My Tree is Up!!!

Today I bought an artifical Christmas tree, I prefer the real thing, however, there is going to people here on and off over the christmas season so I might as well have a fake one incase someone leaves the lights on it while we are away. It was my DAD who talked me into getting a fake tree....Can you believe that?? Mr. Christmas suggested I get a fake tree. Below are some pictures of my tree!

Happy Cat Pillows

Tonight Melissa and I went to the craft sale and to walmart after that. At the craft sale we decided to get our cats some of these Happy Cat Pillows. I got one for each of my cats. As soon as I got home and put the bags down on the couch, Nellie was up smelling everything and of course, first thing she finds the bag with the Pillows in it. I could hardly keep her out of it, as I had to go upstairs and get Wink out of bed so they would both get them at the same time. The pillow above is Nellies pillow. The pillows have Catnip, cellophane and cotton in them.

This is Winks Pillow, as you can see I couldn't get it away from her even long enough to take a quick picture of it. It has snow bears on it..it's really cute too.

Action shot of Wink going at the pillow full force!!! Trust me there were no survivors!

Here is Wink again going at her pillow! She loves that thing! Who new that a $3.50 toy would keep her so entertained!

Nellie On the Nip! She gets a little silly on the catnip!

Both of my cats on the Nip. You can't tell from this picture, but Wink is still chewing/licking hers.

New Years 1997

There is one New Year’s party that sticks out in my mind the most. The New Years Party of 1997. It was a great idea at the time, but turned out to be unrealistic!

New Years 1997. Me and some friends from Doaktown, decided that New Years would be cool if we could have a big party some place. After much deliberation, we decided that the Car Wash would be perfect. It was off the main drag, it had electricity, and most importantly there were NO PARENTS! It was really really cold that year...as in take the coldest day you remember and times that by 10 and you have how cold it was that night. One thing we apparently did not take into consideration was the lack of bathrooms and the lack of heat! Now I have to describe the car wash for you so you can visualize my New Years. I'd take a picture of it, but they tore it down since then...so sorry no picture!

The building consisted of two parts, one with a garage door and one with a regular door on the outside. The garage door is obviously where the cars are washed, it's a big empty room with a pressure washer and another door at the back. The floor is concrete, the walls are aluminum. The regular door leads to a dirt floor room where the wood is kept along with a wood stove (used to heat the concrete floor) and extra soap and other cleaning supplies. The door at the back lead to a small office of sorts, where the stereo is and another door to the wood room, also in this room is the supplies needed to wash cars.

We came prepared (so we thought) we brought camping chairs and of course coolers. The party began and it was cold in there it was actually warmer to sit on the concrete floor then it was to sit in the camping chairs or on the coolers. We sat around there for quite awhile and thought that if we drank more then we wouldn’t notice the cold.

Then came the first of the girls to have to pee…of course it was me…add alcohol and cold weather and yeah I’ve gotta pee!!! Of course there was no where for a girl to pee at least not with out freezing to death. So my friend Andrew lived in town and his parents weren’t home. I had been to Andrews a lot, and had been hired by his mom to do some light cleaning around the house.

My friend Sarah and I decided to walk down to his place to use the bathroom, it was about a 20 min walk, which we ran half the way cuz it was so cold! By the time we got there we couldn’t feel our legs, my thighs weren’t even there or so it felt. And I was pretty much sober by then.

After the facilities had been used, Sarah and I decided to get warm before the walk back to the car wash. I went upstairs and grabbed us a couple of blankets and wrapped up and sat on the couch, then we decided that we didn’t really want to walk back to the car wash and wondered how long it would take everyone to get the idea that we weren’t coming back.

We only sat there for about 20 mins before they all showed up, they had packed everything up and decided that Andrew’s place would definitely be a better place to celebrate New Years! That night we had a great time drinking and playing cards.

Andrew decided he wanted me to cook for him (he loved my scrambled eggs and bacon) So, he digs out the pans and we cooked. His parents were probably so mad at him, cuz we cooked a dozen eggs and two pounds of bacon that night! But what a feast it was!!!

That was my New Year’s of 1997.

Our First Snow of the Season

Tonight we had our first snow of the season, I know people say of the year, but I seem to remember snow in January last year not to mention for a few months after that! I decided then rather then just take pictures of the snow outside that I would take my kitties out side for the photo opt!!!! In sandles might I add..yes sandles...Troys sandles actually, not even my own! haha
I don't have a picture of me in the sandles, I'll leave that to your imagination, however think clown shoes in sandle form! haha

I took Wink out first and she headed off the deck like she normally does heading towards the grass. This time however she got about a foot towards the grass and stepped in snow and stopped short and looked around to say ohh that's cold and then continued on her merry way! One mission in mind get to the grass...haha Not sure if she thought it would go away when she hit the grass.

Nellie not sure if she wants to get in the snow
Nellie was a whole other story. Once I convinced her to go outside towards the snow, she didn't want to get off the deck, and I really had to force her into the snow, but I got some cute pictures of her in the snow!!!

Nellie after I forced her into the snow

Nellie thinking "Is it time to go in yet??"

Nellie heading for the door...I guess she's ready to go in. Her trip lasted her about 2 mins!

Soul Mates

Is there such a thing? My belief that there is such a thing keeps me going, but my belief in that is starting to fall pretty fast.

My beliefs of myself and who I am are growing stronger, however, my belief that there is someone out there that will appreciate who I am is dropping pretty fast. And I'm loving my cats more and more, they have an unconditional love, as long as I feed them and change the litter box.

I feel like I'm in such a rut, I'm not meeting anyone new, I'm staying home on the weekends and when I do go out it's to a friends place. Not that I don't like going to a friends place, but how am I too meet new peole and maybe the man of my dreams?

