Update!

Hey Ladies,
I just wanted to post, so there is not going back, I was 235 lb when Mr. Q left in August. Today at the Doctor I was 222. Woo Hoo! I may get under 220 if I can not kick this tummy bug.

Happy (not that you should be reading this) Birthday!

Well, we all know this is supposed to be a girls only club. We also know Mr. Q has located our secret headquarters and checks out the site every so often so he can read about how Q's affair with her super sexy Mexican boyfriend Havier is going (just kidding, y'all!). But we also know we're going to cut him some slack for this because he's serving our country in Iraq right now and this is one of the easiest ways out there for him to keep up with all the stupid stuff we've done while he's been away.

Ladies, it's Mr. Q's birthday today. In the grand tradition of last-minute birthday celebrations, I put this together so we could have a mini-celebration here for him. Also in the grand tradition, I had no birthday candles in the house (yes, sigh--even after we discussed saving them from Munchkin's birthday), so I used the traditional tea light instead. So here it is:


Happy Birthday, Mr. Q. I want you to know this cake will be sitting in my freezer waiting for you when you get back.

Alula

Would everyone kindly take a step back.

Hey Ladies,
As you know may know I try very hard to not show my feelings, I hold things in and I never tell someone when they have pissed me off; But its gone too far! I have hit my breaking point! I mean this to everyone, so please take it to hart, but not to you directly. I am tired of being dogged for the things I do. Its the same things you all do, and if ever I have treated you the same way please let me know so I change too.

Most importantly just because I did not graduate High School does not make me a invalid. I took all the classes the rest of you did, and I passed all but too of them before I left there and that was because they did not fit into the semester. I took it the extra mile, I went a extra semester. Try that in heals! I worry that you all seem to forget how much High school sucked for all of us. I had to fight for everything I got in that high school. I was constantly being told that I would never graduate and I was never going to become anything. The counseling office would do nothing to help me because I was labeled as a bad kid. I was called into the drop out prevention office because I had three family members drop out of the same High School and they though I was going too aswell. I had the principle calling me into her office about every week to tell me I was a failure. My teachers had my family members in there prior classes and most of them did not give me a chance to prove myself.
My mother is a wonderful person, but keeping up with high school was not her thing. She never went to a Parent/Teacher conference meeting. I think the only teacher she every met was my band teacher.
I was poorly home schooled for 6 years before high school. I had to catch up for all of those years in high school. I was six years behind in science and math.
My father died my freshman year and no adult though to see of I was ok with that, I am sorry to say that was not. I had not idea how to ask for help. I had never had too. It tore me apart and I had no one I could talk too.
Its a touchie subjuect that I did not finish High School because of all theses reasons. Thats why I have not raced out and gotten a GED. It would help if I did not get shit from all my friends about it. I and hate this to sound mean; but if you are my friend you need to understand I need you to back the hell off! ( only a stronger four letter F word! ) No one is prefect you all had a hard time getting though highschool too! BACK THE HELL OFF! I will finish high school when I am ready to do so. At this point I am soo pissed off at the everone for giving me greef about it I am not srue I will even tell anyone I got it.

I am a adult! The money I spend is my money to spend! I do not have a credit card that I am using. Everything I own is paid for. I will admit that I am not good at budgeting, but the only person I need to answer to is my husband.

Speaking of my husband, He is on the other side of the world and I am scared shitless he is never comming back to me. I have huge fear of abandoment problems. Thats probably why I do not tell people what I am thinking. So if I go out and buy something or adopt a cat its my buisness! I am a private person I do not like talking to people when I am upset. I stress shop! GET OVER IT!

My house is not clean, I'm not a neat person. I am however depressed and who really wants to clean there house when they are depressed? I need to clean it thats for sure but I do not need everyone harping on me about it.

I often feel like everyone thinks I am not as smart as they are. I am so sick of being talked down too. Just because I did not go to collage does not mean I do not have a grasp on life. I have got to tell you all it drives me crazy when I am doing something, and someone takes it away form me to figure it out themself. When I am reading directions for something wait your turn! lol I'm not a idiot ya know.

Lastly I am a bad speller its a fact. Its time to get over it, and stop making jokes about spelling errors I made 8 years ago. I could easily bring up silly mistakes constantly to, but I don't because it only hurts feelings.

