Story of 4 whittle kittenbabies.

Well this is common year after year. Mama kittie at work has kittens, I take them and find them homes. This year isn't any different but in one way... we have 4 kittenbabies. Usually I get 1 or 2. We found 2 last Friday and then yesterday I was in the billing office and heard another one and by one, I guess I meant 2. So we have 2 girls and 2 boys. Plus our Ashling makes a very full 2 bedroom apartment. Alix is loving it... well she was loving the 2 but 4 may take its toll if we don't find some relief soon. I will get a full family shot soon.

They're a bunch of cuties, that's for sure.

Yep that makes 3 but wait underneath is another one for a total of 4 baby kittens.

Oh yeah its spring again... this is little brother (right) and little sister (left). Oh geez.

Work, work and not so much work!

Very exciting but I'm almost all done with my work. I should finish tomorrow for the MONTH! Oh yeah, you read that right, I'll finish with 4 days to spare. I rock a little bit. :) Alright, stop distracting me, I have work to finish!

This is what happens when a clown hits a cop car...

Really? They had to put caution tape around the clown.

Who knew? oh she did.

So yesterday was pretty rough for me. I woke up with some not so good pains in my body, I was so very tired. I didn't sleep well at all and any sleep I did get found me in nightmare status. So I was pouty, tired and VERY undecisive. I don't like feeling this way but once in awhile, everyone gets like this. Poor Alix, she had no idea what hit and I was in full Narny Mode.

I just tried to sit on the couch and zone out, it's my best defense. I wanted to go to bed at 6:15pm. We ended up at the store because I couldn't decide on food, it was pretty funny now that I look back at it.

But the really interesting part? Alix made the most accurate description of why I was so "down." The night before we had some friends over for an "Art Day" because there is a show coming up called Fragments (hence the pic of the 2 pieces below). We all stayed up late painting, coloring and just overall creating. It was quite an "artistic high" and a really awesome time. I had trouble going to sleep and definitely staying a sleep. So yesterday was the result of me coming down off the art high.

Made perfect sense and I hadn't even gotten that far in my thinking. Truly amazing how much that girl gets me... I'm 10 times luckier for it and love it so much. :)

Fragment Art by me :)

Courtney
Qrt
Qrtknee
Ginger

This is one person and the same. She is a super fabulous girl and now that she is in my life, I can't imagine her not in it. A very cool girl with a lot to offer the world, I'm lucky she stepped onto my path in life as my friend. *waves* Hi Friend, I made this just for you because I know you need to smile at this very moment.

Last night we were at Color Me Mine, a typical Saturday night for the girls and I was informed that my good friend Courtney does in fact read my blog, hoping to "make the cut" so to speak. So I thought I should write this and dedicate it all to her.

Hope it's everything you hoped and dreamed Qrt :)

In this edition:

*Pitching Lessons
*Suprise for Dinner
*Geocaching

So Monday was my first official paid pitching lesson. My boss gave my number to a guy who wanted to get his daughter some lessons. So I pull up to the house and WOW. It's ginormous. I notice on the back of his truck he has a Root Beer King sticker on it. MMmm, I love me some RBK. Sadly, it is all the way on the other side of town so I tend to forget about it.

Anyway, I walk in and see one of the tallest 10 yr. olds since my God-Daughter. Very nice family. So she starts to throw. Thankfully her bad habits aren't the worst habits one can have. So I watch her for a few pitches before I start to interject. Her foot is by far the worst but with constant reminders, it's fairly simple to fix. Dad was enjoying the way she was focusing while I was there. She is tall and lengthy and that definitely works to her advantage. She throws pretty hard and fairly accurate for not having an "real" training.

Dad seems happy, she seemed to enjoy it and dad would like me twice a week for awhile. YAY! I like her she seems pretty quiet and shy but I'm hoping to bring it out of her.

Lesson #2
Wednesday was the 2nd meeting and I got to hear how she pitched the day before in her game. She hit a batter, walked some girls AND THEN struck out 3 :) woohoo She also got hit by the other pitcher but I told her that was how life worked sometimes, you get hit and you hit people that's how the world stays fair. She laughed at that and said, "yeah that makes sense I guess." Fun kid, I like her and can't wait to see how she evolves in the next couple of weeks. The creme de la creme was the way she ended the lesson... I told her, "okay last pitch, if you have your foot turned, finish with your hand up and throw a strike." So the next pitch... was her last pitch. Okay I was impressed usually it takes at least 5, she did it right on call. NICE!

