Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Happiness Is ...

Happiness Is...
HAPPINESS IS  ...
finding a picture that has captured a memory (picture above I was 8)
HAPPINESS IS ...
spending the entire day with family and laughing so hard I just about busted a gut!
HAPPINESS IS ...
being auntie Jana
HAPPINESS IS ...
Candy cane ice cream. (why is it only made at this time of year?)
HAPPINESS IS ...
believing in magic, the kind that manifests itself at this time of year!
HAPPINESS IS ...
knowing that I am never alone!
HAPPINESS IS ...
Watching a sunrise on a cloudless winter morning.
and sunsets on an orange twilght sky
HAPPINESS IS ...
Having a testimony

Thursday, November 18, 2010

It's all just good hygiene ...



I have often wondered about my own sanity ... but then there's my cat  ... perhaps insanity is environmental, maybe I have mold spores seeping through the walls of my condo, slowly, but surely eating away the "normal" from our brains. Then again, maybe "normal" is a relative term. Perhaps I just need a therapist and she needs a kitty whisperer ...at this point, it's hard to say...

I have told friends and family about my kitty and her bizarre  behavior ... she plays fetch and catch and she drinks out out of the toilet ...(all I'm gonna say is it's a good thing I flush!)

I woke up in the middle of the night several weeks ago to go to the bathroom. When I sat down on the throne, I noticed that the toilet paper roll was missing .   Hmmm, interesting ... there's nobody here but me and the cat. I pondered where the missing toilet paper might be. No, it had not been unrolled from the holder, the entire roll was missing, not just the paper, the little cardboard center as well. I pondered only for a moment as it was 3:00 am and how much can one ponder when one is only semi conscious? I simply replaced the missing roll and went back to bed.  I woke up with the alarm a few hours later and prepared to take a shower. Upon entering the bathroom, the first thing I noticed was my toilet paper was missing. What or should I say who could possibly be responsible for the missing potty paper? Do I have a ghost with a TP fetish? I was truly freaked out at this particular time as I could not come up with a reasonable explanation. However, I needed to be somewhere so I replaced the roll and continued my morning ritual. Part of the ritual is feeding the cat and cleaning her litter box of the lumps and clumps. The moment I picked up the pooper scooper, I found one missing roll sitting neatly by the litter box. ... hummm... a cat who needs a roll of TP...I would like to video tape her using it ... I then proceeded to scoop ... lo and behold, buried deep in the trenches of kitty pee and poo poo was the mostly gone TP role. Does she think her litter box is a toilet or a treasure box for burying treasure??? ... she wouldn't say when I inquired. Go figure.
My story however does not end there.  I woke up this morning and found the package of stayfree pads were knocked all over the floor ... I thought nothing of it, just picked them up and moved into my morning ritual. When I got to the part of the scooping of the pooping, I found a lone pad, opened with part of the paper backing removed that reveals the sticky part, it was buried in her kitty litter!
She was in rare sorts last night...hissing, biting and growling .... I thought she was just bored ...However, I realized that I not only have a cat that plays fetch and catch and drinks out out of the toilet ... I have one that uses toilet paper and experiences PMS as well!!!!! Interesting, very interesting ...what else can I say?

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Please mourn with me...


I hate spiders! No, really I do.... my soul grips with fear when I see those multiple legged stink heads. Killing them is mandatory ... I warn any one of them who may be very high on  the wall or ceiling crawling around like they think they have  a right to, that if they get low enough that I can reach them, they are dead! There will be no discussion, no trials, no litigation ...I just reserve the right to kill them and then scrape their dead carcass off of whatever it may be stuck to! That being said, yesterday I was sitting on my bed watching TV and playing with my cat when I saw it! Out of the corner of my eye there was a monster  huge spider crawling across my bed! It was ginormous with a yellow strip going down the middle of its back! I was mortified and disgusted and I screamed like a little girl! jumping up ... grabbing my shoe, I proceeded to beat the creature senselessly I knocked it on the floor and still continued to beat it, afraid to stop until I was very sure it was dead! After several minutes of beating the crawly critter, I stopped to make sure it was dead and all would be right with the world! I put my shoe down and moved the sock that was in the way and realized that my ferocious spider was really the cord to my cell phone charger!!
I killed it though! It slid off of my bed making me think it was alive and I killed it! Never mind that I have completely lost my mind and have now resorted to murdering innocent electrical cords! BEWARE! The women in Apt B is unstable and she will kill anything that moves suddenly or even remotely looks like a spider ...really ...it's just sad!
Does it look dead?





Thursday, November 4, 2010

Gratitude ....


I was pondering my life and its current state and I was suddenly overcome with gratitude at how blessed I am Oh, I know that I've got troubles...but don't we all? I have so much to be grateful for and that's what matters most. I think that whenever I feel like life is unfair I will just stop for a minute and think some grateful thoughts ... it makes it easier to get through those tougher times...right?? after all MJ Ryan said; "One of the incredible truths about gratitude is that it is impossible to feel both the positive emotion of thankfulness and a negative emotion such as anger or fear at the same time. Gratitude births only positive feelings — love, compassion, joy, and hope. As we focus on what we are thankful for, fear, anger, and bitterness simply melt away, seemingly without effort.Gratitude is not just the key. It's a magic key — all you need to do is use it, and the world is suddenly transformed into a beautiful wonderland, in which you are invited to play. That's because, like most of the great spiritual truths, gratitude is stunningly simple."

And so I stand here, starting a new chapter to my life and not quite sure where to go from here, but grateful for my faith, my family and my friends. I know I do not walk alone and because of this what I cannot see in my life on the road ahead doesn't seem quite so scary.