The Vet, the Realtor, and the Mortgage Broker October 25, 2007

Filed under: House, Kitties — taria29 @ 2:13 pm Edit This

Today was San’s first trip to the vet. We were worried, but she did great. She didn’t like it, but was amazingly calm. We got her a checkup, her first distemper shot, and her rabies shot. Turns out she’s not 3 months, like we guessed, but actually about 5 months old. We were shocked, considering Kat’s Pipkin is close to th same age and he’s a monster size kitty, while San is very petite. The vet could tell by her teeth-she only has one baby tooth left, and it’s loose. I had no idea cats had baby teeth.

She’s very healthy, no belly bugs like Kenshin. She does have ear mites, for which we got drops. The nice nurse even clipped her nails for us and showed me how to do it. We went ahead and got a 3-pack of flea stuff. I haven’t seen any on San, saw 3 on Kenshin since we got him. He’s too young for meds, but the Vet said Dawn detergent (the plain blue kind) will kill any on him. He’ll be old enough for the meds in a couple of weeks.

One very gross (make sure you’re not eating) side effect of the dewormer on Kenshin is his poop has gotten worse. It’s now so liquidy that it gets all over his fur and he proceeds to drip it on the floor. Thankfully Mom tipped me off long ago to a great carpet cleaner. I spent yesterday cleaning biddy poop spots off the carpet. Think we’re gonna spring for the pricier carpet cleaning service when we move.

Speaking of which…

We signed for a house! It’s even closer to Chris’s work than we currently live (walking distance-about 2 blocks). It’s a 3 bedroom, 1 bath, with a fenced in backyard, an eat-in kitchen, and hardwood flooring in the living room, hall, and one bedroom. The other two bedrooms have carpet.

The only repairs it needs are cosmetic, paint and eventual replacement of bedroom carpets. It has a cedar tree in the front yard! My fave kind of tree. It is on a slightly busy road (but only 2 lane, and most travelers live in the neighborhood). It’s across from a BP station, tho again, not as scary b/c it’s in a neighborhood. The price is 71,900, so we’ll be paying a little more than we wanted (between 550 & 600 a month-our current apt. costs 550). Still, we’re ecstatic, if terrified. We’ve got so much to do! Aaaahhh!

Anyway, our fabulous realtor, Melissa, sent us to our wonderful mortgage broker, Scott, and we filled out our preliminary paperwork. Gotta collect paystubs, ect. and get it back to him as soon as possible next week, so we can sit and wait.

We close on or before Dec. 5th, and will take possesion of the property by the 26th of November. Pray for us and wish us luck!

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First Blog Entry (Kitty Poop Woes) October 25, 2007

Filed under: Kitties — taria29 @ 3:10 am Edit This

The title should automatically imply this, but I’ll state it anyway: Don’t read while eating.

Today we took Kenshin to the vet. We’ve had him about a week and a half, and he’s about 7 weeks old. He’s had watery bowels that occasionally contained blood or clear mucus.
Even after I read online how that’s bad, and must be checked, I kept putting it off, materialistically worried about the bill.

I was praying last night, and a quiet, peaceful thought said,“take him to the vet”. My thoughts are never quiet and peaceful, so I knew I had my answer.

Anyway, turns out he had ringworm (fungal infection, like athlete’s foot), roundworm (intestinal worm), coccidia (microscopic intestinal parasite), and a cold. Poor baby, he was so good. The vet had to take his temperature rectally in his sore behind. He didn’t like that, but he was still so good, calming down enough after in the waiting room to purr and climb up on Chris.

Anyway, we loaded up on meds for both, since it’s likely they could pass this back and forth, got his first round of vaccinations, and brought him home, where he plays and goes adventuring like he has since we brought him home. The price tag wasn’t too steep, either, and thanks to a recent generous gift from Mom and Dad upon the sale of their house, we had the money.

God will provide.

Tomorrow is the fun part. We take San in for her first vaccinations. San is loving, but skittish to a large degree and she does not adapt well and scratches when picked up. She did a number on my arms today when we held her down to feed her her meds. She is really, really not going to like the vet.

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P.S.

Forgot to mention that I’ve been reading this week, my Dear America series, the Royal Diaries. I’ve read Cleopatra, Kazunomiya, Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, Marie Antoinette, and now I’m on Isabel of Castilla. I want to finish my Dear America collection, but must have money first. Want what you have and be content…

I love how the royalty was so intermarried and looking at the family trees. Isabel of Castilla’s daughter was Catherine of Aragon, whose daughter was Bloody Mary, whose sister was Elizabeth I, whose aunt was Mary of Scots’ grandmother.

Me again

Yesterday I was on the phone with my grandmama and she told me how my endeavors to improve my life were inspiring. My grandmama had a positive attitude as to her self-improvement goals, which I was glad to hear. She and I have always been co-conspirators in weight-loss and other life-improving things. Before I met hubby I would go stay with her for weeks at a time. I miss those days.