Dad has requested me for 2 days again next week. I am A-OKAY with that and right now the money definitely is big help and super appreciated. It's nice to do something you love and make money doing it.

*sidebar: so when I walked in for the 2nd lesson, I noticed the menus on the table. HE does own Root Beer King! Very cool :)

So in talking with my boss about yummy food, we tend to do this a lot at work, he happened to mention that he ate at a Checkers the night before by his house! WELL HELLO! The girl loves Ralley's/Checkers and I almost exploded with excitement at the idea of being able to take her there. Since we were geocaching in the park that evening I thought grabbing some Checkers and eating at the park would be nice, then we could walk off dinner :) So we headed across town and I saw it first and then she saw it and got all giddy like a little kid. We decided to get 2 meals and split them so we could have a little variety. The fries, as always, rocked and we happily ate our food at the park. YAY for suprises!

So the girl decided she wanted to find some geocaches and since the evenings have been so nice we decided to go out Tuesday night and find a few. She got the GPS working on the Big Rig finally, loaded it up and I printed out a few sheets from work and off we went to Riverwalk after finishing our super yummy dinner. So I thought it best to head toward one I have already found so I could help lead her. It can be tough when you have no idea what you're looking for. She looked around and got really close but she looked at me with a sad face and said, "I can't find it." So I had sat down to make sure it was still there and I couldn't see it anymore from the first time I had found it. She had bent down at one point and should have looked right at it and didn't see it. So when she had given up, I walked over and put my hand where it should have been and pulled it out. She said, "I LOOKED there!" It was hidden by some bars where she just happened to bend down but at least now she got the idea. So we logged it and moved on to the next one.

We got fairly close and I had a pretty good idea based on the title and she was catching on really fast and saw it from where we were standing. Logged it and moved on. She found the next 2 as well. She liked it and was having fun but we were all done. I'm glad she enjoys it like I do. So we got home and she even logged them and moved the geocoin around. I love how fast she catches on to things. We'll probably go out again this weekend for a bit.

So that's the past 3 days basically... good times, good times. There was also a game of Ticket to Ride Europe in there with our friend Denise on Monday night. She rocked that game too. Tonight is Pirates Cove :)

Tax Day - Already?

So I guess I should file my state tax now. Afterall, today is tax day. I want my $36.00 and it won't appear out of no where. I kept forgetting to file the state tax and so today at lunch I did it. I filed my federal back in February electronically and it was free. However, if I wanted to file state it was going to cost me $30.00... so you can see why I didn't pay to do it. So now in 6-8 weeks we'll get a nice $36.00 surprise in the bank :) *waves little flag* YAY

What we finished from the: "List o' things to do."

So here is how our weekend went and what we accomplished:

*Finished the apartment. YAY (well as much as we could until we get to IKEA) :)
*Oops, where is that PDA again?
*Shipped the coins! And made a little bank :)
*Definitely added more items. YAY
*Came up with questions, ideas and met to see what June7th has in store for us.
*Got the bag together... but not till lunch on Monday.
*Laundry-check
*Nun Chucks-check
*Pineapple upside down cake AJ style-check (mmm it was very tastey)
*Sadly no Lego Ass Kicking
*No time to cache either :(

So not too bad, didn't get to 4 of the items listed but 2 of them were funzie type stuff so we did pretty good. Spent a lot of time getting organized, looking around online and marveling at how much people will spend on Ebay. Overall it was another great weekend and its nice not having to spend it in airports or with countdowns anymore. There was a part of me that thought I might miss that but HELLS NO! Having her here is way better than even I imagined. I am one lucky girl. :)

List o' things to do.

I have a lot to do over the next couple of days so I want to make a list. So for this entry, you get to see what I'm going to accomplish.

*Finish the apartment - that madness has got to get done now.
*Update my PDA - time to get reorganized again
*Ship Ebay items sold - YAY
*Add more items to be sold - YAY
*Come up with list of questions for the "Nessa Project"
*Get a bag together for pitching lessons
*Laundry
*Get Nun Chucks
*Make the pineapple upside cake AJ Style
*Kick some Star Wars Lego Ass!
*Geocache! YAY for treasure hunting.

K... good for now. We'll see mom and dad too and who knows what else, maybe Color Me Mine it? The world is our oyster :)

Let the Lessons Begin

So I'm beginning a new venture in life: private pitching lessons. I'm pretty excited and nervous all at the same time. My phone rang last night about 8:30pm and it was a dad who got my number from my boss inquiring about lessons. Um.. okay sure. So we discussed it and I will be giving my first paid lesson next Wednesday. Cool. I also have a D.A. who is interested in getting his daughter started as well... oh la la.

