around the clock on low.. keeps the house cool and dry.

The laperms went from laying around like a bunch of fuzzy area rugs to speeding little bullets of potential landmines.
You have to be really careful walking around here....... THEY are EVERYWHERE......( no don't get the tin foil hats just yet)

I can't walk down the stairs without almost tripping over one of them. EVEN CALPURRNIA has joined in with the 'trip the momma' game.

if I survive the stairs........ there is the racing furry bullet through the ankle obstacle course.

I am getting used to seeing wizzing things out of the corner of my eye...... it is usually one of the cats.

Just walking around this house is now a challenge and enough excersize in NOT falling on your ass that I don't think I would actually need much more do you?

and when the laperms take a break...........
AMBER comes and puts her TAIL under my foot...
then screams when I step down!

WHERE the hell that damn 4008 year old cat comes from sometimes I don't know
I swear every time I watch her walk, it looks like some old person with a walker....
but she manages to zip under my feet all the time.
speedy little old fart that she is......( and yes she does fart......often and loudly....... and normally behind my back.......RIGHT behind my back)

Fawn got a bit bored yesterday, as even the youngsters were sacked out......
she tried to play tag with me.............!
racing back and forth and tapping my shoulder.

poor thing, I could NOT chase her under the bed like she wanted
( well you know I don't exactly FIT under the bed anymore.......... nor could I get off my knees if I got down to LOOK under the bed........ I don't think there is crane service to our upstairs bedroom)

Anyway, Thaddeaus has mostly forgiven me for monday being gone......... Calpurrnia is very happy with her patchouli leaf.
Amber is of course............ sleeping on her pillow...
and that leaves us with FAWN........
who is just now running up and down the stairs just for the sheer joy of motion.....
hahahahaa
they drive me nuts and I would be lost without them

ah........ the FISH you ask???
Ivan and Egor are happy and living on the kitchen counter....................
they come when they see me and live for thier daily meals......
we are going to get them each a LIVE plant, they currently each have a fake plant.
it looks a bit barren in there ........ and we think they will have better water quality inbetween weekly changes with a live plant

til next time
vi

glad that is over

although I got a ton of knitting finished at the hospital.
(I am going back there for christmas, to finish my projects off without interuption)

today I went down and they took the last of the thyroid test.
it took about 10 mintues!
I was back home before 9:15!
the cats were very happy to see me back so soon.
I was happy to be home

I got a ton of annoying odds and ends done today as well.
all the crap like making appointments and following up on insurance stuff that is really a hurry up and wait type thing.
I did not get to pay the mortgage nor the car insurance however I will do that tomorrow

I DID mail a Package to someone............ so that was done too.

I need to get a dress to wear to the court thing monday ( I was told it was not a good idea to wear red and white striped 'raggity ann' type stockings with it.......... damn.......)

sunday we are going to help set up at the goat show....

I can't carry anything but I sure can be in the WAY......
and I intend on being in the way.....
all my beloved goaties

the weather here is hot but down where bernie works it is even hotter....... (maybe a 'dress rehearsal' for where we are going next???? hahahahaha)
he said he is ok however,
I made sure his gallon of iced tea was filled
I worry about him in this weather.....
it is hot and then he is under a hood in an even hotter engine.....
you should see some of the burns he comes home with..........from manifolds and stuff.

Diane is supposed to go with me to Allentown to get a dress for me tomorrow
I have tomorrow or thursday......
that's it
friday is mengele..... who wants to shop after THAT??? I have to drag my battered little carcass home and Ice after that......

saturday is pants for bernie shopping ( oh this should be fun.........NOT)
sunday the goat show and
monday the deposition

I can't wait for tuesday.

meanwhile I found out I simply can't tolerate the heat or extreme cold......
I have been really sick with the heat........ even with the air conditioning...if I am out in the heat for any length of time I get sick.
I really don't like throwing up ewwwwwwwww

even ICE CREAM was not enough to make it better
now that is bad

however the good news is
tomorrow I get to SLEEP IN


sleep?
I vaguely remember sleep........ wasn't it that thing I did LAST friday.......... waiting for bernie to get home from work? with my glasses still on my fat little face?

ok off I toddle
vi