music

I'm always looking for good music that's not very popluar. I find that some of the unknown music out there is much better than anything you might find on the radio. A few months ago I was introduced to the John Butler Trio. I found this clip from one of their concerts which just blew my mind. If you have 5 minutes and a love for really good guitar playing, then enjoy.

Mortimer, some things will never change!

In a few months I'm going to be going away for a week and the question has come up once again about what to do with my cat while I'm away. I've run out of single friends who can stay at my house while I'm gone with my high maintenence cat. My mom is convinced that with a little help mortimer can come to like her home and that way while I'm away mortimer can go stay at my mom's house (with her cat Lothar and Dog Buddy.) I feel this is a lost cause but none the less I loaded mortimer into the cat carrier tonight for a little pet therapy at "grammy's house."

We arrived and mortimer imediately starts hissing at both buddy and lothar. It went something like this. Mortimer hisses at Lothar, Lothar looks at mortimer. Mortimer hisses at buddy, buddy looks at mortimer. Mortimer turns around and hisses at the cat carrier. Mortimer turns to me and hisses at me. Then turns to Lothar and the cycle continues. It was truly a bonding experience for all the animals involved.



After awhile (and a close encounter with mortimer's swatting paw) Lothar got smart and moved to higher ground.



I'm not so sure if he'll be going back to "grammy's" any time soon.

Toes and my inability to walk

I'm not always so good at walking. Over the course of my life I've blamed it on all kinds of things (the shoes I'm wearing, I can't see well, i'm really tired) but the fact is that I'm just not that great at walking. I am constantly triping and stubbing my toes. Friday was one of those days.

I came home from work and was doing some things around the house. I don't wear shoes in the house (some people think this is too hazordous for me.) I'm walking into the bathroom when I miss judge the door frame and stub my toe really bad. I shout out a few choice phrase words and hobble into the bed room. At this point I decide that walking is too dangerous for me right now and that lying on the bed and watching Oprah would be a safer option. (this is saying a lot because I don't think Oprah is always the best/safest thing to watch.)

After lying on the bed for almost an hour my toe is still throbbing really bad. This can't be good. I begin to walk aorund again which is really painful. My toe at this point is turning a nice shade of purple and is swollen. So swollen in face that when I went out last night I had to wear flip flops becuase shoes just hurt too much.

By Saturday morning my entire toe, both top and bottom and a little into my foot was compleatly black and blue. I would be worried if this was the first time this has happened but unfortunately this is not a unusual event in my life. I'm sure if I ever took the time to have these things exrayed I would find that I have broken my toe at least 2 or 3 times. :o(

mothers day and family pictures

Back at christmas time my sister and her husband had a family picture taken on them infront of their fire place with their dog. It was a really cute picture and they sent it out with their Christmas Cards. My mom loved the picture so much she went and bought a nice frame. The picture now sits on an end table in the living room.

Then in March my brother and his wife had their picture taken infront of my parents fireplace at their rehersal dinner. My mom also loved this picture very much and got a nice frame for it. This picture now sits next to my sisters on the end table in the living room.

I was feeling left out, so I got my mom a nice frame for mothers day and put this picture in it.

another new family member

My family just keeps growing and growing.

I am pleased to introduce to you, my nephew



(to be named later...)

The man in my life

Some people have asked me to post a picture of Mortimer, my cat. Here he is in all his glory!



The title of my blog is Me, Myself and I because I'm single but Mortimer is included in this title because lets face it, he is truly the ruler of my house. Everything has to be his way and he definitely lets me know when he is not happy. But that's OK I love him dearly. Mortimer is definitely an "only child" type of cat so I guess I have him to thank because without him I would be the cat lady. Yes it's true, without him in my life all of the followng cats would currently be living in my small 2 bedroom apartment.



These are my babies. I devoted a large amount of 2006 caring for them. I've never loved any other animals as much as I loved them (sorry mortimer.) It's a love that I think only Tim Kaiser can understand (he also has an extream love for an animal that is no longer in his life.) The white and tan kitten is my absolute favorite animal in the entire universe. I named her Missy, the coolest cat there ever was!



This is the above kittens mother and her second litter of last season (she really got around!) Unfortunately my babies are no longer under my care. They have extreamly happy lives with other people now who love them even more then I do and spoil them on a daily basis. (or at least that's how their lives are in my head because anything less is too much to bear)