Lately, tho, I have been down on things. It’s been awhile since I worked on Japanese or typing. I made three pans of brownies last week and am more than halfway thru eating the most recent one. I skipped church for the third week in a row. I stay up late and sleep to between 1:30 and 2:30 p.m. each day. I am addicted to a MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game). I have faced 2 different people asking me point blank why I don’t work. I always think defensively in my head, really ridiculous arguments too. I will find a part time job. I made a list of all our debts and monthly payments. Our monthly expenses lie between $1700 and $1800. Hubby made only $1300 a month last year with his good job, and I got a job b/c we needed it.  I made up the difference. Anyway, I applied at Walmart and Food Lion, and have resolved to apply at 2 places per day this week. Tomorrow is Hobby Lobby and waiting list for Work-Study.

2 things I absolutely must do: pray and remember that God loves me, and think positive thoughts. If I neglect these and just beat myself up, I will only get worse. My thoughts have the power to change my life.

I really am happy with being me, and with this point in time. I am blessed with an incredible life and a long list of people who love me, expect good things from me, and never give up on me.

Found out that our kitten is a boy. Anatomy knowledge score:0. He’s Sanji again. I have to change my mental thinking again, as I have been thinking of him as a princess, since he rules the house, and so now I have to adjust it to a prince.

Monday was good. I got a lot of basics around the house done : dishes, laundry, garbage. I alternated between playing and working.

Yesterday I went to give some paperwork to the financial aid office. Now, all that’s left is to either mail or carry in a voided check to make any credit left on my balance after I pay for classes into a direct deposit into my account. I drove to to do this, and the stress led me to realize that I’m not ready, so I canceled my driving test and got Chris to drive home. I’m a total chicken.

I’ve been droopy yesterday and today. I want to get back into a groove of some kind.

It’s me

I feel exhausted a lot lately. Of course it’s mental and emotional more than anything, although I was very slightly sick (and teething-another wisdom tooth). My brain gets so full of all the things I want to do and all the things I need to do and three tons of drivel. So I go sleep. I’ve removed the list as my hook, as it has been downgraded from “goals” to “guidelines”. It served a good purpose, though. I realized that I can’t overthink things, but just spend a little time on things I’m doing, and have fun doing it. I’ve picked up Japanese again. I’m currently obsessed with becoming a mangaka, even if it’s never published, tho I know that will die down and I’ll come back around to it. School looms next month. I’m going to be busy.

Anyway, that’s all for now. Later. -T

Food

I spent $10 and bought Leanne Ely’s (the Dinner Diva) Frugal E-book for Summer, Volume 1. I already have the one for fall. It has 12 weeks of recipes and grocery lists for healthy meals on a budget. I was thinking of what Master Kakashi tell Naruto in the manga Naruto; something along the lines of  “If you eat nothing but ramen, you really will die <3″. We’ve just been eating a lot of salty, high-fat junk. I want us to feel better and not so sluggish. So we went to Wal-mart today and got groceries. I also got a new, purple notebook to uses as my Flylady Control Journal; I’ve outgrown my last one.

I made my lists of routines and put them in sheet protectors so I can mark things off with a dryerase marker. Flylady suggests this, and I did it for a long time last year, I just fell out of the habit.

I think one of the most important things I can do right now is think positive.

On another note, Hubby lost his job and must look for a new one. It’s discouraging. Surely, somewhere, there’s a job that two quiet, slow (as in speed-we’ve got brains), easily flustered/distracted people can succeed at.

Another week, another resolve

I will not quit! And someday I will be a manga-ka and be able to do backflips and reach my crazy dreams, so I must draw and practice and copy!

 Attitude is everything!

Kitty Pics, everyone loves Kitty pics

Nami, the kitten who seems to have adopted us.

San, Kenshin, and Nami napping together.

FlyLady Habits for July

Make bed every day (ideally as soon as my feet hit the floor, but make it anyway).  (This is Flylady Day 15).

 

This is FlyLady Day 20. For me, I start a load of laundry as soon as I’m done with breakfast, and set a timer. When the timer goes off, I put it in the dryer and set another timer. When that timer goes off, I put it away immediately.

Do a dishwasher load and handwash load every day. I unload the dishwasher after I start the laundry, and ideally reload it throughout the day and handwash right after dinner followed by starting the dishwasher. FlyLady does not have a specific day for this.

The bed came about because it got all nice and clean when I cleaned our room the other day, and I want to keep it that way. (Also, FlyLady refers to the made bed as the “shiny sink” of the bedroom.) The dishes and laundry keep the things that never end under some sort of control.

I was going to post this yesterday, sans pictures, since the dishwasher was all piled and gross, as was the dryer. I didn’t stress, set my timer, rearranged the spices and cleaned off the dishwasher yesterday. (We have two shelves of spices on the wall in addition to the wheely-one in the picture). Our dishwasher is portable, as you can tell from the photo. I started on the dryer yesterday. If I’d been able to go to 4th of July with my family, I might have had to buy another swimsuit. If I’d been going, I would have been too stressed to clean off the dryer (I get serious packing/leaving the house apprehension), and I wouldn’t have found the strap to my swimsuit, as I certainly would never have thought to look under the huge pile on the dryer. Perhaps I should have taken before and after pictures so you could see how bad it was. I had to stretch over it just to turn the knobs to start it. (And to actually see the knobs.) I finished it a little while ago. I didn’t stress, moved all the stuff on it to approximately the location it may need to go, didn’t wipe the shelf above it. It was wonderful. Total FlyLady no-stress. No perfection, but obvious progress.