Thats whats been on my mind lately. I hope I do not offend anyone too much, I just can't be the puching bag anymore. I am trying to juggle too much. I am always here to talk to you and hear your problems. I am not looking for applogies. I just needed to let out the things that have been bugging me. I love you all so much. You have no idea what a big part of my live you all are! Thanks for being here!

One second commercial!

Okay ladies please keep your eyes open today during the commercial bowl. Apparently a well known beer company is going to be doing a one second commercial to protest the outrageous cost of each second. $100,000 per second to just put it out there for you. I hope that one of us sees it. If you do please post a comment and let me know what it was.

~Munchkin

Lexus's Obituary

It all happens in 3's, or so they say. The first thing shall remain a secret until such a time as I am allowed to tell (I'm not pregnant, so I might as well shoot that rumor down right now). The second thing was cited in Munchkin's last post. And the third thing (for me at least) was Lexus's passing, which happened today at approximately 12:30 in the afternoon. She's the capricious thing on the right:

Lexus was our little adventurer. She got into everything and acquired a few defining marks over her 2 years of life for it. She got in a scuffle with Clover not too long before this photo was taken and lost a bit-size piece of her right ear, but the two were litter mates and we never saw a sign of aggression before or after that point. She burned off her whiskers one time trying to smell a candle. She was constantly checking the exact distance between any surface and the floor when we didn't watch her close enough. She got lost inside my blue writing couch once and we had to create a small escape hole for her to get out. She escaped her cage a few times, and she usually found us before we figured it out--usually we'd be sitting there watching a movie and eating popcorn when she'd pop up on the ottoman with this innocent "Can I have some?" look on her face. That always made us laugh.

Much like Kate and Emma, our last two rats, I was with her during her death process. She was a little lethargic over the last three days, but by all accounts had been improving for the last two. I would have had her into the vet in a heartbeat if I thought she was getting worse or that the problem was fixable. We shelled out more than $400 last summer to have her mammary tumor removed. She was eating and drinking and here digestive processes were still functioning, and she came when called and still happily greeted us when we came to the cage. The only indicator was the lethargy, her age, and the fact that she kept crawling away to dark corners when we had her out of the cage. I was once told (when my childhood cat started exibiting this behavior) that it's an animal's last gift to loved ones to do this--they know the end is near, and they try not to foul the living space with their decaying corpse, so they seek solitude. From the lack of symptoms, I think it was just her time to go.

I kept her hydrated and gave her company, and honestly I thought she was acting better, so I went upstairs to get dressed for work. During the ten minutes I was gone, Lexus passed; I knew it was going to happen, but I still cried. For me and Mr. B, our rats are like our children.

Lexus had a wonderful life and was our little ADHD adventurer through our graduation from college, our marriage, the purchase and fixup of a house, and everything else that happened to us over the last two years. People always said they thought she was a very pretty rat because she was this very light tan color (not brown--in the rat industry I think it's called 'faun'). She was Mr. B's rat to name because I had named Clover; when I asked him what we were going to name her we were driving behind a similarly colored Lexus on the highway, and being the creative guy he is, that's what he chose. It was a fitting name after all, because she was always on the move.

She only briefly met Emma when we got her February 7, 2007. Kate had died on the 4th, and we didn't want Emma to have to live alone. Emma played a wonderful surrogate Mommy to little Lexus and Clover until she died on the 14th, only ten days after her cagemate (yes, on Valentine's day). So then we had two baby rats to ourselves. We haven't decided yet if we're getting more rats to keep Clover company, and we won't be rushing that decision. Clover's pretty much a lap rat and she's very happy with human company, but she's already showing signs of missing Lexus.

Alula

Worst birthday in history.

Today, I turned 22. And to top it off...

My real dad found me. ='(


~Munchkin

Lazy cats

Hey Ladies,
I am making Cheese and Broccoli soup, if it turns out right I will post a recipe. I made it a few days ago and it turned out great but I wanted to let the flavors blend better so I put it in a crock pot and probably forgot about it. I killed it! but the bowl I had of it before I burned it was excellent.
I though I should post a picture of my cats being cute. It makes it so hard to use the computer when they are both feeling cuddly.