Good things come to those who wait, so when it gets here it's going to be perfect. LOL All this waiting can only mean wonderful things!

My cute kitties

I have the two most adorable kitties in the world (no offence to other people who have cats, I think all us cat owners think that our cats are the cutest!).

Yesterday morning I woke up with wink sleeping in her normal place at my feet all stretched out, she looked so cute. then I noticed that she wasn't the only thing in my bed with me, she had brought her mouse up onto the bed to go to sleep with, kinda like a child with a stuffed animal. The mouse of course was a toy one, it is white with a black face and feathers around the tail. It's the first time she has ever done anything like that.


Everynight, after everyone has gone to sleep Nellie wakes me up, walking through the house with her favorite toy in her mouth meowing (and she's not the best meower in the world, she sounds like a broken cat..lol) Anyway, it's so cute that she does that (annoying sometimes too when I'm trying to sleep and she won't "SHHHH"

You can definitely tell that Wink is my kitty. She sleeps all day on my bed until I get home from work, at which point, I go up stairs to change and wake her up in the process, because of the bright light. She gives me the one eye open shut off the light meow and then gives this huge stretch where she lookes like she is going to stretch so far that her little back paws are going to reach her front paws. then she sits up. and the look on her face seems to read..."mom's home I guess I should get up" Then while I'm changing she follows me around my bed, she doesn't jump off teh bed but follows me with out leaving the warmth of the bed. Once I'm ready to head downstairs. I say "Comon Wink....it's time to go downstairs" and she meows at me and follows me down the stairs. Then we usually go our seperate ways, her to the food dish and me to the couch to chat with Janet.
Last night was funny, I went through that whole scene from above and after Wink was done eating she went over to the chair that had my coat on it, crawled underneath it with only her head sticking out...it was so cute!

Wink has ONE ball that she plays with it's a pink ball with a bell in the middle of it. She loves that think I could throw it for hours and she will chase it. She isn't very good at the whole fetching thing, so I get my work out too by chasing her trying to get the ball away from her. I've started a new game with her, because our new place has stairs in it, I throw the ball up the stairs and she runs after it and usually brings it back down the stairs waiting for me to throw it back up there. If I happen to sit down on the couch while I wait for her to bring it back down, when she does bring it back down I am supposed to get right off the couch and throw it again and if I don't she bats the ball around downstairs to let me know that she has brought it back downstairs..silly kitty!

The cat house that my kitties like to sit on top of....and is Nellie's sleeping spot so she can keep an eye on the whole house!

Games Night

Saturday night I hosted a Games night at my place. I had bought the new pop culture 2 and a friend brought a couple of games over too.
Everyone stayed until about midnight or so and then headed home. We had a great time with the pop culture 2 game. Some of the questions were really hard, others were very simple.
We also played Scene it, which is also a very cool game. I really like that game.

So if you are looking for some good games night games....I suggest both Pop Culture 2 and Scene It.

My Really Busy Weekend!

I've been really busy over the last few weeks, and haven't really had a chance to update my blog.

Two weekends ago, I was really busy. I worked quite a bit of over time and had a really busy weekend to add to a busy week. I was washer and dryer shopping so that filled up my evenings.
Saturday, I woke up early and went to Oromocto to volunteer for the Oromocto Food Bank, I have to say it was quite an interesting morning. Our task was to Clean out a room and install shelves to set all the stuff into. I felt like I was on clean sweep cuz there was a lot of stuff in that room! There were about 10 of us there from UPS. We started working and we still didn't have the shelves put up by the time I left at 1140am. One of the girls volunteering found two boxes of dirty dipers....yes dirty dipers....so gross! I have never seen so many dishes before in my life!
I left at 1140am as I was going to meet Darcy and Melissa at the movies. We were going to see In Her Shoes, which I guess is based on a book (one I haven't read) as Melissa and Darcy have read that book. I really enjoyed the movie, however Darcy and Melissa were disappointed in the film compaired to the book. At the movie theatre while I was getting popcorn, I ran into my cousins, Esma and Alicia. So I had a big chat with them, they were going to see Flight Plan, one movie in which I really wanted to see. Then I ran in to my friend, Jen ( the same Jen who has been hounding me to update my blog..LOL) she was going to Elizabethtown, which she says is not all that good and to not bother going to see it. After the movie Darcy, Melissa and myself decided to go get something to eat, we decided on Jungle Jim's, since Darcy had never been there. We had a great meal, however, Melissa and I have a rule....always get dessert to go, that way you are not feeilng over stuffed, and Darcy wanted dessert there...so we left there feeiling really over stuffed. I came home long enough fora 20 min nap and then I got ready to go to Tim's Bday party. Melissa, myself, Tim and Andrea played Skipbo and Uno until about midnight when Melissa, who was still feeling the effects of our big lunch said she was tired and wanted to go to home. I styaed for a bit longer then it was home to bed for me to prepare for my next busy day.
Sunday, Lately we have all be going for breakfast on sunday mornings. Usually to the Blue Canoe. I called around to see who was going and found out it was only Tim, Andrea and myself so we decided to go somewhere closer in town. I had never eaten at Cora's so we went there. I couldn't believe it I payed 12 dollars for breakfast!!!! Mind you it was good...but for breakfast?!?! Then I went over to tim's as he wanted some help with some computer stuff..becuase he got a new dell!! I helped him out and we went shopping at the future shop for some DVD's. I had invited my friend Darren to come to the movies with Tim and I and he said he would go, but I wasn't sure until he actually showed up at the movies. We went to see Flight Plan, which I thought was ok, but Darren and Tim said it was really good, maybe I was really at a nother movie?? LOL After the movie, I went back to tim's to help him with more computer stuff and then home to watch my Sunday night Tv!
More to come soon I promise!!!