After I got off the phone I told Alix that I was going to do my best to keep Mondays and Fridays free because that makes it tough to vacation and these can be life commitments. Not 30 minutes later and my phone rings again, he asks very nicely if there is any way I can stop by Monday to look at her before her game on Tuesday... alright. I'm not very good at saying no, ask Alix.

Okay, so after this, I'm going to try really, really, really, really, REALLY hard to not schedule on Mondays... no really I mean it. We're not going on vacation this weekend so I got a free pass. :)

Beef-a-Roni Flavored Zipper

Now you may think there is some weird story behind the above title but it is what it is. I was eating beef-a-roni at work and you know how you always try to hurry and get the spoon in your mouth before it drips on your shirt? Well I did that very thing and instead of getting a stain on my zipper hoodie it landed right on the zipper. No stain, no running to the bathroom to soak my shirt. Just got a napkin and wiped it right off the metal.

I felt this was blogworthy simply because that's a one in a million shot and I found it funny.

Ash had a hard morning of playing and decided to take a nap with Picachu and Piplup.

Judgey McJudgerton

A word that can be just as bad as an "F" bomb depending on who's being called upon or "judged" as the case may be. I'll be the first one to admit some of my actions weren't the brightest of sorts but I learned from them and really life is about lessons and oh what a lesson it was. But when it really came down to it, I handled my business and moved on from there. I made me disect myself and really look at where I had been but more importantly where I wanted to go and what I needed to do to get there.

Now I never expected everyone to agree or understand what I did but when it comes down to it, I'm the one who has to look at myself every morning and I didn't like what I saw anymore. A lot of people made judgments about me and that's okay. Even my ex was the judge, jury and executioner and I don't blame her at all. Emotional pain is way worse than physical pain and anyone who says otherwise is a liar liar pants on fire. I've come a long way in the past months and I love the way life is leading me or maybe I'm leading my life, either way, it's what I've always wanted, I just didn't know it before.

So without too much blah blah blah's of boring details a couple things happened in the past 2 days. One of which I never expected but regardless was very nice to hear. My ex forgave me and finally understands what I was going through and why I needed to move on without her. Her actual words, I never asked for it or prompted or EVER expected that to happen but it did. We've known each other since I was 12/she was 11 and now 19 years later here we are. I'm not exactly sure where "that" is but it is what it is and I never need an answer to a question or a statement because at some point it will or won't present itself and I'm okay with whichever way the universe directs me.

The second thing was she came to me for help because with so many years shelved, I know her. She gets so lost sometimes and when she gets lost in the unknown, that is hard for her to handle because she is a scentific thinker and needs clear cut answers. I always tried to explain the "other side" of the world to try to evolve her thinking but ultimately that is our biggest difference. She just needed a starting point and was hoping I could help her. I see her coming to me like an old friend and nothing more... it was nice, well not that she is so lost right now but you know what I mean.

She said, "I finally understand what you were going through." She said a lot of other really nice things. I don't think I deserve or am entitled to them but at least she sees so much of what I was lacking, wanting and needing.

I hope she takes today to really look around and enjoy a leaf for what it is, a thing of beauty and growth from our own mother nature and not the science of it or what its latin name is... if you pull what you know and release all of it to let all the things of new enter, you just enlightened, not only your mind, but your soul and not many people get to experience that in life.

I do not admire what she is about to go through. I will admire how she comes out in the end. My advice to her was to dig in as deep as possible and then work upwards. You have to or you'll never be ready to move ahead positively. I got to some really deep, darke points but I knew I needed to. I wanted to get as rock bottom as possible. I needed to look at every part of me and fix what I didn't like so I could really be me... a silly, serious, fun, loud, quiet, wiggly, social, smiley, artistic, creative girl who just wants to experience life. Not so much planning, not so by the book, not on a calendar, just the old "fly by night" girl I used to be.
I'm lucky for what I have and I appreciate every bit of it...


So the moral of this blog is be careful who you judge or make such a rash decision about. You could very well find yourself in that very same predicament down the line and if you've alienated everyone you know because of your "judging" ways, who are you going to turn to for help?

These are funny measuring spoons... I want them.

Something about losing to this girl by 1 point! She just learned Carcassonne and likes it... A LOT A BIT!